[Rarebooks] fa: POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN - George Canning, John Hookham Frere, et al - 1799

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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. London: Printed for J. Wright, Piccadilly, 1799. First edition thus. Small 8vo (16.5 cm) in later but not recent calf, rebacked to style, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [8] + 240 pp.; with the half-title page. ESTC T98538.

First collected edition of these satires in verse from the short-lived, arch-tory Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner (1797). As its name made clear, the journal was opposed to the radicalism of the French Revolution and its wild-eyed, “democratical” adherents in England. Its weapons were parodies and satires in verse and the contributors included George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis, and William Gifford, among others. Contains Canning’s longer poem, “The Loves of the Triangles,” a spoof of Erasmus Darwin, that is considered one of the finest (and most delightfully ludicrous) parodies in English. Contents with mild toning, a few spots and small stains, a few fore-edges a bit bumped, but generally quite clean and fresh, firmly bound.