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Matthew Prior, EsqThe Poetical Works of Matthew Prior: Now First Collected with Explanatory Notes and Memoirs of the AuthorLondon, W Strahan, T Payne et al. 1779. First edition. in 8°, leather binding, rubbed on corners & edge, inside very good, XXVIII & 420 & XVI & 287 pages, first volume illustrated with a black and white frontispiece by J. Mortimer and J. K. Sherwin, along with a small vignette of the author at the start of an essay on his life Satirical poetical anthologies from the English poet and diplomat, Matthew Prior