OLD NICK'S POCKET BOOK OR HINTS FOR "A RYGHTE PEDANTIQUE ANDE MAGLEINGE" PUBLICATION TO BE CALLED "MY POCKET BOOK" BY HIMSELF
Book Details + Condition: For J. Moyes (London). First Edition, 1808. Very scarce - only a small handful are known to exist throughout the world. Hardcover octavo measuring 7" x 4.25", with original printed paper-covered boards. 112 pages. Includes engraved folding (16.25" x 11") frontispiece. Edward Dubois (1774 - 1850) was a literary critic and man of letters in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. "My Pocket Book" is Dubois' literary satire and critique of Sir John Carr's "The Stranger in Ireland; Or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, In the Year 1805". The frontispiece is captioned "Old Nick's Pastime", and shows Dubois as the Devil destroying Carr's book, while offering torn pages to the Butchers' Company, who enter through a door labeled "Mangling Done Here." Interior hinges cracked but binding is firm; wear and rubbing to original printed boards; binding tape to spine; inside boards are worn and rubbed; toning to pages; old water stain to interior lower hinge of last few pages; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. Folding frontis has some rips to edges, with old newspaper clippings affixed to back, perhaps for securing the paper.
