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CATALOGUE CCLIV

WINTER 2021-22

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ACKERMANN

ACKERMANN’S MICROCOSM CKERMANN, Rudolph. Microcosm of London. FIRST EDITION, early issue. A 3 vols. Large 4to. R. Ackermann. Illustrated titlepages, engraved dedication leaves, half titles bound after dedication leaves, 104 hand-coloured acquatints by Pugin and Rowlandson; small paper repair to margin of the ‘Guildhall’ plate vol. II, not affecting image, some plates with offsetting, leaves sl. toned, but a lovely clean copy with bright & fresh plates. Handsome early 20thC half red morocco, glazed red & black mottled cloth boards, raised bands, gilt compartments. A v.g. attractive copy. ¶ Abbey Scenery No. 212; Tooley 7. With almost all of the first issue points; leaves are watermarked 1806-1807, all errata are uncorrected except, as usual, for ‘coustom’ on page 218 volume I which is corrected to ‘custom’. The contents in volume I entitled simply ‘Contents’ rather than ‘Contents Vol. I’ in the second state, and the imprint in volume I includes a comma after ‘Bensley’ in volume I but not in volumes II & III. 8 of Abbey’s 12 key plates are in the first state. Described by Tooley as ‘one of the great colour-plate books, and a carefully selected copy should form the corner stone of any collection of books on the subject. The plates by Rowlandson and Pugin represent an unrivalled picture of London in [the] early 19th century’. It was originally issued in 26 monthly parts.

1808 £5,500

AINSWORTH

AINSWORTH, William Harrison

JAMES THE SECOND J ames the Second; or, The Revolution of 1688. An historical romance. 3 vols. Henry Colburn. Fronts. Early 20thC half tan calf. gilt in compartments, black morocco labels; corners sl. rubbed. v.g. ¶ For the 1848 first edition see Locke, p.30; Sadleir 15 (in half cloth); Wolff 54. In the serial issue (Ainsworth’s Magazine, 1847), Ainsworth claimed to be merely the editor of this novel; Locke concludes that there is no doubt that it is Ainsworth’s. See also items 92 & 230.

1849 £220 3.

SIXPENNY SERIES IN PRINTED WRAPPERS he Miser’s Daughter. (People’s Edn.) John Dicks. Front., illus., 3pp ads. Orig. T pictorial yellow printed paper wrappers. Contemp. signature of Eva Lewsey on titlepage. v.g. ¶ Part of Dicks’ sixpenny series, numbered 235 at head of spine. Text printed in two columns.

[c.1885] £45 4.

SADLEIR’S COPY OF ROOKWOOD ookwood: a romance. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 12mo. Richard Bentley. Bound R without half titles in later 19thC half black calf, spines in gilt with eagle emblem at foot, tan morocco labels. booklabel of Michael Sadleir vol. I & of Robert J. Hayhurst in all vols. ¶ Locke pp5-6; Sadleir 26; Wolff 67. This, Ainsworth’s first three-decker novel, was published anonymously and, according to the Author, was an attempt at the gothic ‘bygone’ style of Mrs Radcliffe. The Dick Turpin subplot, with ‘flash’ slang was particularly popular with the public and contributed to the fashion for ‘Newgate’ novels.

1834 £850 5.

THE TRUE FIRST EDITION he South-Sea Bubble. A tale of the year 1720. Copyright edition. 2 vols. Leipzig: T Bernhard Tauchnitz. (Collection of British Authors vols. 989 and 990.) Half titles. Half maroon calf, cloth boards; a little mottled. ¶ Todd 989 & 990. The First Edition. The novel was initially serialised in the periodical Bow Bells, published by John Dicks, in 1868; the first English book edition was issued by Dicks in 1871 - which Locke suggests is the first book edition, but the Tauchnitz edition clearly pre-dates this. The ‘South Sea Bubble’ was a notorious stock market scandal, in which The South Sea Company, having been granted a monopoly for trade in the region saw enormous growth in its share value. However, the War of the Spanish Succession meant that there was no real chance of the company realising the value of its monopoly and in 1720 share values plummeted and thousands of investors were ruined.

1868 £225 6.

SCARCE EARLY POEMS he Works of Cheviot Tichburn. (Manchester:) with the type of John Leigh. Half T title; sm. tear to upper margin of half title & contents leaf. 20th century half calf by Bayntun. v.g. ¶ Not in BL, Sadleir or Wolff; Manchester only on Copac; OCLC adds Huntington and Princeton. No copies at auction since 1929. Ainsworth’s ‘fugitive pieces’, published when he was only 20 years of age, and extremely scarce; the earliest were published in Arliss’s Pocket Magazine in 1822 but the advertisement on p.v indicates that ‘the greater part of the Trifles contained

AINSWORTH in this Book were written in the year 1823’. Ainsworth’s drama, The Rivals, was printed in Arliss’s Magazine; he also contributed to the Manchester Iris, the Edinburgh Magazine, and the London Magazine. His own periodical, The Boeotian, lasted only six issues.

1825 £1,500 __________

ALLINGHAM

THE GOLDEN TREASURY’S DEBT TO WILLIAM ALLINGHAM MADE MANIFEST (ALLINGHAM, William) Nightingale Valley. A collection, including a great number of the choicest lyrics and short poems in the English language. Edited by Giraldus. FIRST EDITION. Bell and Daldy. Half title. Orig. purple moroccograined cloth; spine darkened, carefully recased. Ownership signature of Professor Kathleen Tillotson, with her notes in pencil on verso of leading f.e.p.: ‘(Bought in Store St. outside a dealer’s shop. about 1958 - I recognised Palgrave’s hand in notes). P.54. Is this the first appearance of Blake in an anthology? P.95 also & p.235 & 117. (& see editor’s long note on 95).’ Loosely inserted is an envelope (postmarked 28 August 1992) with Kathleen’s ms. notes on the book and an ALS from Christopher Rix (signed Christopher) 8 October 1992, thanking K.T. for notice of the ‘fascinating Palgrave annotations’. His own edition of the Golden Treasury had been published the year before. ¶ This is the first edition of Allingham’s anthology of English poetry, published fifteen months before Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, a similar but much more successful anthology & arguably the most influential in the English language, the selection being made with the assistance of Alfred Tennyson. THIS IS PALGRAVE’S OWN COPY of Nightingale Valley, with indications, in pencil, of the poems to be included in the Golden Treasury (‘-’ or ‘P’), and with question marks for others being considered. There are notes in the margins of the Contents pages, and other longer annotations. Nightingale Valley was published in March 1860, the Golden Treasury the following year in July 1861. Palgrave was clearly inspired by Allingham and initially discussed the idea for a competing anthology in August 1860 during a holiday in Cornwall with Tennyson, Thomas Woolner (poet and sculptor), Val Prinsep and William Holman Hunt (Pre-Raphaelite painters). Palgrave writes that his selections for the Golden Treasury were reviewed by George Miller and Thomas Woolner, ‘sometimes alone, perhaps oftener in courts of poetry’. Marvin Spevack in his 2012 article, The Golden Treasury: 150 Years On, quotes Palgrave: ‘The mass thus diminished, but retaining all near admission, were gone through by Alfr. Tennyson during two days at Xmas 1860 at Farringford ... The book as it stands fairly reflects his taste, as his opinion was the final verdict ...’ Spevack comments: ‘Still, there can be little doubt that the primary and ultimate selection was basically Palgrave’s ....’ but ‘Striking is an apparent consensus in the

ALLINGHAM selection between Palgrave and his main competitor (William) Allingham. Their collections have fifty-one titles in common, in percentage magnified by the fact that Nightingale Valley contains only 211 titles of which sixty are by the living poets excluded from the Golden Treasury.’ This indicates that Palgrave extracted almost exactly a third of the poems available to him from Allingham. Spevack continues: ‘Palgrave was, of course, aware of Allingham’s anthology, and admitted to having made use of it in one instance. But it is more likely that the overlapping was the natural consequence of cultural consensus rather than commercial competition ...’ There are notable similarities between the two anthologies - both omit Donne and the metaphysical poets and both have ‘slight representation of Elizabethan poetry’. There were also differences - for instance, Allingham brings his selection up to date while Palgrave is restricted to dead authors; Palgrave favours Wordsworth, Allingham includes four poems by Blake. Spevack comments: ‘such differences are to be expected, of course, and a further comparison of the selections would contribute to a profile of both.’ Historically, Palgrave has outshone Allingham by a country mile, but this volume clearly shows the great indebtedness of the former to the latter. On the basis of the annotations in this volume, it could be argued that Palgrave simply used Allingham as a guide and mentor* - winning the battle of the anthologies with an evocative title - not so much the ‘cultural consensus’ suggested by Spevack, more ‘commercial competition’. The Golden Treasury has never been out of print and there were 28 printings by 1896; Nightingale Valley, reprinted only twice in 1862 and 1871, is as rarely encountered as the songbird of its title. Allingham went on to publish The Ballad Book, a selection of the choicest British Ballads in 1864 which, with a touch or irony, was published by Macmillan in its ‘Golden Treasury’ series. Palgrave’s Annotations: The six pages of Contents have Palgrave’s marginal pencil marks: 1. --, 28 times 2. ?, 16 times 3. -? (or ?-), 20 times 4. ??, 5 times. At the end of the Contents, Palgrave has written ‘214’ and ‘26’ - presumably his approximation of the total number of poems with the number of his primary selections. The pencil annotation of the poems themselves do not necessarily correlate with the annotation of the contents. There are marks by Palgrave on 51 pages, including brief comments, corrections, queries, notes, marginal emphasis lines, underlinings and in one case he suggests editing out a stanza. 36 of the poems are coded, with ‘?’, ‘P’, ‘Pc’, ‘P?’,‘PcX’, ‘PX’, or are marked with a simple tick. (Some of these codes were also used by Palgrave when editing later editions of the Treasury - see Christopher Rix’s edition, 1991.) There is a ten-line marginal note by Palgrave on p.23, Barthram’s Dirge, from Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border concerning the phrase in the second line, ‘the Headless Cross’ concluding ‘ ...Only the modern antique wd. introduce such an element of romanticism’. Palgrave adds a brief note to p.71, The Haunted Palace, by Edgar A. Poe: ‘Alma’ and ‘A.T. (Tennyson), Falmouth, 1860’. The recto of the following endpaper contains 14 lines of notes and page references. *Kathleen Tillotson also drew attention to Palgrave’s copy of Bell’s Songs from the Dramatists, used in a similar way to his copy of Allingham, annotated for selection and consultation: Palgrave’s Golden Treasury and Tennyson: Another source, 1988.

1860 £7,500

ALMANACKS

ALMANACKS 8.

ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1705 Collection of 14 Almanacks for the year 1705. Somewhat browned, sl. heavier A in places, a few marginal tears with occasional sl. loss, trimmed close. 20thC recent antique style calf. ¶ A collection of almanacks for the year 1705. All are held in five or fewer locations in the UK with no more than three copies of any title held in North America. 1. ANDREWS, William. Strange News from the Stars: or, An ephemeris for the year 1705 ... Printed by J. Wilde. [48]pp. ESTC T26917, five locations in the UK (eight copies); Huntington only in North America. 2. PARTRIDGE, John. Merlinus Liberatus: being an almanack for the year of our Blessed Saviour’s Incarnation 1705 ... Printed by Mary Roberts. [48] pp. ESTC T17008, five locations in the UK (seven copies); Huntington and Toronto only in North America. 3. TANNER, John. Angelus Britannicus. An Ephemeris for the year of our redemption 1705 ... Printed by R. Janeway. [48]pp. ESTC T55778, four locations (five copies) only in the UK; Huntington and Minnesota only in North America. 4. GADBURY, John. Ephemeris; or, a Diary astronomical, astrological, meteorological, for the Year of Our Lord 1705 ... Printed for the Company of Stationers. [48]pp. Paper flaw to C2 with loss of a few letters to fore-edge. ESTC T18134, four locations (five copies) in UK; Folger, Harvard and Huntington only in North America. 5. POND, Edward. Pond: an Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1705 ... Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, printer to the University. [48]pp. ESTC T54618, four locations (five copies) only in UK; no copies in North America. 6. DOVE, Jonathan. Dove. Speculum Anni; or, An Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1705 ... Cambridge: printed by John Hayes, printer to the University. [48]pp. ESTC T28546, four locations (five copies) only in UK; no copies in North America. 7. COLE, Thomas. Ouranologia. Being an ephemeris of the motion of the Celestial Bodies for the year of our Lord 1705 ... Printed by B.M. 1695 [ie. 1705] [32], 16pp. ESTC T146592, three copies only in the UK; three in North America. 8. ANONYMOUS. The English Chapman’s and Traveller’s Almanack for the year of Christ 1705 ... Printed by Tho. James. [48]pp. ESTC T191954, not in BL; Durham Cathedral Library only. 9. COLEY, Henry. Merlinus Anglicus Junior: or, The starry messenger, for the year of our redemption, 1705. Printed by Robert Everingham, for the Company of Stationers. [56]pp. ESTC T16940, four UK locations; Folger & Huntington only in North America. Titlepage misbound within previous item. 10. WING, John. Olympia Domata; or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1705. Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, printer to the University. [48]pp. ESTC T194175, not in BL, Durham only in UK; Huntington only in North America. 11. SAUNDERS, Richard. 1705. Apollo Anglicanus, the English Apollo ... Printed by J. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers. [48]pp. ESTC T17687, four locations (five copies) in the UK; Huntington only in North America. 12. PEPPER, Joseph. Kaptoptron Ouranion; or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1705. Printed by Mary Roberts, for the Company of Stationers. [48]pp. ESTC T59923, four locations (five copies) in the UK; Huntington only in North America. 13. MOORE, Francis. Vox Stellarum; being an Almanack for the year of

ALMANACKS human redemption 1705. Printed by T. Hodgkin, for the Company of Stationers. [32], 15, [1]p. ESTC T16848, three locations (four copies) in the UK; Huntington only in North America. 14. (WINSTANLEY, William) Poor Robin. An almanack of the old and new fashion. 1705. Printed by W. Bowyer for the Company of Stationers. ESTC T17587. Defective, lacking final gathering.

1705 £1,250

PICTORIAL ALMANACK FOR 1875 - UNRECORDED ENNETT, E. Bennett’s Pictorial Almanack for 1875. Ledbury: E. Bennett, B chemist. llus. Orig. mauve printed paper wrappers; sl. worn. 32pp. ¶ Not recorded on Copac or OCLC.

1875 £65 10.

UNRECORDED ALMANACK FOR THE WAISTCOAT ARD-CASE. The Card-Case Almanack, for the year 1848 ... Including 2 leaves of C asses’ skin and 12 of blank paper for memorandums. 24mo. Letts, Son & Co. 2 leaves of asses’ skin, additional blanks with pencil annotations. Orig. yellow printed glazed paper wrappers; tear to fore-edge of front wrapper, otherwise a v.g. copy as issued. ¶ Not recorded on Copac or OCLC. A rare almanack belonging to a young man from Rose Hill, Sutton, on the outskirts of London. ‘Intended as a companion for the waistcoat pocket or card case’.

1848 £120 11.

RAWING. The Drawing Room Almanack. 1875 n.p. 7 chromolitho. fan leaves, D pinned together through 2 chromolitho bows. v.g. ¶ A lovely survival of an 1875 fan almanack with a cover leaf and six leaves printed with the days of each month.

1875 £150

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12. MAXWELL, William Hamilton, ed. The Naval and Military Almanack for the Year 1840, containing in addition to a calendar and the ordinary almanack information, tables of reference on matters of special interest to the United Services. A.H. Baily. Front. port., additional engraved title, plates, two folding. Contemp. half dark blue calf, marbled paper boards; a little rubbed & worn. Contemp. ownership inscription of F.S. Lloyd Philipps on leading f.e.p. A nice copy. (98)pp. ¶ Copac records two copies only, at the National Trust and Queens University, Belfast; OCLC adds the BL and National Maritime Museum, two copies in North America and a copy in New Zealand. This is the first recorded edition with OCLC noting a single copy of an 1841 edition but no others. The frontispiece and engraved titles include portraits of Nelson with the two folding plates being a facsimile of a Nelson letter and a coloured illustration of the signals used by Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.

1840 £250 RAPHAEL 13.

he Prophetic Messenger Almanac, for 1835; the events, predictions, & the weather T that will occur in each month during the year ... By Raphael, the astrologer. William Charlton Wright. Folding hand-coloured front., vignette title; some creasing & marginal tears, especially to final 10 leaves, without loss. Retaining the orig. yellow plain paper wrapper; spine defective, lacking back wrapper. 84pp. ¶ First published in 1820. With a very handsome hand-coloured folding frontispiece, 24 x 30cm, entitled ‘Hierogylphic for the eventful year 1835’

1835 £65 14.

he Prophetic Messenger, with two almanacs, for 1838 ... William Charlton Wright. T Folding uncoloured front., vignette title, 3pp ads. Orig. yellow plain paper wrappers; a little chipped, spine defective. ¶ First published in 1820. With a very handsome folding frontispiece, 24 x 30cm, entitled ‘Hierogylphic for the eventful year 1838’.

1838 £75

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aphael’s Prophetic Almanac. Being the prophetic messenger, weather guide, and R ephemeris, for 1848 ... William Charlton Wright. Folding hand-coloured front., vignette title. Orig. yellow plain paper wrappers; front wrapper chipped, spine worn. ¶ First published in 1820. With a very handsome hand-coloured folding frontispiece, 24 x 30cm, entitled ‘Hierogylphic for the eventful year 1848’, depicting scenes from the first Opium War and the French Revolution of 1848.

