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The banish'd beauty: or, a fair face in disgrace, a poem. To the D------ss of Q-------

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Imprint: [Dublin] : Printed by Rich. Dickson, [1729]

First line: Let Jarring Realms and Europ's doubtful State,

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Printed. Sometimes attributed to John Gay. Handwritten annotation below title, "on the Dutchess of Queensberry."

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Date

1729

Call number

143244

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Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915. The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899).

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