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The dunce's dessert, or, Horatian trifles and Homeric cream.
- Title
- The dunce's dessert, or, Horatian trifles and Homeric cream.
- Author
- Purton, William, 1833-
- Publication
- Oxford : T. & G. Shrimpton ; London : Ward & Lock, and Whittaker & Co. ; Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | Arents BIP (Purton, W. Dunces 1861) 05-296 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- [62] leaves : chiefly ill.; 22 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Dunce's dessert
- Horatian trifles and Homeric cream
- Nugae Horatianae.
- Cream of the Odyssey.
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally issued in 4 pts. Title page and other preliminaries in pt. 4.
- Illustrated t.p. Each section has also special illustrated t.p.
- For attribution to William Purton, cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).
- Cartoons, with legends in Latin (quotations from Horace) or English (scenes from Homer's Odyssey).
- Illustrations: 60 prints (incl. t.p.) : lithographs ; full-page. Most signed with monogram WP.
- Parts issue: Each pt. in illustrated shell pink paper covers.
- Source (note)
- George Arents Collection, BIP
- Contents
- Part first: Nugae Horatianae -- Part second: The cream of the Odyssey.
- Call Number
- Arents BIP (Purton, W. Dunces 1861) 05-296
- OCLC
- 11081523
- Author
- Purton, William, 1833-
- Title
- The dunce's dessert, or, Horatian trifles and Homeric cream.
- Imprint
- Oxford : T. & G. Shrimpton ; London : Ward & Lock, and Whittaker & Co. ; Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861.
- Local Note
- Arents copy: Parts issue.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Horace. Works. Selections. 1861.Homer. Odyssey.
- Added Title
- Nugae Horatianae.Cream of the Odyssey.
- Research Call Number
- Arents BIP (Purton, W. Dunces 1861) 05-296