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Published by Sold by T. Skillern [ca 1790], London, 1790
Seller: Colin Coleman Music, Stewkley, United Kingdom
Sheet Music
Size: Folio. 4pp. Disbound. Drop title. With tune for the flute on p.4. Engraved. RISM A/I/11 W 1729 references two copies. BUC p.785.
Published by J. Evans: London, 1791
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
"With an engraving by an Eminent Artist," 10.5 x 8. recent cloth backed marbled boards, 43 pp + ads, covers lightly rubbed, contents with minor finger soil, page opposite illustr with offset, edges yellowed else a remarkably nice copy.
Publication Date: 1789
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. London 1789 G. Kearsley. A new edition. 4to., 30pp., later wraps. Good, light browning in margins on all pages.
Published by T. Spilspury, London, 1794
First Edition
Full-Leather. Condition: G+. No Jacket. First Edition. Full leather that is worn with detached but present front board, modest foxing, owners dated signature. Pindariana was published in 1794 and Hair Powder in 1795. Book.
Published by Printed for G. Kearsley and for J. Evans, London, 1790, 1791, 1791 and 1791
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Quarto. Four books bound as one. A Complimentary Epistle: ii, 39, [1] pp. publisher's ads, 3rd edition. The Rights of Kings, [1] pp. to the reader, verso is the errata, 90pp. A new edition. "Odes to Mr. Paine:" 10pp. and "The Remonstrance", 63pp. (1)pp. publisher's ads and divisional half-title, 1st editions. "A Complimentary Epistle of James Bruce". There is no doubt that James Bruce (1730-1794) was a remarkable explorer though his writings on Abyssinia had come into question by Dr. Samuel Johnson as well as John Wolcott (using his familiar pseudonym, Peter Pindar). The illustrious dedicatory page quotes both Dr. Johnson and James Boswell, who Peter Pindar only quotes about his drinking bout while he insists that James Bruce is a history of "thundering diarrhea". Using verse, Wolcott continues his assault on Mr. Paine with "Pindar's Odes to Mr. Paine" Wolcot(Pindar) presents the Revolutionary hero as a manipulator of speech and confounder of reason. Though Wolcot (Pindar) satirized public figures indiscriminately, he was not alone in his attacks on Paine. Paine was a frequent target for writers and cartoonists who consider him a "symbol of the twin evils of republican ideology and rational religion". Bound in a contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered baordsred morocco spine label gilt, joints appear to have been repaired. A very good copy.