Accession number
PML 196765
Creator
Fenton, Elijah, 1683-1730.
Published
London : Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1717.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 2017.
Notes
Dedication signed: E. Fenton.
Etched frontispiece plate by E. Kirkall; etched headpiece on dedication page; woodcut title vignette and head- and tailpiece ornaments throughout.
"Errata"--verso of 3rd preliminary leaf.
Publisher's advertisements (8 pages) at end of text.
"The eleventh book of Homer's Odyssey. Translated from the Greek. In Milton's style": p. [85]-127.
With catchword "An" on p.[6].
Library's copy is one of twenty-five copies on large paper, with the Strasbourg bend watermark, evidently ordered by the author to serve as presentation copies; this copy presented by Fenton to Earl Gower, the dedicatee of the last poem in this volume, entitled “May Gower's propitious Ear be charm'd, to listen to my Lays.”.
Etched frontispiece plate by E. Kirkall; etched headpiece on dedication page; woodcut title vignette and head- and tailpiece ornaments throughout.
"Errata"--verso of 3rd preliminary leaf.
Publisher's advertisements (8 pages) at end of text.
"The eleventh book of Homer's Odyssey. Translated from the Greek. In Milton's style": p. [85]-127.
With catchword "An" on p.[6].
Library's copy is one of twenty-five copies on large paper, with the Strasbourg bend watermark, evidently ordered by the author to serve as presentation copies; this copy presented by Fenton to Earl Gower, the dedicatee of the last poem in this volume, entitled “May Gower's propitious Ear be charm'd, to listen to my Lays.”.
Description
[8], 224, [8] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 8vo
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy has the "Errata" struck-out in ink and the errata corrected throughout the text by hand; inscribed note about Fenton's Ode to Gower, apparently in the hand of the Duke of Sutherland, on front flyleaf; with "Epitaph on Mr. Elija Fenton at East Hampstead 1730 by Alexander Pope", transcribed in ink on rear flyleaf .
Provenance
Inscribed "Gower" on the title-page (possibly Sir John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (1694-1754)); arms of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833), added at a later date to front cover; bookplate of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857); label of J.O. Edwards. NPM
Binding
Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, with the gilt-tooled arms of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833), added at a later date on the front cover.
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