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Title: A Select Collection of Modern Poems. By several Hands Author: ** Place: Dublin Publisher: John Henly Date: 1713 Description: [4], [4], 176, 22 pp. Most poems with separate title-pages. Authors include Pope, Addison, Denham, Dryden, Congreve, et al. (12mo) 5¾x3, period calf; custom slipcase. Rare early 18th-century poetry miscellany. This copy with ownership signature of Anne Worth dated 1725 on title-page and inscription of Will(?) Worth dated 1714 on front free endpaper. Contents are: A poem to His Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal, on the prospect of peace. By Mr. Tickell. * An ode to the creator of the world. * An essay on poetry. By the Right Honourable the Earl of Mulgrave. * An essay on translated verse. By the Earl of Roscommon. * An essay on criticism. * The campaign (a poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough) By Mr. Addison. * Coopers-Hill. By Sir John Denham. * The splendid shilling, in imitation of Milton. * Alexander's feast. Or, The power of musick, an ode in honour of St. Cecilia's-Day. * A letter from Italy, to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax. * The mournful muse of Alexis. * Blenheim, a poem, inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Robert Harley. Case, Poetical miscellanies, 268. Lot Amendments Condition: Slipcase very worn; spine and edges dry and rubbed with lower cover starting, minor surface worming to front cover; very minor edge chip to final text leaf, P1 with short marginal tear; else near fine. Item number: 159864