Cogan Francis Editor (2 results)

First edition. 3 vols in 2, 8vo, contemporary brown calf, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Three volumes, complete, of an important English poetical miscellany which the editor and publisher Francis Cogan assembled for the cause of preserving what he feared were works that would be lost to the "low and declining state" of poetry. Included are the Earls of Dorset, Halifax and Roscommon, Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell, Ambrose Phillips, Thomas Sprat, and what are stated to be uncollected pieces by John Sucking, Matthew Prior, Thomas Ottway, and Jonathan Swift (a few of which Teerink suggests may be doubtful). Binding a rubbed, but sound; some foxing and smudges in the text; very good copy. ESTC T79268; Teerink 81 (Supplement); Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 467; NCBEL II, 472, 476, 483, etc.

2 volumes, both first editions. 8vo. ( 172mm. ) Pp. [ 12 ] ; [3] 4 - 308 ; [2], [2] 3 - 262 [2] blank. Error in pagination in Vol 1; but text complete. Each vol. has a separate title-page, that in vol.1 being in addition to that above. Vol. 1,with a table of contents, engraved title-page vignette and engraved Dedication head-piece. A third vol., published in 1750, entitled: ' A supplement to the works of the most celebrated minor poets '. Contents very lightly browned, clean and tight. Vol; 1 with a couple of worm holes in the outer margin of the first few gatherings not affecting the text. Vol; 2 with worming in the outer margin of the last few leaves, again not affecting the text. Contemporary smooth calf lightly rubbed, headcap of vol 1; chipped, both vols; wanting title labels. Both volumes with an engraved armorial bookplate, probably a branch of the Townley Family. When this miscellany first appeared in 1749 it was met with much critical and negative comment amongst which were claims that it omitted many minor poets. This led to some of the Editor's contemporaries publishing a similar volume which included some of the missing poets, which in turn resulted in Gogan's issue of the third supplementary volume in 1750. ESTC T79268. Case 467 (1)(a), (2)(a),