Sir John Hawkins and Joseph Richardson — Political Miscellanies

London , James Ridgway, 1790. First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce late eighteenth-century political satire. First Edition. With letters, songs and essays, and one small illustration in the text. Richardson, Joseph (1755–1803), writer and politician. In addition to his work with the Morning Post and the English Chronicle, Richardson contributed letters signed "Englishman" to a paper called The Citizen, but much of his energy, after the establishment of Pitt's ministry, was devoted to political satire, published anonymously. He wrote numbers 4, 10, and 11 in Criticisms of "The Rolliad", part 1 (1784) and numbers 3 and 4 in part 2 (1785). He wrote numbers 4 and 19 in Probationary Odes for the Laureateship (1785), as well as much of the prose in that work (an attribution of these works can be found in an anonymous MS of 1785, inserted at the front of a combined edition, BL Catalogue G. 18972). He wrote The Delavaliad (1785), and The Jekyll, a Political Eclogue (1788), the latter a satire directed at the marquess of Lansdowne and his political adherents. He contributed to Political Miscellanies (1787) and also published, again anonymously, The Complete Investigation of Mr Eden's Treaty (1787), a serious political pamphlet which deployed historical argument and statistical evidence to support the whigs' attack on the commercial treaty with France. DNB Rebound in paper covered boards with a cloth spine. Externally sound, a very little shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Bright with light scattered spotting and a few small spill burns. The title is foxed, and has slight loss to the margin, not affecting the text. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .