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The scum uppermost when the Middlesex porridge-pot boils over!! : an heroic election ballad with explanatory notes ... accompanied with an admonitory nod to a blind horse.
- Title
- The scum uppermost when the Middlesex porridge-pot boils over!! : an heroic election ballad with explanatory notes ... accompanied with an admonitory nod to a blind horse.
- Author
- Huddesford, George, 1749-1809.
- Publication
- London : Printed for the author, and sold by all booksellers, 1802.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | c.1 | Text | Permit needed | Pforz (Huddesford, G. Scum uppermost) c.1 | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Pforz+ (Huddesford, G. Scum uppermost) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Details
- Description
- 19, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill.; 27 cm. (4to)
- Alternative Title
- Admonitory nod to a blind horse
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Satires
- Note
- Author's identity from Halkett & Laing.
- "Wilks and Taylor, Printers, Chancery-Lane."
- "An admonitory nod to a blind horse" -- p. [15]-19.
- A satire in verse on the Middlesex election of 1802 and on the Duke of Northumberland's neutrality.
- Illustrations: Half-title woodcut vignette of the Devil approaching Francis Burdett on the election stump, whom he has come to help. -- Plate etching depicting a crowded election rally for Burdett, who dispairs that the Devil is disappearing in a cloud of smoke. -- Plate etching depicting of a crowded dinner scene in the Crown and Anchor Tavern; Whig statesman Charles Fox stands on a chair upon a table, holding a flaming globe in the air, "Victualled by Subscription of the Nobility" inscribed on his large belly; Lord William Russell stands before Fox, pointing both hands at him, while addressing the crowd.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Source (note)
- A. R. Heath, Mar. 25, 2002.
- Call Number
- Pforz+ (Huddesford, G. Scum uppermost)
- OCLC
- 7084232
- NYPG05-B11967
- Author
- Huddesford, George, 1749-1809.
- Title
- The scum uppermost when the Middlesex porridge-pot boils over!! : an heroic election ballad with explanatory notes ... accompanied with an admonitory nod to a blind horse.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for the author, and sold by all booksellers, 1802.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Local Note
- Pforzheimer copy 1: First of two identified states, distinguished by the following characteristics: the bracketed printer's imprint is at the foot of the title-page; text concludes with "THE EN" (sic) on p. 19. -- Disbound; within white envelope.Pforzheimer copy 2: Pforz+ : Second of two identified states, distinguied by the following characteristics: the printer's imprint ison the title-page verso; text concludes with "THE END" on p. 19. -- "Revd Wm. Bree" in ink on upper wrapper; with some contemporary annotations throughout. -- In original blue printed wrappers, within white envelope.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bree, William, Rev. Former owner
- Research Call Number
- Pforz+ (Huddesford, G. Scum uppermost)Pforz (Huddesford, G. Scum uppermost)