The judge; or, an estimate of the importance of the judicial character, Occasioned by the Death of the Late lord clare, lord chancellor of ireland. A Poem, in three cantos.
London.
Printed by J. Swan...for Vernor and Hood, 1803.
First edition.
8vo.
[10], x, 129pp, [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, remnants of paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting, offsetting to title page.
The first edition of Church of Ireland clergyman and minor poet Jerome Alley's (1760- 1826) verse analysis of judicial fortitude occasioned by the death of Lord Chancellor John Fitzgibbon, first Earl of Clare (1748-1802). The Monthly Review (September, 1804, p.94) were unimpressed by Alley's efforts: '...as a whole, it is not calculated to excite any great degree of admiration. Its wants force and animation to rouse and attract the reader's attention; and, in the use of figurative language, the metaphor is overstrained, and loses its beauty and effect.'
Jackson p.270.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 26369
