[Ring, John] The Commemoration of Handel, a Poem, 1st edition, for T. Cadell, J. Walter and T. Booker, 1786, , 41 pp., final leaf repaired along fore edge and with a small interlinear tear affecting a few letters, inscribed by the author on the title page 'To Dr. Geddes, From the author John Ring Esq', 'By John Ring' inscribed below in a different contemporary hand, bound with: [Geddes, Alexander?], Ode, Congratulatory and Expostulatory, to the Right Hon. William Pitt, M.P., etc. by W-ll-m W-b-f--e, Esq M.P., 1st edition, [1798?], 3 pp., slightly spotted; [Geddes, Alexander?], Lines written in the Album at Cossey-Hall, Norfolk, the Seat of Sir William Jerningham, Bart., August 4th, 1786, 1st edition, [Norwich, 1786?], 8 pp., title inscribed 'By Dr. Alexander Geddes' in a contemporary hand; Pindar (Peter; pseudonym of John Wolcot), Advice to the Future Laureat: an Ode, 1st edition, for G. Kearsley, 1790, 18 pp. + advertisement leaf, spotting; ibid., A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest, and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses, the Reviewers, 2nd edition, for G. Kearsley, 1787, 10 pp., spotting;[ibid.], [Subjects for Painters], 1st or 2nd edition, [for G. Kearsley, 1789], 105 pp. but lacking first two leaves (title page and pp. 3-4); Bolus (Whirligig; pseudonym), The Quackade. A Mock Heroic Poem, in Five Cantos, 1st edition, by Thomas Syringe for M. Cooper, 1752, 83 pp., outer leaves spotted and browned, contemporary German news-sheet tipped to p. 9; modern green half leatherette, gilt spine-title ('Lampoons'), 4to ESTC T184797, T62583, T62583 for the first three works.Interesting volume of poetry and lampoons. John Ring (1752-1821), vaccination pioneer, evidently admired the Scottish Bible scholar and poet Geddes (1737-1802), publishing after Geddes's death a translation of one of his Latin poems. Geddes, not William Wilberforce, is suggested as the real author of the satirical ode to William Pitt in ESTC, though ESTC's attribution of the Lines written in the Album to Jerningham himself is called into question by the inscription in this copy . ESTC traces eight copies of Ring's work, nine of the Lines, and one of the Pitt lampoon. (1)
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