The Yankey in London (Volume 1); Being the First Part of a Series of Letters Written by an American Youth, During Nine Months' Residence in the City of London
The Yankey in London (Volume 1); Being the First Part of a Series of Letters Written by an American Youth, During Nine Months' Residence in the City of London
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Good. First edition. "Volume I" (all issued). Scarce. Half leather lined and lettered in gilt, gilt fleurons, paper covered boards. 180 pp. Paper on boards well worn, spine leather well rubbed at the exterior hinges and extremities. Loss to the front pastedown. Foxing and some staining to the text and pencilled 1825 ownershiop signature top of title page. Fictional account of an "American youth" in London in the form of letters written to his friends back home in Boston. The letters concern British government, manners, literary figures, London booksellers, literary forgers Chatterton, Irelan and MacPherson, "Medical, mechanical, and culinary quacks", language, etc. Royall Tyler, a Harvard graduate who published the book anonymously, was an American playwright and jurist who fought in the American Revolution under General Benjamin Lincoln and was a friend of Abigail and John Quincy Adams (who nixed his plans to marry daughter "Nabby: Adams", finding Ty; ler unsuitable. He authored the first American-written comedy to be performed in the U.S., "The Contradt" (1787). ( BAL 20735; Wright I-2630).