[ADAMS (William Brydges)]:

A Tale of Tucuman; With Digressions, English and American. By Junius Redivius.

London: Effingham Wilson..., 1831. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 155 x 84 mms., pp. 201 [202 Errata], contemporary half green pebbled morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards; name erased from top margin of title-page, leaving small hole, binding rubbed, but a good copy. William Bridges Adams (1797 - 1872) "was an English author, inventor and locomotive engineer. He is best known for his patented Adams axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and the railway fishplate. His writings, including English Pleasure Carriages (1837) and Roads and Rails (1862) covered all forms of land transport. Later he became a noted writer on political reform, under the pen name Junius Redivivus (Junius reborn); a reference to a political letter writer of the previous century" (Wikipedia). In the dedication to an anonymous lady, Adams writes that "This collection of Rhymes, intentionally written for the gratification, and it may be, instruction of the female sex, cannot possibly find a more appropirate patroness than yourself...." he Preface opens with an assertion that the "object of this Poem is to convey, in as agreeable a form as may be, a knowledge of the manners and customs of the Southern Americans...." Tucuman is presumably what is now known as San Miguel de Tucuman in Argentina. OCLC locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Glasgow, St. Andrews. No copies located in any North American library.

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Book number: 9665

Catalogue: Verse

Keywords: verse education prose

[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR].

Union Forever. "The Union of States forever will stand...."

New York, lithographed and printed by Charles Magnus, No. 12 Frankfor Street, New York. Branch Office No. 520 7th St. Washington, D. C. [no date]. [c. 1864]. Verse broadside, 210 x 125 mms., colour lithograph, with image of men in uniform around table and punchbowl, raising cups in celebration, printed on one side only; words only, no music; two marginal tears repaired with archival tape, but a very good copy. The verse begins "The Union of States forever will stand,/ The watchword of Freedom and Fame...." The war between the northern states and the seceding southern states in the United States, 1860 - 1864, is known by various designations, at least in the states of the Deep or Old South, e. g., "The War between the States," "The War of Northern Aggression," and "The Recent Unpleasantness."

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Book number: 7332

Catalogue: Verse

Keywords: verse government literature

[BARNARD (Edward)]:

Virtue the Source of Pleasure.

London: Printed by John Olive: Sold by J. Buckland...andJ. Ward..., 1757. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii [viii blank], 319 [320 blank], including half-title, recent half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label. A very good copy. Mr. Barnard's title suggests a philosophical treatise, with Aristotle perhaps to the foreground. In fact, the text is mostly in verse, including two plays, The Somewhat and Edward VI in blank verse. Various sources do not give birth and death dates, only that he flourished c. 1741 - 1757. The headmaster and later provost of Eton, Edward Barnard (1717 - 1781) might seem to be a possible candidate for authorship. ODNB doesn't mention any publications by Barnard. The Prologue to Edward VI is preceded by "Disadvantages Relating to the following Entertainment," which clearly indicates that the play wasw written to be performed by "The Young." King Edward VI (1537 - 1553) effectively became King at the age of ten, when Henrv VIII died on 28 January 1547, and his short reign would certainly have supplied ample homiletic and pedagogic examples for Etonian schoolboys. ESTC T84940 locates copies in BL and Bodleian in the UK; Harvard (2), Huntington, Union Theological Seminary, UC Berkeley, Chicago and Texas (2) in the United States; and Alberta in Canada

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Book number: 9391

Catalogue: Verse

Keywords: verse morality literature

CAWLEY (Thomas):

Verses of Help for All Seasons, By The Late Rev. Thomas Cawley, B. A., Formerly Rector of Bittadon.

Penhanze: Beare and Son, 21, Market Place. 1913. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo pamphlet, 163 x 123 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 24, original dark grey wrappers, stapled; wrappers a bit soiled. Thomas Cawley (fl. 1840s-1890s) matriculated from Wadham College, University of Oxford, in 1856, and graduated from Oxford with his B. A. in 1860, as Alumni Oxoniensis identifies him as the man as having become the Rector of Bittadon in Devon. The verses echo quite a few well-known English poems, as well as "Thought art gone up on high," from Handel's Messiah. The last poem, "The Last Voyage," beginning, "There may be moaning at the bar" is clearly an allusions to Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." No copy located in any repository or online database.

