john williams aka anthony pasquin (2 risultati)

Sewn. Condizione: Good. London: Printed for J. Bew, 1793. 9 x 5 5/8". 100pp. (including half-title). Sewn. First and last pages soiled, soiling in lower outside corners of first and last few leaves, a few leaves creased. Unopened. Good copy. Collated and complete. This work is attributed to "Anthony Pasquin," the pseudonym of satirist John Williams, on WorldCat, but neither NCBEL nor DNB list this title among Williams' publications.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. John Williams (illustratore). 1st Edition Mixed Issue. The author claims that the editions of the book that appeared earlier under the same title [1786], were Book seller fabrications published in order to destroy the chances of his original work. In the same year that this book was published, Williams sued a London bookdealer for publishing a libel by Gifford which read: "he was so lost to every sense of decency and shame that his acquaintance was infamy and his touch poison." The Judge of the case decided in favor of the bookdealer, declaring ' It appears to me that the author of "The Baviad " has acted a very meritorious part in exposing this man ; and I do most earnestly wish and hope that some method will ere long be fallen upon to prevent all such unprincipled and mercenary wretches from going about unbridled in society to the great annoyance and disquietude of the public '. After the trial Williams emigrated to New York where he edited THE FEDERALIST. He died in poverty and obscurity in Brooklyn in 1818. ESTC T42298. in a 20th century fine 1/4 calf and marbled boards by Alan Grace of Surrey UK, a very good crisp copy in tall 4to. in 3 parts. The poems each feature its own engraved title page, first published 1786 the figure in the center is a demon about to chastize a statue of folly. A Political and literary tour de force on the current state of affairs in 18th century, argument and controversay abounded about the Poems, ending in a trial, which the author lost, upon which he departed for America and become a supporter of the New Nation and its liberties, now free from the corruptions and biases of the old world, however Williams never attained his former fame in his new found home, and died in obscurity and poverty in 1818. John Williams (1761-1818) was an English poet, satirist, journalist and miscellaneous writer, best known by the pseudonym of Anthony Pasquin. He was born in London on 28 April 1761, and was sent in 1771 to Merchant Taylors' School.[1] There he was beaten for an epigram on Mr. Knox, the third master. At the age of seventeen he was placed with a painter, but he gave up art to become an author and translator. When he was about eighteen he wrote a defence of David Garrick against William Kenrick, earning Garrick's friendship. About two years later he went to Ireland, and during his time in Dublin edited several periodical publications. He attacked the government in the Volunteers' Journal during the administration of the Duke of Rutland, a prosecution was started against him in 1784, and he was obliged to decamp, leaving the printers to face the judgment. The same year (1784) he was associated with Henry Bate Dudley in the Morning Herald. A violent quarrel broke out between them, and Williams wrote a satire on his antagonist, for which he was prosecuted, though the action did not proceed. In 1787 Williams accompanied his friend Pilon to France, and on his return he started a paper called The Brighton Guide. He next settled at Bath, Somerset, but again left in a hurry. For some years he contributed influential theatrical criticism to some of the London newspapers. In 1797 he appeared in the Court of King's Bench as plaintiff in an action against Robert Faulder, the bookseller, for a libel contained in William Gifford's poem The Baviad. In one of the notes Gifford, speaking of Williams, observed that 'he was so lost to every sense of decency and shame that his acquaintance was infamy and his touch poison.' In this cause the plaintiff was nonsuited, based the proof that was given of his having himself grossly libelled every respectable character in the kingdom, from the sovereign down to the lowest of his subjects. Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, who tried the case, commended Gifford. Williams emigrated to America shortly afterwards, and edited a New York newspaper called The Federalist. He died a poor man of typhus fever in Brooklyn, on 23 November 1818. By the Binder.