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    By Edmund Smith
    London   Bernard Lintot
    6.5" by 4" [24], 103pp. [1]
    A collection of theatrical and poetical works from Edmund Smith, including his popular work 'Phaedra and Hippolitus', an excellent copy of this scarce collection in modern cloth.
    By Edmund Smith

    1719 The Works of Mr Edmund Smith, Late of Christ-Church, Oxford

    London   Bernard Lintot
    6.5" by 4" [24], 103pp. [1]
    A collection of theatrical and poetical works from Edmund Smith, including his popular work 'Phaedra and Hippolitus', an excellent copy of this scarce collection in modern cloth.
    £375.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 978Z25
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    Description

    Early Edition, Signed

    The third edition, first published posthumously in 1714. 

    Bound in full modern cloth. 

    Illustrated with a monochrome engraved frontispiece. 

    A collection of scarce works from Edmund Smith, an English poet. This collection includes his best known work 'Phaedra and Hippolitus', a play which was first performed in 1707, and was a translation of Racine's French dramatic tragedy 'Phedre'. The work also includes; 'A Poem on the Death of Mr. Philips', 'Bodelian Speech', and 'Pocockius', and a memoir of the character of Edmund Smith written by a Mr. Oldisworth. 

    The register runs as; A- A8, [3 unnumbered], B- E12, F-F6. Collated, complete.

    Condition

    Bound in full modern cloth. Endpapers renewed. Externally lovely. Binder's stamp to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and generally clean pages with light handling marks and slight loss to pp. 81.

    Near Fine

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