A New collection of poems relating to state affairs, from Oliver Cromwel to this present time
By: by the greatest wits of the age ; wherein, not only those that are contain'd in the three volumes already published are incerted [sic], but also large additions of chiefest note, never before published ; the whole from their respective originals, without castration
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1705
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; English poetry -- 18th century; Political ballads and songs -- England; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Poetry
Other titles: Poems on affairs of state ... written by the greatest wits of the age; Poems relating to state affairs
Notes: Pirated from "Poems on affairs of state ... written by the greatest wits of the age" (4 v., 1697-1707) and repudiated as "spurious" in v. 4 of the latter, which lists more than 100 items omitted from this surreptitious volume and taunts its publishers for "the mean and low additions" after p. 452.--Cf. Cambridge bibliography of English literature, v. 2, p. 187, and Lowndes' Bibliographer's manual, p. 1895

Includes political ballads and songs, some with tunes indicated by title

Signatures: A-2P in 8s (A2 missigned Aa2, O4 missigned G4, S4 missigned B4, 2G4 missigned 2H4)

ESTC N005917

Case 237