The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality

All titles

• The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality
• Night thoughts. Nights 1-6
• Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality; Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality; Complaint: or, night-thoughts, &c.

People / Organizations

• Edward Young (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.XLVII. [1747] The seventh edition.; ..

Added name

Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768, dedicatee.; Compton, Spencer, Earl of Wilmington, 1673?-1743, dedicatee.; Lichfield, George Henry Lee II, Earl of, 1718-1772, dedicatee.; Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, dedicatee.; Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764, bookseller.; Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver.

Publication year

1747

ESTC No.

T27225

Grub Street ID

259173

Description

viii, [2], 11-168 [i.e. 167], [3], 169-214, 225-239, [7], 237-284, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (engraving) ; 8°

Note

Anonymous. By Edward Young

With a half-title

Dedicated to Arthur Onslow

Catchword at end of preface (p.viii) has been misprinted as "NIHGT"

Page 167 misnumbered 168; p.198 misnumbered 98. Text and register continuous despite pagination

Headpieces; tailpieces; factotum initials; woodcut initials

With half-titles for each Night

Frontispiece signed G. Vertue

Final blank leaf

Signatures: A-K]8] L]4] M-S]8] T]4. Gathering N missigned "L".

Uncontrolled note

P.198 misnumbered 98