Luck (Robert) A Miscellany of New Poems, on several Occasions, first edition, mixed issue with errata on verso of half-title and quotations on title but without additional leaf of Oxford subscribers, half-title, 6pp. list of subscribers and additional leaf of Cambridge subscribers, title ruled in red, subscriber's copy with contemporary ink inscription "Georgii Newell liber 1736" at head of title and another by him on front free endpaper with additional verse, also biographical manuscript note on half-title and verse on rear endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, joints cracked, head of spine worn and label chipped, 8vo, by Edward Cave...for the Author, and Subscribers, 1736. ⁂ Robert Luck (1674-1749) was schoolmaster of the free grammar school at Barnstaple, Devon. His most famous pupil was the young John Gay whom he encouraged with an enthusiasm for drama. George Newell was a local man who obviously knew Luck; he has identified many of the pseudonyms used in the poems with ink annotations.
Luck (Robert) A Miscellany of New Poems, on several Occasions, first edition, mixed issue with errata on verso of half-title and quotations on title but without additional leaf of Oxford subscribers, half-title, 6pp. list of subscribers and additional leaf of Cambridge subscribers, title ruled in red, subscriber's copy with contemporary ink inscription "Georgii Newell liber 1736" at head of title and another by him on front free endpaper with additional verse, also biographical manuscript note on half-title and verse on rear endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, joints cracked, head of spine worn and label chipped, 8vo, by Edward Cave...for the Author, and Subscribers, 1736. ⁂ Robert Luck (1674-1749) was schoolmaster of the free grammar school at Barnstaple, Devon. His most famous pupil was the young John Gay whom he encouraged with an enthusiasm for drama. George Newell was a local man who obviously knew Luck; he has identified many of the pseudonyms used in the poems with ink annotations.
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