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1785rif. 61789Newcastle: T. Angus 1785. First Edition. First printing. 18mo 14.5cm. Contemporary half brown calf with brown paper over boards gilt rules to spine titled in gilt on red leather spine label; later endleaves; 1-190 i.e. 180pp with pp. 164-180 mispaginated as 174-190. A-P6. Lacking the final leaf of errata. A sound copy with minor external wear some internal browning small marginal loss to H2 just affecting text lacking the errata leaf but otherwise complete: around Very Good. A rather obscure long poem satirizing contemporary British political and social life in 172 numbered stanzas. According to Richard Oliver Heslop Northumberland Words 1892 "Titus" is the pseudonym of a William Hilton identified as "William Hilton of the Customs." The work per Heslop "includes a few dialect words." HESLOP Northumberland Words appendix: Bibliographical List of Works Illustrative of the Dialect of Northumberland p.22. ESTC T3168. T. Angus unknown
2001rif. BN444567Stichting Uitgeverij Historische Vereniging Nijverdal En Omstreken 2001. 2001. Softcover. Arfgoed. Uutdrukking'n Sprekwoarn en Sprekwiezen in de sproake van de gemeente Heldern Arfgoed. Uutdrukking'n Sprekwoarn en Sprekwiezen in de sproake van de gemeente Heldern Alferink Johan voorwoord & Hennie Kuipers tekneingen & Werkgroep Dialect van de Historische Vereniging Nijverdal en Omstreken Stichting Uitgeverij Historische Vereniging Nijverdal En Omstreken paperback
rif. 12402Without place or date. Yorkshire 1850s. 1p. 12mo. Fair on aged paper with slight wear and loss at head. The leaf has been trimmed down to 21 x 16 cm. with rounded corners around the poem's decorative border. The poem consists of 96 lines in twelve eight-line stanzas; it is arranged in two columns beneath the title: 'ON THE WING. BY JOHN LAWTON.' First stanza reads: 'I wor thinkin one neet wol sit i mi cheer Wot thowts enter sum people's pates; Wot useful invenshuns they'n plan'd everywheer To benefit people un states. Locomotives un steomers I think yol find Un hundreds o things I might name Fast flitted e fancy throo somebody's mind Un war plann'd by sombody's brain.' The second stanza expands on the theme: 'Tho swift wi con travil on land and on sea Discontent is still to be seen; For sum want to travil o new-fanglt wey Throo th'air in o flyin machine: Un shud they succeed as sum think ut they will In thus navigatin the air Streets un roads wod soon be desertud un still Un oytch thing wod look very quare.' Third stanza: 'One fellow is tryin to make o balloon To go ogen th'wint like o ship Un wen it is reddy he'll start very soon Un go on o grand trial trip. Then another I yerd on made sum big wings - He sed he felt shure he cud fly: He geet on o barn un adjusted his things Determin'd he'd have o good try.' The twelfth and last stanza reads: 'To think wot greyt changes this flyin wod bring I fashuns amusements un trade Wod make sum foak deawtful iv onny sitch thing In this world cud ever be made. Fur my part I expect to see flyin foak Soon after I see flyin pigs; Ur elephants makin gowd watches ov oak Ur crocodiles ridin i gigs.' This poem and its author are entirely untraced with no record on WorldCat or COPAC. Without place or date. [Yorkshire, 1850s?] unknown
rif. 24777‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’ 22 and 23 August 1923; H. D. Warwick printer Weymouth. The two titled ‘Wole Darset Vayre’ 24 and 25 August 1927 and 21 22 and 23 August 1929. The first printed by Warwick and the second by W. J. Squibb of Weymouth. Three scarce items: no other copy traced. The three pamphlets are uniform in design each consisting of 4pp 12mo stapled into card wraps with title and date beneath the Borough crest. Presumably produced for distribution at the annual town fair. The text of each poem covers all four pages. The first two are in good condition lightly aged; the last is in fair condition slightly ruckled and spotted. ONE: ‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’. At the Royal Palm Court Weymouth 22 and 23 August 1923. Poem ‘By Two Darset Maids’ beginning: ‘Come in me vriends and look around / We got all zarts to zell:’. TWO: ‘Wole Darset Vayre’. At Sidney Hall Weymouth 24 and 25 August 1927. Poem titled ‘A Liddle bit more o’ it’ ‘By the zame Two Darset Maids.’ Beginning: ‘Yer we be agen me vriends / At another wole Darset Vayre;’. THREE: ‘Wole Darset Varye’. At New Hall and Schools Baptist Chapel Weymouth 21 22 and 23 August 1929. ‘Arthur Nicholls’ lightly stamped in red at head of cover. Poem titled ‘The Vinish o’ it’ by ‘Zame Maids as avore.’ Beginning: ‘You ’ad the beginnin’ o’ this yer rhyme / Nigh on zix year ago;’ See image. ‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’, 22 and 23 August 1923; H. D. Warwick, printer, Weymouth. The two titled ‘Wole Darset Vayre’, 24 paperback
rif. 1085531 January 1883; on letterhead of 71 West 54th Street New York. 12mo 4 pp. Bifolium. Forty-eight lines. Text clear and complete. Good on aged paper. Begins 'One must needs be a churl indeed to be a laggard in his response to a letter containing "words of so sweet breath composed" as yours!' He thanks Baron for his 'kind & encouraging letter' and considers that an author 'has no keener or more lawful pleasure than to find that the errors of his song or tale has sic lodged as Longfellow says in the heart of some far-off and unknown friend'. He adds with unintentional ambiguity: 'I am vain enough to believe that your liking for my work is real and yet I am not vain enough - I trust - to estimate it above its very modest value.' He is enclosing a photograph not present. Discusses the English edition of his selected poems by Kegan Paul & Trench published three years before and the 'long work' he is engaged on - 'The Rise of Poetry in America' published in 'A Library of American Literature' 1889-1890. The latter covers 'the same period as that embraced by the "Victorian Poets" to which book it will be a companion-volume'. It is a 'laborious' work and has kept him 'from writing poetry of late'. He is 'eager to return to the more imaginative craft' in which he 'first gained a hearing in America'. 31 January 1883; on letterhead of 71 West 54th Street, New York. unknown
