Basia Joannis Secundi Nicolai Hagensis: or The kisses of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius of the Hague. In Latin and English verse. With the life of Secundus, and a Critic upon his Basia. Adorn'd with a cut of the author, and another of his Mistress Julia, engrav'd by the famous Bernard Picart the Roman

All titles

• Basia Joannis Secundi Nicolai Hagensis: or The kisses of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius of the Hague. In Latin and English verse. With the life of Secundus, and a Critic upon his Basia. Adorn'd with a cut of the author, and another of his Mistress Julia, engrav'd by the famous Bernard Picart the Roman
• Basia. English

People / Organizations

• Johannes Secundus (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates, Fleetstreet, MDCCXXXI. [1731]

Publication year

1731

ESTC No.

T83609

Grub Street ID

304028

Description

xxxvi,[2],98p.,plate : ports ; 12°.

Note

Translated by George Ogle, with two poems each translated by Elijah Fenton and James Ward (sometimes wrongly attributed to E. or Edward Ward)

Pp. 1-71 contain parallel Latin and English texts

With an engraved portrait on the titlepage of 'The Kisses'

Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed

Signatures: a-c]6 [chi]1 B-I]6 K1

Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster.