Smart (Christopher).- Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis de reditu serenissimi regis Georgii II [and] Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis auspicatissimas Georgii III, 2 vol., engraved title vignettes, some very minor damps-staining to extreme head of a few ff., but a clean, wide-margined copy generally, contemporary calf, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, Cambridge, J. Bentham, 1748-61; Poems on Several Occasions, first edition, engraved frontispiece and plate, list of subscribers, minor spotting, bookplates of Thomas Merriman and Graham Pollard, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, skilfully rebacked, rubbed, for the Author, 1752; folio & 4to (3)
⁂ The first is a two volume miscellany of congratulatory poems addressed to George II & III including the first edition of Smart's first separate publication his
Carmen CL. Alexandri Pope In S Caecilium (a rendering of Pope's Ode to St Cecilia) and other poems by Cambridge professors, students and fellows.
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