A Satirical Epistle in Verse, addressed to the Poet Laureate on his Carmen Seculare, constaining strictures on modern times and characters
by [ANON.]
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- first
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- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed by D.N. Shury...and sold by J. Ginger, 1801. xvi, 46pp. Disbound, largely untrimmed, with original stab holes to gutter margins. Light soiling to title and final leaf, ink-stamps of the Mercantile Library, PA to title and occasionally to text. The sole edition of a rare satirical verse epistle, prefaced by a detailed essay on eras in general and the turn of the eighteenth-century in particular, addressed in response to Carmen Seculare for the Year 1800, by Henry James Pye (1745-1813), Poet Laureate. Unrecorded on COPAC and OCLC, though bizarrely Worldcat records two copies, at Illinois and Trinity College, CT. Jackson p.257.. First Edition. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ10658
- Title
- A Satirical Epistle in Verse, addressed to the Poet Laureate on his Carmen Seculare, constaining strictures on modern times and characters
- Author
- [ANON.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed by D.N. Shury...and sold by J. Ginger
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1801
- Size
- 8vo
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.
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Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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- Gutter
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