pindar peter pseudonym john wolcot (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 10, [1] pp., removed from a larger binding; minor stains to the title page, else good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Irish Edition, 32pp, new boards, 8vo, very good condition, P. Byrne, J. Moore, J. Jones, A. Grueber, W. Jones, J. Rice and G. Draper, Dublin, 1792. * some good rollicking verse.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. London: John Walker, 1794. Title pages dated 1794. Three volumes, complete set when published, with a fourth volume added in 1796 and a further at a later date. Lovely period bindings in speckled calf leather with dual spine labels in red and black, gilt decorated spine, frontis portrait in volume I, about 8.5" tall. Some edge rubbing and a little wear to the spine decoration, rear joint of third volume may have been very professionally repaired, firm text blocks, very clean pages, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. A LOVELY POCKET SET. PINDAR, Peter [pseudonym of John Wolcot]. The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. London, Published by J. Walker and J. Harris, 1809. 12mo, four volumes, each one with a half-title, frontispiece, engraved title page and regular title page with Peter Pindar s portrait being on the first volume. Ms. ex libris of Sir George-William Denys, Baronet, on front endpaper of each volume. Bound in a lovely gilt-ruled straight-grain red morocco (fourth volume with some worm tracking on front cover), inner dentelles, author and title to gilt spine, marbled pastedowns, a.e.g. A lovely set in a beautiful binding. Peter Pindar was the pen name of John Wolcot (9 May 1738 14 January 1819), an English satirist who found that poetry paid better than his medical profession. Indeed, though trained as a physician and practising medicine, in 1780, Wolcot went to London and began writing satires. The first objects of his attentions were the members of the Royal Academy. For the historian of the fine arts the relevant items are his Lyric and Farewell Odes to the Royal Academicians for the years 1782, 1783, 1785 and 1786 (pp. 9-133), in which the painter Benjamin West and all its other leading members are unmercifully satirised, and the opening poem in his Subjects for Painters (pp. 445-506), but the poems as a whole well repay reading, particularly those that ridicule the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, King George III s, and the Abyssinian traveller James Bruce. Other objects of his attack were Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson, Hannah More, former bluestocking and playwright, and Bishop Porteus. Wolcot had a remarkable vein of humour and wit, which, while intensely comic to persons not involved, stung its subjects to the quick. He had likewise strong intelligence, and a power of coining effective phrases. In other kinds of composition, as in some ballads he wrote, an unexpected touch of gentleness and even tenderness appears. Among these are The Beggar Man and Lord Gregory. He died at his home in Latham Place, Somers Town, London, on 14 January 1819, and was buried in a vault in the churchyard of St Paul s, Covent Garden.

12mo, 2 pp, the autograph being on one side and Rickman's on the other. Fair, on aged paper, with traces of previous mounting on one side. Large bold signature 'J: Wolcot' with biographical note on one side, and the note, signed 'Clio Rickman', on the other: Written by the celebrated Peter Pindar, when entirely blind, on my calling on him the 3d of July 1809 my boy with me'.

Old thick card board covers with paper title label to the upper panel, page edges untrimmed. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains [vi] 64 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece of Pindar dated 1798. Tissue guard crumpled and marked, fore edge of the frontispiece reinforced to the verso with thick paper, a little age tanning to the paper, new end papers. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISLE OF THANET.