A Sentimental Tour, collected from a variety of occurrences, from Newbiggin, near Penrith, Cumberland, to London, by way of Cambridge; and from London, to Newbiggin, by way of Oxford. &c.

THOMPSON, George.

Verlag: Penrith: printed by Anthony Soulby, for the Author. 1798, 1798

Beschreibung

xii, 300pp, woodcut device on titlepage, woodcut tail-piece. 12mo. Old splash mark to H12, ink note at foot of p.234. Uncut copy in recent boards, paper spine label. Ownership inscription of Thos. Scott, Queens College Oxford 1805, at head of half title & titlepage. Under the author's name on title is a presentation inscription, presumably from the author, 'To J.H. Allinson from his preceptor, G.T. 1835'. ESTC T97571. George Thompson was a schoolmaster at Stainton, near Penrith, and ran the Esk Bank Academy. Without acknowledging Laurence Sterne (his Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy was published in 1768) Thompson sets off on his own 'literary bantling', with liberal sprinklings of exclamation marks, concealed characters, bon-mots, and comic asides. His journey, like his prose style, meanders, as he journeys from his home to London, and then back again. He records seeing a ventriloquist, visiting Greenwich Fair, the Jewish community in the Rue De Friperie, a Peep at Wapping, Jones's Circus, Westminster School. He inserts his own verse including An Eulogy on Printing, which is followed by a section entitled 'Who Says? - Hang the Bookseller'. In 1823 he published The Sentimental Gleaner, from Esk Bank Academy to the Isle of Man. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 57784

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Titel: A Sentimental Tour, collected from a variety...

Verlag: Penrith: printed by Anthony Soulby, for the Author. 1798

Erscheinungsdatum: 1798

Einband: Hardcover