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HEYWOOD (John)
Of Gentleness and Nobility.
Small 4to, 30pp., collotype facsimile, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on upper cover, a nice copy. Exact facsimile reprint of the earliest known edition of c. 1535.
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PRICE (Henry)
An Alphabetical List of the Names of the Hundreds, Parishes, Chapelries, Villages, Gentlemens' Seats, Farm Houses, And other Places in the New Map of Herefordshire, Lately Published by Henry Price.
First and only edition, [2], vi, 37,[1] + 2pp., of adverts, orig. printed blue boards with white paper spine, the spine is worn with some loss to the original cover at base, some brown damp staining to lower inner margins which correspond with the damage to base of spine, partly unopened, uncut. A good acceptable example of this very rare work which was bought out to accompany Henry Price's New Map of the County of Hereford which is advertised at the rear of the book. Copac listing a single copy at Cardiff University Libraries.
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ADVICE.
Advice to a Painter. In a Poem to a Friend.
First edition, 4to, [8], some light dust soiling to title and margins slightly chipped. "An "Answer" to an Advice to a Painter in which the loyal members of the Artillery Company of Bristol had been attacked. The author, an ardent Anglican Tory, satirized the non-conformists (Presbyterians, Anabaptists, Antinomians, Brownists, Adamites, Chiliasts, Quakers, Muggletonians, and Independents) and accused them of plotting rebellion against the King." (Osborne). Wing A639 & ESTC (EN, CH; WF only); Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems 1633-1856. p. 48.
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FRANKLIN (Robert)
The Miller's Muse; Rural Poems.
First edition, xv, [5], 95, [1]pp., cont. ink coat of arms of George Barkworth on the front endpaper, with pencil notes relating to his family history, marbled endpapers, cont. half calf, marbled boards, attractive gilt decorated spine, a nice copy. Robert Franklin of Ferriby Sluice, Lincolnshire, miller, son of several generations of millers. Booksellers label of Isaac Wilson of Hull. Not in Jackson; Johnson, Provincial Poetry 339.
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PENDENNIS (Launcelot) pseud. [i.e. Duke John Yonge]
Cornish Carelessness; Poems, Original and Translated.
First edition, viii, 167, [1 blank]pp., orig. boards, cloth spine defective at foot, upper joint split, morocco title label, uncut. The Rev. Duke John Young (1809-1846) Curate of All Saints', Little Bolton, but died young from a shotgun wound. This was his chief work, but he also wrote several songs and was a translator of the classical poets.
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FOOTE (Charles B.)
Catalogue of the Unique Collection made by Charles Foote, Esq. American Authors & English Literature...
2 Parts, 45; 71pp., facsimiles, priced with some buyers names in pencil, orig. printed wrappers, a little worn and chipped but overall very good.
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[LANGLOIS (Fran?ois, Fancan Canon St. Honore)]
The Favovrites Chronicle.
First Edition in English, small 4to, typographical device on title, title recto [A], verso blank, [2], 41, [1] pp., modern half calf, a good copy. "The political satire against the Duc des Luynes, according to Barbier, was the cause of the author's imprisonment in the Bastille where he died. The bibliography of the early French editions, as in the case of the more celebrated Menippean satire, does not appear to have been studied so that it would be difficult to say with just what celerity it was translated and published in English. However, the fact that it was translated is not necessarily an indication of the concern of Jacobean England with the internal affairs of France. Although this translation may have been in part intended as a commentary upon Buckingham and other 'favourites' of the King's Council, it was probably published principally because of its intrinsic wit and vigor." - Pforzheimer Library. S.T.C. 15203; Hazlitt 11, 123; Huntington C.L., 511; Pforzheimer, 578.
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[SAINT GERMAN (Christopher)]
The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinity, and a Student in the Lawes of England. [with the second Dialogue].
8vo (140 x 90 mm), newly corrected & imprinted, with new additions, 176, [9]pp., title within a decorative border, black letter throughout, 3 contemporary ink notes in the blank margins, small pieces missing from lower blank margins of P1, Z3 & Z4 (just touching the text), with the 4 final contents leaves, faint pink stain (ink?) on tip of lower corner of 25 leaves, later vellum, new endpapers and ties, a nice copy. The first dialogue is a modified translation of his "Dialogus de fundamentis legum Anglie et de conscientia." STC, 21577.
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[BURNET (Sir Thomas)]
A Second Tale of a Tub: or, The History of Robert Powel the Puppet-Show-Man.
