A Postscript of John Bull or a History of the Crown-Inn. bound with: The Continuation, Further Continuation, Fourth and Last Time, and Appendix

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A Postscript of John Bull or a History of the Crown-Inn. bound with: The Continuation, Further Continuation, Fourth and Last Time, and Appendix

Printed in London for J. Moor [1714]

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John Arbuthnot laments the treatment of himself and the other dependents of Queen Anne after the Hanoverian succession. Here in the complete five-part series, all parts scarce to rare. A follow-up to The History of John Bull.  In Very Good Condition, Disbound, With Generally Clean, Well Margined Leaves. Complete in All Respects.

The volume(s) measure about cm. by cm. by cm.

Each leaf measures about 185 mm. by 120 mm.

The full titles read as follows:

“A Postscript to John Bull, Containing the History of the Crown-Inn, With the Death of the Widow, and What Happened Thereon. / The Fifth Edition. / / London, Printed for J. Moor, and Sold By the Booksellers of London and Wesminster. Price 3d.”

Paginated as follows: 19 (1) p. Collates as follows: A-B4, C2 ESTC: N12226.

“A Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn: With Characters of Some of the Late Servants; and Proceeding of the Trustees to the Coming of the New Landlord. / Part II. / / London: Printed for J. Moor, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. Price 3d. ”

Paginated as follows: 19(1) p.  Collates as follows: A-B4, C2

ESTC: N30897. A particularly scarce edition, with only four copies in institutions

“A Farther Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn. / Part III. / Containing the present State of the Inn, and other Particulars/ /London: Printed for J. Moor, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. Price 3d. ”

Paginated as follows: 20 p. Collates as follows:  A-B4, C2

ESTC: N8030.

“The Fourth and Last Part of the History of the Crown-Inn: With a Character of John Bull, and Other Novels. / Part IV. / / London: Printed for J. Moor, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. Price 3d.

Paginated as follows: 19 (1) Collates as follows: A-B4, C2.

No Corresponding ESTC entry, with the full publication information from the second edition (ESTC: T40113), but lacking the specific imprint, possibly a later issue of the first edition. Rare. No known copies of this imprint.

“An Appendix to the History of the Crown-Inn: / With a Key to the Whole/  // London: Printed for J. Moor, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. Price 3d. ”

Paginated as follows: 20 p. Collates as follows: A-B4, C2

ESTC: T22325

The Volume is in Very Good Condition Disbound, with generally clean, well margined leaves, with some mild toning throughout, as well as marginal notations, some untrimmed lower margins, and some small occasional stains otherwise.

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Of John Arbuuthnot and The History of the Crown Inn

John Arbuthnot was a notable physician and writer, famed primarily for his invention of the character of ‘John Bull’ as a caricature of the British nation, and for his prominent membership in the Scriblerus Club along with Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.

The Character of John Bull came about in his pamphlets calling for an end to the War of Spanish Succession, in a series including ‘Law is a Bottomless Pit’, wherein Bull sues Louis Baboon (Louis XIV Bourbon) more to the benefit his lawyer, Humphrey Hocus (The Duke of Marlborough.) the character would outlive Arbuthnot considerably, eventually dressed in a union-jack waistcoat and top hat for propaganda for and about Britain in both world wars.

Arbuthnot obtained his living as a physician, trained largely informally, and went to London in 1691, where he is supposed to have supported himself by teaching mathematics, and later became the private tutor of one Edward Jeffreys, son of Jeffrey Jeffreys, an MP. He remained Jeffreys’s tutor when the latter attended University College, Oxford in 1694, and he there met the variety of scholars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and Samuel Pepys. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time student and was already well educated, although informally. He went to the University of St Andrews and enrolled as a doctoral student in medicine on 11 September 1696. The very same day he defended seven theses on medicine and was awarded the doctorate.

At Epsom when William of Denmark (Husband to Queen Anne) fell ill, his treatment earned him an invitation to court. It was from this position of influence where he supported Tory policies and advocated the positions of the Scriblerus Club’s members.

When Anne died, she had no will. Consequently, all her servants were left without positions and entirely at the mercy of the next administration — an administration that was chosen by the enemies of Arbuthnot and the other Scriblerans. When George I came to the throne, Arbuthnot lost all of his royal appointments and houses, but he still had a vigorous medical practice. He lived at “the second door from the left in Dover Street” in Piccadilly.

The History of the Crown-Inn is a lament of the treatment of himself and the other dependents of Queen Anne after the Hannoverian succession. Anne is the Widow, recently deceased, and the New Management simply turns out all former employees in favour of their own. Written during the changeover it provides the readers with the latest goings on as they occur.

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