The Parson s Horn-Book.

[BROWNE, Thomas] (Editor).

Editore: Dublin: Printed And Sold By Browne and Sheehan, at The Comet Office…, 1831.

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8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 203, [1] + 8(ads), notices & critiques bound in at front. 13 etched plates (incl. frontis.). 1 full-page wood-engraved text illus. Uncut in original cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (covers spotted, some plates foxed, short tear to outer margin of first leaf of ads). Second Edition, Enlarged, with addenda (pp. 141-203). The Parson s Horn-Book satirizes the temporalities of the Established Church in prose and verse. "[It]…turns out be be not alone a satirical work, but the most important and deadly stab at the incubus of Ireland, the tithe system and religious taxation, that ever issed from the press…" (Pilot Notice) Halkett and Laing note the work has also been attributed to Samuel Lover.

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• Titolo: The Parson s Horn-Book.
• Editore: Dublin: Printed And Sold By Browne and Sheehan, at The Comet Office…, 1831.
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