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Detailed Entry: [Horace, Seward, Lipscomb, and many others] An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, not in any other collection . . . Vol. II

Author(s) [Horace, Seward, Lipscomb, and many others]
Unattributed Authorship No
Title An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, not in any other collection . . . Vol. II
Editor(s) or Translator(s) [John Almon]
Place(s) of Publication London
Publisher(s) Debrett
Publication Date 1786
Format 9.5 x 17.5 cm.
Pagination or volumes 311
Price 3/6 sewed
Reference MR, LXXV, 234; BM
Library British Library
Shelfmark 239.e.2
Comment Includes a publisher's advertisement indicating that Vol. 3 is in the press, and soliciting contributions for a further volume. The authors of the "fugitive pieces" are frequently identified only by initials. One poem is said to be by Warren Hastings on his 1785 return to England.

This edition has been verified by examining the copy in the library with the shelfmark noted above.