Ars Catchpolaria,

[Claudero (pseud. for James Wilson)]

Ars Catchpolaria,

or the art of destroying mankind, intended as a vade-mecum or pocket companion to messengers and other executors of the law... Subscription money is taken in voraciously by the Author himself, and by all others intrusted with proposals subscribed by him.

Description: FIRST EDITION, last leaf defective, with the lacunae supplied in manuscript in situ or on the facing blank for the verso, some foxing, small ink splash on title, pp. vi, 26, binder's blank leaves bound at end, 8vo contemporary (but possibly not original) red calf - a tool at the foot of the spine is James Scott's: Loudon R02.14 - with gilt roll-tooled borders on sides, rounded spine gilt in compartments, worn at extremities, apparently recased sometime in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, ex-Wigan Public Library with their bookplate and blind stamp on title and their accession stamp on verso, small paper label with shelf mark on upper cover, according to a pencil note on the flyleaf 'From Sir. Wm Fettes Douglas's library', sound

Publication Details: Edinburgh: Printed for, and sold by the Author, 1775

Notes: James Wilson (1730-?87) further expounded his pseudonym in others of his publications: 'that noted poet Claudero, son of Nimrod the Mighty Hunter, and late Secretary to the Chevalier Taylor, His Majesty's Oculist, and Ophthalmiater Pontifical, Imperial and Royal, to all the Crowned Heads and Sovereign Princes in Europe, Noble and Citizen of Rome.' ESTC lists 18 works by him (some of them broadsides), of which this is the penultimate: the last is Poems, pastoral, moral, religious, and political. By James Wilson, Newcastle, 1778, the only work with his real name on it, and one of only two not pr...more

Bibliography: (ESTC T124860)

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Price: £850

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1775

Stock Number: 51806

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