A POLITICAL, SUPPLICATING, MODEST, AND AFFECTING EPISTLE TO THOSE LITERARY COLOSSUSES, THE REVIEWERS

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1778, (2), 8 pp; removed from binding; very light browning to first and last pages, with old waterstain at top edge; light foxing; pages trimmed; internally clean and sound. A latin tag from Horace is pasted below the last word of the title: "Carmine Di Superi placantur, Carmine Manes;" the gods above are pleased by song; by song the gods of hell" It is placed on because the typesetter apparently left off the first two words. While this short work is published anonymously, it is attributed to Peter Pindar; the pen name used by John Wolcot (1738-1819). John Wolcot was a physician to Jamaica in 1767, as the personal physician to the governor, SIr William Trelawny. A few years later, after Trelawny, Wolcot returned to England, left the church, and settled in Truro as a physician. While living there, he published his first work, "A Political, Supplicating, Modest, and Affecting Epistle to Those Literary Colossuses, the Reviewers" in 1781, he moved to London, and continued his literary career. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.…