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Chandler, Samuel, 1693-17662
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A miscellany of poems : consisting of original poems, translations, pastorals in the Cumberland dialect, familiar epistles, fables, songs, and epigrams

Relph, Josiah (1712-1743); Denton, Thomas

1747

First edition. Numbers 159-160 repeated in the paging. Also published with title: Poems, humorous and sentimental.

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The history of the world : the second part, in six books: being a continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, knight: beginning where he left; viz. at the end of the Macedonian kingdom, and deduced to these later-times; that is, from the year of the world 3806, or 160 years before Christ, till the end of the year 1640. after Christ

Ross, Alexander (1591-1654); Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618)

1652

Numerous errors in paging: including the omission of nos. 179-180 and 193-220, the repetition of nos. 158-159, 397-400, and 545-556. "A brief chronology of the principal passages faln out in the wor...

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The odes and satires of Horace

Horace; Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Rochester, Laurence Hyde Earl of; Horace

1715

Numbering of pages 126-127 and 161-176 repeated, and pages 143-160 omitted in pagination; text continuous. A piracy of Tonson's edition of the same year.

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A new c-----t [i.e. cabinet] ballad

Hervey, John Hervey Baron (1696-1743)

1742

A satire on John Carteret, Earl Granville, and the change of ministry in January 1742. - cf. DNB. In verse. Anon., by John Hervey.

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The English Theophrastus : or, The manners of the age. Being the modern characters of the court, the town, and the city

Boyer, Abel (1667-1729)

1702

Anon., by Abel Boyer. The dedication leaf (A3) is a cancel; no name appears below the dedication in this copy, but in that at the University of Michigan it is signed by Abel Boyer.

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A paraphrase on some select psalms, and upon the seven penitential psalms, entitled, the royal penitent

Daniel, Richard (1739)

1737

Verse. 'The royal penitent' has separate register and pagination.

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Tales, epistles, odes, fables, &c : with translations from Homer and other antient authors. To which are added proposals for perfecting the English language

Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756); Homer

1729

Contains several Pope-related pieces; cf. Guerinot. Publisher's advertisements: p. [1] at end. The author's name appears at the end of the dedication. Errata: p. 214. Anon., by Thomas Cooke.

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Poems, songs, and sonnets, together with a masque

Carew, Thomas (1595?-1639?); Carew, Thomas (1595?-1639?); Lawes, Henry (1596-1662)

1671

Without the music. Added t.p. on p. [179]: Coelum britannicum : a masque at Whitehall... / Tho. Carew, Inigo Jones. [London] In the Savoy : Henry Herringman, 1670. Sig. D3 wrongly signed D4. Pag...

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Marinda : Poems and translations upon several occasions

Monk, Mary Molesworth (1715); Molesworth, Robert Molesworth Viscount (1656-1725)

1716

Foxon, p. 474 // Williams, I. A.: Points in eighteenth-century verse, p. 90-91. Dedication (p. [3-49]) signed by the editor R. Molesworth, the author's father. Publisher's advertisements: p. [157-...

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The Old Whig : or, The consistent Protestant (v.1)

1739

Selected leading articles from the periodical "The old Whig", conducted chiefly by Samuel Chandler.

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The Old Whig : or, The consistent Protestant (v.2)

1739

Selected leading articles from the periodical "The old Whig", conducted chiefly by Samuel Chandler.

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