Satirical poems published anonymously by William Mason, with notes by Horace Walpole, now first printed from his manuscript
Title:
Satirical poems published anonymously by William Mason, with notes by Horace Walpole, now first printed from his manuscript
Author:
Mason, William, 1725-1797.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1926.
Physical Description:
2 pages l., [3]-158 pages : frontispiece, portraits ; 27 cm
General Note:
With reproductions of original title-pages.
The ms. of Walpole's commentary and notes is in the Library of Harvard College.
Language:
English
Contents:
Editor's preface.--Editor's exposé of the mystification.--Introduction (H.W.)--Heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers.--Heroic postscript to the public.--Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck on his newly invented patent candle snuffers.--Epistle to Dr. Shebbeare.--Ode to Sir Fletcher Norton.--Ode to naval officers of Great Britain.
Format :
Book