The works of Mr. thomas otway.Consisting of his plays, poems, and letters

OTWAY, Thomas

Verlag: Printed for C. Hitch et al., London, 1757

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In three volumes. xii, 308, [2]; 406, [12]; 382pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary speckled calf, recently rebacked and recornered, preserving contemporary spine panels, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, gilt. Rubbed. Recent bookplates of Eric Gerald Stanley to all FEPs, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I: 'P. Souvoroff / Dec. 2. 1768', underneath which the later gift inscription: 'For the Revd. Mr. Hugh Hill / to remember / an old friend and wellwisher / Prochore Suvoroff / a Russian / March 28. 1774'. A mid-eighteenth-century edition of the collected works of playwright and poet Thomas Otway (1652-1685), including his debut, a paradigm of Restoration theatre, Alcibiades (1675); and his most successful and influential work, Venice Preserved (1682). Little is known of Prochore Suvoroff besides the appearance of his name in the list of subscriber's for a 1776 edition of The Lusiad, where he is described as 'Mr. Prochore Suvoroff, Gent. of Russia, Queen's Coll. Oxon'. It is surely too much of a coincidence for this to be anyone other than Prokhor Ignat'yevich Suvorov, one of five Russian students sent by Catherine the Great to study at Oxford under the supervision of mathematician Vasily Nikitich Nikitin (1737- 1809). Following their arrival in England in 1765, Suvorov collaborated with Nikitin on Elements of Plane and spherical Trigonometry; written originally in Russian, and translated into English by the Authors (c.1786). From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. ESTC T52784. Size: 12mo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ22380

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Titel: The works of Mr. thomas otway.Consisting of ...

Verlag: Printed for C. Hitch et al., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1757

Einband: Hardcover