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001 $ 19/3958
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20240423121707.7
035 # # $z 15830
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Anderson, Robert
245 1 0 $a The works of the British poets : $b with prefaces, biographical and critical / $c by Robert Anderson. $n Volume Twelfth; containing Pope's Iliad, Pope's Odyssey, West's Pindar, Dryden's Virgil, Dryden's Persius, Dryden's Juvenal, Pitt's Æneid, Rowe's Lucan, Homer's Hymn to Ceres, and Pindar's Odes, omitted by West.
260 # # $a London ; Edinburgh $b Printed for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute and J. Mundell & Co. $c 1795
300 # # $a [i-ii] iii-xi [xii], 880 p.; $c 244 mm.
500 # # $a The Works of the British Poets by Robert Anderson appeared in 13 volumes between 1792 and 1795. This copy of volume 12 lacks both the letterpress title-page and the engraved title-page; it opens with the half-title 'The Works of Homer. Translated into English verse, by A. Pope, Esq.' The text is printed in double columns.
510 0 # $a This copy is first recorded in the Royal Academy of Arts Library Catalogue of Books in the Library published in 1877.
510 0 # $a ESTC $c T152376
563 # # $a The book has marbled paper-covered boards and brown half-leather binding; the spine is lettered in gilt 'The Works / Of / Homer / - / Translated By / A. Pope' and 'R. A.'
653 # # $a English poetry - English poetry ; Translations from foreign languages