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R. H. the E. of R. [John WILMOT, 2d. Earl of Rochester.]

London, 1701. Octavo. Pp. 112.* POEMS on several occasions. By the Right Honourable the Earl of Had - ton. [Thomas Baillie HAMILTON, 7th Earl of Haddington.] The fifth edition. Carefully corrected.

N. P. MDCCLXIV. Duodecimo. Pp. 216. 2.* [Dyce Cat.]

POEMS on several occasions. Written by a young lady. [Miss Charlotte RAMSAY, née Lennox.]

London: MDCCXLVII. Octavo. Pp. 88. b. t.*

POEMS on several occasions: by Mr. JR Mem. of the Phy. Med. Soc. in Edinburgh. [John RICKETTS.] Edinburgh: MDCCLXXI. Duodecimo,* [Inscription in Maidment's copy.]

POEMS on several occasions, together with a pastoral; by Mrs S. F. [Sarah FIELD, afterwards Egerton, née Fyge or Fyges.]

London: N. d. 1. 562; li. 121.] POEMS on several occasions: viz. The garden. The phænomenon, a poem on the late surprizing meteor, seen in the sky, Mar. 19th. 1719. A vision, relating to the Church of England. The hymn, being a paraphrase on the 148th psalm. To a young lady, coming out of mourning. A dialogue between Venus and Cupid, paraphras'd from Lucian. [By William LUX, Balliol College.]

Octavo. [Gent. Mag.,

Oxford: 1719. Octavo. Pp. 4. b. t. 32.* [Bodl.]

POEMS on several subjects. By the author of the Life of Socrates. [John Gilbert COOPER.]

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Newark: MDCCCVII. Octavo. Pp. 11. 144.* POEMS on various subjects. [By Thomas Noon TALFOURD.]

London: 1858. Octavo.

POEMS on various subjects, viz. the
Nunnery, the Magdalens, the Nun,
and Fugitive_pieces. [By Edward
JERNINGHAM.]

1767. Octavo. [Mon. Rev., xxxvi. 406.] POEMS or epigrams, satyrs, elegies, songs and sonnets upon several persons and occasions. By nobody must know whom, to be had everybody knowes where, and for anybody knowes what. [By John ELIOT.]

London: 1658. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.]
Signed J. E.

Scarcely anonymous; the author's name appears at the end of a poem on p. 34. POEMS, original and translated. By a Cambridge Graduate. [C. N. DALTON, B.A.]

London: 1868. Octavo. Pp. iii. 118.* POEMS original and translated by S. H. F. [Sarah H. Fox.] With illustrations.

London: 1863. Octavo.* [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 705.]

POEMS, paraphrases and translations. By J. C. [John CRACKANTHORP.]

London: 1736. Octavo. 3 sh. [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 58, 459.] POEMS serious and amusing. By a rural divine. [Archibald BRUCE.]

Edinburgh; 1812. Duodecimo. Pp. ix. 172.* [A. Jervise.]

POEMS supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others, in the fifteenth century. By L. S. [Launcelot SHARPE.]

Cambridge: 1794. Octavo. Pp. xxix. 329. A monody on the death of Chatterton "by an ingenious friend" [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] is to be found on pp. xxv to xxviii.

POEMS to the memory of Thomson, in the Temple of the Muses, at Dryburgh Abbey. [By Rev. John RICHMOND, of Southdean.]

Edinburgh: 1818. Octavo. [W., Martin's Cat.]

Privately printed at the expense of the Earl of Buchan.

POEMS to Thespia. [By Dr. DownMAN of Exeter.]

Exeter: 1781. Octavo. [W.]

POEMS: to which is added, The humours of John Bull, an operatical farce in two acts. By Silvester Otway. [John OSWALD.]

London: 1789. Duodecimo. Pp. 137. [Watt, Bib. Brit. Biog. Dram. Mon. Rev., Ixxxi. 367.]

POEMS, together with a Latin oration. [By Sir James MARRIOTT.]

1760. Octavo. Pp. 156. [W., Martin's Cat.] Privately printed. Second title, "Poems written chiefly at the University of Cambridge, together with a Latin oration upon the history and genius of the Roman and canon laws, with a comparison of the laws of England, spoken in the Chapel at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, December 21 1756.

POEMS upon divers occasions. With a character of a London scrivener. [By Jeremiah WELLS.]

