BOBBIN

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[ John Collier, Lancashire caricaturist. ] The Birthplace of Tom Bobbin; in the Parish of Flixton. By Edwin Waugh.

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Edwin Waugh (1817-1890), Lancashire poet and author [ John Heywood, Manchester printer; John Collier [ 'Tim Bobbin' ] (1708-1786), caricaturist ]
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London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Manchester: John Heywood, 141 & 143 Deansgate. [ 'John Heywood, Printer, Manchester.' ] Undated.
£28.00

61 + [3]pp., 16mo. Disbound. In fair condition, on aged paper. The last three pages carry advertisements of works by Waugh and Benjamin Brierley. Waugh's investigations in 'a quiet tract of country on the eastern border of Lancashire, lying in a corner, formed by the junction of the rivers Mersey and Irwell', involves him in meetings with ordinary folk, whose speech in the local dialect is recorded. Uncommon: five copies on COPAC, variously dated to 1867 and 1868.

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Autograph Letter Signed from the eighteenth-century satirist and caricaturist John Collier ['Tim Bobbin'] to his 'Dear Cousin', discussing his health and family matters.

Author: 
John Collier (1708-1786), satirist and caricaturist under the name 'Tim Bobbin', author of 'Tummus and Mary' (1746), 'the earliest significant piece of Lancashire dialect to be published'
Publication details: 
23 June 1778; Milnrow, near Rochdale, Lancashire.
£650.00

2 pp, 4to. Forty lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor traces of mount adhering to blank areas of the reverse of the leaf. A playful, jaunty letter containing valuable personal and family information. He was pleased to learn from 'Mr Shaw of Lees (who desires his complimts)' that the recipient is 'not only in the land of the living, but in the business of the Excise, and still raps at the ends of Barrels, and takes dimensions of bungs & diameters as usual'. Asks after his wife, and 'how long you had been a Cheshire man'.

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