KLOPSTOCK, Friedrich Gottlieb. The Messiah. Attempted from the German … The fourth Edition. London. Printed for J. Collyer … & sold by J. Dodsley … and J. Newbery … 1769[–71]. 
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3 vols, 12mo (162 × 98 mm), pp. xlviii, 240; 287, [1]; 311, [1]; with an engraved title and frontispiece (two signed Collyer) in each vol.; some light foxing at the beginning and the end, and to the endpapers, of each vol.; contemporary calf, joints cracked but firm, headcaps chipped, spines a little cracked, gilt morocco lettering-pieces; armorial bookplate of William Orme Foster (1814–1899; industrialist and MP), later label of Robert J. Hayhurst in vol. I.
Fourth edition, scarce, published the same year as the third (also by Collyer, Dodsley, and Newbery, but in two volumes), the first appearance of the final volume, containing Books XI–XV. Itself greatly influenced by Milton, ‘no poetic work of the eighteenth century before Goethe’s Werther was more acclaimed in Germany than this biblical epos, which introduced the cult of intense personal feelings that played so significant a part in the poetry to come’ (Bareikis 39). Roscoe A284(3); this edition not in Morgan (cf. 5046 for the first two volumes). ESTC locates 5 copies only (BL (2 copies), Derry & Raphoe Diocesan Library, Oberlin College, UC Berkeley).
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