Shelfmark
Ep.1.12 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ie7.3.15 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
The pursuits of literature, a satirical poem in four dialogues, with notes. To which are added an appendix; the citations translated; and a complete index..
Edition
The sixteenth edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for Becket and Porter, Pall-Mall, booksellers to the Prince Regent, by W. Bulmer and co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's., 1812..
Physical description
lxii, 63-542 p. ; 30-31 cm.
Note
Appendix contains: 1. An extract from a letter by a layman to a noble lord (first published in October 1796) on the subject of the French emigrant priests, and on the spirit and principles, sacred and political, of the Church of Rome. 2. The imperial epistle from Kien Long, emperour of China to George the Third, king of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c. in the year 1794. 3. The political dramatist of the House of Commons in 1795. 4. An extract from the poem entitled The shade of Alexander Pope on the banks of the Thames in 1798.
Note
Written anonymously by T.J. Mathias.
Provenance
(Copy 1) Armorial bookplate of Christopher Turnor (1810-1886), Stoke Rochford Library. Booklabel of John Sparrow (1906-1992). Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library.
Provenance
(Copy 2) 20th-century black bookplate of Eton College Library, undated, with college crest and initials "RS" (Reynolds Stone) on front flyleaf.
Binding
(Copy 1) 19th-century light brown calf; gold tooled double fillet border with shell stamp at each corner; gold tooled decorative rolls on board edges and square; gold tooled decoration on spine; faded green morocco spine label; blue and grey marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
Binding
(Copy 2) Binding missing.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) Previous shelfmark: 2570.
Added entry--name
Turnor, Christopher, 1809 - 1886 former owner.
Added entry--name
Sparrow, John, 1906 - 1992 former owner.
Added entry--name
Becket, Thomas, fl. 1760 - 1815 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Porter, John bookseller.
Added entry--name
Bulmer, William, 1757 - 1830 printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B37154