SIX PASTORALS: videlicet, I. The Country Lovers. II. The Contest. III. Winter. IV. Two Boys. V. The Complaint of Daphnis. VI. The Happy Meeting. To which are are added, Two Pastoral Songs.

SMITH, George.

Edité par London printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1770

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4to, pp. iv, 47; title page a little dusty, and small repair at foot touching imprint; else a good copy; disbound. First edition. George Smith (1717-76) was a landscape painter, one of three brothers who all found success as artists: he is often known as 'George Smith of Chichester' as he and his brothers were very much identified with the town. At the time, the Gentleman's Magazine reviewed the book thus: 'Mr Smith is a landscape painter of great eminence at Chichester And though his pen is not to be put in competition with his pencil, we must nevertheless acknowledge, that it is calculated to produce very pretty pictures'. The poems were not reprinted at the time, but in 1811, long after his death, his daughters arranged for a new edition. This one includes two 'Pastoral Songs' at the end, which are not in the later edition. The first of these pastorals, The Country Lovers, is reprinted in full by Roger Lonsdale in the New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (no. 365). There is a short list of errata on p. iv, to which a contemporary hand has added two more (one correcting 'Landschape' to 'Landscape' on the title page). The same hand has altered the copy reproduced by ECCO, and it may be that all copies are similarly corrected. Bowyer Ledgers 4830, showing that 500 copies were printed.

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• Titre: SIX PASTORALS: videlicet, I. The Country Lovers. II. The Contest. III. Winter. IV. Two Boys. V. The Complaint of Daphnis. VI. The Happy Meeting. To which are are added, Two Pastoral Songs.
• Éditeur: London printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall
• Date de parution: 1770
• Reliure: Couverture souple
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