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Detailed Entry: Choice of the Best Poetical Pieces of the Most Eminent English Poets Vol. I [of 6]

Author(s) [Anonymous and unattributed]
Unattributed Authorship Yes
Title Choice of the Best Poetical Pieces of the Most Eminent English Poets Vol. I [of 6]
Editor(s) or Translator(s) Ed. Joseph Retzer
Place(s) of Publication Vienna
Publisher(s) Sonnleithner and Hoerling
Publication Date 1783
Format 9 x 15.5 cm.
Pagination or volumes viii + 304 + [10]
Library British Library
Shelfmark 992.e.19
Comment In this set, Vols. 1-4 contain a presentation inscription from Madame de Hesse to Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1786. The collection as a whole contains just a few works firt published after 1770, but a few, e.g. by Goldsmith, Hannah More, the Wartons.

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