GNUDI, Giovanni BattistaMareMagnum
Caps Well Fit: or Select Epigrams Serious and Comic. By Titus in Sandgate and Titus everywhere
1785réf. 61789Newcastle: T. Angus 1785. First Edition. First printing. 18mo 14.5cm. Contemporary half brown calf with brown paper over boards gilt rules to spine titled in gilt on red leather spine label; later endleaves; 1-190 i.e. 180pp with pp. 164-180 mispaginated as 174-190. A-P6. Lacking the final leaf of errata. A sound copy with minor external wear some internal browning small marginal loss to H2 just affecting text lacking the errata leaf but otherwise complete: around Very Good. A rather obscure long poem satirizing contemporary British political and social life in 172 numbered stanzas. According to Richard Oliver Heslop Northumberland Words 1892 "Titus" is the pseudonym of a William Hilton identified as "William Hilton of the Customs." The work per Heslop "includes a few dialect words." HESLOP Northumberland Words appendix: Bibliographical List of Works Illustrative of the Dialect of Northumberland p.22. ESTC T3168. T. Angus unknown
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