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1785réf. 52084London: A. Hogg 1785. Hardcover. Very good condition. Folio. 12 i-xvi 9-46 57-417 3: ads; directions to book-binder; list of subscribers. 38 engraved plates. Contemporary calf lightly rubbed and scuffed spine with raised bands. Red silk ribbon marker. Text with occasional smudges and mild marginal dampstains or spotting but overall clean and crisp. A very good copy complete with all 36 plates called for in the instructions and 2 additional. 11 of the plates are bound consecutively in the preliminaries rather than placed in the text; these 11 plates all have relatively simple borders in contrast with the ones properly placed. Sumptuously illustrated Church of England prayer book with a substantial apparatus of theological historical and critical commentary. Issued in 36 numbered parts the text is complete despite the gap in pagination between pages 46 and 57. The anomalous pagination of the preliminaries is explained in the binder's directions: "N.B. Place the Act for the Uniformity of Common-Prayer &c. and the Tables of Proper Lessons Feasts Fasts Kindred and to find Easter-Day viz. 5O and 5P i.e. 4 leaves of part 36 immediately after the Preface before the Calendar." References: ESTC T82283. A. Hogg hardcover books
1546réf. 825761546. Imprynted.by N. Hill for Henry Smythe 1546. Imprynted.by N. Hill for Henry Smythe 1546. A Rare Imprint of an Important Exchequer Ordinance Henry VI 1421-1471 King of England. Thys is a True Copy of the Ordynaunce Made in the Tyme of the Reygne of Kynge Henry the. VI. To be Observed in the Kynges Eschequier By the Offycers and Clerkes of the Same For Takynge of Fees of the Kynges Accomptes in the Same Courtes. London: Imprynted.by N. Hill for Henry Smythe 1546. 16 pp. Title page and final leaf are bound-in facsimiles. Octavo 5-3/4" x 3-1/2". Recent calf gilt title and fillets to spine. A few minor nicks and spots to boards. Moderate toning and dampstaining to non-facsimile leaves minor water damage to fore-edges of two leaves one repaired brief annotations in early court hand at beginning and end of text. $950. Later edition. This title a copy of a 1447 ordinance governing the exchequer would have been "essential" for local government officials and justices of the peace given that most "were obliged to render an account at the Exchequer of fines fees and amercements" Holdsworth. Copies of the 1447 ordinance were frequently issued with or incorporated into JP manuals of the period; the English Short-Title Catalogue notes that this title may have been issued with contemporary editions of The Boke for a Justyce of Peace. This is a rare imprint. OCLC Library Hub and the English Short-Title Catalogue locate 1 copy worldwide British Library. Holdsworth A History of English Law IV:114. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books T243. English Short-Title Catalogue S108802. unknown books
1855réf. ST19567-044London: Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode 1855. 121 x 78 mm. 5 x 3". 532 leaves. Attractive contemporary dark purple velvet covers edged in brass brass corner pieces upper cover with a central brass "IHC" Christogram smooth spine brass clasp all edges gilt white silk endleaves. Housed in a probably contemporary black pebble-grain morocco case with brass clasp lined with white silk a little wear to case silk a little discolored in places. Front endleaf with a gilt gift inscription: "Presented to Jessie Cooper / from her affectionate Uncle / Alfred John Tubb. / Oct. 29. 1856." Verso of front free endpaper with the book label of Anthony David Estill. Velvet ever so slightly worn miniscule separation at top and bottom of joints a couple of pages with short marginal tears or nipped corners but very close to pristine condition. This is an unusually well-preserved example of a Victorian gift binding little changed since the day it left the bindery. Judging from the charming gilt inscription on the silk endleaf stating that it was a present from an "affectionate uncle" to his niece it seems likely that the book was intended as a gift in honor of the girl's confirmation. The luxurious purple velvet delicate brass fittings and bright gilt edges connote treasure and opulence and it is clear the that the young female recipient--and generations of later owners--took scrupulous care of it over the years. Velvet can be worn down quite easily but here it remains fresh and richly colored having been carefully stored away in its custom-made protective leather case. Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode unknown books
1648réf. 256708London: for Richard Royston 1648. First edition third issue with pagination of sheet "G" corrected. 8 269 pp. Lacking first and last blank leaves A1 and S8 and lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait by Marshall. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in 20th-century black crushed morocco gilt-lettered spine marbled endpapers a.e.g. by Rivière and Son. Some staining to upper corners of pp. 197-269 for the most part in the margin errata leaf bound recto-verso. Bookplate of Frederick Adolphus Philbrick lawyer and an early British philatelist on front pastedown institutional bookplate on recto and verso of front free endpaper. Joints with traces of rubbing. Overall a very attractive copy. First edition third issue with pagination of sheet "G" corrected. 8 269 pp. Lacking first and last blank leaves A1 and S8 and lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait by Marshall. 1 vols. 8vo. A book so infrequently found with the portrait by Marshall that earlier bibliographies incuding Pforzheimer following Almack's lead assumed that when one did appear it was "tipped in". Madan #1 3; Pforzheimer 171 note for Richard Royston] unknown books
