Monro, Thomas [Editor] / [Bishop George Horne / Samuel Johnson].

Olla Podrida, A Periodical Paper, published at Oxford in the year 1787.

First Irish Edition. Dublin, Printed by P. Byrne (108) Grafton – Street, 1787. Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). 286 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with original spine-label. Binding with some stronger rubbing and minor loss to leather on spine. Still very firm and tight. Minor signs of a faded dampstain to a small part of the first 10 pages only. Otherwise very clean. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and his name in ink to the title-page.

[With the Shakespeare – Motto from ‘As you like it’ printed to titlepage: “Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table” / With a longer section on Samuel Johnson by Bishop George Horne (No.13 f.)]

[ESTC T84859 – Periodical edited by T. Monro – Contains numbers 1-37 out of a series of 44 or 48 [the London – edition, printed by C. Dilly and C.S. Rann, London, 1788 has the 44 numbers] the remaining seven issues seemingly not printed despite on the last page of the Dublin – Edition the text “End of first Volume” is printed (If this was a case of censoring is not clear)].

Thomas Monro (1764–1815) was an English cleric and writer. Son of the Rev. Thomas Monro of Wargrave, Berkshire, and nephew of Alexander Monro primus, he was born 9 October 1764, and was educated at Colchester free school and Norwich Grammar School under Samuel Parr. On 11 July 1782 he matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford, and in 1783 he was elected to a demyship at Magdalen College, which he resigned on his marriage, 7 June 1797. He graduated B.A. in 1787, and M.A. in 1791.
Monro was curate of Selborne, Hampshire, from 1798 till 1800, when he was presented by Lord Maynard to the rectory of Little Easton, Essex, where he died on 25 September 1815.

Monro’s works were:

″Olla Podrida, a Periodical Work, comprising forty-eight weekly numbers”, Oxford, 1787; 2nd edit. London, 1788; reprinted in Robert Lynam’s edition of the British Essayists, vol. xxviii. (London, 1827). Monro set it up and ran it with the help of Oxford men: George Horne, Henry Headley, Henry Kett, Charles Gower, Philip Bracebridge Homer, and Alexander Crowcher Schomberg in particular.

″Essays on various Subjects”, London, 1790.
″Alciphron’s Epistles”; in which are described the Domestic Manners, the Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece. Now first translated from the Greek, London, 1791, by Monro and William Beloe.
″Modern Britons, and Spring in London”, London, 1792.
″Philoctetes in Lemnos. A Drama in three acts. To which is prefixed A Greenroom Scene, exhibiting a Sketch of the present Theatrical Taste: inscribed with due Deference to the Managers of Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres by their humble servant”, Oxoniensis, London, 1795. (Wikipedia)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31195AB

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