Poems on several subjects: written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher in the County of Wilts, at the wages of four shillings and six pence per week. Which were publicly read in the drawing-room at Windsor Castle, on Friday the 11th of September, 1730, to Her Majesty Queen Caroline--who was thereupon pleased to take the author into her protection. To which is addd [sic] The woman's labour: an epistle to Stephen Duck; in answer to his poem, called The thresher's labour: together with the three wise sentences taken from Esdras, Ch. III and IV. By Mary Collier, a washer-woman.

People / Organizations

• Stephen Duck (Author)

Imprint

[Philadelphia]: Cork, printed--Philadelphia: re-printed and sold by William Gibbons, no. 144, North Third Street, 1793.

Publication year

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ESTC No.

W23025

Grub Street ID

332905

Description

iv,[1],6-43,[1]p. ; 12⁰

Note

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [44].

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B-C? D?