Eccentric Tales. In Verse

Book Description

London: Printed for S. Tipper, 1808. [xvi], 140, [4]pp., sm. 8vo. Folding hand-colored engraved frontispiece by J.A. Atkinson, with the terminal publisher’s catalogue; occasional minor soiling. Bound with Charles Cotton’s Scarronides, Whitehaven: J. Dunn, 1776, 144pp., in early nineteenth-century half calf, spine label missing. First edition of an amusing series of poems, occasionally attribted to George Colman. The frontispiece illustrates the scene in “Tom Shuttle and Blousalinda” where the hapless husband peeking through the window sees There Blousalinda, full of joy, Confess’d by am’rous titters, Was sitting with the butcher’s boy Drinking of gin and bitters.

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