Title: The pursuits of literature. A satirical poem in four dialogues. With notes. The tenth edition
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. iv, 445, [1].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The first dialogue was first published in 1794, the second and third in 1796, and the fourth in 1797. This copy is from the collection of G. Hilder Libbis, who has bound in a typescript copy of George Steevens’s satirical verses on Mathias. The passages relating to W. H. Ireland have been drastically revised, with added commentary. See Bib# 4103285/Fr# 567 in this collection for the original verses.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991036931239707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>