WINCHELSEA, Anne Finch, Countess of.—Poems on Several Occaſions, viz.
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The Prevalence of Cuſtom. The Muſſulman's Dream. Jupiter and the Farmer. The Spleen. The Philoſopher, the Young Man and his Statue. Adam pos'd. The Houſe of Socrates. The Wit and the Beau. Cupid and Folly. Alcidor. The Atheiſt and Acorn. The Miller, his Son, and their Aſs. The Phœnix. A Nocturnal Reverie. |
The Shepherd piping to the Fiſhes. Love, Death, and Reputation. Fanſcomb's Barn. Alexander's Epiſtle to Hephæſtion. The Lord and the Bramble. The cautious Lover. The Equipage. The Executor. The Change. The Nightingale. The Tradeſman and Scholar. Life's Progreſs. Ariſtomenes, &c. a Tragedy, &c. |
Written by the Right Honourable Anne, Counteſs of Winchelſea. London: Printed by J. B. and ſold by W. Taylor . . . and Jonas Browne . . . 1714. 8vo, old red morocco, gilt back, side borders, arms in the corners, gilt edges, in a brown levant morocco case with gilt back.
"The Spleen" was first printed in Charles Gildon's Miscellany, 1701. Lady Winchelsea's poetical name was "Ardelia."
WIRT, William.—The Letters of the British Spy. Originally published in the Virginia Argus, in August and September, 1803. The second edition. Richmond: printed by Samuel Pleasants, Junior. December, 1803. Crown 8vo, calf, citron edges.
Inserted are two portraits of Wirt, by J. B. Longacre and P. Maverick, a print of Richmond by Maverick, and an autograph letter from Wirt to Henry Thompson, dated Washington, Dec. 4, 1820.
WIT.—Of Modern Wit. An Epistle To The Right Honourable Sir William Young. London: Printed for Henry Lintot . . . MDCCXXXII. Folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery. Bound with ten other works.
WIT.—The New Foundling Hospital for Wit. Being a collection of several curious pieces, in verse and prose: written by
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Lord Chesterfield, Lord Hardwicke, Lord Lyttelton, Sir C. H. Williams, Mr. Wilkes, |
Mr. Churchill, Mr. Garrick, Mr. Potter, Dr. Akenside. |
and other eminent persons. London: Printed in the Year MDCCLXVIII. Small 8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.