Miscellanies in prose and verse. / By William King..

Animadversions on a pretended account of Danmark -- A journey to London in the year, 1698 ... / Written originally in French, by Monsieur Sorbiere, and newly translated into English -- The furmentary. A very innocent and harmless poem -- Two letters to the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq. -- Dialogues of the dead relating to the present controversy concerning the epistles of Phalaria -- Mully of Mountown. A poem -- Orpheus and Euridice. A poem -- An answer to a book, which will be published next week -- Reflections upon Mr. Varillas, his history of heresie -- A dialogue, shewing the way to modern preferment -- Miscellany poems.

Published in 1709. Cf. ESTC.

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Ornamental device on t.p. Engraved frontispiece signed M.V. dr. Gucht sculp.

Press figures.

Signatures: a⁸ A-2L⁸ 2M⁴

English short title catalogue, n10990

Horne, C.J. William King's Miscellanies. (Library, 4th ser., 25 (1945): 37-47), p. 39.

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