Trivia or the Art of Walking the Streets of London

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London: printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cantankerous-Keys between the Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet, 1716. First Edition. Morocco. Fine. First Issue, large-paper copy (engraved headpiece on p. i depicts a street scene, non a phoenix, with elaborate engraved ornaments, not printer's ornaments, on pp. 21 and 53.) of John Gay'south mock fake of Virgil's Georgics. 8vo: [four],fourscore,[12]pp. Total maroon morocco by Riviere, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands and lettered in gilt, renewed marbled end papers, obviously paper fly leaves, all edges gilt. Lintott printed 2000 ordinary copies and a further 250 on fine paper, of which our copy is one. A Dublin edition and three other London editions appeared the same year. Fine. Hayward 142. Foxon G82 (fine-paper). Ashley II, p. 135. Rothschild 914 (the statement in Haywood, that "there are 2 leaves, G7 and G8, blank and genuine, is incorrect"). Bowyer Ledgers 281. Faber, p. 57. Dearing (ed), John Gay. Poetry and Prose 546. ¶ Trivia (later on the goddess of streets, not the modern meaning, of trifles or unimportant matters) takes Virgil's Georgics as an ironic model for a mock account of outdoor life in London to satirise the noise, stench and danger of contemporary life on its streets. "Though there had been imitations of Virgil'due south pedagogy, there had been nix of the scope, nor any that had hit upon the real idea, of Trivia: to imitate in mock, non just one or another of Virgil's prescriptions, simply the unabridged work." (Dearing). "Gay'southward satiric thrust is aimed both at idle aristocratic Londoners of the 24-hour interval, at i extreme of the form organization, and at loud and aggressive labourers at the other. The playful irony that runs through the verse form is intended to entreatment to educated readers, who would appreciate the poet'due south witty allusions to the classics. Gay treats London'due south streets as a mock parallel to Virgil'due south farm in the Mantuan countryside, contrasting the contemporary foot-traveller in London, struggling against his surround, with Virgil'due south rural farmer in full accord with his." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (ever identified), we just stock books in infrequent status. All orders are packaged with intendance and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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