Gray ghost inn (8 resultados)

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Two volumes in one, 4to, volume I: pp. [iv], 369; volume II: [vi], 19, [1]; [ii], 19, [1]; [ii], 48; [ii], 24; [ii], 32; [ii], 31; [ii], 38; [ii] blank, 24; [ii], 33; 28; 8; with contemporary MS notes (see below), mostly in the second volume; some dampstaining at the end, but internally a very decent copy, bound in contemporary full calf, spine gilt (joints cracked, but cords sound), morocco label. An intriguing copy of Charles Churchill's poems, published by his brother John, after the poet's early death at Boulogne on 4 November 1764. Churchill 'blazed the comet of a season' (in Byron's words) in the early 1760s, publishing 14000 lines of verse in less than four years. This copy has the contemporary booklabel of 'Mann Hutchesson, Wisbich', and his inscription on the free endpaper, dated 7 January 1766. This man was one of the original members of the Wisbech Literary Society, founded at the house of Jonathan Peckover in 1781. The town in Cambridgeshire was an important fenland trading place in the 18th century, and the centre of radicalism, being the birthplace of both Thomas Clarkson and William Godwin. Mann Hutchesson was town bailiff in 1788, and the author of An Introduction to the Charter of Wisbech, published in the town in 1791. Hutchesson has taken a considerable interest in the contents of this book, and has transcribed on the endpaper the text of Churchill's will, and other biographical information; and on pp. 3-5 of the first volume he has added some footnotes. He has been much more diligent in the second volume, which is made up of separately-paginated poems, adding footnotes on about fifty pages, often identifying contemporary allusions to figures such as David Hume and John Brown (pp. 6-7 of The Journey). The final page here is signed by the author's brother John, 'J. Churchill', as in other copies, presumably to guarantee authenticity. John Churchill was a surgeon-apothecary, and a politician in Westminster. Hutchesson has added underneath this the date of his death, 7 May 1799.…

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