1762réf. 48991Cambridge: printed by J. Baskerville printer to the University 1762. 12mo 198 leaves; this copy with the cancellans title page the last line reading "Price Five Shillings unbound" and without the star & lozenge slip pasted over the last line; bound with: Brady N. A New Version of the Psalms of David. Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville 1762 52 leaves; together in contemporary full green goat fancy gilt borders on covers with floral devices in the corners enclosing a central gilt lozenge gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments unlettered a.e.g.; the binding is darkened and slightly worn and 2 old bookseller descriptions are tipped in at the front; all else quite good and sound. An old note in pencil on the verso of the front free endpaper proclaims this to be an "Irish binding." "Baskerville printed three octavo editions of The Book of Common Prayer. The first which appeared in 1760 was set in long lines of Great Primer. There were two impressions one with and the other without a border round each page . cancelled title pages were substituted later in 1760 and in 1761. The second edition appeared later in 1760 . and two impressions were printed with and without borders. It was first published at 7s. 6d but in 1761 the price was raised to 8s.6d. The Royal Prayers are found in the second state only as cancels. The third and final edition was published in 1762 set in long lines of Great Primer without borders" Gaskell. Gaskell 20 and 22. printed by J. Baskerville, printer to the University unknown books
1890réf. List1620Mostly New England: Various Photographers 1890. Cabinet cards measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Various settings showing the band members posed with their instruments including banjos violins trumpets drum and tubas. Varying wear but generally very good with some normal age-related fading. Very Good. Originally from Lawrenceville New York the Shepard Family Band toured throughout the Northeast in the 1880s and 1890s eventually settling in South Royalton Vermont. All members of the family were apparently musically inclined: “In addition to Minnie mother and matriarch Mary “Minnie” Shepard and her husband patriarch James Monroe Shepard all of the children were pressed into service. Daughter Laura Belle the ‘violiniste’ was getting better all the time under the instruction of a ‘competent master.’ Her fans “will be astonished at the improvement in style tone and expression.” It was said of little Lessie that ‘Among lady cornetists she has no equal.’ The darling little son of the family Master Burtie could not help but please for he was well-known to be ‘The youngest Tuba soloist in the world; only nine years of age; scarcely larger than the instrument he plays.’ He was also a ‘clever comedian singer and character artist.” The baby little Flossie “a sweet little miss of four summers’ was said to be a “wonderful mimic and impersonator…a veritable little fairy.’ Daughters Kittie and Georgia were also part of the troupe.” - Henry Sheldon Museum. A very nice collection. Various Photographers unknown books
1630réf. 748491630. Orders Regulating Grain Allotment Among the Poor Great Britain. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. Orders Appointed by His Maiestie to be Straitly Observed For the Preventing and Remedying of the Dearth of Graine and Victuall: With His Maiesties Proclamation Declaring His Royall Pleasure and Further Commandement Therein. London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of Iohn Bill 1630. xviii 27 1 pp. First leaf a blank signed "A." Quarto 7" x 5". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound in recent three-quarter morocco over marbled boards blind rules to morocco edges raised bands and gilt title to spine top-edge gilt. Negligible light rubbing to extremities boards very slightly bowed. Light toning to interior very light foxing and soiling to a few leaves early ownership signature of Sir Robert Gordon and brief early notation to title page. A handsome copy. $1250. Only edition. A collection of orders to justices of the peace and other overseers of the poor dictating how they were to respond to food scarcity in their communities. As the proclamation itself notes this was largely an expansion of similar orders and reforms to the poor laws made by Elizabeth I and James I. The practice of grain market regulation after crop failures had expanded significantly under Elizabeth in 1586. Among other requirements the orders mandated that corn be sold in an open market and that justices of the peace be present to ensure fair prices and prevent hoarding. Our copy was owned by Scottish politician and courtier Sir Robert Gordon 1580-1656 whose extensive private library was sold at auction in 1816. OCLC locates 5 copies of this title in North America Harvard University of Illinois University of Pennsylvania Boston Public Library Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at Northwestern. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S101037. unknown books
1688réf. 743511688. William of Orange Decides to Summon the Convention Parliament Parliament. William III King of England 1650-1702. Divers of the Members of the Parliaments in the Reign of King Charles the Second And the Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London Pursuant to His Highness the Prince of Orange's Desire Meeting at St. James's the 26th of December 1688 Caption Title. At head of title: Westminster 26 Dec. 1688. London: Printed by John Starkey Awnsham and William Churchill 1688. 4 pp. Folio 12-1/2" x 8". Disbound bifolium edges untrimmed. Moderate toning faint dampstaining to top half a few faint stains. $1250. Only edition. An account of one of the assemblies of peers after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. By this time James II had fled to France and many were advocating for the accession of William of Orange to the throne. This document summarizes the assembly that asked William to summon a convention that would meet in January of the following year. Ultimately the convention which became known as the Convention Parliament decided that James had abandoned the throne and installed William and Mary as King and Queen. OCLC locates 1 copy of this title in a law library University of Minnesota. English Short-Title Catalogue R25000. unknown books
1820réf. 32724Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1820. Thick 8vo; inserted engraved title-p.; bound with A New Version of the Psalms of David 1825; contemporary full red straight-grain morocco covers with elaborate gilt borders gilt lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine a.e.g.; hinges strengthened extremities rubbed and worn 2 small ink spots on back cover; all else very good. With a large fore-edge painting showing Oxford from the countryside. printed at the Clarendon Press, by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood unknown books
