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Detailed Entry: John Ball, A. M. Chaplain to the Right. Hon. the Countess Dowager of Barrymore Odes, Elegies, Ballads, Pictures, Inscriptions, Sonnets . . . . To Which are Prefixed, the Tears of the British Muse, a New Edition Corrected and Enlarged

Author(s) John Ball, A. M. Chaplain to the Right. Hon. the Countess Dowager of Barrymore
Unattributed Authorship No
Title Odes, Elegies, Ballads, Pictures, Inscriptions, Sonnets . . . . To Which are Prefixed, the Tears of the British Muse, a New Edition Corrected and Enlarged
Place(s) of Publication Dublin
Publisher(s) for the author by Thomas Ewing
Publication Date [1772]
Format 10.5 x 16.5 cm
Pagination or volumes [vi] + 128
Library Trinity College Dublin
Shelfmark OLS.B-2-249
Comment It is the first poem, "Tears of the British Muses," which is given in a new, enlarged version. It is dated 1769 and refers to the founding of the Royal Academy that year.

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