The Manners Of The Age : in thirteen Moral Satirs [sic]. Written with a design to expose the vicious & irregular conduct of both sexes in the various pursuits of life. [By Thomas Newcomb].

NEWCOMB, Thomas.

Verlag: Batley 1733.

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First Edition, contemporary mottled calf gilt. Large 4to, total c.pp392 with jump in pagination as in all copies (comprising [iv] title + errata + 207 + [1] + 409-587 + [1]), joints cracked but secure, label on spine unobtrusively lacking. Excellent stout copy with text unusually clean bright & crisp. ** Endpaper with fine 18th century armorial bookplate of The Revd Mr Lee (see note). *** Scarce : an exceptionally extensive 4to volume of 18thC verse : see Foxon N257.2. *** Newcomb d.1765, a Shropshire poet & 'plebian' graduate of Oxford : the author of much pamphlet verse. One of his earliest satires was Bibliotheca : A Poem Occasioned By The Sight Of A Modern Library 1712. *** With the fine armorial bookplate of The Revd Mr Lee : a shield with three crowns is surmounted by a plumed helmet and an axe-wielding arm. The motto is Quarta Perennis Erit (The fourth [crown] will be everlasting). The three crowns may be those of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the fourth the Kingdom of Heaven; or they may represent politics, the law, and the constitution, and the fourth religion. *** This was also the motto of Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder of the Bodleian Library, who may have derived it from Rabbi Schimeon of c.70 AD for whom the three crowns of learning, the priesthood, and kingship, were surpassed by a fourth, a worthy reputation. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5340

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Titel: The Manners Of The Age : in thirteen Moral ...

Verlag: Batley 1733.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition