From John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom
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Small 8vo, 153 x 93 mms., pp. [viii], 166, contemporary sheepskin, later reback, red morocco label; a good to very good copy with the armorial bookplate of S. Nichol on the front paste-down end-paper, and his autograph on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, and, in a different hand "given to [?Terry]/ Henry Morgan/ Sept. 1832." Beattie (1735 - 1803) published his first volume of poems in 1760, and several of the poems printed there are not reprinted here. Two new poems appear here: "Epistle to Mr. Blacklock," and "The Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes." Two items reprinted here appeared earlier in 1765, "The Judgment of Paris," and Beattie's vicious attack on Charles Churchill, "On the report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster-Abbbey, to the Memory of a Late Author." Beattie describes Churchill as being noted "For ribaldry, for libels, lewdness, lies, For blasphemy of all the Good and Wise"; and these are some of the milder epithets. ESTC locates nine copies in British and Continental libraries, and Boston Athanaeum, Columbia, Illinois, Minnesota, Yale, and Toronto in North America. Seller Inventory # 8239
Bibliographic Details
Title: Poems on Several Subjects. A New Edition, ...
Publisher: London: Printed for W. Johnston
Publication Date: 1766
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