Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. By the Best Hands. Publish'd by Mr. Steele.
London: Jacob Tonson, 1714.
Price: $250.00
About the item
First edition, with year printed "MDDCXIV" Engraved frontispiece by Guernier after Laguerre, woodcut tailpieces. [xvi], 318 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf gilt, red morocco spine label. Spine worn with loss to gilt and lettering, short repaired tear to title. Early ownership inscriptions on flyleaf and title. Case 279a; ESTC T75180; Griffith 24; Rothschild 1957.
Item #308160
First edition of this poetical miscellany with works by Steele and others. With three Pope first appearances, including his translations of the Wife of Bath's Prologue and an excerpt from the Odyssey. Three poems by John Gay are printed here for the first time. The first edition is distinguished by the misprint of the date on the title-page; it was corrected in the second edition.
