Poems on Several Occasions

P O E M S

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Several Occafions

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By Mr. JOHN PHILIPS,

Student of Christ-Church, Oxon.

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The Fourth Edition

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L O N D O N :

THOMAS ASTLEY

1728

DESCRIPTION

(ii) + 72 + (ii)

Book measures 170mm x 105mm approximately.

Bound and re-backed in later quarter plain brown calf over marbled boards. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Previous owner bookplate to front paste-down.

CONDITION

Very good condition overall with binding holding very firm with just a few very light surface scratches and light bumping to upper board corners. Internally the pages are uniformly browned and aged with regular random marks and spots, some to page edges with end-papers more heavily so.

Please refer to the photo images for a clear indication of both condition and content.

INTERESTING

John Philips (1676 to 1709) was an 18th-century English poet. He suffered from delicate health but became a proficient classical scholar educated at Winchester College. He was treated with special indulgence because of his personal popularity. In 1708 Philips issued Cyder, his most well-known work, which is an imitation of Virgil's Georgics. It has some fine descriptive passages with an exact account of the culture of the apple tree and the manufacture of cider. It has many local allusions to Herefordshire, the County of his ancestors. Philips also contemplated a poem on the "Last Day", but his health grew worse. After a visit to Bath, he died aged 33 of tuberculosis at his mother's house in Hereford.