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LIVERPOOL WRITING MASTER

GRAHAM, Charles

Miscellaneous pieces, in prose and verse

Liverpool. Printed by T. Schofield, for the Author, 1793.

12mo. x, [3], 14-193pp, [1]. With an engraved folding frontispiece and a list of subscribers. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked with original spine laid-down. A trifle rubbed, loss to head and foot of spine, upper joint cracked. Internally clean and crisp.

Through sharing a title with a 1778 edition printed in Kendal this collection differs markedly, with only a couple of articles repeated including an essay 'On the Savage Diversion of Cock-fighting'. The poem 'Columbus, or the Discovery of America' is offered marking the 300th anniversary of the explorers voyage, and features in addendum to the line 'Washington's high towers' the entertaining explanatory note: 'The New City of Washington, now Erecting, intended to be the Capital of the United States.' The somewhat unusual engraved plate appears designed to act as an advertisement for Graham's occupation as writing-master based in Liverpool, the verse 'On the Arts of Penmanship and Engraving' would seem to support this rather self-serving attitude to publication. Amongst the lengthy list of Liverpudlian and Mancunian subscribers is the name of William Roscoe. ESTC locates copies at BL, Liverpool, Mitchell, and Oxford, and two in California. It is worth noting that ESTC does not record the engraved plate present here. Not in Jackson. Not in Johnson. Not in Sabin.

ESTC T127914.

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