An Evening Contemplation in A College; Being a parody on the Elegy in A Country Church-Yard,

by another Gentleman of Cambridge by John Duncombe

$450 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

London: R. & J. Dodlsey in Pall Mall, 1753. First Edition. Quarto. 23cm. Functional buff card wraps. 12pp. Clean and sharp; internally clean, large margins, some very light soiling in places. A very good, bright copy.A popular and rather swift parody by a witty clergyman and poet, of the incredibly popular Elegy in A Country Church Yard by Gray. The fact that the parody

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