thomas brown the elder pseud (3 Ergebnisse)

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FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 12mo. Bound without half titles in contemporary half calf, gilt spines. Neat contemp. monogram stamp to e.ps 'A.J.C'. A v.g., attractive copy. Not in the BL which records a second edition published in the same year; Oxford, Leeds, and Liverpool only on Copac. The pseudonymous 'Thomas Brown, the Elder' was also the author of Brighton, The Englishman in Paris 1819, London, or a Month at Steven's, 1819 and Edinburgh, 1820. Visitors to Bath are lampooned but satire occasionally descends into 'scandalmongering' or even mild pornography. The portraits include that of Coleridge whose career is seen (through contemporary eyes) as that of a turn-coat both in poetry and politics. Thomas Moore used the pseudonym of 'Thomas Brown, the Younger' but the identity of his 'elder brother' remains unknown.

1st edn. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half calf on marbled paper-laid boards, gilt tooled with monograms in top compartments, with gilt lettered labels and pink silk page-markers (a bright VG set). Pp. iv + 236 [&] 210 [&] 214, no half titles (leaves with scattered spotting throughout; no inscriptions).