Author: POETICAL MISCELLANY
Title: The Poetical Miscellany; Consisting of Select Pieces From the Works of the following Poets, viz. Milton, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Gay, Parnel [sic], Young, Thomson, Akenside, Philips, Gray, Wharton, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Wilkie, &c. &c. For the use of Schools. The Second Edition..
Description: London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell..., 1769. 12mo, 178 x 103 mms., pp. [xii], 310, including half-title, contemporary calf, red leather label; front joint cracked, upper rear joint slightly cracked, corners a bit worn, but a decent copy, with the contemporary autograph "Wm. Bayles" on the top margin of the front paste-down end-paper. This popular miscellany was first published in 1762, and the editor definitely has an agenda: "The Editor thinks it unnecessary to make any Apology for a Work of this kind, being persuaded that every sensible and unprejudiced Parent will be better pleased to hear his Son repeat fifty Lines of Milton, Pope, Young, or Thomson, than five hundred of Ovid or Virgil." This second edition is, curiously, thirty pages shorter than the first of 1762. A third edition appeared in 1778 and a fourth edition in 1789. ESTC T175134 locates copies in BL, Bodleian (2), National Trust; Columbia, Chicago, Kansas, Michigan, Texas; Alexander Turnbull, National Library of Australia.

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