[CORY (William)]:

Ionica.

London, George Allen..., 1891. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 8vo, 170 x 105 mms., pp. vi, 216, with errata slip tipped in before Contents page, small binder's ticket (slightly defective) on lower margin of front paste-odwn end-paper, contemporary light blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, which is sunned; corners slightly worn, top and base of spine slightly worn, but a good copy, with notes in pencil on the front paste-down end-paper - "Some of these verses have decidedly vicious tone about them" - and, on the top margin of the Contents page, "There are five great poems. There are good verses. The rest are negligible." With ticks to indicate which of the first two categories are meant. The poet and schoolmaster William Johnson Cory (1823–1892) was an assistant master at Eton for over 25 years, and his Lucretilis, was used at Eton for 100 years. One of the poems ticked as "great" is probably his best-known, "Heraclitus," a meditation on the death of Heraclitus.

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Keywords: poetry education literature

COTTIN (Sophie Ristaud):

Elisabeth, ou Les Exilés de Sibérie. Nouvelle Edition, Augmentee de Notes Historiques et Géographiques. Par C. Gros. Avec un Frontispice [sic].

A Londres: Chez G. et W. B. Whittaker..., 1824. 12mo, 158 x 94 mms., pp. v [vi blank], 196, 8 (adverts), engraved frontispiece, by Springsguth after Corbould, contemporary plain green calf, bordered in blind on covers, spine gilt in compartments, red leather label; front board slightly sprung with consequent cracking of upper and lower front joint, but a good copy with a presentation inscription mounted on verso of front free end-paper: "2e Class/ 1eme Division./ Prix remporté par/ Madelle Sarah Shipson./ Brimingham le 9 Juine 1830./ [illegible]." Elisabeth was first published in 1806 in Paris, just before Cottin's death in 1807. The first British imprint of a French edition was by Longman in 1808. Whittaker published his French edition in 1818. Copac locates copies of this 1824 edition in TCD, Bodleian, LSE, National Library of Wales.

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Keywords: fiction scholarship literature

COTTIN (Sophie Ristaud):

Mathilde, ou Memoires tires de l'Histoire des Croisades

A Londres, Chez M. Pletier..., 1805. FIRST LONDON EDITION. 6 volumes. 12mo, 168 x 91 mms., pp. 244; 264; 260; 272; 248; 238, recently rebound in quarter calf, red morocco labels, marbled boards, with the bookplate of Weston Library on the front paste-down end-paper of volumes 1 and 3. Cottin (1773 - 1807) made a reputation for herself with her first novel, Claire d'Albe, first published in 1799, a few years after the death of her wealthy husband. Mathilde was published in Paris the same year, and both publications have an introduction by the editor, J. Michaud. "Le roman de Mathilde participe de l'histoire et revêt dès le début d'héroïques allures. Le sujet étant emprunté à la première croisade, l'action se passe vers la fin du xiiie siècle. Presque aussitôt apparaissent, diversement abaissés ou agrandis, des personnages historiques : Philippe-Auguste et Cœur de Lion, les deux chefs rivaux de l'entreprise, Lusignan, roi de Jérusalem, le vénérable Guillaume, archevêque de Tyr, Josselin de Montmorency, Saladin, l'adversaire des croisés, etc. De grands caractères, de hauts faits d'armes, des idées chevaleresques, le contraste des mœurs des chrétiens et des Arabes, le luxe de l'Occident opposé à celui de l'Orient, la pompe et l'enthousiasme de la religion, forment autant d'accessoires qui enrichissent et rehaussent le sujet de Mathilde" (Widipaedia).

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Keywords: fiction French literature women

COWPER (William):

Poems by William Cowper, Esq. With Sketch of his Life, by the Rev. T. Greatheed.

Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin & Co. and Thomas Tegg London, 1846. 12mo, 142 x 87 mms., pp. viii, 423 {424 blank], engraved frontispiece (by Freeman after Corbauld), additional engraved title-page, attractively bound in green morocco, gilt decoration on covers, gilt spine in compartments, all edges gilt; spine and joints slightly worn, corners a bit rubbed, but a very good copy. The poems here are the same as those published in the 1802 printing (Russell 89). The biographer, Samuel Greatheed preached a sermon on Cowper's death on 18 May 1800. His edition was first published in 1819 (Russell 126), with a frontispiece portrait of Cower, and reprinted in 1820, 1821, 1823, and 1833, each time with some modifications of the text or the arrangement of the material Copac locates a copy in the BL with a date for this imprint of 1845, and this 1846 printing, which is otherwise unrecorded, is apparently a straightforward reprint with a new title-page and date.

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Keywords: poetry binding literature

COX (David):

The Young Artist's Companion or Drawing Book of Studies in Landscape Painting. With Thirteen Coloured Plates.

London: S. and J. Fuller, 1825 Oblong folio, 262 x 213 mms., pp. 15 [16 blank], engraved coloured frontispiece and 12 other coloured plates at end of volume, 39 uncoloured plates, 12 aquatint plates, contemporary half roan, marbled boards (very worn), leather label on front cover; previous bookseller's note stating "Replacement title/ Lacking one Plate," plates a bit soiled and foxed at extremities, front hinge broken with cover just holding on, a fair copy only, but he colour plates are fine. The artist and landscape painter David Cox (1783 - 1859) produced a number of manuals to teach drawing, so many in fact, that Stephen Wildman in his ODNB article on Cox affirms that the books were so influential that "they had the unforeseen consequence of training a whole generation of amateurs to imitate his style." His reputation had its ups and downs, but he was often compared to Constable and Turner. In the late 1850s there were several exhibitions of his works, leading the Art Journal to remark, "We have sometimes heard people say they cannot understand Cox [and] pity that they could not inhale the sweet breath of his hayfields and purple heaths, nor see the rushing of his summer showers, nor repose with him under the shadows of his thick umbrageous elms and his graceful ash-trees. Not understand Cox!, why there is hardly a peasant in the land who goes to his daily toil by the hedgerows, or in the fields, who could not thoroughly feel the truth and beauty of his landscapes."

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Book number: 9388

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: art painting prose

CRABBE (George):

Poems...in Two Volumes. Fourth Edition.

London: Printed for J. Hatchard..., 1809. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, pp. xxxi [xxxii Contents], 127 [128 blank]; [iv], 223 [224 printer's imprint], contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco label; lacks half-titles. Bareham and Gattrell A10.

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Book number: 5118

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry tales literature

CRABBE (George):

Tales of the Hall. A New Edition.

London: John Murray..., 1819. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, pp. xxiv, 326 [327 blank, 328 colophon]; viii, 353 [354 colophon, 355 - 356 adverts for Byron's works], including half-titles, with 4 additional pages of adverts for books published by T. Hamilton at end of volume 1, original boards, uncut, paper labels (flaked and worn); spines a bit worn and covers holding on by cords. Bareham and Gatrell A32.

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Keywords: poetry narrative literature

CRAIGHEAD (George):

The Nature and Place of Hell Discovered: or, a Fair Conjecture that the Sun is the only Tartaros, or Receptacle of the Damned; and that there is both Everlasting Material Fire there to torture the Body, and Inward Sorrow to torment the Soul. In Answer to a late, but atheistical Pamphlet, entituled, Heaven open to all Men; or, a Treatise solidly proving from Scripture and Reason, that without unsettling the Practice of Religion all Men who now are, or hereafter will be upon Earth shall be saved, or made finally happy. By the Rev. George Craighead, Late Minister of the Gospel in Virginia (now in London) and author of the Blow at modern Crutches.

Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and sold by Gideon Crawford in the Parliament-Close, and other Booksellers. MDCCXLVIII. 1748. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [vi], 36, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, red leather label; corners a bit worn but a very good copy. In his survey of matters infernal, the historian of ideas Damian Frank Pearson notes in his study that George Craighead and another thinker, Tobias Swinden, contended that hell must be in the Sun: "Tobias Swinden (1726) and George Craighead (1748) both argued that Hell could not be in the earth as there would be no room for all the dead and not enough air and fuel to keep the fires burning for eternity, and Hell had been created to confine the fallen angels after the revolt in heaven. The location of Hell could not be in the earth. Their place for Hell was within the confines of the Sun, with the sun-spots being the gateways to the eternal fires. Craighead also challenged what he saw as the heretical and atheist views of Abraham Oakes (1740) and Charles Povey (1740), who both argued that hell had no place at all but was a state of mind borne by the disembodied spirit after death" (Descending Caves: Descent Narratives and the Subterranean Science and Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680-1830, doctoral thesis, 2018, p. 120). No doubt, George Craighead's Nature and Place of Hell Discovered (1748) will be an adornment to any collection of books on underworlds or dystopias -- or, indeed, on early astronomical theory. This is the first and only edition of the work, ESTC T78018, the database finding only two copies in Britain (British Library and the National Library of Scotland), and only four copies in the United States (Huntington Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Library of Virginia, and the Union Theological Seminary). The ESTC locates no copies elsewhere.

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Book number: 10192

Catalogue: Hell

Keywords: hell pseudo-science prose

[?CRAMER (John or Gabriel)]:

Thesaurus Secretorum Curiosorum in quo Curiosa non Solum ad Omnes Corporis Humani cùm internos, tùm externos Morbos curandos, sed etiam ad Cutis, Faciei, aliarumque Partium ornatum, formam, nitorem, & elegantiam conciliandos continentur Secreta. Quibus Insuper Quamplurima Varii Generis non minus Curiosa, quam utilia addita sunt Secreta. Cume Indice Partium, Capitum, & Materiarum qua in toto Opere continentur.

Coloniae Allobrogum Sumptibus Societatis. 1709. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 212 x 127 mms., pp.[xvi], 552, 653 - 668, title-page in red and black with"E. Libris Rd. Hamilton" on the top margin, recently rebound in half dark brown calf, morocco label, marbled boards; title-page a bit soiled, but a good copy. The attribution of authorship to Gabriel or John Cramer is found in Alexander Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary. Compilations of this sort, consisting of alchemy, medicine, folk remedies, magic, probably haven't lost their popularity over the ages, with the emphasis often on magic and secrecy. This one promises to examine the whole human body, with reference to the treatment of internal and external diseases. The empirical medical researchers in the 17th century in Britain, such as Harvey and Descartes, were moving away from chemical and spagiric treatments of illness. but quack handbooks did not lose their popularity.

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Book number: 8911

Catalogue: Anthology

Keywords: anthology medicine prose

CRAWFURD (George):

The History of the Shire of Renfrew. A Genealogical History of the Royal House of Stewart, with a Genealogical Account of the Illustrious House of Hanover, from the time of their intermarriage with the Stewart family, to the present period. Also, A Genealogical History of the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Renfrew. And, An exact Survey of the County; together with the present State of the public Buildings, Manufactures, different Religions, &c. &c. Collected From the Public Records, ancient Chartularies, the Works of the best Historians, &c. Brought from the earliest Accounts to the Year MDCCX, by Mr. George Crawfurd: And continued to the present Period, by William Semple.

Paisley: Printed and Sold by Alex Wier...and by the Author, 1782. Small 4to, 208 x 182 mms., pp. viii, vi, 108, 334, 5 [6 blank], contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; tear in 2F1 (pp. 221 - 222) with loss of seven words on p. 221, very slight marginal worming of last few leaves, top and base of front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, binding a little dried. Crawfurd (c. 1695 - 1748) published this work in Edinburgh in 1710. Another edition of Semple's edition was published in 1818. He was employed by Simon Fraser to find support for Fraser's claim to the barony of Lovat, and though he carried out a lot of research for Fraser, he was never paid for it, even though Crawfurd's research was directly responsible for the success of Fraser's claim.

