The Flower-Piece: a Collection of Miscellany Poems. By Several Hands
by [CONCANEN, MATTHEW, editor]
Price: $375.00
- Bookseller: Stuart Bennett Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: 7974
- Place: London: Printed for J. Walthow,
- Date published: 1731
Book Description
London: Printed for J. Walthow, 1731 . xii, 251, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Some browning and occasional soiling throughout. Contemporaray panelled calf; neatly rebacked. First edition, including several poems by women, many others about them, and many on Irish subjects. One is called “A Poem in Praise of Nastiness. To Cindercola Scrub” (it begins “O Goddess of the dirty hue!/ With eyes so red, and cheeks so blue. . .”). I last handled a copy of this miscellany in 1981, and here fall back on my catalogue note from that time: A scarce miscellany, edited and with many contributions by one of the mainstays of Whig hack-writing. It contains, in addition to Delany’s “Epistle to Lord Cartaret,” poems by Allan Ramsay,Ambrose Phillips, Phillip Frowde, and David Mallet, as well as the anonymous “On the Tearing Out and Burning the Obscene Pieces in the Lord Rochester’s Works.” Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 367.
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