First Edition, imprimatur leaf, engraved frontispiece, [4], 219, [5] pp., contemporary panelled calf, hinges partly cracked, label, a nice copy. Written by the judge, traveller, diplomatist and pamphleteer, Sir Thomas Burnet, (with the collaboration of George Duckett). In fact the correspondence between Burnet and Duffett (Roxburghe 1914) makes it clear that this was a joint production. This political satire on the statesman Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, is far from being destitute of wit and humour and takes the form of an account of Martin Powell (fl.1709-29), the somewhat physically deformed showman who ran a celebrated puppet-show in Covent Garden. It also, of course, adopts the title of Swift's celebrated 'Tale of a Tub' (but is not recorded by Teerink-Scouten in the list of this work's spurious sequels etc.).
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[DWIGHT (Timothy)]
The Triumph of Infidelity: A Poem. Supposed to be Written by Timothy Dwight, D. D. of Greenfield in Connecticut, in 1788.
27, [1 blank]pp., some occasional spotting, disbound.
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HOPKIN-JAMES (Lemuel John)
Old Cowbridge Borough, Church, and School. Illustrated by Mrs. Adelaide Williams and others.
First Edition, 32 illustrations in the text, 3 maps (one folding), 10pp. list of subscribers, xiv, [2], 327, [1] pp., original blue cloth, gilt lettering, a good copy.
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POLL BOOK.
The Contest. Being an Account of the Matter in Dispute between the Magistrates and Burgesses, and an Examination of the Merit and Conduct of the Candidates in the present Election. For Newcastle upon Tyne. Sold by the Booksellers in Newcastle, and the neighbouring Towns. 1774. First Edition, extra-illustrated with the inclusion of 2 later portraits of Sir Walter Blackett and Sir M. W. Ridley, [2], 40 pp. Bound with:- BURGESSES POLL. The Burgesses Poll at the Late Election of Members for Newcastle upon Tyne. Containing the Conditions agreed on by the Candidates for regulating the Poll. State of the Poll each day. - The number each Candidate Polled every day. - The whole number of Persons each day, their Names, Companies, Places of Residence, how they voted, the day each polled on, and number on the poll ranged alphabetically. - Copied from the Original Books taken on the spot, pursuant to the Direction of the Hon. Constantine John Phipps, And Thomas Delaval, Esq. To which is added, A summary View of the Disputes which arose, and Arguments used by the Candidates, Counsellors Lee, Fawcett, and Wilson, in defence of their proceedings upon the Hustings, &c.....
Second Edition, corrected, errata on final leaf, 24, [2], 55, [1] pp., modern green morocco-backed, marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, maroon labels, a fine copy.
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CURTIS (Rev. John)
A Topographical History of the County of Leicester, the Ancient part compiled from Parliamentary and other Documents, and the modern from Actual Survey: Being the first of a series of the Counties of England and Wales, on the same plan.
First edition, small 4to (260 x 160 mm), xliv, 227, [1]pp., LARGE PAPER COPY, Dr. W. G. Hoskins copy, double-page coloured map of Leicestershire before the title (linen-backed with extra large margin), original blue cloth, hinges frayed in places, printed paper label on spine, uncut, a firm clean copy.
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GLASSBY (William J. J.)
Memorials of Old Mexboro' compiled from the most Authentic Sources.
First Edition, vignette on title-page and duplicated in gilt on upper cover, list of subscribers, advertisement leaf at end, [8], 68, [2] pp., original embossed blue cloth, a nice copy.
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HOWARD (Robert)
The Duel of the Stags, a Poem..... Together with an Epistle to the Author, by Mr. John Dryden.
8vo, 16 pp., text browned, disbound. Foxon, H335.
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HOWARD (Robert)
The Duel of the Stags, a Poem..... Together with an Epistle to the Author, by Mr. John Dryden.
8vo, 16pp., fore-edges slightly cut-down (not effecting text), disbound. Foxon, H334.
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POETICAL MISCELLANY.
Mus? Seatonian?. A Complete Collection of the Cambridge Prize Poems, from the first institution of that premium by The Rev. Mr. Tho. Seaton, in 1750, to the present time. To which are added, Two Poems, likewise written for the prize, by Mr. Bally and Mr. Scott.
First Edition, no free end-papers, contemporary name on title, [2], vii, [1], 334 pp., original boards, rubbed, upper hinge cracked, uncut. Poems by Christopher Smart (5), G. Bally (5), R. Glynn (1), B. Porteus (1), J. Scott (4), J. Hey (1), J. Lettice (1), T. Zouch (1), C. Jenner (2) and W. Hodson (1).
