Author: [ADAMS (William Brydges)]:
Title: A Tale of Tucuman; With Digressions, English and American. By Junius Redivius.
Description: London: Effingham Wilson..., 1831. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 155 x 84 mms., pp. 201 [202 Errata], contemporary half green pebbled morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards; name erased from top margin of title-page, leaving small hole, binding rubbed, but a good copy. William Bridges Adams (1797 - 1872) "was an English author, inventor and locomotive engineer. He is best known for his patented Adams axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and the railway fishplate. His writings, including English Pleasure Carriages (1837) and Roads and Rails (1862) covered all forms of land transport. Later he became a noted writer on political reform, under the pen name Junius Redivivus (Junius reborn); a reference to a political letter writer of the previous century" (Wikipedia). In the dedication to an anonymous lady, Adams writes that "This collection of Rhymes, intentionally writtend for the gratification, and it may be, instruction of the female sex, cannot possibly find a more appropirate patroness than yourself...." he Preface opens with an assertion that the "object of this Poem is to convey, in as agreeable a form as may be, a knowledge of the manners and customs of the Southern Americans...." Tucuman is presumably what is now known as San Miguel de Tucuman in Argentina. OCLC locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Glasgow, St. Andrews. No copies located in any North American library.

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