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DANIEL, GEORGE.

The Modern Dunciad, Virgil in London and Other Poems.

Place and Imprint: London: William Pickering, 1835.
Edition: First edition.
Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 1276.
Condition: Cloth a little soiled; edges repaired; the recent printed paper label is a skillful facsimile of the original; very good copy.
Book ID: 28352

Physical Description

12mo, original blue cloth and recent printed paper spine label.

Comments

A selection of the poetry of the interesting writer and book collector George Daniel (1789-1864), including his well-known version of Pope's famous satire, moderinized to lampoon the Romantics and their contemporaries: Byron, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Croker, Barrett, the Edinburgh Review, Cobbett, Godwin, the Minerva Press, Bowles, Crabbe, Bloomfield and even his fellow bibliophile, Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Daniel was a versatile writer and a noted collector of Elizabethan literature and theater.

Price: $225.00