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MARTIAL.
Select Epigrams of Martial. Translated and Imitated by William Hay, Esq; with an Appendix of some by Cowley, and other Hands.
12mo (170 x 100 mm), [4], v, [3], 139 [i.e.239], [25]pp., presentation copy and a relevant autograph letter, both from Edmund Blunden, presentation inscription in pencil on fly-leaf "Douglas Grant from Edmund Blunden. Christmas 1952." and another note in pencil from Blunden "a Sussex poet and one of Charles Lamb's out-of-the-way authors." parallel Latin and English texts, another Blunden note in the text, with 2 advertisement leaves at the end, contemporary calf, worn, covers almost detached. Tipped in is a letter relevant to this book "T.L.S. London E.C.4. 4 Decr. 1952. My dear Douglas We lack news of you, and I am too feeble or idle to write a letter. If you have Will. Hay's Imitations, the copy could perhaps serve as a swop with someone. There is an imperfect copy of one of your Duchess's [i.e. Duchess of Newcastle] Works in a recent catalogue from Dobell of Tunbridge Wells..... The T.L.S. slumps along, partly in near - English.... [signed] Edmund." Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of John Mervin Prower.
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[DEFOE (Daniel)]
A Lay-Man's Creed, very short for the Benefit of the Poor Reader.
First Edition, lacks half-title, [2], 5-23, [1] pp., disbound.
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HIPKINS (F. C.)
Repton and its neighbourhood: A Descriptive Guide of the Archaeology, &c., of the district. Illustrated by Photogravures, &c.
Second Edition, frontispiece, ownership signature of Eleanor S. Ratcliff, 1908, title in red and black, 21 other plates, viii, [2], 142 pp., original blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine.
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SCHNEPS (Maurice)
The Woman at St. L?. Illustrated by the author. Introduction by Edmund Blunden. Selected Prose and Poetry 1940 - 1958.
First Edition, presentation inscription on fly-leaf "Douglas Grant, for the sake of the war study which he I hope will think meritorious - Edmund Blunden, 20 July 1959.", black and white illustrations in the text, xvi, 106 pp., blue printed wrappers, with original glassine wrapper, a fine copy. Dedicated to "Edmond et Madaleine Fleg aux jours intimes ? Quai aux Fleurs."
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NORFOLK.
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the city of Norwich, communicated to the annual meeting of the Arch?ological Institute. held at Norwich, July, 1847.
First edition, viii, lvi, 224pp., numerous plates, orig. cloth, rebacked.
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SLATTER (John)
Some Notes on the History of the Parish of Whitchurch, Oxon.
First edition, large 8vo (230 x 145 mm), viii, [2], 150pp., with half-title, frontispiece, original two-tone cloth, uncut.
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GUILFORD (Everard L.)
A History of Abel Collin's Charity, Nottingham; to which are appended Notes on Jonathan Labray's and Luke Jackson's Charities, and the Bonsall School Trust. With an Introduction by Alexander Samwell Leslie Melville, and a concluding Chapter by Thomas Gallimore, Clerk to the Trustees.
First Edition, half-title, frontispiece, 16 plates, folding pedigree of Smith Family at end, xiii, [1], 131, [1] pp., original cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, a good copy. Dobbin, 358.
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WINSTANLEY (John)
Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley, A.M.L.D. F.S.T.C.D. Interspers'd with many Others, By Several Ingenious Hands.
First Edition, engraved portrait, title in red and black, 11pp. list of subscribers, K4 (pp. 151-152) is a cancel, a little light staining on lower margins in a few places, xiv, [12], 320 pp., contemporary calf, hinges cracked, lacks label, a good copy. 'Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, D.S.P.D.' appears in the list of subscribers. 'Essentially a miscellany....; Winstanley's poems are not distinguished from the rest.' - Foxon. Rothschild, 2587; Case, 437; Foxon, pp.902-3.
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GINGLE (Jacob), pseud.
The Oxford Sermon versified. By Jacob Gingle, Esq
First Edition, 63, [1] pp., pamphlet with a marbled paper spine. Jacob Gingle is a pseudonym, sometimes wrongly identified as Joseph Betty, the poem is a skit on Betty's sermon "The Divine Institution of the Ministry", 1729. Foxon, O270.
