[Rarebooks] fa: 2 by EDWARD WARD 1699-1710 (London Spy, Vulgus Britannicus)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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[Edward Ward:] The London Spy. For the Month of December, 1699. The  
Second Volume. Part II. London: Printed and Sold by J. How, in the Ram- 
Head-Inn Yard in Fanchurch-street, 1699. FIRST EDITION. Disbound folio  
(30.5 x 19.5 cm); 16 pp.
Published in eighteen monthly installments starting in November of  
1698, The London Spy was Ward's masterpiece, a first-hand "survey" of  
London life, with an emphasis on low-life, mostly comic, often vulgar,  
always lively. Each installment was complete in itself, focusing on a  
different parish, locale or social type. Usually found in the later  
collected editions, first editions of individual parts are rather  
uncommon. This part is set at least partly in Wapping and features  
seamen, Christmas, public houses and a great deal of drinking, and  
contains Ward's poem, "In Praise of Punch."

[Edward Ward:] Vulgus Britannicus: or, The British Hudibrass. London:  
Printed for James Woodward, in St. Christopher’s Church-Yard, near the  
Royal Exchange; and John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1710. FIRST  
EDITION. Stitch-bound as issued (possibly with later string); 8vo; [4]  
+ 51 + [1] pp; woodcut title-page vignette. Foxon W193; ESTC T52645.
First edition of the first book of Ward's Vulgus Britannicus, a serial  
which eventually would run to five books/parts. A rollicking, violent  
attack on the Whig government, the work is of particular interest for  
its vivid eye-witness account of the riots set off by the trial of  
Henry Sacheverell. The book is divided into four cantos: "Canto I. On  
the late Disorders of the Rabble; Canto II. A Continuation of the  
foregoing Subject. Canto III. On the Mob's pulling down Doctor B....'s  
Meeinghouse; Canto IV. On the Mob's Revels round the Bon-fire."