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Book number: 6395

Catalogue: History

Keywords: history genealogy prose Scottish Enlightenment

CREECH (William):

Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces: with Letters, containing a Comparative View of the Modes of Living, Arts, Commerce, Literature, Manners, &c. of Edinburgh, at Different Periods. To which is prefixed an Account of his Life.

Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for John Fairbairn (Successor to Mr Creech), 1815. 8vo, pp. [xl], 372, 4 pages adverts at end, engraved portrait of Creech as frontispiece, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, marbled boards; joints cracked, spine rubbed and starting to split on lower portion. Creech (1745 - 1815) published this first in 1791 under the pseudonym Theophrastus, and this expanded version includes new essays.

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Book number: 5115

Catalogue: Anthology

Keywords: anthology essays prose Scottish Enlightenment

CRESCIMBENI (Giovanni Mario):

Comentarj intorno all' istoria Della Poesia Italiana ne' quali si ragion d'ogni genere e specie di quella scritti da Gio. Mario Crescimbeni Ripublicati da T. J. Mathias.

Londra: Presso T. Becket...dalla Stamperia di Bulmer e Co..., 1803. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo, 160 x 99 mms., pp. lv [lvi blank], vii [viii blank], 208 [209 - 212 index]; [ii] 3] 4 - 288 [289 - 292 index]; [ii] [3] - 270 [271 - 273 index, 274 blank], engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary straight grain blue morocco, gilt roll border on each cover, spines ornately gilt in compartments, blue morocco labels, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers; rear paste-down end-paper in volume three with what looks and feels like a white natural flaw in the marbling process, but a fine and attractive set. The Italian literary critic and poet Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni (1663 – 1728) published Istoria Della Volgar Poesia in 1698 and his Commentarii Intorno alla sua Istoria della Volgar Poesia in 1702 - 1711. The "Avvertimento" to the present volumes states, "L'Edizione seguita nella ristampa di questi scelti Commentarj è intitolata; 'L'Istoria della Volgar Poesia Scritta da Gio. Marion Crescimbini...nella Seconda Impressione, fatta l'anno 1714..., e in questa Terza publicata unitamente co i Commentarj ....In Venezia. Presso Lorenzo Basegio.' In Sei Volume in 4to." Mathias's introduction "Ai Poetici ed Eruditi Lettori Inglesi" occupies ight pages before the contents. Thomas James Mathias (1753/4 - 1835) was perhaps a better Italian scholar than as an English satirist, though his Pursuits of Literature, or, What you will, published in 1794 was a popular book for many years. He began publishing editions of Italian literature in 1802 and moved to Italy permanently in 1817.

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Book number: 9190

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CRESCIMBINI (Giovanni Mario):

L'Istoria della Volgar Poesia Scritta da Giovan Mario Crescdimbeni Canonico di S. Maria in Cosmedin, e Custode d'Aracadia. In questa seconda impression,e fatta d'ordine RAagunnanza degli Arcadi, corretta, risformata, e notabilmente ampliata. All'Altezza Serenissma, del Principe Antonio di Parma.

In Roma, Nella Stamperia d'Antonio de' Rossi all Piazza di Cerli, 1714 4to, 212 mx 156, pp. [xii], 487 [488 - 502 index], engraved vignette on title-page, 6 historiated initials for each of the six chapters, contemporary marginal note in ink on page 90, contemporary vellum, yapp edges lettered in ink on spine; some worming and staining to top margin of a2 and a5, minor worming on rear paste-down end-paper, but a very good copy. The Italian poet and literary critic Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni (1663 - 1728) was one of the founders of the Accademia dell'Arcadia in1690. He became general guardian after the expulsion of Gian Vincenzo Gravina , the other founder of the Academy. Gravina had in mind a very ambitious cultural renewal project for the academy, but the other Arcadians preferred the more moderate proposal of Crescimbeni himself, which aimed to restore literary good taste against the baroque degenerations of the previous century. Crescimbeni introduced Francesco Petrarca as a literary model and committed himself to making the Academy an important circle of men of letters and educated men throughout Italy . He was among the first to trace (also through the collection of testimonies, documents and authoritative sources) a historical profile of Italian poetry. The present work was first published in 1698 as Bellezza della volgar poesia, which is made up of eight dialogues containing explications of the aethetic principles of the Academy.

