Poems on several subjects: written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher in a Barn in the County of Wilts, at the Wages of Four Shillings and Six Pence per Week: which were publickly read by The Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, in the Drawing-Room at Windsor Castle, on Friday the 11th of September 1730, to Her Majesty: who was thereupon most graciously pleased to take the author into her royal protection, by allowing him a Salary of Thirty Pounds per Annum, & a small House at Richmond in Surrey, to live in, for the better support of himself and Family.
- Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756.
- Date:
- M.DCC.XXX. [1730]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, M.DCC.XXX. [1730]
Physical description
[2],vi,20p. ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The tenth edition, corrected. To which is added, some account of the life of the author.
References note
ESTC T90233
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.