The pursuits of literature. A satirical poem in four dialogues. With notes. The seventh edition, revised

by Thomas James Mathias

$300 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed for T. Becket, Pall Mall, 1798. 8vo, pp. 4 , iii, 1 , 443, 5 ads and errata; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; light extremity wear but generally a very good, sound copy and a very nice example of a book in boards. His chief work was The Pursuits of Literature 1794 , an undiscriminating satire on his literary contemporaries that went through 16 editions, but is now almost forgotten.

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