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Mack, Ebenezer. The Cat-Fight. Sold at 350 Water-Street., New York, 1824.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: The Cat-Fight; A Mock Heroic Poem. Supported with Copious Extracts from Ancient and Modern Classic Authors. Green pebbled spine, brown boards. Worn on edges. Front hinge repaired with book tape. B/W frontis and three additional plates. Pages are toned and foxed. Deckle edges. A pencil doodle on last page. First US printing

Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.

Mack, Ebenezer. The Cat-Fight; A Mock Heroic Poem Supported with Copious Extracts from Ancient and Modern Classic Authors.. , 1824.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The Cat-Fight; A Mock Heroic Poem Supported with Copious Extracts from Ancient and Modern Classic Authors. By Doctor Ebenezer Mack, Illustrated with Five Engravings, Designed and Executed by D.C. Johnston of Philadelphia, Author from Recollection of “Mathews at Home, In La Diligence, Polly Packet,” &c. Sold at 350 Water-Street, New-York, 1824, 276 pp, hardcover, 8.25 x 5”, 8vo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor soiling to original boards. Some faint dampness staining to the edges of the boards. Splitting along front joint with small patch of loss at head. Manuscript spine label clean and intact. Rear board afflicted with heavier wear with cardboard exposed. Water ring stain on rear board with peeling. Rear joint cracked at head as well. End papers toned with scattered foxing. Some small areas of dampness staining at margins, scattered foxing throughout heavy at times. Free of known markings. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. The second book ever illustrated by the great American graphic artist, David Claypool Johnston,1798-1865, preceded only by "The History of Cockney Dandies" of 1819. The text is a concatenation of irrelevancies, mostly in verse. In the Introduction in verse, the author, Doctor Ebenezer Mack (1791-1849) promises numerous quotations, seemingly incoherently, from classical sources, both Latin and Greek and even from Camoens' great Portuguese Lusiad, then muses on the death of various cats, in verse. In Part One, two Irishmen, Jemmy O'Kain and Pat M'Hone, fight like cats, compete irrelevantly to the explanations of the author, mostly in couplets, while the couplets are attended by Notes, again mostly in verse, about 20 times the length of each couplet, full of classical references which seem to have no relevance to the hodge podge of a text. In Part Two, Subsequent Notes, the first section is called Patrick W[hack] O'Neal's Job of Journey-Work. It goes on in verse in the fashion of the Notes of Part One, with innumerable classical references without coherence, or, seemingly, significance.

Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.

MACK, EBENEZER.. The Cat-Fight; A Mock Heroic Poem. Supported with Copious Extracts from Ancient and Modern Classic Authors. Meant as Illustrative, though Some (Not So Immediately Relative) Pressed in by Medium of Their Intrinsic Merit; Making Something like What Has Been Termed a Narrow Rivulet of Text, and a Wide Extended Meadow of Notes. By Doctor Ebenezer Mack, Author of "Anatomy of Rhyme," &c. illustrated with Five Engravings, Designed and Executed by D. C. Johnston, of Philadelphia, Author, from Recollection, of "Matthew at Home, In La Diligence, Polly Packet," & Illustrated with five engraved plates, drawn and executed by David Claypool Johnston.. Sold at 350 Water-Street., New York, 1824.

Price: US$494.06 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 12mo. 276pp. 185x115mm. Contemporary calf, leather spine label, Engraved frontis and 4 engraved plates (one supplied in facsimile) . Bookplate of Raymund C. Keople. Covesr rubbed, upper cover nearly detached. Ref.: Malcolm Johnson, David Claypool Johnston American Graphic Humorist, 1798-1865, AAS, 1970, #176. Shoemaker 16972. The second book ever illustrated by the great American graphic artist, David Claypool Johnston, 1798-1865, preceded only by "The History of Cockney Dandies" of 1819 (see Johnson, David Claypool Johnston, AAS, 1970). The text is a concatenation of irrelevancies, mostly in verse. In the Introduction in verse, the author, Doctor Ebenezer Mack (1791-1849) promises numerous quotations, seemingly incoherently, from classical sources, both Latin and Greek and even from Camoens' great Portuguese Lusiad, then muses on the death of various cats, in verse. In Part One, two Irishmen, Jemmy O'Kain and Pat M'Hone,fight like cats, compete irrelevantly to the explanations of the author, mostly in couplets, while the couplets are attended by Notes, again mostly in verse, about 20 times the length of each couplet, full of classical references which seem to have no relevance to the hodge podge of a text. In Part Two, Subsequent Notes, the first section is called Patrick W[hack] O'Neal's Job of Journey-Work. It goes on in verse in the fashion of the Notes of Part One, with innumerable classical references without coherence, or, seemingly, significance.

Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom