delphia: Printed for
Benj. Franklin Bache,
m.dcc.xcvi
. [Copy-right secured.] [1796.]
PS855 .T2 P7
First Edition. 12mo. 2 parts in 1 with continuous signatures and pagination, together 52 leaves; half-title for Part Second on
sig. E
2 recto, page [47], followed by The Editor to the Reader, signed C. C. and a letter to C---------- C---------- Esq. signed Timothy Touchpenny. The general title is followed by the half-title for Part First, and a leaf of Advertisement.
Halkett and Laing IV, 436. Assigned to Philip Freneau, with Sabin’s
Dictionary as the authority.
Sabin 62911: “Originally published in Freneau’s Gazette and attributed to him.”
Evans 31320.
Wegelin 407.
A copy of
Jonathan Pindar was bound for Jefferson in a half-binding on June 30, 1807, by John March, cost 50 cents.
For other works by St. George Tucker, see the Index. Jefferson himself, in a letter to James Madison, dated June 29, 1793,
referred to Freneau’s supposed authorship of these odes: “
. . . the Probationary odes [
written by S.G.T. in Virgã]
are saddled on poor Freneau, who is bloodily attacked about them.”
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The Press. by M
c.Creery.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 147, no. 66, as above.
McCREERY,
John.
The Press, a Poem. Published as a Specimen of Typography. By John M
cCreery.
Liverpool: Printed by
J. M
cCreery
, Houghton-Street. And sold by
Cadell and
Davies, Strand,
London,
1803.
Z116 .M14
First Edition. 4to. 33 leaves, 2 parts, the Poem and Notes, woodcut vignette on the title-page, woodcut engraved illustrations
by Henry Hole; the last leaf with Descriptive References to the Engravings, an engraving of a printing-press (A perspective View of the
Press at which this work was printed) and the imprint.
Lowndes III, 1184.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. III, 75.
John McCreery, 1768-1832, English printer and poet. This work, printed from Baskerville press type, is dedicated to William Roscoe, for
whom he had printed
The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth
, of which Roscoe sent a copy to Jefferson, see no. 170.
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The Pursuits of Literature.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 147, no. 50, as above.
[MATHIAS,
Thomas James.]
The Pursuits of Literature. A Satirical Poem, in Four Dialogues. With Notes . . . The
Eighth Edition.
Dublin: Printed for
J. Milliken,
1798.
PR4987 .M2 P8 1798a
8vo. 212 leaves, including the half-title (with the information
Price in Boards,
Six British Shillings
).
Halkett and Laing IV, 462.
This edition not in Lowndes and not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Thomas James Mathias, 1754?-1845, English satirist and Italian scholar, was for a time the librarian at Buckingham Palace.
The Pursuits of Literature was an anonymous publication of which the first dialogue came out in 1794, the second and third in June 1796, and the fourth
in July 1797. The fifth, sixth, and seventh editions were published in London in 1798. The sixteenth edition appeared in 1812.
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Moral & Political truth by Heston.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 146 [Heston’s Moral and Political Truth, 12mo] C. 24, No. 14.
This book, which was dedicated to Jefferson, to whom the author sent a copy, is entered by Jefferson in this chapter of Didactic
literature. In the 1815 Catalogue it was placed in Chapter 24, and was therefore described in that chapter in this catalogue. The change was probably due to a later arrangement by Jefferson.
For the description of the work, see no. 3542.
