<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. v, [27], 352 (p. 248 misnumbered as 228), f. [1] (blank). Calf, tooled edges, double gilt filets with corner ornaments on boards, gilded spine on 5 bars with brown panel. Edges spread in red. Bookseller's device on title page. Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Text misprinted on lower corner of p. 40.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Poems collected by the minor playwright, poet, and critic Lewis Theobald, who is otherwise best known for ‘Double Falsehood, or the Distrest Lovers’ (1728, see Bib# 4103197/Fr# 712 in this collection), a play he claimed to have ‘revised and adapted to the stage’ from a manuscript version ‘written originally by W. Shakespeare.’ In the preface to his own translation of ps-Musaeus, Hero and Leander, in urging the great antiquity of that poem, Theobald casually dismisses the opinions of Scaliger, Heinsius, Vossius (on Onomacritus) and Bentley (on Phalaris). See also ESTC, T35894; The New Cambridge bibliography of English literature. Cambridge, 1969-1977, II, p. 196, 203; A.E. Case. A bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750. Oxford, 1935, p. 319. </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039120789707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>