John Walcot Peter Pindar (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first edition, a very good copy in the original wraps, unbound, browning and marking in a few places. Sticker on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3 x 5 1/4 in. 495 pgs. Half brown calf with marbled paper boards, blindstamped decoration with gilt rules and title on spine. Vol 4 only. Condition is VERY GOOD ; hardly any edgewear, leather good, supple. Marbled paper boards have some scuffed areas showing pale paper. Spine excellent with just a hint of wear along hinges. Binding tight and text very clean, with some very mild foxing to early and latter pgs and some age browing (mild) throughout. Poetry. Stax.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An Irregular Ode, dedicated to the President, Vice President, Secretary and Members of the Loyal and Independent Greyhound Society. By Peter Pindar, Esq. London: Printed by P. Jones, 22, Russell Court, Drury Lane. 1824. A Satire in Verse; 'Could I the envied title claim, A Brother Greyhound's -glorious name, Ye Gods, how I would revel; Each night upon their songs I'd feast, Each night I'd quaff enough at least, To choke the very Devil'. Ex-library copy with small circular ink stamps (Norwich Public Library) to lower margin of title, verso of title and final lower margin verso, title soiled, occasional spotting, lightly browned. Contemporary yellow wrappers with the original string tie still holding well. Yellow faded and dirty. Rare, with World-Cat recording only one copy (British Library). The Wrapper and leaves measure 190 x 113 mm.

FOUR VOLUMES. PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE VOLUME 1 . TITLES SLIGHTLY BROWNED. BOOK PLATES ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, FINE CALF, REBACKED WITH ORIGINAL SPINES LAID DOWN, GILT WITH MOROCCO SPINE LABELS. OCTAVO.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A scarce collection of the poetry of satirist John Walcot, bound from the parts and published between 1790 and 1792. Containing A Commiserating Epistle to James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale; Odes to Mr Paine, Author or Rights of Man; More Money! Or, Odes of Instruction to Mr Pitt; Odes of Importance; The Tears of St. Margaret; A Pair of Lyrical Epistles to Lord Macartney and his Ship; The Lousiad; and A Poetical, Serious and Possibly Impertinent Epistle to the Pope, In 1780, Wolcot went to London and commenced writing satires. The first objects of his attentions were the members of the Royal Academy, and these attempts being well received, he soon began to fly at higher game, the King and Queen being the most frequent marks for his satirical shafts. In 1786 appeared The Lousiad, a Heroi-Comic Poem, taking its name from a legend that a louse had once appeared on the King's dinner plate. Other objects of his attack were Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson, James Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, Hannah More, former bluestocking and playwright, and Bishop Porteus. Wolcot, who wrote under the nom-de-plume of "Peter Pindar", had a remarkable vein of humour and wit, which, while intensely comic to persons not involved, stung its subjects to the quick. He had likewise strong intelligence, and a power of coining effective phrases. In other kinds of composition, as in some ballads which he wrote, an unexpected touch of gentleness and even tenderness appears. The title page has been rebacked. Rebound in red calf binding. Externally smart, though some marks to the boards. Internally, fimly bound. Some closed tears to the pages, in places affecting the text, which have been repaired with tape. Pages have some scattered light spotting throughout. Overall: VERY GOOD with a good only interior. Very Good. book.