Pope, Alexander (1688--1744) - Homes and haunts - Twickenham
[Essay on man. Latin. 1775]
Poema Alexandri Pope De homine, Jacobi Thomson, & Thomæ Gray selecta carmina, ex Britanna in Latinam linguam translata a Joanne Costa. ... cum nonnullis ejusdem poeticis scriptionibus.
Patavii (Place), typis Seminarii,, 1775.
[8], 127, [1] p. ; 24.7 cm. (4°)

A translation into Latin of Alexander Pope's Essay on man. Includes 'Jacobi Thomson Angli Hymnus' (pp. [53]--60), 'Thomæ Gray Angli Selecta Carmina' (pp. [61]--81) and 'Joannis Costa Carmina' (pp. [83]--127), each with divisional half-title leaf.

Copy Notes Bound (6) in a collection of poetry.

Binding C18th half sprinkled calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt-tooled spine, green morocco spine label gilt-lettered 'Poems'. Later numbered '107' in a series of pamphlet volumes.

Reference Number 5371

Additional Names Gray, Thomas (1716--1771) - Elegy in a country church-yard; Costa, Giovanni (1737--1816); THOMSON, James (1700--1748)