The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin Esq., containing his View of the Lancashire Dialect, With large Additions and Improvements; also, his Poem of The Flying Dragon, and The Man of Heaton; Together with other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse
by Bobbin, Tim (John Collier)
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About This Item
Manchester: J. Slack, 1818. Hardcover. 226pp. Full patterned calf stamped in gold on the front and the back panel, spine elaborately tooled in blind with black label lettered in gold affixed. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and nineteen inserted plates. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Napier Lawrence, Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate to front pastedown endpaper. Bound with Plebeian Politics, or the Principles and Practices of certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs Vulgarly Called Warrites. Printed and published by J. Slack, Manchester, 1818. 83pp. Frontispiece and six inserted plates. Mild edge wear else a fine copy. ; Octavo.
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- Title
- The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin Esq., containing his View of the Lancashire Dialect, With large Additions and Improvements; also, his Poem of The Flying Dragon, and The Man of Heaton; Together with other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse
- Author
- Bobbin, Tim (John Collier)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. Slack
- Place of Publication
- Manchester
- Date Published
- 1818
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, HUMOR, SATIRE, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND
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- Fiction and Literature;
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Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
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Schenectady, New York
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