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MARTIN (Charles Wykeham)
The History and Description of Leeds Castle, Kent.
First edition, folio (380 x 270 mm), x, 210, [2], xxxvipp., 8 mounted albumen prints (145 x 200 mm) by John Cruttenden of Maidstone, title printed in red and black (working loose), publisher's red cloth, upper cover waterstained. Leeds Castle was the country seat of Charles Wykeham Martin (1801-1870), an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1841 and 1870. Cruttenden had exhibited two of his images of Leeds Castle at the Photographic Society's 1861 Exhibition. Gernsheim, 458.
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LEWES (George Henry)
Sea-Side Studies at Ilfracombe, Tenby, the Scilly Isles, and Jersey.
Second edition, 8vo, x, 428 + 4pp., of adverts, frontispiece, 6 plates, rear hinge shaken, orig. green cloth, worn, a couple of nicks to spine.
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TURNER (William), JACKSON (Benjamin Daydon)
Libellus de re Herbaria Novus, by William Turner, Originally Published in 1538, Reprinted in Facsimile, with Notes, Modern Names, and a Life of the Author, by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, F.L.S.
First edition, 4to, xviii, 20 pages of facsimiles, 12pp., one of 100 copies, inscribed by Jackson "this copy number sixty four is the property of James Britten, Esq. [Department of Botany] British Museum", some light spotting, orig. cloth-backed boards, slightly stained.
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K?NIG (Johann)
The True English Guide for the Germans. Containing I. A new and useful grammar. II. A copious and well digested vocabulary. III. English phrases and idioms. IV. Choice English proverbs. V. Familiar dialogues. VI. A London-Guide, of the curiosities to be seen in and about London. VII. Some directions for writing letters. VIII. A few of Esop's fables. IX. A table for Englishmen to learn to read German. First published by John King, master of that language in London.
Fourth edition, with additions and corrections, 8vo (170 x 100 mm), [6], 279, 286-427, 430-431, [3]pp., parallel German title page: Der getreue englische Weg-weiser, oder kurtze, doch gr?ndliche Anleitung zur englischen Sprache f?r die Teutschen... Bey Joh. Friedrich Brauns sel. Erben, text in German and English, woodcut to titles, date at bottom of both title pages has been scored-out with blank ink, near cont. calf, slight rubbing but a nice copy. The German translator and language teacher Johann K?nig, or John King, having lived and worked in London for 30 years, first published his A Complete English Guide for High-Germans / Ein vollkommener englischer Wegweiser fur Hoch-Teutsche in 1706, a grammar, phrase-book and guide for Germans wishing to learn English, having recognised that Germans were increasingly visiting and settling in Britain. Alston II, 363; ESTC locates just 2 copies of this fourth edition (British Library and Torun University Library, Poland).
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STAINES (Joseph)
The History of Newport Pagnell, and its Immediate Vicinity.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 219, [1]pp., with list of subscribers, lithographed frontispiece, cont. half calf, marbled boards, calf spine label lettered in gilt.
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ARBER (Edward) Editor. ROBINSON (Clement)
Clement Robinson and Divers Others: A Handful of Pleasant Delights Containing Sundry New Sonnets and Delectable Histories in Divers Kinds of Metre Etc. 1584. The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works No. 3.
8vo, xvi, 64pp., orig. blue cloth lettered in blind and gold, a nice copy.
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DODSLEY (Robert), PEARCH (George)
A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands and a Collection of Poems in Four Volumes by Several Hands (being a continuation of Dodsley's work published by Pearch).
10 volumes, 8vo, half titles, vignette titles and one engraved vignette to the first page of each volume (the vignettes in the Pearch publication by Isaac Taylor), very handsomely leather bound in uniform full period eighteenth century calf with red and black leather lettering labels. A clean and complete set of this renown and much published anthologies. Provenance: Contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Parker.
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SEWARD (Anna)
Letters of Anna Seward: Written between the years 1878 and 1807.
6 volumes, 8vo, large paper?, illustrated with 2 of 3 frontispieces and an engraved letter, handsomely bound in a full period straight grained green morocco, floral gilt decoration in compartments, Greek key inner dentelles and gilt edges. Anna Seward 1742-1809 was an English poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive views on female education. Provenance: Small armorial on the boards Impiger et Fidus - family of David Constable and signed by the publisher Archibald Constable, Edinburgh on the endpaper.
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[DANIEL (John Henry) & HENWOOD (G.)]
A Great Mine Conference. The Gwennap Bal Boys. The Prechen Cappen. The Fox outwitted by a Cock. A Legend of St. Germans. Dialogue about India, China, Railways, and Unions. The Poor Man and his Parish Church. [stories and verse].
