Author: Joseph Browne
Title: The Circus: Or, British Olympicks. A Satyr on the Ring in Hide-Park.
Description: London, [Henry Hills], 1709 . Paperback. The Henry Hills pirate edition of Joseph Browne's very scarce work of satirical poetry, taking aim at the fashionable elite of London. A piracy of the first edition, published in the same year as the first edition.Identified as the pirate edition via the presence of the Henry Hills advertisement to the final leaf. ESTC T30773Anonymously authored, but thought to be the work of Joseph Browne, this work critiques London's elite and aristocracy, who frequent Hyde Park's 'Ring' as a social destination. Browne uses the metaphor of the Circus and Olympic Games to mock the vanity and superficiality of the aristocracy. Unbound, as issued. Two small worm holes to the tail of each leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only one or two spots. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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