[WAGSTAFFE (William)]MareMagnum
869 Ergebnisse
First edition, 24pp., disbound, a very good copy. A brilliant parody ridiculing the two numbers in Addison's 'Spectator' which praise 'Chevy Chase'. The poem on which Wagstaffe focuses critical attention is the old ballad of 'Tom Thumb, his Life and Death' ("in Arthur's Court Tom Thumb did live" - STC 24115, Wing T1789A-1790B), a work "proper to adorn the shelves of Bodley or the Vatican". This powerful essay, full of mock learning ("I have consulted Monsieur Le Clerk and my Friend Dr. B---ly"), textual criticism (having collated "all the Manuscripts.... also an Arabick Copy.... I find it an Interpolation"), Virgilian parallels and critical acclaim for the ballad's supposed "Poetical Genius" and emotions "that may move the Mind of the most polite Reader, with the inward Meltings of Humanity". Suggestions that this piece may have sufficient literary merit to suppose that Swift must have had a hand in it may be discounted Wagstaffe was a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whether he was also an original satirist influenced by Swift is open to question, but he certainly must have met him quite frequently at the house of his father-in-law, Charles Bernard. Teerink-Scouten, 484 ("doubtful").
First edition, contemporary name on title, advertisement leaf at end, 50, [2] pp., modern marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover. Kress, 2750.
First Edition, cont. signature of W. Foster (cropped) on upper blank margin of title, Ms. note by W. Foster in a blank margins of two leaves, 90pp., disbound. "Advertisement to Church-wardens" on p. 90. Brief history of the intrigues and insolence, of English Convocations under the papacy, till restrain'd by King Henry VIII.
Third Edition, half-title, light water-stain on lower third of text, 38 pp., disbound.
Second Edition, 72 pp., disbound. Sometimes attributed to William Pittis and to Francis Atterbury. 'The secret history of the White Staff' is by Daniel Defoe.
First edition, iv, 127, [1]pp., title and last page dusty the rest of the text clean, iv, 127, disbound. L, C, O, Lmh and IEN copies in the ESTC.
First Edition, 4to, drop-head title, lower edge of 4pp. cropped with the loss of a few words, 15, [1] pp., disbound. Wing, E3872.
First separate edition, 60pp., lacking lower wrapper, disbound. Reprinted from the 'Therapeutic Gazzette', May 15 and June 15, 1889. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First separate edition, 22pp., lacking lower wrapper, disbound. Reprinted from 'The Medical News', June 15, 1889. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First edition, 36pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First separate edition, 6pp., lacking lower wrapper, disbound. Reprinted from 'Brian,' vol. 8, 1885-86. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First separate edition, 5, [1]pp., lacking lower wrapper, central crease, margins a little soiled and chipped (not effecting text), disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First edition, 31, [1]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First edition, 12mo, 16pp., orig. printed wrappers, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Not recorded on Copac.
48pp., disbound. A fund established by the London Lord Mayor to work more closely with Pasteur in Paris (inoculation, rabies, letters of testimony, tables of success rates, etc.). Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
14pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First separate edition, 32pp., author's presentation copy, lacks lower wrapper. Reprinted from the 'Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosophical Society,' Vol. 6. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First separate edition, 15, [1]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First separate edition, 40pp., lacks lower wrapper, disbound. Reprinted from 'The Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal', December, 1888. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Copac a single copy at the Royal College of Surgeons.
First separate edition, 5, [1]pp., disbound. Reprinted from the 'Dublin Journal of Medical Science', September, 1880. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. No other copy located.
5, [1]pp., caption title, disbound. Communicated to the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society on 20th May 1868, reprinted from the 'Edinburgh Medical Journal, for July 1868. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
82pp., 8 illustrs., in the text, title page lightly chipped at margins, some underlining with a couple notes in MS. disbound. Reprinted from the 'Monthly Journal of Medical Science', 1850. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
12 parts iv, 18, 19, 19, 23, 25, 18, 18, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19pp., each tract has separate title page dated 1853 or 1854 and of various editions, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
19, [1]pp., author's presentation inscription at head of title page, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.