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The sugar-cane : a poem. In four books. With notes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grainger, James, 1721?-1766 (Author)
Other Authors: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed and sold by the Booksellers, MDCCLXVI. [1766]
Edition:[2nd edition ; revised by Samuel Johnson].
Subjects:
Sugarcane industry > Poetry > Early works to 1800.
Sugarcane > Poetry > Early works to 1800.
Plantation life > Caribbean Area > Poetry > Early works to 1800.
Caribbean Area > Poetry > Early works to 1800.
Sugarcane.
Poems > England > 18th century.
Description
Item Description:Title page includes three line quotation in Latin, from Manil: Agredior primusque novis Helicona movere / Cantibus, et viridi nutantes vertice sylvas/ Hospita sacra serens, nulli memorata priorum.
Signatures: A-P⁶ Q⁵.
"Beauty: a poem, by the same author", pages [153]-174.
Includes index.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:ix, 1 unnumbered page, 180 pages, 1 leaf of plates : frontispiece illustration ; 17 x 10 cm (sexto)
Place of Publication:England -- London.