POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. CONTAINING THE PROGRESS OF MUSIC IN IRELAND, THE POET'S WELL, AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TRANSLATION OF ANACREON, AN ODE TO HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE PLAGUE OF WEALTH OCCASION'D BY THE AUTHOR'S RECEIVING FIFTY POUNDS FROM HIS EXCELLENCY, THE LORD CARTERET, FOR THE FOREMENTION'D ODE. WITH SEVERAL POEMS NOT IN THE DUBLIN EDITIN, REVISED BY THE REVEREND DR. SWIFT; Poems on Several Occasions. Contining...To Which is added the Plague of Wealth occasion'd by the Author's receiving fifty Pounds from his Excellency, the Lord Carteret..Revised by the Reverend Dr. Swift
London. Printed for T. Toodward, at the Half Moon over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; Charles Davis in Pater-noster-row, and W. Bowyer, 1731. First London Edition (2nd actual). Leather-bound. Octavo. 3/4 leather with marbled paper sides. Spine heavily chipped. Both front and rear covers detached (but present). Clean copy. 7-1/2..... More