31st Jul, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Aviation & Transport
 
  Lot 84
 

Law.- [Arbuthnot (John)]

Law.- [Arbuthnot (John)]

Law is a bottomless-pit: Exemplified in the case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who spent all they had in a law-suit. Printed from a manuscript found in the cabinet of the famous Sir Humphry Polesworth, 4 parts in one including John Bull in His Senses being the Second Part of…, issue with full stop after ‘edition’, a comma after ‘London’ and publisher’s address ‘near Stationer’s-Hall’ on the titlepage, catchword p.[3]: Nicholas; & John Bull in His Senses being the Third Part of…; An Appendix to John Bull Still in His Senses…, advertisement leaf; A Complete Key to the Four Parts of… and the Story of the St. Albans’s Ghost, the third edition corrected, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, upper board detached, rubbed and worn, [ESTC T29114; T121158; T22318, N4266], 8vo bound in 4to, John Morphew, 1712.

*** Printed from a manuscript found in the cabinet of the famous Sir Humphry Polesworth by John Arbuthnot. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) was a Scottish author and scientist, court physician (1705-14) to Queen Anne. He is best remembered for his five ‘John Bull pamphlets’ (1712), political satires on the Whig war policy, which introduced the character John Bull, the typical Englishman. With his friends, Swift, Pope, and Gay, Arbuthnot was a member of the Scriblerus Club, organized to ridicule false tastes in learning. Greatly admired in his time, Arbuthnot was called an unusual genius by Samuel Johnson, and Pope addressed to him the famous "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”.

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