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Poems on several Occasions. [With a letter from Dean Swift to Lord Orrery, prefixed; and laudatory verses to the author, by Constantia Grierson

GRIERSON, Constantia - Mrs, BARBER, Mary - Writer of Verse · 1734 · C. Rivington · 67 pictures

Mary Barber's "Poems on several Occasions," printed by C. Rivington in London in 1734 with a prefatory letter from Swift and commendatory verses by Constantia Grierson, issued to subscribers among the Anglo-Irish gentry. The plates are letterpress ornaments and head- and tailpieces: symmetrical scrollwork, paired eagles flanking a flower-filled urn, strapwork cartouches and a woman's bust in foliage, useful as small black-line devices and dividers.

British Library · HMNTS 642.l.3. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)