1848 £75 16.

aphael’s Prophetic Almanac. Being the prophetic messenger, weather guide, and R ephemeris, for 1850 ... William Charlton Wright. Folding hand-coloured front., vignette title; front with a few marginal chips & tears along folds. Orig. yellow plain paper wrappers; wrappers a little chipped, spine defective. ¶ First published in 1820. With a very handsome hand-coloured folding frontispiece, 24 x 30cm, entitled ‘Hierogylphic for the eventful year 1850’.

1850 £65 _____ 17.

UNRECORDED HAT MANUFACTURER’S ALMANACK EOMANS, J. Almanack for 1878. J. Yeomans. Illus. Orig. purple printed paper Y wrappers, sewn as issued; sewing partially loose. A nice copy as issued. (40)pp. ¶ Not in BL or recorded on Copac. J. Yeoman, hat manufacturer, 73 Norfolk Terrace, Westbourne Grove. With full page and smaller illustrations accompanying historical anecdotes, tales, and tidbits.

1878 £75 __________

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THE MONEY GAME NGELL, Norman. The Money Game. How to play it. A new instrument of A economic education. (2nd imp.) London & Toronto. J. M. Dent & Sons. 1p. initial ad., half title, game box incorporated in the binding, with cards, money &c. Orig. blue cloth; some sl. marking but a nice copy. Two ownership inscriptions on leading f.e.p. ¶ Angell’s Money Game was first copyrighted in 1912 but not published; this is the 2nd impression after the patenting of the ‘apparatus’ in the USA. The Money Game is a visual method of teaching schoolchildren the fundamentals of finance and banking. Angell, 1872-1967, was a Labour MP and author. He was knighted in 1931 and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933.

1928 £65

ANNUAL

19.

NNUAL. FRIENDSHIP’S OFFERING. Friendship’s Offering: a literary album, A and Christmas and New Year’s present, for 1831. (Edited by Thomas Pringle.) Smith, Elder, & Co. Engr. front. & title, all plates present; some illus. sl. spotted. Yellow endpapers discoloured. Orig. elaborately embossed maroon calf, gilt device on both boards, gilt spine; spine sl. faded. ¶ Included in this volume are Miss Mitford’s 13pp short story The Cousins. A Country Tale, as well as two poems by Manchester novelist Geraldine Jewsbury. Other contributors include John Banim, Barry Cornwall, Allan Cunningham, John Galt, R.F. Housman, Mary Howitt, Leitch Richie, Henry Stebbing, &c. Plates after H. Corbould, Carlo Dolci, S. Prout, J. Wood, &c.

1831 £40 20.

HOMOSEXUALITY NOMOLY, pseud. The Invert and his Social Adjustment. With an introduction by A Robert H. Thoules. 2nd impression with brief new foreword. Bailliere, Tindall & Cox. Half title. Orig. green cloth, sl. mottled & marked. Ownership inscription of Ernest Page, September 1935. ¶ First published in 1927; this second impression not on Copac. ‘The existence of a dangerous half-knowledge of homosexuality, which ... degrades public opinion and obscures the real social problem, prompts me to urge consideration of certain phases of the question on which my own experience and observations may cast some light.’

1929 £150 ANONYMOUS 21.

THE CORK-SCREW: A NOVEL he Adventures of a Cork-Screw; in which, under the pleasing method of a romance, T the vices, follies and manners of the present age are exhibited and satirically delineated. Interspersed with striking anecdotes, characters and actions of persons in real life; All drawn to promote virtue, expose vice, and laugh folly out of countenance. Printed for and sold by T. Bell. [4], xv, [5], 170pp, half title. 12mo. Some occasional light browning, offsetting from pastedowns on to endpapers, leading edge of a9 torn without loss of text, the manner of the break suggesting this is an original paper flaw. Full contemporary sprinkled calf, raised & gilt banded spine; expert repairs to joints & corners, some early pencil calculations on inner front board & endpaper. ¶ ESTC T57421, BL, Gdansk, Harvard, UCLA, Chicago, Illinois, Univ. of Penn, Yale Walpole. FIRST EDITION; a Dublin edition was published in 1776. The Adventures of a Cork-Screw (1775) opens by describing how a chance encounter

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with a beggar woman on the Pont Neuf in Paris, leads the editor to the discovery of the manuscript of the Adventures of a Cork-Screw. He gives ten guineas to the grieving widow in exchange for the possessions of her husband, who has just died a pauper in jail. The husband’s estate consists of ‘one old ragged coat, a pair of rusty breeches, part of an old tye-wig, some old books, and a large parcel of paper, entirely spoiled, being scribbled all over ...’. In the familiar 18th century convention of the dramatic life of ‘objects’, the cork-screw bears witness to, and enables the anonymous editor to pass comments upon, the ‘vices, follies and manners of the present age’, as it passes from hand to hand.

1775 £2,250 22.

NOVEL IN ORIGINAL BOARDS Country Curate’s Autobiography: or, Passages of a Life Without a Living. FIRST A EDITION. 2 vols. 12mo. Smith, Elder & Co. Half title & 6pp ads vol. II, vignette titles. Partially unopened in orig. drab boards, green cloth spines, printed paper labels; spines sl. dulled & rubbed. A nice copy in the original boards as issued. ¶ Wolff 7436. Five copies only on Copac. Priced 18 shillings in boards with a later 19th century bookseller’s pencil price of 10/6.

1836 £350 23.

‘MAMMON-MURDERED MILLIONS’ Letter to the People of the United Kingdom on National Reformation in Church A and State. By a Christian Reformer. Tall 8vo. Aylott and Jones. Double-column text. Disbound. 16pp. ¶ Not in BL; V&A only in UK; Columbia University only on OCLC. Despite the mild-mannered title, it is not surprising this pamphlet is anonymous as the tone is extremely radical. However, the author steers readers away from the ‘physical force’ advocated by the hard line Chartists: ‘The people have not the physical force to use - it is on the other side’. There are references to John Williams, who described himself as a missionary but in fact was the ‘land robber of natives in New Zealand’. At home, the author favours ‘national enfranchisement’ because it is possible to ‘trust the multitude’. ‘No army, no police, no volunteers, no laws can rule a despairing population ... The time is come when the blood and sweat of mammon-murdered millions shall no longer reek to heaven ...’

[1851?] 24.

£125

AUTHORIAL REVISIONS ales of the Forest: containing the lotus-walker, and the spoiler’s doom. By Snellius T Schickhardus. James Madden. 3 parts. Front., plate; authorial excisions & revisions in

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ink, pp xxxiii-xlii, part II excised. Contemp. full brown morocco, elaborately dec. in gilt; sl. rubbed. Later presentation inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Presented to Master Sammie Shilton on his 12th birthday: From Mr. F. Withers, wishing him many happy returns of the day’. a.e.g. v.g. ¶ Four copies only on Copac; five additional copies on OCLC. With 18 manuscript corrections, one eight line revision laid over the original text, and ten excisions made by laying paper over the printed text, with three partially removed. Tales in verse collected and inspired by the ‘wilds’ of India: ‘I soon found, by mixing much with the Natives, that these wilds were fruitful of more than the calamities and monsters ascribed to them by the ignorant ... The traditions of the Hindoo are full of interest and beauty. I lost no opportunity of collecting and treasuring such as came to hand. Some of them I have since worked up into Tales, two of which are now presented to the public ...’

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1853 £150

SALOPIAN SONGSTER NTHOLOGY. The Wood-Lark: being a selection of the most popular ... songs: A comic, naval, military, patriotic, Scottish, Irish, ... from the most approved authors. Salop: T. Newling. Front., index. Uncut, in orig. blue paper wrappers; a little rubbed. ¶ Not in BL; Oxford, Cambridge and York only on Copac. Newling was publishing in Shrewsbury c.1800-1815.

[c.1810] £125

26.

RISTOTLE. The Works of Aristotle. Revised edn. J. Smith, 193 High Holborn. A Half title, hand-coloured front. port. & vignette title, coloured plates. Orig. red dec. roan. v.g. ¶ In 320pp, smaller format. A false attribution to Aristotle; Aristotle’s Masterpiece was first published in 1684 and continued in print as a sex manual, until well into the twentieth century.

[c.1860?] 27.

£65

ALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. Shifting Winds: a tough yarn. 8th edn. James B Nisbet & Co. Half title, front., plates, final ad. leaf. Orig. red pictorial cloth, bevelled boards; spine sl. dulled. Bookplate of Louis S. Montagu on leading pastedown.

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Bookseller’s ticket of W. Whiteley. v.g.

¶ See Quayle 35a for the 1866 first edition. This edition not on Copac.

1880 £45

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LUDDITE NOVEL ANKS, Isabella, Mrs G. Linnæus, née Varley. Bond Slaves: the story of a B struggle. FIRST EDITION. Griffith Farran & Co. Half title. Orig. maroon dec. cloth; a little rubbed, spine sl. faded, a little cocked. Ownership inscription of G.S. Hadden on half title. ¶ Not in Sadleir; Wolff 239 who also owned the original manuscript. Scarce in commerce. A Luddite tale from the library of the Brontë scholar Christopher Heywood; with a single folded sheet of notes loosely inserted.

1893 £120 29.

A FAMILY COPY BELONGING TO VIVIAN BEWICK ( BEWICK, John) (BERQUIN, Arnaud) The Looking-Glass for the Mind; or, Intellectual mirror: being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories and interesting tales. Chiefly translated from that much admired work, L’Ami des Enfans. With seventy-four cuts, designed and engraved on wood, by J. Bewick. 15th edn. 12mo. Printed for Harris & Son. Vignette title, illus. Later 19thC full tan calf, ruled in gilt, raised bands, red morocco labels; sl. rubbed. Later signature of Vivian Bewick on leading f.e.p. t.e.g. v.g. ¶ First illustrated with John Bewick’s woodcuts in 1792, this was a popular work which went through 17 editions between 1787 and 1827. The cuts ‘are perhaps the best of all JB’s short career’. (Tattersfield, N. John Bewick, Engraver on Wood, p.122.) The original publisher E. Newbery inserted his own advertisement into the story of Anabella, who when told that ‘her books were all bought at the corner of St Paul’s Church-yard, ... seemed perfectly satisfied’. (p.14). The copy of Vivian Bewick, born 1900, artist of the English school and relative of John and Thomas Bewick.

1821 £120 30.

BEWICK, Thomas AESOP’S FABLES: BEWICK CUTS he Fables of Aesop, and others, with designs on wood, by Thomas Bewick. 2nd edn. T Newcastle: printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick & Son. Vignette title, illus.; without the receipt page. Uncut in later 19thC half green roan; hinges rubbed & worn, a little rubbed, corners bumped, hinges starting but firm. Singature of J.C. Fisher, 1848, on

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leading blank, & armorial bookplate of Joseph Fisher on leading pastedown. ¶ Tattersfield TB1.36. Bewick’s engravings were adapted from Kirkall’s illustrations in the 1722 edition (these in turn were based on those in an earlier French edition) ‘but in Bewick’s hands the familiar images were full of wit and energy: the fox became a real fox, the ass a recognisable beast’. The 1818 first edition was notoriously poorly printed.

1823 £120 31.

HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS General History of Quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. A 6th edn. Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick. Vignette title, illus., 1p. ads.; light spotting. Contemp. half calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label; rubbed & a little worn. Ownership inscription of Philip Barker, Feby. 10th, 1848, on leading pastedown together with earlier signature of R. Cappur & bookseller’s ticket of R. Butterworth, Nantwich. A good copy. ¶ Tattersfireld TB1.6.

1811 £150

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FOUR TITLES WITH BEWICK CUTS UNIFORMLY BOUND IN MANCHESTER ... & John. Select Fables; with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others, previous to the year 1784: together with a Memoir; and a descriptive catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick. Newcastle: printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley. Front., vignette title, illus. WITH: A General History of Quadrupeds. 7th edn. Newcastle: printed by Edw. Walker, for T. Bewick ... 1820. Vignette title, illus. WITH: A History of British Birds. 2 vols. Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick ... 1821. Vignette title, illus. All three titles are nice clean copies. 4 vols., uniformly bound in contemp. half green calf by J. Winstanley, Manchester, faded gilt spine, later red morocco labels; sl. rubbed, corners bumped. An attractive set. ¶ Tattersfield TB 2.576, TB1.8 & TB1.22 noting that this is the first edition of British Birds to include the supplement which appears in two sections, separately paginated at the end of each volume. A fine set of three of Bewick’s most notable works.

1820/1820/1821 £650

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AY, John. The Fables of Mr. John Gay. Complete in two parts. With cuts by G T. Bewick, of Newcastle. York: printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman. 252pp, frontispiece, woodcuts. 8vo. Contemp. calf; rebacked, corners repaired. ¶ Tattersfield TB 2.166, a virtual reprint of TB 2.163 published for T. Saint, etc. in 1779. ESTC T13877.

1797 £120 34.

OLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical Works. Complete in one volume. With the G life of the author. Embellished with vignettes & tail-pieces, designed, and engraved on wood, by T. Bewick. Hereford: printed by D. Walker & sold by J. Parsons. 95pp, vignette title, illus. 8vo. 19thC full tan calf, rebacked retaining most of orig. gilt spine, hinges renewed. ¶ Tattersfield TB2.498, who suggests that this is the second issue of the first edition, the first (ESTC T146138) without Parsons in the imprint. ESTC T202628, BL, Cambridge and Edinburgh only in UK; St. Louis and Victoria University only in North America.

1794 £280 35.

WITH ‘WRETCHED’ BEWICK WOODCUTS OLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. A tale. Two volumes in one. G Embellished with wood cuts, by T. Bewick. Hereford: printed & sold by D. Walker. [iv], 224pp, half title, plates. 8vo. Occasional light marking, damp marking to upper corner of final few leaves. Contemp. full mottled calf, rebacked; some wear to boards. ¶ Tattersfield TB 2.656. ESTC T146205, six copies only in UK; ten in North America. Tattersfield notes that Walker had first approached Thomas Bewick about supplying engravings for this work in 1794. Having initially rejected the idea - Thomas was working on British Birds - and following failed attempts to work with John Bewick and Francis Eginton, Walker finally persuaded Thomas Bewick to provide cuts in 1798. Bewick subsequently palmed off the work to his apprentices who created cuts that Tattersfield describes as ‘little more than wretched ... The results [for Walker] must have been at best disappointing, at worst an embarrassment’.

1798 £85 36.

WITH WOODCUTS BY BEWICK & CLENNELL ODGSON, Solomon, comp. The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature: a H collection of essays, allegories, and instructive compositions. Selected by the late Sol. Hodgson. Embellished with a number of engravings on wood by T. Bewick & L.

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Connell. 14th edn. 12mo. Newcastle: printed by & for S. Hodgson. Vignette title, illus.; sl. browned & dusted. Later 19thC half dark green calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; extremities a little rubbed. Unidentified bookplate on leading pastedown, another label neatly removed. ¶ See Tattersfield TB 2.287A for the first edition of 1795. This book was the cause of one of the many rows that Bewick had with the publisher Sarah Hodgson. He had originally promised thirty cuts, but let the commission slip with pressure over the production of his own Water Birds. She was unhappy in being fobbed off with apprentice pieces to make up the number.

1812 £85

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NICE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH emoir of Thomas Bewick: written by himself. FIRST EDITION. Newcastle: M printed by Robert Ward, for Jane Bewick. Front., vignette title, illus. Orig. green cloth; spine faded to brown with small nick just affecting title lettering, sl. wear to tale of spine. Gift inscription on verso of leading f.e.p.: James G. Gardiner from his aunt Ellen Synibs, March 1875’. Bookseller’s ticket of Green & Co., Dublin. A nice copy. ¶ ‘Embellished by numerous wood engravings, designed and engraved by the author for a work on British fishes, and never before published’.

1862 £120 __________ 38.

IN ORIGINAL BOARDS IGLAND, John. Letters on the Study and Use of Ancient and Modern History: B containing observations and reflections on the causes and consequences of those events which have produced conspicuous changes in the aspect of the world, and the general state of human affairs. 4th edn. James Cundee; Longman, Hurst, .... Uncut, in orig. blue boards, drab paper spine, paper label; spine defective at head & tail, otherwise a nice crisp copy. Armorial bookplate of Lord Walsingham. ¶ First published in 1804; this edition not in BL; Newcastle only on Copac. Bigland, 1750-1832, was a Yorkshire schoolmaster who became a successful author on history and geography. The owner of this copy was Thomas de Grey, 4th Baron Walsingham, 1778-1839.

1810 £45 39.

