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	DYER (JOHN): Poems. Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome. III. The Fleece, in Four Books. London: Printed by John Hughs For Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley..., 1761. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 9 - 188, 3 full-page engraved plates, D3 signed D2, contemporary calf, gilt spine, morocco label; upper and lower front joint slightly cracked, but a very good copy. Writing to Sir David Dalrymple on 3 February 1760, Horace Walpole remarked that he regarded "The Fleece" as a "very insipid poem.... I could never get through [it]." Dr. Johnson echoed his sentiments: "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets?" A more sympathetic modern critic describes it as "one of the most interesting of the formal georgics.... The aim of all this effort was to show the work as part of a larger pattern, natural or moral. It may seem ridiculous, or even objectionable, that poets should have felt a need to dignify labour in this way. But where have we a comparable poetry of turbines or nuclear reactors? Eighteenth-century georgics served a valuable function by combining poetical pleasure with enough information to allow intelligent readers to take an interest in manufacture and trade, and enter into their aims with patriotic enthusiasm" (Alastair Fowler: A History of English Literature [1987]). GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 4352 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	PHILIPS (AMBROSE): Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and other Original Poems, With Translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson..., 1765. 8vo, pp. [xii], 174, disbound. This title was first used by Philips (1674 - 1749) in 1748; this is the second edition, and the text has been entirely re-set. GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 91.36 \| JP¥ 8071] Book number: 4444 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	THEOCRITUS. The Idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin's Discourse upon Pastorals. Made English by Mr. Creech. The Second Edition. To which is prefix'd, The Life of Theocritus. By Basil Kennet. London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1713. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [ii], iv, 105 [106 - 108 Contents, 109 - 112 adverts], engraved portrait of Theocritus as frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; rear cover slightly wormed, but a very good and attractive copy. With the armorial bookplate "Rolle" on the front paste-down end-paper, possibly that of John Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenson (1750 - 1842), hero of The Rolliad. Creech's translation of Theocritus was first published in 1684, just two years after his very successful translation of Lucretius. Straus, p. 221. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 3470 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	THEOCRITUS. The Idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin's Discourse upon Pastorals. Made English by Mr. Creech. The Second Edition. To which is prefix'd, The Life of Theocritus. By Basil Kennet. London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1713. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [ii], iv, 105 [106 - 108 Contents, 109 - 112 adverts], engraved portrait of Theocritus as frontispiece, contemporary calf; upper joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped. With the autograph and date of Henry Samuel Partridge (1772 - 1858), Magdalen College, Oxford, 23 January 1802, on the front paste-down end-paper. Creech's translation of Theocritus was first published in 1684, just two years after his very successful translation of Lucretius. Straus, p. 221. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 \| JP¥ 32283] Book number: 5151 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.

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	DYER (JOHN): Poems. Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome. III. The Fleece, in Four Books. London: Printed by John Hughs For Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley..., 1761. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 9 - 188, 3 full-page engraved plates, D3 signed D2, contemporary calf, gilt spine, morocco label; upper and lower front joint slightly cracked, but a very good copy. Writing to Sir David Dalrymple on 3 February 1760, Horace Walpole remarked that he regarded "The Fleece" as a "very insipid poem.... I could never get through [it]." Dr. Johnson echoed his sentiments: "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets?" A more sympathetic modern critic describes it as "one of the most interesting of the formal georgics.... The aim of all this effort was to show the work as part of a larger pattern, natural or moral. It may seem ridiculous, or even objectionable, that poets should have felt a need to dignify labour in this way. But where have we a comparable poetry of turbines or nuclear reactors? Eighteenth-century georgics served a valuable function by combining poetical pleasure with enough information to allow intelligent readers to take an interest in manufacture and trade, and enter into their aims with patriotic enthusiasm" (Alastair Fowler: A History of English Literature [1987]). GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 4352 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	PHILIPS (AMBROSE): Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and other Original Poems, With Translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson..., 1765. 8vo, pp. [xii], 174, disbound. This title was first used by Philips (1674 - 1749) in 1748; this is the second edition, and the text has been entirely re-set. GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 91.36 \| JP¥ 8071] Book number: 4444 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	THEOCRITUS. The Idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin's Discourse upon Pastorals. Made English by Mr. Creech. The Second Edition. To which is prefix'd, The Life of Theocritus. By Basil Kennet. London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1713. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [ii], iv, 105 [106 - 108 Contents, 109 - 112 adverts], engraved portrait of Theocritus as frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; rear cover slightly wormed, but a very good and attractive copy. With the armorial bookplate "Rolle" on the front paste-down end-paper, possibly that of John Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenson (1750 - 1842), hero of The Rolliad. Creech's translation of Theocritus was first published in 1684, just two years after his very successful translation of Lucretius. Straus, p. 221. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 3470 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	THEOCRITUS. The Idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin's Discourse upon Pastorals. Made English by Mr. Creech. The Second Edition. To which is prefix'd, The Life of Theocritus. By Basil Kennet. London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1713. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [ii], iv, 105 [106 - 108 Contents, 109 - 112 adverts], engraved portrait of Theocritus as frontispiece, contemporary calf; upper joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped. With the autograph and date of Henry Samuel Partridge (1772 - 1858), Magdalen College, Oxford, 23 January 1802, on the front paste-down end-paper. Creech's translation of Theocritus was first published in 1684, just two years after his very successful translation of Lucretius. Straus, p. 221. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 \| JP¥ 32283] Book number: 5151 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.