[Smith, Horace and James]. Rejected Addresses: Or The New Theatrum Poetarum [Tenth Edition]. John Miller / John Ballantyne, London / Edinburgh, 1813.

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Condition: Good

Description: 127 pop + ads at rear. Original boards with paper spine label. Well worn but complete, hinges tight altho front hinge cracked at bottom. Ownership information of R. Hamilton, 5 SW Circus Pl., Edinburgh, on front cover.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Smith, James and Horatio. Rejected Addresses, or the new Theatrum Poetarum [bound with] Horace in London: Consisting of Imitations of the first Two Books of Horace. Printed for John Miller; Printed for John Miller and John Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, London, 1813.

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Description: First editions. Pp. [iii]-xiii, [3],126, [1 page publisher's advertisements; xi, [1], 173 lacking half-title in first work, contents leaf of the first work on a stub. 1 vols. 12mo. Parodies of contemporary poets including Byron, Moore, Coleridge, Southey, Scott, and Crabbe, apparently Campbell complained of not being included. The Coleridge piece has a slip tipped on noting Coleridge's death the 25th July 1834. Sadleir 3106; 3101 Later half green morocco, spine with a neat paper label showing a printer. Rubbed, spine faded to brown, ex-library with partially removed label on title, and first leaf endpapers and blanks at front and back removed, extensive manuscript notations (some contemporary, some cropped) and identifications in pen and pencil, splashmarks on pages 34, 35 and 38 of second work, well-read, else a very good copy Pp. [iii]-xiii, [3],126, [1 page publisher's advertisements; xi, [1], 173 lacking half-title in first work, contents leaf of the first work on a stub. 1 vols. 12mo

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Anon. [Smith, Horace & James].. 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 and Edinburgh: John Ballantyne. Printed by W Pople. 1813., 1813.

Price: US$192.49 + shipping

Description: First edition, 12mo., pp: [i-v],vi-viii,[ix],x-xi,[xii],[1]-173,[1],[4], final 4 pp of adverts loosely inserted at end, with the book label of Simon Nowell-Smith pasted to front pastedown endpaper and beneath that of Judith Adams Nowell-Smith. Nowell-Smith collation: " [A]6 B-H12 [1]3; no cancels. Pair of leaves ([K]2) sewn in at end, publisher's adverts. 'End of vol I' at foot of p.173 - why?" in original paper covered boards with paper title label to spine, worn at head & tail of spine, front board with weak hinge, lightly foxed endpapers, text crisp, very good. The second collaboration between the two brothers, following on the tremendous success of REJECTED ADDRESSES (1812). Although the text concludes "End op Vol. I " [sic], no further volume was published.

Seller: Offa's Dyke Books, LUDLOW, SALOP, United Kingdom