english verse 1751-1800 part english verse 75 –a-g 800 english verse 1751-1800 part a-g Justin Croft 7 West street Faversham Kent Me13 7Je UK www.justincroft.com [email protected] tel. +44 (0)1795 591111 mobile +44 (0)7725 845275 Simon Beattie 84 The Broadway Chesham Buckinghamshire hP5 1EG UK www.simonbeattie.co.uk [email protected] tel. +44 (0)1494 784954 mobile/voicemail +44 (0)7717 707575 english verse 1751-1800 part a-g justin croft simon beattie These books and pamphlets are from the collection of James O. edwards assembled over the last twenty years or more; many bear his small book label. Prices marked with an asterisk (*) are subject to vAT at the standard rate (20%) if sold to customers in the U.K. or e.C. lunar subscribers 4to (259 × 211 mm) in half-sheets, pp. 37, [1]; first and last pages finger- and dust-soiled, waterstaining to lower third of the book block; disbound. 1 ABBOTT, Lemuel. Poems on various subjects. Whereto is prefixed a short essay on the structure of english Sole edition, scarce. student verse—‘A remonstrance for a new verse. nottingham: Printed for the author, by samuel gown’, ‘Ode to sleep’—mingles here with a sonnet dedicated to Cresswell. 1765. £500 Philip hayes, the irascible (and famously corpulent) Professor of Music at Oxford, and verse translations from horace. There 8vo (201 × 119 mm), pp. [16] (including blank after p. 12], 32, [2] is talk of books, too: the Prologue depicts the poet ‘lock’d up in (blank), v, [1], 143, [1]; title printed in red and black; extreme lower prison dark / Of a Bureau … / With journals, letters, speaking forecorner or first 20 or so leaves creased with resulting slight loss to first 4 flimsy love, / With countless bills unpaid, vile manuscripts! … (not touching any text); recent quarter calf to style. i now, escap’d from bondage vile, spring forth, / in neatest type and finestpaper cloath’d …’ sole edition of the author’s only published book, a poetical Jackson, p. 60. collection prefaced by an essay on english verse, in which the examples are drawn largely from Milton and Pope. The subscribers include members of the Birmingham lunar society, 4 a Poem … Matthew Boulton and erasmus Darwin. Abbott was vicar of THE ADVANTAGE OF MISFORTUNE: Thornton, leicestershire; his son (lemuel Francis) became a london: Printed for J. ridley. 1773 £650 noted portrait painter, most famous for his likeness of nelson. 4to (242 × 184 mm), pp. [4], 11, [1]; printed on good-quality paper, ESTC lists 7 UK locations and 4 in north America (Cornell, Folger, harvard and McMaster). with generous margins; disbound. Sole edition, dedicated to the foppish poet edward Jerningham and written in imitation of ‘The hermit’ by Thomas Parnell. 2 (ABINGDON, Willoughby BERTIE, Earl of). An Adieu ESTC locates 6 copies only (Bl, Cambridge, edinburgh, to the Turf: a poetical epistle from The e-l of A----n Bodley, Cornell, UClA). To his grace The A----P of Y--K. london: Printed for M. smith; and sold by the booksellers in the strand, ‘All is vanity’: the misfortune of the title is the tragic death of Temple-Bar, and Paternoster-row. 1778.] £2500 Aboram, son of the haughty Caliph of egypt, Bozaldab, which drives the father to attempt suicide, before an angel intervenes 4to (256 × 206 mm) in half-sheets, pp. [4], vii, [1], 24, with half- and shows him the error of his materialistic ways. title; typographical ornaments; minor marginal browning, a light Jackson, p. 18. waterstain affecting upper and lower margins from p. 13, small paper repair/reinforcement to gutter of pp. 6 & 7; preserved in modern quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt. 5 THE ADVANTAGES OF REPENTANCE, a moral Tale, First edition, with two further editions following in the same attempted in Blank verse; and founded on the Anecdotes year. rare: ESTC listing copies at Bodley, Cornell, huntington, of a private Family in *********shire. The third edition. and Fisher library, sydney only. london: Printed for the author, by Joseph Cooper, sold by J. and r. Tonson ... s. Bladon ... W. Davenhill ... P. A satire on the eccentric earl of Abingdon’s former attachment Brett ... and by the printer. [1790?] £200 to sporting pleasures (racing, cricket and cards) and his apparent new-found interest in politics, which he expressed in his 4to (251 × 195 mm) in half-sheets, pp. [6], 36; early inscription to title inflammatory pamphlet of 1777: Thoughts on the letter of Edmund ‘Row[lan]d Richardson’; imprint cropped at foot, with loss of one line, Burke, esq. to the sheriffs of Bristol on the affairs of America. Of An lightly browned; modern marbled boards. Adieu to the Turf the Monthly Review noted: ‘some court wit, a too, has given, in numbers, the last words and knowing one arch Third (and first quarto) edition. ESTC lists copies at Bodley, dying speech of a newmarket peer. —very severe on the earl of Cornell and UC Berkeley only; the previous editions (1765 and Abingdon,— for turning Patriot.’ Abingdon’s colourful youth is 1779) are also scarce. Though ESTC suggests a date of 1790, the the butt of a stream of jokes: from his preference for hoyle over typography seems rather earlier. horace, to his attempts to apply the rules of cricket to courtship. ‘scarce fourteen years has pass’d away / When first i thought ‘The hero of this tale murders a peasant; flies to india, without of am’rous play, / Of Women not afraid: / For them i left more being detected; repents of his crime; acquires a fortune; returns childish Cricket; / i only strove to hit their ... / And Wicket, put- to england; finds his mother and sister in unexpected prosperity; every Maid’ (p. 3). out performs many charitable actions on his arrival; meets with the Jackson, Annals of English Verse, 1770-1835, p. 60. apparition of the peasant; discovers his widow and children in distress; provides for their support; becomes an extraordinary good man, and reaps the happy fruits of repentance. / The story is 3 ACADEMIC TRIFLES. A Collection of poetical Pieces ridiculous, but the language is tolerable, and the moral instructive’ … By a gentleman of Oxford. london: Printed and (Critical Review). sold by e. Johnson … 1778. £300 The title bears a quotation from Hamlet ‘—MUrDER, tho’ it have no Tongue, will speak With most miraculous Organ’ (2.2). Not in Jackson. english verse 75 – 800 6 THE AGED FATHER’S BLESSING, or, a Catalogue of Sole edition of Devotional Pieces, consisting of Anna laetitia’s Divine lessons, set forth in six Pious and Profitable essay ‘On Devotional Taste’ in which she sets out her controversial Poems. i. The sin of Covetousness explained. II. Against view of devotion as a taste or sensation, followed by 96 re- workings of the psalms. The essay is dedicated to her father, John False swearing. III. A Caveat against False swearing. Aikin, professor of divinity at the Warrington Academy. IV. The sin of sabbath-Breaking sharpley reproved. v. lastly, A Poem of seasonable Advice to Children, in It is bound here after the firsti rish edition of Miscellaneous Pieces, Points of Duty and Obedience to their Parents. london: first published by Johnson in 1773. This collection of ten jointly- Printed by John evans ... [c. 1790.] £200 authored pieces includes essays on comedy, science and monastic institutions. ‘One, “On romances”, an imitation of samuel Johnson, earned his praise; another, ‘Against inconsistency in our 8vo (185 × 130 mm), pp. 8 on a single uncut and unopened sheet of bluish expectations’, was admired for its ethical argument and stylistic paper; woodcut vignette illustration to title; suggested date added in later elegance’ (Oxford DNB). manuscript below imprint; slightly dusty at margins. Miscellaneous Pieces: ESTC lists a number of copies in the Not Found in eStC, which lists a handful of other roughly British isles but only one (Penn state) in the Us; not in Jackson; contemporary undated imprints of this poem, including rothschild 18; Devotional Pieces: Jackson, p. 36. Warrington and Dublin imprints. An edinburgh imprint apparently bears the date 1709 and Foxon lists an imprint of 1708 (A130), and this pious little pamphlet saw reprints as late as the first decade of the nineteenth century. The title here lists only 5 of 9 AKENSIDE, Mark. An Ode to the Country gentlemen the promised 6 poems, but the text gives all 6 (number 5, the title of england, ... london: Printed for r. and J. Dodsley ... missing in the list is ‘Parents indulgent Care over their Children’). and sold by M. Cooper ... 1758. £300 4to (245 × 188 mm) in half sheets, pp. 11, [1]; ornament to title; minor 7 AIKIN, John. Poems. london: Printed for J. Johnson ... spotting throughout and traces of an old transverse fold; twentieth- 1791. £150 century panelled calf; armorial bookplate of Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher; a very good copy. 8vo (190 × 110 mm), pp. x, 136 (pp. ix-x, Contents, bound after title); contemporary marbled calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label; joints FirSt edition in book form. Published against a backdrop of the cracked but secure; a nice clean copy. seven Years’ War, Akenside’s address to the country gentlemen of england was intended to rouse them and their tenants to the FirSt edition. The collection includes a sonnet addressed defence of their country. Deploring the tendency for British to george Washington (‘Deign WASHINGTOn! to hear a interests to be left to mercenary troops in the pay of the British British lyre, / That ardent greets thee with applausive lays’) and Army (‘slavish ruffians hir’d for their command’), Akenside another to Joseph Priestley.