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c. 1800 Cooke Pocket Ed. Scottish POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM FALCONER & WM MICKLE

Description: Title: (1) The Poetical Works of William Falconer with the Life of the Author; (2) The Poetical Works of William Mickle, with the Life of the Author. Two books bound as one. Author: (1) William Falconer; (2) William Mickle. Series: Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select Novels, or Novelist's Entertaining Library. Charles Cooke was a London bookseller who capitalized on the English demand for pocket editions of poetry in the late eighteenth century. According to Cooke's catalog, “The Size of the Volumes that compose this Pocket Library, is Octo-decimo, or Eighteens ... It therefore forms a happy medium between the Extremes of diminutive Inconvenience and ponderous Inutility; and is thereby rendered as commodious for the Pocket, as it is ornamental to the Book Cafe. Each Volume, from its convenient Size, forms an agreeable Travelling Companion, adapted for Amusement at the Fire-side, and equally commodious for passing leisure Hours, when Nature and the Season invite us abroad.” Publisher: Printed for C. Cooke, London. Publication Date: ca. 1800 (although undated, Cooke's Editions were published between 1794 and 1805). Format: hardcover; three-quarter leather; marbled paper on boards; banded spine; gilt embellishments and title on spine. Length: (1) 104 pages; (2) 135 pages. Size: approximately 3 3/4" by 5 3/4" Illustrations: (1) 2 engraved plates; one a foldout of "a merchant ship with her masts, yards, sails, & rigging", illustrative of the poem of the shipwreck; 1 small floral engraving at the last page; (2) 2 engraved plates (bearing dates of 1799) and several small floral engravings at the end of poems. Description: William Falconer (1732-1770) was a Scottish epic poet concerned mainly with life at sea. He also compiled a dictionary of marine terms. Falconer was a sailor, serving as a midshipman on the Royal George and as purser on the Frigate Glory and on the HMS Swiftsure. His most famous poetical work was The Shipwreck, originally published in 1762. Falconer was a passenger on the frigate Aurora when it was lost at sea en route to India. William Julius Mickle (1734-1788) was a Scottish poet. Born William Meikle in Scotland he inherited his father's Edinburgh brewery in 1757. After it failed financially in 1763, Mickle secretly moved to London, changed the spelling of his last name, and embarked on a literary career. He was corrector for the Clarendon Press, Oxford, from 1765 to 1772. Condition: The binding is intact, but the leather on the joints is lightly cracked. The cover is rubbed and bumped. The inside front cover and facing endpaper have ink jottings. Another endpaper has pencil writing. The pages are toned.

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Year Printed: 1800

Topic: Poetry

Subject: Poetry

Original/Facsimile: Original

Language: English

Place of Publication: London

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