Shelfmark
Fk.5.10(02)
Author
Title
Poems on several subjects: written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher in a barn in the couty of Wilts, at the wages of four shillings and six pence per week: which were publickly read by the right honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, in the drawing-room at Windsor Castle, on Friday the 11th of September, 1730, to Her Majesty : Who was thereupon most graciously pleased to take the author into her royal protection, by allowing him a salary of thirty pounds per annum, and a small house at Richmond in Surrey, to live in, for the better support of himself and family.
Varying form of title
Miscellanies political &c
Edition
The third edition, corrected.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane: and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, M.DCC.XXX [1730].
Physical description
32p ; 20cm. (8vo.)
Note
Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.
Note
Bound with ten other items.
Note
Ms. contents list on flyleaf.
Note
Previously: Dm.5.14.
Note
Ms. inscription in pencil: "Checked March 1924".
Citation/references note
Foxon, p.200; ESTC T89759
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 3989, no. 03).
Additional physical form available
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Binding
18th century quarter brown calf; red and faded blue marbled paper covered boards; five raised bands; spine title: "Miscellanies political &c".
Subject
Added entry--name
Roberts, James, 1668 or 9 - 1754 printer.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B23471