Poems on affairs of state : from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second / written by the greatest wits of the age. Viz. Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, Lord Bu---st, Sir John Denham, Andrew Marvell, esq ; Mr. Milton, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Sprat, Mr. Waller, Mr. Ayloffe, &c ; with some miscellany poems by the same: most whereof never before printed. Now carefully examined with the originals, and published without any castration.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--Poetry.

Great Britain.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English poetry.

English poetry--Early modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Ross, A. G. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Dobell, Bertram, 1842-1914 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 144, 143-224, 245-260, that is, 242, 16 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Poems on state affairs

Fingerprint:

r-y- n,to t.ed FoOf (3) 1697 (A)

Place of Publication:

[London] : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year 1697.

Notes:

The words "Duke of Buckingham, ... Marvell, Esq;" and "Mr. Milton, ... Mr. Ayloffe, &c." are each bracketed together on the t.p.

Place of publication from Wing.

Wing omits colon following "state" in line 3 of title.

Title within double line border.

In this edition the "T" of "Time" on line 5 of the title is uppercased and there are 7 poems listed in contents of the Addenda on A8r

16 p. at end = Addenda.

Text continuous despite pagination.

Errors in pagination: p. 127 is misnumbered 114.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: 16 p. at end wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of A.G. Ross, Lieut. Gen'l, London, 23 March 1900.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Bertram Dobell, April 1900.

Culture Class Collection copy has unidentified bookplate of "O" with crown surmounting it.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. annotations on back pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680. Two poems by the Right Honouralbe the E--- of R----. [S.l. : s.n., 169-?]

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), 2719

ESTC, R229313

OCLC:

26157153