Charity: a poetical essay

People / Organizations

• Charles Peter Layard (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for Robert Horsfield; and sold by John Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church-yard; John Woodyer, at Cambridge; and Daniel Prince, at Oxford, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]

Added name

Layard, Charles Peter, 1748-1803, dubious author.; Rutland, Charles Manners, Duke of, 1754-1787, attributed name.

Publication year

1774

ESTC No.

N2244

Grub Street ID

11790

Description

[6], 21, [1] p. ; 4°.

Note

Anonymous. Attributed by Horace Walpole to "the Marquis of Granby", i.e. Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland

In square brackets on half-title: Price one shilling and sixpence

Not the same work as that with the same title written by Charles Peter Layard, which was the Seatonian Prize poem for 1773

The "Advertisement" (preface) begins: "While the author of the following piece presents it to the public, he is very far from wishing to raise the idea of competitorship with the writer on the same subject, who lately obtained Mr. Seaton's annual premium at Cambridge ...".