COLMAN, George. 'The Betuliad', [c.1810]. 19pp, 4°, manuscript poem on paper written in ink, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf with gilt wheatsheaf emblem, gilt spine with title panel, armorial bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. From the library of Richard Monkton Milnes, Lord Houghton (according to pencil inscription).

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COLMAN, George. 'The Betuliad', [c.1810]. 19pp, 4°, manuscript poem on paper written in ink, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf with gilt wheatsheaf emblem, gilt spine with title panel, armorial bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. From the library of Richard Monkton Milnes, Lord Houghton (according to pencil inscription).
Together with a one-page octavo autograph letter, signed 'G. Colman', 18 July 1796, to Mr Bellamy (Thomas Bellamy, editor of Bellamy's Picturesque Magazine and Literary Museum), refusing to have his picture printed in the magazine but assuring him 'my objection by no means goes to your particular work'.
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Taking as it's motto 'The Schoolmaster's Joy is to Flog', this poem by George Colman the Younger (1762-1836) extols the pleasures of flagellation in the schoolroom. As a schoolmaster, he describes with relish the various boys he has flogged and comments that even 'Mid folks of high degree, the rod's astir/At Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Westminster - Six days in seven making due sensation/Among the best posteriors of the nation'. At the last he exorts 'Parents! Schoolmasters! Guardians! Do your best/Never to let the rod in torpor rest'.

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