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Cato : A tragedy. / By Mr. Addison. ; [Seven lines from Seneca].

Author/creator Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719
Other author/creatorPope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Other author/creatorGarth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719.
Other author/creatorSewall, Jonathan Mitchell, 1748-1808.
Format Book and Microform
Publication InfoBoston : Printed by P. Edes, for Thomas & Andrews. Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury-Street, MDCCXCIII. [1793]
Description56 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25078
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25078. ^A478749
General noteSignatures: A-E⁶ (E6 blank).
General note"Prologue. By Mr. Pope."--p. [3].
General note"Epilogue. Written by Dr. Garth."--p. [57].
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.
References Evans 25078
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25078).
Genre/formPlays 1793.
Genre/formPoems 1793.

Available Items

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Joyner NC Microfiche MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 25078 ✔ Available