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Book number: 9153

Catalogue: Verse

Keywords: verse religion literature

KING (William):

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.

London: Printed for B. Lintott..., and H. Clements..., no date. [1709]. 8vo, pp. [xx], 445, 444 - 445, 448 - 536 [537 - 538 The Table], with separate title-pages for the works in the volumes but continuous collation,19th century half calf, marbled boards; no leaves blank or otherwise before title-page, lacking or issued without the Dedication and Preface, several leaves working loose at inner margin, spine defective, with lower half missing, joints cracked. An insalubrious copy, and probably imperfect without the Dedication and Preface, but of some bibliographical interest, in that A Journey to London, the second item in the volume, and the following four items (The Furmetary; A Letter to the Honourable Charles Boyle [bis]; and Dialogues of the Dead) are marked for a printer, e. g. on page 205, "Monsieur Sorbiere to the Reader," a note in pencil states "ignore all initial caps, except in proper names, set in modern spelling"; these instructions to the printer continue to page 354, the end of Dialogues of the Dead. I have not been able to locate a printed volume corresponding to the one putatively set forth here.

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Book number: 6686

Catalogue: Verse

Keywords: verse anthology literature

KIPLING (Rudyard):

Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Second Edition.

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. 1886 8vo, 190 x 140 mms., pp. [iii] - vi [vii drop-title, viii], 63 [64 blank], 6 [adverts], discound; no half-title, cords exposed, one leaf of marbled paper following last leaf. The Times of India said of the first edition that the poems "[i]n their collected from they make a very pleasant companion for a lonely half-hours, or to while away the tedium of a railway journey. The verses are all written in a light style, which is very attractive, and on one with the slightest appreciation of humour will fail to indulge in many a hearty laugh before turning over the last page."

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Book number: 9930

Catalogue: Verse

Keywords: verse humour literature

RABELAIS (Robert, the Younger):

A Nineteenth Century, and Familiar History of the Lives, Loves, & Misfortunes, of Abeillard and Heloisa, A Matchless Pair, who flourished in the twelfth century: A Poem, in Twelve Cantos. Illustrated with Ten Engravings. By Robert Rabelais, the Younger!

London: Printed for J. Bumpus..., 1819. 8vo, 227 x 137 mms., pp. xvii [xviii blank], 384, 10 engraved coloured plates from designs by Thurston, etched by Landseer, aquatinted by Lewis, with the frontispiece being plate 5, nine other engraved and coloured plates at pages 144, 193, 217, 224, 271, 272, 274, 291, and 359, original printed boards (soiled), uncut, some leaves unopened; front joint cracked, rear joint slightly cracked, edges worn. Robert Rabelais the Younger is, of course, a pseydonym. The work was noticed in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: "Abeillad and Heloisa, a new and original didactive poem, is now in the press and will be published in a few days; called A Nineteenth Century and Familiar History of the Lives, Loves, & Misfortunes, of Abeillard and Heloisa, A Matchless Pair, who flourished in the twelfth century: A Poem, in Twelve Cantos. Illustrated with Ten Engravings. By Robert Rabelais, the Younger. The work is altogether historical, but the various elucidations may be deemed a material, matrimonial, comical, farcical, tragical, satirical, anecdotal, clerical, nautical, regimental, ethical, metaphysical, theological, philosophical, critical, political, and all the terminative faculty of als !" For further enlightenment, entertainment, and elucidation see Stephen J. Gertz's blog, Booktryst: http://www.booktryst.com/2014/01/a-19th-c-rare-book-with-worst-reviews.html, which concludes: "Rabelais the Younger! could have used a dose of Lithium to get through his mania. Readers will need a Valium to get through the booK." Obviously, every reader and every library MUST HAVE A COPY.

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Book number: 9287

Catalogue: Verse

Keywords: verse illustration literature