KEITH (George Skene)MareMagnum
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First Edition, advert. leaf after title, [4], 58pp., disbound. Keith held a living in Scotland and took an active interest in agricultural matters. He made experiments in distillation at the request of the Scotch Distillery Committee of the House of Commons and later for the Commissioners of Excise in Scotland. This survey of Aberdeenshire is his major work. The L, ABu, C, E, and O copies in the ESTC.
Third edition, xv,[1],30,[2]pp., disbound.
First Edition, 16pp., disbound. The author was one of six reformers consulted by Colonel Sharman, a leader of the Irish Volunteers, on the ideas for political development in Ireland. His reply shows the essentially conservative and aristocratic nature of proposals that had alarmed his political associates. Bradshaw, 7528.
Fourth Edition, half-title, [4], 160pp., disbound.
Second Edition, with the final advert. leaf G4, [4], 46, [2] pp., disbound. Sir John Sinclair inaugurated the British Wool Society at a large sheep-shearing festival held in 1791 at Newhalls Inn, Queensferry. He is credited with initiating these sheep-shearings which were later developed by Francis Russell, the fifth Duke of Bedford. Kress, B2206; Goldsmith, 14668.
Second edition, [2], 77, [5]pp., without half-title, 6 folding tables, disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 17698.
First Edition, half-title, a little browning at the beginning of the text, [4], 136 pp., disbound.
First Edition, folding table, stab-holes on inner blank margins, [16], 128 pp., disbound. Brewster was the author of "Essays in Trade and Navigation, in Five Parts" (1695). Only the first part, which included evidence of his opposition to the new Bank of England, was published. In 1702 he issued "New Essays on Trade", and the anonymous book "A Discourse Concerning Ireland and the Different Interests Thereof" (1698), relating to the woollen issue, has also been ascribed to him. He died at some point between March 1704 and February 1705. Kress, 2335; Goldsmith, 3857; Hanson, 130.
[8], 30pp., with half-title, some light age-toning, stitched as issued.
35, [1]pp., stitched as issued. Hanson, 1741; Goldsmiths', 4906.
8vo, 16 pp., text browned, disbound. Foxon, H335.
8vo, 16pp., fore-edges slightly cut-down (not effecting text), disbound. Foxon, H334.
20pp., title-page very badly ink stained, slightly chipped at upper margin, some side-notes cropped, cont. manuscript notes to terminal leaf, disbound.
First Edition, 56 pp., disbound.
First Edition, 4to, [2], 21, [1] pp., disbound. Wing, B5669; Madan, II, 999.
First Edition, cont. signature of W. Foster (cropped) on upper blank margin of title, 32 pp., disbound.
First Edition, no half-title, [16], 93, [1]pp., disbound.
First Edition, lacks half-title, [2], 5-23, [1] pp., disbound.
First edition, 24pp., disbound, a very good copy. A brilliant parody ridiculing the two numbers in Addison's 'Spectator' which praise 'Chevy Chase'. The poem on which Wagstaffe focuses critical attention is the old ballad of 'Tom Thumb, his Life and Death' ("in Arthur's Court Tom Thumb did live" - STC 24115, Wing T1789A-1790B), a work "proper to adorn the shelves of Bodley or the Vatican". This powerful essay, full of mock learning ("I have consulted Monsieur Le Clerk and my Friend Dr. B---ly"), textual criticism (having collated "all the Manuscripts.... also an Arabick Copy.... I find it an Interpolation"), Virgilian parallels and critical acclaim for the ballad's supposed "Poetical Genius" and emotions "that may move the Mind of the most polite Reader, with the inward Meltings of Humanity". Suggestions that this piece may have sufficient literary merit to suppose that Swift must have had a hand in it may be discounted Wagstaffe was a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whether he was also an original satirist influenced by Swift is open to question, but he certainly must have met him quite frequently at the house of his father-in-law, Charles Bernard. Teerink-Scouten, 484 ("doubtful").
First edition, contemporary name on title, advertisement leaf at end, 50, [2] pp., modern marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover. Kress, 2750.