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Edité par London: Printed for A. Moore; and Sold by the Booksellers and Pamphlet-Shops in London and Westminster, [second work: London: Printed by A. Moore, for the Ghost of Phil. Horneck, at the Sign of Dr. Hermodactyll s Head, 1730., 1730
Vendeur : Stuart Bennett Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, Charleston, SC, Etats-Unis
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Two works in one volume: viii, 24pp. including the half-title; and 28pp., 8vo. Nice copies, bound together in neat modern half calf over modern boards, gilt spine label. Tiny circular inkstamps of the Selbourne Library, dispersed by Bonhams in 2015. First edition of both works, political satires with false imprints, and with so much detail about medical quackery that a modern reader (for which read "the present cataloguer") might easily be fooled. But in fact both pamphlets purpose seems to be to attack those opposing the Hanoverian monarchy, and also Jacobites and Catholics generally; various Tory ministers are lampooned as quack doctors, with the Earl of Oxford appearing as Hermodactyl, and Bolingbroke as Harry Gambol. The reference to Philip Horneck in the "imprint" of the second work is due to his original authorship in 1715 of The High German Doctor, and of course the poem at the end of the first work, about Edward II s favorite Pierce Gaveston, is an overtly political and cautionary tale. Five copies of the first work in ESTC: Bodleian, British Library, Harvard, National Library of Medicine, and University of Minnesota; and eight copies of the second work.