FIGHTING FOR A PLACE ON THE STAGE LOWER, Elizabeth. ALS to ‘Sir’, Friday May 3d, 1782. ‘After your liberal & candid B promises to my father yesterday, I think I may rely that you will excuse me troubling

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you again ...’ 53 lines on 3 sides of a folded quarto sheet; old folds, sl. dusted. ¶ A delightfully angry letter from a young Elizabeth Blower, the actress, poet and novelist, c.1757/63-1816. She rails against ‘Mr Younger’ (Joseph Younger, the theatre manager of both Liverpool and Manchester Royal theatres) who is attempting to deny her a second opportunity to perform on stage, and asks the recipient of the letter to intervene. ‘I understand that he [Younger] avoided calling to receive your commands respecting my appearing again altho’ my father informed him last night that you desired he would do so ... This malicious and splenetic behaviour I imagine to result from my having gained applause in a character in which his own Niece (to use a soft phrase on the occasion) failed ... Mr Younger immediately after he had intelligence I was to play on Saturday last, gave out the Maid of the Mill purposely to bar every opening to my performing again ...’ Her frustration is increased by the fact that Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the Irish playwright and owner of Drury Lane Theatre, had promised to consider her for the next season at Drury Lane. Younger’s ‘design however, was defeated, notwithstanding the embarrassment which my native sensibility heightened by a strong sense of the mortifying treatment I had received occasioned Mr Sheridan’s promise before I appeared that if I succeeded to please the public I should have his interest with the proprietors of Drury Lane to engage me fo the next season ...’ In 1782 Blower was already a published author, her first novel The Parsonage House having been published in 1780. The Feminist Companion to Literature notes that ‘in 1782 she published poems and the novel George Bateman ... went on stage and was well reviewed in both métiers’.

1782 £480 † 40.

DARKEST ENGLAND OOTH, William. In Darkest England and the Way Out. International B Headquarters of the Salvation Army. Half title, colour folding front., 6pp ads. Orig. dark blue black cloth, lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed. Ownership inscription of Kilmorey, Mourne Park, 1890. ¶ Printed by McCorquodale & Co. William Booth, 1829-1912, with his wife Catherine, established the Salvation Army as a force for Christian good; his Darkest England set out the social welfare principles of the organisation, comparing the treatment of the poor unfavourably with Africa, often at that time referred to as the ‘Dark Continent’. The owner of this copy was Francis Charles Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey, 1842-1915.

[1890] £120

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MRS BRAYS NOVELS RAY, Anna Eliza Stothard. Novels & Romances. FIRST EDITION. 10 vols. B Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Fronts, engr. series titles (‘Novels and Romances’). Blue printed e.ps. Original grass-green vertical-ribbed cloth, boards blocked in blind, gilt block to front boards (’Bray’s Novels & Tales’), spines decorated & lettered in gilt (signed ‘I.I.’, John Leighton); spines sl. dulled. ¶ Sadleir does not include any works by Mrs Bray except for one title, Fitz of Fitz-Ford, reissued as a yellowback ‘probably dating from the mid-fifties’. Wolff refers to this 10-volume collected edition in his introduction to Mrs Bray. No library has the complete set. Described as ‘a new edition, revised and corrected, with a general preface, written by herself ’, with notes. Vol. I The White Hoods: An historical romance. 1845 II De Foix: or, Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the fourteenth century. An historical romance. 1845 III The Protestant: A tale of the reign of Queen Mary. 1845 IV Fitz of Fitz-Ford: A legend of Devon. 1845 (V) The Talba: Or, Moor of Portugal. A romance. (Spine not numbered.) 1845 VI Warleigh; or, The Fatal Oak. A legend of Devon. 1845 VII Trelawny of Trelawne; or, The prophecy: A legend of Cornwall. 1845 VIII Trials of the Heart. 1845 (IX) Henry de Pomeroy: or, The Eve of St. John. A legend of Cornwall and Devon. Also, The White Rose: A domestic tale. (Spine not numbered.) 1846 X Courtenay of Walreddon. A Romance of the West. 1846.

[1845] £500

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PLYMOUTH ELECTION BROADSIDE NONYMOUS. B--y’s Tory Smoke-Shop. ‘The shades of night were falling fast, As A to the Tory Smoke-shop passed ...’ (Plymouth?) n.p. Single sheet 4to broadside; sl. dusted, one small marginal closed tear. 28.5 x 22.5cm. ¶ Not recorded on Copac or OCLC; no copies located. A poem in five stanzas, clearly a squib written prior to the Plymouth election of 1859 when the Tory, William Henry Edgcumbe, (later Viscount Valletort) beat the Liberal, Robert Porrett Collier by 97 votes, with James White, Liberal, in third place. All three candidates are mentioned. There is also reference to ‘Waring, late Agent for the African Mail Packets’ - who, with Collier, apparently ‘lost the mails’.

[1859] £75 43.

CHRISTMAS CAROL - UNRECORDED BROADSIDE IVINE. A Divine Poem and Christmas Carol, on the birth of our great redeemer D Jesus Christ. Being some good and serious advice to Christians. Printed & sold in Aldermary Church Yard. Single sheet folio broadside, woodcut illus. & border; a few small internal tears, otherwise v.g. 37 x 26cm. ¶ Unrecorded on Copac and OCLC. ‘Have you not heard of Our Saviour’s Love? And how he suffer’d like a harmless Dove? ...’

[c.1790?] 44.

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UNRECORDED ETTER. A Letter, Written by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and L found eighteen miles from Iconium sixty-three years after our Blessed Saviour’s crucifixion ... Printed & sold by J. Davenport. Single sheet folio broadside, three woodcut illus.; a few small internal tears, old fold. 37 x 26cm. A nice copy. ¶ Not on ESTC which records variant pamphlets and broadsides from c.1725 conveying the story of a purported correspondence between Jesus of Nazareth and the Syriac King Abgar of Edessa, concerning the nature of the commandments, cures and miracles.

[c.1795] £150 45.

UNRECORDED MADAME TUSSAUD ADVERTISING BROADSIDE ADAME TUSSAUD. Exhibition de Mme. Tussaud & Fils, 58 Baker Street, M Portman Square ... Imprimé par G. Cole, Westminster. Single sheet folio broadside, large woodcut illus. at head of page; a number of marginal tears with neat repairs to verso, sl. dusted & creased. A good copy. 34 x 22cm. ¶ Not on Copac; OCLC refers to a single copy in the John Johnson Collection dated 1842. A wonderfully illustrated broadside, printed in French, advertising to foreigners and the British public, Tussaud’s museum of waxworks and curiosities, first opened in 1835. ‘Madame Tussaud et fils ont l’honneur d’infomer les etrangers et le public, qu’ils ont ajouté à leur magnifique exhibition de figures de cire la plus curieuse collection qui existe d’objects ayant appartenu à Napoleon comme Géneral Consul, et Empereur et quie sont exposé dans deux nouvelle salles décorées avec la plus grand richesse et ornées de tout les emblèmes de L’Empire ...’ It declares that, in addition to the magnificent collection of wax figures, the museum is now exhibiting items belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte. Also displayed, the broadside warns, is the shirt worn by Henry IV when he was murdered by Ravaillac, bloodied and with the holes caused by two stab wounds. There are examples of the woodcut illustration, depicting soldiers attacking a stage coach, used in earlier advertisements for Madame Tussaud’s.

[1842] £220 46.

THE DECK OF CARDS ERPETUAL. The Perpetual Almanack; or, Gentleman soldier’s prayer book: P shewing how one Richard Middleton was taken before the Mayor of the city he was in,

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for using cards in church during Divine Service: being a droll merry, and humurous [sic] account of an odd affair that happened to a private soldier, in the 60th Regiment of Foot. J. Catnach. Single sheet folio broadside, two woodcut illus., 2 columns of text, all within a border of a set of playing cards; old folds, a few small marginal tears, one ink mark. 38 x 25cm. ¶ Four copies only on Copac. An attractive broadside presenting the popular folk tale of Richard Middleton, a soldier, who was arrested for using cards in church. According to the British Museum, the earliest source, at Durham University, is a memoranda book of Thomas Wilkinson (d.1792), a former chief constable of of Durham which contains an ‘Account of Richard Middleton, a soldier, and why he had playing cards in church at Glasgow’, taken from a Newcastle newspaper 10 August 1776. Arrested and taken to the mayor, Middleton explains: ‘When I count how many spots there are in a pack of cards, I find there are three hundred and sixty-five, there are so many days in a year; when I count how many cards there are in pack, I find there are fifty two, there are so many weeks in a year; when I count how many tricks there are in a pack, I find there are thirteen there are so many months in a year. You see sir, that this Pack of Cards is a Bible, Almanack, Common Prayer Book, and Pack of Cards to me’.

[c.1837] £220 47.

REFORM INDARIE, Timothy, pseud. A Form of Prayer, to be said by persons of both P sexes throughout the land of locust, by Timothy Pindarie, the last of the Pindars. Quick, printer. Folio broadside with title above octagonal woodcut illus., 19 x 21cm, with 3 columns of text beneath; the odd crease. v.g. 38 x 24cm. ¶ Not recorded in the BM, on Copac or OCLC; no copies located. A satirical ‘prayer’ attacking the Whig government of Earl Grey, Lord Brougham, &c. for not fulfilling their promise of meaningful reform: ‘P. [Parson] And thou, Broom, Grey, and All-talk, three persons under one pretence, we acknowledge our foolishness in our belief of thy promised endeavours in our course. C. [Clerk] Thou hast deceived us in all things, O Wigs. P. And O William [King William IV], hear thy people, and grant us thy help ...’ The woodcut illustrates Constitution Hill in the background with a flagpole flying the British Flag. In the foreground a group of men wielding axes chop down the rotten tree of government which is being held up by Whig politicians: ‘O dear! O dear! push away - see the Flag still flies upon Constitution Hill, though we’ve done all we can to Break the staff ’.

[1834] £280 48.

EXECUTION BROADSIDE HAW, Richard. The Trials of Charles Shaw, aged 16, for Murdering John Oldcroft, S aged 9. Richard Tomlinson, for murdering Mary Evans, his sweetheart. Mary Smith, for drowning her infant child. Who all three received sentence of death, at the late Staffordshire Spring Assizes, and were ordered for execution last Wednesday March 19, 1834. G. Smeeton. Single sheet folio broadside, illus. above three columns of text, all within mourning border. v.g. 37 x 25.5cm. ¶ An execution broadside (recorded at Harvard & Library of Congress only) detailing the trials of Charles Shaw, Richard Tomlinson, and Mary Smith, all for murder. Although both Tomlinson and Smith are recorded on two databases of British capital punishment as having been executed on March 19th, Shaw’s name does not appear.

1834 £950 49.

THE MAYOR RETURNS IN SHAME - OR REDEMPTION? ( SMITH, Jeremiah) The Case of Mr. Jeremiah Smith, the late Mayor of Rye. Rye: I. Parsons. Single sheet folio broadside printed on one side only, laid on to a larger sheet. 38 x 25cm. Framed & glazed. ¶ Tried and convicted of ‘wilful and corrupt perjury’, Smith was imprisoned in

BROADSIDES Newgate before he was granted early release by Lord Palmerston, then Home Secretary. Divided into two columns, the broadside puts forward two arguments. Firstly, that Smith was released due to a petition from the jurors at his trial who, after the emergence of new evidence, now declared him innocent. Secondly, that despite the jurors appeal, Smith’s conviction remained but was released on medical grounds. It concludes: ‘Thus are the representatives of the people of Rye to meet to consider how they are to welcome back to this town a man who has been tried and found guilty of one of the grossest social crimes of which any man can be guilty, and who has only escaped suffering the remainder of the sentence in Newgate “which he so justly merited” on account of the failure of his health, but about which he has tried to deceive the public by his letter, wherein he represents that his liberation arose from the efforts of his friends, but which Lord Palmerston ... has shown was not the case’.

1854 £150 †

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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT (VICTORIA, Queen of Great Britain) OXFORD, Edward. The Trial and Jury’s Verdict, in the case of Edward Oxford for the attempt to shoot the Queen & Prince Albert in the Park, near the palace. Paul & Co. Single sheet elephant folio broadside, large woodcut illus. of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert with smaller illus. of Oxford firing two pistols; old folds, numerous very small circular holes, a few touching on letters but not affecting sense. An exceptional copy. 66 x 41.5cm. ¶ A remarkable survival of an unusually large illustrated broadside reporting the sensational trial of Edward Oxford for the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It ends by leaving readers on tenterhooks, the issue being too early to record the verdict: ‘The jury retired and after some deliberation returned a verdict of ’ ... The broadside begins: ‘Edward Oxford That he being a subject of our Lady the Queen, on the 10th June, 1840 ... as a false traitor, maliciously and traitorously did compass, imagine and intend to bring and put our said Lady the Queen to death ...’ It gives most weight to the numerous witnesses who observed Oxford pull two pistols from his pockets, take aim at the Royal Carriage as it passed him on Constitution Hill, and shoot at the Queen and Prince. Apprehended by onlookers, Oxford initially admitted that the guns had been loaded but later retracted this. His defence centred on the fact that no bullets were ever found and that it couldn’t be proved that the guns were loaded. Simultaneously, they argued that he had always been ‘remarkable for eccentricity and manners’ His mother recollected that ... on one occasion, the prisoner riding on horseback into her parlour, and being with considerable difficulty ejected. On another occasion, he flourished a drawn sword over the heads of witness and her daughter ...’ Although this broadside does not record the verdict - it leaves a small space for where it should have been printed - Oxford was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was sent to the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum in Bethlem where he spent 24 years as a model patient before being moved to Broadmoor in 1864. He was later released whereupon he moved to Melbourne, Australia, under the alias John Freeman. Queen Victoria was angered by Oxford’s acquittal as she was when Roderick McLean was sent to Broadmoor following his attempted assassination of the Queen in 1882. She wrote to Gladstone in 1882 stating: ‘Punishment deters not only sane men but also eccentric men, whose supposed involuntary acts are really produced by a diseased brain capable of being acted upon by external influence. A knowledge that they would be protected by an acquittal on the grounds of insanity will encourage these men to commit desperate acts, while on the other hand certainty that they will not escape punishment will terrify them into a peaceful attitude towards others’.

[1840] £1,250

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THE CRIES OF LONDON - NOT ON ESTC ROADSIDE BALLAD. CRIES. The Cries of London. n.p. Oblong folio B broadside ballad, two woodcut illus., four columns of text; two burn holes touching marginally on six words. 21 x 32cm. ¶ Bodleian Ballads online Bod24321, also noting two further editions, both with the subtitle ‘Tune, The Merry Christ-Church Bells.’ They appear to be printed from the same type but include an imprint, ‘Printed and Sold at the Printing-Office in Bow Church-Yard, London’ and ‘Printed and Sold at Sympson’s, Printing Office, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market’. See ESTC T207103, Oxford only, and ESTC T34397, BL and Chetham’s Library only. This edition not on ESTC, no other copies traced. ‘Hark! how the cries in every street Make lanes and allies ring: With their goods and ware both nice and rare, All in a pleasant lofty strain ...’ See also items 25, 262, 263.

[c.1765] £350 52.

BROADSIDE BALLAD. LEYBOURNE, George. G. Leybourne’s New Comic Song of Whoa Emma. n.p. Single ballad broadside on thin paper, with woodcut illustration beneath title & above 2 columns of text; 2 small marginal tears. v.g. 19 x 26cm. ¶ Bodleian Ballads Online Bod20320; this edition not recorded on Copac which does note Leybourne as the performer and Thomas Lonsdale as the composer. The woodcut depicts a drunken bar room scene with two ladies, one presumably Emma, fighting each other as constables bearing clubs rush into the room. ‘Some folks call me a Laundress, Soap-suds Old Starch and Blue, Because I am a Good Templar, And take in washing too; They all may call me names like that, Or anything they choose, If they will only stop my wife, From going on the “booze”.’

[c.1880] £50 __________

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BUCHAN, John BUCHAN’S FIRST SHORT STORY COLLECTION rey Weather. Moorland tales of my own people. FIRST EDITION. John Lane: G The Bodley Head. Half title. E.ps a little spotted. Orig. fine-ribbed green cloth, decoratively blocked in white; neat repairs to head & tail of spine, boards v. sl. marked, spine a little browned. A nice copy. ¶ Buchan’s first short story collection displays an early flair for landscape writing, and includes the first appearance in book form of ‘A Journey of Little Profit’ (first published in The Yellow Book, April 1896), an excellent tale in which a drunken lad feasts with the Devil in a farmhouse.

1899 £380 54.

J ohn Burnet of Barns. A romance. FIRST EDITION. John Lane: The Bodley Head. Half title, 12pp cata. (April 1897). Orig. fine-ribbed green cloth, decoratively blocked in white; a little marked, spine dulled & sl. rubbed at head and tail. ¶ Buchan’s second novel is a violently exciting seventeenth-century bildungsroman. Buchan scholar, Kate MacDonald, called the ‘epic battle between two gypsy clans ... one of the bloodiest episodes John Buchan ever wrote’.

1898 £100 55.

Lost Lady of Old Years. A romance. FIRST EDITION. John Lane: The Bodley A Head. Half title, final ad. leaf. Orig. fine-ribbed green cloth, decoratively blocked in white; v. sl. cocked, spine a little faded, small mark to rear board. A very nice copy. ¶ A novel of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, a theme to which Buchan would return in Midwinter (1923). His main character, the real-life Mrs Murray of Broughton, is heavily romanticised but the historical narrative is not: Buchan skilfully weaves his character around the facts, making for an enjoyably paced and informative novel.

1899 £580 56.

he Thirty-Nine Steps. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh & London: William T Blackwood. Half title, 2pp ads; sl. marginal browning & marking. Orig. light blue cloth; a little rubbed & dulled, very neatly recased. Pencil signature of ‘Finlay’ on leading f.e.p. ¶ The first and most famous of Buchan’s novels featuring the hero, Richard Hannay.

1915 £480 __________

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UNOPENED IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS ( BURKE, Edmund) EUSTACE, John Chetwood. An Elegy to the Memory of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. F. & C. Rivington. 15pp. 4to. Unopened & sewn as issued in original blue plain paper wrappers. A beautiful copy as issued. ¶ ESTC T65499. A superb copy as issued. Other copies seen are in similar unopened state bringing into question the quality of the enclosed verses in remembrance of the Irish statesman, economist and philosopher Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.

