All the Talents! A Satirical Poem in Three Dialogues. London: For John Joseph Stockdale, 1807.
First edition.
Two works in one. Octavo. xv, [i], 81; 13, [1] pp., with 3 pages publisher’s advertisements in book one and 2 pages in book two. Half calf and marbled boards; binding worn, joints cracked but sound, interior is clean and bright.
(bound with)
[SAYERS, James] Elijah’s Mantle. A Poem. London: For John Joseph Stockdale, 1807.
First edition in book form of book two, which originally appeared a year earlier in the form of a broadside. Written as a tribute to the memory of the recently deceased Prime Minister William Pitt, this work is often erroneously attributed to poet James Canning.
Sayers (1748-1823) was a caricaturist and political propagandist. Unlike many of the satirists of his day, Sayers was a devoted supporter of Pitt, as is evident in the present work. His caricatures were known to sway elections, and are considered by many to have been the most politically influential of his time.
Fourth edition of book one, published in the same year as the first. A highly popular poem ridiculing the Whig administration, it was by far the most successful of Barrett’s political satires. It ran through nineteen editions, all printed in the same year as the first. Barrett (1786-1820) an Irish poet and satirist, wrote several other satirical works, including The Second Titan War Against Heaven and My Wife, What Wife?, as well as an epistolary novel entitled The Heroine.
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