Author : William Congreve
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331771692
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)
Book Synopsis Incognita, Or Love and Duty Reconcil'd (Classic Reprint) by : William Congreve
Download or read book Incognita, Or Love and Duty Reconcil'd (Classic Reprint) written by William Congreve and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Incognita, or Love and Duty Reconcil'd It was published towards the end of the following February, being advertised in The London Gazette, Number 2742, which covered the period From Thursday February 18 to Monday February 22, 1691 (i.e. 1691 The little duodecimo was printed for Peter Buck, and the impression seems to have met the demands of the next seven or eight years. But among the books printed for Richard Wellington at the Dolphin and Crown at the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, and chronicled in the Term Catalogues (arber, iii. 154) as Printed and Published in London in Michaelmas Term, 1699, are included two volumes of 'a Collection of pleasant Novels, ' the second of which is said to contain 'the Heroine Musqueteer, or Female Warrior, in Four Parts. Incognita, or Love and Duty reconcil'd. By Mr. Congreve. The Pilgrim, in Two Parts.' Publication in Michaelmas Term of one year would not have deterred Wellington from post-dating his title page for the next, and the British Museum possesses an octavo volume (shelf mark 12511. Bb. 8) which meets the description; it contains the three pieces in the order named, with separate title pages all dated 1700, but forming a combined whole. The Heroine M usqueteer, printed for Wellington at the Dolphin and Crown, and followed by a catalogue of books printed for him at the Lute, extends to sig. [ss] verso. This is followed by the title page of I ncognita the first eight lines of it follow those of Buck's edition verbatim, but the licence line is omitted, and the imprint is london, Printed for R. Wellington, at the Lute in St. Paul's Church-yard, Pagination begins afresh, but signatures run from [aa] to Be The Pilgrim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