1798 £150 58.

BURNS, Robert. The Poetical Works. A new edn, including the pieces published in the correspondence, with his songs and fragments. To which is prefixed a sketch of his Life. 3 vols. 12mo. T. Cadell and W. Davies. Front. port. vol. I., sl. spotted, 3 vols in one. Contemp. half black calf, spine with bands in blind and gilt, marbled boards; some rubbing. A good-plus, sound copy. ¶ With a Glossary and Table of First Lines at the end of volume II.

1804 £85 59.

EREWHON - INSCRIBED BY GRANT RICHARDS UTLER, Samuel. Erewhon, or, Over the Range. Eighth Edition. Longmans, B Green, and Co. Half title, 2pp ads. Original smooth brown cloth, bevelled boards, lettered & blocked in black, spine lettered in gilt. ¶ Not in Sadleir or Wolff. Butler’s dystopian (rather than utopian) novel set in the country of Erewhon (Nowhere), first published in 1872. This copy inscribed on titlepage by author & publisher Grant Richards: ‘To Little Bethel, April 1901, Grant Richards’. Franklin Thomas Grant Richards was publisher in 1901 of the sequel, Erewhon Revisted, and other later titles by Butler.

1890 £85 60.

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YRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. The Works of Lord Byron. Complete in B one volume. John Murray. Front., add. engr. title, engr. dedication, 4pp facsim. of Byron’s writing. Contemp. red half-calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco label. A nice copy. 1837 £120 ROYAL LETTER-BAG ( CAROLINE, Queen Consort of George IV) ANONYMOUS. The Royal LetterBag; containing familiar epistles from royal personages, ministers of state, bishops,

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generals, discarded mistresses, Italian witnesses, &c. &c. relative to the Queen, and other important state affairs. 3rd edn, published from the originals. Sold by T. Dolby, printed by J. Swan. Illus. Disbound. 32pp. ¶ Verses on the proceedings against Queen Caroline.

1820 £35 62.

( CAROLINE, Queen Consort of George IV) (HONE, William) The Form of Prayer, with Thanksgiving to Almighty God, to be used daily by devout people throughout the realm, for the happy deliverance of Her Majesty Queen Caroline from the late most traitorous conspiracy. 5th edn. William Hone. Sl. spotting. Disbound. 16pp. 1820 £25 DON QUIXOTE 63. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish by Charles Jarvis. 2 vols. Knight & Lacey. Additional engraved titles & plates by ‘Cruickshank’; engraved titles a little foxed, paper flaw to upper margin of pp 63/64 vol. II. Contemp. olive green half calf, marbled paper boards, red morocco spine labels; a little rubbed, sl. creasing to spine vol. I. booklabel of Rev. T. R. Brown, St. John’s Coll., Cambridge & bookseller’s ticket of Davison, Alnwick, on leading pastedown; later armorial bookplate of Lionel Gordon Roberts on leading blank. A handsome set. ¶ Not in Cohn, the plates are almost certainly by George Cruikshank’s brother Isaac Robert. Originally published in 35 weekly parts (nos. 35 and 36 issued together) intended to form the first 2 volumes of The Foreign Fabulist.

1824 £250 64.

‘VIOLENCE TO THE CONSCIENCE OF THEIR SOVERAIGN’ HARLES I. CIVIL WAR. His Majesties Gracious Message to Both Houses of C Parliament. On Munday Novemb. 27. Brought by Sir Peter Killegrey. And His Royall Act and Condescentions to all the Parliaments Propositions, Read in both Houses yesterday; With his Declaration to the Citizens of London, and his gracious Speech, for the uniting of his Royal Person, with the Parliament and City, and to advance fro the Isle of Wyght on Thursday next. Likewise, his Propositions and Resolution, to the E. Gen. Fairfax, and the Councell of the Army, to be read and published at the head of each Regiment. And his Answer to their late Remonstrance and Demands, touching His Maj. the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York. Printed for G. Wharton. [ii], 6pp. Small 4to. Text pages interleaved with blanks, one gutter reinforced with archival tape. Bound in 20th century patterned boards, parchment spine lettered in black; extremities sl. rubbed. Contemp. shorthand annotations attributed to John Rushworth throughout. Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron on leading pastedown; pictorial bookplate of Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl, Fox Pointe Collection, on leading f.e.p. ¶ ESTC R205280, BL & Liverpool in UK; Columbia & Folger in US. Throughout the Civil War, Charles I underestimated the seriousness of his position. Following the defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Preston in August 1648, which essentially ended any hope of the Royalists winning the war, Charles decided to reopen negotiations with Parliament. By November 1648, Charles had been in custody at Carrisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight for a year, having been captured by Robert Hammond while trying to escape England to France or Scotland. This pamphlet, purportedly by Charles himself, includes a response to the demands of both Houses and the Army, and though he does make concessions, it is clear that he believes his kingship is divine and above the rule of law. In particular, Charles refuses to budge on an issue that plagued his reign - the support

CHARLES I of Bishops. It is stated: ‘That the main dissatisfaction of his two Houses rests in the matter concerning the Abolition of the Bishops, sale of their Lands, and his Majesties intention to use a form of Divine Service in his Chappells. As to these particulars, His Maj. doth again clearlie professe, That he cannot with a good Conscience consent to the totall Abolition of the Function and power of Bishops, nor to the intire and absolute Alienation of their Lands, as is desired, because he is yet perswaded in his judgement, that the former is of Apostelicall Institution, that to take away the latter is Sacriledge’. He also still (wrongly) believes in the infallible safety of his emotional and physical person: ‘His Maj. is confident, his two Houses cannot think it reasonable in a matter of this nature, to offer anie violence to the Conscience of their Soveraign; Nor to suffer these differences which rest in so narrow a compasse, to hinder the settlement of a blessed Peace in this Kingdom’. Further evidence of the King’s self-assuredness, which he demonstrated throughout the conflict, is shown in the request ‘that he might presently come to London, to consult with his 2 Houses, for the settling the peace of all the bleeding and distracted Kingdoms’ on December 1st. The Houses of Parliament were largely open to continuing negotiations with Charles in London, voting 129-83 in favour, but Oliver Cromwell and other senior leaders of the New Model Army, decided that the time for negotiation was over. On December 5th the Army took control of London, and on the 6th, their guards prevented Parliamentary members who were sympathetic to Charles, including the 129 who had voted in favour of continued negotiations, from entering the House. Thomas Pride oversaw the arrest of 45 of those members, leading to the event being known as Pride’s Purge. Parliament was then opened with only the limited numbers who were aligned with the Army, and so began the so-called Rump Parliament. This event is the only known military coup d’état in English history, and most significantly, it cleared the path for the execution of Charles I on January 30th, 1649. John Rushworth, c.1612-1690, who is believed to have annotated this copy in shorthand, was a lawyer, historian, politician, and journalist. During this time, he was also the secretary of Thomas Fairfax, commander-in-chief of the New Model Army, and a key figure in Pride’s Purge and the Rump Parliament. Following the execution of Charles I, Rushworth became Cromwell’s personal secretary, and he held many lucrative and influential positions during both the Commonwealth and the Restoration. Despite his previous influence, he spent the final six years of his life in debtor’s prison. The author of this work (if indeed it is not Charles himself), seems to actually have an intimate knowledge of the Newport Treaty negotiations and the state of mind of the King during this desperate period.

1648 £2,500 65.

‘NO LAW CAN JUDGE A KING’ HARLES I. CIVIL WAR. His Majesties last Proposals to the Officers of the C Armie, And His Remonstrance concerning the Citizens of London, and His Son Charles Prince of Wales, in case He be not speedily inthroned, and restored to His just Rights and Dignities. With the Answer thereunto. Likewise a Message from the Prince to the Citizens, And His Majesties Desires to the Lord Gen. Fairfax, and Protestation touching the Army. Dated from Windsor, on Wednesday 27. Decemb. 1648. Published for the generall satisfaction of the Kingdom. [ii], 6pp. Small 4to. Text pages interleaved with blanks, gutters reinforced with archival tape. Bound in 20th century

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patterned boards, parchment spine lettered in black; extremities sl. rubbed. Contemp. shorthand annotations attributed to John Rushworth throughout. Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron on leading pastedown; pictorial bookplate of Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl, Fox Pointe Collection on leading f.e.p. ¶ ESTC R205322, BL, Oxford, & Trinity in British Isles; private collection only in US. An interesting pamphlet purporting to be by Charles I, but presenting both the King’s and Parliament’s perspective. Historian Mark Kishlansky describes it as a ‘cut and paste production comprised of various unrelated elements. It contains a supposed set of statements made by the King to officers of the army and their reply, a report that Prince Charles was readying an invasion fleet to rescue his father, a remonstrance from the Prince to the merchants of London repudiating privateering against their ships, a remonstrance from the garrison at Dover to Fairfax demanding ‘satisfaction for the blood that has been spilt’, and a brief account of a supposed letter from Windsor describing the king as ‘pleasant and merry’ and requesting permission to come to London’ (Mark Kishlansky, Mission Impossible: Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and the Regicide, p. 863). Indeed, the ‘pronouncements of the King’ that were supposedly dictated by Charles, are not actually negotiation proposals at all but rather statements and threats about the consequences of acting against the monarch, including that ‘no law can judge a King’. The author also suggests that armies from ‘several parts of Christendom’ would come to the King’s aid. Interestingly, these particular proposals and their refutations had actually been published in the newsbook Heads of a Diary on December 20th and simply repurposed under a royal seal to sell more copies. Charles I’s fate was essentially sealed by the end of December 1648, and it unlikely that he would have been able to get any piece of writing out of Windsor Castle for publication. Though Charles had agreed to most concessions outlined by Parliament during the negotiations, holding out on only a few key issues, he had also sent secret letters to high-level supporters instructing that they not abide by the Treaty after the settlement. The leaders of the Army and Parliament already believed that the Treaty would not be enough to truly limit the King’s power, and were quietly plotting alternative options. Charles was kept in the upper part of Windsor Castle under heavy guard, with two guards physically with him at all times, and he was not allowed to have private conversations with anyone or to write letters. During the lead-up to his trial, he would have been more alone than he ever had been in his life. While this time was a rather hopeless period for the King, it was also a precarious time for Parliament. Many of those leaders and citizens who supported the imprisonment of the King and the curtailing of his power did not believe that executing the monarch was a reasonable course of action; indeed many still saw Charles as divinely appointed. It is plausible therefore, that the contemporary shorthand annotations are indeed by John Rushworth, an important Parliamentarian lawyer who at the time was secretary of Thomas Fairfax, leader of the New Model Army. The Army and Parliament had won their power through a military coup, but it was in their best interest to keep citizens onside and avoid a popular uprising. They would have been very interested in the propaganda being published by both Royalist and Parliamentarian sympathisers, even ‘fake news’ like this, and how these publications may have affected public opinion. The King’s trial for treason went ahead on 20th January, 1649 with 68 of 135 commissioners present. Charles refused to enter a plea every time he was asked, echoing the pronouncement attributed to him in this pamphlet, that ‘no law can judge a King’. He was removed from court at the end of the third day, and two days later was sentenced to death; only 59 of the original 135 commissioners would sign his death warrant.

1648 £3,500

CHEMIST

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‘CONSIDER THE EXCELLENCE OF OUR GOODS & THEN COMPARE’ “CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST”. Chemists’ Windows. An illustrated treatise on the art of displaying pharmaceutical and allied goods in chemists’ shop windows. With chapters on ticket-writing, the mechanics of moving devices, and business-promoting accessories. Published at the Offices of “The Chemist and Druggist”. Half title, illus., index. Orig. black blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered. A v.g., crisp copy. ¶ BL only on Copac and OCLC. An evocative record of window display techniques during the Great War. Jarndyce still has hand-written window tickets, but here is shown how to do it properly with a section on calligraphy: ‘Consider the excellence of our goods & then compare.’

1915 £85

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LIQUIS, pseud. (Samuel Edward Maberly) Pictorial Humpty Dumpty. Tilt & A Bogue. Folding uncoloured panorama, arranged on to seven panels, each 17.7 x 11cms. Sewn as issued into orig. stiff printed boards, pink cloth spine; sl. marked, but overall a nice example of a scarce item. ¶ Abbey, Life, 559 (uncoloured). Maberly’s anonymously published satire, with fine detailed illustrations presented with multi-lingual text, was issued in two distinct states. This is the less common uncoloured version, which has the rhyme translated into four languages (rather than six in the coloured version) on the inside cover. The four languages inside are French, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. On both versions the rhyme is printed in English and German on the front board, which also serves as the titlepage. Examples of the colour version appear periodically in auction, but this uncoloured variant is seldom seen.

1843 £1,500

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SYDENHAM SINBAD NONYMOUS. The Sydenham Sinbad; a narrative of his seven journeys to A Wonder-land. FIRST EDITION. J. & C. Brown. Half title, front., engr. title and six other illus. by Kenny Meadows, engraved by Edmund Evans. Orig. blue pebble-grained cloth, dec. in blind, gilt paddle-boat to centre of front board, spine gilt; stitching a little loose otherwise a nice copy. Inscription on e.p. to ‘Mast. Charles Hughes, presented by his friend and tutor, J.S. Collins’, 1860. a.e.g. ¶ Fantasy travel to Ancient Egypt, the beautiful garden, ‘’Weissnichtwoi’, the Colisseum at Rome, the Alhambra, etc.

[1857] £75 69.

SCARCE FAKENHAM PRINTING OF THE THREE BEARS NONYMOUS. The Three Bears: a moral tale. Small 4to. Fakenham: J.T. Miller. A Front.; sl. spotted, small tear to upper margin of pp 15/16. Orig. orange printed paper wrappers; sl. creased. A very nice copy as issued. 19pp. ¶ BL only on Copac; not recorded on OCLC. A scarce provincial printing of ‘The Story of the Three Bears’ first printed in narrative form by Robert Southey in 1837. Southey’s version is of a badly behaved old woman who enters the house of three bachelor bears, eating their porridge and sleeping in one of their beds. This version, in verse, is a cautionary tale for parents and children alike. It is of a young girl who enters the house of a family of bears, eats their soup, breaks a chair, and falls asleep only to be disturbed by the returning family, fleeing from the house with the sound of gunshot in her ears: ‘She ran like a shot from a gun that is fired, She ran I’ve no doubt until thoroughly tired, Through the paths of that intricate wood, But what was her fate has never averr’d Of her life or her death, not a sound has been heard, Or if heard, has not been understood’.

1859 £350 70.

THE BOY’S FRIEND ARLTON, Bruce. The Boy’s Friend, or, The Maxims of a Cheerful Old Man. John C Harris. Front. & 12 plates; one gathering sl. proud. Orig. purple-brown cloth; spine sl. faded & a little rubbed. Ownership inscription of (the Reverend) ‘Kenrick Prescot, Rectory, Stockport, July 8th: 1840’ on leading f.e.p. ¶ Not in BL which records an 1837 edition; Copac records a single copy of this first edition at National Trust libraries. Discursive essays on How to grow rich, Melancholy, Bull-fight, Authors and publishers, Slander, Lapland, Kenilworth Castle, War, Death, Africa, America, etc.

1835 £65

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BEQUEST FOR THE FOUNDATION OF A SCHOOL HARITY SCHOOL. Five page contemporary copy of the will of C Grace Ramsden, 13th December 1734. Final page loosely inserted into folded folio sheet, held in place with pin. In v.g. condition. 30 x 21cm.

¶ After bequeathing annuities to a number of named trustees, Grace Ramsden, 1682-1735, of Hawkesworth in Yorkshire, stated that her sister Susannah Ramsden had intended to found a school at Elland, for the instruction of poor boys in the English tongue. However she died before fulfilling her wishes and so Grace now completes her intention with a bequest of 40 acres of land and buildings, the rents and profits from which are to fund the school, provide clothes for the children, appoint a schoolmaster at £20 per annum, ‘a good grammar scholar, and a expert writer & arithmetician’, £7 for coal for the school, and to purchase books. Each boy on leaving the school was to be presented with a Bible, Common Prayer-Book, and the Whole Duty of Man. The first master was Thomas Ismay, and the trustees included Sir John Lister Kaye. Grace Ramsden’s School, adjacent to Elland Parish Church, was founded in 1734, for the instruction of 40 poor boys. It became known locally as ‘Back o’ Church School’ and finally closed in 1966. An Account of the Family of Grace Ramsden and of the Foundation of the School by Her Will, was published in 1934.

1734 £500 72.