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[HOOLE (Barbara)]
A Week at Harrogate. A Poem: in a Series of Letters...
Third edition, viii, 9-98, [2]pp., one engraved plate, 10 woodcuts in the text, cont. signature of John Preston at head of title, cont. half calf, hinges cracked. Although the title page calls for "Three neat Plates" only one is present.
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GUNNELL (William A.)
Sketches of Hull Celebrities: Or Memoirs and Correspondence of Alderman Thomas Johnson and Four of His Lineal Descendants from the Year 1640 to 1858.
First edition, xx, 515, [1]pp., orig. cloth.
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MILLER (Edward)
The History of Doncaster and its Vicinity, with Anecdotes of Eminent Men.
First Edition, 4to, folding map-frontispiece and 11 engraved plates (some with a water-stain on lower blank margin), 12 illustrations in the text, library stamp on blank verso of title, 6pp. list of subscribers, errata leaf, xii, 398, [2], xlv, [1] pp., original boards slightly worn, uncut, printed paper label on spine, a good copy. Boyne, CLV11.
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COX (Ian)
Royal Crown Derby Imari Wares.
4to, 94pp., coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. pictorial wrappers. The 'Imari' style with its rich colours - dark blue, iron red and gold - is one of the most distinctive of the classic styles associated with English wares. It has been identified with Royal Crown Derby in particular ever since its wares using Imari and Imari-derived patterns became the foundation of Royal Crown Derby's success in the 1870s and 1880s.Using Royal Crown Derby's remarkable pattern-book archive, Ian Cox surveys Derby Imari from its inception to the present day, charting the lasting popularity of the 'Imari' theme and its many derivations and developments by modern designers and craftsmen. The book concludes with a guide to identification and a table of all the Imari (and 'semi-imari' etc) patterns ever used at Royal Crown Derby's Osmaston Road factory.
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O'SHAUGHNESSY (Francis M.)
Death at Hallow Hall (a ghostly thriller) and other poems.
First edition, 36pp., presentation inscription from the author to Dame Sybil Thorndike, orig. printed wrappers, slightly solid.
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[FISHER (Sam)]
Sam is Sixty. 24th June, 1941. [Poetry].
[4], 9, [3]pp., one of 60 numbered copies for presentation, this inscribed by the author to Fred Dyson, stitched as issued, wrappers torn and defective.
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EDMONDS (George)
An Address to the Payers of Levies in the Parish of Birmingham, on the subject of Mr. Spry's Claims. [with] Letters to the Inhabitants [parishioners] of Birmingham.
10 parts in one, some spotting and staining of the first 40pp., 16, 160 pp., contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine rubbed. The first part is signed "George Edmonds. Tuesday, February 23, 1819". The series of "Letters" numbered II-X are on political reform in local government. Letters II-IV are printed and published by Osborne, letters V-X were printed by T. Bloomer, High Street, Birmingham. They are however paginated continuously, they were probably issued with the "Address to the Payers of Levies."
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FACULTIED PEWS.
Facultied Pews in the Parish Church, Cheltenham. Being a certified copy from the original Plan and Faculty, as deposited in the Registry of the Bishop of the Diocese, 1794.
First Edition, engraved vignette on title, engraved folding plan of St. Mary's Church, Cheltenham, shewing the Facultied Pews, 1794 with short tear on inner margin, 16 pp., disbound.
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[STODDART (Lady Isabella Moncrieff Wellwood)]
The Eskdale Herd Boy, A Scottish Tale. For the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons. By Mrs. Blackford.
First Edition, 12mo, engraved frontispiece (foxed) dated Octr. 10, 1819, some spotting of the text in places, 260 pp., modern boards, printed paper label. "The author was the eldest daughter of the Scottish Divine, the Reverend Sir Henry Montcrieff Wellwood. who received his early education at the parish school in Blackford, matriculated at the age of thirteen to the Glasgow University and returned to Blackford as the minister. It is doubtless because of this connection that the author chose her pseudonym, Mrs Blackford. She married Sir John Stoddart who became the Chief Justice of Malta. According to W. Carew Hazlitt, Lady Stoddart owed to Mary Lamb 'her earliest encouragement to cultivate the literary taste and capacity which she undoubtedly possessed in no mean degree.' " - Osborne. Moon, 827; Osborne, p. 943.
