Court poems viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet /
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Court poems viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762
Other Authors: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, Gay, John, 1685-1732
Format: Microform Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for J. Roberts, 1706 [i.e. 1716]
Series:Library of English literature ; LEL 40153.
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Item Description:1706 a misprint for 1716. cf. Cambridge bibliography of English literature.
Each poem preceded by a half-title page.
Published piratically by Edmund Curll through his friend, James Roberts (cf. Cambridge history of English literature) The advertisement contains an explanation that the public attributed the poems to a lady of quality, to John Gay, and to "no other hand, than the judicious translator of Homer" [i.e. Alexander Pope]
"...a small volume of satirical pieces which most critics now assign severally to Gay, Pope and ... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, though the lady maintained that she was their sole author." - Ralph Straus. The unspeakable Curll.
Pope revenged Montagu and himself for the piracy in the manner recounted in his "Full and true account of a horrid and barbarous revenge by poison on the body of Mr. Edmund Curll, bookseller; with a faithful copy of his last will and testament." cf. Dictionary of national biography.
Contains 3 of the 6 poems published in Montagu's "Six town eclogues," 1747.
Physical Description:[2], iii, [3], 23, [1] p.