Engraved by W Evans

JOHN DRYDEN.

1. From

original portrait in the Picture Gattery at Oxford : probably painted in his thirty third year; - 1664.

an

2. From a print engraved by Faithorne, fun. after Closterman's picture, painted probably about the year 1690.

3. From a portrait painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller in 1698.

THE GREATER PART OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEFORE

BEEN PUBLISHED.

BY EDMOND MALONE, Esq.

VOL. I. PART I.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, NEW BRIDGE-STREET,

FOR T., CADELL, JUN, AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

M,DCCC.

PR 3411

M25 v.l, pt.1

THE CONTENTS.

VOL. I. PART I.

ADVERTISEMENT

LIFE OF DRYDEN

APPENDIX to the Life

Numb. I. Dryden's Patent

1

551

553

II. Contract concerning the FABLES,&c. 560

III. Russel's Bill of Charges for his

Funeral

562

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i-xx

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IV. Epitaph in Tichmarsh Church, on
Dryden and his Ancestors.
V. List of Persons, in whose Cabinets
Letters written by Dryden pro-
bably may be found.

VOL. I. PART II.

LETTERS from Dryden to several Persons.

LETTER

I. To Madam Honor Dryden

II. To John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

III. To the Rev. Dr. Busby

IV. To the same

V. To Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester.

VOL. I. PART II.

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