FAIRY LIBRARY RUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library. Small 4to. Routledge, C Warne & Routledge. Collected title, plates; one plate with tear to fore-edge repaired with archival tape. Contemp. binder’s green cloth; sl. marked. ¶ See Cohn 196-199. This is a collected edition issued by Routledge, presumably after the publication of Puss in Boots by them in 1864. This volume consists of first edition, first issues, of Jack & the Bean-Stalk and Cinderella published by Bogue in 1854, and a first edition later issue of Hop O’ My Thumb published by Bogue in 1853. Cruikshanks’s Fairy Library contributed to the strained relationship between Cruikshank and Charles Dickens beginning in the 1840s and 50s. Cruikshank was a staunch teetotaler, and as such at odds with the more moderate tendencies of Dickens. They argued over the matter, with Dickens declaring that the illustrator’s opinions were overly preachy and impaired his artistic judgement. Dickens took particular issue with the Fairy Library, in which he perceived the playfulness and innocence of the fairy tale as subordinate to Cruikshank’s moralising. In 1853 Dickens wrote an article for Household Words, which, though playful in tone, condemned the Fairy series, driving a wedge between him and his illustrator. In ‘Frauds on the Fairies’ Dickens lamented: ‘we have lately observed, with pain, the intrusion of a Whole Hog of unwieldly dimensions into the fairy flower garden. The rooting of the animal among the roses would in itself have awakened in us nothing but indignation; our pain arises from his being violently driven in by a man of genius, our own beloved friend Mr George Cruikshank ... But, to “editing” Ogres, and Hop-’o-my-thumbs and their families, our dear moralist has in a rash moment taken, as a means of propagating the doctrines of Total Abstinence ...’. Cruikshank would later respond to the allegations made by Dickens, defending his right to inculcate moral principles. (See Kitton, Dickens and His Illustrators.) See also items 72, 110, 111, 229, 230.

[1854-1864] £320

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USE OF PLANTS IN FOOD AVIDSON, Ellis A. The Uses of Plants in Foods, Arts, and Commerce. Cassell, D Petter, and Galpin. Illus, 4pp ads. Orig.purple-brown limp cloth, blocked in blind, front board lettered in gilt. Early ownership inscription of Ida Davis, Dowlais School; pencil inscr. of Laura Fuller 1948. ¶ Primarily designed as a guide for children: Plants used in food; Plants used in arts and commerce, including weaving, dyeing, tanning; Timber plants and their products. Ellis Abraham Davidson, 1828-1878, was a Jewish teacher specialising in technical education and an anti-Darwinian.

[1869] £40

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‘SURPRISE’ CRUSOE ( DEFOE, Daniel) Robinson Crusoe With Surprise Pictures. 4to. Dean & Son. Six colour printed plates each with four colour printed flaps, 12pp text. Colour printed paper boards; a little rubbed. A nice survival of a rare item. ¶ BL, Cambridge & TCD only on Copac; UCLA, Miami and Princeton only in the U.S. with one copy in Australia. The title and imprint are from the front cover with the 12 page text headed ‘The Story of Robinson Crusoe with Surprising Pictures’. The chromolithographic plates each include four triangle flaps, opening out to create a slightly different image.

[c.1874?] 75.

£480

UNCLE BUNCLE DGAR, Robert. Uncle Buncle’s True and Instructive Stories About Animals, Insects E and Plants or, Aversion subdued. 16mo. Dean and Munday. Front., engraved title & 6 plates. Orig. purple-brown cloth; sl. faded. 64pp. ¶ BL, Oxford, V&A only. The plates are by T.H. Jones.

[c.1845] £150

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76.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF A LONDON DOLL AIRSTAR, Mrs, ed. Adventures of a London Doll; being a history of the F remarkable events, narrow escapes, and changes of circumstance, which befell a wooden doll, born in London. Written by herself. Henry G. Bohn. Hand-coloured front. & 3 further plates by Margaret Gillies; a few leaves sl. proud. Orig. red cloth, lettered ‘Memoirs of a London Doll’ on front board in gilt; sl. dulled, rubbed, a little worn at head & tail of spine. Contemp. ownership inscription of Isabella Meredyth Martin on title. a.e.g. A good plus copy of a scarce book. ¶ First published in 1846 under the title Memoirs of a London Doll. Copac records four copies only of the first edition; this edition not in BL or on Copac; NYPL, UCLA & Mississippi only on OCLC which also records a single copy of an 1855 edition at Bryn Mawr.

1850 £280 77.

RIENDLY, Grandfather Felix, pseud. A Book for Grandchildren. 16mo. F Nisbet & Co.; Shaw & Co. Orig. green cloth blocked in blind and gilt, lettered in gilt. Inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Louise and Clarence Binkes with Grandpapa’s hearty love & best wishes. June 17th 1874’. a.e.g. A nice bright copy. ¶ Not in BL, Copac or OCLC. ‘Felix Friendly’ is identified as the author of two other improving children’s books: Sketches and Lessons from Daily Life, 1859, and Congratulations and Counsels, 1872. On the title of A Book for Grandchildren, the author is described as author of Sketches and Lessons for Daily Life. A series of sketches in prose, with some verse. The book is printed by ‘Briscoe & Sons’, of Banner Street, Bunhill Row; the firm used this name 1869-73.

[c.1872] £150

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INTELLECTUAL PASTIME. UNRECORDED SECOND SERIES GAME. Intellectual Pastime. Second Series. Romsey: John Gray. 52 different colour printed cards, 7.8 x 5.4cm, in orig. paper-covered card slip-case, blue printed label, ‘Price 2s’. WITH: 8pp printed advertisement, rules and questions, in plain cream glazed wrappers; sl. marking. v.g. ¶ Not on Copac; OCLC records a single copy of the 1836 first series entitled Intellectual Pastime: a rational amusement for young persons at Toronto with one other copy located at Yale. Gray of Romsey, Hampshire, was publishing between c.1830 and c.1846. Cards are to be distributed equally among players, while the

CHILDREN’S BOOKS, GAMES, & EDUCATION ‘president’ asks the questions ‘promiscuously’. It is suggested that forfeits for wrong answers are devoted to institutions like ‘an Auxiliary Bible, Missionary, or Tract Society’.

1837 £550 79.

ATTY, Margaret, Mrs Alfred, ed. Aunt Judy’s Christmas Volume. For young G people. Illustrated by Pasquier, F. Gilbert, Miss Edwards, Lorenz Frölich, &c. Vol. II, no. 7 to vol. V, no. 30. Bell & Daldy. Fronts in 3 vols, plates, illus. 4 vols uniformly bound in handsome half dark blue calf, gilt ruled compartments, red morocco labels. Contemp. ownership signature of Nina Gostling on 2 leading f.e.ps. Bookseller’s stamp of David Chivers, Bath. v.g. ¶ An illustrated miscellany for children, for enjoyment and education.

1867-1868 £120

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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HORN BOOK ORN BOOK. A Seventeenth Century Lead Horn Book. Lead horn book, 5.3 x H 3.5cm, tooled with an alphabet on recto & an illustration of a king, possibly Charles II, on verso; without the handle, sl. warped, some surface dirt. A good impression of a rare find. ¶ A nice example of an early horn book most probably dating from the second half of the 17th century following the Restoration. Tuer suggests that lead was used for the earliest horn books and illustrates a similar, but much earlier example on page 114 of History of the Horn-Book. This example, which Tuer describes as ‘the oldest horn-book in existence’ (though he doesn’t date it) is cruder in form and smaller than this example, measuring 38 x 30mm. This, as with other examples of early lead horn books, survives without its handle.

[c.1660s] £3,800 † 81.

ORN BOOK. NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Hornbook; foreword by H James C. McGuire to a list of the Collection of Hornbooks given by him to the New York Public Library. Reprinted ... from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of November 1927. New York: The Library. Plates. Orig. grey printed wrappers. 10pp. ¶ With a list of 33 hornbooks.

1927 £20 82.

FAMILY LIFE ILLUSTRATED WITH BAXTER PLATES OUSEHOLD. Household Pictures for Home & School. Jarrold & Sons. 12 Baxter H processed chromolitho. plates loosely inserted into orig. white glazed dec. embossed

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printed wraparound; a little worn & frayed.

¶ Price one shilling. A charming set of chromolithographs illustrating the life of a family. Titles include: The kind servant, The sailors return, The country walk, and Father coming home. There are also illustrations of a young girl selling watercress in the snow and a poor young boy begging for a penny.

[c.1860] £180

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MARITIME NOVEL INGSTON, William Henry Giles My First Voyage to Southern Seas. A book K for boys. T. Nelson & Sons. Front., vignette title, illus. Orig. brown pictorial cloth, bevelled boards, blocked in black & gilt; sl. rubbed. booklabel of Ethel Flora Mary Hendriks on leading f.e.p.; R. Spalding bookseller’s ticket on leading pastedown. A nice copy. ¶ See Wolff 3863 for first edition of 1860.

1876 £50

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“EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY”: ANGLO-FRENCH TRADE TREATY FOR SCHOOLBOYS NOBDEN, Dicky, (pseud.) Rare Fun for Schoolboys. The French Treaty of Commerce or, That Knowing Schoolboy Master Dicky Nobden’s New Game Called Exchange No Robbery. With an account of the two rival establishments severally kept by Mr. John Bull and Mons. Louis Popalong and their arrangements for a happy reconciliation. 4to. Read & Co. Hand coloured illus. with text beneath, text printed on single side only. Orig. pictorial blue printed paper wrappers, sewn; sl. rubbed. v.g. 16pp including wrappers. ¶ Not in BL; V&A only on Copac suggesting date of 1861; no further copies on OCLC. The Cobden-Chevalier Treaty was signed in 1860 reducing tariffs on the main items of trade between Great Britain and France: wine, brandy, silk from France; coal, iron an industrial goods from GB. As a result, trade between the countries virtually doubled. The boys of ‘Old Albion House’ and ‘La Belle France Academy’ toss up their caps and give three cheers for the Queen and Dicky Nobden.’ Written in verse, this is clearly economics for children. It also presages the spate of ‘Dame Europa’s School’ satirical pamphlets of a decade later in reaction to the Franco-Prussian War. Read & Co. were publishing, primarily for children, from c.1850-c.1880.

[1860] £350 85.

ARLEY, Peter, pseud. (Samuel Griswold Goodrich) Cheerful Cherry; or, Make P the Best of it. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin. front. & additional engr. title. Orig. cherry red cloth, elaborately dec. in gilt within triple ruled gilt borders; spine faded, sl. rubbed,

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inner leading hinge cracked but firm. Prize inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Louisa Leekey St James’ School. Given by Mrs Miller for good conduct November 26th 1866’. v.g. ¶ Seemingly first published in 1843 with the titles reverse, Make the Best of it; or, Cheerful Cherry. This edition is recorded at Cambridge only on Copac. Five short tales including, in addition to the title story: Patience Prevails; or, The cottage girl; Happy and Unhappy; or, The warning; The Pleasure Boat; or, the Warning, and, Attention; or, The two brothers.

[c.1860] £65

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ADVICE TO DAUGHTERS: BY A MOTHER SEPARATED FROM HER HUSBAND PENNINGTON, Sarah, Lady. A Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters: with an additional letter on the management and education of infant children. 8th edn. Taylor and Hessey. Front.; sl. spotted. Pink paper e.ps. Contemp. calf, spine gilt, green label. Contemp. ownership signatures on leading blank: ‘Hawkins’. An attractive copy. ¶ First published in 1761 as ‘An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice ...’; this edition BL and Oxford only on Copac. Sarah Moore, c.1720-1783, married Sir Joseph Pennington, but the marriage broke down. She moved to Bath and in this outwardly straightforward conduct book, she defended her decision to leave her husband, escaped public censure and became an important early voice in the long campaign for equal rights in marriage. However, the change of title and the scene of ‘domestic harmony’ now used as frontispiece, clearly indicates that the publishers wished to play down the more contentious elements of the book.

1817 £85 87.

IN ORIGINAL BOARDS ( SANDHAM, Elizabeth) Adventures of a Bullfinch. By the author of “The Twin Sisters,” “Poor Puss,” etc. 18mo. J. Harris. Front., 8pp cata.; Name cut from leading f.e.p. Sign of label removed from leading pastedown. Orig. roan backed marbled paper boards, printed paper label on front board; extremities sl. rubbed. Gift inscription on leading blank: S.C.M. Belcher from her affectionate father J.T., Belcher 1847’. A very nice copy as issued. ¶ Four copies only on Copac; OCLC adds Princeton, UCLC & Toronto. Price 1s. 6d. A children’s story narrating the adventures of a bullfinch during her time with various owners. ‘On the whole’, it ends, ‘mine has been a happy life; and when like me they arrive at the close of their’s, may every bullfinch say the same!’.

1809 £750

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CHOOL FEE RECEIPTS. Two Receipts, for the payment of school fees by Mr. S Chew. 1. St. Saviour’s Grammar School. Printed slip, 16 x 10cm, completed in ms. 13th June, 1864. 2. Academy Islington, 37 Lower Street. Printed sheet, 21.5 x 26cm, completed in ms. March 25th 1865; a few old folds. ¶ A half year at Thomas Cobbett’s Academy cost £1.4.5; at St. Saviour’s Grammar School, the cost appears to be £1.7.9.

1864/65 £35 † ORIGINAL BOARDS 89. SHERWOOD, Mary Martha. Juliana Oakley. Illustrated with twenty-eight embellishments. (2nd edn). 24mo. Knight & Lacey. Half title, front., vignette title, illus. Uncut in orig. pink printed paper boards, ruled & dec. border with printed title, spine pictorially printed, ads. on back board; largely faded to brown, hinges & spine sl. rubbed & dulled. Contemp. inscription on leading pastedown: ‘Kezia Peache Belvidere Road Lambeth’. A very nice copy as issued. ¶ Copac & OCLC suggest that up to five editions were published in 1825 alone. The 4th edition is recorded with the same collation, 119pp; the 5th edition is in 134pp suggesting that the first four editions were printed from the same type. In this copy, the edition is noted only on the front board; the Osborne collection records a second edition only. First published in the Youth’s Magazine from April to December 1823; the tales of Juliana Oakley who recounts her experiences at home with her rich and worldly grandmother and at school with her governess. The back board advertises New Works by Mrs. Sherwood, The Spanish Daughter, The Child’s Magazine, and Bible History. Price 2s 6d.

1825 £180 90.

SCHOOL REPORT ATHAM, Joseph. School Report and Accounts. Two ALsS to Josiah Messer, 26 T February 1810, & 17 March 1810. 32 lines on both sides of single 4to sheet; old folds. 9 lines on one side only of a cut down sheet; sl. tear to left margin. ¶ Joseph Tatham writes to Josiah Messer with a bill for his son Robert’s schooling, together with a report on his progress. The half yearly account for attending Joseph Tatham’s Boarding School is £35.11.9, with £21.4.6. made up of board and school fees. ‘I have the satisfaction to remark that Robt. is in good health and by his general conduct entitled to our affectionate regard. His improvement is in many respects agreeable: I found him, however, so materially deficient both in the Eng: and Latin Grammar that it has not yet appeared advisable to direct his attention to the Greek language ...’ The second letter acknowledges receipt of a Bill for £36 from Mr Messer. Joseph Tatham’s Boarding School in Leeds, was established in 1756. Joseph, who founded the school with his wife Mary, was succeeded as Schoolmaster by his nephew, also Joseph, with Mary standing down as proprietor in 1806.

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LARKSON, Thomas. ALS to to ‘Doctor Burder, from Playford Hall May 27, 1835. C ‘When I had the pleasure of seeing you last year at about this time at Mr Bucks, I asked the honour of you to look over two little works ...’ 26 lines on single side of 4to sheet; a few tears to upper margin caused by sl. damp staining, not affecting text. ¶ From the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson to Thomas Harrison Burder, an English physician. Clarkson was a friend of the Burder family; Thomas’s father George was a nonconformist minister and one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. Clarkson was related by marriage to Henry Foster Burder, Thomas’s brother, who married Ann Hardcastle, daughter of Joseph Hardcastle. Clarkson married Catherine Buck who was Hardcastle’s niece. The letter relates to the manuscripts of ‘two little works’ that Clarkson had asked Thomas to read.

CLARKKSON ‘When I had the pleasure of seeing you last year at about this time at Mr Bucks, I asked the honour of you to look over two little works, which I was then writing on two important subjects each containing about 47 pages in manuscript, and no more.’ Clarkson, noting that he has an appointment to see Lord Brougham, suggests that he could collect the manuscripts ‘if he [Brougham] makes no enjoyment for me the next day’. Clarkson published An Essay on the Doctrines and Practice of the Early Christians as They Relate to War (24 pages) in 1835.

1835 £280 † COMIC COCKER 92. COCKER, Edward. The Comic Cocker, or, Figures for the Million. Ward & Lock. Half title, vignette title, illus. Orig. paper boards, black sheep roan spine; spine rubbed at extremities. booklabel of Mr Edw. Spencer Stidolph laid over the armorial bookplate of Cornelius Walford on leading pastedown. Signature of the novelist Williiam Harrison Ainsworth laid down on leading pastedown. ¶ Not in BL; four copies only on Copac; OCLC adds four copies in the U.S. An illustrated comic miscellany. ‘Read this book, then, my friends, young and old. It teaches practical philosophy in every chapter; wisdom in every page; and common sense in every line. Get this manual at the fingers’ ends of your mind, and your physical and mental powers will be so expanded that you will be able to catch a comet by the tail; take the moon by the hors; knock down the great wall of China, à la Cribb; or measure the spectre of the Brocken for a pair of breeches, and thus cut a pretty figure’. A number of the illustrations are initialled AC (almost certainly Alfred Crowquill) with others initialled ‘P.G. KSO’.

