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Elegant epistles being a copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, selected for the improvement of young persons, and for general entertainment from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney, Bacon, Raleigh, Howel, Lady Russell, Clarendon, Temple, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele ... [et al.] and many others : with an appendix, containing letters from Sevigny, Balzac, Maintenon, &c.

Title
Elegant epistles [electronic resource] : being a copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, selected for the improvement of young persons, and for general entertainment from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney, Bacon, Raleigh, Howel, Lady Russell, Clarendon, Temple, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele ... [et al.] and many others : with an appendix, containing letters from Sevigny, Balzac, Maintenon, &c.
Publication
London : Printed for T. Longman, B. Law and Son, J. Dodsley, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Murray [and 18 others], 1794.

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Additional Authors
  • Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
  • Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821.
  • Pliny, the Younger.
Description
1 online resource ([2], v-xii, [8], 873, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill.
Series Statement
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
Uniform Title
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection.
Subject
English letters > Early works to 1800
Note
  • Edited by Vicesimus Knox.
  • Publisher's ad. at end ([1] p.).
  • Published also under title: Epistles elegant, familiar and instructive.
OCLC
  • 830956164
  • NCCO005842
Title
Elegant epistles [electronic resource] : being a copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, selected for the improvement of young persons, and for general entertainment from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney, Bacon, Raleigh, Howel, Lady Russell, Clarendon, Temple, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele ... [et al.] and many others : with an appendix, containing letters from Sevigny, Balzac, Maintenon, &c.
Imprint
London : Printed for T. Longman, B. Law and Son, J. Dodsley, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Murray [and 18 others], 1794.
Edition
A new ed., improved and enl.
Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection.
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Gale Cengage Learning, Nineteenth Century Collections Online available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821.
Pliny, the Younger.
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