Author: [PARKINSON, James]
Title: The Soldier's Tale, extracted from the Village Association> with two or three words of advice by Old Hubert.
Description: Printed by D.I. Eaton, [1793] 2nd Edition. 8vo. pp. 8. Disbound. Originally published in a collection "The Village Association, or the Politics of Edley." this is the first separately printed edition of an anti-war poem attributed to James Parkinson [1755 - 1824], surgeon, palaeontologist, geologist and political activist who first described the condition Parkinson's disease, which now bears his name. He was a critic of the Pitt government and thought to have been a proponent of the French Revolution, publishing a number of pamphlets under his own name and under the pseudonym "Old Hubert" as here.

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