FOX AND FOXIANA
Saint anne's hill. A poem.
London.
Printed [by S. Gosnell] for the author; sold by J. Debrett...and R. Wetton, 1800.
First edition.
25, [1], 26-34pp, [1]. With a makeshift frontispiece (almost detached, and not recorded in other copies) consisting of a printed title and an engraving of Fox's villa after Reynolds. ESTC locates copies at just three British libraries (BL, Edinburgh and Oxford), and elsewhere just a single copy, at Harvard. ESTC T47027.
[Bound with:] ADAIR, R[obert]. Sketch of the character of the late duke of devonshire. London. Printed by William Bulmer and Co., 1811. First edition. 28pp. With a half title and an engraved portrait frontispiece.
[And:] [LUTTRELL, Henry]. Lines written at ampthill park, in the autumn of 1818. London. John Murray, 1819. First edition. 46pp, [2]. With a half-title.
[And:] O'BRYEN, D[enis]. Lines written at twickenham. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1788. First edition. [5], 8-20pp. Without half-title. ESTC locates copies at just three libraries in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge and Forster), and just two elsewhere (Harvard and Yale). ESTC N3768.
[And:] PRATT, Mr. [Samuel Jackson]. The poor; or, bread. A poem. With notes and illustrations. London. Printed for Messrs. Longman and Rees...and T. Becket...By W. Dyde, 1802. Second edition. [8], 88pp, [22]. With a half-title.
Quarto. Nineteenth-century gilt-tooled straight- grain red half-morocco, marbled boards. Extremities rubbed. Manuscript list of contents to FEP, scattered spotting.
[Bound with:] ADAIR, R[obert]. Sketch of the character of the late duke of devonshire. London. Printed by William Bulmer and Co., 1811. First edition. 28pp. With a half title and an engraved portrait frontispiece.
[And:] [LUTTRELL, Henry]. Lines written at ampthill park, in the autumn of 1818. London. John Murray, 1819. First edition. 46pp, [2]. With a half-title.
[And:] O'BRYEN, D[enis]. Lines written at twickenham. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1788. First edition. [5], 8-20pp. Without half-title. ESTC locates copies at just three libraries in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge and Forster), and just two elsewhere (Harvard and Yale). ESTC N3768.
[And:] PRATT, Mr. [Samuel Jackson]. The poor; or, bread. A poem. With notes and illustrations. London. Printed for Messrs. Longman and Rees...and T. Becket...By W. Dyde, 1802. Second edition. [8], 88pp, [22]. With a half-title.
Quarto. Nineteenth-century gilt-tooled straight- grain red half-morocco, marbled boards. Extremities rubbed. Manuscript list of contents to FEP, scattered spotting.
An attractive collection of lesser-known quartos of Georgian verse, at first sight largely romantically topographical in nature, but fully four of which are connected by their relation - however tangential - to leading Whig politician Charles James Fox (1749-1806).
The rare first edition of Peter Cunningham's (d. 1805) is thus a rare verse celebration, much in the manner of Denham's Cooper's Hill, of the Fox family villa, St. Anne's Hill in Surrey, which was dedicated by the author to Fox on his 51st birthday. Adair's Sketch of the Character of the Duke of Devonshire, meanwhile, includes a 15- line 'Sketch of an inscription for the bust of Mr. Fox, in the temple of friendship at Woburn Abbey on the verso of the final leaf, whilst Henry Luttrell's Lines written at Ampthill Park celebrates the country house of, and is dedicated to, Lord Holland, Fox's nephew.
Behind the apparent rushed verse celebration of the scenery of South London in the rare Lines written at Twickenham is what The English Review described as 'a very long and high-strained panegyric on the virtues of the great leader of opposition' by Irish surgeon, dramatist, pamphleteer and life-long friend of Fox, Denys O'Bryen (c. 1755-1832).
The final work present here, for which this cataloguer cannot find a connection to Fox, is English actor, novelist and poet Samuel Jackson Pratt's (1749-1814) picture of a contented English peasant class whose pleasant existence is shown as being under threat of the newly emergent 'farmer-gentlemen' sort. As with Pratt's other humanitarian works, including his classic abolitionist works Sympathy (London, 1788) and Humanity (also London, 1788), it is appended by copious notes providing elaborate explanations of his verse and references to the plight of individual rural workers.
£ 1,250.00
Antiquates Ref: 23005
The rare first edition of Peter Cunningham's (d. 1805) is thus a rare verse celebration, much in the manner of Denham's Cooper's Hill, of the Fox family villa, St. Anne's Hill in Surrey, which was dedicated by the author to Fox on his 51st birthday. Adair's Sketch of the Character of the Duke of Devonshire, meanwhile, includes a 15- line 'Sketch of an inscription for the bust of Mr. Fox, in the temple of friendship at Woburn Abbey on the verso of the final leaf, whilst Henry Luttrell's Lines written at Ampthill Park celebrates the country house of, and is dedicated to, Lord Holland, Fox's nephew.
Behind the apparent rushed verse celebration of the scenery of South London in the rare Lines written at Twickenham is what The English Review described as 'a very long and high-strained panegyric on the virtues of the great leader of opposition' by Irish surgeon, dramatist, pamphleteer and life-long friend of Fox, Denys O'Bryen (c. 1755-1832).
The final work present here, for which this cataloguer cannot find a connection to Fox, is English actor, novelist and poet Samuel Jackson Pratt's (1749-1814) picture of a contented English peasant class whose pleasant existence is shown as being under threat of the newly emergent 'farmer-gentlemen' sort. As with Pratt's other humanitarian works, including his classic abolitionist works Sympathy (London, 1788) and Humanity (also London, 1788), it is appended by copious notes providing elaborate explanations of his verse and references to the plight of individual rural workers.
