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HOPKINS ( Charles ). Epistolary Poems ; on several occasions : with several of the choicest stories

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HOPKINS ( Charles ). Epistolary Poems ; on several occasions : with several of the choicest stories

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
HOPKINS ( Charles ). Epistolary Poems ; on several occasions : with several of the choicest stories of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Tibullus's Elegies. Translated into English verse. Printed by R. E. for Jacob Tonson … , 1694FIRST EDITION, pages (16), 119, complete with the half-title, 8vo, contemporary speckled sheep : the binding only a little worn but sound, inscribed in a clear hand 'Elisa Gregor her Book / 1694' on a preliminary blank leaf and, in the same hand on another preliminary blank leaf 'read in 1694', and with the later bookplate of G. W. F. Gregor.Wing H 2721. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 463. Macdonald 277. Sweeney 2347, considering it important, interesting and scarce. Charles Hopkins (1664?-1700?), of Trinity College, Dublin and Queens' College, Cambridge, was a member of the circle of Dryden and Congreve. His brother John, of Jesus College, Cambridge, was also a poet, his chief works being his rhyming imitation of 'Paradise Lost' (1699) and his 'Amasia' (1700).ENGLISH PRE 1701; ENGLISH LITERATURE; VERSE; WING; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;