BURTON, Sir Richard Francis]. Stone Talk being some of the marvellous sayings of a petral portion of Fleet Street, London, to one Doctor Polyglott by Frank Baker D.O.N. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1865. 8 o (197 x 125 mm). Letterpress dedication to "my old friend" (James Hain Friswell). (Without errata leaf, very minor spotting to beginning and end.) Original violet cloth, decorated in blind and gilt (light fading to spine and edges, some minor rubbing and staining). Provenance : George Ernest John Powell (bookplate); Gerald Hunter Robinson (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST OF BURTON'S WORKS. Stone Talk is a bitter satire by Burton, in verse, "enumerating many of the crimes which England has committed, and castigating her hypocrisy" (Penzer). Apparently only 200 copies were printed and the scarcity of the work was exacerbated by Lady Burton buying up and destroying a large number of copies, to save her husband from trouble from the authorities. Penzer p.77.
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis]. Stone Talk being some of the marvellous sayings of a petral portion of Fleet Street, London, to one Doctor Polyglott by Frank Baker D.O.N. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1865. 8 o (197 x 125 mm). Letterpress dedication to "my old friend" (James Hain Friswell). (Without errata leaf, very minor spotting to beginning and end.) Original violet cloth, decorated in blind and gilt (light fading to spine and edges, some minor rubbing and staining). Provenance : George Ernest John Powell (bookplate); Gerald Hunter Robinson (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST OF BURTON'S WORKS. Stone Talk is a bitter satire by Burton, in verse, "enumerating many of the crimes which England has committed, and castigating her hypocrisy" (Penzer). Apparently only 200 copies were printed and the scarcity of the work was exacerbated by Lady Burton buying up and destroying a large number of copies, to save her husband from trouble from the authorities. Penzer p.77.
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