02834cam a2200349 a 4500 ca 16000127 DLC 20260227111101.0 950719s1730 enk 000 0ceng ca 16000127 //r95 DLC DLC DLC dcrb e-uk-en PR3366 .M46 1730 PR3366 .C66 1730 copy 2 Copy 2. The t.p. and preface are misbound between the 1st and the 2nd parts of the work. With: Congreve, William. Mr. Congreve's last will and testament. London : Printed for E. Curll ..., 1730. Probably issued together. Memoirs of the life, writings, and amours of William Congreve, Esq. : interspersed with miscellaneous essays, letters, and characters written by him : also some very curious memoirs of Mr. Dryden and his family, with a character of him and his writings by Mr. Congreve / compiled from their respective originals by Charles Wilson, Esq. London : [s.n.], printed in the year 1730. xvi, 112, 156, [4] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo) Primarily a pastiche of previous published material and gossip. Charles Wilson is believed to be a pseudonym, probably of John Oldmixon. Cf. Edmund Gosse's Life of William Congreve, p. viii, etc. Divided into two parts, the 1st of which is not so numbered and the 2nd of which has only caption title: Memoirs, &c., part II. The publisher may be bookseller Edmund Curll, with whose 1730 ed. of Mr. Congreve's last will and testament this work is often found bound, as here. The last 2 leaves are an index to the work and to a different ed. of Congreve's will and testament, giving further grounds for believing that Curll is the publisher and that he issued the two works together. Signatures: A-H⁸, ²A-K⁸. With: Congreve, William. Mr. Congreve's last will and testament. London : Printed for E. Curll ..., 1730. Copy 2 -- Victor, Benjamin. Memoirs of the life of Barton Booth, Esq. London : Printed for John Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court ..., 1733. The Memoirs of Congreve and his Will and testament were probably issued together, with the Memoirs of Booth bound in subsequent to publication. LC copy has the Will and testament mistakenly bound between the 1st and the 2nd parts of the Memoirs of Congreve. DLC Congreve, William, 1670-1729. Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Authors, English Early modern, 1500-1700 Biography. Dramatists, English Early modern, 1500-1700 Biography. Wilson, Charles, Esq. Oldmixon, Mr. (John), 1673-1742. Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) DLC John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) DLC 14885 14885