Poems on affairs of state
Subtitle: from the year 1620. to the year 1707
By: Many of them by the most eminent hands, viz. Mr. Shakespear, Mr. Waller, Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Walsh, Mr. D---y, Dr. Wild, Dr. Brady, Mr. Tate, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Manning, Mr. Arwaker, &c. Several of which were never before publish'd. To which is added, a collection of some satyrical prints against the French King Elector of Bavaria, &c. Curiously engraven on copper-plates. Vol. IV
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Tebb and Theoph. Sanders ... Edw. Symon ... and Francis Clay ...
Published: 1716
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
Subjects: English poetry; Politics and government; Poetry
Notes: First edition, second issue with new t.-p., Case 211(4)(b).

Signatures: A⁶, B-Z⁸, Aa-Gg⁸, Hh² (R₁₋₄ incorrectly signed S₁₋₄)

Pages 134, 294 incorrectly numbered 124, 264, respectively.

Title within double line border. Paragraph notes.

Cf. Case, A.E. A bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750. Oxford, 1935, p. 153.

Annotated by an early owner, Peter Petit, whose signature appeas on the t.-p.

In this copy, the outer margins of the illustrations on p. 442, 444 & 446 are folded in.