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A poem on the art of printing

Description

Imprint: [Dublin, 1728]

First line: Hail Sacred Art! Thou Gift of Heaven, design'd

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Printed. Sometimes attributed to Constantia Grierson. Includes James Sterling's anonymous 'Say, Cadmus, by what ray divine inspir'd'.

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Date

1728

Call number

143243

Provenance

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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