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Court poems. [Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal.

Title
  1. Court poems. [Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal.
Published by
  1. London, Printed for J. Roberts, 1706 [i.e. 1716].
Author
  1. Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762

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Additional authors
  1. Gay, John, 1685-1732
  2. Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Description
  1. [1], iii, [1], 23 p.; 19 cm.
Subject
  1. Rees-Mogg, William, 1928-2012 -- Provenance
Call number
  1. Berg Coll 76-459
Note
  1. Foxon, p. 476 // Straus: Curll, 239 // Rothschild: Eighteenth-century books, II, 1576 // Griffith: Pope, 51 /
  2. Authorship attributed by "Advertisement" to "a lady of quality," Pope or Gay. Nos. I and II are now ascribed to Lady Mary; included in the ms. of her Court eclogs (in Pope's hand) in NYPL's Arents Collection (cf. Arents: Tobacco, suppl., X, 623). No. III is now ascribed to Gay; included in his Poems on several occasions, 1720. Cf. R. Halsband, Pope, Lady Mary and the Court poems, in PMLA, v. 68 (1953), p. 237-250.
  3. William Rees-Mogg copy, with his autograph.
Author
  1. Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.
Title
  1. Court poems. [Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal.
Imprint
  1. London, Printed for J. Roberts, 1706 [i.e. 1716].
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Added author
  1. Gay, John, 1685-1732.
  2. Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Research call number
  1. Berg Coll 76-459
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