Poems of controversy betwixt Episcopacy and Presbytery: also several poems and merry songs on other subjects. With some funeral elegies on various nobleman and gentlemen
by SMITH, Robert
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- Hardcover
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: [s.n.] Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1714, [1869]. Limited to 70 copies. viii, vii, [13], 120pp, [4]. With a preliminary publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's red cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities marked, lightly rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece. Blank paper label pasted to FEP, light foxing to endpapers, else internally clean and crisp. A limited reprint, edited by Thomas George Stevenson, of the verse of Scottish schoolmaster and poet Robert Smith (fl.1689-1729) - primarily the poetical interchange with whig poet and Church of Scotland adherent Jasper Craig that was inflamed by denominational disagreement. . 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ16786
- Title
- Poems of controversy betwixt Episcopacy and Presbytery: also several poems and merry songs on other subjects. With some funeral elegies on various nobleman and gentlemen
- Author
- SMITH, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [s.n.] Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1714
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- [1869]
- Keywords
- Poetry, Verse
- Size
- 8vo
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Wareham, Dorset
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