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COLMAN (George):

POETICAL VAGARIES; CONTAINING AN ODE TO WE, A HACKNEY'D CRITICK; LOW AMBITION, OR THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. DAW; A RECKONING WITH TIME; THE LADY OF THE WRECK, OR CASTLE BLARNEYGIG; TWO PARSONS, OR THE TALE OF A SHIRT.

London: for the Author 1812. First edition. The poems of the extravagant and colourful younger Colman (1762-1836) - still "very humorous and some of them extravagantly indecent" (DNB). Post 4to. Bound (without half-title), in a contemporary full calf, now rebacked, refurbished and restored in a stout and functional morocco; some spots, slight marginal discolouration to rear, but a very good and well-margined copy.

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