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[FAZAKERLEY, J. (editor)] Poemata varia quorum nonnulla. Nunc primum in lucem eduntur, London: 1781, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed: "From Mr. Fazakerley to Mr. Nicholas, Bedford Street, Bedfd. Squ.," iv + 160pp., late 19th-century brown half morocco, Houghton crest to upper cover (rubbed), g.e. [ESTC does not locate any copy in the British Isles] -- Martin MADAN. Poemata partim reddita, partim scripta, [n.p.]: impresso anno 1784, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with a note to front blank stating: "Mingay's Given to him by the author," 128 + [4]pp., English text with Latin translation on facing pages for part of the work (lacks final errata leaf), later 19th-century calf with Lord Houghton's crest, pencil note to title reading "Not published." With a Latin translation of Thomson's "Winter," 79pp., extracted from Tempera Thomsoni in Latino versu reddita by Robert Christian Brownwell (London, ?1795), lacking title but with a contemporary inscription at front stating that the book was given by Lord Abingdon, and remarking that the "unfortunate" translator "was robbed and wounded by some footpads near Kennington, languished for some time & died of his wounds in 1789," similarly bound. [ESTC suggests a publication date of 1795; if the date of 1789 for Brownwell's death is correct, then publication of the translation was presumably posthumous] (3)
Provenance
The first work has a note at front stating that it was "bought at Scott's sale ...."; the following blank has an 11-line note attributing the work to Fazakerley, and revealing that it "was taken notice of by the Government who had intended to prosecute the author for the opinions contained in it; but from it having been written in Latin, and it's early suppression, the intention was dropped."