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, Earl of Dorset, 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):

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English poetry.

English poetry--Early modern.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy.

Fabry, I. (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Overton, Henry (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 224, 245-267 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 8 unnumbered pages, 264 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

The third edition, corrected and much enlarged.

Other Title:

Poems on state affairs

State-poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel, to the year 1697

Hind and panther transvers'd to the story of the country-mouse and the city-mouse

Fingerprint:

tIa- e.n; e,in InOr (3) 1699 (A) pt.1

asld d.ld t.t, Th'T (3) 1699 (A) pt.2

Place of Publication:

[London?] : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year 1699.

Language Note:

Part 2 contains Latin as well as English verse.

Notes:

Place of publication from Wing.

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

Publisher's advertisement: pt. 1., verso of p. 267; pt 2., p. 264.

In two parts: Part 2, "State-poems; continued from the time of O. Cromwel, to the year 1697" has separate dated t.p., pagination and register.

Within Part 2 "The hind and panther transvers'd to the story of the country-mouse and the city-mouse" by Matthew Prior (published originally in 1697), has divisional title page on F1r, pagination and register are continuous

Error in pagination: [pt. 2], p. 96 misnumbered 99.

It seems likely that Part 2 was also issued separately, but Wing does not record such an edition.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate and autograph of Henry C. Lea, 1826.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of I. Fabry.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Hen. Overton.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), 2721

ESTC, R30534

OCLC:

55158734