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Title

The true Peri bathous: or, The art of sinking in poetry, and rising again. In four cantos. By Monsieur Boileau. 3d ed., revised and compared with the Dunciad.

Author

Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711.

Publication

London, Printed for E. Curll, 1728.

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Additional Authors

• Soames, William, Sir.
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.

Description

v, [3], 59, [4] p. front.; 17 cm.

Subject

• Rees-Mogg, William, 1928-2012 > Provenance

Note

• Foxon, S542 // Guerinot: Pamphlet attacks on Alexander Pope, p. 156 /
• Publisher's advertisements: p. [vii-viii] and 4 p. at end.
• Advertised in the Monthly chronicle (cf. Rogers, The major satires of Alexander Pope, p. 153) and in St. James's evening post (cf. Straus: Curll, 287), Sept. l7, 1728, without Boileau's name.
• A reissue, with new t. p., of the revision of the Soames-Dryden translation of L'art poétique published by Curll in 1714 (dated 1715) with title: The art of poetry, in four cantos ... 2d ed., revis'd and compar'd with the last Paris edition. The new title and Curll's "To the reader" (on verso of t. p.) were added with reference to Pope's Dunciad, 1728, and Peri bathous: or Martinus Scriblerius his treatise of the art of sinking in poetry (Swift-Pope Miscellanies, the last vol., 1727), generally attributed to Pope.
• William Rees-Mogg copy.

Call Number

Berg Coll 76-425 no. 3

OCLC

NYPG764730428-B

Author

Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711.

Title

The true Peri bathous: or, The art of sinking in poetry, and rising again. In four cantos. By Monsieur Boileau. 3d ed., revised and compared with the Dunciad.

Imprint

London, Printed for E. Curll, 1728.

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Added Author

Soames, William, Sir.

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Peri bathous.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 76-425 no. 3 Bound with: Vida, M. G. Vida's Art of poetry. London, 1742.