Frere, John Hookham (memoir by Sir Bartle Frere) - WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE in verse and Prose 3 Volumes.

London, Pickering 1874 Portrait frontis. Vol.1 & Bust of Frere as frontis to Vol.2 . Three Volumes octavo original red cloth with printed paper label to spine (spines bit darkened, labels browned and slightly rubbed or chipped/lower cover of vol.3 slightly damp marked) vii+354pp vii+426pp 435pp Uncut Mostly UNOPENED name on FEP else V.G+ *Includes Nine Verse Fables + Aesop's fable of the Frogs from LaFontaine, Epitaphs on his Friend Canning, Also on Lord Nelson etc. Contributions to The Microcosm of which he was one of the founders, and also contributions to The Anti-Jacobin, Several metrical versions of Aristophanes' plays and his mock-romantic King Arthur written under the pseudonyms Wm. & Robt. Whistlecraft was a model for his friend Byron when composing Don Juan, while he collaborated with Southey on Chronicle of the Cid.

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