Aldenardum carmen Duci Malburiensi, datum, donatum, dedicatumque Anno Salutis Humanae, 1708.

8vo : 8 pp. (toned, some minor spotting or staining).

Disbound. Good copy.

2nd ed. (1st 1708) of a very rare Neolatin poem by B. Wilson (1689-1772) on the military achievements of the Duke of Marlborough, written while the author was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a Church of England clergyman, with a knack for obtaining lucrative church livings, from which he amassed a fortune of more than £100,000. In his last years he became a miser; at his death £5000 in coins was found in his house. The text contains some “descriptions of battle and allusions to Blenheim and Tallard, but the poem mainly portrays Duke of Marlborough in the gloom and horrors of combat” (Horn, Marlborough, 253). “Probably a piracy” (Foxon). Ref. ESTC T120535. - Foxon W520. - Not in Oberlé, Opac KBR.