The examiner, A Sunday paper, on politics, domestic economy, and theatricals, for the year 1818
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The examiner, A Sunday paper, on politics, domestic economy, and theatricals, for the year 1818
Year: 1818
4to. pp. 832, [4]. Original issues bound in boards. Bookplate of George Matthews, Esq., Springvale on front pastedown. From 27 July 1818 through 27 December 1818, Leigh Hunt’s The Examiner included the first publication of nineteen anonymous biographical essays entitled ‘Criticisms upon the Bar,’ by John Payne Collier. The first one was entitled ‘On the Decline of Eloquence at the English Bar.’ The others were on Mr. Scarlett, Mr. Marryat, Sergeant Best, the Attorney General, Sir Arthur Piggot, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Topping, Sergeant Lens, Mr. Dauncey, Mr. Gurney, Sergeant Copley, Mr. Jervis and Mr. Raine, Sir Samuel Romilly, Mr. Wetherell, Sergeant Bosanquet and Mr. Richardson, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Heart and Mr. Bell, Mr, Nolan, Mr. Gaselee, Mr. Casberd, Mr. Warren, and Mr. Harrison. One more, on Messrs. Cullen, Horne, Heald, and Wingfield, also signed ‘Amicus Curiæ,’ appeared in the edition of 3 January 1819. In 1819, Collier published the (still anonymous) Criticisms on the Bar (London, Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall), having added two more essays (see Bib# 4117081/Fr# 899). See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New
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