Fancy Moore Thomas (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xxxi + 88 pages. (with half-title & Title pages), Quarter leather and mottled hardback binding, good , some rubbing, lacks base of spine, front board a tad loose. Contents mostly very good, clean & tight, some minor marks etc. front endpage & half title partly loose. Inside front cover is the decorative coat-of-arms bookplate of Thomas Philip, Earl of Grey, Wrest Park. Next blank page is another owner name that has been covered by paper. A deliciously satirical work by Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) which parodies the Aix-la-Chapelle diplomatic conference, between Britain and her then allies, through the guise of a boxing match. The political pugilistic plea begins with a lengthy prefatory address burdened with pseudo scholarship, with the poem itself being laden with nonsense footnotes. It was also aimed at Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh. An Anglican Tory, as Irish Secretary Castlereagh had been ruthless in the suppression of the United Irishmen and in pushing the Act of Union through the Irish Parliament. Moore lampoons Castlereagh's deference to the reactionary interests of Britain's continental allies Moore also spent time living in America. Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham, 6th Baron Lucas , of Wrest in Bedfordshire, was a British Tory statesman.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Thus. Second edition (published in the same year as the first edition). xxxii, 88pp. Quarter bound in brown leather over black boards, paper title label on spine. 12mo. Boards are worn, rubbed and rounded on corner and spines, rubbed all round edges, title label chipped. Internally some spotting, especially on endpapers and first and last few leaves, minor soiling in places. Boards are firm and strong but internally binding is brittle. Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was an Irish writer and poet, regarded as on the English Romantic era poets, his works were among the popular of early 19th century Irish literature, and he was noted for his depictions of Catholic Emancipation, often noted as a Catholic patriot in Ireland. This volume is among his political squib writing - a lampooning pastiche attack on the then Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh for his ruthless suppression of United Irishmen and for pushing the Act of Union through the Irish Parliament and the deference he had shown to the reactionary interest of British allies in continental Europe. A fine - and effective - example of political satire.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third edition 1819, approx 16cm x 10cm. Leather/marbled boards bound by Edwin Slater, Manchester (printed to bottom of reverse end paper with decorative blind stamp to same page). Marbled end papers and same to page edge block. Ownership plate (1860) to first inside board. Occasional underline to text and odd annotation to margin. A neat, exquisite copy, binding firm/straight.

Stated 16th, 9th, 3rd edition. Full brown calf with decorative gilt stamping on both boards and spine, gilt lyre emblems, brown eps, aeg. 16mo (17cm). pp. xxiv, 119, viii, 168 (Notes), xxxi, 88. Very Good. Lightly rubbed joints and edges, bookplate of Clark Prescott Bissett [1875-1932] on front pastedown. Clever bound triplet or nonce volume of Thomas Moore pseudonymns and satire a la post-bag, Bourbon and boxing via Bissett's brown binding. Dr. Bissett was an authority on the life of Abraham Lincoln, history of Italy and Mussolini and Fascismo, past Dean of The University of Washington and Professor of Law.

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Intercepted Letters is Sixteenth Edition. J. Carpenter. (1818); The Fudge Family is Ninth Edition. Longman, Hurst etc (1818) and Tom Crib's Memorial is Third Edition. Longman, Hurst etc (1819). Three books bound together in likely contemporary green full leather. Highly ornate binding with raised bands. Armorial bookplate of W.E.F.S. Label, stamp or embossed stamp of owner at start of book. Clean tight text in sound but quite worn covers. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

First Edition. Octvao. 16.5cm. Contemporary black half straight grain morocco (or in fact something that is the leathery equivalent of thin gruel, masquerading as morocco) over marbled paper covered boards, titled in gilt to spine. Some scuffing and wear and to the boards and extremities, with a couple of places where the thin skin of the leather has chipped away a little, strong and tight, regardless of cheap production ethics, it's a very good little copy. Internally clean, and rather artfully printed. A rather scathing satire of political standpoints of the day presented through the lens of a 19th century boxing fanatic and through the words of Tom Crib [sic], All England Champion of the art of bare knuckle boxing between 1808 and 1822, who won 15 title fights and suffered no defeats, becoming on of the most famous and influential pugilists in history, and the darling of "The Fancy" those gentlemen and not quite so gentle men who were addicted to the pursuit and practice of bare knuckle boxing in the early 19th century. Cribb and his contemporary sportsmen frequently featured in political satire and argument of the time in the guise of "Everyman" figure, like the "Man on The Clapham Omnibus", a vague figure who nonetheless personified the thoughts and opinions of the average man in the street.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextTom Crib s Memorial to Congress is a book written by One of the Fancy and published in 1819. The book is a tribute to Tom Crib, a famous English boxer and public figure. The book includes a preface, notes, and appendix, provid.