London, 1667. Octavo. Pp. 4, b. t. 16. 138.* [Bodl.]

POEMS upon several occasions. By S.

P. Gent. [Samuel PORDAGE.]

London, 1660. Octavo. No pagination.* [Bodl.]

"These poems were written by Samuel Pordage.-E. M[alone]."

POEMS, upon several occasions, and, to several persons. By the author, of the Censure of the Rota. [Richard LEIGH, formerly of Queen's College, Oxford, but latterly a player in the Duke of York's Company.]

London: MDCLXXV. Octavo. Pp. 2. b. t. 131. I.

POEMS upon several occasions, chiefly public, and on some important subjects. By a gentleman. [William HANWAY, of the Navy Office, brother of Jonas Hanway.]

London: 1745. Octavo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 1896.]

POEMS upon various occasions. Written for the entertainment of the author, and printed for the amusement of a few

friends, prejudic'd in his favour. [By William SHENSTONE.]

**

Oxford. 1737. Octavo. Pp. vii. 96.* "This was the first publication of Mr Shenstone. It is very rare, because he took uncommon pains to suppress it, by collecting and destroying the copies wherever he met with them." MS. note in the Dyce copy, in the handwriting of Steevens. POEMS, with a dramatic entertainment. By [Anne PENNY.] London: [1771.] Quarto.* POEMS written by somebody; most respectfully dedicated (by permission) to nobody; and intended for everybody who can read!!! [By George Gordon Noel BYRON, Lord Byron.] London: Published at the request of several persons of distinction, by Baldwin and Co. 1818. Octavo. Pp. 79.* [Watt, Bib. Brit.] POEMS, written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason. [By Hugh MILLER.]

Inverness: MDCCCXXIX. Duodecimo.* POESIE (a) in forme of a vision, briefly inueying against the artes of necromancie, witchcraft, sorcerie, incantations, &c. Compiled in metre, by I. H. [John HALL.]

Printed by Rowland Hall: 1563. Octavo. B. L. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.] POESY; a satire with other poems. [By Chandos LEIGH.]

London 1818. Octavo. Pp. 40. [Lit. Gazette, ii. 643.]

POET (the). A poem. [By Percival STOCKDALE.]

London: MDCCLXXIII. Quarto. Pp. 47.* [Watt, Bib. Brit.]

POETIC (a) description of the festivities
at Oakley Park, 27th September, 1832.
By an Oyster from home,
Unaccustom'd to roam,
Who's contented to dwell
In his snug little shell
With the world as it goes
Or the tide as it flows,

So that he only knows
Of sweet peace, the repose.
[Robert Henry COBBOLD, nephew of
Rev. Rich. Cobbold.]

Ipswich: 1832. Octavo. Pp. 18. [W.] POETIC (a) epistle from Gabrielle D'Estrees to Henry the Fourth. By Anthony Pasquin Esq. [John WILLIAMS.]

Birmingham: [1788.] Quarto. Pp. 32.*

POETIC (a) epistolary description of the city of York; comprising an account of the procession and entry of the judges at the present March assizes. [By W. H. C. IRELAND.]

York: 1811. Octavo. Pp. 22. [Boyne's Yorkshire Lib., p. 224.]

POETIC (the) mirror, or the living bards of Britain. [By James HOGG.] London: 1816. Duodecimo.* POETIC_trifles. [By Richard POLWHELE.]

London: 1796. Octavo. Pp. 26.* POËTICA stromata or collection of sundry peices in poetry: drawne by the known and approued hand of R. C. [Richard CORBET, Bishop of Norwich.]

Anno 1648. Octavo. Pp. 119. b. t.* [Bodl.]

This edition was published in Holland. POETICAL (a) abridgement, both in Latin and English, of the Reverend Mr. Tutor Bentham's Letter to a young gentleman of Oxford. To which are added some remarks on the Letter to a Fellow of a college. By the author of the Proposal, &c. [William KING, LL.D., St. Mary Hall.]

London: MDCCXLIX. Octavo. Pp. 61.* POETICAL amusements at a villa near Bath. [Edited by Christopher ANSTEY.]

