Price: £1,200
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1800
Stock Number: 53928
(Your basket is currently empty)A Poetical Romance. Second edition, with alterations.
Description: unevenly browned, red library stamp on title and 2 other pages, last leaf almost loose (due to adhesion to the flyleaf), pp. xii, [13-] 106, 12mo, new 2-tone boards, printed paper label, old flyleaf inscribed 'A Present from the Author Will. Jos. Denison Esqr. to Mr. Wilkinson', small book label of J.O. Edwards inside front cover, goodPublication Details: Printed by H. L. Galabin; sold by W. J. & J. Richardson, 1800
Notes: The second edition, considerably augmented from the first edition of the previous year, which was only 65 pages in length. The first edition has Buonaparte's name spelled correctly on the title. The Reverie, in verse, is vehemently anti-Napoleonic - 'The reader will please to observe that Bonaparte's character is here drawn after the conqueror of Italy had degraded himself into the free-booter of Egypt' (Introduction). The ESTC, recording just the BL and McMaster copies, does not assign an author. The first edition is not much commoner, with just BL and Bodleian in the UK recorded in ESTC, 3 i...more
Bibliography: (ESTC T125049)
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