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Printed for John Joseph Stockdal, 1807-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1807 18th Printing written anonymously by E S Barrett; this copy in an attractive modern hardback binding; this is the extended edition with 24 pages of prelims and 128 pages; very attractive frontispiece illustration

London: Stockdale, 1807. Paperback. Good. Disbound. The three dialogues by "Polypus" are a 12th edition, the fourth dialogue appears to be a first edition. Lacks any preliminary pages and Dialogue the Fourth lacks frontispiece. A previous owner has filled in the names that are left blank or that have only initials in the Three Dialogues but not the Fourth, which we find helpful and not at all a detraction. Barrett was an Irish author who composed mainly satirical verse.

Printed for John Joseph Stockdale, London, 1807. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half-leather with marbled covers, attached green sillk page-marker ribbon. Well-worn at spine-ends and corners. Front cover together with front end-paper is almost wholly detached, bounding is otherwise sound. Pencilled noted on inside of front cover and occasionally aagainst text with pencil underlining. Includes publisher's catalogue at rear. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05321101044. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

London: John Joseph Stockdale, 1807. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5". Rowlandson. A popular satirical poem by Eaton Stannard Barrett, focusing on the Whig governments of 1800 to 1807, illustrated with a Rowlandson frontispiece. The seventeenth edition, published in the same year as the first.Illustrated with a Rowlandson frontispiece.Half-title is present.Collated, lacking the front endpaper, otherwise, the work is complete.A satire by the Irish poet Eaton Stannard Barrett, written under the pen-name Polypus.In this political satire, Barrett pokes fun of the 1800 to 1807 Whig administration, at the time unofficially led by Charles James Fox and Viscount Howick.Barrett is best known today for 'The Heroine', a gothic comic novel admired by Jane Austen.Bookplate of Egerton Parker to the front pastedown. Parker was a teacher and house master at Hereford Cathedral School for over twenty years. Generally known as Ege Parker, he was passionate about the study of history. In a full marbled calf binding.… Read More

Seventeenth Edition, but the first edition of the completed work. Embellished with a Characteristic Frontispiece. John Joseph Stockdale. London. 1807. Octavo. xxiv, 152pp. Rowlandson engraved frontis. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Toning to title and frontis.
Provenance: Bookplate of B. Haigh Allen to fep. Signature of Bn. Haigh to title. Yorkshire financier, Benjamin Haigh Allen (1792-1829) was a personal friend of William Wilberforce and campaigner for abolition.
Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786–1820) poet, satirist. 'All the talents' is a political satire of the Whig coalition. Published parts, the later 'editions' were augmented by further dialogues. This is the first edition of the complete work.
"The coalition government formed in February 1806, following Pitt's death. Supposedly embracing 'All the Talents', it was composed of the followers of Lord Grenville and Charles Fox, bolstered by those of Lord Sidmouth (Addington). The resignation of the Talents in March 1807 was precipitated… Read More