The quintessence of English poetry: or, a collection of all the beautiful passages in our poems and plays: ... Collected from many hundred volumes, by several eminent hands. To which is prefix'd, an alphabetical catalogue of authors, ... Also an historical and critical review of all the essays of this kind hitherto published.
Hayward, Thomas,-1779?.
London : printed for O. Payne,
1740.
Edited by Thomas Hayward.
First published in 1738 as 'The British muse'.
The review is by W. Oldys.
Titlepages in red and black.
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