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Copy, entitled Sodom A Play By The E^arl of R^ochester, apparently transcribed from the Antwerp edition of 1684, on 39 quarto pages, bound with a MS of Beverlandia Otia Oxoniensa. c.1710.

Once owned by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683-1735), Frankfurt bibliographer and traveller.

Edited from this MS in Römer (1905). Discussed, with a facsimile of the title-page, in Prinz, pp. 393-4, and, with a facsimile of p. 22, in Edwards, BC (1976).

RoJ 641: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sodom and Gomorah

Edited from this MS in Römer (1905). Discussed, with a facsimile of the title-page, in Prinz, pp. 393-4, and, with a facsimile of p. 22, in Edwards, BC (1976).

First published (?) at Antwerp [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership; reprinted in colour facsimile (Berlin: Antiquariat Ars Amandi, [2005]).

Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33, in his Appendix Roffensis.

Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; James Thorpe, New Manuscripts of Sodom, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (Autumn 1951), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and The Authorship of Sodom, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, The Texts and The Text of Sodom, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; J.W. Johnson, Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53; and Nicholas D. Nace, Some New Light on Sodom, BC, 63 (Winter 2014), 557-67.