Beschreibung:

A bound collection of 19 poetical satires 1778-89, mezzotint portrait of the author at front, four etched caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson contemporary half calf, heavily rubbed and some wear, spine restrengthened with black tape, title to first work with some soiling (with printed latin quotation pasted above the imprint), thick 4to The titles are: A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest, and Affecting Epistle to... the Reviewers, printed for the author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1778, Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians for MDCCLXXXII, 8th edition, enlarged, printed for G. Kearsley, 1787, More Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians, 5th edition, G. Kearsley, 1789, Lyric Odes for the year 1785, 7th edition, G. Kearsley, 1787, Farewel Odes, for the year 1786, 5th edition, G. Kearsley, 1788, The Lousiad, an Heroi-Comic Poem Canto I, 8th edition, with considerable additions, G. Kearsley, 1788, The Lousiad, Canto II, 4th edition, G. Kearsley, 1788 (with caricature by Rowlandson), A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to James Boswell Esq. on his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with the celebrated Dr. Johnson, 8th edition, G. Kearsley, 1788, Bozzy and Piozzi: Or, The British Biographers, a town eclogue, 9th edition, G. Kearsley, 1788 (with caricature by Rowlandson), Ode upon Ode; Or, A Peep at St. James's; Or, New-Year's Day, 8th edition, G. Kearsley, 1789, An Apologetic Postscript to Ode upon Ode, new edition, with considerable additions, G. Kearsley, 1788, Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat; Alias the Progress of Curiosity..., 8th edition, G. Kearsley, Brother Peter to Brother Tom, 4th edition, G. Kearsley, 1788, Peter's Pension. A Solemn Epistle to a Sublime Personage, 4th edition, G. Kearsley, 1788 (with caricature by Rowlandson), Peter's Prophecy; Or, The President and Poet; Or, An Important Epistle to Sir J. Banks, on the approaching election of a President of the Royal Society, 3rd edition, G. Kearsley (without caricature by Rowlandson), Sir Joseph Banks, and the Emperor of Morocco, 4th edition, G. Kearsley, 1788 (with caricature by Rowlandson), A Poetical Epistle to a Falling Minister, new edition, G. Kearsley, 1789, Subjects for Painters, new edition, G. Kearsley, 1789 & Expostulatory Odes to a Great Duke, and a Little Lord, 1st edition, G. Kearsley, 1789. A collection of 19 poetic satires by John Wolcot (1738-1819), published under his nom de plume of Peter Pindar, the popular, best selling satirist in the age of satire, accompanied by several early caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), including Is This Your Louse, Cooks, Scullions, hear me ev'ry Mother's Son, Bozzy & Madame Piozzi, Peter's Pension, & Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco. (1)