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The Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions ... The Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions ...

WHITEHEAD, Paul. The Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions ... With explanatory notes and his life, by Captain Edward Thompson. G. Kearsley. 1787
[12], lxv, [i], 185, [1]pp. 4to. Front. port., without final ad. leaf; sl. ink marking to title. Well rebound in half calf, maroon labe. v.g.

¶ESTC T42581. This is the reissue, with the front. port. by Gainsborough retouched, an enlarged Life and erratum on p.185. Thompson refers to Wilkes, Churchill, the Medmenham Monks & described Whitehead as a Republican. The Dedication is to Sir Francis Dashwood (of 'Hell-Fire' fame), Whitehead's patron. One new poem first published here is the Gymnasiad, a satire on the 'brutish custom of boxing'.
Stock #78475
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