THE ANGLER A POEM IN 10 CANTOS 1822 a Plagiaristic Fishing Fraud by T. P. Lathy

Description: THE ANGLER A POEM IN 10 CANTOS 1822 a Plagiaristic Fishing Fraud by T. P. Lathy POB#48404TITLE: The Angler; A Poem, in Ten Cantos. AUTHOR: Thomas Pike Lathy [i. e. Dr. Thomas Scott of Ipswich] PUBLISHER: London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones DATE: 1822DESCRIPTION: xxi, [3], 234. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved headpieces. CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Good page and cover attachment, though front hinge paper open, though all components holding well. Corners rubbed. Some offsetting to title page facing frontispiece. Pages free of spotting, foxing, creases, or tears.BINDING: Full brown calf, reinforced with a lighter calf spine, renewed endpapers. .Poetry verse recommending the sport of angling to the reader, falsely attributed Thomas Pike Lathy and called a fraud on first publication in 1819. Nonetheless, the fraudulent attribution persists in this 1822 reprint edition. The Dictionary of National Biography (Lathy's biography) describes the circumstances:"In 1819 Lathy perpetrated a successful plagiaristic fraud. At the time a kind of mania was prevalent among book-buyers for angling literature. Lathy accordingly called upon Gosden, the well-known bookbinder and publisher, with what he alleged to be an original poem on angling. 'Gosden purchased the manuscript for 30l., and had it published as "The Angler, a poem in ten cantos, with notes, etc., by Piscator" [T. P. Lathy, esq.], with a whole-length portrait of himself, armed with a flashing-rod and landing-net, leaning sentimentally against a votive altar dedicated to the manes of Walton and Cotton.' After a number of copies were printed on royal paper, and one on vellum at a cost of 10l., it was discovered that the poem was copied almost in toto form 'The Anglers. Eight Dialogues in verse,' London, 1758, 12mo (reprinted in Ruddiman's 'Scarce, Curious, and Valuable Pieces,' Edinburgh, 1773), by 'Dr. Thomas Scott of Ipswich' [q. v.] The fraud was pointed out by Scott's great-nephew, the possessor of the original manuscript in autograph, in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' (1819, ii. 407).771" Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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