THE TEMPLE OF DEATH
ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, Wentworth Dillon ROSCOMMON, 4th Earl of, et al.
A Collection of Poems: viz. the Temple of Death: by the Marquis of Normanby with several Original Poems, never before printed, by the E. of Roscomm. The E. of Rochester. The E. of Orrery. Sir Charles Sedley. Sir George Etherege. Mr Granville. Mr. Stepney. Mr Dryden, &c.
London, printed for Daniel Brown and Benjamin Tooke, 1701.
8vo, pp. [viii], 453, [3 (advertisements)]; slightly foxed at extremities, but a very good, crisp copy; bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine, edges speckled red; rebacked, hinges worn.
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A Collection of Poems: viz. the Temple of Death: by the Marquis of Normanby with several Original Poems, never before printed, by the E. of Roscomm. The E. of Rochester. The E. of Orrery. Sir Charles Sedley. Sir George Etherege. Mr Granville. Mr. Stepney. Mr Dryden, &c.
Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple of Death’ miscellany of Restoration poetry, comprising some one hundred poems, retaining most of the poems from the third edition of 1693 and adding much new material, including the first appearances of works by Roscommon and Rochester.
The newly included material comprises all the poems on pp. 172–282 – with contributions from Stepney, Arwaker, and Congreve – and the poems at the end (pp. 391–453), among them ‘The Spleen’ by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Also notable is the first printing of John Philips’s remarkably popular Miltonic imitation The Splendid Shilling.
ESTC T116471; Case 151e.
