4V Set WORKS PETER PINDAR 1794-96 Wolcott Jamaica

Title: Works
Author: Peter Pindar
Publisher: John Walker
Printing Year: 1794-1796, complete four-volume set

Condition/Details: Bound in their original or period textured leather boards with gilt embossing, this antique set began as a three-volume set, published in 1794, a fourth volume was added in uniform binding and printing, in 1796. Peter Pindar was the pseudonym of John Wolcott, a physician by trade who had also taken holy orders, was a noted critic, and a great appreciator of art. In 1767, he went to Jamaica and was offered the lucrative living of St. Anne's, where the current parson was thought to be seriously ill. On the distinct possibility that the parson might die, Wolcott came back to England and took holy orders, only to find on his return to Jamaica that the expected, and what would have been for him timely, death of the aforementioned parson did not in fact occur; annoyingly he had recovered and Wolcott was instead offered the less lucrative living of Vere. He stayed there until the death of the governor, Sir William Trelawny, prompted his return home accompanying Trelawny's widow. These books are finely bound with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers, 3-sided gilting on the page edges, and the engraved frontispiece is present with its tissue guard. The volumes show some external age/wear, and are securely bound with weak hinges and bright pages, each book sports a period bookplate on the front endpaper, bearing the name "Fremantle". The books measure approximately 5.5" x 8.75". Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $12.50