The Lousiad. WOLCOT (John).

SCARROT'S CIRCULATING LIBRARY, SHIFFNAL

The Lousiad, An Heroi-Comic Poem. Canto III. By Peter Pindar Esquire. With an Engraving by an Eminent Artist.

Engraved plate by Thomas Rowlandson.

First Edition. 4to. [282 x 225 x 14 mm]. [2]ff, 43pp. Bound in contemporary half calf, paste-paper covered boards, plain endleaves, uncut edges. (Spine and corners worn, sides rubbed).
London: printed for J. Evans, Paternoster-Row, 1791.

A number of names of the characters have been added in manuscript. A total of five cantos were published from 1785 to 1795.

Bound with: Ode Upon Ode; or, A Peep at St. James's; or, New-Year's Day; or, What You Will. By Peter Pindar, Esq.

Eighth Edition. 4to. 60, 63-66, 65-79, [1]. Uncut.
London: printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson's Head, No.46 Fleet Street, 1789.

First printed in 1787. Pages 25-26 have been torn horizontally in half but there is no loss. Light spotting and soiling to both works but good, unsopisticated and uncut copies with pleasant paste-paper covers. Inside the front cover is the label for "Scarrot's Circulating Library; Shiffnal" with the added information "Dealers in Perfumery & Patent Medicines". William Scarrot appears in the local Directory for 1791 as a printer and bookseller. Shifnal is a market town in Shropshire about four miles east of Telford. It is said to have been the inspiration for Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop and P. G. Wodehouse's fictional town of Market Blandings.

Stock no. ebc8269