The Flower-Piece: a Collection of Miscellany Poems. By Several Hands.

Published by London: Printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill; and H. Walthoe, between the Two Temple Gates in Fleet - Street, 1731.

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Seller: Stuart Bennett Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, Essex, CT, U.S.A.Stuart Bennett Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

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xii, 251, [1]pp., 12mo. With a page of publisher s advertisements at end. A very nice copy in contemporary panelled calf. Contemporary ownership inscription "Chas. Hale" on title. First edition, edited and with contributions by Matthew Concanen. Concanen was Irish and initially praised Pope and Swift in his collection of poems published in 1722, but within a few years he was supporting the Whigs and attacked them, earning ridicule in The Dunciad and in Swift s On Poetry: A Rhapsody. The present miscellany contains six poems identified as by Concanen himself and others by a variety of authors including Patrick Delany, Philip Frowde, David Mallet, Thomas Newcomb, Ambrose Philips, and Allan Ramsay. There are several by women, including "Verses to the Memory of Mrs. Oldfield" by "Mrs. Heron." Among the more memorable poems is "On Tearing out and Burning the Obscene Pieces in Lord Rochester s Works". O Donoghue, Poets of Ireland, p. 75; Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 367.

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Title
The Flower-Piece: a Collection of Miscellany Poems. By Several Hands.
Author
[CONCANEN, MATTHEW, et al.].
Publisher
London: Printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill; and H. Walthoe, between the Two Temple Gates in Fleet - Street, 1731.
Condition
Fine
Edition
1st Edition

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