8vo. 20 cm, second edition, xcv,380 p., engraving frontis, tail pieces, in contemporary full calf, real raised bands, gilt borders and centre panel devices on the sine, gilt spine title on red morocco label, marbled endpapers, engraved bookplate, wear on the edges, top and bottom spine edges worn, bottom hinge repaired, very good copy (ds1). ~ The works of English satirist and diplomat, Matthew Prior (1664 1721) including "The Viceroy", "Solomon, de Mundi Vanitate", "The Wandering Pilgrim", and numerous epigrams. Prior was noted as an epigrammatist unrivaled in the English language. Thackeray wrote of him "Prior's seem to me amongst the easiest, the richest, the most charmingly humorous of English lyrical poems." As a diplomat Prior was noted as being prominent in the negotiating the "Treaty of Utrecht" which was nicknamed "Matt's Peace".

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Title: Miscellaneous Works of His Late Excellency Matthew Prior, Esq; consisting of Poems on Several Occasions, viz. Epistles, Tales, Satires, Epigrams, &c. With some select Latin Performances. Now first published from his Original Manuscripts. Revised by Himself, and copied fair for the Press. By Mr. Adrian Drift, his Executor
Publisher: London. Printed for the Editor. 1740
Binding: Hardcover

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