Miscellany of seventeenth and eighteenth-century verse : Miscellany c.1710-1760.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 volume (approximately 220 pages)

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2006.

Summary:

Comprises a miscellany of over 100 manuscript poems, probably compiled during the early to mid-eighteenth century, including imitations and translations of Horace and Martial, and numerous poems by Dryden, Rochester, Roscommon, Congreve, and other writers on meditative, religious, lyrical, literary, occasional and miscellaneous subjects and historical personages (including Queen Elizabeth, Charles I, William and Mary, and Louis XIV)

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:LT 123

The compiler of this verse miscellany is unknown. The greater part of the text is written in a single neat hand, with additions in at least two other hands. The text is partly paginated. 8vo, with some blank leaves. Label on the front inside cover of R. Riviere, Bookseller, 24 Union St., Bath, and a small paper label on the outside front cover bearing the number 1993. Some pages are soiled and the binding is somewhat worn

Local Notes:

Bound in late eighteenth-century/ early nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments.

Access Restriction:

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