Five travel scripts commonly attributed to Edward Ward /
reproduced from the earliest editions extant with a bibliographical note by Howard William Troyer.

Description

Main Author

Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.

Related Names

Bysshe, Edward, active 1702-1712.
Troyer, Howard William, 1901-

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Published for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1933.

Subjects

Voyages and travels.

Note

first 4 pieces are reproduced from original editions in Columbia university library and the last from the only known copy, now in Harvard university library.
"Of the five ... travel scripts ordinarily attributed to Edward (Ned) Ward ... the two earlier ones are undoubtedly genuine ... A trip to Holland and A trip to Ireland ... though usually ascribed to Ward (D.N.B.) ... were probably not written by him ... It is even less likely that A trip to North-Wales ... belongs to Ward ... [It] contains a dedicatory epistle signed E. B. ... [and] it is not impossible that the E. B. stands for Edward Bysshe ... author of the Art of poetry."--Bibliographical note. The

Physical Description

68 p. in various pagings : facsims.

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