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Poetical pamphlets.
Title:
Poetical pamphlets.
Author:
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. English.
Edition:
Compiled 1791 from pamphlets published 1766-1791.
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, frontispiece ; 28 x 23 cm
General Note:
Title from spine labels ; compilation date from exposed binding in Vol. 4.

All poems separately paginated.
Language:
English

Latin

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Contents:
Vol. 1. The Race (1766) ; The Senators (1772) ; The Patricians (1773) ; The Spleen (1776) ; Otaheite (1774) / [Cuthbert Shaw] -- An Historic Epistle, from Omiah to the Queen to Otaheite (1775) -- Seventeen hundred & seventy-seven, a Satirical Epistle (1777) -- Momus, or the fall of Britain (1779) -- The Diaboliad (1777) ; The Diabo-lady (1777) / Dr. Kenrick -- A Sketch of the times, a satire (1780) An apology for the times (1778) -- The Desolation of America (1777) [missing] -- An Epistle from Mademoiselle D'eon -- The Fanatic Saints, or Bedlamites inspired : a satire (1778) -- Perfection, a poetical epistle (1778) -- The Temple of Imposture (1778) -- -- The Female patriot, an Epistle (1779) -- The Noble Cricketers, a poetical & familiar Epistle (1778) -- The Koppeliad, or Injur'd Virtue triumphant (1779) -- The Wreath of Fashion, or the art of Sentimental Poetry (1780) ; The Project (1780) / Richard Tickell, Esqr.

Vol. 2. The Progress of Refinement (1783) / Henry James Pye, Esq. -- Youth (1773) / Hall Hartson, Esq. -- Innocence : an allegorical poem (1790) / Miss Mary Young -- On Illicit Love (1775) / John Brand, A.B. -- The Prostitute (1771) ; The Four Seasons (1773) / John Huddlestone Wynne, Gent. -- The Injured Islanders ; or, the influence of Art upon the Happiness of Nature (1779) / ["Rev. Gerald Fitzgerald, Fellow of Trinity Colledge [sic] Dublin"--Manuscript note] -- The Electrical Eel : or, Gymnotus electricus (1777) / Adam Strong, naturalist [i.e., James Perry] -- The Torpedo, a poem to the Electrical Eel (1777) -- Elegies and Sonnets (1785) / Samuel Knight, A.M. -- The Paphiad, or Kensington-Gardens (1785) -- A Poetical address to the Fashionable Ladies of Great Britain (1788) -- The Art of Dressing the Hair (1770) / E. P. Philocosm -- Excursions to Parnassus, or the Entertainment of a Summer's Vacation (1787) / by a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge -- Cloacina Triumphant (1782).

Vol. 3. The Battle of Hastings : an heroic poem (1787) -- An Epistle to Warren Hastings, Esq., late Governor General of Bengal (1791) -- Gynomachia : or, a Contest between two old Ladies, in the Service of a celebrated Orator (n.d.) / Oneirophilos -- Begum B_rke to Begum Bow, a Poetical Rhapsody on contemporary Characters (1789) -- The Struggles of Sheridan, or the Ministry in full cry (1790) -- An Epistle to the Right Honourable George Lord Pigot, on the Anniversary of the Raising the Siege of Madras (1778) -- The First of April : or, the Triumphs of Folly (1777) ; The Justification (1777) ; The World as it goes (1779) / [Dr. Kenrick] -- Johnson's Laurel : or, the Contest of the Poets (1785) -- The Sick Laureat, or Parnassus in Confusion (1789) -- -- Modern Poets, a Satire (1791) -- St. James's Street (1790) / Marmaduke Milton, Esq. [i.e., Charles Dunster] -- Epistola Macaronica = A Macaronic Epistle (English and Latin, 1790) / [Alexander Geddes] -- Birch for Peter Pindar, Esq. : A burlesque Poem (1788) ; Peter Pindar's Penitence : a miscellaneous and burlesque Poem (1789) / Pindaromastix. The Rout : or a Sketch of modern Life, from an Academic in the Metropolis to his Friend in the County (1789)

Vol. 4. Chatsworth, a poem ; Dedicated by Permission to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire (n.d.) -- Lewesdon Hill (2nd ed., 1788) / William Crowe, L.L.B. of New College and Public Orator of the University -- Ode on leaving South Carolina [missing] -- Hagley : a descriptive poem (1776) / Thomas Maurice -- Kew Garden (1767) / Henry Jones -- Town-Eclogues (1773) / The Hon. Andrew Erskine -- A Pastoral Ballad in four parts (1774) -- The Auction : a Town Eclogue (4th ed., 1780) / The Honorable Mr.___ -- The Fast-Day : a Lambeth Eclogue (1780) / P.Q. -- Poems (1789) / John Rannie -- The Grove of Fancy (1789) -- Poems and Miscellaneous Pieces, with a free translation of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles (1779) / the Rev. Thomas Maurice, A.B.
Local Note:
1791 edition : The volumes are bound in brown calf over boards, with the title stamped in gilt on red levant labels on each spine, and with each volume number stamped in gilt on each spine. Each item's initial page in Vol. 1 is numbered by hand; the first item's half-title verso bears a hand-printed note about the author, and its title page bears below the author line the hand-printed note, "alias Cuthbert Shaw."
Format :
Book