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Poetical miscellany mainly of contemporary satires, by various authors, chiefly anonymous : Miscellany c. 1680.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (90 ff.)
- Summary:
- Comprises 36 English verse satires on the behaviour of persons in high society during the reign of Charles II, including that of the king himself, many of them somewhat obscene
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt 87
- Written by a single hand. Ff.78-90 are blank. On the inside front cover there is a bookplate with a printed coat of arms and the words 'E LIBRIS ROBERTI MARCHIONIS DE CREWE' and the name 'Michael Phillips' written in pencil in a modern hand below it. On f.78v there is a pencilled drawing of a lady wearing a long dress and high heels and holding what appears to be a small lamp or goblet
- Local Notes:
- Bound in brown leather boards with decorated gilt tooling on both covers and the spine.
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