Poems on several occasions : eighteen poems / by Matthew Prior ; with an introduction by Richard Newnham and copious illustrations by Annie Newnham

Matthew Prior

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/2033

Author

Imprint

Church Hanborough: The Previous Parrot Press, 1993

Physical Description

53, [3] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

General Note

"Typeset by Bookmarque, printed electrostatically on Zerkall mould-made paper and bound by The Fine Bindery. Produced in an edition of 225 copies of which 45 have been part hand-coloured and 12 of which have been fully hand-coloured by the artist and have an additional original watercolour loose." [colophon].

Contents

List of poems: To Cloe weeping -- Cloe hunting -- Venus mistaken -- Cupid mistaken -- A song -- A lovers anger -- The lady who offers her looking-glass to Venus an epigram and two anothers -- Cloe jealous -- Hans Carvel -- A true maid and another -- Merry Andrew -- Cantata set by Monsieur Galliard -- Phyllis’s age and a reasonable affliction -- Written at Paris, 1700 -- An extempore invitation to the Earl of Oxford -- A simile -- Democritus and Heraclitus and for my own tomb-stone

Copy Note

One of 45 hand-coloured copies from an edition of 225 signed by the artist.

Binding Note

Decorative fawn-coloured paper-covered boards with ink drawings by the illustrator, ink inscription by the illustrator opposite half title. Top edge uncut and other edges untrimmed.

Subject

Illustrated books
18th-century poems

Contributors