Fables for Grown Gentlemen,: or, A Fable for every Day on the Week
by JOHN HALL-STEVENSON
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A CLOSE FRIEND OF LAWRENCE STERNE
HALL-STEVENSON, JOHN. Fables for Grown Gentlemen: or, A Fable for every Day on the Week.
4to. Disbound. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley. 1761. First Edition.
Hall-Stevenson was a friend of Laurence Sterne, and was immortalized in Sterne's Tristam Shandy and Sentimental Journey Through France and England. He also claimed friendship with John Wilkes, Horace Walpole and Rousseau.
Notorious for licentious verse, he published a Lyric Epistle (1760) to Sterne on the triumph of Tristram Shandy, which Gray called "absolute nonsense." Better known were his Fables for Grown Gentlemen. Horace Walpole credited Hall-Stevenson with "a vast deal of original humour and wit."
Hall-Stevenson gave some financial support to his friend Sterne, who often visited him at Skelton. They liked to race chariots over the sands at Saltburn.
Hall-Stevenson appears under the name of 'Eugenius' in Sterne's novels Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. The latter was unfinished at the time of Sterne's death, and Hall-Stevenson wrote a continuation entitled Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued: to Which Is Prefixed Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Sterne.
First and last pages slightly soiled, o/w a Fine Copy. Scarce.
HALL-STEVENSON, JOHN. Fables for Grown Gentlemen: or, A Fable for every Day on the Week.
4to. Disbound. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley. 1761. First Edition.
Hall-Stevenson was a friend of Laurence Sterne, and was immortalized in Sterne's Tristam Shandy and Sentimental Journey Through France and England. He also claimed friendship with John Wilkes, Horace Walpole and Rousseau.
Notorious for licentious verse, he published a Lyric Epistle (1760) to Sterne on the triumph of Tristram Shandy, which Gray called "absolute nonsense." Better known were his Fables for Grown Gentlemen. Horace Walpole credited Hall-Stevenson with "a vast deal of original humour and wit."
Hall-Stevenson gave some financial support to his friend Sterne, who often visited him at Skelton. They liked to race chariots over the sands at Saltburn.
Hall-Stevenson appears under the name of 'Eugenius' in Sterne's novels Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. The latter was unfinished at the time of Sterne's death, and Hall-Stevenson wrote a continuation entitled Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued: to Which Is Prefixed Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Sterne.
First and last pages slightly soiled, o/w a Fine Copy. Scarce.
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- Bookseller
- George Robert Minkoff, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7408
- Title
- Fables for Grown Gentlemen,
- Author
- JOHN HALL-STEVENSON
- Format/Binding
- Disbound
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1761
- Size
- 4to.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Tel: 413-528-4575.
E-mail: grm@minkoffbooks.com.
Authorized representative: George Robert Minkoff.
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