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CHURCHILL, Charles (1731-64). Poems containing the Rosciad, the Apology, Night, The Prophecy of Famine, An Epistle to William Hogarth, and The Ghost, London, for the author and sold by W. Flexney, 1763, 4°, vol. I only, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, contemporary half calf (joints cracked) [Rothschild 621]; The Author, a poem, London, for W Flexney, 1763, 4°, FIRST EDITION (? lacking half title); Gotham, a poem London, for the author and sold by W Flexney, 1764, 3 parts, in one volume, 4°, FIRST EDITION, each part with half title and title; The Times, London, for the author and sold by J. Coote, 1764, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 3 works bound in one vol. with 4 other separately published poems by Churchill (The Conference, 1764, 4°, SECOND EDITION; The Candidate 1764, 4°, FIRST EDITION; The Duellist, 1764, 4°, FIRST EDITION; The Farewell, 1764, FIRST EDITION), with general title Poems by C. Churchill bound in at front, modern half calf, preserving earlier front pastedown; sold not subject to return; and 3 other works. (5)

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CHURCHILL, Charles (1731-64). Poems containing the Rosciad, the Apology, Night, The Prophecy of Famine, An Epistle to William Hogarth, and The Ghost, London, for the author and sold by W. Flexney, 1763, 4°, vol. I only, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, contemporary half calf (joints cracked) [Rothschild 621]; The Author, a poem, London, for W Flexney, 1763, 4°, FIRST EDITION (? lacking half title); Gotham, a poem London, for the author and sold by W Flexney, 1764, 3 parts, in one volume, 4°, FIRST EDITION, each part with half title and title; The Times, London, for the author and sold by J. Coote, 1764, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 3 works bound in one vol. with 4 other separately published poems by Churchill (The Conference, 1764, 4°, SECOND EDITION; The Candidate 1764, 4°, FIRST EDITION; The Duellist, 1764, 4°, FIRST EDITION; The Farewell, 1764, FIRST EDITION), with general title Poems by C. Churchill bound in at front, modern half calf, preserving earlier front pastedown; sold not subject to return; and 3 other works. (5)

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The second catalogued vol. contains all the works called for in vol. II of Poems apart from Independence and Fragment of Journey.

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