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Lot 38

COOK (JAMES)
SEWARD (ANNA) Elegy on Captain Cook... Fourth Edition, with Additions, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in lower margin beneath "Finis" on p.25

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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COOK (JAMES)

SEWARD (ANNA) Elegy on Captain Cook... Fourth Edition, with Additions, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in lower margin beneath "Finis" on p.25, stitched as issued in original printed wrappers, preserved in purpose-made cloth book box [Beddie 2443; Forbes 25; Holmes 50; Kroepelien 11843; O'Reilly-Reitman 9810], 4to (285 x 228mm.), Lichfield, J. Jackson, and J. Dodsley, 1784

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A fine untrimmed copy of Seward's Elegy which "was very popular at the time, but when, in 1791, the Royal Society struck a medal to honour Cook, Seward was hurt that, while those who directed 'their attention to the moths, butterflies, and curry-combs of that voyage' were given medals, she whose poetry celebrated Cook's achievement was overlooked" (ODNB). First published in 1780, this fourth edition has an amended text and is signed by the author, presumably to protect against piracy.

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