First edition, 12mo, 48pp., frontispiece, original green printed wrappers, a very nice copy.
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MAUDE (T.)
Wensleydale; or, Rural Contemplations: A Poem.
Fourth edition, 12mo, 122, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece, large folding pedigree creased with a couple of closed tears, cont. half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt tooled, a nice copy. Provenance: Contemporary ownership signature of John Hammond of Weston Runton.
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[JAMES (George Payne Rainsford)]
Mary of Burgundy; or, the Revolt of Ghent. By the Author of "Darnley," "Richilieu," "Henry Masterton," etc.
First edition, 3 vols., 8vo, vii, [1], 318; [2], 336; [2], 333, [1]pp., bound without half-titles and ads in a contemporary half calf with binders ticket of Charles Thurnam of Carlisle, marbled boards, spines faded, spine labels lettered in gilt (one slightly chipped). Provenance: Title-page with ink stamp of D. Parrie's Circulating Library, St Albans Place, London.
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[JAMES (George Payne Rainsford)]
Henry Masterton; or the Adventures of a Young Cavalier. By the Author of "Richelieu," "Darnley," &c.
First edition, 3 vols., 8vo, [4], 324; [4], 344; [2], 346, [2, ads]pp., half-titles to vols., 1 & 2, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, smooth spines lettered in gilt, a nice set.
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CHATWIN (Bruce)
Utz.
First edition, 8vo, 154pp., orig. black cloth, d.w. a very nice copy.
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MASSINGBERD (W. O.)
History of the Parish of Ormsby-cum-Ketsby, in the Hundred of Hill and County of Lincoln, compiled from original sources.
First edition, large thick 8vo, viii, [4], 454pp., frontis., orig. purple cloth, joints torn, head and foot of spine frayed, uncut. A very scarce privately printed Lincolnshire local history, only about 100 copies printed. Provenance: Ownership signature in ink to front paste-down 'G. B. Massingberd-Mundy, Univ. Coll. Oxford', also to rear paste-down 'G. B. Massingberd-Mundy Ormsby Hall, Alford, Lincolnshire. Corns, Biblitheca Lincolniensis, p.164.
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GOODMAN (Cardell), ROBERT (R. J.) Editor.
Beawty in Raggs or Divine Phancies putt into Broken Verse. Poems by Cardell Goodman.
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 79, [1]pp., one of 150 numbered copies, frontis., orig. red cloth, a very good copy.
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THOMPSON (Henry Yates)
Catalogue of Fourteen Illuminated Manuscripts and Fifteen Early Printed Books (Including Five Pigouchet Horae on Vellum), Togther with the Credo of Charles V in Gold & Enamel Case, and a Picture of the Battle of Cannae, Ascribed to Jean Foucquet... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Wednesday, 22nd of June, 1921.
4to, vi, [143]-207, [1]pp., coloured frontis., 44 plates (some double-page), printed list of prices and buyers' names, gathering a little loose, cont. buckram, uncut, 32 lots. The third sale from this highly important collection of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books.
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[HUDDESFORD (George)]
Salmagundi; A Miscellaneous Combination of Original Poetry: consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients.
First edition, 4to, [6], 151, [3]pp., with additional engraved title and terminal errata leaf, orig. marbled boards.
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NOVEL. [CORP (Harriet)]
An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, in the History of the Widow Placid, and her daughter Rachel.
Third edition, corrected, 12mo, viii, 234, [2]pp., with final advert leaf, inscribed on the title "Mrs. Watt 1808", lacks front free endpaper, bottom outer corner of M2 missing with no loss of text, original boards, uncut, lower part of back-strip missing, otherwise a nice copy. First published in 1807, in response in part to James Beresford's "The Miseries of Human Life" (1806), which was not itself in the form of a fictional narrative. Sold in the Sotheby's James Watt sale, 20 March 2003, in lot 162. Raven, The English Novel, 1807:14.
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NORTHAMPTON.
The History of Northampton and its Vicinity; Brought down to the Present Time.
Second edition, small 8vo, vii, [1], 152pp., engraved frontispiece, rebound in later cloth, leather spine label, uncut.
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COOKE (George Alexander)
A Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Northampton
12mo, 177, [3, index]pp., hand-coloured engraved folding map, 2 engraved plates, original printed wrappers bound-in a rear, nineteenth-century red calf, head and foot of spine slightly frayed otherwise and nice copy.
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HARTSHORNE (Rev. Charles Henry)
An Endeavour to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, or, a discourse on funeral monuments, in that County. Delivered before the members of the Religious and Useful Knowledge Society, at Northampton.
