An epitaph Upon His Grace john, Duke of Marlborough. Who departed this Life July the 19th 1714, and lies now interr'd in the City of Antwerp. Written by a Monk of the Order of St. Dominic. And Translated into English by a Member of the Marlborough-Club

[MONK OF THE ORDER OF ST. DOMINIC]

Verlag: Printed, and Sold by J. Roberts, London, 1714

Beschreibung

21pp, [1]. Without half-title. Recent red half-morocco, red cloth boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. The sole edition of an anonymous elegiac satirical epitaph upon army officer and politician John, 1st Duke of Marlborough who, contrary to the title, survived until 1722 (and indeed would certainly not have been interred at Antwerp given the allied offensive against the city during the recently concluded War of Spanish Succession). The prefatory remarks, addressed to the publisher, are signed by Thomas Johnson, presumably the pseudonym of the unknown author. In those same remarks our author claims membership of the apparently fictional Marlborough Club, who desired that he carry out this translation so that 'our own People may see the just Esteem which Foreigners have for the Memory of that Great MAN', a highly ironic proclamation that informs the intention of the epitaph as a whole. ESTC locates only copies at only three locations in the UK (BL, Cambridge Trinity and Oxford), and ten in the United States (Duke, Folger, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Newberry, North Caroline and Texas). ESTC T120685. Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ15134

Bibliografische Details

Titel: An epitaph Upon His Grace john, Duke of ...

Verlag: Printed, and Sold by J. Roberts, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1714

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: First edition.