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BROUGHTON (L. N.) NORTHUP (C. S.) & PEARSALL (R. B.)
Robert Browning: A Bibliography, 1830-1950.
xviii, 446pp., orig. cloth.
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DOBELL (Percy J.) Compiler.
A Catalogue of XVIIIth Century Verse and A Catalogue of Books by and Relating to Dr. Jonathan Swift. [Offered for Sale by P. J. & A. E. Dobell].
First edition, [8], 168, 30pp., orig. cloth, uncut.
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WELLS (Geoffrey)
A Bibliography of the Works of H. G. Wells 1893-1925 (with some notes and comments).
First edition, large 8vo, xvi, 72pp., one of 220 numbered copies, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut.
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WILLIAMS (Iolo A.)
Points in Eighteenth-Century Verse. A Bibliographer's and Collector's Scrapbook. Bibliographia Series, Edited by Michael Sadleir, No. 7.
First Edition, x,144pp., limited to 500 copies, frontis., 8 plates of facsimiles, orig. parchment-backed boards, uncut.
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ALLISON (A.F.)
Four Metaphysical Poets. George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell; A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Early Editions of their Poetry and Prose (to the End of the 17th Century).
First edition, 134pp., 71 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
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SCOTT (Temple)
Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered. Based on the Collection of Material in the Library of W.M. Elkins, Esq. With an Introduction by A. Edward Newton.
Large 8vo, xx, 368pp., frontis., illustrs., portraits and facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth.
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GRAHAM (Walter)
English Literary Periodicals.
424pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth.
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THEATRE.
The English Theatre. A Catalogue of Plays, Theatrical Literature and Dramatic Criticism, from the Restoration to 1800. Catalogue 1022.
4to, 126pp., 4to, facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, 649 items.
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GREEN (Richard L.) & GIBSON (John M.)
A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle. With a foreword by Graham Greene.
First edition, xvi, 712pp., frontis., 13 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
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TURLEY (Raymond V.) Editor.
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Bibliographies: Selected Nineteenth Century Sources.
xxviii, 432pp., limited to 250 copies, frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth.
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HEALEY (George Harris) Compiler.
The Cornell Wordsworth Collection. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Presented to the University by Mr Victor Emanuel.
First edition, 4to, [xiv], 458pp., one of 750 copies, 24 plates, orig. cloth. Complete bibliographical descriptions of books written by Wordsworth also including periodical appearances, anthologies, Wordsworthiana, etc.
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WILLIAMS (Iolo A.)
Seven XVIIIth Century Bibliographies. John Armstrong, William Shenstone, Mark Akenside, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Churchill, Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan.
First edition, 244pp., orig. cloth, uncut, d.w. Chronological descriptions of first editions for each author, with bibliographical notes.
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COLBECK (Norman) Compiler.
A Bookman's Catalogue. The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Letters in the Special Collections of the University of British Columbia. Edited by Tirthanker Bose. Introduction by William E. Fredeman.
First edition, 2 vols., xxxii, [2],502; viii,503-1059pp., frontispieces, orig. cloth. The collection has 465 author sections with 13,291 numbered items, all with full collations. The Colbeck collection fills a respectable niche on Victorian reference shelves alongside the more famous libraries of Thomas Wise (The Ashley Library) and Chauncey Brewster Tinker and the two great Victorian collections of fiction formed by Michael Sadleir and Robert Lee Wolff.
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BOYNE (William)
The Yorkshire Library. A Bibliographical Account of Books on Topography, Tracts of the Seventeenth Century, Biography, Spaws, Geology, Botany, Maps, Views, Portraits, and Miscellaneous Literature, Relating to the County of York. With Collations and Notes on the Books and Authors. With Collations and Notes on the Books and Authors.
First edition, 4to, vi, [ii], 204pp., one of 150 copies printed for private distribution, nice wide margins, interleaved throughout with what appears to be the author's additional entries, also a few entries entered in a later hand, 2 portraits, 20 woodcuts of seals in the text, later half calf, marbled boards, a nice copy. Lists in detail over 550 rare antiquarian books, pamphlets and tracts, 28 maps and plans, and over 800 prints of views and portraits all relating to Yorkshire.
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LOWNDES (William Thomas)
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; with Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at which they have been Sold in the Present Century.
New Edition, revised, corrected and enlarged, 11 vols., orig. cloth.
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[ARMSTRONG (John)]
The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Esssay.
New edition, [4],43,[1]pp., with half-title, spotting throughout, disbound.
