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Political Miscellanies
Sir John Hawkins and Joseph Richardson
1790
James Ridgway : London
8.5" by 5"
viii, 156pp
SUMMARY
An extremely scarce late eighteenth-century political satire.
First Edition,Rebound,Very Scarce
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
First Edition.
With letters, songs and essays, and one small illustration in the text.
Richardson, Joseph (1755–1803), writer and politician. In addition to his work with the Morning Post and the English Chronicle, Richardson contributed letters signed ‘Englishman’ to a paper called The Citizen, but much of his energy, after the establishment of Pitt's ministry, was devoted to political satire, published anonymously. He wrote numbers 4, 10, and 11 in Criticisms of ‘The Rolliad’, part 1 (1784) and numbers 3 and 4 in part 2 (1785). He wrote numbers 4 and 19 in Probationary Odes for the Laureateship (1785), as well as much of the prose in that work (an attribution of these works can be found in an anonymous MS of 1785, inserted at the front of a combined edition, BL Catalogue G. 18972). He wrote The Delavaliad (1785), and The Jekyll, a Political Eclogue (1788), the latter a satire directed at the marquess of Lansdowne and his political adherents. He contributed to Political Miscellanies (1787) and also published, again anonymously, The Complete Investigation of Mr Eden's Treaty (1787), a serious political pamphlet which deployed historical argument and statistical evidence to support the whigs' attack on the commercial treaty with France. DNB
CONDITION
Rebound in paper covered boards with a cloth spine. Externally sound, a very little shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Bright with light scattered spotting and a few small spill burns. The title is foxed, and has slight loss to the margin, not affecting the text.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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