First edition, 8vo, iv, 58, [2] + [8]pp., of publishers adverts, presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper, coloured frontis., 7 plates, later blue cloth, a nice copy.
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ARCHER (Caleb)
My Recollections of Wellingborough.
First edition, large 8vo, 34pp., portrait frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, a nice copy.
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COX (Thomas)
Northamptonshire [Taken From] Cox's Magna Britannia et Hibernia Antiqua et Nova.
Small 4to, 459-597, [1]pp., folding engraved map of Northamptonshire by Robert Morden, nineteenth-century quarter roan, upper cover detached.
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STORER (James)
History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain. Illustrated with a series of highly-finished engravings, exhibiting general and particular views, ground plans, and all the architectural features and ornaments in the various styles of building used in our Ecclesiastical Edifices, in four volumes.
First edition, 4 vols., 8vo, with additional engraved title-pages, complete with 252 engraved plates and plans, marbled endpapers, cont. full green tree calf, lightly rubbed and slightly faded, joints and foot of spine of vol. I worn, leather labels to spines, generally a nice clean set.
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ADKINS (W. Ryland D.)
Our Country. Sketches in Pen and Ink of Representative Men of Northampton. Illustrations by W. B. Shoosmith.
First edition, 4to, x, 123, [1]pp., one of 280 copies signed by the author, numerous illustrs., orig. wrappers, upper wrapper detached, spine chipped.
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WALLIS (R. B.) & BULL (F. W.) Editors.
Olla-Podrida: The Northamptonshire Monthly Magazine. Vol. II.
4to, vol. II only, [4], 188pp., numerous plates and illustrs., orig. half calf, a nice copy. An extremely rare Northamptonshire periodical, JISC records a single copy at Nottingham University Library.
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NORTHAMPTON.
The History of Northampton and its Vicinity; Brought down to the Present Time.
First edition, small 8vo, iv, 151, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece, rebound in later cloth, spine labels, uncut.
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MITCHELL-WITHERS (J. B.)
The Castle of Conisborough: with remarks on the keep tower of the 11th and 12th centuries : a paper read before the Rotherham Literary & Scientific Society, December 14th, 1876.
First edition, 8vo, 24pp., disbound. JISC locating the University of Leeds copy only.
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HUBBARD (E. Isle)
Ancient Church and Conventual Arrangement, with a reference to Roche Abbey: a paper read before the Rotherham Literary & Scientific Society, March 10th, 1879.
First edition, 8vo, 36pp., 2 plans, disbound. JISC locating the University of Leeds copy only.
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HUBBARD (E. Isle)
Sepulchral Monuments of the Middle Ages: A paper by E. Isle Hubbard, Esq., read before the Rotherham Literary & Scientific Society: February 2nd, 1880.
First edition, 8vo, 36pp., 18 illustrs., disbound. JISC locating the University of Leeds and V & A copies only.
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TOPSELL, Edward, and PLINY the Elder. BYRNE, M. St Clare (editor).
The Elizabethan Zoo. A Book of Beasts both Fabulous and Authentic.
First edition, 4to, xiv, 171, [1]pp., one of 525 copies (this being a 'review' copy), folding maps, woodcuts, upper blank margin of title page with a slight paper flaw, orig. cloth-backed decorated paper boards, corners rubbed, uncut.
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THORN-DRURY (G.) Editor.
Parnassus Biceps or Several Choice Pieces of Poetry 1636.
First edition, 8vo, 194pp., one of 370 copies, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, a nice copy.
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BOWLES (William Lisle)
Scenes and shadows of days departed: a narrative accompanied with poems of youth and some other poems of melancholy and fancy in the journey of life from youth to age.
First edition, small 8vo, [16, ads], xlv, [1], 118, [2, ads]pp., engraved frontispiece foxed, orig. cloth, spine paper label rubbed and a little chipped.
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HASSALL (Arthur)
Christ Church Oxford. An Anthology in Prose and Verse Selected by Arthur Hassall. Student of Christ Church, Oxford, with 26 plates in colour reproduced from Paintings by Arthur Garratt and from Portraits in Christ Church Hall.
First edition, 4to, 182pp., 25 coloured tipped-in plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed and soiled but still a good copy, uncut.
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HALLIWELL (James Orchard)
The Moral Play of Wit and Science, and Early Poetical Miscellanies from an Unpublished Manuscript.
First edition, 8vo, 128pp., orig. embossed brown cloth.
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SILVER (G.)