[c.1857] £120

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BISHOP COLENSO’S FIRST WORK PREVIOUSLY UNATTRIBUTED (COLENSO, John William, first Bishop of Natal) Annotations on the Gospel of St. Matthew: comprising answers to Wilson’s questions. With much other information, grammatical, critical, and exegetical. By a Member of the University. Cambridge: By and for J. Hall & J. Hankin, ... A little foxed & dusted. Orig. drab wrappers, later brown cloth spine, spine handlettered in ink. ¶ Not in BL or on Copac; OCLC records the title in a single copy at Emory University, but does not identify the author. John William Colenso, 1814-1883, was a Cornishman who wrote mathematical text-books and, after becoming rector of Forncett St. Mary, Norfolk in 1846, (his religious thinking much influenced by Frederick Maurice) became the first Bishop of Natal in 1853. Colenso’s advocacy of native African causes was of great importance in the history of South Africa; after his death, his wife and daughter continued his work in support of the Zulus in one of the organisations that developed into the African National Congress. Colenso was only able to attend St. John’s College, Cambridge, by taking a job as usher at a private school in Dartmouth. He went up to Cambridge in 1832; after graduating, he became Fellow of St. John’s in 1837. This pamphlet, printed at Cambridge when Colenso was an undergraduate and almost certainly his first published work, belonged to Irma Margaret Colenso, 1885-1959, daughter of Bishop Colenso’s youngest son, Francis Ernest, and bears the author’s name in manuscript on the titlepage.

1833 £280

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OLENSO, John William, first Bishop of Natal, translator. The Worship of C Baalim in Israel. Based on the work of Dr. R. Dozy, ‘The Israelites at Mecca’, By Dr. H. Oort. Translated from the Dutch, and enlarged with notes and appendices by the Right Rev. John William Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal. Longmans, Green. 24pp. cat. (July 1865). Orig. purple-brown cloth, paper label printed in red; spine sl. faded. A nice copy. 94pp. ¶ Tracing ‘the history of the ancient Sanctuary and Worship at Mecca ... to an Israelitish origin.’ Jewish tribes inhabited the Arabian peninsula before and during the rise of Islam.

1865 £75 95.

OLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Poems. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. C With an appendix. New edn. Edward Moxon. Front. port., 16pp cata. (Jan. 1866) bound into leading e.ps. Untrimmed in orig. morocco-grained green cloth, borders blocked in blind, spine blocked & lettered in gilt. v.g. ¶ With the preface to the 1852 edition. Contains all of Coleridge’s major poetry, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan.

1865 £45

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BY COLERIDGE’S ‘PATRON AND PROTECTOR’ ( COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor) PERIODICAL. The Country Spectator. Gainsborough: printed by Messrs. Mozley & Co.; & sold by Messrs. Hookham & Carpenter, London; Brook, Lincoln; & Mozley, Gainsborough. 8vo. Half title; final leaf sl. browned, but overall exceptionally clean & fresh. Contemp. full tree calf, spine dec. in gilt, scarlet morocco label. Signature of Eliz. Maddison, 1794, on initial blank. A v.g. copy. ¶ ESTC T135901. [8], (5)-266pp. A scarce provincial periodical, dedicated to the inhabitants of the town of Gainsborough, edited and largely written by Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, with contributions from the Rev. D.H. Urquhart, the Rev. G. Smith and James Stovin. This is all that was published of a weekly periodical, 33 issues published 9th October 1792 - 21st May 1793. The subjects include ‘On the Country imitation of London manners. Project for promoting fashion in the Country’; ‘Difficulty of finding rural subjects. Two letters on Book-Societies in the Country’ ; ‘The present state of female improvement. Advantages enjoyed by Ladies in the Country’. ‘… all these fashionable volumes have had the honour to have been perused by every body in London, before we country students have heard of their excellence. Books seldom reach us, till the Reviewers have granted them a permit, which is rarely done till after a considerable delay; and as that learned body is not very favourable to rant and nonsense, the permit is frequently refused, and thus we never hear of above a tenth part of the romances and

COLERIDGE histories, the offspring of presses of London, and even these arrive so late in the Country, that the polite world have nearly forgotten them.’ (pp104-105.) Thomas Middleton was three years the senior of Samuel Coleridge, but the two became friends when Coleridge entered Jesus College Cambridge in 1791. He would describe Middleton as his ‘patron and protector’ in his Biographia Literaria, published in 1817. Middleton became the first Bishop of Calcutta in 1814.

1793 £1,200

COLLIER

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WITH WOODWARD PLATES ( COLLIER, Jane) An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting. A new edn, corrected, revised, and illustrated with five prints, from designs by G. M. Woodward. Thomas Tegg. Hand-coloured folding front. & four further hand-coloured plates; occasional foxing, stamp & ownership inscription scraped from titlepage causing sl. paper loss to lower edge, marginally impinging on the printed date. Later 19thC half blue morocco over heavy boards; spine a little rubbed & dulled. ¶ First published in 1753, and possibly the first extended non-fiction prose satire written by an English woman. It is a wickedly satirical send-up of 18th century advice manuals and educational tracts. The author instructs her readers in the arts of tormenting, offering advice on how to torment servants, humble companions and spouses, and on how to bring one’s children up to be a torment to others. The frontispiece is engraved by Woodward after a design by Thomas Rowlandson depicting a comic and cluttered town centre scene with a menagerie of animals and maniacal activities.

1809 £180 98.

DEMOCRACY SUPPORTED BY MATHEMATICS CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de. Essai sur l’Application de l’Analyse à la Probilité des Décisions rendues à la Pluralité des Voix. Paris, de l’Impremerie Royale. [2], cxci, [1], 304pp. 4to. Some light foxing & browning, worming to lower edge of book block just intruding on to some page surfaces, small blind stamp to titlepage, small circular stamp of Bibl. Londin. Univ. on reverse. Expertly rebound in marbled half calf, raised gilt bands, small gilt device to each compartment, red morocco label. ¶ The first edition of Condorcet’s highly important work on the mathematical theory of democracy, in which he sought to demonstrate the conditions under which decisions made by groups of individuals with common preferences but diverse information, would be more likely to be right than decisions made by a dictator. As errors are unavoidable he warned against irrevocable decisions such as the death penalty, pointing this out in a letter he sent accompanying a copy of his work to Frederick the Great in 1785.

1785 £2,800

CORBET

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PURITAN THOUGHT ORBET, John. Self-Employment in Secret. Left under the hand-writing of the Rev. C Mr. Corbet. New edn. 12mo. Hull: printed by J. Ferraby. xiv, 72pp. Contemp. full dark blue calf, gilt bands, compartments in gilt, two original brass clasps. sl. rubbed. Contemp. signature of Elizabeth Grey. a.e.g. v.g. attractive copy. ¶ ESTC T135210, BL & Beinecke only. First published in 1681. The moral and religious thoughts of the Puritan, Rev. John Corbet. ‘Use not Animosity and Contention in any Matter that may be bought to a good issue in the Way of Peace’.

1795 £225 CORNWALL See also item 184.

ADVENTURES AT THE 1862 GREAT EXHIBITION 100. A NONYMOUS. Jimmy Trebilcock; or, The humorous adventures of a Cornish miner, at the Great Exhibition, what he saw and what he didn’t see. 5th thousand. Camborne: Printed by T.T. Whear. Front., half title. Disbound. 16pp. ¶ Copac records a single copy of this title (the 1862 first edition) at the BL; OCLC adds three copies in the U.S. A short story in the Cornish dialect. The International Exhibition of 1862 was held in South Kensington, London.

1863 £60 CORNISH VERSE 101. A NTHOLOGY. A Budget of Cornish Poems, by Various Authors, viz.- To Cornwall, The Song of the Cornish Men, The Miner, ... Devonport: W. Wood; London: John Russell Smith. Front. Disbound, retaining front green printed paper wrapper. 52pp. ¶ An anthology of Cornish verse, partly in dialect.

[1862?]

£45

DANIEL, Henry John

102. B obby Poldue and his Wife Sally (Two Cornish Gems) at the Great Exhibition, and their humorous adventures in London. Also, The laudable story of “The Oysters”. Devonport: W. Wood; London: J.R. Smith. Disbound. (26)pp.. ¶ Recording a visit to the International Exhibition in Cornish dialect verse.

[c.1862] £50 103. M ary Anne’s Career (Continued) and Cousin Jack’s Adventures. Devonport: W. Wood; London: J. R. Smith. Front. of Mary Anne in her wedding attire. Disbound, retaining orig. green printed wrapper. 48pp. ¶ BL, Oxford and Liverpool only on Copac; OCLC adds a copy at Plymouth and four copies in the U.S. Dialect poems.

[1869] £50 104. M irth for Long Evenings. Contents - Preface, A Crinoline Chant, The Miner and the Boots, A Tale of a Trumpet, ... Devonport: W. Wood; London: J.R. Smith. Front. Disbound, retaining front green printed wrapper. 48pp. ¶ BL, Oxford, Liverpool and Cambridge only on Copac; OCLC adds a copy at Plymouth and four in the U.S. The front. is of ‘Mary Anne’s sister Betsy Jane’ by G.G. Palmer.

[1869] £45 _____ 105. H ENWOOD, G. & DANIEL, Henry John. A Great Mine Conference, The Gwennap Bal Boys, The Prechen Kappen, The Fox Outwitted by a Cock! A legend of St. Germans, Dialogue about India, China, Railways, and Unions, and The poor man and his parish church. Devonport: W. Wood; T.J. Bond, Plymouth. Front. Disbound,

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retaining front green printed wrapper which acts as title page. 50pp. ¶ Tales and verse, with glossaries.

[1869] £45 106. ( PENWARNE, John) Tregeagle of Dozmary Pool and Original Cornish Ballads. Devonport: W. Wood. Front. Disbound. 50pp. ¶ BL, Cambridge, Oxford and NLW only on Copac. Cornish verse, partly in dialect.

[1869] £45 107. T RENHAILE, John. Dolly Pentreath, and other humorous Cornish tales, in verse. By the author of “Recreations in Rhyme”. With a portrait of Old Dolly. Devonport: W. Wood. Front. Disbound, retaining green printed front wrapper. 46pp. ¶ First published 1854. Verse, mostly not in dialect. Dorothy (known as Dolly) Pentreath, 1692-1777, was the last known native speaker of the Cornish language.

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SATIRE ON MODERN TRAVELLERS 108. C OUPER, Robert. The Tourifications of Malachi Meldrum Esq. of Meldrum-Hall. 2 vols. Aberdeen: printed by J. Chalmers and Co. for J. Johnson, London. [2], 226pp; 256, [2] errata, half titles. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt banded spines, red morocco labels & gilt volume numbers; joints expertly repaired. ¶ The first edition, in which Robert Couper satirizes Johnson and Young by sending out his naive narrator to re-create both of their journeys at once. After spending ‘many a weary winter night’ perusing Young and ‘the elaborate pages of the renowned Dr. Adam Smith’, Malachi Meldrum resolves (as chapter 5 announces in pompous, pseudo Johnsonian diction) to ‘enter upon duty as a tourificator and scientifically perambulate the villages’. Ref: Trumpener, K. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. 1997. The Monthly Review (Vol 42), thought that ‘we might have said merely that [this] squirted a little farcical satire on modern travellers: but a perusal of [the] contents has enabled us to declare that we have found nothing low or malignant, that the author never laughs nor frowns without cause, that his playful and attic humour sometimes reminds us of Addison, and that a happy union of talent and liberal sentiment pervades the whole’.

1803 £950

COUSENS

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 109. COUSENS, Henry. Bijapur: the old capital of the Adil Shahi kings. A guide to its ruins with historical outline ... Published with the sanction of government. Poona: Printed at the Orphanage Press; Bombay: Thacker & Co; ... Index, 8pp. ads, folding map. Orig. green cloth printed in black; a little faded & damp marked. Inscribed on title: ‘Visited by me 30th August 1890, S. Leigh Hunt. The most interesting place I have ever visited.’ Ms. booklist on leading f.e.p., sketch of a canon on recto of following f.e.p. ¶ Vijayapura in Karnataka State, formerly Mysore. Cousens, 1854-1933, was a Scottish archaeologist and photographer working with the Archaeological Survey of India. Major S. Leigh Hunt was co-author with Alexander Kenny of Tropical trials : a hand-book for women in the tropics, 1883 and On duty under a tropical sun : being some practical suggestions for the maintenance of health and bodily comfort and the treatment of simple diseases, with remarks on clothing and equipment for the guidance of travellers in tropical countries, also 1883.

1889 £120

IN ORIGINAL BOARDS 110. ( CRUIKSHANK, George) ANTHOLOGY. Specimens of German Romance. Selected and translated from various authors (by G. Soane). FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Geo. B. Whittaker. Fronts. by George Cruikshank. Uncut in orig. drab boards, pink cloth spines, browned & worn printed paper labels; spines faded to brown, neat repair to heads & tails, boards sl. spotted. Contemp. ownership signature of M.E. Leach on leading pastedowns. ¶ Cohn 760. Contents: vol. I: ‘The Patricians’, from the German of Carl Franz van der Velde; vol. II: ‘Master Flea’, from the German of Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; vol. III: The ‘Blind Passenger’, from the German of F. Laun (i.e. Friedrich August Schulze); ‘The Adventurers’, from the German of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager; ‘The Mantle’, from the German of Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert. See also items 63, 72, 131, 196.

1826 £350

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ROBERT CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS 111. ( CRUIKSHANK, Robert & Percy) O’HARA, Kane. Midas: a burletta, in two acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal. FIRST EDITION. Joseph Thomas. Front., vignette title, illus., some full page, 4pp ads. Orig. orange pictorial printed paper wrappers, bound into half green cloth, green moiré cloth boards. Bookplate of Madeleine Nickinson, Sevenoaks on leading pastedown. v.g. 49pp. ¶ The illustrations are engraved by Percy Cruikshank, the son of George Cruikshank, after designs by Robert, Percy’s uncle.

1837 £45 ‘WORLD’S BEST COPY’ 112. D ’AUBIGNÉ, Jean Henri Merle. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, from its commencement until the death of Zwingle. Translated from the author’s French edition. FIRST UK EDITION. Large 8vo. Ward, Lock & Co. Half title, front., 4pp ads. Orig. brown pictorial cloth, dec. & lettered in black & gilt. A FINE copy. ¶ Described by a previous owner in pencil as the ‘world’s best copy’, and they may well be right. An exceptional copy of a rather large and intimidating work.

[1835?]

£85

DAVESON

A WOMAN ABANDONED ‘WITH CHILDE’ 113. D AVESON, Mary. ALS to Captain John Drummond, from Ed[inbu]r[gh], 3th [sic] Augst., 1753. I wroat you five weeks a go & told you my miserable situation of beeng with childe ... 18 lines on the first side only of a folded 4to sheet, integral address leaf; lacking seal. ¶ A heart wrenching letter by Mary Daveson (or Davidson), in a neat but partially educated hand, entreating the father of her unborn child to support her in her ‘present miserable situation’. ‘ ... I was starving for want of the nesesars of life to seport me & wanted you to give me your orders what to doo in my present miserable situation. But as you have given me no return [to her letter of five weeks ago] I wreate you this that if I doo not gete an anser I am determened to come over to Loge [presumably Logie] or any other please where you are & see what is to bee done ...’ She ends by saying that ‘no bode cnoas [knows] of my miseray but your self, But I will not cope it any longer for what hardship I have suferd since I left Mr Browns ...’ The letter is addressed to ‘Captain John Drummond at Loge in Pearthshire’. It is difficult to identify the John Drummond responsible for Mary’s misery although there is reference to a Captain John Drummond who fought with John Drummond’s regiment. Drummond was a common name, the best know of this period being another John Drummond, 1714-1747, 4th Earl of Perth, a soldier and Jacobite who fought in the rising of 1745, fighting at Culloden, before escaping to France. Logie, is a parish, in the counties of Clackmannan, Perth, and Stirling.

1753 £280 †

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1894 £35 FOUNDER OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY 115. ( DAVY, Humphry) PARIS, John Ayrton. The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, late president of the Royal Society,.. 2 vols. Colburn and Bentley. Front. port. & folding facsimile plate vol. I. Attractive contemp. half calf, maroon & green labels, marbled boards, matching edges and e.ps; sl. rubbing, but a nice crisp copy. Armorial bookplates of the Wilbraham family, Delamere House, Northwich, Cheshire. ¶ Published also in 1831 in one volume quarto. Davy, 1778-1829, one of the foremost scientists of his day, inventor of the Davy lamp for miners, and founder of a new branch of science, electrochemistry. He experimented with nitrous oxide and shared his experience with Coleridge and Southey in Bristol and was an accomplished, if little published, poet.

1831 £150

DICKENS, Charles

A ‘PAPER’ FOR HOUSEHOLD WORDS 116. A LS to ‘Dear Mrs Howitt’, from Devonshire Terrace, Twenty Sixth April 1850. 13 lines in blue ink on first side only of folded 8vo leaf, with integral blanks. Two light horizontal folds for posting. v.g. ¶ Pilgrim Letters, vol. VI, p.90. A nice letter, to a well-known author, illustrative of Dickens’s role as an editor. He writes to Mary Howitt, an occasional contributor to Household Words, ‘ ... I am very happy indeed, to receive your paper. When you shall have finished what remains to be added, will you kindly send it to me, as I want to see (with a view to its division) what the story makes, and how it ends ...’. Anne Lohrli’s comprehensive bibliography of Household Words notes that Mrs Howitt’s only attributed contributions to the publication were in verse. This letter probably refers to The Miner’s Daughters. A Tale of the Peak. In three Chapters, which appeared in the number for the 4th of May, and two subsequent numbers. It was attributed to Mary Howitt’s husband William, but as the Howitts often worked collaboratively, it might well have been the case that Mary was the main contributor.

