[Rarebooks] fa: Smith HORACE IN LONDON 1813 + Southey PILGRIMAGE TO WATERLOO 1812 - First Eds.

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[James and Horatio Smith:] Horace in London: Consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace. By the Authors of Rejected Addresses, or The New Theatrum Poetarum. London: Printed for John Miller, 1813. First edition; xi, [1], 173, [5] pp.; with the half-title page and publisher’s adverts. [BOUND WITH:] Robert Southey: The Poet’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. First edition; [8], 232 pp.; with 8 engraved plates. [BOUND WITH:] [James and Horatio Smith:] Rejected Addresses: or The New Theatrum Poetarum. Seventh edition. London: Printed for John Miller, 1812. xiii, [1], 127, [1]. Three works bound in one volume; thick 12mo (16.5) in early/period polished calf, rebacked to style, with later gilt-lettered spine labels.

First editions of two poetical works, contemporaneous but vastly different in subject and tone. Horace in London is a light-hearted tour of the metropolis, with satirical observations on many of the notable characters and newsworthy topics of the day in Regency London (Walter Scott; To Emanuel Swedenborg; To Mr. Kemble, exhorting him to give up the Tier of Private Boxes; Horne Tooke’s Epitaph; the Classic Villa; etc.). On the other hand, Southey’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo, written when he was poet laureate and thus in search of more exalted subjects for his muse, is an elegiac contemplation of the battlefield itself, as well as the historical and theological significance of the great event. The two works are bound with a later edition of the popular parody, Rejected Addresses.

Binding with some bumping and wear to the corners; contents with a few occasional small spots, offsetting to and from the plates in the Pilgrimage, one leaf of which has a faint penciled note in an early hand; else quite clean and sound, firmly bound. With a charming Victorian-era birthday card loosely laid in as a bookmark.