Pindar Peter Pseudonym John Wolcot (11 results)

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.

Condition: Good. 10, [1] pp., removed from a larger binding; minor stains to the title page, else good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to. viii, [1], 10-40p. Modern marbled boards, russet morocco spine. Spotting on most pages. Half title bears 19th-century inscription in ink: "Durham Book Society 4th Nov. 95". Paper repair at top corner of pages 17-18 with loss of a few letters. ESTC T19903.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to. viii, 71, [1]p. Publisher's adverts on the final page. Modern marbled boards, russet morocco spine. Half-title a little creased. Spotting on most pages. Half title bears late 18th-century inscription in ink: "Durham Book Society 21st Nov. 1795" (the first three words scored through). ESTC T45367.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1778, (2), 8 pp; removed from binding; very light browning to first and last pages, with old waterstain at top edge; light foxing; pages trimmed; internally clean and sound. A latin tag from Horace is pasted below the last word of the title: "Carmine Di Superi placantur, Carmine Manes;" the gods above are pleased by song; by song the gods of hell" It is placed on because the typesetter apparently left off the first two words. While this short work is published anonymously, it is attributed to Peter Pindar; the pen name used by John Wolcot (1738-1819). John Wolcot was a physician to Jamaica in 1767, as the personal physician to the governor, SIr William Trelawny. A few years later, after Trelawny, Wolcot returned to England, left the church, and settled in Truro as a physician. While living there, he published his first work, "A Political, Supplicating, Modest, and Affecting Epistle to Those Literary Colossuses, the Reviewers" in 1781, he moved to London, and continued his literary career. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London: John Walker, 1794. Title pages dated 1794. Three volumes, complete set when published, with a fourth volume added in 1796 and a further at a later date. Lovely period bindings in speckled calf leather with dual spine labels in red and black, gilt decorated spine, frontis portrait in volume I, about 8.5" tall. Some edge rubbing and a little wear to the spine decoration, rear joint of third volume may have been very professionally repaired, firm text blocks, very clean pages, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5 vols., 8vo, engr. frontis. portrait to vol. 1, engr. titles to the first 4 vols., printed title to vol. 5, uniform cont. half calf, marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments, some occasional foxing of contents, bindings sl. rubbed, sl. cracking at top of joint of vol. 4, but a pleasant set. The first vol. reads 'In three volumes' but this was later expanded to 5. [Extra postage required for overseas].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A LOVELY POCKET SET. PINDAR, Peter [pseudonym of John Wolcot]. The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. London, Published by J. Walker and J. Harris, 1809. 12mo, four volumes, each one with a half-title, frontispiece, engraved title page and regular title page with Peter Pindar s portrait being on the first volume. Ms. ex libris of Sir George-William Denys, Baronet, on front endpaper of each volume. Bound in a lovely gilt-ruled straight-grain red morocco (fourth volume with some worm tracking on front cover), inner dentelles, author and title to gilt spine, marbled pastedowns, a.e.g. A lovely set in a beautiful binding. Peter Pindar was the pen name of John Wolcot (9 May 1738 14 January 1819), an English satirist who found that poetry paid better than his medical profession. Indeed, though trained as a physician and practising medicine, in 1780, Wolcot went to London and began writing satires. The first objects of his attentions were the members of the Royal Academy. For the historian of the fine arts the relevant items are his Lyric and Farewell Odes to the Royal Academicians for the years 1782, 1783, 1785 and 1786 (pp. 9-133), in which the painter Benjamin West and all its other leading members are unmercifully satirised, and the opening poem in his Subjects for Painters (pp. 445-506), but the poems as a whole well repay reading, particularly those that ridicule the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, King George III s, and the Abyssinian traveller James Bruce. Other objects of his attack were Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson, Hannah More, former bluestocking and playwright, and Bishop Porteus. Wolcot 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 he wrote, an unexpected touch of gentleness and even tenderness appears. Among these are The Beggar Man and Lord Gregory. He died at his home in Latham Place, Somers Town, London, on 14 January 1819, and was buried in a vault in the churchyard of St Paul s, Covent Garden.

Translated by H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra. Pp. xlvi+166(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), the pictorial title page and headpieces to Introduction and colophon engraved by Stephen Gooden, text within decorative borders, appendices; small f'cap. 8vo; white buckram over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt the spine lightly browned, also slightly bruised at foot; uncut, the top edges gilt on the rough, others uncut and occasionally partly unopened; within patterned papered slipcase, edges worn and split, with large damp stain to one side; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928. Edition limited to 1550 numbered copies (500 for sale in America). McKitterick 53. *Peter Pindar was a persona created by Dr. John Wolcot (1738-1819), a Devon clergyman, physician, art critic and journalist. Many of his odes satirized George III, and his career rose and fell invrsely with the popularity of the King.

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.