Price: £550
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1774
Stock Number: 67229
(Your basket is currently empty)A Sacred Elegy. To this Edition is added the Ancient Fragment from which the Poem had its Origin
Description: with an engraved vignette on title, without the half title, title-page dust-stained, verso of last leaf similar though less so, minor foxing, pp. [ii], vi, [iii-] v, [5], [1], [1-] 41, 4to, drab paper wrappers of c. 1820, spine slightly defective at either endPublication Details: Printed and published by J. P. Coghlan, G. Riley, and sold by J. Wilkie, 1774
Notes: Wynne's 'precipitous decline from gentility to indigence' is outlined in ODNB. His General History of the British Empire in America, 1771, gained some favourable attention, but his General History of Ireland (at the suggestion of Goldsmith), 1772, is held 'in little esteem', as Lowndes has it. His verses are generally considered to be bad, though this particular poem is of interest in an Ossianic context.This is the same collation (bar the half-title) as that given in ESTC, though expressed slightly differently: Cambridge, Harvard and Rice only in ESTC; a variant, with a simpler collation, ES...more
Bibliography: (ESTC N17581)
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