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[THOMPSON (Isaac)]
Poetic Essays, on Nature, Men, and Morals. Essay 1. To Dr. Askew, of Newcastle
First edition, 4to, [6], 28 pp., lacks half-title, engraved vignette to title, inner margin of title a little torn, title and final leaf slightly ceased and soiled, disbound. Foxon, T165.
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OLD ENGLISHMAN.
The opinion of an old Englishman: in which national honour, and national gratitude, are principally considered humbly offered to his Countrymen & Fellow-citizens, on the resignation of the late ministry.
First edition, 70, [1]pp., disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 18350.
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[COURTENAY (Thomas Peregrine)]
A Plain Answer to the Misrepresentations and Calumnies contained in the Cursory Remarks of a Near Observer. By a more accurate observer.
Third edition, [4], 89, [5]pp., half-title, 4 advertisement pp. at end, disbound. A reply to T.R. Bentley's 'A few cursory remarks upon the state of parties, during the administration of the Right Honourable Henry Addington'. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 21877.
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DAVIES (D.P.)
A New Historical and Descriptive View of Derbyshire, from the remotest period to the present time.
First Edition, engraved vignette on title, folding hand-coloured map (1 inch closed tear), 2 plates, viii, 717, [15] pp., cont. half half, rubbed.
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TUPLING (G.H.) Compiler.
Lancashire Directories 1684-1957. Revised, Enlarged and Edited by Sidney Horrocks.
x, 78pp., orig. cloth.
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STURGES (John)
Thoughts of the Residence of the Clergy and on the provisions of the statute of the twenty-first year of Henry viii. c. 13.
First and only edition, 64pp., disbound.
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KENT (Edward George)
Lindum Lays and Legends.
First edition, vii, [1], 303, [1] pp., 3pp. list of subscribers, frontispiece and 3 plates, original blue cloth, spine a little faded, all edges gilt, title in gilt on upper cover, a very good copy.
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WATTS (Susanna)
A Walk through Leicester: being a Guide to Strangers: containing a description of the Town and its environs, with remarks upon its History and Antiquities.
Second Edition, with additions, 12mo, [5], 6-100pp., folding engraved map of the town of Leicester, 5 nineteenth-century mounted actual photographs tipped-in, and 6 engraved plates tipped, modern cloth, uncut, spine faded. Susanna Watts was born in Leicester and was dedicated to bringing about the immediate abolition of slavery. She started one of the first fair trade campaigns, wrote hymns and pamphlets and even locked horns with William Wilberforce. When her father died, her wealthy family's finances became tight and she had to find a way to support herself and her mother. At the age of 15 or 16 she began writing to earn money, and as well as penning the first guide to Leicester, she wrote poetry to promote the emancipation of slaves. To be a young woman and a published author in the late 18th Century would not have been an easy task, so the fact that she prevailed shows how passionate Susanna was in her desire to make her antislavery views known. "They dared to stand up in front of all these men and say what they thought was right ? two women from the provincial town of Leicester." According to Shirley Aucott, a local historian and author, Susanna worked on a periodical called 'The Hummingbird', which brought together different ideas on the antislavery moment, and she organised what must have been one of the first fair trade campaigns! She visited local households and shops to persuade them not to use sugar produced in the Caribbean, claiming that, "abstinence from sugar would sign the death warrant of West Indian slavery."
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MONTGOMERY (Robert)
Woman, The Angel of Life. A Poem.
First Edition, advertisement leaf before title, ownership inscription of "Sophia Wilson 15/27 May 1833.", 4pp. of advertisements at end, 2 quires sprung, [2], [5]-198, [4] pp., original boards, uncut, part of back-strip missing, original printed label on spine, with the armorial bookplate of John William Willis Bund, a good copy.
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SMITH (George Charles)
The Poor Sailor Boy. [in verse]. By the Rev. G. C. Smith, of Penzance.
First edition, 12mo, 4pp., woodcut vignette of a sailing ship on title, disbound.
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METHODIST.
The Methodist [verse].
Single sheet printed on one side only (199 x 66). John Rose, printer and bookseller, of 21 Broadmead, Bristol, was trading from 1781-1804. Not on Copac.
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SPALDING (John Tricks)
A Bibliographical Account of the Works Relating to British Topography in the Library of John Tricks Spalding J.P. Nottingham.
First edition, 5 vols., large 8vo, 464; 400; 369; 459; 445pp., ex-library with the usual markings, frontispiece portrait in vols. 1 and 4 (both offset onto title-page), cont. red half calf, worn, remains of labels, some light staining, joints starting, uncut. The very scarce catalogue of this outstanding collection of English topography. Lists over 6,500 works with detailed collations, arranged primarily by county.
