Works of Peter Pindar, Esquire in two volumes

works of peter pindar in two volumes. Volume 1 Portrait of Peter Pindar(John Walcot 1738-1819)) 463 pp and volume 2 464 pp. The whole bound into the one book. Half leather (red) with raised gilt spines title and publisher's intitials on spine. Matching leather corner protectors. Marbled page edges. Pink end papers. VERY minor edge rubs and front hinge showing mull . Very strong and tight. Book would grade very good if it were modern, but this is 213 years old and deserves a FINE. No writing. Second volume has more tanning than first: I do not know why, but it appears to a common phenomenon. The opening poem is the "Poetical, Supplicatng, Modest, and Affecting Epistle to those Lietrary Colossuses, the REVIEWERS. Satire was the strong characteristic of Pindar's. works. He was the most prolific and successful burlesque poet of the later eighteenth century. His particular targets were the Royal Academy and the royal familyincluding the king and John Payne (Rights of Man).

Publisher Wood, Vernon. H. Walker andP. Bell. With over 900 pages, this book is extremely thick, which may be why in the same year, 1801, the publisher also published the book in discrete volumes.

At 200+ years, the book is a wonderful survivor with little evidence of having been read. Looks like antique hand-made laid paper and presumable mulberry or vegetable as wood-pulp paper was not yet around.

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