SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

[lludwig]

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....

[oldbookshopnj]

572. The first book-length work by this English novelist was a biography of his father, who was an artist.

Who is the author, and what was the book?

[vvet696]

Hmmm. Joyce Cary's portrait of Gulley Jimson (the title of which eludes me at the moment)?

[vvet696]

The Horse's Mouth.

Sheesh.

[oldbookshopnj]

572. As far as I can find, Cary's first book-length work was a novel, Aissa Saved (1932).

[professorbooknoodle]

# 572: William Collins , the father of Wilkie Collins was a landscape painter. In 1848 Memoirs of the Life of William Collins was published. It was the first work published by Wilkie but not the first work written , which was Iolanthi, or Tahiti as it Was, a Romance - written in 1844 - but not published until 1999. At least I think it was not published in his life. After an author becomes famous and enters into the pantheon, just about anything that he wrote becomes fair game for publication. Considering the subject matter, no matter that it had to be fully a work of Collin's febrile imagination, it was a valid decision to issue it.

[vvet696]

Rats.

Well, The Horse's Mouth was a better movie, anyway...

[oldbookshopnj]

572. The professor has the one I was thinking of.

[professorbooknoodle]

I once knew a man who opened a nice little used book shop who called his shop The Horse's Mouth. Most of the community wondered at "such a strange name". But then "most" in any community are not readers.

It was a good book store.

[oldbookshopnj]

I see a problem with those who might refer to it by the other end of the horse.

[oldbookshopnj]

573. The first book by this 19th century American poet and editor, published when he was thirteen, was a satirical attack on the current U.S. president, and it was successful enough that it had a second edition the following year.

Who was he, and what was the book?

[jeanpaulbooks]

573: William Cullen Bryant, The Enbargo, critical of Thomas Jefferson

[jeanpaulbooks]

Sorry, The Embargo.

[oldbookshopnj]

573. Congratulations to jeanpaulbooks:

[oldbookshopnj]

574. Bryant was by no means the only pamphleteer or newspaper writer to attack Jefferson (I've spent quite a bit of time with early 19th century papers recently, and they make current campaigns look sweet and light), but one pamphleteer, who started his career in England, had the distinction of being paid by Jefferson to attack Adams and Washington then turning on Jefferson to expose scandal about him.

Who was he, and what is his most famous pamphlet about an Englishman?

[jeanpaulbooks]

574: Thomas Callender, Samuel Johnson, of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. The pamphlet was Deformities of Samuel Johnson.