The Hind and the Panther transvers'd To the Story of The Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse

by Matthew Prior

$475 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: printed for W. Davis, 1687. Sm. 4to, 6 , 28 pp., disbound. § First edition. Prior’s first publication, an attack on Dryden’s famous poem. Charles Montagu, first Earl of Halifax, is usually named as a collaborator. “In 1686 he took his bachelor’s degree, and in the following year made his first literary essay, a reply to Dryden’s ‘Hind and Panther.’ This was entitled ‘The Hind and the Panther transvers'd

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