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Hutchinson, William
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- Hutchinson, William
- An Introduction to the Achievements of Time
manuscript comic novel with preface, list of characters, introduction including mock dedication, and title-page, in a highly accomplished hand with some use of black letter, large capitals, and other scribal effects, 244 numbered pages, 4to, dated "1660" presumably for 1760, calf backed marbled boards, covers rubbed
Catalogue Note
"...To please the World is impossible! The World is a contradicious compound which like Water and Oyl, divide the more, the more they are agitated..."
A manuscript novel by William Hutchinson (1732-1814) evidently inspired by Tristram Shandy, the first two volumes of which appeared the year before this manuscript was written. The satirical intention "to Censure generall Folly, under the dress of a novel", digressive structure, and inventive use of mise en page are all reminiscent of Sterne's masterwork. Hutchinson was a lawyer, antiquary and writer, best known for The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham (1786-94). Another copy of this work is found in Durham University Library (Add.MS. 1562) but it does not appear to have been published.
A manuscript novel by William Hutchinson (1732-1814) evidently inspired by Tristram Shandy, the first two volumes of which appeared the year before this manuscript was written. The satirical intention "to Censure generall Folly, under the dress of a novel", digressive structure, and inventive use of mise en page are all reminiscent of Sterne's masterwork. Hutchinson was a lawyer, antiquary and writer, best known for The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham (1786-94). Another copy of this work is found in Durham University Library (Add.MS. 1562) but it does not appear to have been published.