- Title: A satyr upon the present times.
- Publication: London : Printed, and sold, by J. Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, MDCCXVII [1717]
763 717 Sa254
Acquired November 2019
A satyr upon the present times
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Tag Archives: Poems
Clerical anecdotes, and Parson’s comic songster
- Author: Rodger, Alexander, 1784-1846, author.
- Title: Clerical anecdotes, and Parson’s comic songster : containing Advice to the priest-ridden / by Alexander Rodger, a Glasgow weaver. Also, A joiner’s bill.
- Publication: Edinburgh : Printed and published by W. and H. Robinson, 11, Greenside Street, [not before 1842]
763 R691 841
Acquired November 2019
An address to the right worshipful the batchelors of Great-Britain
- Author: Nab, Ralph, author.
- Title: An address to the right worshipful the batchelors of Great-Britain : containing an examination of the several articles of impeachment, lately exhibited against them, by the ladies. Together with some reflections on the modern education of the fair sex. To which is added, Pretty miss’s catechism and A poem on the pleasures of a single life, or, The miseries of matrimony / by an old batchelor, aet. 72.
- Published: London, Printed for A. Antiquity [1735?]
53 N113 735
Acquired May 2019
The fair in an uproar
With a large woodcut below the title and preceding the letterpress text: Madamoiselle Javellot is shown on stage flanked on either side by chandeliers wtih her performing dogs in costumes in front and a musician in the background, left, behind the curtain.
- Title: The fair in an uproar, or, The dancing-doggs : as they perform in Mr. Pinkeman’s new opera in Bartholomew Fair.
- Published: London : Printed and sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall, [1707?]
707.00.00.01
Acquired September 2018
Epitre a M. de Walpole
- Title: Epitre a M. de Walpole : traduite de l’anglois.
- Publication: [Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1740]
763 740 Ep64
Acquired September 2018
Mum : a political ballad for the present times
A satire on Walpole and the Whigs.
- Author: Leslie, Charles, active 1738-1743.
- Title: Mum : a political ballad for the present times : with annotations political, critical, and historical.
- Published: Edinburgh : Printed, and sold by the book-sellers in town, MDCCXL [1740]
763 740 L56
Acquired October 2018
Poetical address from the ladies of the the cabinet ministers
A lengthy risqué poem suggestive of the sexual prowess of Bartolomeo Pergami, a close companion of Queen Caroline (1768-1821) who accompanied her during her Mediterranean travels in The Regency period. A woodcut portrait at the top of the sheet displays Pergami’s handsome visage, curly locks and broad shoulders.
- Title: Poetical address from the ladies of the the cabinet ministers, to Bartolomo Pergami, Knight of the Bath, of Malta, and of Saint Caroline.
- Publication:[ London] : Published by M. O’Brien, No. 5 Newcastle-Street, Strand …, [ca. 1815]
File 53 B445 815+
Acquired November 2017
“They have destroyed me”
A illustrated broadside printed on silk.
With an image of a woman weeping at a tombstone enscribed with the words “Great Britain’s Queen, the injured Caroline. Around the border, following the title: Minister! go hang thyself in justice to mankind, for if after this, you die by the ordinary course of Nature, all honest men will be disgraced by sharing even a common death with you.
- Title: “They have destroyed me” : a monody on her late Majesty Queen Caroline, who departed this life August 7, 1821, aged fifty-three.
- Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1821]
File 53 C292 821b
Acquired May 2018
Salve Regina!
First lines: Albion! along they thousand hills, And through thy thousand cities, now, A spirit is abroad, that fills, The hearts of men with holiest vow …
- Title: Salve Regina! or, A lay of sympathy and loyal homage to a persecuted woman and a legitimate Queen Caroline of England.
- Published: London : Printed and published by John Fairburn, Boradway, Ludgate-Hill, [1820]
763 820 Sa183
Acquired April 2018
The monkey and the hounds : a fable
British Library suggests that this is a political satire on Sir Robert Walpole.
- Title: The monkey and the hounds : a fable.
- Published: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1730s?]
763 730 M74
Acquired October 2017