Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. By the Best Hands. Publish'd by Mr. Steele. The Second Edition.
London: J. Tonson, 1727.
Price: $200.00
About the item
Third edition. Engraved frontispiece by Guernier after Laguerre, woodcut tailpieces. [xxii], 346 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, red morocco spine label, speckled edges. Extremities rubbed, rear cover scuffed with some loss to leather, a few leaves chipped and soiled at fore-edge margin. Case 279(d); ESTC T75179; Griffith 194. Provenance: Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor (armorial bookplate); Louis & Anne Marie Davidson (bookplate).
Item #308161
Styled the second edition on the title-page, but in fact the third edition, following the two 1714 London editions (the first distinguished by an incorrect date in the imprint). With thirteen new pieces added at the end, including the first appearance of Pope's "To Godfrey Kneller, on his painting for me the statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules"
