Poems on several occasions
By: by Matthew Prior, Esq. ; volume the second ; to which is prefixed, the life of Mr Prior, by Samuel Humphreys, Esq ; adorned with cuts
Contributors: Humphreys, Samuel, 1698?-1738, writer of supplementary textual content; Hitch, Charles, -1764, bookseller; Hodges, James, Sir, -1774, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The fourth edition.
Publisher: Printed for C. Hitch at the Red Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges at the Looking-Glass over against St. Magnus-Church London-Bridge
Published: 1754
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Biography
Work titles: Poems
Notes: This is a 1754 reprint of a 1742 edition. The 1742 edition was intended to accompany the single volume of P.S.O. 1741 (the 6th edition of P.S.O. 1718 = Poems on several occasions. London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ... and John Barber ... 1718). The 1742 edition was reprinted in 1754, with only the date changed, to accompany 1754 reprints of P.S.O. 1718. See Wright & Spears pages xxxvii-xxxviii and Foxon.

Dedication signed: Samuel Humphreys and dated Hampstead, Feb. 26 1733,4.

On title page, edition statement follows "volume the second."

Frontispiece counted in preliminary pagination.

Errors in pagination: page 146 printed as 138.

Signatures: A¹² a-b¹² B-Q¹².

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T75657

Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750, page 642

Wright & Spears. The literary works of Matthew Prior, volume1, pages xxxviii (under 1742)

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.