Author: SOMERVILE William
Title: The Chace. A Poem [with] Hobbinol. The Chace. A Poem. Fourth Edition [with] Hobbinol, or the Rural Games. A Burlesque Poem in Blank Verse. The Fourth Edition. THE CHASE AND RURAL GAMES
Description: Printed for G. Hawkins, at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet Street,, 1757. 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo., Fourth Edition of each work, on laid paper, with copper-engraved frontispiece and 2 plates (first work), and 3 engraved plates (second work), frontispiece and title of first work mildly browned (title clipped at upper outer corner), neat nineteenth century signature on front paste-down; contemporary marbled boards, roan back with flat bands in gilt, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, blue sprinkled edges, a very good, crisp, clean copy. 'The Chase', an epic piece in praise of hunting was first published in 1735; 'Hobbinol', a burlesque on rural May Day games was first published in 1740. NCBEL II, 568

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