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FINKLER (Dr. and Co.,)
On the Treatment of Dyspepsia and Diphtheria by Papain (Finkler). Being a r?sum? of our present knowledge of the drug, compiled from the published writings of the most eminent English and Continental authorities upon the subject. Manufactured by Dr. Finkler and Co., Godramstein (Palatinate). B. K?hn, London and Manchester, Sole Agent for the United Kingdom and Export.
First edition, 30, [2]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Copac locating a single copy at Bristol; Not found on OCLC.
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JOHNSON (Samuel)
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. With Critical Observations on their Works.
3 Vols., engraved frontispiece to vol. I (lightly offset), contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, orig. printed title label to spines, uncut, a nice set in original condition. Fleeman, II, p.1409, (79.4LP/21).
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[TAIT (John)]
The Cave of Morar, the Man of Sorrows. A Legendary Tale. In two parts.
First edition, 4to, [vi], 31, [1]pp., with the half-title which is often missing, disbound. Jackson, p. 26.
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WISE (Thomas J.)
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
[xiv],316pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, spine a little frayed, uncut.
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BLAKESLEY.
Account of the Parish of Blakesley, Northamptonshire.
Third edition, [4], 20pp., 10 plates, orig. printed wrappers, stitched as issued.
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METZDORF (Robert T.) Compiler.
The Tinker Library. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts Collected by Chauncey Brewster Tinker.
First Edition, 4to, xxvi, 530, [2]pp., one of 500 copies, frontis., 6 plates, orig. cloth. 2,368 items fully described, mostly relating to English literature.
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WISE (Thomas J.)
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of William Wordsworth.
Numerous facsimiles, xvi, 268pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
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EDEL (Leon) & LAURENCE (Dan H.)
A Bibliography of Henry James.
Second Edition, revised, 427pp., frontis., 8 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
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ADAMS (Bernard)
London Illustrated 1604-1851: A Survey and Index of Topographical Books and their Plates.
First Edition, 4to, xxxiv,586pp., one of 1,000 number copies, frontis., 24 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. Lists more than 8,250 plates in 230 books and print sets published between 1604 and 1851.
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JOHNSON (C. R.)
Provincial Poetry 1789-1839. British Verse Printed in the Provinces: The Romantic Background. With an Introduction by Dr. Robert Woof.
First Edition, limited to 500 copies, frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth. The collection consists of 1,000 contemporary original minor verse printed in the provinces between 1789 and 1839.
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PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY.
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. English Literature 1475-1700. [Complied by E. Unger and W.A. Jackson].
3 Vols., large 4to, limited to 750 copies, with a new addendum of books found in the library but omitted from the original edition, frontispieces, 104 plates, orig. cloth, gilt. A long-awaited and much-needed reprint of one of the twentieth century's greatest, and scarcest, bibliographies, which was originally issued in an edition of only 150 copies. "The descriptions of the 1,105 printed books and 169 autographs and manuscripts are the chef d'oeuvre of William A. Jackson and the non plus ultra of 'critical' bibliography as postulated by Sir Walter Greg. Miss Unger had been the librarian of the Pforzheimer Library since 1920. The catalogue is a model of its kind." - Breslauer & Folter.
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GODDARD (Canon Ed. H.) Compiler.
Wiltshire Bibliography. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Pamphlets and Articles Bearing on the History, Topography and Natural History of the County.
First edition, viii, 276pp., orig. cloth, joints at head of spine slightly frayed. Part I: Wiltshire as a whole. Part II: Individual parishes arranged alphabetically.
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WISE (Thomas J.)
The Ashley Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters Collected by Thomas J. Wise. With a New Introduction by Simon Nowell Smith.
11 Vols., large 8vo, frontispiece or portrait in each volume, plates and facsimiles throughout, with the British Museum shelf number against each item in their possession, (all but about 240 items), orig. cloth, a couple of spines lightly spotted. "The catalogue of the Ashley Library, which was acquired by the British Museum, is a useful reference work, especially in English nineteenth-century first editions, which are represented in unrivalled completeness. The late seventeenth and eighteenth-century collections are also very full".?Breslauer and Folter, 151. "... the most remarkable collection of rare books and manuscripts in modern English literature put together by a single collector in Great Britain in the hundred years before 1850 and 1950".?Simon Nowell Smith (introduction).
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MacGILLIVRAY (J. R.)
Keats: A Bibliography and Reference Guide with an Essay on Keats' Reputation.
lxxxii, 210pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
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NORTON (J.E.)
A Bibliography of the Works of Edward Gibbon.
xvi, 256pp., 3 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
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