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Anderson, G. K. D’Israeli’s Amenities of literature: a centennial
review. PQ 22 1943.
Samuel, W. S. D’Israeli: first published writings. N & Q 30 Apr 1949.
Nathan Drake 1766–1836
The speculator. 26 nos 27 Mar–22 June 1790; 1791, Dublin 1791. By
Drake and an unidentified collaborator.
Literary hours: or sketches critical and narrative. Sudbury 1798, 2
vols Sudbury 1800 (enlarged), 3 vols 1804, 1820.
The old abbey tale. In Canterbury tales, by C. F. Barrett, Drake and
others, 1802.
Essays biographical, critical and historical; illustrative of the Tatler,
Spectator and Guardian. 3 vols 1805, 1814.
The gleaner: a series of periodical essays, selected and arranged
from scarce and neglected volumes. 4 vols 1811.
Shakespeare and his times. 2 vols 1817, 1 vol Paris 1843.
Winter nights: or fire-side lucubrations. 2 vols 1820.
Evenings in autumn: a series of essays. 2 vols 1822.
Noontide leisure: or sketches in summer, including a tale of the
days of Shakespeare. 2 vols 1824.
Mornings in spring: or retrospections biographical, critical and historical.
2 vols 1828.
Memorials of Shakespeare: or sketches of his character and genius
by various writers. 1828.
The harp of Judah: or songs of Sion, being a metrical translation of
the Psalms. 1837.
John Colin Dunlop d. 1842
The history of fiction: being a critical account of the most celebrated
prose works of fiction from the earliest Greek romances to the
novels of the present age. 3 vols 1814, Edinburgh 1816, London
1845; ed H. Wilson 2 vols 1888 (rev); tr Ger 1851.
review: Hazlitt, Edinburgh Rev 24 1814.
History of Roman literature from its earliest period to the Augustan
age. 3 vols 1823–8.
Memoirs of Spain during the reigns of Philip IV and Charles II from
1621 to 1700. 2 vols Edinburgh 1834.
Selections from the Latin anthology translated into English verse.
Edinburgh 1838.
George Dyer 1775–1841
See col 332.
Pierce Egan 1775–1849
Many of Pierce Egan’s works went through several edns, with minor changes
in the titles.
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Boxiana: sketches of antient and modern pugilism. Vol 1 1812, vol 2
1818, vol 3 1821, (vol 4 1824 was not by Egan but probably by John
Badcock); n.s. vol 1 1828, vol 2 1829.
The mistress of royalty: or the loves of Florizel and Perdita. 1814.
Anon; (attack on the Prince Regent and Mrs Robinson).
Walks through Bath. 1819.
A key to the picture of the fancy (on a panorama by George
Cruikshank). 1819.
A concise biographical memoir of his late majesty George the Third,
by E. Pierce [Pierce Egan]. 1820.
Life in London: or the day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn esq
and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom . . . with thirty-six scenes
from real life, designed and etched by I. R. and G. Cruikshank.
1820–1; ed J. C. Hotten 1870.
Charles Wentworth Dilke | Thomas Erskine
The songs, parodies etc introduced in the comic burletta called Tom
and Jerry or Life in London. [1822.]
The life and adventures of Samuel Denmore Hayward, the modern
Macheath. 1822.
Pierce Egan’s account of the trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt;
with an appendix; with portraits and many other illustrative
engravings. 1824.
Recollections of John Thurtell. 1825.
The life of an actor. 1825, 1892.
Pierce Egan’s anecdotes of the turf, the chase, the ring and the stage,
embellished with thirteen coloured plates by T. Lane. 1827.
The finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry and Logic in their pursuits
through life in and out of London; with coloured illustrations
by R. Cruikshank. [1828]; ed J. C. Hotten [1871].
The show folks, with nine designs on wood by Mr Theodore Lane; to
which is added a sketch of the life of Mr Theodore Lane. 1831. A
poem.
Pierce Egan’s account of the trial of Bishop, Williams and May for
murder. 1831.
Matthews’s comic annual: or the snuff-box and the leetel bird, an
original humorous poem. 1831, 1832, London and Edinburgh 1832.
Pierce Egan’s book of sports and mirror of life. 1832. Periodical.
Epsom races. The Derby day: a (crambo) sporting poem. 1835.
The pilgrims of the Thames in search of the National! Illustrations
on wood by Pierce Egan the younger. 1838.
Captain Macheath. 1842.
Every gentleman’s manual. A lecture on the art of self-defence. 1845.
Pierce Egan edited and expanded Grose’s classical dictionary of the
vulgar tongue [1822?] 1823. He also edited Pierce Egan’s Life in London
and Sporting Guide, 1 Feb 1824–4 Nov 1827; Pierce Egan’s Weekly
Courier, 1 Jan 1832–25 Mar 1855.
Pierce Egan also wrote several locally successful plays, all unpbd:
Tom and Jerry, or Life in London. Adelphi Theatre 1822.
Life in Dublin. Theatre Royal, Dublin, 1834. BM Add mss 42964.
Tom, Jerry and Logic’s Hop at Brighton. Theatre Royal, Brighton,
1834. BM Add mss 42928.
Life in Liverpool. Liver Theatre, Liverpool, 1835.
There were numerous imitations, dramatic versions and parodies of Life in
London. The most popular included:
Real life in London. 1821. Anon.
Real life in Ireland. 1821. Anon.
Carey, David. Life in Paris. 1822.
Moncreiff, W. T. Tom and Jerry, or Life in London. (Play, Adelphi
Theatre 1821) nd.
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The one full-length study of Pierce Egan and his work is J. C. Reid, Bucks and
bruisers, 1971.
In DNB.
Review of Life in London. European Mag Nov 1820. Anon.
(Christopher North.) Boxiana, or Sketches of pugilism. Blackwood’s
Mag July 1819–Oct 1820.
GM vol 32, Nov 1849. Obituary.
Hindley, Charles. The true history of Tom and Jerry. 1890.
Child, Harold. Caricature and the literature of sport. Cambridge
History of Eng Lit vol 14, 1932.
Kolb, E. Pierce Egan. TLS 27 Aug 1938.
Darwin, Bernard. Sporting writers of the 19th century. Essays . . .
presented to Sir Humphrey Milford. 1948. [wlgj]
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine 1750–1823
Collections
The speeches (at length) of the Rt Hon C. J. Fox, T. Erskine [etc]. 1797.
Speeches of J. P. Curran; with the speeches of Grattan, Erskine and
Burke. 2 vols New York 1809.
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