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WARD (James)
A Descriptive Catalogue of Books Relating to Nottinghamshire in the Library of James Ward. [With:] Supplementary Catalogue...
First edition, 2 vols., [2], viii, 40; [8], 41, [5]pp., presentation inscription from the author to his friend Charles A. Bolton, frontis., orig. quarter morocco, slightly rubbed, uncut, a nice copy. Provenance: From the library of Lt. Col. William Allen Potter, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire 1944/45.
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DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall)
Poems.
First edition, viii, [2], 117pp., with engraved title-page, a little foxed and stained, final line of imprint cropped, text occasional spotted and lightly browned, marbled endpapers, cont. full straight-grained red morocco, gilt border on sides, flat spine, gilt, extremities a little rubbed. Dibdin's rare suppressed first separate publication, being preceded only by his contribution to the 'European Magazine'. Dibdin did not think much of his first effort as he emphatically stated in his 'Bibliomania' "I struck off 500 copies, and was glad to get rid of half of them as waste paper; the remaining half have been partly destroyed by my own hands... My only consolation is that the volume is now exceedingly rare". Jackson, 1; Windle & Pippin, A1.
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EURIPIDES.
Hecuba. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants.
First Edition, 4to, vii, [5], 36pp., title and final leaf soiled with margins chipped, small hole to title (not effecting text), text rather browned, disbound. Translated from the play by Euripides by Richard West, with a few alterations.
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BLUNDEN (William) Editor.
The Poems of William Collins. Edited with an Introductory Study.
First edition, 4to, viii, 179, [3]pp., one of 500 numbered copies, frontis., orig. boards, lightly faded, printed paper label to spine.
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HACK (Maria Barton)
English Stories, illustrating some of the most interesting Events and Characters, between the Accession of Alfred and the Death of John.
Second Edition, 12mo, copperplate frontispiece engraved by H. Melville lightly off-set on title, xiv, 384 pp., original boards, uncut, some loss at head of spine, printed paper label, chipped.
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HEBER (Reginald)
Poems and Translations by Reginald, A. M.
First Edition, 12mo (169 x 98 mm), vi, [5], 4-180, pp., contemporary calf, upper hinge cracked, spine gilt.
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PECK (Thomas)
The Norwich Directory; Containing Alphabetical List of the Principal Inhabitants, their Address, Profession, or Trade. A Concise History of Norwich; Pointing out the most remarkable Places in it worthy the Attention of Strangers... with an Engraved Plan of the City, with References.
8vo, x, [2], 59, [25]pp., large folding engraved plan, orig. boards, spine taped. A very scarce Norwich directory, Copac listing 3 copies (Leicester University, Oxford and Institute of Historical Research) giving various collations and tentative dates between 1801-83, ours conforms to the Leicester University copy.
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BROWSHOLME HALL, YORKSHIRE.
Description of Browsholme Hall, in the West Riding of the County of York; and of the Parish of Waddington, in the same County: Also, a Collection of Letters, from Original Manuscripts, in the Reigns of Charles I. and II. and James II. in the Possession of Thos. Lister Parker, of Browsholme Hall, Esq.
4to, [2], 130pp., etched frontispiece, limitation statement in ink below imprint "Only 150 Copies printed and is now (1844) very scarce, TLP", small ink number to verso of title-page, 19 plates drawn and etched by John Chessell Buckler, plus a folding pedigree, unobtrusive stamp to verso of final plate, recent calf calf, marbled paper boards, spine gilt with morocco lettered label. The first guide to Browsholme Hall and one of the rarest and finest of the genre. The guide was compiled by Thomas Lister Parker and "privately printed by the author for distribution among his friends. The sale was afterwards limited to 100 copies."?Upcott, p. 1410. The next historical guide was written by Colonel Robert Parker in 1957 when Browsholme Hall was opened to the public. Thomas Lister Parker (1779?1858) was born at Browsholme Hall and obtained possession of the family estate as soon as he came of age at the age of twenty-one. "He went on his grand tour in 1800, visiting France, Italy, and Russia, and returned home in 1801 with a collection of paintings, drawings, and prints. In 1805?7 he altered the sixteenth-century Browsholme Hall, using Jeffry Wyatt (later Sir Jeffry Wyatville) as architect to rebuild and extend the west wing: this provided a new drawing-room and dining-room, suitable for the display of his growing picture collection. Landscape gardening and forestry also engaged his interest. In the house he displayed a collection of antiquities, a feature of which was the creation of interiors evoking Browsholme's mainly Jacobethan past."?(Oxford DNB). Boyne CXCI; Upcott, pp. 1408-10.
