02834cam a2200349 a 4500001001300000003000400013005001700017008004100034010002200075040002400097043001200121050002200133051025100155245034200406260004900748300004200797500020000839500013201039500015301171500021201324500003401536501052301570600003502093600003002128650005802158650006102216700002702277700004002304710005902344710006402403999001702467ca 16000127 DLC20260227111101.0950719s1730    enk           000 0ceng    aca 16000127 //r95  aDLCcDLCdDLCedcrb  ae-uk-en00aPR3366b.M46 1730  aPR3366b.C66 1730 copy 2cCopy 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.00aMemoirs of the life, writings, and amours of William Congreve, Esq. :binterspersed 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 /ccompiled from their respective originals by Charles Wilson, Esq.  aLondon :b[s.n.],cprinted in the year 1730.  axvi, 112, 156, [4] p. ;c20 cm. (8vo)  aPrimarily 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.  aDivided into two parts, the 1st of which is not so numbered and the 2nd of which has only caption title: Memoirs, &c., part II.  aThe 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.  aThe 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.  aSignatures: A-H⁸, ²A-K⁸.  aWith: 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.5DLC10aCongreve, William,d1670-1729.10aDryden, John,d1631-1700. 0aAuthors, EnglishyEarly modern, 1500-1700xBiography. 0aDramatists, EnglishyEarly modern, 1500-1700xBiography.1 aWilson, Charles,cEsq.1 aOldmixon,cMr.q(John),d1673-1742.2 aPre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)5DLC2 aJohn Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)5DLC  c14885d14885