The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books.

  • Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802.
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1751
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The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

London : Printed for R. Dodsley; and sold by M. Cooper, 1751.

Physical description

xvi, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 32, 32, 27 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, plates ; 4to.

Notes

The preface signed: Richard Owen Cambridge.
Each book has a separate titlepage and an engraved frontispiece.
A variant of book 4 has lines 168 and 169 at the top of p. 17 omitted, although the note on line 169 subsists; p. 32 of book 5 states that purchasers of the imperfect book 4 could obtain a "perfect page", i.e. pp. 17-18, from their bookseller.
Book 5 has p. 32 in two states, the first (as the variant) with an ornament at foot, the second with the note on the replacement of pp. 17-18 in book 4 instead of the ornament - With an index and final errata page.

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ESTC T47211

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