An elegy on the usurper O.C.
By: By the author of Absalom and Achitophel, published to shew the loyalty and integrity of the poet
Publisher: Printed for J. Smith
Published: 1681
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Poetry
Notes: First separate edition.

Signature: 1 leaf unsigned.

Caption title; imprint on p. [2].

In double columns.

Unbound, uncut, in cloth case; left margin torn, part of text destroyed.

Cf. Macdonald, Hugh. John Dryden; a bibliography. Oxford, 1939, p. 5.

A reprinting of his "Heroique stanza's, consecrated to the glorious memory of his most serene ... Highnesse Oliver, late lord protector" (first published in "Three poems upon the death of his late Highnesse", 1659), with an ironic "postscript", not by Dryden but signed "J. D.", added at end.

Also published with titles "A poem upon the death of His late Highness Oliver, lord protector" & "A poem upon the death of the late usurper, Oliver Cromwel".