Author: not given (Thomas James Mathias); Goeorge Chalmers, arranged and printed by Mr Owen Junior assisted by Mr Jasper Hargrave
Title: A Translation of the Passages From Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Writers, Quoted in the Prefaces and Notes to the Pursuits of Literature, a Poem in Four Dialogues & Epistle; Chalmeriana; Prose on Various Occasions
Description: T Becket; T Hurst, London, 1798. First Edition, Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Three works bound together in marbled end-papers but is missing covers and spine. Binding of the text-block is sound and pages are clean. The works consist of: "A Translation of the Passages From Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Writers, Quoted in the Prefaces and Notes to the Pursuits of Literature, a Poem in Four Dialogues, To Which is Prefixed a Prefatory Epistle Intened as a General Vindication of the Pursuits of Literature, fromvarious Remarks which have been made upon that Work" The Third Edition printed for T Becket, Pall Mall, London in 1798. ; "Chalmeriana or a Collection of Papers Literary and Political, Entitled, Letters, Verses &c. Occasioned by Reading a Late Heavy Supplemental Apology for the Believers in Shaekespeare Papers, Reprinted from the Morning Chronicle in which They First Appeared - Collection the First - " includes in foreword abridged "The Fable of the Bee and the Spider" from Swift's Battle of the books and No. I dated Sept 4 1799 through to No, XI and No. XII dated Nov. 29 1799, Printed for T Becket, Pall Mall London by D Jacques, Lower Soane Street, Chelsea in 1800. "Prose on Various Occasions, Literary and Political, Collected from the News-Papers", Printed for T Hurst, Paternoster-Row, London by Jacques and Vo. Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea and consisting of: Three Letters of the Pursuits of Literature for the Morning Herald May and June 1799; An Account of the Literary Opera called Semiramide in Londra, as it was performed Under the Direction of Sir Joseph Banks in Soho Square; An Account of the Sale of a Literary Vessell Extraordinary, named the Rvenge, at aLloyd's Coffee House (Morning Chronicle); The Order of the Procession observed in the Literary Funeral of the late George Chalmers; The Apologist and the Sovereign or Words of Comfort, in a Letter from Barbador; The Apparition of the Ghost of the late George Chalmers; The Letters, Political and Literary, of Laurentius Musambertius occasioned by the Appearanceof the Poem called The Soverereign by Charles Small Pybus; The Orgies of Thespis or the Mysteries of Parnassus and Castle Howar in a letter from Petronius on the Earl of Carlisle's Tragedy of The Step-Mother; Barbadoro's Third Letter to William Pitt; An Account of the Imperial Concert at the Great Room at the Opera House on April 23 1800; Some Account of an Unpublished State-Work in MS in Prose and Verse, entitled "The Imperial Metamorphosis" in 1801. Printed for T Hurst, Paternoster-Row, London by Jacques and Co. Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea in 1801 Third edition of first work and first edition of second and third works. lxxv, 104, viii, 94, viii, 112.. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name in ink at front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05221101064. ISBN: 0715358650

Keywords: BZDB4 Literary Biography & Literary Commentary & Criticism; British History; Poetry; Newspapers. not given (Thomas James Mathias); Goeorge Chalmers, arranged and printed by Mr Owen Junior assisted by Mr Jasper Hargrave A Translation of the Passages From G


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