Author: [WOTY (William)]:
Title: The Shrubs of Parnassus. Consisting of Poetical Essays, Moral and Comic. By J. Copywell.
Description: London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Newbery..., 1760. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 165 x 97 mms., pp. [xxiv], 154 [155 - 156 blank], contemporary calf; top and base of spine chipped, joints slight cracked, spine creased, lacks label. Woty (1731 - 1791) published his first book privately and anonymously, though he managed to secure about 450 subscribers, including George Colman, William Davies, "Mr. Franklin," David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, William Mason, Arthur Murphy, Tobias Smollett, etc. Eddy and Fleeman, A Preliminary Handlist of Books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, no. 67. Roscoe A 642.

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