Author: [BURTON (John)]:
Title: The Parish Priest. A Poem. [Translated by Dawson Warren.]
Description: London: Printed by C. Whittingham..., Sold by A. and J. Blacks..., Faulers...; Robins...[et al], 1800. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. Small 4to, 202 x 157 mms., pp. [viii], 38 [39 Notes, 40 blank], additional engraved (by T. Bonner, after a drawing by the translator) title-page, contemporary calf (worn), front cover holding by one cord, rear joint cracked, corners worn, top and base of spine chipped. With an inscription in the top margin of the dedication page, "In memory of/ Thomas Muir/ Elm Grover/ Bearsden/ Xmas 1912." John Burton ((1696 - 1771) published Sacerdos Paroecialis Rusticus at Oxford in 1757. This translation by Dawson Warren appears to be the first and only translation. The work is dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake, who was also the dedicatee of John Thomas Smith's Antiquities of London (1791 - 1800). The translator, Dawson Warren (1769 - 1838), was the vicar of Edmonton Church, the engraving of which is on the engraved title-page; he was British Chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801 - 1802. His ms. journal of his account there was first published in 1913.

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