Lot No. 2: Cambridge, Richard Owen, Esq;

An account of the war in India between the English and French

Medium: Printed book
Year: 1761
Size: 10.2 x 7.2 inches
Place: London

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Cambridge, Richard Owen, Esq;

An account of the war in India between the English and French

On the Coast of Coromandel,: From the Year 1750 to the Year 1760. Together with a Relation of the late Remarkable Events on the Malabar Coast, and the Expeditions to Golconda and Surat; with the Operations of the Fleet. Illustrated with Maps, Plans, &c. The whole compiled from Original Papers.

Size: 26 x 18.5 cm (10.2 x 7.2 inches)
First Edition, Quarto. xxxiii+270+[2]+15+[1]+48+xix+[1] pages 18 engraved plates, maps (many folding) and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 1/4"), contemporary half leather over marbled baards.

A contribution to the chronicles of India only superseded by the more important work of Orme Richard Owen Cambridge was a British poet. He was educated at Eton and at St John's College, Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree, he took up residence at Lincolns Inn in 1737. Four years later he married, and went to live at his country seat of Whitminster, Gloucestershire. In 1751 he removed to Twickenham, where he enjoyed the society of many notable persons. Horace Walpole in his letters makes many jesting allusions to Cambridge in the character of news-monger. His chief work is the Scribleriad (1751), a mock epic poem, the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic, in which he avows Cervantes as his master. The satire shows considerable learning, and was eagerly read by literary people; but it never became popular, and the allusions, always obscure, have little interest for the present-day reader. He made a valuable contribution to history in his Account of the War in India on the Coast of Coromandel from the year 1750 to 1760 (1761). He had intended to write a history of the rise and progress of British power in India, but this enterprise went no further than this one work, as he found that Robert Orme, who had promised him the use of his papers, contemplated the execution of a similar plan.

Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman

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An account of the war in India between the English and French

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