Bath: M DCC LXXV. Octavo.* POETICAL (a) and congratulatory epistle to James Boswell, Esq. on his Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with the celebrated Dr. Johnson. By Peter Pindar, Esq. [John WOLCOTT.] London. MDCCLXXXVI. Quarto. Pp. 22.* POETICAL (a) and philosophical essay on the French Revolution. Addressed to the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. [By John COURTENAY.]

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POETICAL (a) chronology of Britain, from 1100 B.C. to the present time, with notes from the best authorities, historical recreations and numerous questions. By the authoress of "An epitome of sacred and profane history." [Harriett PARKER.]

London: [1851.] Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

POETICAL descriptions of Orkney. M.DC.LII. [Edited by James MAIDMENT.]

Printed at Edinburgh M. DCCC. XXXV. Quarto. Pp. xxx.

From a volume of Miscellaneous MS. poems in the library of the Faculty of Advocates, marked Jac. 5. 7. 26, small 4to. The appendix contains a few verses on the Highlander's Diurnall, signed J. Emerson, and J. E.; and as the "Poetical descriptions" are written in the same hand, the Editor thinks it a fair inference that Emerson was the author of them.

POETICAL (a) dictionary; or the beauties of the English poets alphabetically displayed. [By Oliver GOLDSMITH. In four volumes.

London: 1761. Duodecimo. [W] POETICAL (a) epistle from Petrarch to Laura. [By Charles JAMES.]

London: M.DCC.LXXX. Quarto. Pp. 20.* POETICAL (a) epistle to a falling

minister; also an imitation of the twelfth ode of Horace. By Peter Pindar, Esquire. [John WOLCOTT.] London: M. DCC. LXXXIX. Quarto. Pp. 30.*

POETICAL (a) epistle to an_eminent painter [George Romney]. [By William HAYLEY, of Eartham.]

London: 75. b. t.* POETICAL (a) epistle to Christopher Anstey, Esq. on the English poets, chiefly those who have written in blank verse. [By William Hayward ROBERTS, D.D.]

MDCCLXXVIII. Quarto. Pp.

London: 1773. Quarto. [Nichols, Lit. Anec., ix. 187. Mon. Rev., xlviii. 145.] POETICAL (a) epistle to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. and president of the Royal Academy. [By William COMBE.] London: MDCCLXXVII. Quarto. Pp. 4. b. t. 20.1

POETICAL epistles and specimens of poetical translations, particularly from Dante and Petrarch. [By Robert MOREHEAD.]

Edinburgh, 1813. Octavo.*

REESFITRARY

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POETICAL legends: containing the American captive, and the Fatal feud. To which is added, The fall of faction, a poetical vision. By the author of the Cave of Morar. [John TAIT.] London: MDCCLXXVI. Quarto. Pp. 48.* POETICAL (the) museum. Containing songs and poems on almost every subject. Mostly from periodical publications. [Edited by G. CAW.] Hawick M. DCC. LXXXIV. Octavo. Pp. viii. 392.1 * Preface signed G. C. POETICAL (a) petition against tractorizing trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution; in four cantos. Most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of physicians. By Christopher Caustic, M.D. LL.D. A.S.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Aberdeen, and honorary member of no less than nineteen very learned societies. [Thomas Green FESSENDEN.] London: 1803. Octavo. Pp. 92.

A second edition appeared, also in 1803, under the title of "Terrible tractoration " &c.

POETICAL productions of my youth. By J. C. B. [John Coxe BOYCE.] Birmingham, 1842. Duodecimo. Pp. 38. [W., Martin's Cat.]

POETICAL reflections on a late poem [by J. Dryden] entitled 'Absalom and Achitophel.' By a person of honour. [George VILLIERS, Duke of Buckingham.]

London: 1681. Folio. Pp. 11. [Manchester Free Lib. Cat., p. 207.] POETICAL (the) register: or, the lives and characters of the English dramatick poets. With an account of their writings. [By Giles JACOB.]

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and critical dissertation on the life and writings of James I.; and followed by a Dissertation on the Scottish music.] Edinburgh M,DCC, LXXXIII. Octavo. Pp. I. b. t. 246.*

POETICAL remains of the late Mrs
Hemans. [Edited with a biographical
memoir of the authoress, by David
Macbeth MOIR.]

Edinburgh: 1836. Duodecimo. [W.]
The memoir is signed A.

POETICAL sketches of a tour in the
West of England. [By Marmaduke
MIDDLETON, of Leam in County
Derby.]

