[Wolcot (John)], A Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, Esq...

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[Wolcot (John)], A Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, Esq. The Abyssinian Traveller: By Peter Pindar Esq., second edition, London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1790, [2], ii, 39, [1]pp (publisher's advert), 20th c in-keeping marbled papered boards, 4to; Brendon (Piers), Thomas Cook: 150 Years of Popular Tourism, London: Secker & Warburg, 1991, de luxe edition, half-title, signed and numbered by the author, copy no. 165/250, b/w plates, finely bound in original black morocco, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, cartographic map endpapers, 8vo, (2) 

The first is a satire concerning James Bruce and the publication of his Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile which was printed in 1790. The poem particularly relates to the attacks on "Abyssinian" Bruce by James Boswell.

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