1725 ART OF ENGLISH POETRY Poems BYSSHE Verse RHYMING DICTIONARY

  

The art of English poetry. A Collection of the most Natural, Agreeable and Sublime Thoughts, viz. Allusions, Similes, Descriptions and Characters of Persons and Things that are to be found in the best English Poets. [8], 40, 280; 288, x, 38pp. Contemporary English panelled calf, with volume numerals lettered in gilt directly to spine, paper title labels in the compartment beneath.

A trifle rubbed, bumping to corners with a little leather loss, some loss to head of spine and short cracks to joints of Vol I. Early inked numeral to FFEP, Vol I.

First published 1702 and frequently reprinted during the first half of the eighteenth-century, the second part of this work was criticized for its reduction of poetry to mechanical quotations based on themes. The rhyming dictionary, presented as part three, however, was the first serious attempt at such a compilation. Hogarth satirized its use in his'The Distrest Poet' (1736), but in reality copies were found in the libraries of Johnson, Goldsmith, Blake, and evidently continued to be consulted by later poets. We offer a wealth of antiquarian books, specialising in early and hand-press printing - but not excluding all others!

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