Faint sketch of a character [electronic resource] : Attempted on the loss of a much respected Friend.

Faint sketch of a character [electronic resource] : Attempted on the loss of a much respected Friend.

[London] : [s.n.], [1785]

1 sheet ; 8vo.

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Signed: J. N., i.e. John Noorthouck.

Verse - "If industry, if knowledge of Mankind,".

On the death of Strahan, i.e. William Strahan who died on 9 July 1785.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

This verse, with slight differences, is quoted in C. H. Timperley's 'Encyclopaedia of literary and typographical anecdote' in the entry on William Strahan's death; and the verse described as "from the heart of one who both loved and revered him", J. Noorthouck of Bernard's Inn.
NACO Noorthouck b. 1732; cf. ODNB

English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T224666

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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