Mack doctor ebenezer (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First Edition. Large octavo, 276pp., illustrated with five plates by David Claypoole Johnston (his second published illustrated book). A sound, very good copy in the original boards with white paper spine and original printed spine label (rubbed, with some marginal loss, but fully legible). Some foxing internally, spotting to boards, but extremely solid. The final plate has been poorly trimmed, with the far left extremity of the image trimmed away. A perplexing work from this eccentric New York printer, which contains a number of decontextualized quotations from ancient sources, interweaved with musings on the deaths of various historical cats. The main poem, which contains just a couplet on each page (the rest of each page consists of the lengthy classical quotations) tells the story of two Irishmen who fight like cats. A bizarre early American production, whose content and rough-and-ready construction bear the hallmarks of a labor of love. Sabin 43344; Checklist 16972.…

8vo; pp. 276; disbound, some foxing, pages 99-106 with significant tears, but no loss of letterpress; a fair copy of an interesting book. In 2 parts; part 2 with special half-title: Patrick W. O'Neal's job of journey-work. Being a metrical piece. Edited upon the spur of the occasion, as it occurred in the well of Captain Burrow's fishing-smack, on the 29th of August, 1805. Humorous verse and illustrations alluding to poets great and small, chiefly Greek, Roman, and English. American Imprints 16972.…