1798 · London
by [Mathias, Thomas James]
London: printed for T. Becket, Pall Mall, 1798. 8vo, pp. [4], iii, [1], 443, [5] ads and errata; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; light extremity wear but generally a very good, sound copy and a very nice example of a book in boards. His chief work was The Pursuits of Literature (1794), an undiscriminating satire on his literary contemporaries that went through 16 editions, but is now almost forgotten. "The first dialogue of the ‘Pursuits of Literature’ came out in May 1794, the second and third in June 1796, and the fourth in July 1797. The ‘fifth edition, revised and corrected,’ was published in (truncated)