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Keywords: poetry History prose

CROLL (Oswald):

Philosophy Reformed & Improved The I. Discovering the Great and Deep Mysteries of Nature: By that Learned Chymist & Physitian Osw. Crollius. The Other III. Discovering the Wonderfull Mysteries of the Creation, by Paracelsus: Being His Philosophy to the Athenians. Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of Learning and true Knowledge. 8vo, 158 x 98 mms., pp. [xxiv], 160, 171 - 226 [text and registration continuous], engraved portrait of Paracelsus as frontispiece, late nineteenth-century ownership markings on verso of title-page. London: Printed by M. S[immonds] for Lodowick Lloyd, at the Castle in Cornhill, 1657. 8vo, 158 x 98 mms., pp. [xxiv], 160, 171 - 226 [text and registration continuous], engraved portrait of Paracelsus as frontispiece, late nineteenth-century ownership markings on verso of title-page. [BOUND WITH:] Three Books of Philosophy Written to the Athenians: By that famous, most excellent, and approved Philosopher & Phisitian Aureal. Philip. Theoph. Bombast. of Hohenheim, (commonly called) Paracelsus. With an Explicatory Table alphabetically digested; wherein the hard words that are found in this Authour, and in the forging Preface of Osw: Crollius, are Explained. Done into English for the increase of the knowledge and fear of God. By a young Seeker of truth and holines [sic]. London: Printed by M. S. for L: Lloyd at the Castle in Cornhill, 1657. 8vo, pp. [ii], 70, with an inscription and drawing on the verso of the last leaf.

