Scripscrapologia Or Collinss Doggerel Dish Of All Sorts Consisting Of Songs Adapted To Familiar

by John Collins

$450 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Birmingham: by the Author, 1804. 12mo, xi, i 184 pp. Engraved portrait, with the half-title. Occasional spotting; expertly rebacked; still an attractive, untrimmed copy in the original drab boards. § First edition of this collection of provincial verse by John Collins 1742-1808 , the actor, poet and sometime bookseller who became noted in the last quarter of the 18th century for his somewhat eccentric performances which combined recitations of his own light

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