Browne reverend moses (1 Ergebnisse)

Sm. 8vo. xxxvii, [3], 136 pp. Engraved frontispiece. On page 121: "Inscribed to Mr. Betteroth"[?]. Original calf, rebacked with handsome new spine and red morocco gilt-stamped spine label. Bookplate of Hastings Nathaniel Middleton. Some minor ink annotations to the title. Very good. Originally issued in 1729 under a slightly different title and then again reissued in 1739. This is the third edition. "Brown was an enthusiastic angler, and in 1750, at the suggestion of Dr. Johnson, brought out an edition of Walton and Cotton's "Compleat Angler". . . MOSES BROWNE (1704 â" September 1787) was a pen-cutter from Clerkenwell, London, England who became a poet and eventually rose amongst the ranks of the Church of England. He made various contributions to the Gentleman's Magazine, founded by Edward Cave at St. John's Gate in 1731, who awarded Browne several prizes for his contributions. Browne mixed with some distinguished literary figures of his time, including befriending Samuel Johnson. Browne was appointed vicar of Olney, Buckinghamshire in 1753. In 1764, Browne took on the post of Chaplain at Morden College in Blackheath, London. He remained vicar of Olney at the same time as vicar of Sutton, Lincolnshire until his death in 1787. See: John Bartlett, Catalogue of Books on Angling: Including Ichthyology . . . (1882), page 15; DNB, III, pp. 52-3; Thomas Westwood, Thomas Satchell, Bibliotheca piscatoria a catalogue of books on angling, . . (1883), pp. 43-4.…