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First edition, one of 20 Large Paper copies. Steel-engraved frontispiece of Thomas Gosden on India Paper, and wood-engraved head and tailpieces to each canto. xxxi, [iii], 234pp. W. Shackell, Printer. 1 vols. Small 4to (9-1/2 x 7 inches). A volume of rare delight, being, as Westwood and Satchell note, "one of the worst instances of literary appropriation on record". The poem, produced originally by a Dr. Scott of Ipswich, "is transported bodily into Lathy's book, with a few substitutions and modifications.In Canto x, having exhausted Scott's poem, Lathy has to fall back on his own resources, which do not carry him beyond a few dozen feeble lines". As though this was not enough, Lathy ends by plagiarizing Issac Walton's "Angler's wish" Westwood & Satchell, p. 131. Provenance: The George Bethune copy (mentioned in Westwood and Satchell, with small printed note to this effect by Henry A. Sherwin saying he bought at Sothebys London July 8/9 1897); Henry A. Sherwin (bookplate); Walton bibliographer Bernard Horne (bookplate) Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, t.e.g., rest uncut. Some foxing Steel-engraved frontispiece of Thomas Gosden on India Paper, and wood-engraved head and tailpieces to each canto. xxxi, [iii], 234pp. W. Shackell, Printer. 1 vols. Small 4to (9-1/2 x 7 inches) First edition, one of 20 Large Paper copies. Seller Inventory # 311444
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