This work was first published in 1744. There are three known states of the earliest edition, all published in that year, of which this is a transcription of the third. [Based on 'Seven XVIIIth Century Bibliographies' (1966) by Iolo Aneurin Williams, pp. 88-89.]Every fifth line in the poem is numbered, the numbering starting from one in each of the three Books. In the text, where a line to be numbered is too long to allow the number to be inserted, it has been omitted: these numbers have been reinstated in the transcription. Occasional errors in the placement of the numbers have also been corrected.
3227192The Pleasures of Imagination1744Mark Akenside
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