[Dryden, John] / [Philips, John] / [Walsh, William] / [Waller, Edmund] / [Hobbes, Thomas] / [Addison, Joseph] / [Yalden, Thomas] a.o. Tonson, Jacob .

The Annual Miscellany : For the Year 1694 Being The Fourth Part of Miscellany Poems. Containing great Variety of New Translations and Original Copies, by the Most Eminent Hands.

The Second Edition. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1708. Octavo. [6], 406 pages. Plus 89 pages of Philips’ “Cyder – A Poem”, bound to the rear. Hardcover / Original full tooled leather with new spine-label in the style of the time. The binding is now in protective Mylar. page 405/406 a little frayed and loosely inserted. Complete edition with the wonderful “Cyder” by Philips bound to the rear. Overall a very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very minor signs of wormhole-damage to the margins. Text beautifully clean. If there was a Frontispiece included to “Cyder”, it is not incldued in this Volume ! A very rare example of “Tonson’s Miscellany”.

This rare Volume IV of Tonson’s Miscellany includes:

1. “The Art of Poetry” by the Sieur de Boileau, made english by Sir William Soame and revised and altered by John Dryden
2. “A Song for St.Cecilia’s Day, at Oxford” by Mr.Joseph Addison
3. “The Enquiry after his Mistress”, written by Horatio Townsend
4. “To Anthony Hammond, Esq.” by Mr Charles Hopkins
5. “A Song” by the same Hand
6. “A Farewell to Poetry” by the same Hand
7. “To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to his Majesty, by Mr. [John] Dryden
8. “Prologue to the Queen, upon her Majesty’s coming to see the Old Batchelour” by Mr. [William] Congreve
9. “To Cynthia Weeping and not Speaking”, by the same Hand
10. “To Mr.Watson, on his Ephemeris of the Celestial Motions”, presented to her Majesty. by Mr. [Thomas] Yalden
11. “Fortuna saevo Laeta negotio &c out of Horace” by the late Duke of Buckingham [Lord Mulgrave / John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby]

and many many more

• Keywords: Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · English Literature – Rare · English Literature of the 18th Century · Poetry – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32399AB

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