Author: ROSCOMMON (Wentworth Dillon), Earl of:
Title: The Poetical Works Of the Right Honourable Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon.
Description: Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie, 1749. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xii, 275 [276 Contents], contemporary calf; front joint cracked, lacks label. Although a number of Roscommon's works were published during his lifetime (1633 - 1685) and in various early 18th collections, Urie's is the first collected edition of his poetical works. The volume includes his poems on several occasions as well as his verse translation of Horace's De Arte Poetica.

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