C. CORBETT, publisher A Discourse, very proper to be read at St. J [ ame ] s's London: C. Corbett, [1750?]. 8vo. (8½ x 5¼in; 216 x 131mm) (title affected by damp, and with section of blank area near upper corner eroded, also with two inch tear along outer margin), red calf for Goldman. Provenance : J.W. Goldman (binding and pasted-over bookplate; included in his sale at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 13, sold to Baxter for £8). ONLY RECORDED EDITION of this invective against the "universal corruption and luxury" of the age. The anonymous pamphleteer censures the fashionable world for "the greatest depravity of taste, contempt of all religion and principles ... gaming, robberies, murders, and every other vice under the sun" (pp. 3-4). That heroic ambition should have been replaced by an obsession with horse-racing, cricket and good-eating is interpreted as a sign of social degeneracy: "The same desire of fame, which inspired the heroes of Agincourt and Blenheim, makes their degenerate posterity ambitious to be talked of for a horse-race, a match at cricket, or a bill of fare; which more proclaims the extravagant fool, than man of taste" (p. 12). RARE. ESTC locates only 4 copies, all in North America.
C. CORBETT, publisher A Discourse, very proper to be read at St. J [ ame ] s's London: C. Corbett, [1750?]. 8vo. (8½ x 5¼in; 216 x 131mm) (title affected by damp, and with section of blank area near upper corner eroded, also with two inch tear along outer margin), red calf for Goldman. Provenance : J.W. Goldman (binding and pasted-over bookplate; included in his sale at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 13, sold to Baxter for £8). ONLY RECORDED EDITION of this invective against the "universal corruption and luxury" of the age. The anonymous pamphleteer censures the fashionable world for "the greatest depravity of taste, contempt of all religion and principles ... gaming, robberies, murders, and every other vice under the sun" (pp. 3-4). That heroic ambition should have been replaced by an obsession with horse-racing, cricket and good-eating is interpreted as a sign of social degeneracy: "The same desire of fame, which inspired the heroes of Agincourt and Blenheim, makes their degenerate posterity ambitious to be talked of for a horse-race, a match at cricket, or a bill of fare; which more proclaims the extravagant fool, than man of taste" (p. 12). RARE. ESTC locates only 4 copies, all in North America.
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