Authority Cited: Cotton
Author name and dates: Charles Cotton (1630-1687) [BKG Note; previously misidentified as Robert Bruce Cotton]
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BKG Bio-tweet: Royalist Gentleman; burlesque poet, Montaigne trans.; Compleat Gamester; Walton friend; Compleat Angler fly-fishing chapters
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Cotton cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, four Cotton cites in 1755 Dict. vol.2, tow Cotton cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The editions used by SJ are unknown; page citations are to the title editions below; in the Dict., all citations except untempted are only to Cotton]
Author name and dates: Charles Cotton (1630-1687) [BKG Note; previously misidentified as Robert Bruce Cotton]
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Royalist Gentleman; burlesque poet, Montaigne trans.; Compleat Gamester; Walton friend; Compleat Angler fly-fishing chapters
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Cotton cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, four Cotton cites in 1755 Dict. vol.2, tow Cotton cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The editions used by SJ are unknown; page citations are to the title editions below; in the Dict., all citations except untempted are only to Cotton]
- Sim and Simon, in Poems on Several Occasions Written by Charles Cotton, Esq., 1689, London : Printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet-street, Will. Hensman and Tho. Fox in Westminster Hall; diminutive (p.66)
- Scaronnides in The genuine poetical works of Charles Cotton, Esq; containing, I. Scarronides: Or, Virgil Travestie. II. Lucian Burlesqu'd: Or, The Scoffer Scoff'd. III. The Wonders of the Peake. Illustrated with many curious cuts, all New-Design'd, and Engrav'd by the best Artists, 1734, London : printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, T. Ward, and E. Wicksteed; orisons (p.10) [BKG Note: The Wonders of the Peak is included in this title.]
- The Wonders of the Peak, By Charles Cotton, Esq, the second edition, 1744, Nottingham: printed by Tho. Collyer, and sold by the booksellers of York, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Derby, and Newark (first London ed. 1681, second London ed. 1683); expostulate (p.1); bright (p.13, 1773 Dict.); nonce (p.22); stability; untempted (p.31);
- The compleat angler: or, contemplative man's recreation. in two parts. Containing, I. A large and particular account of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing: written by the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton. II. The best and fullest instructions how to angle for a trout and Grayling in a clear Stream. By Charles Cotton, Esq; and published by Mr. Walton, 1750, London : printed and sold by Henry Kent, at the Printing-Office in Finch-Lane, near the Royal Exchange; certain (1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: inexact quote in the 1773 Dict. edition from p.219, perhaps from memory]
- Cotton (no work cited);