Sheffield: 1822. Octavo. Pp. 79. [W., Martin's Cat.]

POETICAL (a), supplicating, modest, and affecting epistle to those literary Colossuses, the reviewers, by Peter Pindar, Esq. [John WOLCOTT.] A new edition.

London: M.DCC.LXXXVII. Quarto. Pp. 10.*

POETICAL tales and trifles by Sir Gregory Gander, Knt. [George ELLIS.] Bath 1778. Duodecimo. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 731. Mon. Rev., lxi. 75.] POETICAL tentatives. By Lynn Erith. [Edward Fox, of Wellington, Somerset.]

London: 1854. Duodecimo. Pp. viii. 159.* [Brit. Mus.]

POETICAL (a) tour, in the years 1784, 1785, and 1786. By a member of the Arcadian Society at Rome. [William PARSONS.]

London: printed at the Logographic press. MDCCLXXXVII. Octavo. Pp. 2. b. t. iii. 208.* [European Mag., xx. 29. Dyce Cat.]

POETICAL trifles. By [Sir John Henry MOORE.]

Bath: MDCCLXXVIII. Duodecimo. Pp. 59.*

POETICAL trifles, by an obscure and nameless bard in the braes of Angus. [Joseph GORDON.]

Forfar; 1825. Duodecimo. Pp. 208.* [A. Jervise.]

POETICAL (the) works of Barry Cornwall. [Bryan Waller PROCTER.] In three volumes.

London: 1822. Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

POETICAL (the) works of Charles

Churchill, with explanatory notes; and an authentic account of his life, now first published. [Edited by William TOOKE, of Gray's Inn.] In two

volumes.

London: 1804. Octavo. [W] Preface signed W. T.

POETICAL (the) works of the late Thomas Little, Esq. [Thomas MOORE.] The eighth edition.

London: 1806. Octavo. Pp. 18. b. t.

175.

Preface and dedication signed T. M. POETICAL (the) works of Thomas Chatterton. With notices of his life, history of the Rowley controversy, a selection of his letters, and notes critical and explanatory. [By C. B. WILLCOX.] [In two volumes.] Cambridge: MDCCCXLII. Octavo.* POETRY. By the author of Gebir. [Walter Savage LANDOR.]

Warwick and London: 1802. Octavo.
Pp. 64. [Brit. Crit., xx. 432.]

POETRY; by the late Henry F. R.
Soame, Esq., H. E. B. [Edited by

Sir Henry Edward BUNBURY, Bart., cousin of the author.]

London: 1833. Duodecimo. Pp. 41. [W., Martin's Cat.]

POETRY for children, entirely original. By the author of Mrs Leicester's school. [Mary LAMB.] In two volumes.

London: 1809. Duodecimo. [Watt, Bib.
Brit. Mon. Rev., Ixiv. 102.]

POETRY, miscellaneous and dramatic.
By an artist. [John BENGO.]
Edinburgh: M,DCC, XCVII. Octavo.*

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POETS and statesmen, their homes and haunts in the neighbourhood of Eton and Windsor. [By W. DOWLING.] London: 1857. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] POET'S (the) day; or, imagination's ramble; a poem in four books, with some smaller pieces. [By E. WARREN.] 1803. Duodecimo. Pp. 112. [Biog. Dict., 1816. Brit. Crit., xxii. 549.] POET'S (the) pilgrimage: in four cantos. [By John Payne COLLIER.]

London: M. DCCC.XXII. Quarto. [W.,
Martin's Cat.]

One hundred copies were printed for pre-
sents to the author's friends. Some of
these persuaded him to publish it; and in
1825, a new title page was printed with the
author's name, and the addition of "An
allegorical poem," with some alteration in
the introduction, and the insertion of one
of Ariosto's Capitoli Amorosi. It was
advertised, but Mr Collier changed his mind,
and not a single copy was sold; eighty-five
copies were destroyed.

POETS' (the) pleasaunce: or, garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers, which our pleasant poets have, in past time, for pastime, planted. By Eden Warwick. [George JABET.]

London: MDCCCXLVII. Octavo.* [N. and Q., May 1868, p. 409.]

POGONOLOGIA, or a philosophical and historical essay on beards. Translated from the French [of Jacques Antoine DULAURE].

Exeter MDCCLXXXVI. Duodecimo.*
The dedication is signed J. A. D***

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