_Poems published at Manchester._--Can any contributor to "N. & Q." inform
me who was the author of a volume of _Poems on Several Occasions_,
published by subscription at Manchester; printed for the author by R.
Whitworth, in the year 1733? It is an 8vo. of 138 pages; has on the
title-page a line from Ovid:
"Jure, tibi grates, candide lector, ago,"
and begins with an "Address to all my Subscribers;" after which follow
several pages of subscribers' names, which consist chiefly of Staffordshire
and Cheshire gentry. My copy (for the possession of which I am indebted to
the kindness of Dr. Bliss, the Principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford) was
formerly in the library of Mr. Heber, who has thus noted its purchase on
the fly-leaf, "Feb. 1811, Ford, Manchester, 7s. 6d." Dr. Bliss has added,
on the same fly-leaf, "Heber's fourth sale, No. 1908, not in the Bodleian
Catalogue." The first poem in the book is "A Pastoral to the Memory of Sir
Thomas Delves, Baronet." It is probably a scarce book; but possibly some of
your book-learned correspondents may help me to the author's name.