Court poems : Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal
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Type of record: Book
Title: Court poems : Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal
Classmark: BC Lt/COU
Creator(s): Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)
Additional creator(s): Gay, John (1685-1732) (Other); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) (Other)
Related people: Gay, John; Pope, Alexander
Publisher: Printed for J. Roberts
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1706 [i.e. 1716]
Language: English
Size and medium: [1], iii, [1], 23 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/274876
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000130309705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First edition.
Date on title-page misprinted 1706.
Authorship attributed by "Advertisement" to "a lady of quality," Pope or Gay. Nos. I and II are now ascribed to Lady Mary; included in the ms. of her Court eclogs (in Pope's hand) in NYPL's Arents Collection (cf. Arents: Tobacco, suppl., X, 623). No. III is now ascribed to Gay; included in his Poems on several occasions, 1720. Cf. R. Halsband, Pope, Lady Mary and the Court poems, in PMLA, v. 68 (1953), p. 237-250.
Indexed in: Foxon, p. 476; Straus: Curll, 239; Rothschild: Eighteenth-century books, II, 1576; Griffith: Pope, 51.
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