The Altar of love
Subtitle: consisting of poems, and other miscellanies
By: by the most eminent hands ; now first collected into a volume.
Publisher: Printed for H. Curll ...
Published: 1727
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Notes: "The rape of the smock", and "The patch" have each a special t.p., the latter dated 1724.

Page 37 (4th group) numbered 7.

A made-up miscellany, parts of which were published separately. Copies vary greatly both in contents and in the order in which the individual poems are bound.  Cf. A.E. Case.  Poetical miscellanies, no. 340.
Table of contents: value: A receipt for a soup.  Address'd to Dean Swift / by Mr. Pope.- Oratio = Oration / Joseph Addison.-  Extracts from ... Johannis confratis & monachii glastoniensis chronica ... / descripsit edititque Tho. Hearnius ... 1726.-  A memorial sent from England / by ... James Earl Stanhope.- The Abbot de Vertot's answer to Earl Stanhope's Memorial.-  Popeana.- The rape of the smock ... / by Mr. Jacob; the second edition.-  A song on a trifle / by Mr. Fairquhar.-  The patch ... / by a gentleman of Oxford [i.e. Francis Hauksbee].-  The Welch wedding / [Francis Hauksbee].- Bury-Fair.-  A South Sea couple.-  The apparitor's match, or, A bargain with the devil.  Being The fryar's tale, from Chaucer.-  Ode to love.- The fifth epigram of Secundus imitated.-  Kissing.  From the fourth book of Secundus.-  The egg.-  The power of money.  From the first elegy of the third book of Secundus.-  Imitation of a Greek epigram of Cardinal Barberini.-  The retaliation.  A tale from Boccace.-  The chicken.- Verses occasion'd by Mr. Tickell's translation of the first Iliad of Homer / by Mr. Pope.-  Answer to the foregoing verses.-  The swain's rapture.-  The nymph's rapture.-  The ridotto.-  The usurper.-  The progress of deformity.-  To a young lady drest in mourning.- Buckingham-House / [William Bond].-  The shipman's tale.-  The curious wife.