Little Odes to Great Folks; with a dedicatory dithyrambic to Sir R-ch-rd Ph-ll-ps, Knight. By Pindar Minimus. With notes, critical and explanatory, by Sextus Sciblerus [sic],

London: Printed By W. Lewis, 1808. Book. 8vo, orig. plain boards. Pp. xii, 107, half-title; uncut. Folding engraved frontis. Spine lacking, threads secure; a fine copy within. First edition. A series of satirical squibs, the longest of which is the opening poem on Sir Richard Philips, the Jacobin publisher and vegetarian follower of Ritson, recently knighted; this is illustrated with the grimly memorable frontispiece, an infernal scene showing hungry authors and imps poised with forks and knives, ready to feast upon publishers and booksellers as they writhe over a fire on a hot grid iron. Other of Hood's targets include Lord Stanhope, William Roscoe, the Grenville family, and Samuel Whitbread. Although Hood's authorship is readily traceable in contemporary and biographical sources, the book is consistently catalogued under the Pindar pseudonym. See BLC, OCLC (UCDavis, Yale, Princeton, Emory, Purdue, UChicago; Cambridge, NLI) COPAC (Oxford, BL, Birmingham, Bistol, Cambridge.).