Author: [MOORE (Edward)]
Title: The Trial of Selim the Persian, for Divers High Crimes and Misdemeanours.
Description: London: Printed for M. Cooper. 1748. First Edition, 4to, [iv],20pp., with half-title, upper blank margin of B2 torn away, small single worm pinhole running throughout, recent marbled boards, uncut. Edward Moore (1712–1757), playwright and writer. Moore's anonymous panegyric verse in defence of Lord George Lyttleton (Selim), clearly an attempt to secure his patronage. Foxon, M433.

Keywords: POETRY ENGLISH LITERATURE ANTIQUARIAN