Item Description: | "Originally appeared in the Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser for 1784 and after" (CBEL vol.II) "Each number of the 'Criticisms on the Rolliad.' professed to be a commentary of a new epic that had just appeared. The Rolliad took its name from John Rolle, M.P. 'Probationary odes' purported to be the competitive essays of Warton's rivals for the Laureatship" (NUC). - 'Political miscellanies' has separate pagination and register. - A collection of satires on Pitt and his followers by Richard Tickell, Richard Fitzpatrick, Joseph Richardson, George Ellis, French Laurence and others. - English Short Title Catalog, T133708. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - With an 'Advertisement to the fourth edition' implying that this is the fourth edition |