AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE STEPHEN POYNTZ, ESQ; &c. &c. &c. …

[WILLIAMS, Sir Charles Hanbury.]

Published by London: printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's-Head in Pall-mall; and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noster-row, 1746

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Folio, pp. 7; recent wrappers; a few inconspicuous stamps of the Cardiff Public Libraries, else a good copy. First edition: first impression, with the misprint 'fond virtue' in the penultimate line on page 5; in a re-impression from the same setting of type, but with different rules on the title-page, the phrase has been corrected to 'found virtue'. Stephen Poyntz (1685-1750) was the son of a London upholsterer, but he received a good education, and became a diplomat. In 1731 he was made governor and steward of the newly formed household of the ten-year-old Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, with whom he formed a close connexion. This panegyric celebrates the Duke's military prowess (or, as the Jacobites saw it, his heartless butchery) as displayed in the Rebellion of 1745, for which Poyntz is given proper credit: Culloden's field, my glorious Theme, My Rapture, Vision, and my Dream, Gilds the young Hero's Days: Yet can there be one English Heart That does not give thee, POYNTZ, thy Part, And own thy Share of Praise? (p. 7) Foxon W492.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AN ODE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE STEPHEN POYNTZ, ESQ; &c. &c. &c. …
• Publisher: London: printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's-Head in Pall-mall; and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noster-row
• Publication Date: 1746
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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