First American Edition. Octavo. Green boards with new green cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine. pp (viii), (9)-481 (actually 483, pp 433-81 incorrectly numbered 431-81), without the final leaf of ads. Mathais was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, also serving for a time as the queen's treasurer and librarian at Buckingham Palace. Being a great admirer of Thomas Gray, he issues a lavish edition of Gray's work that bankrupted him. He repaired to Italy in 1814 to recover and remained there the rest of his life, becoming the greatest English Italian scholar of the day, writing original verse in Italian and translated Milton and other English authors. He is best-known today as the author of The Pursuits of Literature, an anonymously published poem that appeared in four parts between 1794 and 1797. Good, spotting and foxing to covers, ownership signature on front pastedown and free end paper, ownership signature on half title and title page, pages agetoned and foxed. Seller Inventory # 37008

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Title: Pursuits of Literature, A Satirical Poem in ...

Publisher: H. Maxwell, Philadelphia

Publication Date: 1800

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition.

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