1903réf. 52863London and New York: H. M. Printers Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode; Mr. Edward Arnold 37 Bedford Street Strand; Samuel Buckley & Co. 100 William Street 1903. Hardcover. Fine. 69/400. Folio. 10 387 viii string-bound American supplementpp. Uncut on heavy stock. Rebacked in dark brown calf over oak boards; leather inlays at fore-edge of each board replacing perished clasps and straps. Spine with raised bands lettered in gilt; gilt dentelles at back-strip edges and inlay borders. Title page view of London and frontispiece Edward VII on his throne surrounded by his six predesessors with elaborate woodcut historiation; captions printed in red. Eight pages with table of contents framed with elaborate woodcuts at top. Historiated headpieces and initials. Calendar with woodcuts in red and black and pages with "proper lessons and psalms" and calendar with illustrative woodcuts. Printed in red and black throughout. "The designs and the type throughout are by C. R. Ashbee; R. Catterson-Smith assisted in the preparation of some of the blocks which were cut by W. H. Hooper & Clemence Houseman." Colophon. Inside front cover and first free endpaper with small smudges from removed item laid in. Bookplate with numbers inked to top margin. Fore-edge of block with some traces of handling else a fine copy in a nearly fine binding. A superb example of the printer's art and the magnum opus of the Essex House Press. "The English Book of Common Prayer was the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" PMM. The source of the Anglican Church's shared liturgical life since 1549 it was first adapted for use in the United States in 1789 and underwent its second American revision in 1892. Limited to 400 copies 10 on vellum the being copy number 69 hand-numbered at the colophon. Production at Essex House London and Essex House Campden spanned 1901 to 1903. "Throughout his life financier J.P. Morgan was a strong supporter of the Protestant Episcopal church" ANB support that included his service on the revision committee that produced the 1892 revision. In a contemporary review "The Independent" an Episcopal church newspaper declared: "That the completed and perfected Standard just issued from the De Vinne press appears in the sumptuous form which makes it confessedly the finest production of the American printer's art is due to Mr. J. Pierpoint Morgan who from the moment of his appointment as a member of the committee has never ceased devising liberal things for the furtherance of the work." Provenance: Bookplate at front: "This Beginning of the J. William Smith Collection illustrative of the art of bookmaking is given for the use of the people to the Syracuse Public Library in testimony of the long and faithful service of the Reverrend Ezekiel Wilson Mund AM LITT D Librarian." References: Ransom 37; see PMM 75. H. M. Printers, Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode; Mr. Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street, Strand; Samuel Buckley & Co., 100 William Str hardcover books
1552réf. 759361552. Edward VI's Protestant Reforms Great Britain. Statutes. Edward VI 1537-1553 King of England. Anno Secundo & Tertio Edouardi Sexti. Actes Made in the Session of this Present Parliament Holden Upon Prorogation at Westminster The Fourth Day of November In the Second Yeare of Our Most Dread Soveraign Lord Edward the VI. By the Grace of God King of England Fraunce and Ireland Defendor of the Fayth And of the Church of England And Also of Irelande In Earth the Supreme Heade: And There Continued and Kept to the XIIIJ Day of Marche in the III. Yeare of Our Sayde SoVeraygne Lorde As Foloweth. London: Richardus Graftonus i.e. Richard Tottell Typographus Regius Excudebat 1552 i.e. 1557. lxviij ff. Folio 10-3/4" x 7-1/4". Modern quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets and gilt title to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior minor worming to text block and lower gutter no loss to legibility occasional faint dampstaining light soiling in a few places a few folded corners cracks in text block after first and before final leaves clean tear to fore-edge of leaf B1 fol. vij not affecting text early annotations to a few pages. $1500. Later edition. 39 public acts passed under Edward VI in 1548-1549. Some of the more interesting acts involve significant Protestant reforms to the English Church including the Act of Uniformity which established the Book of Common Prayer as the sole form of legal worship in England. Also included is the Clergy Marriage Act which abolished the prohibition on marriage for priests in the Church of England. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S224a. English Short-Title Catalogue S121643. unknown books
1562réf. 756051562. 32 Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXXII. Henrici Octavi in the Parlyamente Begon at Westminster. The. XXVIII. Of Apryll The. XXXII. Yeare of the Reygne of the Moste Excellente Most Hyghe And Moste Myghty Prynce Henrye the Eyght by the Grace of God Kynge of England and Fraunce Defendoure of the Faythe Lorde of Ireland And in Earth Under Christe Supreame Head of the Churche of Englande Oure Most Redoubted Soverayne Lorde There Holden and Afterwarde Continued by Dyvers Prorogacions Unto the .XII. Daye of Apryll in the Sayde Yeare. London: Ex aedidus Thomae Bertheleti 1540 i.e. 1562. LXVII i.e. lxxii ff. Folio 10-1/4" x 6-3/4". Nineteenth-century pebbled cloth paper label to spine colored added endpapers edges rouged. Light rubbing and minor light soiling to boards moderate rubbing to extremities light fading to spine which has a small tear near its foot spine ends and corners bumped later armorial bookplate of Edwin Freshfield to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior light foxing and soiling in a few places early annotations to a few leaves some affected by trimming. $1500. This volume records 48 acts passed during the 32nd regnal year of Henry VIII. A turbulent year in his reign it also saw the passage of many important acts including "An Acte Declaryng the Dissolucion of the Kynges Pretended Maryage With the Lady Anne of Cleves" which validated the king's divorce from Anne of Cleves the fourth of his six wives and the Statute of Wills. The latter act permitted devise by will superceding primogeniture and allowing landowners to independently decide who would inherit their land upon their death for the first time. The statute required that valid wills be in writing signed by the testator and witnessed by at least two other persons requirements still in place in many jurisdictions today. The ESTC records five variant printings of this title. All are scarce. Taken as a group OCLC locates 21 copies worldwide. English Short-Title Catalogue S110296. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law S191. unknown books
