[Rarebooks] fa: MYLES COOPER (New York Tory/Loyalist) - POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS - Oxford: 1761

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Myles Cooper: Poems on Several Occasions. Oxford: Printed by W. Jacskon, 1761. FIRST EDITION, 8vo (21 cm), bound in modern buckram; xxxix, [1], 342 pp.; list of subscribers, engraved title-page vignette. ESTC T125599. Contents toned; dampstaining, most noticeable on the edges of the text block, but intermittently affecting the bottom margins of the leaves; front free-endpaper with the early ownership signature of William Dawson of Cooks Court, Lincolns Inn Fields; front paste-down with the small Brinley library label.

A rather uncommon collection of poems by a young Oxonian who would later become a prominent Loyalist in colonial New York. Included is a patriotic ode to Admiral Boscawen and another “occasioned by the Death of General Wolfe,” as well as some dubious “Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland.” In 1762, the year after this collection was published, Myles Cooper (1735-1785) was dispatched to the colonies and made professor of mental and moral philosophy at King’s College, New York (now Columbia). Elected president of the college in 1763, he remained in that position until the early days of the American Revolution, when his Tory sympathies made him so unpopular that he had to abandon his post as well as his adopted country, fleeing back to England in 1775.