The British album : containing the poems of Della Crusca, Anna Matilda, Arley, Benedict, the bard, &c. &c. &c. which were originally published under the title of The poetry of the world. Revised and corrected by their respective authors. Also, a poem never before printed, called The interview, by Della Crusca, and other considerable additions.

Most of the poems were originally published in the "World and fashionable advertiser," a daily paper edited by Edward Topham. They were afterwards collected into two volumes in 1788 under the title of "The poetry of the world" and later "The poetry of Della Crusca, Anna Matilda, etc." Cf. Dict. nat. biog; Lowndes' Bibl. manual; Brit. Mus. Catalogue.
Della Crusca is a pseudonym for Robert Merry; Anna Matilda is a pseudonym for Mrs. Hannah Cowley.
Engraved frontispiece portraits of Della Crusca (i.e. Robert Merry) in v.1 and Anna Matilda (i.e. Mrs Cowley) in v. 2, the first executed by Collyer after Hamilton, the second engraved by Cook.
Errata: v. 1, p. [173].