Accession number
PML 9345
Creator
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797.
Published
London : [J.C. Hotten], 1871.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
"Privately printed."
250 copies printed.
Authorship, formerly in much dispute, ascribed also to Thomas Potter, who may have assisted. A parody on Pope's Essay on man, a small portion only of the work being printed.
Facsimile of a reprint, as no original is known. Edited perhaps by H.S. Ashbee--(Cf. H. Bleackley, Life of Wilkes, 1917, p. 437). For full discussion cf. E.R. Watson in Notes and queries, 11th ser., v. 9, p. 121, etc., especially p. 184-185; Bleackley, p. 116-117, 437; H.S. Ashbee, Index librorum prohibitorum.
Imperfect: p. 13-34 missing.
Text of poems printed in red.
With an appendix (p. [57]-263) of documents and contemporary accounts of Wilkes and others connected with the publication.
250 copies printed.
Authorship, formerly in much dispute, ascribed also to Thomas Potter, who may have assisted. A parody on Pope's Essay on man, a small portion only of the work being printed.
Facsimile of a reprint, as no original is known. Edited perhaps by H.S. Ashbee--(Cf. H. Bleackley, Life of Wilkes, 1917, p. 437). For full discussion cf. E.R. Watson in Notes and queries, 11th ser., v. 9, p. 121, etc., especially p. 184-185; Bleackley, p. 116-117, 437; H.S. Ashbee, Index librorum prohibitorum.
Imperfect: p. 13-34 missing.
Text of poems printed in red.
With an appendix (p. [57]-263) of documents and contemporary accounts of Wilkes and others connected with the publication.
Description
xvi, 263 p.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
1/2 dark brown leather.
Classification
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