[Rarebooks] fs-Bleak House Anticipated in Verse

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

BLEWITT, Reginald James.  The Court of Chancery, A Satirical
Poem.  Printed and Published by J. Kay, 1, Welbeck Street [etc.],
London, 1827.  Modern cloth, ex-library, some wear, else a clean
usable copy, with several ?authorial corrections in a neat hand;
without the portrait. [69822 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69822     $ 450.00

A work anticipating Dickens' polemics by many years written from
Paris by a poet who had spent ten hard years at law, its flavor
caught in its first two lines--"Oh! Court of Equity, misnamed,
where doubt / Leads many in; whence few, or none, get out".

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