Description: BOURNE, Vincent. Poematia, Latine partim reddita, Partim scripta: a V. Bourne, Collegii Trinitatis apud Cantabrigienses aliquando Socio. Quarto edita. London, J. Bettenham for B. Barker, 1750. Provenance: Thomas Noel 2nd Viscount Wentworth (1745-1815), with his ownership inscription and dated Wentworth, Coll, Visorn, Oxon, 1766. Educated: Eton, matriculated at Brasenose College Oxford 4th November 1763. Awarded M.A. on 29th April 1766.This coincides with the ownership date of 1766. Thomas Noel 2nd Viscount Wentworth’s illegitimate son Thomas Noel (1774-1853), became rector of Kirkby Mallory and conducted the marriage ceremony of his cousin Anne Isabella Millbank to Lord Byron in 1815. 12mo, pp. [4],246, [13], [1 (blank)]; partially printed in parallel Latin and English on facing pages, richly ornamented with large woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout, factotum initials; a few light marginal spots, but a very good copy; in contemporary half calf marbled boards, spine gilt in a compartment with black gilt Morocco lettering-piece, a little rubbed and bumped at extremities, ink ownership inscription, two minor page holes. Please see photographs. Fourth edition, 1750, of this poetic collection by Vincent Bourne (1694–1747), one of the most popular Latin poets of the eighteenth century, credited with moving neo-Latin verse away from outright imitation of the classics. As a scholar and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Bourne distinguished himself as a Latin poet, later teaching at his old school, Westminster. First published in 1734, the Poematia was an instant success. Bourne’s work displays an elegant and bold mastery of Latin language and metre, and was admired by William Cowper (described by his former pupil as ‘a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers’), Walter Savage Landor, and Charles Lamb. Some of his finest work is to be found here: ‘Ad Davidem Cook’ is an affectionate reminiscence of the Westminster night watchman; ‘Schola rhetorices’ recalls the fishwives of Billingsgate; and ‘Cantatrices’ depicts two Covent Garden ballad singers. Here too is to be found the art-loving Bourne’s poem to William Hogarth, praising him as a ‘derisor lepidus’ (elegant mocker). A fine copy. Size – 6 ¾ inch (Overall Height) Size – 4 ½ inch (Overall Length) Size – 1 inch (Overall Width) Weight – 180g Please feel free to browse my other listings. Thank you for viewing and happy shopping!
Price: 375 GBP
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Binding: Hardback
Personalised: Yes
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Signed: Yes
Publisher: J. Bettenham for B. Baker
Weight: 180g
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1750
Language: English & Latin
Illustrator: Publisher
Special Attributes: 4th Edition Owned By Vicount Wentworth, 4th Edition Owned By Viscount Wentworth
Fiction Subject: Classical English Form Latin Poetry
Author: Vincent Bourne 1695-1747
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: Europe
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Unit Quantity: 1
Character Family: Classical Literature
