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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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GRAY (G. J.)
A Bibliography of the Writings of Christopher Smart, with Biographical References.
Small 4to, 41pp., frontis., cont. cloth. A scarce bibliography.
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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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