Hogarth's frolic : the five day's peregrination around the Isle of Sheppey of William Hogarth and his fellow pilgrims, Scott, Tothall, Thornhill, and Forrest ; with sketches in sepia from the original drawings illustrating the tour / by W. Hogarth and Sam. Scott.
London: John Camden Hotten, 74 & 75 Piccadilly, W., 1872
Physical Description
[4], xiv, 20, 42 pages, 13 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
General Note
Half-title: The five days' peregrination of William Hogarth.
Added t.p., engraved: Hogarth's five day's peregrination by land and water, 1732.
: 'The party consists of Hogarth, Thornhill, Scott, Tothall, and Forrest, and each of the five has his allotted department. Thornhill made the map, Hogarth [1696-1764] and [Samuel] Scott [c.1710-1772] furnished the sketches, Tothall faithfully discharged the joint offices of treasurer and caterer, and [Ebenezer] Forrest wrote the journal...They sent the manuscript to their friend, The Rev. W.[illiam] Gostling, the author of 'A walk in and about Canterbury,'...Amused by the Humour of Forrest's description, he wrote an imitation in Hudibrastic verse, with additions of his own.' [Introduction p. ii, iii]
Contents
An account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days' peregrination of the five following persons: viz., Messrs. Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and Forrest; begun on Saturday, May 27th, 1732; and finished on the 31st of the same month / [journal by Ebenezer Forrest] [and] An account of what seemed most remarkable in the in the five days' peregrination ... imitated in Hudibrasticks by one well acquainted with some of the Travellers, and of the places here celebrated, .../ [i.e. by William Gostling].
Summary Note
Twenty copies only of Gostling's rhyming version were published in 1781 by John Nichols (1745-1826).
Forrest's journal was first published in 1782 by Richard Livesay (1750-1826) on nine oblong folio pages, with drawings, executed in facsimile, the size of the original aquatints by Livesey himself. The plates dated 27th November 1781.
Gostling's version was reprinted at the end of the second edition of John Nichols's Biographical Anecdotes Of William Hogarth, 1782, and also in Nichols & Steevens' The Genuine works of William Hogarth (1808).
Both versions were reprinted in Volume II of William Hone's Table-book (1827-28), and again in this edition by John Camden Hotten in 1872.
Reproductions
A copy of this book from the collection of the Ohio State University Library has been digitised and made available online via the Hathi Trust digital library.