Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-maxia.
by [HOLDSWORTH (Edward)]:
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About This Item
Londini: Veneunt Bernard Lintott, [1709]. 8vo (in 4s), 176 x 110 mms., pp. 19 [20 blank], disbound; top margin closely trimmed, with loss on title-page of about 2 mms. of title and of running-title and page numbers on other leaves. Holdsworth (1684 - 1786) wrote this comic poem on the Welsh after graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford. In the poem, a Welshman, Taffy, who has ingested some cheese and fallen asleep, wakes up to find a mouse in his throat feasting on the cheese, and, as said mouse tries to escape, he is trapped by Taffy's teeth. Foxon H280. ESTC T41624, with a printer's ornament on page 19; Aberdeen, BL (2), Cambridge, Hampshire Record Office, Longleat, National Library of Wales, Bodleian.
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- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
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- Title
- Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-maxia.
- Author
- [HOLDSWORTH (Edward)]:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Londini: Veneunt Bernard Lintott, [1709]
- Keywords
- satire verse literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- satire;
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