1558réf. 756881558. Rare 1573 Printing of Mary I and Philip II's 1558 Parliamentary Acts Featuring Early Legislation on the Abduction of Heiresses Mary I and Philip II Queen and King of England. Anno Quarto & Quinto Philippi & Mariae. Actes Made at a Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster The .xx. Daye of January in the iiii. and v. Yere of the Raigne of Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady Philip and Marie By the Grace of God King and Queene of Englande Spaine Fraunce Both the Sicillies Hierusalem & Irelande Defendours of the Fayth Archdukes of Austria Dukes of Burgundie Millaine And Brabant Counties of Haspurge Flaunders And Tyrol. And There Continued and Kept Untyll the Seventh Day of Marche Then Next Folowing And Enacted as Foloweth. London: Excusum.in Aedibus Iohannis Cawodi i.e. for R. Jugge Tipographi Regiae Maiestatis 1558 i.e. 1573. Folio 10-3/4" x 7-1/4". 80 pp. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets and gilt title to spine endleaves added. Light toning to interior faint marginal dampstaining affecting headline but not main text two small wormholes to text block not affecting legibility crack in text block before final leaf all leaves secure. A crisp wide-margined copy. $1500. Eleven acts passed by the last parliament of Mary I and Philip II during the fourth and fifth years of their joint reign. Among the more interesting acts are an act extending the right to trial by jury to the royal family and "An Acte for the punishment of such as shal take away maidens that be inheritours" specifying punishment for the abduction of heiresses under 16 or marriage to them without the consent of their parents. This session represents the fifth and final Parliament of Mary I's reign dissolved just eight months before her death in November 1558 marking the close of the Marian Counter-Reformation and the final statutory chapter of the joint Anglo-Spanish monarchy. Convened at Westminster on January 20 1557/8 Parliament opened in an atmosphere of acute national crisis: English forces had surrendered Calais England's final continental stronghold to the Duke of Guise just days earlier. The geopolitical strain of Philip and Mary's disastrous intervention in the Italian War alongside the Habsburgs directly shaped this sitting compelling the Crown to push through comprehe. unknown books
1540réf. 743771540. 22 Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno Vicesimo Secvndo Henrici Octavi. Statvta Bonvm Pvblicvm Concernentia Edita In Perliamento Tento Apud Westmn. XVI. Die Ianuarii Anno Regni Praepotentissimi et Metuendissimi Anglie et Francie Regis Fidei Defensoris Et Domini Hibernie Henrici Octaui. XXII. Post Diuersas Prorogationes Eiusdem Perliamenti Primo Inchoati Apud Londinum. III. Die Nouembris Anno. XXI. Eiusdem Regis: Et Inde Adiurnati et Prorogati Vsq; Ad Vuestmonasterium Et Ibidem Continuati per. XLIIII. Dies Videlicet Vsq; Ad. XVII. Diem Decembris: Et ab Eodem Die et Loco Vsq;. XXVI. Diem Aprilis Proxi. Sequentis: Et ab eo die Vsq; Ad. XXII. Diem Iunii Et ab Illo die ad Primum Diem Octobris Et a Primo Die Octobris Vsq; Ad XXII. Diem Eiusdem Mensis Et ab Illo die Vsq; XVI. Diem Ianuarii Secundum Leges Terre Rite Prorogati Et Ibidem Continuati per. LXXV. Dies Videlicet ad Ultimum Diem Martii Eodem Anno. XXI. Et Inde Vlterius Prorogati Vsq; Ad XIII. Diem Octobris Proxime Sequentis. London: Tho. Berthelet Regis Impressor Excudebat. Cum Privilegio 1540. XXIIII ff. Folio 10-3/4" x 7-1/2". Nineteenth-century pebbled cloth fragment of paper label to spine. Light rubbing and minor soiling to boards light fading to spine spine ends bumped and lightly worn hinges starting armorial bookplate of Edwin Freshfield to front pastedown. Attractive woodcut initials. Light toning to interior small wormhole near bottom of text block not affecting legibility negligible light foxing to margins of a few leaves later pencil annotation to title page early annotations in chancery hand to versos of f. I and f. X the latter affected by trimming. Rare. $1650. This volume records 16 acts for the 22nd regnal year of Henry VIII 1530-1531. These include "An Acte Ageynst Poysonynge" and "An Acte Concernynge Outlandishe People Callynge Them Selfes Egiptians" gypsies. Our copy was owned by Edwin Freshfield 1832-1918 a solicitor in his great family law firm. Founded in London in 1743 the firm is now the multinational Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The ESTC provisionally dates this printing to 1540. It is similar to Beale S136 but with "privilegio" instead of "priuilegio" in the colophon and additional small variations co. unknown books
1547réf. 760201547. 22 Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno Vicesimo Secundo Henrici Octavi. Statuta Bonum Publicum Concernentia Edita In. Perliamento Tento Apud Westm. XVI. Die Ianuarii Anno Regni Praepotentissimi et Metuendissimi Anglie et Francie Regis Fidei Defensoris Et Domini Hiberniae Henrici Octaui. xxii. Post Diversas Prorogationes Eiusdem Perliamenti Primo Inchoati Apud Londinium. iii. Die Nouembris Anno. xxi. Eiusdem Regis: Et Inde Adiurnati et Prorogati vsq; Ad Vuestmonasterium Et Ibidem Continuati Per. xliiii Dies Videlicet usq; Ad. xviii. Diem Decembris: Et ab Eodem Die et Loco Vsq; .xxvi. Diem Aprilis Proxi. Sequentis: Et ab Eo Die Vsq; Ad .xxii. Diem Iunii Et ab Illo die ad Primum Diem Octobris Et a Primo Die Octobris Vsq; ad xxii Diem Eiusdem Mensis Et ab Illo Die Vsq; xvi. Diem Ianuarii Secundum Leges Terrerite Prorogati Et Ibidem Continuati Per .lxxxv. Dies Uidelicet ad Ultimum Diem Martii Eodem Anno .xxi. Et Inde Vlterius Prorogati vsq; Ad .xiii. Diem Octobris Proxime Sequentis. London: Tho. Berthelet Regius Impressor Excudebat. Cum Privilegio 1547. XXIIII ff. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-3/4". Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt and blind rules to morocco edges gilt-edged raised bands and title to spine gilt decoration to compartments. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped and lightly worn. Attractive woodcut initials. Light toning to interior small faint stains to a few leaves faint crease to title page later pencil annotations to several leaves. Rare. $1750. This volume records 16 acts for the 22nd regnal year of Henry VIII 1530-1531. These include "An Acte Ageynst Poysonynge" and "An Acte Concernynge Outlandishe People Callynge Them Selfes Egiptians" i.e. "gypsies". OCLC locates 3 copies of this edition in North America Harvard Law School Yale Law School Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at the Library of Congress. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S121479. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S136. unknown books
