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Poems By C. Churchill, the 1763 First Edition. Bound with The Conference, The Author and The Duelist, from 1763 and 1764, the 1765 second Volume, Containing the three extra poems from the first Volume and the Remaining Pieces. Printed in London by Dryden Leach for W. Flexney, G. Kearsly, T. Henderson, J. Coote, J. Gardiner, J. Almon and E. Broughton. The Volume is in Very Good Condition finely bound in speckled english calf, with the spines divided into six gilt-stamped compartments by five raised bands, with the red morocco letter-pieces in second compartment from the top. Externally the boards and spine are lightly scuffed in general, with all hinges intact and supple. Internally the leave are generally clean and amply margined, with a small wormhole from the front board of volume II through a third of the volume, relegated to a pinhole in the outer margin, with some faint toning at the leaf edges and occasional fox marks. The Mezzotint plate is a very good impression, dark and full, clearly from then first fifty impressions of the plate. The Volumes Are Complete in All Respects The volume is paginated as follows:Vol I.; [iv], 369, [1], [vi], [1]-19, [1], [iv], [1]-19, [1], [iv], [1]-48, [2].:Vol II.; [vi], [1]-19, [ii], [1]-19, [1], [ii], [1]-48, [ii], [1]-24, [ii], [1]-32, [ii], [1]-31, [iii], [1]-38, [ii], [1]-24, [ii], [1]-33, [i], [1]-28, [1]-8. The volume collates as follows:Vol I.; [A]2, B-3A4, 3B2, [A]-FF2, [A]-FF2, [A]-N2.:Vol II.; [A]3, B-F2, A1, B-F2, A1, B-N2, [A]-B1, C-H2, B-I2, [A]-B1, C-H2, I3, [A]1, B-K2, L1, [A]1, B-G2, [A]-B1, C-K2, B-H2, B-C2. Each volume measures about 26.5 cm. By 21.5 cm. By 2.5 - 4.5 cm. Each leaf measures about 270 mm. By 205 mm. Charles Churchill was born the son of a rector, educated at Westminster School, before himself becoming a Curate. Churchill had already done some work for the booksellers, and his friend Lloyd had had some success with a didactic poem, The Actor. Churchill's knowledge of the theatre was now made use of in the Rosciad, which appeared in March 1761. This reckless and amusing satire described with the most disconcerting accuracy the faults of the various actors and actresses on the London stage; in a competition judged by Shakespeare and Jonson, Garrick is named the greatest English actor. Its immediate popularity was no doubt largely due to its personal character, but its vigour and raciness make it worth reading even now when the objects of Churchill's wit are forgotten. His Epistle to William Hogarth (1763) was in answer to the caricature of Wilkes made during the trial, in it Hogarth's vanity and envy were attacked in an invective which Garrick quoted as shocking and barbarous. Hogarth retaliated with an engraving based on The Painter and his Pug, which caricatures Churchill as a bear in torn clerical bands hugging a pot of porter and a club made of lies and North Britons, while Hogarth's pug Trump urinates on Churchill's Epistle. The Duellist (1763) is a virulent satire on the most active opponents of Wilkes in the House of Lords, especially on Bishop Warburton. He attacked Dr Johnson among others in The Ghost as "Pomposo, insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling crowd". Other poems are The Conference (1763); The Author (1763), highly praised by Churchill's contemporaries; Gotham (1764), a poem on the duties of a king, didactic rather than satiric in tone; The Candidate (1764), a satire on John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich, one of Wilkes's bitterest enemies, whom he had already denounced for his treachery in The Duellist (Bk. iii.) as too infamous to have a friend; The Farewell (1764); The Times (1764); Independence, and an unfinished Journey. Visit our website for More Images and/or Binding Spins. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1559659756032
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