[Rarebooks] fa: GEORGE LYTTELTON - THE COURT-SECRET: "Translated from the Original Arabic" 1741

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[George Lyttelton:] The Court-Secret: A Melancholy Truth. Now first translated from the Original Arabic. By an Adept in the Oriental Tongues. London: Printed for T. Cooper at the Globe, in Paternoster-Row, MDCCXLI [1741]. FIRST EDITION; 8vo (20.5) in modern calf-backed boards; [2], 50 pp. ESTC T34340.

Some toning and spotting to the leaves, most noticeably on the first and last leaves, previous bookseller's light penciled notes on the last leaf, else quite clean and crisp, and firmly bound in a fine, fresh modern calf-backed binding. A purported eastern fable which is in fact a satirical allegory of contemporary English politics, with Robert Walpole represented by the evil Vizier, George II as the ill-used Sultan, and the Earl of Scarborough as the noble Achmet, councillor to the Sultan. As well as a writer of middling success, George Lyttelton, first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773) was the patron and friend of Pope, Fielding and James Thomson.