Cato, a tragedy, by Mr. Addison. [Eight lines in Latin from Seneca]

People / Organizations

• Southwick and ("sold by")
• Joseph Addison (Author)

Imprint

[Providence]: London, printed: Providence, re-printed and sold by Southwick and Wheeler, at the new printing office in the Main Street, M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]

Publication year

1779-1779

ESTC No.

W18170

Grub Street ID

327768

Description

59,[1]p. ; 16 cm

Note

"Prologue. By Mr. Pope."--p. [3].

"A new epilogue," p. 58, is a shortened version of A new epilogue to Cato, composed by Jonathan Mitchell Sewall in 1778 for the Bow Street Theater at Portsmouth, N.H., and first printed anonymously in the New Hampshire gazette, Portsmouth, 31 March 1778. Another version was printed as Epilogue to Cato in Sewall's Miscellaneous poems, Portsmouth, 1801, p. 107-110, and still another is reprinted under this title in Occasional addresses, edited by Laurence Hutton and William Carey, New York, Dunlap Society, 1890.

Shipton & Mooney report that the 1780 edition recorded as Evans 16689 is a ghost of the present edition.Citation/references Evans, 16689

Evans, 19396