Thimble-men and nimble-men
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Thimble-men and nimble-men
Other titles: Nimble-men
Classmark: BC Gen ROD
Creator(s): Rodes, Cornelius Heathcote Reaston (1844)
Additional creator(s): Holworthy, James (1781-1841) (Former owner); Edwards, Christopher (1956-) (Bookseller)
Related people: Milton, John, 1608-1674
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Publication city: [Place of publication not identified]
Date(s): [approximately 1830]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 unnumbered page
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/778794
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020561597605181
Description
19 stanzas of four lines each. Conjugate blank leaf.
A verse narrative of "Lord Milton's" assault on thimbleriggers [cheaters], with puns on "pair o' dice" [paradise], referencing John Milton, Paradise Lost.
A political poem celebrating the election of the Whigs Lord Morpeth and Henry Brougham as MPs for Yorkshire at the General Election in 1830. Viscount Milton (1786-1857) had been an influential Whig MP for Yorkshire since 1807 until 1830, when he retired.
Duke University Perkins Library holds another copy signed in ms.: CHRR; printed on paper with watermark date 1829.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at BC Gen ROD: loose excerpt from bookseller [Christopher Edwards] about this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BC Gen ROD: unbound single leaf.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BC Gen ROD: acquired in 2019. MS. inscription on head of title page: Printed by & written by the Rev. R Rhodes 1830 at the Dinner given to Lord Morpeth & Henry Brougham Esq MP [signed by] Holworthy Brookfield Co. of Derby [i.e. Rev. Cornelius Heathcote Reaston Rodes of Barlborough Hall, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who took the additional name Rodes in 1825; and James Holworthy (1781-1841), watercolour artist, of Brookfield, near Hathersage in Derbyshire].