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The Anti-Gallican; Or Standard of British Loyalty, Religion and Liberty; Including a Collection of the Principal Papers, Tracts, Speeches, Poems, and Songs, That Have Been Published on the Threatened Invasion: Together with Many Original Pieces. . .
London, Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1804. Hardcover. /. Volume I, nos. 1-12 (all published). Octavo. 496 pp + iv pp index, continously paged. 3 folding plates (2 hand coloured, including the frontispiece). Old calf sides. Rebacked in brown cloth with old backstrip laid down, new label. Inner hinges reinforced with cloth, new free endpapers added (old ones still present). Sides rubbed, pitted, bit worn to corners; still VG in appearance externally. Text has only occasional foxing, tanning, but very good indeed, clean & unworn. An anti-Napoleonic period ical full of patriotic and anti-French verse, song, and prose. Marvelous hand-coloured frontispiece (trimmed right to the outer edge of the image) captioned "The Upshot of the Invasion, or Bony in a fair way for Davey's Locker" and depicting Napoleo n in flight from a naval disaster, running across the surface of the ocean, and held up on one leg by a grinning merman, poor Bony seemingly unaware that he is about to be speared in the ribs with a flag staff whose banner reads "Invincible". The ot her colour folding plate depicts Napoleon and staff revelling at dinner, a servant delivering what appears to be a cannon ball on a plate, the caption reading "O my Johnny, My Johnny, Let a Few of Us Over. O my Johnny, Johnny my deary. To taste your Beef Pudding & Beery." and the title reading "The Frenchman's Dream". The uncoloured plate is a bit rude, depicting Napoleon vomiting, his pals none too pleased with the dead frogs on top of a barrel they are sniffing and attempting to eat. One fellow has given up and is chewing on his pistol, a woman and child lie prostate in the shadows. A broadside lying on the ground reads "O the Roast Beef of Old England". The caption reads "John Bull transported; or the Case alter'd." A very scarce book .
Offered for US$ 550.00 by: Steven Temple Books (ABAC/ILAB) - Book number: 9939
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