Above, from On Biblical Topics, by Robert Dodsley, a raise the flap illustrated manuscript circa 1720 (offered for £20,000 in 2021). Robert Dodsley’s son – additionally named Robert Dodsley – revealed a quantity of “Previous English Performs” in 1744.
In 1816, Charles Wentworth Dilke revealed quantity two of his Previous Performs, being a continuation of Dodsley’s assortment. Rodwell and Martin on Bond Avenue was the writer. Additionally they revealed Dilke’s The Supply and Treatment of the Nationwide Difficulties, deduced from ideas of political financial system, in a Letter to Lord John Russell.
Included in quantity two of Dilke’s Previous Performs was “Endymion; or, The person within the moon,” a comedy by John Lyly. Two years later, Dilke’s expensive pal and neighbour, John Keats revealed his poem, “Endymion,” the well-known first line of which is: “A factor of magnificence is a pleasure without end.”
