Poems. Containing the Rosciad, The Apology, Night etc. by Churchill Charles - 1763

London. Published for John Chruchill, (Executor to the late C. Churchill), and W. Flexney. 1766. Hardcover. 8vo, 21.5cm, The 3rd Edition, in 2 volumes, 369 & 330pp., complete with half titles, in full contemporary polished hard calf, real raised bands, new leather labels, hinges expertly repaired, some wear on the spine edges, a very good set in appealing contemporary binding, sound (Ho2.2). Charles Churchill, (1732 1764). English poet and satirist.

London: Printed For The Author, By Dryden Leach, 1763. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

London: Printed for the author, by Dryden Leach, 1763. First edition. Leather. Good Only. 11" by 9". None. A first collected edition of poetry from satirist Charles Churchill, bound with three further individually published poems from Churchill to the rear. The 1763 first edition of 'Poems', a collection of works from noted eighteenth century satirist and poet, Charles Churchill, which marked the first time these five poems - 'The Rosciad', 'The Apology', 'Night', 'The Prophecy of Famine', 'An Epistle to William Hogarth' and 'The Ghost' - were published in a single volume.Retaining the original half title and title page.Bound in to the rear are three further individually published poems from Churchill, each retaining the original half title and title page. These poems later appeared together as a second volume of 'Poems', in 1765.Present here are the 1763 first edition of 'The Author', the 1763 first edition of 'The Conference', and the 1764 first edition of 'The Duellist'.ESTC for 'Poems' T98756.… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, by Dryden Leach; and sold by W. Flexney, G. Kearsly, T. Henderson, J. Coote, J. Gardner, and J. Almon, 1763. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). Multiple works bound in one volume. The first part, [iv], 369 pages of text. Contains The Rosciad, The Apology, Night, The Prophesy of Famine, An An Epistle to William Hogarth, The Ghost In Four Books. Except for the first work, each work was issued with a half-title. The second part contains individually paginated works, each containing a half-title and a title page. They are: The Author [iv], 19 pages; The Conference (Second edition, 1764) [iv], 19 pages; The Duellist in Three Books (Second edition, 1764) [iv], 48 pages; Gotham Book I (1764) [iv], 24 pages; Gotham Book II (1764) [iv], 32 pages; The Candidate (1764) [iv], 38 pages. Original full leather binding with minor shelfwear, and front hinge cracking and weakened, remaining intact; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. Previous… Read More

London: Printed for the author, by Dryden Leach, 1763. First collected edition. [iv], 369, [1] pp., with half-title. 4to. Period half sheep and marbled boards. Small tear running through 297-339, without loss. First collected edition. [iv], 369, [1] pp., with half-title. 4to. The first collected edition of the works of this master of political verse. A second, posthumous volume was printed two years later. Rothschild 621

Printed for the Author by Dryden Leach. London; For John Churchill and W. Flexney. London. 1763; 1765. 2 volumes in 1, v.II with 11 parts. 4to.. pp. (iv), 369, (i); (vi), 19, (i); (ii), 19, (i); (ii), 48; (ii), 24; (ii), 32; (ii), 31, (i); (ii), 38; (ii), 24; (ii), 33, (i); 28; 8. Contemporary calf, now rather worn at edges and corners, spine gilt in panels and label chipped with some loss, scattered damp-marking at the margins, the final poem - THE JOURNEY - signed 'J.CHURCHILL' on the final line, a good copy with wide margins. *See ESTC #98756 and #98902 [Each poem in this volume has a separate half-title, pagination and register and all apart from 'The Candidate' and 'The Times' are apparently reissues, without title pages, of the separately published editions of 1764, and in the case of 'The Journey', of 1765. ].