A Collection of Original Poems and Translations

The Volume is in Very Good Condition Bound in gilt ruled English calf, contemporary to the time of publication, with the spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, with a red morocco letter piece in the second compartment from the top, with the board edges blind tooled and leaf edges red speckled. Externally the boards and spine are lightly scuffed in general, with some light splitting to the hinges, more-so the front board, some slight chipping to the spine, and the board corners lightly bumped. Internally the leaves are generally clean and amply margined, with faint marginal toning, a few small marginal stains and scattered foxing, with little else in the way of creasing or tears.

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John Whaley

Little is known of John Whaley, save that he studied at Eton and was admitted to Cambridge on scholarship in 1728. He was a Fellow of King’s College, assistant master at Eton, and a private tutor. Whaley was a friend of Sneyd Davies and Glocester Ridley, and tutor to Horace Walpole at Cambridge a relationship commemorated in “A Journey to Houghton, which is to be found on Pp. 29 of this volume. The book is in fact dedicated to Walpole. Whaley was dissipated and in financial difficulties, and so he bulked out his volume with contributions by friends; among the most interesting of these was Sneyd Davies, a poet of some skill who wrote in the manner of Swift and whose works were never collected.