Paradoxes of Defence 1599. With an Introduction by J. Dover Wilson.
8vo, xx, 72pp., orig. publishers white boards, uncut, a fine copy.
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DAY (John)
The Ile of Gvls 1606. With an Introduction by G. B. Harrison.
8vo, viii, [2], [64]pp., orig. publishers white boards, uncut, a fine copy.
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HEYWOOD (Thomas)
The First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth. A Facsimile Reprint of the Unique Copy of the First Edition (1599) in the Library of Charles W. Clark. With an Introductory Note by Seymour De Ricci.
8vo, 17, [1]pp., followed by the unpaginated facsimile, one of 150 numbered copies, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on upper cover, uncut, a very nice copy.
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LABE (Louise) COX (Edwin Marion) Translator.
The Debate Between Folly and Cupid. Written by Louise Labe of Lyons about 1550 and now first completely done into English by Edwin Marion Cox.
8vo, xxix, 87pp., one of 326 copies signed by the translator, orig. publishers two-toned buckram, uncut, spine a little browned otherwise a very good copy.
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SOOWTHERN (John)
Pandora, by John Soowthern. Reproduced from the original edition, 1584, with a bibliographical note, by George B. Parks.
8vo, 8pp., of introduction followed by 35pp., of facsimile, orig. cloth, a nice copy.
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ROBARTS (Henry) BLACKIE (E. M.)
A Most Friendly Farewell to Sir Francis Drake. Transcribed with a short Introduction by E. M. Blackie.
First edition, large 8vo, 12pp., followed by 16pp., off facsimile, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label, a very good copy.
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GIBSON (Wm. Sidney)
A descriptive and historical guide to Tynemouth: comprising a popular sketch of the history of the monastery, the church, and the castle ; with notices of North Shields, Seaton Delaval, and neighbouring antiquities.
Second edition, small 8vo, xiii, 161pp., engraved frontispiece and a few woodcut text illustrations, orig. pattern cloth, a very good copy.
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[MORETON (Miss Priscella)]
The Authentic and Interesting History of Miss Moreton, and the Faithful Cottager. Two Volumes Comprised in One.
8vo, v, [2], 8-304pp., cont. sheep, rubbed, upper joint split, red morocco spine label. Provenance: Early ownership signature to front pastedown: John Widdowson.
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WEST (William)
The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire; inclusive of some portions of the ancient histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early English writers...
First edition, large 8vo (236 x 145 mm), xiii, [1], 800pp., folding hand-coloured engraved map frontis., one further folding engraved map (with verso repairs to folds), 13 engraved plates, orig. calf, covers tooled in gilt and blind, rebacked, spine gilt.
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HUTTON (William)
An History of Birmingham.
Third edition, 8vo, 2 folding engraved map (one with verso repairs to folds), 15 engraved plates, some light soiling, cont. calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked with orig. spine laid-down. The third and best edition with considerable additions and new engravings of the public buildings.
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DAVIES (H. Neville)
The Cobbler of Canterbury: Frederic Ouvry's edition of 1862. With a new introduction by H. Neville Davies.
First edition, 89pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. a nice copy.
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DUDLAY (Edmonde)
The Tree of Common Wealth: A Treatise by Edmonde Dudlay, Esq. Barrister-at-Law; Sometime Speaker of the House of Commons; President of the Privy Council of Henry VII; and one of the King's Commissioners for receiving the forfeitures of Penal Statutes. Written by him while a Prisoner in the Tower, in the Years 1509 and 1510, and under Sentence of Death for high treason. Now first printed from a Copy of his Manuscripts for the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross.
First edition, small 4to, 66pp., orig. blue printed wrappers, detached.
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GREENE (Robert)
Greenes Newes both from Heauen and Hell 1593 and Greenes Funeralls 1594. Reprinted from the Original Editions With Notes, &c., by R. B. McKerrow.
First edition, small 4to, xii, 94, [1]pp., some light staining to lower margins, orig. cloth-backed boards, spine worn, uncut.
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MacDONALD (Hugh) & HARGREAVES (Mary)
Thomas Hobbes: A Bibliography.
8vo, xviii, 84pp., 6 plates, facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, a nice copy. Collations, locations of copies and bibliographical notes of all editions of works to 1725.
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STAFFORDSHIRE.
The Checkley, Croxden, Hollington and Tean Parish Magazine. No. 289.?January, 1903. [-348.?December, 1907.]
4to, a good run of 60 issues of this rare privately printed parish magazine, including adverts for local business, printed on green tinted paper, each number consists of an average of 6 pages, orig. green cloth, a very good copy. Not listed in JISC.
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