COLLECTION OF TEN MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POEMS. | EPISTLES TO THE GREAT FROM ARISTIPPUS; THE CALL OF ARISTIPPUS; ODES BY MR. GRAY; AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD; AN ODE TO THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND; HARDYKNUTE: A FRAGMENT; ORATIO IN THEATRO SHELDONIANO; MONS CATHARINAE, PROPE WINTONIAM; TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT WALPOLE; THE STATE OF ROME, UNDER NERO AND DOMITIAN. (ONE VOLUME)

John Gilbert Cooper (Aristippus); Thomas Gray; Mark Akenside; Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw; William King; Thomas Warton; Robert Nugent; Paul Whitehead (Juvenal and Persius)

Verlag: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley | Typographeo Clarendoniano | C. Corbett | apud J. Clarke & W. Owen, apud J. Fletcher & S. Parker, London | Oxford, 1774

Beschreibung

Ten specimens of British poetry, almost all First Editions, bound together in one volume. Tenth Edition of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The First Edition thus, edited by Moncrief, of Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw's Hardyknute, which appeared previously in shorter Scottish editions, without notes. All other works are First Editions, and all works collate complete. Paul Whitehead's satire of Walpole, The State of Rome under Nero and Domitian, and Thomas Gray's Odes [1757]. Also with John Gilbert Cooper's Epistles to the Great, and The Call of Aristippus; Mark Akenside's Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England; William King's Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano; Thomas Warton's Mons Catharinae, Prope Wintoniam; Robert Nugent's Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. Most of the collection were published by Robert Dodsley, an eminent bookseller, talented author in his own right, and "martyr in the fight for a free British press" (Solomon p. 88). Some trimming to the Epistle to Walpole, and the Folio sized leaves of The State of Rome are slightly and neatly cut near the gutter and folded to size. Bookplate of Walter Bagot, and 'Egerton Bagot' written in ink on the front pastedown; Rev. Walter Bagot was a friend of the poet William Cowper. Holograph list of works on the front endpaper, by a contemporary hand. Late 18th century vellum with decorative gilt borders, and faded title in ink on the spine. (ESTC T32883; T4714; T42023; T71260; T129421; T36010; T135699; N4802; T32871; T48587. Foxon W215; E426; S725. NCBEL II, 1978, 575, 637, 555, 690. DNB IV, 1071. Harry M. Solomon The Rise of Robert Dodsley. ). Very Good binding. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 286511

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Titel: COLLECTION OF TEN MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...

Verlag: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley | Typographeo Clarendoniano | C. Corbett | apud J. Clarke & W. Owen, apud J. Fletcher & S. Parker, London | Oxford

Erscheinungsdatum: 1774

Einband: Full Leather

Zustand: Very Good binding