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Odes of Anacreon / translated into English verse, with notes by Thomas Moore.

Accession number
PML 145743
Creator
Anacreon.
Published
London : Printed for John Stockdale, 1800.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomas Moore.
Index in Greek.
Includes a sixteen page list of subscribers and final four page list of advertisements.
Library's copy lacks the list of subscibers and final four pages of advertisements accounted for in other copies.
Vol. 1 of a set of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry. The volumes comprising the set were originally numbered 1-15, with v. 5 accompanied by an unnumbered supplemental volume, and the set additionally accompanied by a privately printed index to the volumes evidently compiled by Corry (see PML 145743-56). Volume 3, however, containing Moore's "A comic opera" and "Irish melodies", along with volumes 14-15, comprising the "Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald", are missing from the library's collection, having evidently been lacking from the set when the books came into the possession of former owner Gordon N. Ray. Cf. Ray checklist.
Autograph manuscript signed (1 p.), of a poem in 5 stanzas by Thomas Moore, addressed, "To James Corry - on receiving a present of a wine strainer", and dated Brighton, June 24, 1825, formerly laid in to volume with a second manuscript copy of the same poem (see below); removed and cataloged separately.
Description
viii, 255, [5] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 27 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of James Corry; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Purple morocco tooled in gilt and blind by George Mullen of Dublin, ca. 1830; bound as v. 1 of a set of uniformly bound first and early editions of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry (see PML 145743-56).
Classification
Department