The Art of Politicks, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry., bound with: Harlequin-Horace: or, the Art of Modern Poetry., bound with: The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry.

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James Bramston, James Miller, William King,

The Art of Politicks, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry., bound with: Harlequin-Horace: or, the Art of Modern Poetry., bound with: The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry.

London: Printed for Gilliver and Lintot. 1729, 1731, 1712

A sammelband of three scarce works in imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry. All complete with a frontispiece to each volume.

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A sammelband of three scarce works in imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry. All complete with a frontispiece to each volume.

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A sammelband of three scarce works in imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry. All complete with a frontispiece to each volume.

The volume(s) measure about 19.5 cm. by 13 cm. by 2.5 cm.

Each leaf measures about 190 mm. by 120 mm.

James Bramston.

The full title reads:

The Art of Politicks, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street, MDCCXXIX. [1729]

A biting satire in verse with allusions to contemporary celebrities — Walpole, Addison, Thomas Tickell, Jacob Tonson, Edmund Curll, Pope, Swift, and ‘Johnny Gay’.  Anonymous. By James Bramston. 1694-1744.

Pagination: (5) 4 – 47,[1]p., Frontispiece plate;  8⁰. Per ESTC: “With an oval engraving on the title-page surrounded by a decorative frame, and seven books advertised on p. [48]; there is a double rule above the imprint.” An uncommon early variant.

Some copies of the first octavo edition of the Dunciad of 1729 have an oval watermark with a horse. This is the same watermark that appears in the corner of many sheets of our copy of The Art of Politicks. Both books were printed by the same printer at the same time, hence a mixing of paper stock.

BOUND WITH

James Miller.

The Full Title Reads:

Harlequin-Horace: or, the Art of Modern Poetry. Tempora mutantur, & nos mutamur in illis. London: printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church, in Fleetstreet, MDCCXXXI. [1731] Price 1 s.

Paginates: [10], 59, [1] p.,  Collates: Frontispiece plate ;  8⁰. Titlepage in red and black. Per ESTC: “The same sheets were reissued as part of Richard Savage’s ’Collection of pieces in verse and prose, which have been publish’d on occasion of the Dunciad’, 1732.”

ESTC: T36013, Foxon: M251. First Edition. Anonymous by James Miller. 1706-1744.

BOUND WITH

William King.

The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and others: occasion’d principally by the title of a book publish’d by the Doctor, being the works of Apicius Colius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Ancients. With an Extract of the greatest Curiosities contain’d in that Book. To which is added Horace’s Art of poetry, in Latin. By the author of the Journey to London. Humbly inscrib’d to the Honourable Beef Steak Club. The second edition. London : printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the two Temple Gates in Fleetstreet. [1712]

William King. 1663-1712. Parallel Latin and English texts. With two final advertisement leaves.

Pagination: [4],112,[4]p., Frontispiece plate ;  8⁰.

Signatures: A-G⁸ [H]⁴.

Complete. Second Edition. First published in 1708 without a frontispiece. This Second Edition features a wonderful Kitchen Frontispiece engraved by M. v(an) der Gucht.

ESTC T22443, Foxon, K59

 

The Volume is in Very Good Condition. Bound in full calf Cambridge style, with spines divided into five compartments by four raised bands, with red morocco letter-pieces in the second and third compartments from the top as well as a small paper label affixed to the top compartment. Externally the boards and spines are lightly scuffed in general, with splits to most hinges, but still holding well. The corners show some wear.

Internally the leaves are generally clean and well margined, with mild foxing or toning throughout, with the last leaf in Modern poetry somewhat stained, with little else in the way of stains or tears. The last blank leaf with manuscript notes in a neat hand on Dr. King.

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Per Wikipedia: “James Bramston (c. 1694–1743) was an English poet who specialised in satire and parody. He was also a pluralist cleric of the Church of England. Bramston’s verses include The Art of Politicks (1729), in imitation of Horace’s Ars Poetica, (“What’s not destroy’d by Time’s devouring Hand? Where’s Troy, and where’s the Maypole in the Strand?”) and The Man of Taste (1733), in imitation of Alexander Pope (“Sur loins and rumps of beef offend my eyes, / Pleas’d with frogs fricasseed and coxcomb pies.”)His Ignorami lamentatio super legis communis translationem ex Latino in Anglicum (1736), dedicated by “Ambi-dexter Ignoramus” to “Dulmannum”, satirizes lawyers. It is written in Dog Latin hexameters. He also parodied John Philips’s “The Splendid Shilling” in “The Crooked Sixpence”.”

The Art of Politicks is accompanied by a clever frontispiece illustrating the opening lines:

If to a Human Face Sir James (Thornhill) should draw

A Gelding’s Mane and feathers of Maccaw,

A Lady’s Bosom, and a tail of Cod,

Who could help laughing at a site so odd?

Just such a Monster, Sirs, pray think before ye,

When you behold one Man both Whig and Tory.

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