London: London: Printed by M. S. for L: Lloyd at the Castle in Cornhill, 1657. 1657. The renowned alchemist Oswald Croll or Crollius (1563-1609) was "a professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing books and influencing thinkers of his day towards viewing chemistry and alchemy as two separate fields. … Croll received his doctorate in medicine in 1582 at Marburg, then continued studies at Heidelberg, Strasburg, and Geneva. After working as a tutor, he arrived in Prague in 1597. He remained there for two years, and again from 1602 until his death. There, through Rudolf II, he came into contact with other alchemical writers such as Edward Kelley" (Wikipedia). It was in 1583 at Prague that Edward Kelley (1555-1597/8) had been "appointed alchemist to the emperor, Rudolph II" (Oxford DNB). "Croll died suddenly in 1609. His reputation and influence grew after his death, and was noted by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. In 1618, Croll was deemed one of alchemy's heroes in Johann Daniel Mylius' Basilica Philosophica" (Wikipedia). BOUND WITH: The renowned alchemist Oswald Croll or Crollius (1563-1609) was "a professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing books and influencing thinkers of his day towards viewing chemistry and alchemy as two separate fields. … Croll received his doctorate in medicine in 1582 at Marburg, then continued studies at Heidelberg, Strasburg, and Geneva. After working as a tutor, he arrived in Prague in 1597. He remained there for two years, and again from 1602 until his death. There, through Rudolf II, he came into contact with other alchemical writers such as Edward Kelley" (Wikipedia). It was in 1583 at Prague that Edward Kelley (1555-1597/8) had been "appointed alchemist to the emperor, Rudolph II" (Oxford DNB). "Croll died suddenly in 1609. His reputation and influence grew after his death, and was noted by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. In 1618, Croll was deemed one of alchemy's heroes in Johann Daniel Mylius' Basilica Philosophica" (Wikipedia). Not only was Croll an associate of the famous British alchemist Edward Kelley, but he also was a correspondent of the female Latin poet Elizabeth Jane Weston (bap. 1581?, d. 1612), who became Kelley's stepdaughter when Weston's mother married for the second time. After Croll's death, large portions of his work were translated by Richard Russell, who was one half of an esteemed two-brother team of alchemists and translators of alchemical works, Richard Russell (d. circa 1697) and William Russell (1634-1696), the latter having been "chemist-in-ordinary to Charles II" (Oxford DNB). It was Croll's Bazilica Chymica (1670) that Richard translated first, but he did so in secret, concealing his authorship of the translation for many years. The present book, ESTC R208771, is the first appearance in book form of Croll's work in the English language: remarkably, the ESTC finds some copies in the British Isles and some in North America but not one copy held by a library of continental Europe. 8vo, pp. [ii], 70, with an inscription and drawing on the verso of the last leaf. The renowned alchemist Oswald Croll or Crollius (1563-1609) was "a professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing books and influencing thinkers of his day towards viewing chemistry and alchemy as two separate fields. … Croll received his doctorate in medicine in 1582 at Marburg, then continued studies at Heidelberg, Strasburg, and Geneva. After working as a tutor, he arrived in Prague in 1597. He remained there for two years, and again from 1602 until his death. There, through Rudolf II, he came into contact with other alchemical writers such as Edward Kelley" (Wikipedia). It was in 1583 at Prague that Edward Kelley (1555-1597/8) had been "appointed alchemist to the emperor, Rudolph II" (Oxford DNB). "Croll died suddenly in 1609. His reputation and influence grew after his death, and was noted by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. In 1618, Croll was deemed one of alchemy's heroes in Johann Daniel Mylius' Basilica Philosophica" (Wikipedia). Not only was Croll an associate of the famous British alchemist Edward Kelley, but he also was a correspondent of the female Latin poet Elizabeth Jane Weston (bap. 1581?, d. 1612), who became Kelley's stepdaughter when Weston's mother married for the second time. After Croll's death, large portions of his work were translated by Richard Russell, who was one half of an esteemed two-brother team of alchemists and translators of alchemical works, Richard Russell (d. circa 1697) and William Russell (1634-1696), the latter having been "chemist-in-ordinary to Charles II" (Oxford DNB). It was Croll's Bazilica Chymica (1670) that Richard translated first, but he did so in secret, concealing his authorship of the translation for many years. The present book, ESTC R208771, is the first appearance in book form of Croll's work in the English language: remarkably, the ESTC finds some copies in the British Isles and some in North America but not one copy held by a library of continental Europe.

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Book number: 10051

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Philosophy mysticism prose

[CROLY (George)]:

May Fair. In Four Cantos.

London: William H. Ainsworth..., 1827. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 178 x 107 mms., pp. [iv], 194 [195 - 196 adverts dated May, 1827], original boards, uncut, paper label on spine, which is a little defective with some loss of paper. The writer and Church of England Clergyman George Croly (1780 - 1860) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College; he moved to London in 1810 and pursued a literary career. His successful poem, Paris in 1815 (1817) elicited a lampoon from Byron in Don Juan but was approvingly reviewed by John Croker Wilson. May Fair was reviewed in the Quarterly Review for 1828, along with several other poems. The reviewer comments, "'May Fair' is a playful satire on the manners of the time - displaying talents quite equal, in our opinion, to the 'Advice to Julia' [by Henry Luttrell] - though not, we rather suspect, written by an author so intimately conversant with the scenes touched on.... We hope the author will in his next performance take care to be as lively and entertaining as he appears in the lines we have quoted, without exhibiting any of that ill-nature, and, we must add, that ill-breeding, of which it would be more easy than ornamental to afford specimens from this duodecimo. He owes it to himself to set to work with a more of plan, and to polish with a great deal more care; and if he does so, we venture to promise him a place among our comic satirists."

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Book number: 8247

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry satire literature