The Natural History of Bores

112pp plus 16pp publisher’s catalogue at rear. Eye-catchingly humourous engraved illustrations through out all by Henry George Hine. In printed card wraps (soiled, scuffed at edges, chipped away along spine; internally neat, fresh and tidy barring some staining on front endpapers and a little chipped and creasing on page edges). A humourous little gem, delightfully illustrated, which was enormously popular in its time, running for several editions in the first half of the 19th century. This edition, the third, contains a preface in which the author fights back at his critics, calling them gentlemen who criticise without reading, and forestalling further criticism by putting it in the preface and warning any future critics that they may be guilty of plagiarism. Hard to find volume.

Hine, G

plagiarism, bores, critical reception, literary criticism, Humour, cartoons