1990rif. 2080502106504301Kadokawashoten 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Kadokawashoten paperback
1888rif. 177281888. Jones Charles C. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast 1888 presenting a late nineteenth-century compilation of African American folklore recorded in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia and South Carolina coastal region with direct relevance to the study of Black oral traditions linguistic history and post-emancipation cultural expression. The volume gathers fable-like narratives often centered on anthropomorphic animals that reflect storytelling traditions rooted in African diasporic heritage and adapted within enslaved and freed communities of the coastal South. Its use of Gullah a Creole language shaped by West African linguistic structures and English situates the work within ongoing efforts of the period to document vernacular speech and preserve forms of cultural expression that had developed under slavery and persisted into Reconstruction and beyond. Jones Charles C. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1888. First edition. The text is rendered in Gullah dialect reflecting the linguistic patterns of African American communities along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts including areas around Savannah and Charleston. Jones raised in a plantation environment and familiar with the regional speech patterns compiled these narratives as part of a broader nineteenth-century interest in folklore and dialect studies contributing to early written records of Gullah language and storytelling traditions. Single volume. Ex libris. Minor foxing to the front pastedown and bumped corners; overall very good condition. A late nineteenth-century printed record of African American folklore and language from the coastal South documenting narrative forms and speech patterns that remain central to the study of Gullah culture and linguistic history. unknown
1697rif. ST15929aYork: J. White for Francis Hildyard 1697. Third Edition. 157 x 92 mm. 6 1/4 x 3 5/8". 2 p.l. 124 pp. Dark blue crushed morocco by Charles Lewis rear flyleaf with early owner's ink notation to this effect giving 1831 as the date of the binding covers bordered by three gilt rules raised bands spine compartments with rows of gilt flowers tan morocco label gilt-rolled turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of William Gott; 1906 article reporting on a sale at Sotheby's mentioning this volume specifically laid in at front; rear flyleaf with ink note: "Hibberts sale. 1829 / binding by C. Lewis 1831." Wing M-1810; ESTC R19511. Very slight signs of wear to leather but the attractive binding extremely well preserved and very pleasing. Leaves apparently lightly pressed some foxing and browning to the title page occasional minor foxing elsewhere small repairs to worming on upper corner and head edge of A2 but still a clean and fresh copy internally. First printed in 1685 this is a book with two very different parts the first being a rowdy and amusing poem on Yorkshire ales and the second a much more serious and important linguistic work on the Yorkshire dialect--both offered here in a binding by a prominent English craftsman. Scion of a landed county family and author of well-regarded legal treatises attorney George Meriton 1634-1711 began to create a record of the Yorkshire dialect in 1683 when he published "A York-shire Dialogue in its Pure Natural Dialect." A second edition was printed in 1685 prefaced by the poem "The Praise of York-shire Ale" and with the addition of a pioneering dialect glossary. Our third edition includes more dialogues in the York dialect. According to linguist Martyn Wakelin Meriton's work is still "of the utmost value to our knowledge of late 17th century northern phonology." In addition the work was influential in encouraging others to document regional dialects in Britain. This is an uncommonly seen item. The son of a Hanoverian immigrant Charles Lewis 1786-1836 was apprenticed to Henry Walther at 14 and obtained his freedom in 1807. He set up a shop in Scotland Yard had other addresses in the Strand before establishing himself in Duke Street St. James in 1817. By 1823 he was employing 21 journeymen a number of whom are illustrated in a watercolor of the bindery reproduced in Middleton's "A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique" p. 349. Lewis was patronized by the great collectors of the day including William Beckford who favored him above all others. In a letter to the bookseller George Clarke written in 1831--the year our binding was done--Beckford declared: "Lewis was and is and I hope will continue to be the first artist in this line that Europe can boast of." Our tasteful binding is a fine and well-preserved example of his work. The provenance here is significant. The first known owner of our volume was the outstanding book collector George Hibbert F.R.S. 1757-1837 Member of Parliament wealthy shipowner and one of the earliest members of the Roxburghe Club elected 1816. This copy of Meriton is almost certainly lot #4914 in the "Catalogue of the Library of George Hibbert Esq. of Portland Place" London 1829 p. 267. Historian David Hancock in Oxford DNB characterized Hibbert as "a renowned collector of paintings sculpture and books." Afterwards the volume was in the collection of Yorkshire bibliophile and industrialist William Gott 1797-1863 who "built up a magnificent collection of rare books." University of Leeds Library website The laid-in article at the front referring to a Sotheby’s sale in the early 20th century must refer to a third distinguished owner and a second vigorous bibliophile of the Gott dynasty of Yorkshire-born collectors William’s son John Gott 1830-1906 Bishop of Truro. Two years after the Bishop’s death his library was sold by Sotheby’s in a "Catalogue of the Choice Library of Valuable and Rare Printed Books and Ancient Manuscripts of the late Rt. Rev. John Gott D.D.". J. White for Francis Hildyard unknown
