Bardomachia Poema Macaronico-Latinum
by [GEDDES, Alexander]
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Londini, [i.e. London]: Typis J. Crowderianis Impressum, 1800. 14pp, [2]. With half-title and final leaf of errata. Recent marbled paper wraps, paper title label to upper wrap. Occasional annotations identifying characters within this neo-latin poem. A satire on the dispute, which once descended into physical scuffle, between the two satirists William Gifford and John Walcott/Peter Pindar. This Latin edition appears to take priority, with the English edition title including 'From the Latin. ESTC locates only five copies in British libraries (BL, Cambridge, Glasgow, NLS, Oxford) and four elsewhere (Harvard, Illinois, Michigan and Library Company of Philadelphia). ESTC T10247. Jackson p.240.. First Edition. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ10539
- Title
- Bardomachia Poema Macaronico-Latinum
- Author
- [GEDDES, Alexander]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Typis J. Crowderianis Impressum
- Place of Publication
- Londini, [i.e. London]
- Date Published
- 1800
- Keywords
- Nineteenth-Century English Poetry, Latin Poetry
- Size
- Quarto
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...