1575réf. 753941575. Rare Elizabethan Printing of the Acts of Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXXVII. Henrici Octavi. Statutes Made in the Parliament Holden at Westminster in the XXXVII. Yere of the Most Renoumed Henry the Eyght By the Grace of God Kinge of England Fraunce And Irelande Defender of the Faithe And of the Churche of England and Also of Ireland In Earth Supreme Head. London: Printed by Thomas Marsh 1575. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2". 72 pp. Twentieth-century quarter cloth over marbled boards blind fillets to spine endleaves renewed. Light rubbing to spine ends and board edges corners negligibly worn later pencil notations to front pastedown and free endpaper. Light toning slight horizontal creases and faint dampstaining to interior light soiling in a few places. $1750. Later Elizabethan edition of the statutes passed during the final tumultuous parliament of Henry VIII's reign which sat from November 1545 to January 1546. This post-incunabula compilation contains twenty-four individual acts that fundamentally reshaped the legal economic and religious landscape of early modern England. Chief among these is the landmark Act Against Usury 37 Hen. VIII c. 9 a pivotal moment in Western financial history. By repealing the medieval Catholic Church's absolute canonical ban on lending money for profit this statute legalized commercial credit and established England's first maximum legal interest rate capped at 10 percent. This pragmatic shift recognized the realities of a burgeoning mercantile economy and laid the regulatory groundwork for modern capitalist banking. The volume also captures the final aggressive phase of the English Reformation through the First Chantries Act 37 Hen. VIII c. 4. This statute granted the Crown the authority to dissolve and seize the remaining wealth lands and mismanaged assets of chantries-chapels heavily endowed to pray for souls in purgatory. Coming on the heels of the Dissolution of the Monasteries this act funneled critical wealth into Henry's depleted treasury to fund his costly continental wars. Additionally reflecting the highly volatile and paranoid political climate of the ailing King's final years the inclusion of an act penalizing the false accusation of treason highlights the Crown. unknown books
1864réf. 41261Boston: Little Brown and Company 1864. 1. Bemis George: PRECEDENTS OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY IN REPLY TO THE SPEECH OF SIR ROUNDELL PALMER ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ENGLAND IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MAY 13 1864. Boston: Little Brown. 1864. viii 83 1 blank pp. Disbound original printed front wrapper. Clean text. Good. England's reception and fitting out of Confederate privateers is inconsistent with its professed neutrality. The U.S. a neutral in earlier European wars prohibited such collaboration in American ports. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 4626. Bartlett 394. II DAB 174. Not in Harv. Law Cat. Marke. 2. Cordner Rev. John: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: AN ADDRESS ON THE AMERICAN CONFLICT DELIVERED AT MONTREAL ON THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 22 1864. Manchester: A. Ireland and Co. 1865. Original printed wrappers spine wear. ix 1 blank 30 pp. Disbound else Very Good. Published by the antislavery Union and Emancipation Society the pamphlet demonstrates that "the supposed hostile designs of the United States upon Canada" is merely an attempt to turn British sentiment against the Union. The rear wrapper is a two-column list of the officers of the Society including a two-column list of more than one hundred fifty Vice Presidents. Sabin 16762 Montreal printing only. Not in Bartlett. 3. Free Man's Aid Society: THE FRIENDS OF THE FREED-MEN. London: 1864. 7 1 pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. This rare pamphlet was written by John Curwen Secretary to the Free Man's Aid Society. He lauds the abolitionists- - British and American-- who aid the Union cause recognizing "instinctively that this must become an anti-slavery war." They have enlisted in fighting regiments organized the education of freedmen at Port Royal. The pamphlet describes the freedmen's schools the freed children's eagerness to learn and the observations of the teachers some of whom were women. OCLC 644153331 1- U Manchester as of August 2025. 4. Massie James W.: THE CASE STATED: THE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN SLAVE. Manchester: Union and Emancipation Society. 1863. 8pp. Disbound. Good. England's Union and Emancipation Society was committed to the abolition of Slavery. "What darker or more dreary calamity could threaten any nation or people on earth than the successful establishment of a Republic whose corner-stone shall be 'that the negro is not equal to the white man and that slavery- subordination to the superior race- is his natural and normal condition'." Bartlett 3040. Sabin 46186 note. Not in LCP or Dumond. 5. Owls-Glass pseud.: REBEL BRAG AND BRITISH BLUSTER; A RECORD OF UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES BAFFLED SCHEMES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES WITH ECHOES OF VERY INSIGNIFICANT THUNDER VERY PLEASANT TO READ AND INSTRUCTIVE TO ALL WHO ARE CAPABLE OF LEARNING. New York: American News Co. 1865. Original printed wrappers the rear wrapper advertising 'The Martyr's Monument.' vi 7-111 1 blank pp. Clean text. Disbound else Very Good. Sabin and the Library Company suggest Richard Grant White as the author. The book "a curious study" of British elite opinion is a commentary on articles from British intellectuals which had supported the Confederacy. The author's close examination of British public opinion is a scathing condemnation of British turpitude. These were "undeniably able and dextrous writers and politicians who to please the public for whom they wrote and spoke opposed ridiculed and contemned our people and our government during the tremendous struggle for the worthy and honorable existence of our country. It would not be very easy for us to forget these efforts of our inimical kinsfolk or indeed desirable that we should lose sight of so instructive a warning. . ." Sabin 68317. LCP 11149. Bartlett 4012. 6. Potter Thomas Bayley: UNION AND EMANCIPATION SOCIETY. