Author: John Collier
Title: The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. Containing His View of the Lancashire Dialect, with Large Additions and Improvements: Also, His Poem of the Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton; Together with Other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse. With Plebeian Politics
Description: London, Cowdroy and Slack, 182. Leather. A humorous collection of works from satirist John Collier. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and spine decoration. This copy has been professionally rebacked, with the original spine laid down. With twenty-seven illustrative plates and frontispiece of the author. With a Life of the Author. This is the life of John Collier, not a fictionalised account of Tim Bobbin. John Collier, 1708-1786, was a satirist and caricaturist. His motto was apparently 'Laugh, and be fat', which he lived up to heartily. The binding is tight and firm. There is slight edge wear to the extremities. Internally the pages have some browning with foxing only prominent to the first and last pages and the plates as usual. There are a few faded tidemarks to some plates. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Collier Caricaturist Bobbin Satire Caricaturist None
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Title: The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. Containing His View of the Lancashire Dialect, with Large Additions and Improvements: Also, His Poem of the Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton; Together with Other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse. With Plebeian Politics
Description: London, Cowdroy and Slack, 182. Leather. A humorous collection of works from satirist John Collier. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and spine decoration. This copy has been professionally rebacked, with the original spine laid down. With twenty-seven illustrative plates and frontispiece of the author. With a Life of the Author. This is the life of John Collier, not a fictionalised account of Tim Bobbin. John Collier, 1708-1786, was a satirist and caricaturist. His motto was apparently 'Laugh, and be fat', which he lived up to heartily. The binding is tight and firm. There is slight edge wear to the extremities. Internally the pages have some browning with foxing only prominent to the first and last pages and the plates as usual. There are a few faded tidemarks to some plates. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Collier Caricaturist Bobbin Satire Caricaturist None
Price: GBP 318.00 = appr. US$ 454.10 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: LTH18-C-11
- Book number: LTH18-C-11
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