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The poems of William Collins

Archive Print Item: Large Printing Collection/HAS

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Type of record: Book

Title: The poems of William Collins

Level: Item

Classmark: Large Printing Collection/HAS

Creator(s): Collins, William (1721-1759)

Additional creator(s): Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974) (Other); Chiswick Press (Other)

Related people: Blunden, Edmund

Publisher: F. Etchells & H. Macdonald

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1929

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, 179 p., 1 ʹ

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/302301

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004562739705181

Description

Issued in grey paper over boards, with a paper label printed in black on the spine.


Colophon: "Of this edition printed... by the Chiswick Press on Kentish all-rag paper, 500 numbered copies have been issued ..."


Contents: Preface.--A study of William Collins.--Persian eclogues.--Verses humbly address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his edition of Shakespear's works.--Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subjects.--Ode on the death of Mr. Thomson.--Ode on the popular superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland.--Minor pieces.--Poems of doubtful authenticity.--Notes.--Index of first lines.

Additional description

No.360 of an edition of 500 copies

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