The Lusiad, or, The discovery of India : an epic poem

by: Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580; Mickle, William Julius, 1735-1788, translator; Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, illustrator; Bew, John, d. 1793, bookseller; Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799, bookseller; Dodsley, James, 1724-1797, bookseller; Robson, James, 1733-1806, bookseller; Almon, John, 1737-1805, bookseller; Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802, bookseller; Flexney, William, d. 1808, bookseller; Sewell, John, 1733 or 4-1802, bookseller; Jackson and Lister, printer; New York Society Library. Catalog. 1791. Page 93. ZNS; New York Society Library. Catalog. 1793. No. 3367. ZNS

Publication date: 1778

Topics: Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524, Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580, Explorers, Portuguese

Publisher: Oxford : Printed by Jackson and Lister; for J. Bew; T. Payne; J. Dodsley; J. Robson, J. Almon, T. Cadell, W. Flexney and J. Sewell, London

Collection: africanaspecialcollectionsduplessis; universityofpretorialibraryservices; africanlibraries

Digitizing sponsor: University of Pretoria, Library Services

Contributor: University of Pretoria, Library Services

Language: English

Volume: 2nd edition

Frontispiece illustration signed J. Mortimer; at bottom of plate: "Published as the Act directs April 21, 1778."

Signatures: pi² b-2g⁴ 2h² B-3R⁴ (pi1, pi2 verso blank)

Pages cxxxviii, cxxxix, cxlii, cxliii, 152, 181, and 485 misnumbered as cxliii, cxlii, cxxxix, cxxxviii, 124, 118, and 445 respectively

Footnotes

Silva, I.F. da. Diccionário bib. portugues

ESTC

Errata statement: p. ccxxxvi

Library copy imperfect, lacking the frontispiece and a part of the map. Rebound; date stamp on back paste-down: January 11, 1929; trimmed to 26 cm. Listed in 1791 catalogue, p. 93; in 1793 catalogue, p. 55, No. 3367, and in the First ledger as Lusiad