Court poems
Subtitle: viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet
By: publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal.
Contributors: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.; Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 40153.
Publisher: Printed for J. Roberts
Published: 1716
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 23
Other titles: Six town eclogues.
Notes: 1706 a misprint for 1716. cf. Cambridge bibliography of English literature.

Each poem preceded by a half-title page.

Published piratically by Edmund Curll through his friend, James Roberts (cf. Cambridge history of English literature) The advertisement contains an explanation that the public attributed the poems to a lady of quality, to John Gay, and to "no other hand, than the judicious translator of Homer" [i.e. Alexander Pope]

"...a small volume of satirical pieces which most critics now assign severally to Gay, Pope and ... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, though the lady maintained that she was their sole author." - Ralph Straus. The unspeakable Curll.

Pope revenged Montagu and himself for the piracy in the manner recounted in his "Full and true account of a horrid and barbarous revenge by poison on the body of Mr. Edmund Curll, bookseller; with a faithful copy of his last will and testament." cf. Dictionary of national biography.

Contains 3 of the 6 poems published in Montagu's "Six town eclogues," 1747.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 40153)