An impartial history of the life, character, amours, travels, and transactions of Mr. John Barber [ESTC T27751]
- DMI number:
- 716
- Publication Date:
- 1741
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T27751
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW102938362
- Shelfmark:
- BOD - Vet. A4 e.1481 (1)
- Full Title:
- AN IMPARTIAL | HISTORY | OF THE | LIFE, | CHARACTER, | AMOURS, TRAVELS, | AND | TRANSACTIONS | OF | Mr. [i]John Barber,[/i] | CITY-PRINTER, | Common-Councilman, Alderman, | AND | LORD MAYOR [i]of[/i] LONDON. | [rule] | WRITTEN BY SEVERAL HANDS. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for E. CURLL, at [i]Pope's Head[/i], in [i]Rose- | Street, Covent-Garden[/i], 1741. Price 2 [i]s[/i]. 6 [i]d[/i].
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection including prose and Collection of poems about subject/person
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 2s. 6d.
- Pagination:
- iii-viii, i-xxxii, 1-48, 1-32, i-xvi
- Bibliographic details:
- Frontispiece.
- Comments:
- Query: double check ECCO text vs bod text: there are possible discrepancies (i.e. ECCO doesn't have Preface signed Philalethes; where do the two poems pp. vii-viii fit? does Bod have frontispiece? ECCO text has no title page.) Contents: Prose pp. 1-14; 22-47; 48; 1-18; 29; 30-32.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Preface signed Philalethes pp. iii-vi; Introduction to Life of John Barber pp. i-xxii; Barber's Last Will and Testament, pp.xxiii-xxxi; Wills sold by Curll [1p]; Appendix, pp. i-xvi.
- Publisher:
- Edmund Curll
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Barber was blessed with competent estate
- Page No:
- pp. vii
- Poem Title:
- The Alderman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dull awkward mimic of the great
- Page No:
- p. viii
- Poem Title:
- Written under his Picture at Guild-Hall
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While Britain's thoughts on rising wars are bent
- Page No:
- pp.15-21
- Poem Title:
- To the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Halifax
- Attribution:
- Mr. Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- The tender boy in our cold country's chilled
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- Written ... in the Blank-Leaf of the Royal Mischief.
- Attribution:
- by the late Bevill Higgons, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- To learned Mead thus Hanmer spoke
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus Britain loved me and preserved my fame
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- An humble muse from long-kept silence breaks
- Page No:
- pp.18-25
- Poem Title:
- A Rural Lay. Most humbly Inscribed to the Right Hon. John Barber, Esq; Lord Mayor of London.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentleman in Norwich
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My Lord | The bard who with ambitious tongue
- Page No:
- pp.25-29
- Poem Title:
- From the Pegasus in Grubstreet. To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye whom your country's sacred cause inspires
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the worthy Liverymen of the City of London, occasioned by the ensuing Election of a New-Parliament.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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