Tunbrigialia; or, the Tunbridge miscellany, for the year 1722
- DMI number:
- 472
- Publication Date:
- 1722
- ESTC number:
- T68775
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW105217712
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BL
- Full Title:
- TUNBRIGIALIA; | OR, THE | [i]Tunbridge[/i] MISCELLANY, | For the Year 1722. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] Printed for [i]A.[/i] MOORE near St. [i]Paul's[/i] | (Price Six Pence.)
- Epigraph:
- -[i]Non deficit alter | Aureus, & simili frondescit Virga metallo.[/i] | Virg.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 6 d.
- Bibliographic details:
- HALF-TITLE: TUNBRIGIALIA; | OR, THE | [i]Tunbridge[/i] MISCELLANY, | For the YEAR 1722.
- Comments:
- MISCELLANY GENRE: Resort-based collection
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATTER: 'Preface' stating that poems are from last season at Tunbridge-Wells (2pp.).
- Publisher:
- Arthur Moore
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for A. Moore near St. Paul's' ESTC - The booksellers name in the imprint is fictitious. See Treadwell, M.: Of false and misleading imprints. In: Fakes and frauds, 1989, pp. 41-43 (T68775)
- First Line:
- Bright nymphs o' the train
- Page No:
- pp.5-7
- Poem Title:
- On B---- C----.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To sing the beauties of this place
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- On the Three Nymphs.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At all the places of resort
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- On Florella.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Too plain our conscious looks reveal
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- On Miss H--d.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- It must be so she says the word and I
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady that wou'd have me write Verses.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cosmelia's charms inspire my lays
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- On L-- C--.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The bard who would describe a woman well
- Page No:
- pp.18-20
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. M-----l.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By love I swear and by the sacred nine
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- On a very pretty Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fain would I sing but fear to discommend
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- On the Figures in her Fan, drawn by a Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What though a thousand charms appear
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- To Lady P----l.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The force of beauty we perceive
- Page No:
- pp.26-28
- Poem Title:
- Another to Lady P--l.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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