An essay on poetry
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Type of record: Book
Title: An essay on poetry
Classmark: BC Lt/SEW
Creator(s): Buckingham, John Sheffield Duke of (1648-21)
Additional creator(s): Hills, Henry (1713) (Other)
Related people: Hills, Henry
Publisher: Printed and sold by H. Hills
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1709
Language: English
Size and medium: 16 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/274780
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000118879705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Signatures: A⁸.
Also issued as part of: 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands', London, 1717. --cf. Foxon.
A piracy?.
One of two variants: In this issue sig. A2 under 'by all'.
By John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave, afterwards Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
Indexed in: ESTC,
Additional description
Bound with nine other items. Volume contents: 1. Sewell, George: The life and character of Mr John Philips, 2nd ed., 1715. -- 2. Phillips, John: The splendid shilling. An imitation of Milton, 2nd correct ed., 1715. -- 3. Phillips, John: Bleinheim, a poem, ... , 4th ed., 1715. -- 4. Philips, John: Ode ad Henricum S. John, Armig., 3rd ed., 1715. -- 5. Beckingham, Mr.: Scipio Africanus: a tragedy ... , [1st ed., 12mo], 1718. -- 6. Pope, Alexander: An essay on criticism, 4th ed., 1713. -- 7. Addison, Joseph: The campaign: a poem ... , 1710. -- 8. Dryden, John: Absalom and Achitophel, 1708. -- 9. Buckingham, John Sheffield: An essay on poetry, 1709. -- 10. Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon: Essay on translated verse, 1709 [Poor condition - pages after p.12 damaged around edges obliterating page nos.]";"Contemporary signature of front pastedown of R. Clerke, 718, E. Coll. Reg.: (i.e. of Queen's College Oxford or Queens' College Cambridge)
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