Collected Works of Peter Pindar in Three Volumes. Published in London and Printed for G. Kearsley. 1780-94:
A very rare sammelband of works preceding the published first collected edition of Pindar's works which appeared in 1794. A seemingly completely unique assortment of Pindar's works bound together, listed below with their various dates comprising a wide range of 14 years.
An Apologetic Postscript to Ode Upon Ode. Or a Peep at Saint James's. MDCCLXXXVII (1787).
Peter's Pension. A Solemn Epistle to a Sublime Personage. With an Engraving by an Eminent Artist. Third Edition. MDCCLXXXVIII (1788).
Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat; Alais the Progress of Curiosity; Alias a Birth-Day Ode; Alias Mr. Whitbread's Brewhouse. The Eighth Edition. MDCCLXXXVIII (1788).
Subjects for Painters. By Peter Pindar, Esquire. A New Edition. MDCCLXXXIX (1789).
Expostulatory Odes to a Great Duke, and a Little Lord. A New Edition. MDCCLXXXIX (1789).
A Poetical Epistle to a Falling Minister; Also an Imitation of the Twelfth Ode of Horace. A New Edition. MDCCLXXXIX (1789).
A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to James Boswell, Esq. On His Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with the Celebrated Dr. Johnson. The Tenth Edition. MDCCLXXXIX (1789).
A Benevolent Epistle to Sylvanus Urban, Alias Master John Nichols, Printer, Common-Councilman of Farringdon Ward, and Censor General of Literature: Not Forgetting Master William Hayley. To Which is Added an Elegy to Apollo; Also Sir Joseph Banks and the Boiled Fleas, an Ode. A New Edition. MDCCXC (1790).
A Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, Esq. The Abyssinian Traveller: The Second Edition. MDCCLXC (1790).
Seventh Edition, with Considerable Additions. The Wreck of Westminster Abbey, Being a Section from the Monumental Records of the Most Conspicuous Personages, Who Flourished Towards the Latter End of the Eighteenth Century, and Which, from Their Impartiality, Have Ever Been Considered a Convincing Testimony of the Independence of the Age; Including, Among Many Others, the Following Royal, Noble, and Literary Personages... By the Author of Kilkhampton Abbey. London: Printed for Charles Stalker. MMI (error, frontis dated 1788).
A Rowland for an Oliver; Or a Poetical Answer to the Benevolent Epistle of Peter Pindar. Also the Manuscript Odes, Songs, Letters, &c. &c. of the Above Mr. Peter Pindar, Now First Published by Sylvanus Urban. MDCCXXC (1780).
A Benevolent Epistle to Sylvanus Urban, Alias Master John Nichols, Printed, Common-Councilman of Farringdon Ward, and Censor General of Literature: Not Forgetting Master William Hayley. To Which is Added, an Elegy to Apollo; Also Sir Joseph Banks and Boiled Fleas, an Ode. MDCCXC (1790).
The Rights of Kings; Or, Loyal Odes to Disloyal Academicians. A New Edition. MDCCXCI (1791).
Odes to Mr. Paine, Author of "Rights of Man;" on the Intended Celebration of the Downfall of the French Empire, By a Set of British Democrates, on the Fourteenth of July. A New Edition. MDCCXCI (1791).
The Rights of Kings; Or, Loyal Odes to Disloyal Academicians. MDCCXCI (1791).
A Commiserating Epistle to James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale and Lowther, Lord Lieut. and Cust. Rot. of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. A New Edition. MDCCXCI (1791).
The Remonstrance. To Which is Added, an Ode to My Ass: Also, the Magpie and Robin, a Tale; An Apology for Kings; and an Address to My Pamphlet. A New Edition. MDCCXCI (1791).
A Pair of Lyric Epistles to Lord Macartney and His Ship. A New Edition. MDCCXCII (1792).
Odes to Kien Long, the Present Emperor of China; with the Quakers, a Tale; To a Fly, Drowned in a Bowl of Punch; Ode to Macmanus, Townsend, and Jealous, the Thief-Takers; To Caelia.- To a Pretty Milliner. - To the Fleas of Teneriffe. - To Sir William Hamilton. - Tp My Candle, &c. &c. &c. A New Edition. MDCCXCII (1792).
Odes of Importance, &c. To the Shoemakers; To Mr. Burke; To Irony; To Lord Lonsdale; To the King; To the Academic Chair; To a Margate Hoy; Old Simon, a Tale; The Judges, or the Wolves, the Bear, and Inferior Beasts, a Fable. MDCCXCII (1792).
