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Poetical miscellanies : consisting of original poems and translations by the best hands
Jeffrey, George; Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
MDDCXIV [i.e. 1714]
With engraved frontispiece. Case records another edition in this year, with correctly printed date (279b). A pirated edition appeared in 1726, and a second authorized edition in 1727. "Contains an...
Poems by Oliver Style
Style, Sir Oliver
c.1670-c.1710
Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.
Collection of English verse
c.1600-c.1710
Collection of loose sheets almost entirely of English verse, in many different hands, dating from the early 17th to the early 18th century; with a letter, 19 June 1622, from Thomas Gorstelow, and a bi...
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Collection of Restoration satires
c.1666-c.1725
Collection of four unbound late 17th- or early 18th-century Restoration satires
A Devonshire verse miscellany.
1770s
Comprises approximately 75 poems supposedly compiled in the West Country in the 1770s, some with clues to the locality of the scribe. The miscellany includes an unrecorded early poem on the subject of...
Collection of English poems
c.1701-1725
Collection of English poems, with two additional poems in a later hand
Collection of transcribed and autograph poems, gathered together with other papers, largely poetical
c.1700-1755
Ff.1r-68v: transcriptions of poems, taken largely from the published 'Divine Hymns and Poems on Several Occasions', 1704 (Case 231), gathered in leaf endorsed 'Divine poems & c by sundry hands'; ff.69...
Miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century English poetry and prose, with additional later material.
c.1750-1770
Contains 71 English poems, mainly anonymous. The prose works include 'A summary character of Clarinda never published' and 'Knitted lace collar'.
Poetical miscellanies : consisting of original poems and translations
Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
MDCCXIV [i.e. 1714]
B4 and C4 are unsigned. P.255 is misnumbered 235.
The historical and poetical medley : or Muses library : being a choice and faithful collection of the best antient English poetry, from the times of Edward the Confessor, to the reign of King James the First : with the lives and characters of the known writers taken from the most authentick memoirs : being the most valuable collection of the kind now extant, affording entertainment upon all subjects whatsoever
Cooper, Mrs Elizabeth (fl. 1737); Oldys, William (1696-1761)
1738
A reissue of The muses library, 1737, with cancel title leaf and final leaf. Caption and running titles: The muses library. Edited by Elizabeth Cooper (dedication signed: E. Cooper), assisted by W...
Miscellany poems. Containing a new translation of Virgills eclogues, Ovid's love elegies, odes of Horace, and other authors; with several originial poems
Dryden, John (1631-1700); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700); Scrope, Sir Carr (1649-1680); Duke, Sir Richard (1658-1711); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?-1701); Stepney, George (1663-1707); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736); Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Chetwood, Knightly (1650-1720)
1684
First in a series of miscellany published by Tonson, 1684-1709. Five other volumes published under various titles. First edition. Includes table of contents. "Absalom and Achitophel" (6th ed., a...
Miscellaneous poems and translations
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
1712
Editorship attributed to Pope and contains the first appearance of Pope's The rape of the locke. Often described as "Lintott's miscellany". Includes, together with six other pieces by Pope, the fi...