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HURTLEY (Thomas)
A Concise Account of some Natural Curiosities, in the Environs of Malham, in Craven, Yorkshire.
First edition, 199, [11], 12-68, 199, [1]pp., with half-title and list of subscribers, 3 folding engraved plates (spotted and browned), cont. half calf, rebacked, corners worn, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco label lettered. Boyne, CLXXVII.
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MANNING (Rev. Owen) & BRAY (William)
The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, Compiled from the best and most authentic historians, valuable records, and manuscripts in the public offices and libraries, and in private hands. With a facsimile copy of Domesday, engraved on thirteen plates. Continued to the present day by William Bray.
First edition, 3 vols., folio, [4], v-xiv, [1], ii-cviii, [22], 7-714; [2], iii-xvi, 860; [2], iii-viii, 702, [1] ii-ccxxxpp., 97 engraved plates, 2 large folding maps, 13 facsimile leaves, 13 folding pedigrees, some light staining to frontis and title to vol. II with repairs, some occasional scattered foxing, several plate lightly offset, cont. full Russia leather, marbled boards, spines gilt tooled extra, slight stain to head of vol. I, a couple of short cracks to joints, lightly rubbed, a.e.g. a handsome set. Provenance: Signature of "William Hardman, Norbiton Hall, 1867" to title-page on vol. I; Bookplate of James S. Burgett to front paste-down. Upcott III, pp. 1209-1216.
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NOVEL. OPIE (Mrs. [Amelia Alderson])
Tales of the Heart. By Mrs. Opie.
First edition, 4 vols., 12mo, [4], 350; [4], 419, [1]; [4], 396; [4], 353, [1]pp., all half-titles present, cont. cloth-backed marbled boards, red morocco title labels lettered in gilt, several splits to joints otherwise a nice set. Garside, Raven & Schw?erling, 1820: 57.
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RUGBY PRESS. [MOSS (Lt.-Col. W. E.)]
Olla Podrida.
First edition, tall 12mo, [28]pp., presentation copy, inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper "Presented to me by Tom Moss, Lt.-Col. W. E. Moss's son, 8/vii/1955. ARAH [A. R. A. Hobson]", with Moss's signature to title, orig. cream paper wrappers, lightly soiled, uncut. Not listed on Copac or OCLC.
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SHAW (George)
Gems and Pearls. A Collection of choice readings from many writers. By the author "Filey and its Fishermen", etc. etc.
First edition, small 8vo, x, 248, [4]pp., with half-title, photographic portrait, orig. cloth cloth decorated in gilt, slight abrasion to upper board but a very good copy. Dedicated to "The Filey Fisherman." and signed and dated "Pocklington, April 15th, 1870." Provenance: J. Little (presentation inscription from his brother, 1871); C. J. Sturman (bookplate). No copy on Copac, OCLC locates a single copy at Drew University Library.
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FIRBANK (Ronald)
Ronald Firbank: Letters to His Mother 1920-1924. Edited with an introduction by Anthony Hobson.
4to, [xii], 153, [1]pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Illustrated with colour plates from dust jackets and frontispieces by Augustus John, C.R.W. Nevinson, Michel Sevier, Robert Locher and Charles Shannon. Printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona.
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POEM.
The Scotch Hut, A Poem, Addressed to Euphorbus; or, the Earl of the Grove.
First and only edition, 4to, 12pp., disbound. A satire on the Earl of Clarendon.
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NOVEL. [HELME (Elizabeth)]
Louisa; or, the Cottage on the Moor. In Two Volumes.
Third edition corrected, with additions, 2 vols., bound as one, 12mo, vi, [2], 209, [1, blank], [6, publishers ads]; [4], 252pp., title page and contents leaf to vol. II bound in error before K1 of vol. I, some neat cont. MS translation into the French to first two leaves of chapter one and a couple of other leaves, marbled endpapers, cont. mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco title label to spine, a very nice copy. Of this third edition ESTC locates a single copy in the UK (National Trust) and 3 in North America (Brown University, Princeton & Yale).
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HALKETT (Samuel) & LAING (John)
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain. Including the Works of Foreigners Written in, or Translated into the English Language.
First edition, 4 vols., 4to, large paper copy, cont. half calf, extremities rubbed, uncut.