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT A CONVERSAZIONE HELD IN THE MANCHESTER ATHENAEUM ON MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 1 1864 TO RECEIVE THE REPORT OF THE REV. DR. MASSIE RESPECTING HIS ANTI-SLAVERY MISSION TO THE AMERICAN CLERGY AND CHURCHES. Manchester: Alexander Ireland. 1864. 33 3 pp. Disbound without wraps Clean text. Good. Potter was the President of the Society a British organization based in Manchester and supporting the North in its war against Slavery. The pamphlet reports on "a very interesting conversazione" concerning Dr. Massie's trip to America. He met with President Lincoln "a man of integrity whose word is to be believed whenever he speaks. I came away with the conviction that he is the friend of the negro and the man of colour and that he has a firm resolution that whatever power he has shall be constitutionally exerted for the emancipation of every slave in the United States." Massie also met with Seward "again and again" and with Chase and other civil and military leaders all of whom favorably impressed him. "The day is not far off when the coloured regiments of America will be the safeguard of her negro freedom and the security for all the freedom that belongs to men of whatever colour" Not in LCP Bartlett Dumond Monaghan or Sabin. OCLC notes about fifteen institutional holdings. 7. Siemms F. D.: AMERICA. THE WAR: PAST PRESENT AND PROBABLE FUTURE. BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE CONCERT HALL LIVERPOOL. BY F. D. SIEMMS A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL WHO SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES TO A VERY RECENT PERIOD BEING AN EMBODIMENT OF HIS EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS DURING A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS AS AN OFFICER OF ARTILLERY. Liverpool 1864. 24pp. Disbound with wrapper remnants along spine. Good. Siemms says "Without any previous intention of being a soldier either in the army of the North or South yet I found myself one fine day an officer in the army of the Southern Confederacy." He gives some details of his unit's movements and briefly discusses different engagements while noting his frustration at the North's exaggeration in reporting its successes. His war experience was brief: "My military life ended" when he was taken prisoner "at Bull's run" and held as a prisoner until the British flag brought his release. Presenting himself as something of an expert he says "the negroes are far better off than a certain class of poor people in many European countries." He says 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is filled with exaggeration and "downright untruths." He exposes "the false pretence that the North was fighting for liberty" and says the press has greatly exaggerated the North's progress in the field. Frederick David Samson Siemms 1844-1907 was born in England but it is unclear how he ended up in the United States or fighting for the Confederate Army. His military records show that he enlisted on May 13 1861 at the age of 17 years for a period of 12 months as a private with 1st Artillery Virginia Confederate with Capt. Johnson H. Sands' Company Co. B Henrico Artillery Virginia Light Artillery. His occupation was dentist and optician. Company muster rolls show he was discharged on July 20 1862. Military records of Frederick D. Siemms Fold3 website; Soldier and Sailor's Database at National Park Service website; The Commercial Gazette of London June 4 1890 Page 6. OCLC 4844821 1- U Rochester as of March 2025. Not in Bartlett or Sabin. 8. Smith Goldwin: ENGLAND AND AMERICA: A LECTURE DELIVERED BY GOLDWIN SMITH BEFORE THE BOSTON FRATERNITY DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES. . . Manchester: A. Ireland and Co. 1865. x 36 pp. Disbound original printed front wrapper. "With Thomas B. Potters Complts" written on front wrapper. Good. An odd combination of sympathies Smith supported the Union opposed imperialism and woman suffrage and disliked Jews. His lecture was first published in The Atlantic and was also printed in Boston. Sabin 82678. Bartlett 4507. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1635réf. 744401635. Carriages Over One Ton Banned "Upon Pain of Our Heavy Indignation" Broadside. Highways. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. By the King. A Proclamation for Restraint of Excessive Carriages To the Destruction of the High Ways. London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of Iohn Bill 1635. 14-1/4" x 10-1/4" 2 ff. broadside text in single column below headline and large woodcut royal arms 8-line woodcut initial. Moderate toning very light foxing and soiling slight horizontal fold lines faint dampstain to bottom and two small worm holes near top of both sheets minor loss to woodcut but no loss to text crease to left edge of first sheet which is mended at bottom edge just touching a few letters of text without loss. Housed in attractive 15" x 11" green buckram folder with red morocco lettering piece to front. $2000. Despite previous attempts to regulate excessively heavy carriages the king and his people still found "by dayly experience" that "those great abuses" were "still continued and increased." This two-page proclamation restricts carriages to "twenty hundred weight" one ton and imposed limits of either five horses five oxen or four oxen and two horses. It also encourages local officials to keep up with highway maintenance and "answere the contrary at their perils." Offenders were duly reported to the attorney general as a public nuisance where they would receive "such punishment as their contempts and offences shall deserve." OCLC and the ESTC locate 1 copy of this scarce broadside in North America Huntington Library. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S122973. unknown books
