The advertisement on verso of the title page states "Since the publication of Mr. Drayton's Works by subscription in 1748, the publisher has been favor'd with the following pieces of that author, viz. The Owl; the Man in the Moon; Odes, with other Lyric Poesies; Ecologues; The Muses Elysium; Noah's Flood; Moses his Birth and Miracles; and David and Goliath; which are printed in Folio by way of appendix to complete that edition."