Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica: Or a Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry ... Illustrated by Occasional Extracts and Remarks, Critical and BiographicalDavison, 1815 - 481 pages |
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... added . the size of the volume , with the number of pages , in stating which it has been thought proper to deviate from the common custom of putting down the quantity of pages , and excluding the prefatory matter , which frequently ...
... added . the size of the volume , with the number of pages , in stating which it has been thought proper to deviate from the common custom of putting down the quantity of pages , and excluding the prefatory matter , which frequently ...
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... adding , " though I have been many years seeking after , yet I cannot get a sight of it . " Of Posteritie . Daughter of Time , sincere Posteritie , Alwayes new borne , yet no man knowes thy birth , The arbitresse of pure Sinceritie ...
... adding , " though I have been many years seeking after , yet I cannot get a sight of it . " Of Posteritie . Daughter of Time , sincere Posteritie , Alwayes new borne , yet no man knowes thy birth , The arbitresse of pure Sinceritie ...
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... added the measures of blowing ( second title over a wood cut ; no colophon at end ) .- Here beginneth a tretyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle ( over a wood engraving of a man angling ) . All the three parts Black Letter . - Imprynted at ...
... added the measures of blowing ( second title over a wood cut ; no colophon at end ) .- Here beginneth a tretyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle ( over a wood engraving of a man angling ) . All the three parts Black Letter . - Imprynted at ...
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... added as a specimen . Vpon a late deceased Pinch - gut . Macer dide rich the say , but it's not so , For he dide poore , and was indebted too : How should that be ? Obserue me , and Ile tell ye He dide indebted both to backe and belly ...
... added as a specimen . Vpon a late deceased Pinch - gut . Macer dide rich the say , but it's not so , For he dide poore , and was indebted too : How should that be ? Obserue me , and Ile tell ye He dide indebted both to backe and belly ...
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... added , The Praise of Nothing ; Divine Ejacu- lations ; The four Ages of the world ; The Birth of Christ ; Also a Century of Historical Appli- cations ; With a Taste of Poetical Fictions . By Nicholas Billingsly then of Eaton School ...
... added , The Praise of Nothing ; Divine Ejacu- lations ; The four Ages of the world ; The Birth of Christ ; Also a Century of Historical Appli- cations ; With a Taste of Poetical Fictions . By Nicholas Billingsly then of Eaton School ...
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