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Author / Creator:Whitehead, William, 1715-1785, author.
Uniform title:Works. 1774
Imprint:London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1774-1788.
Description:3 volumes : portrait ; 18 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2178175
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Varying Form of Title:Poems
Other authors / contributors:Mason, William, 1725-1797.
Doughty, William, 1757-1780 or 1782, illustrator.
Collyer, Joseph, 1748-1827, engraver.
Dodsley, James, 1724-1797, bookseller.
Todd, John, -1811, bookseller.
J. Robson and W. Clarke, bookseller.
Notes:Frontispiece portrait signed: W. Doughty pinx. 1776; J. Collyer sculpt.
Volume 3 has title: Poems / by William Whitehead esq. late poet laureat ... Vol. III ; to which are prefixed, memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason, M.A. York : Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Robson and W. Clarke, London, and J. Todd, York.
Includes errata (1 unnumbered page at end of volume 2 and volume 3, page 170).
English short title catalogue, entries T99600 and T148118
Table of Contents:
  • Vol. I. The Roman father ; Creusa, a queen of Athens ; The school for lovers
  • Vol. II. A trip to Scotland ; Poems on several occasions ; Elegies ; Odes ; A charge to the poets ; Three essays, first printed as the 12th, 19th, and 58th numbers of The World
  • Vol. III. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Whitehead, esq. poet laureat ; Variety ; The goat's beard ; Venus attiring the Graces ; Poems not before published: On the late improvements at Nuneham ; The battle of Argoed Llwyfain ; Ode for His Majesty's birth-day, June 4, 1776 [-1779, 1781] ; Ode for the New-Year, January 1, 1783 [-1784] ; Ode for His Majesty's birth-day, June 4, 1784; Ode for the New-Year, January 1, 1785 ; Observations on the shield of Aeneas.