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Lot 208
Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019
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[Early Printing] Budgell, Eustace A Poem upon His Majesty’s Late Journey to Cambridge and Newmarket
London: Benj. Motte, 1728. First edition. Folio. (1)-20pp. Complete with half-title. Disbound; in red chesmise; edges trimmed (340 x 225mm). See Stephen, Leslie, "Eustace Budgell," Dictionary of National Biography. ESTC T42568, "The ornaments (on the half-title) are those used by Henry Woodfall. Eustace Budgell (1686-1737), was an English writer and politician, assisted Joseph Addison with the Spectator, lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble, disliked by many and was criticized by Alexander Pope in the Dunciad. He committed suicide by throwing himself out of a boat at London Bridge, his suicide note reading, "What Cato did, and Addison approved, cannot be wrong." .