The Tears of St. Margaret: Also, Odes of Condolence to the High and Mighty Musical Directors, on Their Downfall. To Which is Added, the Address to the Owl. Likewise, Mrs. Robinson's Handkerchief, and Judge Buller's Wig; A Fable. Also, the Churchwarden of Knightsbridge; Or, the Feast on a Child. A New Edition. MDCCXCII (1792).
More Money! Or, Odes of Instruction to Mr. Pitt: With Variety of Other Choice Matters. A New Edition. MDCCXCII (1792).
Pathetic Odes. The Duke of Richmond's Dog Thunder, and the Widow's Pigs - a Tale: The Poor Soldier of Tilbury Fort: Ode to Certain Foreign Soldiers: Ode to Eastern Tyrants: The Frogs and Jupiter - a Fable: The Diamond Pin and Candle - a Fable: The Sun and the Peacock - a Fable. MDCCXCIV (1794).
More Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians by Peter Pindar, Esq. A Distant Relation of the Poet of Thebes, and Laurent to the Academy. The Third Edition. MDCCLXXXVI (1786).
Lyric Odes, for the Year 1785. A New Edition. MDCCLXXXVI (1786).
Farewell Odes. For the Year 1786. Third Edition. MDCCLXXXVI (1786).
Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians, for MDCCLXXXII. The Fifth Edition, Enlarged. 1787.
The Lousiad. An Heroi-Comic Poem. Canto I. Eight Edition, with Considerable Additions. MDCCLXXXVIII (1788).
The Third Edition. The Lousiad. An Heroi-Comic Poem. Canto II. With an Engraving by an Eminent Artist. MDCCLXXXVII (1787).
Peter's Prophecy; Or, the President and Poet; Or, an Important Epistle to Sir J. Banks, on the Approaching Election of a President of the Royal Society. With an Etching by an Eminent Artist. Third Edition. MDCCLXXXVIII (1788).
The Fifth Edition, with Considerable Additions. Ode Upon Ode; Or a Peep at St. James's; or New-Year's Day; or What You Will. MDCCLXXXVII (1787).
A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest, and Affecting Epistle to Those Literary Colossuses, with Reviewers. A New Edition. MDCCLXXXVII (1787).
Brother Peter to Brother Tom. An Expostulatory Epistle. MDCCLXXXVIII (1787).
Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco. A Tale. Third Edition. MDCCLXXXVIII (1788).
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Provenance:
Gift inscription dated 1864 and ownership inscription dated 1845.
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Size: 217 x 264 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[half title, title, 24pp., title, 2pp., 47pp., 5pp., title, iii-iv, 29pp., 1pp., title, 1pp., 105pp., 2pp., title, pp.3-56, half title, title, pp.5-30, 2pp., half title, title, 22pp. 1pp., title, 2pp., 34pp., 2pp., title, i-ii, 39pp., 2pp., half title, title, i-viii, 2pp., pp.11-60pp.]; [title, 50pp., title, 2pp., 34pp., 2pp., title, 2pp., 70pp., title, 10pp., title, 2pp., 70pp., title, 2pp., 23pp., 1pp., half title, title, 63pp., 1pp., half title, title, 1pp., 22pp., 1pp., title, 77pp., 1pp., title, 72pp., half title, title, 1pp., i-vi, 47pp., 1pp., title, 1pp., 59pp., 1pp., title, i-ii, pp.3-52, 1pp., title, pp.5-16, 1pp.]; [half title, title, pp.3-31, 1pp., half title, title, 52pp., half title, title, 64pp., title, pp.3-36pp., half title, plate, title, 2pp., pp.7-41, 3pp., plate, half title, 1pp., 45pp., 1pp., half title, plate, title, 52pp., title, 1pp., plate, v-x, pp.11-79pp. 1pp., title, pp.3-10, title, iii-iv, 49pp., 2pp., half title, title, plate, pp.5-27, 1pp.]
Spines rubbed and worn with some loss. Volume two lacking a large fragment of the backstrip. All but one tooled label lacking with wear and small fragments lacking. Dulling to gilt on spines. All boards but the front board of volume one and the rear board of volume two loosely attached with cracked joints and hinges; some blinding strings are also broken. Front board of volume one and the rear board of volume two detached. Front board of volume three mostly detached. Tail cap detached from volume one. Boards scuffed and rubbed. Sticker remnants on the front board of volume three. Shelf and edge wear. Dulling to page edges. Pen inscriptions on preliminary and first title page in all volumes. Text blocks very clean with very light toning to edges and very sporadic very minor foxing. Small number of pages with more prominent foxing or marks. Small piece of paper attached to pp.60 of the Rights of Kings in volume three.
[ESTC T022208 ; OCLC 5524496; MMSID 9932416793804341].