1850 £2,250 †

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ORIGINAL PARTS 117. L ittle Dorrit. With illustrations by H.K. Browne. XX original parts in XIX. Bradbury & Evans. Original pale blue paper wrappers. Occasional sl. rubbing, but overall a v.g. unsophisticated set in custom-made green cloth fold-over box. ¶ Collated with Hatton & Cleaver. A well-preserved set of the parts, with no discernible signs of repair work, retaining all plates, prelims, catalogues, advertisements & slips. With the slip in part 16, alerting the reader to the error in printing ‘Rigaud’ for ‘Blandois’.

1855-57 £3,200 THE NONESUCH DICKENS 118. W orks. The Nonesuch Dickens. 23 vols. Nonesuch Press. Half titles, fronts, orig. illus. Orig. cloth; the occasional sl. mark. t.e.g. WITH: The additional woodblock in matching box. A v.g. set. ¶ The most spectacular collected edition, designed by Francis Meynell, and bound in bright contrasting coloured cloths with black leather labels. The illustrations were mostly printed from the original plates or blocks, which were then dispersed with each set. This set is one of 877 issued with an original woodblock, no. 437: ‘Dennis with Miss Miggs’, from Barnaby Rudge, drawn by H.K. Browne. With the signed letter of authentication from Chapman & Hall publishers. Also with the Nonesuch Dickensiana volume, issued with the works.

1937-38 £8,500

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ADDRESS AT THE MANCHESTER ATHENÆUM 119. M ANCHESTER ATHENÆUM. Addresses, 1835-1885, also Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting of the Members in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Institution, October 28th, 1885. Manchester: printed for the Directors. Contemp. full limp morocco, lettered in gilt; edges sl. rubbed. Bookplate of Walter Flinn. a.e.g. A v.g. copy. ¶ Podeschi B123. Dickens’s address, as the ‘president of the First Soirée’, October 5, 1843, is printed in full. It is followed by addresses by Disraeli, Cobden, Talfourd, Ralph Waldo Emerson and H.M. Stanley, &c.

1888 £350 THREE PAILTHORPE ILLUSTRATIONS, SIGNED ‘WITH COMPLIMENTS’ 120. PAILTHORPE, Frederick William. [Oliver Twist] Three engraved illustrations to Oliver Twist, each inscribed ‘With compliments, F.W. Pailthorpe’. (Robson & Kerslake.) 3 col. plates, printed on india paper and mounted on larger leaves, loosely inserted in a simple cream wrapper titled in ms. ‘From F.W. Pailthorpe, 11 June 1885’. ¶ See Podeschi H138. These three hand-coloured proofs formed part of the suite of 21 designs by Pailthorpe published by Robson & Kerslake in 1886. The images here are The Antic Fellow and Sikes, Bumble Triumphant, and Noah Claypole Running for Mr. Bumble, the last of which has been titled by Pailthorpe in pencil. All are signed (one with initials only). They were clearly sent to the same recipient, who kept them together in a simple paper wrapper.

1885 £150 __________ YELLOWBACK 121. D UMAS, Alexandre, the Younger. The Story of Denise. A novel founded upon the celebrated comedy-drama by Alexandre Dumas. John & Robert Maxwell. ‘Yellowback’, orig. printed yellow boards; a bit rubbed, but an above average copy. ¶ A novelised adaptation of Dumas fils’ four-act play Denise, 1885. See also items 159, 265.

[1885?]

£120

ELIOT

WISE FORGERY 122. ( ELIOT, George) Brother and Sister, sonnets by Marian Lewes. For Private Circulation only. 15pp. Half title. Sewn as issued in orig. pale blue printed wrappers. A v.g. copy in green cloth portfolio. ¶ Baker & Ross B6.1. See Carter & Pollard pp 191-193. This is the first printing, made some time in 1888. Analysis of both the paper and type show this could not have been printed as early as 1869, and is undoubtedly one of Thomas J. Wise’s notorious forgeries. The pamphlet was first offered to the British Museum in October 1888, for the price of 3 guineas, and further copies were distributed in the years that followed. The sonnets were written by Eliot in 1869, but first appeared in print in The Legend of Jubal, first published in 1874. With accompanying hand-written notes on a Scribner’s Bookstore envelope, by the bibliographer John Carter, in which he confirms the publication to be a forgery.

1869 [1888]

£1,500

THE CORN LAW RHYMER 123. ELLIOTT, Ebenezer. The Splendid Village: Corn Law rhymes; and other poems. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Benjamin Steill. Front. port. sl. spotted. Orig. purple moiré cloth, spine lettered in gilt; largely faded to brown, sl. damp marking to boards, neatly recased. A good plus copy in the original cloth. ¶ Throughout his life Elliot held a deep anger toward the corn laws believing them to have been the ruin of his father, the cause of his own financial problems, and damaging to the country as a whole. He devoted most of his energies fighting to have the laws repealed and died in 1849, living long enough to see the hated ‘bread tax’ abolished.

1833 £280

FAN

18TH CENTURY HIEROGLYPHIC FAN IN ORIGINAL BOX 124. F AN. The Lady’s Looking Glass. (Published as the Act directs ... & Sold at No. 50, Pall Mall, London.) Engraved double-sided fan, engraved sheet 16cm high, guard length 26cm, illus. hieroglyphics & text within border, the verso is a solution to the hieroglyphics entitled ‘The Explanation of the Kew Hieroglyphical Fan, From Prior’s Celebrated Poem of the Lady’s Looking Glass’, re-mounted on contemp. wooden stays; trimmed within imprint, lacking a single fold on left side, slight loss to right margin, one very small internal hole. A nice example of a very rare printed fan. In the original black paper-covered case, metal fastening hooks; hinges sl. weak. ¶ Schreiber 328 now at the BM, printed in green ink. One other example found at the Huntington.

[1793] £1,850 †

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WRECK OF THE “NORTHFLEET” 125. F OX, Fred. Alone! An episode of the wreck of “The Northfleet”. n.p. Single sheet poem, 20 lines, signed by the Author and ‘With the author’s compliments’. Fold marks. ¶ Not in BL or on Copac. This shipwreck inspired many songs and poems, but this one is not recorded. The Northfleet was a ‘Blackwall frigate’ built at Northfleet, Kent in 1853 and sailed on the routes to Australia, India and China. In January 1873, she sailed from Gravesend for Hobart, Tasmania with 379 on board, 342 of them emigrants. The ship was run down by a Spanish steamer off Dungeness, with nearly 300 drowned. ‘Our cabin lamp was burning low ....’

[1873] £45 FASHION’S WHIRLIGIG 126. G . G. Back Views and Fashion’s Whirligig. A scrap. Cox & Wyman. Illus.; titlepage sl. dusted & creased. Later cream paper wrappers. 12pp. ¶ Not on Copac or OCLC. Fashion - the rear view.

1866 £45 THE RADICAL 127. G ALT, John. The Radical. FIRST EDITION. James Fraser. Contemp. speckled calf, gilt spine, brown & black morocco labels; hinges sl. rubbed, small repair to foot of spine. v.g. ¶ Not in Wolff. Dating from the year of the Reform Act, on of Galt’s two great political novels, with The Member, also 1832.

1832 £280 OLD BACHELORS 128. ( GASKILL, Peter) Old Bachelors: their varieties, characters, and conditions. By the author of ‘Old Maids.’ FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 12mo. John Macrone. A little light foxing & dusting. Handsome contemp. half black calf, spines dec. in blind, brown morocco labels; sl. rubbed, spines a little faded. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. v.g. ¶ Not in Wolff. ‘The man who voluntarily devotes himself to a bachelor’s life, has undoubtedly a wrong estimate of humanity.’ A humorous novel of the ‘testy race’ that is the ‘Old bachelor’.

1835 £350

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DECLINE & FALL 129. G IBBON, Edward. The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 8 vols. T. Cadell; C. & J. Rivington; J. Cuthell; &c. Half titles. Untrimmed and largely unopened in contemp. dark green smooth cloth, maroon leather labels; spines a little mottled. Booklabel of Sydney Smith of Gomersal. ¶ With a brief life of Gibbon.

1828 £380 BOTANY FOR JUNIOR DOCTORS 130. GILL, John Beadnell. An Epitome of Botany; adapted more particularly to the requirements of medical students. 16mo. Henry Renshaw. Orig. brown wavy-grained limp cloth wrappers; sl. wear to leading hinge. Bookseller’s ticket of Henry Kimpton on leading pastedown. A nice copy. ¶ ‘When as a student, the author waded through “Lindley” and “Balfour,” he determined that, as soon as time permitted, he would do his utmost to lighten the load of the overtaxed tyro ...’

1860 £85

CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS 131. GLASCOCK, William Nugent. Land Sharks and Sea Gulls. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Richard Bentley. Fronts & plates by George Cruikshank; sl. nick to upper corner of titlepage vol. II, a little dusted & marked. Contemp. half dark green grained calf, gilt spine, marbled paper boards; spines sl. faded, extremities a little rubbed. A nice copy. ¶ Wolff 2564; not in Sadleir. Book I is entitled ‘Wife-Hunting’ and includes a certain ‘Mr Darcy’.

1838 £380

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FLOWERS 132. G LENNY, George. The Handbook to the Flower Garden and Greenhouse. 3rd edn, alphabetically arranged and revised, with numerous additions. G. Cox. Front., 2pp cata. Orig. green cloth; hinges sl. rubbed. a.e.g. A nice copy. 1857 £40 CLEMENT SHORTER’S COPY 133. ( GOLDSMITH, Oliver) FORSTER, John. The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. A biography in four books. Bradbury & Evans. Half title, vignette title, illus. Orig. green pebble-grained cloth, gilt portrait of Goldsmith on front board; spine sl. faded, else a v.g. crisp copy. booklabel of Clement Shorter on leading pastedown. ¶ The copy of the journalist, literary critic and collector Clement Shorter, 1857-1926.

1848 £120 CRICKET REFORM 134. G RACE, William Gilbert. Cricket Reform, IN: The Idler, June 1901. Dawbarn & Ward. The lead article on pp. 383-387. Orig. wrappers, with striking cover portrait by Rob. Wagner, sl. chipped. v.g. ¶ W. G. Grace, 1848-1915, writes following the ‘Captains’ Resolution’ not to bowl certain players with ‘suspect’ actions: Legitimate and Illegitimate Bowling, Should the L.B.W. Rule be Altered? Drawn Matches, a Suggestion; Implements of the Game, &c. At the time of this article, Grace played for the London County Club, but was moving toward the end of his 44 year career in 1908.

1901 £50 PRINTED CLOTH 135. ( GRANT, Asahel) LAURIE, Thomas. Dr Grant and the Mountain Nestorians. Edinburgh: Johnstone & Hunter. (The Christian’s Fireside Library, vol. XVIII.) Series half title, folding front. Orig. orange printed cloth wrappers; spine faded. ¶ First published in 1853 in Boston and Edinburgh; this edition BL & Oxford only on Copac. The life of the missionary Asahel Grant with a map of the country of the Nestorians in America and surrounding regions.

[1853] £75

GRAY

WITH UNRECORDED MANUSCRIPT POEM BY EMANUEL COLLINS 136. GRAY, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. New Edition. J. Dodsley. 16pp, frontispiece, engraved head and tail pieces, bound without final advertisement leaf. 2pp ms. preceding and 12pp ms. following the printed text including ms. poetry, epitaphs, &c. 8vo. Contemp. marbled wrappers, neatly respined with matching paper. Ownership inscriptions of: Eliza Craig, June 10, 1775, with ‘Senr.’ added in a later hand; James Craig; in pencil, J.R. Wilson, April 18th, 1816; C.H. Laycock. 1907. ¶ ESTC T17239, BL, Pembroke College Cambridge & NLW only in UK; 5 locations in North America. First published in 1751, this is the second octavo edition. This copy has an interesting provenance. Eliza Craig of Shrewsbury inspired an 8-line, 2 stanza, poem which is recorded here in manuscript: ‘Written extempore on receiving a garden pot containing a small shrub, the morning of Sunday August 16, 1778, from Mrs Eliza Craig, a few days before her departure from Shrewsbury’ and signed ‘Clio’. Also in manuscript are: 1. ‘Epitaph on Mrs Mason who died at the Hot-Wells, and lyes interred in the Cathedral Church of Bristol’ by William Mason. 2. ‘A Night-Piece on Death from the Bristol Journal’ by Thomas Parnell. 3. ‘Epitaph, from a Tomb Stone in a Church Yard near Bath.’ 4. ‘Epitaph on Mr Quin’, by David Garrick. 5. ‘Epitaph on Dr. Goldsmith, by William Woty. 6. ‘Epitaph on Dr. Sterne’, by David Garrick. Additionally, there are four manuscript entries relating to Emanuel Collins of Bristol, 1711-1766, schoolmaster, poet, satirist referred to by Chatterton, Byron & Southey: 7. ‘Tuesday March 25, 1766, at 5 in the morning dies at his house in the King’s Square, Bristol, the Revd. Mr Emanuel Collins’. With praise for ‘superior abilities’ ‘justly esteemed’ by the ‘learned and ingenious’. ‘His pen was always: The Herald of True Merit, The Dread of Coxcombs, and The Scourge of Fools.’ 8. Epitaph, ‘On an honest attorney’. 9. Epitaph, ‘On one not quite so honest’. 10. A poem, ‘’To his new-born Grandaughter, Lydia Collins Craig, upon her coming into this troublesome world July 6th, 1763.’ That there is a connection between Collins and the Craigs is clear, but quite what the relationship is with Eliza & James is uncertain (Eliza - daughter - married to James Craig?). The ‘Reverend’ Collins is an intriguing character. His writings were collected in Miscellanies in Prose & Verse, published in Bristol by Farley in 1762, but despite the encomiums by his family, above, others had a decidedly lower view of his life and abilities. Southey records that his uncles were taught in Collins’ school and comments on his published work as ‘in no respect creditable to its author, and, on the score of decency, highly discreditable to him’. Southey further describes him as ‘one of the strangest fellows that ever wore a cassock ... scribbling for inclination and publishing for gain.’ His school failed because of ‘his gross and scandalous misconduct ... he afterwards kept something so like an alehouse, that he got into a scrape with his superiors.’ Collins’ alehouse was the Duke of Marlborough tavern at Bedminster, a suburb of Bristol, where

GRAY ‘he mixed up the business of the world and the flesh with the care of souls and keeping a public house’. At the pub, Collins administered clandestine weddings at ‘a crown a couple’ - his activities in this respect contributing to the passing of Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753. The Reverend Collins sold his tavern in 1758, after a decline in trade. He is supposed to have written two pamphlets, Hell’s Gate Opened and The Saints’ Backsiding, 1756, both of which are unrecorded; the latter defends the reputation of Bristol following a pederasty scandal at the Baptist College. This volume contains what appears to be an unrecorded poem by Collins, written after the birth of his granddaughter: ‘My dearest infant couldst thou know, Ere thee hadst seen this World of Woe, ...’.

1771 £850

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IRISH NOVEL BELONGING TO F.E. DINSHAW 137. ( GRIFFIN, Gerald) The Collegians. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 12mo. Saunders & Otley. Occasional sl. dusting & spotting. Bound without half titles in later 19thC half red calf, speckled pink cloth boards; v. sl. rubbed & dulled. Bookplate of F.E. Dinshaw on leading pastedowns. ¶ Loeber G161; Wolff 2782. The Collegians, by the Irish playwright, poet and novelist Gerald Griffin, 1803-1840, is based on a trial that he had reported on, involving the murder of a young Irish Catholic girl (Ellen Hanley) by a Protestant Anglo-Irish man (John Scanlon). It was later adapted for the stage as The Colleen Bawn by Dion Boucicault. This copy belonged to the Karachi-based Parsi businessman and philanthropist Seth Eldulji Dinshaw, 1842-1914. Known as F.E. Dinshaw, he made his fortune as a contractor to the British Army during the Second Afghan War and went on to acquire land and property equating to almost half of the city of Karachi. His bookplate is of a shrouded woman within an ornate circular frame.

1829 £380 ST GILES’S GREEK 138. ( GROSE, Francis) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Printed for S. Hooper. [ii], [viii], [205]pp. 8vo in fours. Marking to margin of A4 close to, but not affecting text, occasional sl. foxing. Contemp. marbled paper boards & corner pieces, sympathetically rebacked in plain calf. Armorial bookplate of Charles Dodd on leading pastedown; signature of Wm. Hawkesworth, 1851, on titlepage. ¶ ESTC T138152, FIRST EDITION. A dictionary of cant, pedlar’s French or St. Giles’s Greek, together with burlesque phrases, quaint allusions, and nicknames for persons, things and places. From ‘Abbess, or Lady Abbess, a bawd, the mistress of a brothel’; ‘Cant, a double tongued pallavering fellow’; and ‘Farting crackers, breeches’; to ‘Rhino, money’; ‘Stall whimper, a bastard’; and ‘Zucke, a weathered stump of a tree’. ‘The Great Approbation, with which so polite a nation as France has received the Satyrical and Burlesque Dictionary of Monsieur Le Roux, testified by the several editions it has gone through, will, it is hoped apologise for an attempt to compile an English dictionary on a similar plan ... the freedom of thought and speech, arising from, and privileged by our constitution, gives a force and poignancy to the expressions of our common people, not to be found under arbitrary governments, where the ebullitions of vulgar wit are checked by the fear of the bastinado, or of a lodging during pleasure in some gaol or castle’.

