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180328096London: Printed for the Author and Sold by Mr. Symonds Mr. Fisher Mr. Lee et al. 1803 1803. First edition. Cloth a little worn; some scattered foxing; very good copy. 2 vols in 1 small 8vo 19th century blue-green pebbled cloth gilt lettering. Frontispieces. 26-page list of subscribers. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman 1761-1834 including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine and poems to David Garrick Charles Churchill Lord Chesterfield William Cowper Philip Thicknesse and Edmund Burke among others. The poems previously appeared in self-published broadsides and periodicals. In 1810 Rickman published an Elegy to the Memory of Thomas Paine and in 1819 an important biography of Paine. <br/><br/> London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al., 1803 hardcover books
181927993London: Printed and Published by Thomas Clio Rickman 1819 1819. First edition. Sabin 71242; Gimbel page 136; Howes R278. Boards stained; prelims including frontis and title-page a little foxed; very good copy. 8vo recent drab paper spine and printed paper label original blue paper boards untrimmed. Frontis portrait engraved by William Sharp after the portrait by George Romney. Three-page checklist of Paine's published works followed by four pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. An important memoir of Thomas Paine by his lifelong friend and supporter Thomas Clio Rickman 1761-1834 the reform-minded bookseller and poet. "Rickman's name will be forever linked with Paine for he was to Paine what Boswell was to Johnson" - John Keane Tom Paine. Paine lived with the Rickmans while he finished the controversial second part of The Rights of Man in 1792 during which time Rickman arranged to have the famous portrait made of Paine by George Romney. After Paine fled to France that summer Rickman joined him there to avoid imprisonment for selling Paine's books. Rickman was something of a versifier and wrote several poems about Paine usually sonnets and an Elegy in 1810 reprinted here. Following the memoir are miscellaneous poems and writings by Paine. Prior to Rickman's biography Paine's life had been the subject of two unfriendly biographies by hack journalists which Rickman discusses in the preface. The publisher's terminal advertisements include probably the only checklist of the writings of Rickman. Early ownership notations on the front free endpaper; later bookseller's receipt pasted to the front paste-down listing this book with several others sold to Mr. James Morris of Albany New York by John Skinner Bookseller dated December 4 1901. <br/><br/> London: Printed and Published by Thomas Clio Rickman, 1819 hardcover books
