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The humours of New Tunbridge Wells at Islington : a lyric poem : with songs, epigrams, &c, also imitations from French, Gascoon, Italian, Latin, and Chinese poets : and an ode, from a manuscript of Mr. de Voltaire.

Title: The humours of New Tunbridge Wells at Islington : a lyric poem : with songs, epigrams, &c, also imitations from French, Gascoon, Italian, Latin, and Chinese poets : and an ode, from a manuscript of Mr. de Voltaire.
Author: Drake, James, 1698-1771
Publication: London : Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, MDCCXXXIV [1734]

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[16], 96 pages, [1] leaf of plates; 21 cm (8vo)

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"Price 1 s. 6 d."
In the preface (preliminary page 14) the author calls himself "James Drake." For identification of James Drake as John Lockman, see: "The unexamined premise: Voltaire, John Lockman and the myth of the English letters," by J. Patrick Lee, in From letter to publication (Oxford, 2001), pages 250-251.
"Treated as a miscellany by Case ... though the preface is written in terms of a single author ... It is possible that ... the author is a pseudonym mocking Stephen Duck"--Foxon.
Consists of poems and songs by Drake/Lockman, including adaptations "from French, Gascoon, Italian, Latin, and Chinese poets." The latter include, on facing pages, the original texts by La Fontaine, Clément Marot, Battista Guarini and Pierre Godolin, in French, Italian and Occitan; and two poems in Latin, one "from a Chinese tale."
Signatures: A-G⁸. Press figures: 11-6, 20-4, 31-4.
Full-paged engraved frontispiece, unsigned, with legend: "New Tunbridge Wells near Islington." Woodcut tailpieces.
Dedicaton "To Mr. de Voltaire": preliminary pages 3-7.
Includes three poems by Voltaire, "Le cadenas," "Madrigal" and "Sur les malheurs du temps," here published respectively as "Le cadenat" (pages 38-59), "Sur Madlle. Camargo & sur Madlle. Sallé, dansant ensemble a l'Opera de Paris. Impromptu" (pages 84-85) and "Ode. Par Mr. de Voltaire. 1715" (pages 89-96). The first two have English adaptations by Drake/Lockman on facing pages. See: Voltaire. Works. 1968, v. 1B, page 144, siglum HT34 ("Le cadenas"); pages 328-329 ("Sur les malheurs du temps"). This edition of "Madrigal" is not mentioned in Voltaire. Works. 1968, v. 9, page 473, where earliest published edition listed is from 1745.
Errata: preliminary page 14.

Indexed In (note)

English short title catalogue
Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750
Case, A.E. Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750
Thomas, D.H. Checklist of editions of major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800
Bengesco, G. Voltaire

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Also available online (British Library copy) via Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Binding (note)

Disbound.

Contents

The humours of New Tunbridge Wells at Islington -- The mistake, or St. James's Palace, and the new stables in the meuse -- The author's wish : from a manuscript lyric poem, entitled, The complaint, to his genius -- The experienced matron -- From a manuscript poem, entitled, The progress of learning -- From a manuscript poem, entitled, The progress of poetry -- Seeing his daughter (an infant) in her coffin -- Epigram -- Epigram -- To one who enveigh'd very much against the few things that were judg'd tolerable, but applauded all the trifling particulars, in a dramatic piece of the author's, not yet exhibited : epigram -- Upon Mrs. Cecilia Young's representing Britannia, in the opera so call'd -- The jealous shepherdess : song, imitated from La Fontaine's Fables -- Women like books : song : the tune, As Cupid one day wily, &c -- A song : the tune: The night her blackest sables wore, &c -- Song : to a Scotch tune -- The fond disappointment : song / set to musick by the honourable Col-- -- Le cadenat / par Mr. de Voltaire = The Italian padlock / imitated from Mr. de Voltaire -- Le baiser rendu : conte / tiré de La Fontaine = Kiss for kiss : a tale / imitated from La Fontaine -- De Cupido & de sa dame / tiré de Marot = The beautiful mistake / imitated from Marot -- Pastor fido. Atto I, sce. IV = From Scene IV, act I, of Pastor fido : The virgin and the rose -- Sonnet / tiré des œuvres de Pièrre Goudelin, poëte toulousain = Sonnet / from Goudelin, a celebrated Gascoon poet -- Elogium saulii, ex fabula quadam Sinica = The willow and the peach tree : from a Chinese tale -- Ad amicos = The earth's motion prov'd / set to musick by Mr. Leveridge -- Sur Madlle. Camargo & sur Madlle. Sallé, dansant ensemble a l'Opera de Paris : impromptu / par M. de Voltaire = On Madlle. Camargo, and Madlle. Sallé, dancing together in the opera house at Paris : an extempore epigram / from the French of Mr. de Voltaire -- Sœur Jeanne : conte / tiré de La Fontaine = Dame Jane, or The penitent nun (written in 1720) / set to musick by the late Mr. Haym -- Ode / par Mr. de Voltaire.

Call Number

*KGV 15-40

OCLC

15189084

Author

Drake, James, 1698-1771, author.

Title

The humours of New Tunbridge Wells at Islington : a lyric poem : with songs, epigrams, &c, also imitations from French, Gascoon, Italian, Latin, and Chinese poets : and an ode, from a manuscript of Mr. de Voltaire.

Publisher

London : Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, MDCCXXXIV [1734]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

English short title catalogue, entry T61930

Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750, entry D422

Case, A.E. Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750, entry 393

Thomas, D.H. Checklist of editions of major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800, page 214

Bengesco, G. Voltaire, t. 2, "Additions et corrections," page 486, entry 538

Additional Formats

Also available online (British Library copy) via Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Binding

Disbound. NN

Local Note

Martin J. Gross Collection.

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Place of Publication

England London.

Added Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778. Poems. Selections.

La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695. Fables. Selections.

Marot, Clément, 1496-1544. Poems. Selections.

Guarini, Battista, 1538-1612. Pastor fido. Selections.

Godolin, Pierre, 1580- Poems. Selections.

Roberts, James, 1668 or 1669-1754, publisher.

Voltaire, 1694-1778, dedicatee.

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Research Call Number

*KGV 15-40

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