[Rarebooks] fa: THE MAN OF TASTE - In Answer to ALEXANDER POPE - 1st Ed. 1733

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 17th-19th Century British books and  
pamphlets, auctions ending Sunday, May 2. Details and images can be  
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Thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A., CA USA

[James Bramston:] The Man of Taste. Occasion’d by an Epistle of Mr.  
Pope’s on that Subject. By the Author of the Art of Politicks. London:  
Printed by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St.  
Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1733. FIRST EDITION. Disbound folio  
(13.25 x 8.25 in); 19 + [1] pp; with the half-title, page of  
publisher's adverts (15 titles listed), engraved frontispiece (by  
Vander Gucht), woodcut tail-piece. Foxon B396; ESTC T38913.

A waggish satire inspired by, and in the heroic style of, Alexander  
Pope's Of False Taste (1731), which includes references to Pope,  
Jonathan Swift, Colley Cibber and other contemporary figures.  
Bramston's unjustly forgotten poem is notable also for the first  
appearance of the line, "Musick has charms to soothe a savage  
beast" ("/Therefore proper at a Sheriff's feast") as well as the less  
famous but equally pithy, "Without black-velvet-britches, what is  
man?" Last leaf detached, first leaf starting to loosen, small chips/ 
tears to edges of first and last leaf, small bit of foxing to last two  
leaves; otherwise clean and sound, untrimmed.