[Rarebooks] fa: HORACE SMITH - GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES 1825 - 3 vols. in Original Boards (Eric Quayle copy)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, November 16. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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[Horace Smith:] Gaieties and Gravities; a Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First collected by One of the Authors of "Rejected Addresses." London: Henry Colburn,  1825. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 8vo, in original publisher's boards, printed spine labels; with the half-title in vol. I and the leaf of publisher's adverts in vol. III, as called for. Sadleir 3099, recording a similar "unsophisticated" copy in boards.

General modest wear, bumping, and light soiling to the fragile boards, sunning and wear to the labels, hinges to vol. II starting to crack but both boards are secure; some dust-soiling to the untrimmed edges, preliminary leaves with some scattered spotting; otherwise clean and sound. A superior example, as originally issued. With the bookplate of noted bibliophile and book collector Eric Quayle.

Horatio (Horace) Smith (1779-1849) first gained fame when he and his brother James co-authored the fabulously successful parody Rejected Addresses in 1812. Brother James was content to rest on his laurels thereafter, but Horace, the more ambitious and talented of the two, continued to  write parodies, essays, humorous poetry and serious novels. He was a close friend of many of the leading literary figures of his time, including Shelley and Leigh Hunt. Shelley wrote of him "...Wit and sense, / Virtue and human knowledge, all that might / Make this dull world a business of delight, / Are all combined in Horace Smith."