THE ART OF POLITICKS, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry.

Edité par London: printed for Lawton Gilliver …, 1729

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8vo, pp. [ii], 45; plus an engraved frontispiece; in recent stiff paper wrappers. First edition. An exceptionally clever and amusing pastiche of the Ars Poetica. James Bramston (1694?-1743) was a Sussex clergyman with a reputation for wit and an ability to find favor in high places. This, his first published poem, was many times reprinted and anthologized. The object of the satire is simple enough: to expose the absurdities of contemporary political life, as expressed in Parliament, the press, and the literary world, without favoring any particular party or faction. The poem is full of allusions to contemporary celebrities -- Walpole and Pulteney, Addison and Thomas Tickell, Jacob Tonson and Edmund Curll, and Pope, Swift, and 'Johnny Gay'. Pope had already described Bramston in his Dunciad (1728) as a clever preacher, and he has praise for this poem in one of his letters. The Latin of Horace is printed at the foot of each page; the curious frontispiece, referring to the opening lines, has the face of a man, the mane of a gelding, the feathers of a macaw, the bosom of a lady, and the tale of a cod. The first attempt to sort out the various printings of this poem was by Iolo Williams, in his Points in Eighteenth-Century Verse (pp. 63-67): 'Of all the books investigated for the purposes of the present volume, that to give the most curious result is the successful imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry written by James Bramston. Mr. P. J. Dobell was kind enough to lend me, for examination, twelve copies of the poem, Messrs. Pickering and Chatto lent me five more, and I already possessed another. What was my surprise to find, on laying these eighteen copies together, that they belonged to at least six different editions, each of which, seen by itself, might pass for the first edition.' Williams's conclusions have essentially been accepted by Foxon, though the bibliography is made somewhat more complicated by the existence of copies with mixed sheets from different impressions. This first edition is the only printing to have the text paged separately from the preliminaries (often a positive sign of precedence); the woodcut ornament on the title-page is a head with scroll-work at the sides and a dish of flowers on top. What Williams did not notice is that some copies, as here, are printed on fine paper, with an eagle and crown watermark, as opposed to the letters 'FS'. Foxon cites a corresponding notice in the Monthly Chronicle: 'There's for the curious a small number on royal paper. Price 1s. 6d.' A very good copy, from the library of John Brett-Smith, with his pencilled note (but not recognizing that this is a copy on fine paper); as often, the plate is trimmed close at the left, touching the border. Foxon B384.

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Titre
THE ART OF POLITICKS, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry.
Auteur
[BRAMSTON, James.]
Éditeur
London: printed for Lawton Gilliver …
Année de publication
1729
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