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WILLOUGHBY BERTIE, EARL OF ABINGDON
An Adieu to the Turf: A Poetical Epistle from the E[ar]l of A[bingdo]n to his Grace the A[rchbisho]p of Y[or]k
London: M. Smith, 1778. 4to., with half-title (some marginal browning and waterstaining), modern morocco-backed marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION. Three editions were published in the same year. On-line ESTC locates three copies of the first edition, only one in the UK (Bodleian). The author describes his mis-spent youth (p. 3): "I laugh'd at grammar, Latin, Greek/I learnt to swear, ere I could speak--" When scarcely fourteen, he was lured away from "more childish cricket" to make "am'rous play" with women, confessing: "I only strove to hit their wicket,/And put-out every maid". Padwick 863 -3.
An Adieu to the Turf: A Poetical Epistle from the E[ar]l of A[bingdo]n to his Grace the A[rchbisho]p of Y[or]k
London: M. Smith, 1778. 4to., with half-title (some marginal browning and waterstaining), modern morocco-backed marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION. Three editions were published in the same year. On-line ESTC locates three copies of the first edition, only one in the UK (Bodleian). The author describes his mis-spent youth (p. 3): "I laugh'd at grammar, Latin, Greek/I learnt to swear, ere I could speak--" When scarcely fourteen, he was lured away from "more childish cricket" to make "am'rous play" with women, confessing: "I only strove to hit their wicket,/And put-out every maid". Padwick 863 -3.
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