Bobbin, Tim, [John Collier]; Robert Walker

The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin Esq. And "Plebeian Politics, or the Principals and Practices of Certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs, Vulgarly Called Warrites by Way of a Dialogue Betwixt Two Lancashire Clowns Together with Several Fugitive Pieces (Two Volumes Bound in One); Containing His View of the Lancashire Dialect, with Large Additions and Improvements: Also, His Poem of the Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton; Together with Other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse to Which Is Added, a Life of the Author

Manchester, United Kingdom, J. Slack, 1818. Leather Bound. pp. 226; pp. 83. 8vo. Bound in contemporary 3/4 maroon leather over marbled boards with gilt rules and lettering to spine over black spine label. Twenty-seven copper engraved plates along with minor illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to boards, slight offsetting to endpapers, lightest occasional foxing (chiefly confined to endpapers), contents remain overwhelmingly clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, very good+. Tim Bobbin (pseudonym for John Collier [1708-1786]) was an early English satirist and caricaturist. .

Black’s Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 35

Catalogue: Literary Criticism & Biography

Keywords: humour; lancashirel; british humour;

BOBBIN, Tim.

The miscellaneous works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. Containing his view of the Lancashire dialect, with large additions and improvements; and a glossary; also, his poem of The flying dragon, and the man of Heaton. Together with other whimsical amusements in prose and verse. To which is added, a life of the author by Richard Townley.

London: printed for T. and J. Allman; and for Wilson and Sons (also the printer), York, 1818. 12mo. xxxiii[i], 216pp, 10 plates. Original blue paper boards, re-backed using old materials. printed paper spine label. Binding rubbed and lightly soiled. DISCOVER: Cambridge U, Glasgow U, Chethams.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 45328

Bobbin, Tim (John Collier)

The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin Esq. , Containing His View of the Lancashire Dialect, with Large Additions and Improvements; Also, His Poem of the Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton; Together with Other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse

Manchester, J. Slack, 1818. Hardcover. 226pp. Full patterned calf stamped in gold on the front and the back panel, spine elaborately tooled in blind with black label lettered in gold affixed. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and nineteen inserted plates. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Napier Lawrence, Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate to front pastedown endpaper. Bound with Plebeian Politics, or the Principles and Practices of certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs Vulgarly Called Warrites. Printed and published by J. Slack, Manchester, 1818. 83pp. Frontispiece and six inserted plates. Mild edge wear else a fine copy. ; Octavo. .

Parigi BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 22022

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE, HUMOR, SATIRE, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND

John Collier

The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. Containing His View of the Lancashire Dialect, with Large Additions and Improvements: Also, His Poem of the Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton; Together with Other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse. With Plebeian Politics

London, Cowdroy and Slack, 182. Leather. A humorous collection of works from satirist John Collier. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and spine decoration. This copy has been professionally rebacked, with the original spine laid down. With twenty-seven illustrative plates and frontispiece of the author. With a Life of the Author. This is the life of John Collier, not a fictionalised account of Tim Bobbin. John Collier, 1708-1786, was a satirist and caricaturist. His motto was apparently 'Laugh, and be fat', which he lived up to heartily. The binding is tight and firm. There is slight edge wear to the extremities. Internally the pages have some browning with foxing only prominent to the first and last pages and the plates as usual. There are a few faded tidemarks to some plates. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: LTH18-C-11

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: Collier Caricaturist Bobbin Satire Caricaturist None