(Mississippi Bubble) | A sammelband of pamphlet poetry
(Mississippi Bubble)
A sammelband of pamphlet poetry, including epistles relating to the Mississippi Bubble and South Sea Company, as well as four poems by John Gay. London: 1715-1721
Together, 9 works in one volume, 8vo. Contemporary paneled calf, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Works include: Gay, John. The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals. Jacob Thompson, 1721. Engraved frontispiece and six plates (included in pagination); lacking half-title. Foxon G74; ESTC T13918 — Gay, John. Two Epistles; One, to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington; the other, to a Lady. Bernard Lintott, 1715. Lacking the final ad leaves. Foxon G88; ESTC T13938 — Gay, John. The What D'Ye Call It: a Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce. Bernard Lintott, [1715]. Engraved frontispiece. ESTC T13939 — Gay, John. Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London. Bernard Lintott, [1716]. Title with engraved vignette. Foxon G81; ESTC T13930 — Ramsay, Allan. Wealth, or the Woody: A Poem on the South-Sea ... second edition, corrected. T. Jauncy, 1720. Foxon R107; ESTC T140396 — Amhurst, Nicholas. An Epistle (with a Petition in it) to Sir John Blunt, Bart., one of the Directors of the South-Sea Company ... The second edition. R. Francklin, 1720. Half-title; only one of three ad leaves present at rear. Foxon A197; ESTC T94046; Goldsmiths' 5715 — Ramsay, Allan. Patie and Roger: A Pastoral, in the Scots Dialect. J. Pemberton, 1720. Foxon R77; ESTC N11180 — [Bockett, Elias]. Yea and Nay Stock-Jobbers, or the 'Change-Alley Quakers Anatomiz'd. In a Burlesque Epistle to a Friend at Sea. J. Roberts, A. Dodd & J. Billingsly, 1720. Half-title. Foxon B308; ESTC T109160; Kress S.2846 — [Centlivre, Susanna]. A Woman's Case: in a Epistle to Charles Joye, Esq., Deputy-Governor of the South-Sea, by Mrs Cent-Livre. E. Curll, 1720. Half-title and a final advertisement leaf. Foxon C97; ESTC N24952; Kress S.2857.
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(Mississippi Bubble)
A sammelband of pamphlet poetry, including epistles relating to the Mississippi Bubble and South Sea Company, as well as four poems by John Gay. London: 1715-1721
Together, 9 works in one volume, 8vo. Contemporary paneled calf, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Works include: Gay, John. The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals. Jacob Thompson, 1721. Engraved frontispiece and six plates (included in pagination); lacking half-title. Foxon G74; ESTC T13918 — Gay, John. Two Epistles; One, to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington; the other, to a Lady. Bernard Lintott, 1715. Lacking the final ad leaves. Foxon G88; ESTC T13938 — Gay, John. The What D'Ye Call It: a Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce. Bernard Lintott, [1715]. Engraved frontispiece. ESTC T13939 — Gay, John. Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London. Bernard Lintott, [1716]. Title with engraved vignette. Foxon G81; ESTC T13930 — Ramsay, Allan. Wealth, or the Woody: A Poem on the South-Sea ... second edition, corrected. T. Jauncy, 1720. Foxon R107; ESTC T140396 — Amhurst, Nicholas. An Epistle (with a Petition in it) to Sir John Blunt, Bart., one of the Directors of the South-Sea Company ... The second edition. R. Francklin, 1720. Half-title; only one of three ad leaves present at rear. Foxon A197; ESTC T94046; Goldsmiths' 5715 — Ramsay, Allan. Patie and Roger: A Pastoral, in the Scots Dialect. J. Pemberton, 1720. Foxon R77; ESTC N11180 — [Bockett, Elias]. Yea and Nay Stock-Jobbers, or the 'Change-Alley Quakers Anatomiz'd. In a Burlesque Epistle to a Friend at Sea. J. Roberts, A. Dodd & J. Billingsly, 1720. Half-title. Foxon B308; ESTC T109160; Kress S.2846 — [Centlivre, Susanna]. A Woman's Case: in a Epistle to Charles Joye, Esq., Deputy-Governor of the South-Sea, by Mrs Cent-Livre. E. Curll, 1720. Half-title and a final advertisement leaf. Foxon C97; ESTC N24952; Kress S.2857.
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Nathaniel Thorn (engraved bookseller's label) — Robert Warner (ownership signature dated 1727)
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