1587réf. 741441587. A Scarce Set of Orders Regulating Grain Allotment by Justices of the Peace Elizabeth I 1533-1603 Queen of England and Ireland. Orders Devised by the Especiall Commandement of the Queenes Maiestie For the Reliefe and Stay of the Present Dearth of Graine Within the Realme: Sent from the Court at Greenewich Abroad into the Realme The Second Day of Ianuarie 1586. In the 29. Yeere of Her Maiesties Reigue By Her Maiesties Priuie Counsell. ii 20 2 pp. London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker 1586 i.e. 1587. Quarto 6-3/4" x 4-3/4". Modern polished tan calf signed binding by Riviere & Son gilt frames and small corner decorations to boards gilt spine with raised bands and lettering pieces gilt tooling to board edges edges of text block gilt gilt inside dentelles. Light bowing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities chip to head of spine front board and rear joint just starting faint offsetting and recent pencil notations to endpapers. Moderate toning to interior trimming to leaf B1 pp. 7-8 just touching side notes without loss to legibility. A handsome copy. $2000. Only edition. Following a 1586 famine Elizabeth's Privy Council issued orders to justices of the peace dictating how they were to respond to food scarcity in their communities. The sweeping highly detailed orders listed the quantities of grain permitted each family and controlled prices for any excess put on the market. Though many other monarchs had regulated grain markets after crop failures the practice expanded significantly under Elizabeth. Along with other social reforms this provided the foundation for her overhaul of the poor laws in 1601. OCLC locates 6 copies of this scarce title 5 in North America Yale Williams College University of Minnesota Law School Harvard Law School Huntington Library; the ESTC adds 1 North American copy Folger Shakespeare. Beale Bibliography of Early English Law Books T304a. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S100696. unknown books
1538réf. 752261538. Acts Passed in the Twenty-Third Year of Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXIII. H. VIII. The Kynge Our Soveraygne Lorde Henry the Eight by the Grace of God Kynge of Englande and of Fraunce Defender of the Faythe and Lorde of Irelande at the Sessions of His Highe Courte of Parlyament after Diverse Prorogations Holden at Westminster the .XV. Day of January In the .XXIII. Yere of His Moste Noble Reigne to the Honour of Almyghtye God and Holy Churche And for the Common Weale and Profytte of This His Realme By the Assente of the Lordes Spiritualle and Temporall And the Commons in This Presente Parliament Assembled And by Auctoritie of the Same Hath Ordeyned Establysshed and Enacted Certayne Good Statutes Lawes and Ordinances in Maner and Fourme Folowing. London: Imprynted.in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelet prynter to the kynges moste noble grace 1538. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2". XXVIII ff. Modern three-quarter tan mottled calf over marbled boards blind fillets to calf edges gilt fillets and title to spine endpapers renewed. Boards slightly bowed negligible light rubbing to extremities. Light toning to interior two small wormholes to upper gutter not affecting text faint dampstaining to margins of ff. V-XXIII light foxing and soiling to a few leaves. $2000. Nineteen acts passed by the Reformation Parliament during the 23rd year of the reign of Henry VIII. The collection includes several acts dealing with trade acts reforming courts and prisons and "An acte that no person commyttynge pety treason murder or felony shall be admytted to his clergie." As called for by the ESTC it does not include the text of the Act of Annates. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S92172. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S143. unknown books
1887réf. 1172191887. BRITISH ISLES PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM. Tourist photographic album of cathedrals in England Scotland and Ireland. No place circa 1887. Folio 11 by 14 inches contemporary full white parchment elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers patterned endpapers all edges gilt cloth dust jacket; 40 leaves. $2400.Original late 19th-century photographic album containing 116 albumen prints depicting views of notable cathedrals in England Scotland and Ireland mounted on thick blue card in a beautiful parchment-gilt binding by Giulio Giannini of Florence Italy.Presumably compiled by a tourist this album contains prints of such sites as Canterbury St. Paul's Durham Exeter Westminster Abbey Tintern Abbey and others. Most prints measure 5-1/4 by 8 inches placed two on a sheet though one measures 7-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches; each is titled in the print along the lower edge. With Giulio Giannini's publicity card laid in. Owner ink signature dated 1887.Cloth dust wrapper with mild soiling; parchment-gilt album beautiful and fine. hardcover books
1864réf. 12679Boston: Published at the Office of the Society 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the activities of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society NEFAS an activist group formed to assist emancipated Black Americans in may aspects of life especially with gaining academic and practical educations following the Civil War. The present work is especially important for the long section titled "Condition of the Freedmen" which occupies pages 11 to 51 about half of the total work. This section details the population state of education labor and industry opportunities general condition and more of free African Americans in several regions of the country namely the Military Department of the South Key West and the Tortugas Military Department of Virginia and North Carolina the District of Columbia the Mississippi Valley Middle Tennessee Western Arkansas and Louisiana. Interestingly a substantial subsection of the section on the Department of the South is devoted to a discussion of arable lands available to freed slaves around Beaufort and Port Royal known to modern audiences as "Forty Acres and a Mule." Regarding the land in this area the report states that "It was a matter of course that the lands should all be taken for those blacks who did not wish to turn cultivators were perfectly aware that they could sell their 40 acres for many times the government price." The organization was also notable for its mission specifically aimed at education and for the critical role women played in its work. "The New England Freedmen's Aid Society was founded in Boston in 1862 in response to an appeal.on behalf of 8000 formerly enslaved people at Port Royal SC. Originally named the Educational Commission its mission was to provide teachers and other aid for 'the industrial social intellectual moral and religious' advantage of freedmen" Massachusetts Historical Society. As was the case with many abolition and aid groups women were in the vanguard of the NEFAS. They recruited trained and even served as educators in the program. For much of the twentieth century if historians wrote about the first teachers among freed people at all they characterized them as foolish even dangerous women.who bore a heavy responsibility for the racial tension after the Civil War and whose work caused Southern educators to avoid Black education" The Freedmen's Teacher Project. Yet scholars