Bonaparte's [sic] Reverie: A Poetical Romance. Second edition, with alterations.

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, good. 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 in North America, and 1 in Australia. William Rubenstein in the ODNB entry for Cornwallis mentions 'a patriotic poem on Napoleon's threatened invasion of 1803', perhaps referring to the present piece. (ESTC T125049).…