Pindar Peter John Wolcot 1738 (10 results)

American first edition. viii, 70 pages. Hardcover; H 24.75cm x L 16.25cm. Tan dust jacket lightly soiled. Light yellow cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering. Poems selected and compiled by P.M. Zall. Foreword by A.L. Rowse. Peter Pindar was the pseudonym of Dr. John Wolcot (1738-1819). Past owner's ink signature and date on front free endpaper else a near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. ISBN 0872492516.…

Hardcover (Half Leather). Condition: Fair Condition. Reprint. (Vol. 2 only of 3) Binding quite worn, front cover detached, back cover missing. Paper age toned but not quite brittle. Stitching a little weak. Book plate on front fly leaf. First edition in 1787. Size: 16mo (very small). 413 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Literature & Literary; Poetry. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Irish Edition, 32pp, new boards, 8vo, very good condition, P. Byrne, J. Moore, J. Jones, A. Grueber, W. Jones, J. Rice and G. Draper, Dublin, 1792. * some good rollicking verse.

Stipple engraving, from Biographical Magazine, fine delicate portrait with biographical information in letterpress below. slight staining on surround.

Wraps. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wroclaw, 1962. First edition. 164pp. §James L. Clifford's copy with his signature to upper cover. Original fragile wrappers with replacement spine. Edgewear to wrappers, otherwise a very good copy.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Assez bon. 330 p. Covers and 3 first and last pages detached. Binding used. Spine missing.Owner's names. Code 345.

VOLUME I ONLY of a two volume set. Collates as [front pastedown], [title leaf i-ii], [contents leaf iii-iv], v-ix, [blank verso], [1-3], 4-48, (page 49 mis-numbered as 46), 50-111, [112-115], 116-131, [132-134], 135-156, [157-158], 159-168, [169-170], 171-192, [rear pastedown]. Hardcover: H 17.25cm x L 10.5cm. Contemporary full dark calf leather binding; boards well rubbed and stained with worn corners; spine head chipped ; surface chipping above and below spine's dark red title label with loss to label center as well but with remaining gilt lettering ("Pe__R | Pindar") still easily legible. Antiquarian ink writing on front pastedown; toning, foxing, staining to leaves with some occasional edge-wear; pages 103-116 strongly creased; long tear to pages 191-192 descending from gutter head 7cm into text with shorter tear at heel gutter at and fore-edge center. Missing front and rear free endpapers and perhaps an adjoining flyleaf or two (stub remnants of free endpapers present but no extra stub indicators of flyleaves); title leaf (as pages i-ii) is first full leaf present. Binding is firm. An OCLC citation (albeit not citing the holding institution) cites size as sextodecimo and pagination as ix, 193 whereas a Library of Congress citation is more specific citing Volume I as "ix, [1], 193, [1]" pages with successive Volume II being "[4], [195]-402." Either way this copy is missing its concluding text leaf (i.e. final text on recto plus blank verso). Bibliographical reference: Evans "Early American imprints; First Series" #23088. The Harvard and Yale online library catalogs share an interesting notation regarding their Spotswood and Rice 1790 stray Volume II copies in that both declare "no copy of v. 1 is known." Obviously this effectively countered by the LoC holding but, nonetheless, the paucity of OCLC listings is a good indictor of rarity of this particular 1790 Philadelphia imprint. It should be noted that Spotswood and Rice also issued a 314 page single volume of "The Poetical Works of Peter Pindar" in 1789 which shares the same pagination error for its page 49.…

12mo, 2 pp, the autograph being on one side and Rickman's on the other. Fair, on aged paper, with traces of previous mounting on one side. Large bold signature 'J: Wolcot' with biographical note on one side, and the note, signed 'Clio Rickman', on the other: Written by the celebrated Peter Pindar, when entirely blind, on my calling on him the 3d of July 1809 my boy with me'. …

Old thick card board covers with paper title label to the upper panel, page edges untrimmed. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains [vi] 64 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece of Pindar dated 1798. Tissue guard crumpled and marked, fore edge of the frontispiece reinforced to the verso with thick paper, a little age tanning to the paper, new end papers. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISLE OF THANET.…

Total five pages, 8vo, trimmed (perhaps removing a place and date), closed tear on one fold, mainly good condition. This form of the letters (file copies?) was obviously in John Rope Rogers' mind in his "Biographical Sketch", introducing "Opie and His Works Being a Catalogue of 760 Pictures by John Opie [.]" [1878]: "The following letter of Dr. Wolcot's, indorsed,"On Sir Joshua Reynolds; sent to Colborn, Book-seller" was found in a collection of published and unpublished remains of Dr. Wolcot, which was sold at Puttick and Simpson's, May 17th, 1877. The letter is undated, as Wolcot's usually were, and is apparently a school-boy's copy, corrected by Wolcot himself. The pictures mentioned are two of those which Opie afterwards took to the King, and were probably kept by Wolcot as specimens. This would fix the date of the letter as in the spring of 1782. The Jew is now at Enys, and the Beggar was probably that exhibited at the Royal Academy, with four others in that year. "I have again called on Reynolds with a pair of John Opies pictures, the portrait of a Jew and Cornish beggary on which he expressed surprize at performances by a boy in a country village containing excellencies that would not disgrace the pencil of Caravaggio. Opie's knowledge of chiaroscuro without having ever seen a picture of the dark masters, drew from his eye a sort of wonder. It strikes me that Reynolds expects Opie to be as perfect in the delineation of the graces as in the heads of vulgar nature, and in consequence become a formidable rival. But here I am sorry to say he will be fortunately mistaken; Opie, I fear, is too fond of imitating coarse expression . . . To him at present elegance appears affectation, and the forms of Raphael unnatural. He too much resembles a country farmer, who never having tasted anything beyond rough cyder, cannot feel the flavour of burgundy or champagne." That they were "found in published and unpublished papers of John Wolcot" strongly suggests they were Wolcot's file copies. Not in his hand, unless Rogers is correct in ascribing corrections of the "Schoolboy" hand to him. His suggestion that the letters were written in 1782 must be incorrect since Colburn, the recipient, would have been a mere two years old. And the watermark date of Letter One is 1809, early days for Colburn but possible. Rogers gives a decent amount of information above about Letter Two. In Letter One, Wolcot focusses on Joshua Reynolds, commencing: "An enthusiastic lover of painting you have in several of your letters expressed a desire of knowing some thing relative to the person an powers of Reynolds - Fortunate in having gained a little access to this extraordinary man perhaps I may not be totally disqualified for offering and [sic, for 'an'] impartial delination [sic] - I am proud to say that not only vidi Virgilium [underlined], but audivi [undeciphered word] rather in form nature has kindly overballanced [sic] this deficiency by making him a Hercules in intellect. His features are plain but replete with expression; Tho' utterence [sic] ungraceful and inharmonious but highly compensated by the force and truth of his observation he converses with perfect freedom and communicates instruction without the faintest tincture of egotism - His room is filled with the works of the first masters Rubens, Corregio, [undeciphered], Claude, Georgione [Giorgione] &c- He did me the favour of entering into the merits and defects of two or three performances [.]" See Image for rest of letter.…