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IMAGE INFORMATION

Ward's Miscellanies, 8vo. half bound, imperfectEdward Ward (1667-1731), Miscellaneous writings, in verse and prose

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

By February 1780

Primary Source Reference:

Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 11 (Miscellany)

Author/Composer:

Ward, Edward, 1667-1731

Notes:

Listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue as a 1709 set lacking title page. Vol. 1 includes six prose numbers of The London terræ-filius, or, The satyrical reformer (each with separate pagination), followed by a section of verse beginning with "The wine bibber's wish." Vol. 2 identified as the third edition of volume 3 of author's Miscellaneous writings (1718), i.e., English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) T153563.

Valued at 2d in Du Simitière's estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 8

Du Simitière lent a copy of this work to Charles Thomson on 26 Apr 1780. Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 44r

Title Information:

[Miscellaneous writings, in verse and prose]

Imprint Information:

[London, before 1785]

Repository:

LCP, call no. O Eng Ward Misc 889.O