(8vo), contemporary calf skillfully rebacked, black leather label, gilt rules and lettering. Probably the third edition, originally published as A Miscellany . . . in 1799, but the two authors constantly made changes to the text. NCBEL II, 692. A somewhat eccentric collection of verse, criticism, sketches and letters, by the Irish educator, anthologist and poet, Samuel Whyte (1733-1811), compiled in conjunction with his son, Edward Athenry. In addition to the review of Boswell's Life of Johnson are "letters from various members of the Sheridan family together with Whyte's successful petition to the Irish parliament in the early 1760s to have Thomas Sheridan, then a bankrupt skulking in France, released from his debts" - DNB online.
(8vo), contemporary calf skillfully rebacked, black leather label, gilt rules and lettering. Probably the third edition, originally published as A Miscellany . . . in 1799, but the two authors constantly made changes to the text. NCBEL II, 692. A somewhat eccentric collection of verse, criticism, sketches and letters, by the Irish educator, anthologist and poet, Samuel Whyte (1733-1811), compiled in conjunction with his son, Edward Athenry. In addition to the review of Boswell's Life of Johnson are "letters from various members of the Sheridan family together with Whyte's successful petition to the Irish parliament in the early 1760s to have Thomas Sheridan, then a bankrupt skulking in France, released from his debts" - DNB online.
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