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thresher's miscellany : or, Poems on several subjects
8 unnumbered pages, 24 pages ; 20 cm (octavo)
written by Arthur Duck, now a poor thresher in the county of Suffolk, at the wages of five shillings and six pence per Week, though formerly an Eton-scholar. Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, in order to be read to Her Majesty, and in hopes of her most gracious favour.
The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.
At foot of page 24: "The end of part 1".
A pseudonymous parody of Stephen Duck, or, as a manuscript note in the Cambridge copy suggests, an invention by Edmund Curll to put off some odd pieces given him by WB [i.e. William Bond?] and others; see Foxon, cited below.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Hennington, B. M. Lois G. Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature: a checklist, 156