Cato : a tragedy, / by Mr. Addison. ; [Eight lines in Latin from Seneca].
| Author/creator | Addison, Joseph |
| Other author | Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. |
| Other author | Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell, 1748-1808. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Providence] : London, printed: Providence, re-printed and sold by Southwick and Wheeler, at the new printing office in the Main Street, M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779] |
| Description | 59 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 16 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16689. ^A478749 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19396. ^A478749 |
| General note | "Prologue. By Mr. Pope."--p. [3]. |
| General note | "A new epilogue," p. 58, is a shortened version of A new epilogue to Cato, composed by Jonathan Mitchell Sewall in 1778 for the Bow Street Theater at Portsmouth, N.H., and first printed anonymously in the New Hampshire gazette, Portsmouth, 31 March 1778. Another version was printed as Epilogue to Cato in Sewall's Miscellaneous poems, Portsmouth, 1801, p. 107-110, and still another is reprinted under this title in Occasional addresses, edited by Laurence Hutton and William Carey, New York, Dunlap Society, 1890. |
| General note | Shipton & Mooney report that the 1780 edition recorded as Evans 16689 is a ghost of the present edition. |
| References | Evans 16689 |
| References | Evans 19396 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16689). |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19396). |
| Genre/form | Plays 1779. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1779. |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |