DUCK, STEPHEN 1705-1756.

Poems on several subjects : written by Stephen Duck, Lately a poor Thresher in a Barn in the County of Wilts, at the Wages of Four Shillings and Six Pence per Week: which were publickly read by The Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield...

London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster M.DCC.XXX. [1730] . Price Six-Pence 0. 3 titles bound together: The Description Of Bath. A Poem; A Character Of John Sheffield, 1729; Poems on Several Subjects..Stephen Duck, 1730 - [10pp.]/pp.85/[1p. - Books Printed..James Leake]/[2pp.]/pp.48/[2pp.]/pp.6/pp.3-32. Description for Stephen Duck: Engraved frontis, facing a printed title page. Clear English text on lightly toned and soiled paper, decorated with headpieces. Original half calf binding over scuffed marble boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Plain brown leather spine. Pencil doodles to endpapers. 196mm x 125mm x 20mm. * Referenced by: ESTC No. T42654 / Foxon p.200. ** "Stephen Duck (c. 1705 – 21 March 1756) was an English poet whose career reflected both the Augustan era's interest in "naturals" (natural geniuses) and its resistance to classlessness." - See Wikipedia.

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Book number: 45167

Catalogue: Poetry: : 18th Century

Keywords: 46648 Duck, Stephen James Leake, Bookseller in Bath Chandler, Mary Poetry: : 18th Century

GRAY, THOMAS 1(716-1771) .

Poems By Mr. Gray. A New Edition .

London : Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall M DCC LXVIII. [1768] . 0. "A New Edition." A very good full leather binding. 8vo. 7.0" x 5.0" x 0.5". [2pp.]/pp.119/[2pp.] , with a final contents leaf . Half-title (before the title-page) lacking. Page signatures: [A]¹, B-H8, I4, K¹. Brown calf carefully re-cased at sometime in the past. Board edges carefully strengthened. Matching brown calf spine with 5 raised bands gilt publication date: '1768' and tan leather title label: 'Gray's Poems". Plain endpapers, lightly soiled. Previous owner's details to front free-endpaper: "Hariette Chick, Christmas 1887." Printed title-page. Clean text throughout. Just the odd small blemish. VG. Referenced by: ESTC T136298 / Rothschild 1071 . Contents include: Ode on the Spring, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Ode on a Distant prospect of Eton College, Hymn to Adversity, The Progress of Poesy, The Bard, The Fatal Sisters, The Descent of Odin, The Triumphs of Owen, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

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Book number: 50690

Catalogue: Poetry: : 18th Century

Keywords: 52158 Gray, Thomas J. Dodsley Poems Ode on the Spring, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Hymn to Adversity, the Progress of Poesy, the Bard, Poetry: : 18th Century

JAGO, RICHARD (1715-1781) .

Edge-Hill, or, the rural prospect delineated and moralized. A poem. In four books. By Richard Jago, A.M.

London : Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall MDCCLXVII. [1767] . 0. First edition. A modern half calf binding preserving the original 1767 publication. 29.3cm x 23.3cm x 1.9cm . 4to. pp.xix/[5pp.]/pp.164 . Brown calf spine and corners over modern marbled papered boards. A very good, and clean binding. matching marbled endpapers. free-endpapers present. Title lightly foxed, small holes to top corner (where a previous owner's details have benn erased). First two leaves "List Of Subscribers." with 10% loss to lower edge affecting 3 lines of text. Clear English text throughout on lightly soiled/foxed paper. A well preserved book. ** Referenced by: ESTC T85986. *** "Richard Jago (1 October 1715 – 8 May 1781) was an English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire.. Jago's most ambitious publication was the four-part topographical poem, Edge Hill, or the rural prospect delineated and moralised (1767). It was written in blank verse and was once described as "the most elaborate local poem in our language".[7] The poet takes his stance on the hill in the morning, facing south-west (book 1); at noon he is on Ratley Hill in the centre (books 2–3) and then moves along the ridge to look north-east at evening. The poem intermingles description with legendary, historical and antiquarian particulars, principally the battle at the start of the English Civil War. Imaginary excursions are made to Warwick, Coventry, Kenilworth, Solihull, and industrial Birmingham (under the name Bremicham), as well as many "flattering descriptions of all the great houses and seats of important people which come within his survey". Local rivers are also included and even the nearby canal on which "sooty barks pursue their liquid track". There are many digressions as well, including descriptions of industrial processes and of the nature of vision and the working of the telescope.." - See Wikipedia / J. Churton Collins in Poets' Country, London 1907 .

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Book number: 49282

Catalogue: Poetry: : 18th Century

Keywords: 51021j. Dodsley Richard Jago Edge-Hill, or, the Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralized. A Poem Poetry: : 18th Century

THOMSON, JAMES 1700-1748.

The Works Of James Thomson. With his last corrections and improvements. In four volumes.

London: Printed for W. Bowyer, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, B. Law, W. Owen, R. Horsfield, T. Longman, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, G. Kearsley, D. Wilson & Co. T. Cadell, T. Lowndes, T. Davies, Richardson & Richardson, and H. Baldwin MDCCLXXIII. [1773] . 0. A very good 4 volume set in matching full leather bindings and 16 engravings. Vol. I. : pp.32/[4pp.]/pp.209 + 5 engravings / Vol. II. : [2pp.]/pp.302 + 5 engravings / Vol. III. ; [2pp.]/pp. + 3 engravings / Vol. IV. :pp.288 + 3 engravings . Some engravings signed by 'G. V. Neist' after designs by 'Wale' . 12 mo. 17.3cm x 11.0cm x 2.2cm. Tan calf covered boards, edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Smooth spines with rubbed gilt decoration, red title label, and brown volume number. Marbled endpapers. Each volume with an engraved armorial bookplate to the verso of each front board: "Sr. Martin Browne Ffolkes Bart." Each volume with an engraved frontis. Pages lightly toned. Some off-setting on adjacent pages to the engravings, otherwise clean English text throughout. G+ ** Referenced by: ESTC T59683 / Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers 4968 .*** "Sir Martin Browne ffolkes, 1st Baronet, FRS (21 May 1749 – 11 December 1821) was an English baronet and Member of Parliament. Martin ffolkes was the only son of William ffolkes, a barrister of Hillington, Norfolk and his second wife Mary, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Browne, MD, President of the Royal College of Physicians. His uncle was Martin Folkes, President of the Royal Society. He was educated at Eton School from 1758 to 1766 and Emmanuel College, Cambridge and then entered Lincoln's Inn in 1768 to study law. He succeeded his father in 1783, inheriting lands in Norfolk. On the death of his grandfather Sir William Browne in 1774 he restyled himself Browne ffolkes and was created a baronet later that year. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1783–84 and in 1790 was elected MP for King's Lynn, sitting until his death in office in 1821. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1772. He died at Hillington in 1821 and was succeeded by his elder son, William John Henry Browne ffolkes. He had married Fanny, the daughter and coheir of Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet of Warham, with whom he had 2 sons and 3 daughters." - See Wikipedia.

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Book number: 45635

Catalogue: Poetry: : 18th Century

Keywords: Thomson, James Martin Browne Ffolkes Poetry: : 18th Century

WALLER, EDMUND (1606-1687) .

The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq; In Verse And Prose. Published By Mr. Fenton.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, M DCC XLIV. [1744] . 0. A very good half leather binding by "Blackwell". 12mo. 6.75" x 4.0" x 1.25". [16pp.]/pp.295/[4pp.]pp.4 - 168 . Polished brown morocco spine and corners over marbled boards. Spine with 5 raised bands gilt decorated compartments and gilt title. Corners and edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Small binder's stamp to the top of the front endpaper: "Bound By Blackwell". A very good and clean copy illustrated with an engraved portrait frontis, plus 3 other engravings (one folding). ** Referenced by ESTC: T124641 *** Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician .

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Book number: 46847

Catalogue: Poetry: : 18th Century

Keywords: 48422 J. And R. Tonson and S. Draper Works of Edmund Waller, Fenton Blackwell Poetry: : 18th Century