Contemporary copy of ‘Le pour et le contre’ written on the pastedown of a copy of ‘La religion defendue’ published in 1733
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Contemporary copy of ‘Le pour et le contre’ written on the pastedown of a copy of ‘La religion defendue’ published in 1733
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Incipit Diplomatic:
tu veux donc aimable uranie;
quérige par ton ordre en Lucrece nouveau
Incipit Modernised:
Tu veux donc, aimable Uranie,
Qu’érigé par ton ordre en Lucrèce nouveau
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Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of ‘Le pour et le contre’ written on the pastedown of a copy of La religion defendue published by Thomas Johnson in Rotterdam, 1733.
Detailed Summary:
The poem commences on the front pastedown, continues on the verso of the title page, and concludes on the back pastedown. The copy is incomplete and features several variants. The lines are divided as follows:
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1
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Bound in brown leather with gold-tooled spine.
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There are ink blots to the top and right-hand side of the front pastedown, the upper left-hand corner of the verso of the title page, and over the third word of l.5 on the back pastedown.
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post-1733
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Sammlung Jochen Früh.
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