in the 1960s and after -- particularly women and Black researchers -- have returned to the documents of the Society to uncover the serious and often intersectional work being done by both white and Black activists in Port Royal reframing "the freedmen's education movement as not primarily a gift of northern largess.but as autonomous actions of hundreds of Black communities across the South demanding access to literacy and numeracy" The Freedmen's Teacher Project. In this sense those "dangerous" women were troubling because they heard the call of Black peoples took their needs seriously and reacted accordingly. The movement was thus "largely Black-inspired abetted by female missionary teachers" whose shared goals were to prepare "former slaves for lives of freedom in a democratic America" The Freedmen's Teacher Project. The present Annual Report shows the early efforts of this Society including fundraising allocation of funds educational programs and educational gains and future goals. Included in the list of Officers are eleven white women in leadership roles; indeed women were the majority in the Committee on Teachers and the Committee on Clothing and Supplies. Among them are more well-known activists who appear in American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists i.e. Ednah Cheney and Sarah Barrett Cabot who had raised her daughter to become a leader in the movement. Most however are lesser or unknown denoted largely by their husbands' names rather than their own. Even less visible but even more important were the unlisted Black women who were members of the group and contributors to the grassroots work. "Nearly one-fifth of the Northern teachers were Black.Black teachers were fifteen times more likely to give a few years of their lives to Southern Black education.the rest of the recruited teachers were native to the South; many had been enslaved while others were Southern free Black women and other men of color" The Freedmen's Teacher Project. The accomplishments in the report -- fundraising equipment educational gains -- can largely be attributed to their efforts. The report for the first year of the organization is exceedingly rare with only one example listed in OCLC; twelve copies of the present report appear in OCLC though no copies have appeared in modern auction records and no other copies are currently in trade. An important and scarce historical document preserving the accomplishments of a fairly short-lived intersectional activist group with vital reports on the activities of freed slaves throughout the southern part of the country. Published at the Office of the Society unknown books
1727réf. 55069London: printed by John Baskett. and by the Assigns of Henry Hills decease'd 1727. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three parts folio in fours 38 by 24 cm. 380 23 3 table pp; text in two columns. Additional engraved title page; main title in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary two-tone paneled calf triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt morocco lettering piece; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. Covers very lightly scuffed with mild traces of wear at extremities; upper joint just starting at top; occasional touches of mild mostly marginal foxing. A very good or better copy complete and handsomely bound. An uncommon and beautifully printed edition of the Book of Common Prayer "the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" Carter and Muir. Despite early revisions and some major alterations following the Restoration the original simplicity of the language has been presevered the text remaining substantially unaltered since 1662. References: ESTC N67554 locates only 4 copies. Cf. Carter & Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 75 ed. 1549. Collation: pi1 a-c4 A-Aaa4 Bbb2 = 203 leaves. printed by John Baskett... and by the Assigns of Henry Hills, decease'd hardcover books
1658réf. ST16442s.l.: s.n. Printed Anno Domini 1658. FIRST EDITION. 190 x 135 mm. 7 1/2 x 5 3/8". 3 p.l. 14 pp. complete. 20th century vellum-backed marbled boards flat spine with vertical titling. Front pastedown with bookplate of the Fox Pointe Collection. Wing P-2842B; ESTC R207754. ◆Text lightly washed and pressed but still crisp faint foxing to lower edge of title page otherwise a fine fresh copy in an unworn binding. Written by an opinionated English cleric this is an extraordinarily rare pamphlet proposing an unusual fund to support young 17th century scholars. According to DNB the scheme outlined in the present work was meant "to support the university studies of young men of promise seeking entry into the ministry." The plan "was approved by John Worthington and Anthony Tuckney and had the support also of John Arrowsmith DD Ralph Cudworth William Dillingham DD and Benjamin Whichcote. The fund raised about £900 and it appears that William Sherlock afterwards dean of St Paul's received assistance from this fund during his studies at Peterhouse Cambridge until 1660 when he graduated BA. Those entrusted with administering the fund sent Poole regular reports on students interviewed and the ratings they had received in philosophy logic and languages. The scheme was abandoned at the Restoration." Poole 1624 - 79 was the author of a number of controversialist pamphlets on subjects ranging from Unitarianism to preaching by lay persons before undertaking his major work: a synthesis of critical biblical commentaries "Synopsis criticorum aliorumque sacrae scripturae interpretum." This is one of his scarcest writings: ESTC lists seven copies two in North America while ABPC and RBH record just two copies at auction. s.n. Printed Anno Domini unknown books
1967réf. List2885Sheffield United Kingdom 1967. 20 x 30 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Some staining and scuffing pinholes and some tears at edges fine contrast; overall excellent. A poster advertising Stevie Wonder at Sheffield’s Mojo Club in October 1967. Wonder would have been just seventeen at the time though he had already dropped “Little” from his stage name. The Mojo Club in working-class Sheffield was the project of brothers Peter and Geoff Stringfellow; the pair had previously worked as promoters and were preternaturally talented having booked the Beatles for April of 1962 shortly before the release of “Love Me Do”.1 Stevie Wonder would be the last live act at the Mojo as it was shut down by the city three days later on October 10. 1 Steve Walker “The King Mojo Club” 2020 https://www.kingmojostory.com. unknown books
