Title: An Essay upon Milton's Imitations of the Ancients, in his Paradise Lost. With some Observations on the Paradise Regain'd [Bound with
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><b>Bound with</b>: Prior Robert, Lusus Westmonasterienses</span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">, sive, Epigrammatum et Poematum minorum delectus </span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">([London], A. Campbell, 1730).</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><b>Contains</b>: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"></p><ul><li><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">[William Lauder] (attr.) / [Edward Phillips] (attr.), An Essay upon Milton's Imitations of the Ancients, in his Paradise Lost. With some Observations on the Paradise Regain'd (London, Printed for J. Roberts, 1741).</span></font></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. ff. [2], pp. [3]-62. Half calf. Macclesfield bookplate. Imprint from label pasted on title page. With a pasted in ornament on the title page and an engraved headpiece on page [3]. Includes engraved initials.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">An anonymous work by a Scotsman, apparently the immediate inspiration for the title of William Lauder’s ‘Essay,’ unwittingly suggested by Thomas Newton: see Newton’s second edition of ‘Paradise Lost,’ (1750), vol. II, p. 450. See also ESTC, T139378; E.N.S. Thompson, John Milton. Topical bibliography. New Haven, 1916.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991042493879707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">John Douglas, Milton Vindicated From the Charge of plagiarism, Brought against him by Mr. Lauder, and Lauder himself convicted of several Forgeries and gross Impositions on the Public. In a Letter humbly addressed to the Right Honorable the Earl of Bath. By John Douglas, M.A. Rector of Eaton Constantine, Salop (London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751, see Bib# 4103321/Fr# 612 in this collection).</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;text-align:justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;text-align:justify;">8vo. pp. 79, [1] (blank), f. [1] (blank). Signatures: [A]1 B-K⁴ L⁴(-L4). Label of Hatton, binder. "579" in ink on title page. Includes tailpiece.</span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Douglas’s definitive exposure of William Lauder. For the revised and expanded second edition, see Bib# 8659376/Fr# 612.1 in this collection. See also ESTC, T94395.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039123689707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>