Faulkner william

1771 · 3834 — Pat. Wogan Dublin 1771 Sewn wraps printed front cover 8 1/4 x 5 inches 39 pp. About good moderate soiling/browning covers; ruffling corners; pages mostly clean. Scarce. "The Sixth Edition with considerable Additions." Satire in verse. "A mock correspondence in verse between Howard and Faulkner the printer imitating "the alderman's mode of literary composition." Per the Dictionary of Irish Biography "Among his other publications from the period were An epistle to Gorges Edmond Howard esq. 1771 a satirical poem with Notes Explanatory Critical and Historical which parodied the style of the notoriously pedantic and self-important printer George Faulkner." "In 1771 appeared Jephson's satiric epistle purporting to have been written by Gorges Edmond Howard a dull legal compiler and unsuccessful dramatist to George Faulkner 16991775 a Dublin publisher noted for his pompous and pedantic verbosity." 1722RO002. Soft cover. Good. Pat. Wogan, Dublin paperback