Polypus E S Barrett (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Nineteenth edition, xiii, 95, 16, 4 pp publisher's advert. Printed paper-covered front board (dated 1808, title page dated 1807), lacks the page "embellished with a characteristic frontispiece". Crudely replaced paper spine, contents very good. Dedicated to "The Emperor of China". Written not on the title page in a roughly contemporary hand "a Poem much thought of at the time". The writer of a Gothic novel admired by Edgar Allen Poe, Barrett published All The Talents in 1807 as a satire on the government' and its Ministry of all the Talents assembled after the death of William Pitt in 1806.…

A Satyrical Poem in Three Dialogues. Printed for John Joseph Stockdale London 1807, 9th edition. Brown boards, 81pp + adverts. Spine worn, delicate,stain rear panel. Fair. With the inscription of Sir Thos Livingstone inside front & rear panels. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt. …