Pindar Peter Esq (3 results)

Half leather. Condition: Very Good. 488 p. 21 cm. Half leather with paper boards. Gilt trim to spine. Light wear to extremities. Some foxing Peter Pindar was the pseudonym for satirist and poet John Wolcot (1738-1819). His humour was generally coarse, and not infrequently profane. He soon discovered a paying enterprise in ridiculing the private life of the king. After the government attempted to secure silence by the bestowal of a pension, and the queen's solicitor got into action, he confined himself to smaller game, such as Sir Joseph Banks, Sylvanus Urban, and James Bruce the African traveler. He was buried in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden where by his own wish his coffin was placed touching that of Samuel Butler. He had many imitators, who wrote under the same and similar names. (Dictionary of National Biography).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original 1801 First Edition set. The Works of Peter Pindar, Esquire in Two Volumes. Volume 1 and 2. Printed for Wood, Vernon, H. Walker and P. Bell (London) 1801. Volume I: A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses The Reviewers. Volume II: A Poetical Epistle to a Falling Minister; Also, an Imitation of the Twelfth Ode of Horace. Marbles Boards. Hand Laid Paper. Owner's name in old ink on inside 2nd sheet of 2st volume. EXCELLENT condition for their age. BR (Box 21).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First edition [1816]. Pp [4], 4 (advertisement for The History of the Inquisition, with extracts, and a list of books published by Simpkin and Marshall), 32. Modern wrappers. Verses are of four lines each and are numbered from 1 to 158. An anonymous satire on the Princess Charlotte. First and last leaves slightly soiled, generally used. Apparently only the BL copy on Copac.