An historical account of the lives and writings of our most considerable English poets, whether epick, lyrick, elegiack, epigramatists, &c

People / Organizations

• Edmund Curll ("printed for")
• Giles Jacob (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for E. Curll in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XX. [1720]

Added name

Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, bookseller.

Publication year

1720

ESTC No.

N17802

Grub Street ID

7268

Description

xxvi, [6], 328, [10] p., plates : ill., ports. ; 8°.

Note

Anonymous. By Giles Jacob

With a frontispiece depicting an introductory illustration of Chaucer and four other poets; the plates are all portraits that go before text on the poets they describe

The final [10] pages contain [8] p. of index and [2] with errata and blank verso

Signatures: A]8 a]8 B-Y]8 [Z]]2(-Z2).

Uncontrolled note

P.xiii misnumbered xii. - There could be more than one plate (frontis). BMu report an errata leaf in the unnumbered sequence following p.xxvi, making it [8]