Pindar Peter John Wolcott (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition thus. Octavo, 9 3/4" tall, viii + 70 pages, handmade paper, sewn binding, beige boards. A very good, clean hard cover with light shelf wear and minor soiling to the light colored boards at the edges; interior fine, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, BUT with foxing to the top fore-edge and small green ink spots at top edge and top fore-edge. In a good only, edge worn, lightly soiled dust jacket with an old price sticker at upper front corner, with original price.…

"With an engraving by an Eminent Artist," 10.5 x 8. recent cloth backed marbled boards, 43 pp + ads, covers lightly rubbed, contents with minor finger soil, page opposite illustr with offset, edges yellowed else a remarkably nice copy.

Full-Leather. Condition: G+. No Jacket. First Edition. Full leather that is worn with detached but present front board, modest foxing, owners dated signature. Pindariana was published in 1794 and Hair Powder in 1795. Book.

First edition. [2], 8pp. ESTC T174481. [Bound with:] PINDAR, Peter. Lyric odes to the royal academicians, for M,DCC,LXXXII. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1787. Eighth edition, enlarged. 36pp. ESTC N3345. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. More lyric odes to the royal academicians.and to the laureat to the academy. London. Printed for J. Kearsley. 1789. Fifth edition. [2], 5-35pp, [1]. Without half-title. ESTC T41415. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. Lyric odes for the year 1785., London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1787. Seventh edition. [2], 50pp. ESTC T80813. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. Farewel odes for the year 1786. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Fifth edition. 47pp, [1]. ESTC T9167. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. The lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto I. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Eighth edition, with considerable additions. [6], 8-41pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Without half-title, nor terminal advertisement leaf. ESTC N312. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. The lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto II. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Fourth edition. [3], 6-50pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Without half-title. ESTC N3082. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. A poetical and congratulatory epistle to james boswell, Esq. on his journal of a tour to the hebrides, with the celebrated Dr. johnson. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Eighth edition. [2], 22pp. Without half-title, nor terminal advertisement leaf. ESTC T9169. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. Bozzy and piozzi: or, the british biographers. A town eclogue. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Ninth edition. 57pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Without half-title. ETSC T9170. [ANd:] PINDAR, Peter. Ode upon ode; or, a peep at st. james's; or, new-year's day; or, what you will. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1789. Eighth edition. 79pp, [1]. ESTC T9171. With an engraved frontispiece. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. An apologetic postscript to ode upon ode. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. New edition, with considerable additions. [3]-8, [2], 9-32pp. Partially misbound. Without half-title. ESTC T22208. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. Instructions to a celebrated laureat; alais the progress of curiosity; alias a birth-day ode; alias Mr. whitbread's brewhouse. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Seventh edition.iv, 29pp, [1]. Without terminal advertisement leaf. ESTC T81538. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. Brother peter to Brother tom. An expostulatory epistle. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Fourth edition. iv, 49pp, [1]. Without terminal leaf of advertisements. ESTC T81533. [ANd:] PINDAR, Peter. Peter's pension. A solemn epistle to a sublime personage. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Third edition. [4], 47pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. ESTC T80816. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. Peter's prophecy. Or, The president and poet. Or, An important epistle to sir j. banks, on the approaching election of a president of the royal society. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. Second edition. [7], 6-52pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Without half-title. ESTC T9186. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. Sir joseph banks and The emperor of morocco. A tale. London. Printed for G.Kearsley, 1788. Fourth edition. [6], 8-27pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Without half-title. ESTC T9591. [And:] PINDAR, Peter. A poetical epistle to a falling minister; also an imitation of the twelfth ode of horace. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1789. New edition. [3],6-30pp. Without half-title, nor terminal leaf warning against piracy. ESTC T42707. [And: PINDAR, Peter. Subjects for painters. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1789. First edition. [4], 105pp, [1]. Without terminal advertisement leaf. ESTC T9159. Quarto. Extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author. Contemporary calf, later rebacked. Heavily rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. A sammelband of eighteen eighteenth-century lyrics and poems by John Wolcot [pseud. Peter Pindar] (bap. 1738, d. 1819), poet and satirist. Beginning the volume is the first edition of Wolcot's Poetical, Supplicating, Modest, and Affecting Epistle, a satire purpotedly written âon behalf of a poetical Friendâ and attacking Pindar's critics, albeit provincial ones such as Henry Rosewarne, the MP for Truro. Also found within is Bozzy and Piozzi: or, the British Biographers, an immensely popular scathing verse satire lampooning the literary feud between James Boswell and Hester Thrale Piozzi over their biographies of the late Samuel Johnson.…

Condition: Good. London 1789 G. Kearsley. A new edition. 4to., 30pp., later wraps. Good, light browning in margins on all pages.

Quarto. Four books bound as one. A Complimentary Epistle: ii, 39, [1] pp. publisher's ads, 3rd edition. The Rights of Kings, [1] pp. to the reader, verso is the errata, 90pp. "Odes to Mr. Paine:" A new edition, 10pp. and "The Remonstrance", 63pp. (1)pp. publisher's ads and divisional half-title, 1st editions. "A Complimentary Epistle of James Bruce". There is no doubt that James Bruce (1730-1794) was a remarkable explorer though his writings on Abyssinia had come into question by Dr. Samuel Johnson as well as John Wolcott (using his familiar pseudonym, Peter Pindar). The illustrious dedicatory page quotes both Dr. Johnson and James Boswell, who Peter Pindar only quotes about his drinking bout while he insists that James Bruce is a history of "thundering diarrhea". Using verse, Wolcott continues his assault on Mr. Paine with "Pindar's Odes to Mr. Paine" Wolcot(Pindar) presents the Revolutionary hero as a manipulator of speech and confounder of reason. Though Wolcot (Pindar) satirized public figures indiscriminately, he was not alone in his attacks on Paine. Paine was a frequent target for writers and cartoonists who consider him a "symbol of the twin evils of republican ideology and rational religion". Bound in a contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered baordsred morocco spine label gilt, joints appear to have been repaired. A very good copy.…