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HEBER (Richard)
Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq... Removed from his House in York-Street, Westminster, Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby and Son [Evans; Wheatley]...
13 Volumes bound in five, large 8vo printed on good wove paper, [iv], 388; xii, 363, [1]; [iv], 295, [1]; vii, [iii], 355, [1]; [iv], 257; [iv], 314; [iv], 306; [iv], 170; [iv], 195, [1]; [iv], 117, [1]; [iv], 189, [1]; [iv], 83, [1]; [iv], 82, [2]pp., parts 1-3 in orig. boards, spines chipped, covers loose, orig. printed label on upper covers, uncut, parts 4-7 cont. half calf, rubbed, spine stained and spotted, parts-8-13 cont. quarter morocco, rubbed, foot of spine torn, faint stamp of 'Mercantile Library, Philada.', front hinge shaken, title page to part 8 loose, prices and buyers' names supplied in a cont. hand, a made-up set of the complete English sale catalogues of the library of Richard Heber (the 13th volume is notoriously rare). Heber was a book collector on a monumental scale, De Ricci estimated his library between two and three hundred thousand volumes. The sales took place at a time when the market was absolutely glutted and there were practically no buyers. The total realised was ?65,774, for books which had cost their late owner a good deal over ?100,000. "The Dibdinian age may be aptly said to terminate with the dispersal of the gigantic library accumulated by Richard Heber, a bibliomaniac if there ever was one... From 1800 to 1830, he purchased at every London sale... He thought nothing of securing whole libraries... When he died, his books filled two houses in London, one at Hodnet, one at Oxford, one at Ghent and one at Paris, not to speak of smaller stores at... other Continental cities. The total number of volumes in his library must have been between two and three hundred thousand, and it is doubtful whether any private individual has ever owned so large a library... The London sales produced ?56,744, for books which had cost their late owner over ?100,000. The market was absolutely glutted and there were practically no new buyers... The Heber catalogues, although... arranged in the most inconvenient manner, are daily consulted by every bibliographer... His series of Continental books, early Italian and Spanish works, later Latin poetry, humanistic treatises... were unrivalled... The real strength... was, however, in the field of early English literature... For thirty years he... purchased nearly every item which came on the market".?De Ricci, p.102. Organised according to the residences where Heber kept his libraries, the present catalogues number 1 - 13 and were held in 1834, 1835, 1836 & 1837. Sotheby's managed the sale for parts 1- 3 and 9 - 10; R. H. Evans, for parts 4 and 6 - 8 and 11; B. Wheatley, parts 5 and 12-13.
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JOHNSON (Dr. [Samuel])
Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia; A Tale.
Large 12mo, 195 x 110mm, [2], xi, [1], 237 [i.e. 227], [1]pp., additional engraved title, nineteenth-century cloth, uncut.
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[CROCKER (John Wilson)]
The Battles of Talavera. A Poem.
Eight edition, with some additions, 8vo (205 x 125mm), [4], 43, [1]pp., title page with presentation inscription from the author to Sir Francis Freeling, cont. short note on the authorship of the book on front-free endpaper, some foxing and browning throughout, cont. blue full morocco, lightly rubbed but a very nice copy. A heroic poem about the bloody but inconclusive battle at Talavera, southwest of Madrid (July 27-28, 1809), in which a combined British-Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) forced the French army of King Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, to withdraw from field. The author, John Wilson Croker, was a high-Tory politician and man of letters, one of the founders of the legendary Quarterly Review and for nearly thirty years its primary contributor. Wellington himself singled out this poem for praise. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Freeling; small book label of Alan G. Thomas.
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SANDERS (Francis) and IRVINE (William Fergusson) Editors.
The Parish Registers of Bebington, Co. Chester, from A.D. 1558 to 1701.
Limited Edition, one of 100 copies, vii, [1], 242 pp., original red cloth, spine faded, lettered in gilt on the spine, small hole in front endpaper, with the bookplate of R. G. Gatehouse, of Abbots Grange, a good copy.
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WARTER (John Wood)
Appendicia et Pertinentiae; or, Parochial Fragments relating to the Parish of West Tarring, and the Chapelries of Heene and Durrington, in the County of Sussex; containing a Life of Thomas ? Becket, an historical and descriptive account of his (so called) Palace at West Tarring, and the figs he introduced;......
First edition, 8vo (222 x 140 mm), xii, 369, [1]pp., with half-title, title in red and black, advert. leaf at end, orig. cloth, spine worn and torn, uncut and largely unopened, internally a nice clean copy.
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