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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 first published after 1770, e.g. by Goldsmith, Hannah More, the Wartons, and Chatterton.

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