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Rejected Addresses, Or the New Theatrum Poetarum
Author(s): [Smith, Horace; Smith James]
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Edition: | 2nd Edition |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Printed for John Miller |
| Publication Year: | 1812 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 010661 |
| Catalogue(s): | Literary History and Criticism |
xiv, 127pp. Contemporary full brown calf's leather, black leather spine label with gilt titles. Covers rubbed and worn at edges, rounded at corners, leather cracked along spine joints and at spine ends, some leather loss at head of spine. Bookplate on front paste down (appears near contemporary), which has left its impression on the front free endpaper, previous owner's name, dated 1812, on half-title, some spotting and staining on endpapers, else just a little age discolouration on page margins of first and last few leaves. 16mo. A book of parodies, published anonymously but generally attributed to the brothers James and Horace Smith, including good-natured pastiches of 21 leading authors and writers of the day including Wordsworth, William Cobbett, Walter Scott, Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, George Crabbe etc.
Keywords:
Literary History
Literary Parodies
Leather Bindings
