Full title: Poetry [electronic resource] : original and selected.

Author/creator: Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Date: [1796-98].

Call Numbers:

Record Identifier: 74Vvgavx8zVO

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 4v. ; 8°.

Publishers: Glasgow : printed for and sold by Brash & Reid, [1796-98]

Access: Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

Notes: Each volume contains 24 8pp. sections, the first one in vol. 1 being 'Smollett's celebrated ode to independence', all originally issued separately (with 3 additional numbers issued after December 1798). Printed by Robert Chapman, or (the later issues) by Chapman & Lang, his successors. Reproduction of original from British Library. The preliminaries to vol. 3 are numbered 1-8, with p. [5] headed 'Contents'; a variant has the titlepage and advertisement to the reader not numbered, the contents numbered 1-4 and headed: 'Volume third contains'. Vol. 1 is of the first issue; the titlepage bears the motto "Delicia musarum" and the verso of the titlepage contains the Advertisement to the reader. Vol. 2 has the first two sections with swelled rules in their titles and the seventh section is 'Two original poems. The echo ..'; a variant (= second issue) has ornamental rules in the first two sections and the seventh section is 'The echo ..'. With an additional titlepage, engraved, in each volume.

Citation / references note: ESTC T42673.

Additional physical form availability note: Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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MMS ID: 991012287509702626