[Rarebooks] fa: GEORGE CANNING - POEMS 1757 + ANTI-LUCRETIUS 1756 - 2 Works in 1: Both SIGNED

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George Canning: Poems. [BOUND WITH:] A Translation of Anti-Lucretius. London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by J. Dodsley, J. Almon, T. Davies, T. Becket, J. Williams, W. Flexney, G. Kearsly, W. Nicoll, and Richardson and Urquhart, 1767, 1766. First editions. Two works bound in one volume; 4to (27.5 cm) in early/period mottled calf; [4], iii, [1], 91, [1] pp.; [10], 428 pp.; half-title to the first work, preliminary advertisement leaf to the second work. ESTC T114592; T114590.

Both works SIGNED on the dedication pages by the author. Binding well-rubbed with wear to the extremities, front board and front (blank) endpaper detached; small hole to title-page of second work; contents with occasional mild toning, scattered light spotting, else clean. Front paste-down with the large armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil [Lowther], Earl of Lonsdale.

The author was the father of the more famous George Canning (1770-1827), Tory statesman and Prime Minister. The senior Canning seems to have been something of a tragic figure. He "was disinherited by his father, in consequence, it seems, of some early attachment of which the family disapproved. He came to London in 1757,... was called to the bar in 1764, wrote for the papers, and published a translation of the 'Anti-Lucretius' (1766) and a collection of poems (1767). In 1768 he married Mary Anne Costello, a young lady of great beauty, but without any fortune, and, sinking under the burden of supporting himself and his family, died of a broken heart 11 April 1771 [a year to the day after the birth of his son]" (DNB).