Author: SAMMELBAND
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Description: [WOLCOT (John)]: Advice to the Future Laureat: An Ode, by Peter Pindar, Esq. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson's-Head…, 1790. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 237 x 182 mms., pp. [iv], 18 [19 – 20 adverts]; text a bit foxed. [WOLCOT (John)]: A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest, and Affecting Espistle to those Literary Colossuses, the Reviewers, by Peter Pindar, Esq. A New Edition. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, No. 46 Fleet-Street, 1787. 4to, 237 x 182 mms., pp. [3] 4 – 10 [11 – 12 adverts]; some foxing of first few leaves. [WOLCOT (John]: [Subjects for Painters. By Peter Pindar, Esq. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson's-Head…,1789. 4to, 237 x 182 mms., pp. [iv], 105 [106 blank]; imperfect: lacking title-page, "To the Reader," and BOLUS (Whirligig) [sic]: The Quackade. A Mock Heroic Poem, in Five Cantos. London: Printed by Thomas Syringe at the Cock and Mortar…, and Sold by M. Cooper…, 1752. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 237 x 182 mms., pp. 83 [84 blank]; title-page heavily soiled, last leaf soiled, some foxing. [GEDDES (Alexander): Lines Written in the Album at Cossey-Hall, Norfolk, the Seat of Sir William Jerningham, Bart. August 4th, 1765. 4to, 237 x 182 mms., pp. [3] 4 – 8, drop-title only, with inscription in contemporary hand, "By Dr. Alexander Geddes." [BING (John)]: The Commemoration of Handel. A Poem. London: Printed by H. Goldney, Sold by T. Cadell…, 1786. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 237 x 182 mms., pp [ii], 41 [42 blank], inscribed on title-page, "To Dr. Geddes, From the author John Ring, Esq" and with a further inscription, "By John Bing Esqr." below last word of title; last two leaves with natural flaw in paper slightly affecting two letters on the last leaf, whose fore-edge has been repaired. [?GEDDES (Alexander)]: Ode, Congratulatory and Expository, To the Right Hon. William Pitt, M. P. &c. By W-ll—m W—b—r---e, Esq. M. P. 4to, 237 x 182 mms., pp.[4]; drop title-only, slightly soiled. Seven items in one volume, bound in 20th century hard-grain green morocco, gilt spine. John Ring (1752-1821), vaccination pioneer, evidently admired the Scottish Bible scholar and poet Geddes (1737-1802), publishing after Geddes's death a translation of one of his Latin poems. Geddes, not William Wilberforce, is suggested as the real author of the satirical ode to William Pitt in ESTC, though ESTC's attribution of the Lines written in the Album to Jerningham himself is called into question by the inscription in this copy . ESTC traces eight copies of Ring's work, nine of the Lines, and one of the Pitt lampoon. Ring's poem is a lengthy tribute to Charles Burney's commemoration of Handel that took place in Westminster Abbey, in May and June of 1784. This appears to be his only published poem in English, though he did contribute verses in Latin to periodical. The poem was reprinted in 1819.

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