1785 £1,250

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DIARY OF A NOBODY 139. G ROSSMITH, George & Weedon. Diary of a Nobody. With illustrations by Weedon Grossmith. FIRST EDITION. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. Front. ports, illus. Original light brown smooth cloth, front board blocked & lettered in blue & black, spine lettered in gilt. ¶ Not in Sadleir; Wolff 2818. Advertisements as Wolff ’s copy; this is Vol. XI in Arrowsmith’s 3/6 series and the list on final leaf finishes with Vol. X, Fergus Hume’s When I Lived in Bohemia. The classic humorous novel of London suburban life, originally published in Punch.

[1892] £500 CERTIFICATE FOR SURGERY 140. G UY’S HOSPITAL. Theatre Guy’s Hospital; this certifies that Mr John Dixon has attended two course of lectures on the principles, practice & operations of surgery, delivered at this school from 1st October 1852 to 31st March 1853 and from 1 October 1852 to 31 March 1854. Hand-coloured engraving, completed in ms.; one old horizontal crease, sl. inoffensive marking to lower margin. Plate 44 x 30.5cm, with good margins. Card mounted. ¶ An attractive certificate including at the head of the sheet an engraving, by P. Scheemakers, of the statue of Thomas Guy. The document is signed by John Birkett and Alfred Voland.

1854 £250 † SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS LITERARY AGENT 141. HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider. Beatrice A novel. FIRST EDITION. Longmans, Green, and Co. 16pp cata., coded 5/90. Original dark grey smooth cloth, bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; spine very slightly faded, tiny chip to following hinge. Inscribed from the Author on p.(iv): ‘To A.P. Watt from H. Rider Haggard 1890’. ¶ Not in Sadleir; Wolff 2843, ‘a poor copy’. Alexander Pollock Watt, 1834-1914, the first literary agent.

1890 £850

HAKE

UNRECORDED PAMPHLET ON EXPLOSIVES 142. HAKE, C. Napier. Notes on Explosives. Reprinted from the journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, July 31, 1889. Eyre & Spottiswoode. Orig. green printed paper wrappers. Inscribed on the front wrapper: ‘with the author’s compliments’. v.g. 19pp. ¶ Not in BL; not recorded on Copac or OCLC. A brief paper on the existing advances in explosive materials, their uses, safety, governance and manufacture. Hake was the Inspector of Explosives for the State of Victoria, Australia. The ‘Hake Effect’, named in his honour, refers to the instability created in some explosives whilst stored under certain conditions.

1889 £85 THE MIDSHIPMAN 143. H ALL, Basil. The Midshipman; being autobiographical sketches of his early career, from fragments of voyages and travels. FIRST EDITION. Bell & Daldy & Sampson Low. Half title, 4pp. ads. Orig. purple cloth. Ownership inscription on title of J.R. Gladstone, Xmas 1863. v.g. ¶ BL and NLS only on Copac. Hall, 1788-1844, Scottish naval officer and traveller.

1862 £120

HARDY, Thomas

ESHER COPY OF A LAODICEAN 144. A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancy’s. A story of to-day. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 3 vols. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. Half titles. Handsomely bound in contemp. half green calf by Hatchards of Piccadilly, matching green cloth boards, spines directly lettered & with compartments in gilt; spines uniformly faded to brown. With the original cloth bindings bound at the end of each volume. Armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett on leading pastedowns; stamp of the Barrow-In-Furness Working Men’s Club on the first page of text in each vol. v.g. ¶ See Purdy p36; Wolff 2980. The novel was commissioned by Harper’s for the European edition of their New Monthly Magazine and was first published in book form in New York, November 1881, pre-dating the English edition by a week. The copy of Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, 1881–1963.

1881 £1,200 RETURN OF THE NATIVE 145. R eturn of the Native. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Smith, Elder, & Co. Front. vol. I; some occasional light foxing. Contemp. half red grained calf, gilt ruled spines, lettered in gilt, marbled paper boards; sl. wear to head & tail of spines. A nice copy. Maroon cloth slipcase. ¶ Purdy pp. 24-27; Sadlier 1113; Wolff 2989. The first impression without a quotation mark after ‘Blue Eyes’ on titlepage vol. I.

1878 £2,250 TESS OF THE D’URBEVILLES 146. T ess of the d’Urbervilles. A Pure Woman faithfully presented. FIRST EDITION, second impression. 3 vols. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. Half titles. Handsomely bound in contemp. half green calf by Hatchards of Piccadilly, matching green cloth boards, spines directly lettered & with compartments in gilt; spines uniformly faded to brown, v. sl. rubbing. With the orig. fine-weave tan cloth bound in at end of each vol. Armorial bookplate in each vol. of Oliver Brett, 1881-1963, from 1930 3rd Viscount Esher. An attractive copy.

HARDY ¶ Purdy pp67-78; Wolff 2993a. A very nice copy of Hardy’s penultimate, and ultimately most successful novel, containing all the minor typographical alterations of the second impression, of which 500 copies were printed.

1892 £1,500

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__________ THE SIOUX WAR 147. HEARD, Isaac. History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863. New York: Harper & Brothers. Front. port of General Sibley, numerous woodcut illus. Orig. grey-green cloth. Inscribed on leading blank to E. Falkener of Ashby de la Zouche from Charles Coleman. v.g. ¶ First published in 1863. Heard was part of Sibley’s ‘expedition against the savages’ in Dakota.

1865 £150

GROOMS’ ORACLE - IN ORIGINAL BOARDS 148. HINDS, John. Conversations on Conditioning. The Grooms’ Oracle, and pocket stable-directory; in which the management of horses generally, as to health, dieting, and exercise, are considered, in a series of familiar dialogues, between two grooms engaged in training horses to their works ... Printed for the author, for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 4pp initial ads., half title, hand-coloured folding front. by Henry Alken. Uncut in orig. drab boards, green cloth spine, sl. chipped printed paper label; spine faded & sl. worn at head & tail of spine. A nice copy as issued. ¶ A lovely copy in the original boards of this popular guide to the management of horses. Written in a contemporary hand on the entirety of the leading endpapers are notes and receipts for the equine care, including for ‘mild purgative ball difficulty in stallions’.

1829 £120

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‘THE COAT SYSTEM’ 149. H OLDING, T.H. Coat Cutting. 4th edn. 4to. Printed by De Vere and Co; published by T.H. Holding; (“London Tailor” Office on front cover). Front., illus. throughout with vignettes of the finished articles & 54 full page plates of patterns, index, 7pp. ads. Orig. brown cloth; crack to front board, sl. dulled & rubbed. ¶ This fourth edition recorded at BL, the University of the Arts, Liverpool John Moores. Copac does not record first (1885) or second (1888) editions, but locates two copies of the third (1893). This edition contains prefaces to all four editions; the preface to this edition reports that ‘most of the chief drawings have been re-made’ and that some garments have been ‘eliminated’ and others put in their place, while adding ‘Cutting without fitting on’.

1902 £125 DICKS EDITION IN WRAPPERS 150. H OOD, Thomas. The Complete Poems. With life and portrait. John Dicks. Front. port., vignette title, illus, 3pp ads. Orig. light green textured pictorial printed paper wrappers, sewn & glued; sl. rubbed at head & tail of spine. Ownership stamp of L.G.P. Moodie Hoddle. v.g. ¶ Oxford & NLW only on Copac; no U.S. copies recorded on OCLC. Loosely inserted is a folded 4 page advertisement for ‘Important New Publications’ by John Dicks.

[1893] £45 TEA CUPS 151. H ORNIMAN & CO. A Chat on Tea Cups. Oblong 8vo. W.H. & F. Horniman & Co. Ltd. Orig. colour printed paper wrappers, stapled; spine sl. rubbed. v.g. 16pp (including wraps.) ¶ Not in BL; Oxford only on Copac; no copies on OCLC. An attractive advertising pamphlet for Horniman tea, describing and illustrating a variety of tea cups. The company was founded in the Isle of Wight in 1826 and by 1891 was the largest tea trader in the World.

[1897] £45

HORT

HORT, Richard

152. T he Embroidered Banner, and other marvels. FIRST EDITION. John & Daniel A. Darling. Colour front., engraved title & 6 plates by Alfred Ashley; engraved title sl. trimmed. Half dark blue cloth, marbled boards. v.g. ¶ Sadleir 1219, his copy of the first edition in ‘red morocco cloth’. A collection of 9 tales including: The Malaga Assassins, The Swiss Giantess, The Fiend. This shadowy author served in the Guards but damaged his career by writing The Horse Guards a work critical of Wellington’s administration He then turned to fiction, remarkable more for Alfred Ashley’s colourful illustrations.

1850 £85 153. T he Man Who eloped with His Own Wife. With three coloured illustrations, ... by Alfred Ashley. FIRST EDITION. BOUND WITH: The White Charger, FIRST EDITION. J. & D.A. Darling. Half title, colour front. & 2 plates; the second item with col. front. Half dark blue cloth, marbled boards. v.g. ¶ Sadleir 1222; Wolff 3293. The White Charger tells the autobiographical story ‘that cost me two hundred pounds; lost me seventy thousand pounds; drove me from society; eventually deprived me of my friends; and finally compelled me to quit the service’.

1850 £150 154. P enelope Wedgebone: the supposed heiress. Embellished with 8 coloured etchings on steel, by Alfred Ashley. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. J. & D.A. Darling. Colour front., engraved title & 6 plates; engraved title sl. trimmed. Half dark blue cloth, marbled boards. v.g. ¶ Sadleir 1223; Wolff 3294.

[1850] £120

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KNICKERBOCKER’S HISTORY OF NEW-YORK 155. ( IRVING, Washington) A History of New-York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty ... being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been published. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. Thomas Tegg. Half title, titlepage vignette by George Cruikshank. Orig. embossed mauve cloth, black morocco title label; spine faded to brown, sl. damp mark to lower margin of back board. A nice copy. ¶ Cohn 439. First published in the U.S. in 1809. This is the first Tegg edition.

1824 £120 __________ SCARCE FORGERY OF THE FIRST EDITION 156. J EFFERIES, Richard. Suez-Cide!! or, How Miss Britannia bought a dirty puddle and lost her sugar-plums. John Snow & Co. Sl. marking to fore-edge of p. 7. Orig. glazed printed pink paper wrappers, sewn as issued; sl. dulled. 20pp. v.g. ¶ Miller & Matthews B6.3; a forgery of the first edition. With minor typographical differences throughout including the asterisks on pages 7 and 10 having 8 radii, instead of 6 in the genuine first edition; page 8 line 11 has ‘Anthony?’ instead of ‘Antony’ and page 11 line 19 has the printing error ‘ust’ instead of ‘just’. Miller and Matthews note that copies of this forged edition were offered to a number of antiquarian bookdealers by a ‘Mrs A. Sinclair’ in May 1893. The forgery was exposed in the Clique with the bookdealer John H. Ashworth identified as the perpetrator. Although attempts were made to pursue a conviction no prosecution was forthcoming. ‘The forged edition is now almost as much of a rarity as the original, and has frequently been mistaken for it. Indeed, despite clumsy slips and swift exposure, the deception must be considered a success, from the frequency with which the forged copies have been, and still are, described as genuine’.

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157. J EFFERIES, Richard. Wood Magic; a fable. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. Half titles, 8pp catas in both vols (coded 6G-581). Original dark green diagonal fine-ribbed cloth, front boards & spines blocked in black, spines lettered & rules in gilt. Bookplates of James Bellhouse Gaskell. ¶ Sadleir 1317; Wolff 3627; Miller & Matthews B14.1.

1881 £220

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THE FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 158. J OUBERT, Carl. Russia as it Really is. 5th edn. Eveleigh Nash. Half title, 4pp ads. Orig. blue cloth; sl. rubbed. A nice copy. ¶ First published the previous year; part II is on ‘The Jew in Russia’. ‘From Russia herself we can get no word of truth.’ Ending with an open letter to the Tsar: ‘It is only by granting reforms ... that the day of revolution can be averted. The smoke, your Imperial Majesty, is issuing from the eaves of your house, and I have taken the liberty of warning your Majesty of the fact.’ Mass unrest in 1905, often called the First Russian Revolution and seen as the prelude to 1917, led to some reforms while the Tsar retained power.

1905 £35 YELLOWBACK 159. K EANE, John Fryer. Mere Shakings. FIRST EDITION. Ward & Downey. Half title, 16pp cata. (Aug. 1887). Ads on e.ps. ‘Yellowback’, orig. pictorial printed paper boards; sl. rubbing to extremities. Ownership inscription of W.G. Dowding Sept./02’ on half title. v.g. ¶ Topp vol. VIII, p. 324, no. 37. Four copies only on Copac; Kansas & Milwaukee only in U.S. Back cover ad. for Ward & Downey’s Two Shilling Novels. 18 short stories including: Aphrodite, From the Cape to Hamburgh in 72 hours, A Chinese puzzle, My ghost, An execution at sea, Keeper at a floating menagerie, etc.

1887 £250 COLLECTED WORKS OF KEATS 160. K EATS, John. The Poetical Works. With a memoir, by Richard Monckton Milnes. New edn. Edward Moxon. Front. port. Contemp. full tan calf, double-ruled borders in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, red calf label. A v.g. attractive copy. ¶ MacGillivray B40.

1858 £180

LANGUAGE:

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LEAR

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT 161. L EAR, Edward. Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. 4to. Robert John Bush. Half title, illustrated throughout by Lear, Nonsense Botany and the Alphabets are printed on rectos only. Orig. colour printed boards (lithographed by Kell Brothers), brown cloth spine; the edges of the boards are worn as is usual with the fragile binding, otherwise a good sound copy. ¶ This is the first edition of Lear’s second ‘Nonsense’ collection, following The Book of Nonsense. It contains the first UK printing of the ‘Owl and the Pussycat’, and the first appearance in print of ‘The Jumblies’.

1871 £650

LEWIS

THE MONK 162. ( LEWIS, Matthew Gregory “Monk”) The Monk: a romance. In three volumes. Second edition. Printed for J. Bell. [viii], 232; [ii], 287; [ii], 315pp. 12mo. Some spotting throughout, Vol. II pp.89-92 & pp.137-140 upper corners torn. Sl. later half calf, marbled boards, raised bands, red morocco labels; extremities sl. rubbed. Armorial booklabels of George Edmund Benbow on leading pastedowns. a.e.g. A nice copy. ¶ ESTC T146748, Cambridge, BL, Oxford in UK; 6 copies US. Monague Summers, p.419. Lewis, 1775-1818, was a politician, diplomat, and plantation owner, who published this, his most famous gothic horror novel, when he was only 20. The Monk was widely criticised by Lewis’s contemporaries, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote that the grotesque and horrific scenes were of a ‘low and vulgar taste’. Despite, or perhaps because of, the controversial nature of the novel, which included killing off innocent characters, sinful sexuality, and graphic violence, The Monk was a commercial success. Lewis even decided to publish his name and new position as a Member of Parliament in this second edition; the first having been published anonymously. This is the full text of the novel; by the time the Fourth Edition appeared in 1798, it had undergone ‘considerable additions and alterations’ by the author, who had been stung by the relentless criticism and allegations of immorality.

1796 £2,250

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LIBRARIES, READING SOCIETIES AND BOOK CLUBS See also item 182.

COLERAINE LIBRARY 163. ( AGRIPPA, Henry Cornelius, von Nettesheim) MORLEY, Henry. The Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, doctor and knight, commonly known as a magician. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall. Half titles, 16pp cata. (Oct. 1856) vol. I. Orig. pink cloth, blocked in blind; largely faded to brown, sl. dulled & rubbed. Stamps & labels of Coleraine Library on leading e.ps together with Coleraine bookseller’s ticket of S. Eccles. A nice copy. ¶ Coleraine is in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The labels, printed by Eccles, draw subscriber’s attention to rules 13, 14 and 15 of the library. ‘Each member shall have the liberty of keeping books as follows, under the penalty of one penny for each day beyond the limited time - the fine to be paid to the librarian (for which he is made responsible), and until so paid, no more books to be issued to the party: a new work of 1 vol. to be kept ... 2 weeks ...’ Rule 15 states that ‘any member lending a book the property of the society to any person not a member, shall pay a fine of ten shillings’. The life of the German polymath and occultist.

1856 £280 HOLY ISLAND LIBRARY & READING ROOM 164. B ERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ CLUB. Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club. 1865, 1876 & 1879. 3 vols. n.p. 3 vols in a library binding of quarter black roan, green cloth boards; sl. rubbed. Label of the Holy Island Library and Reading-Room, completed in ms., on leading pastedowns. v.g. ¶ All three volumes were presented to the library by Colonel, later Major General, Sir William Crossman between 1877 and 1884. The library was founded by William’s father, Robert Crossman, in 1870. It was ‘established for the purpose of providing literary instruction and amusement for the fishermen and other inhabitants of the Island ...’ Sir William Crossman was an officer in the Royal Engineers and Liberal Unionist M.P.

1865/1876/1879 £180

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BRADFORD LIBRARY CATALOGUE 165. B RADFORD LIBRARY. Catalogue of Books in the Bradford Library and Literary Society, with the laws and regulations. Bradford: printed by Charles Greening. Orig. blue cloth; spine faded, rubbed & a little worn. A decent copy. ¶ BL only on Copac which also records issues for 1868 and 1895. The Bradford Library and Literary Society was established in 1774. It was a proprietary library, owned by its members who were predominantly educated professionals of the middle classes. It’s most famous subscriber was the Rev. Patrick Brontë, between c.1840 to 1853; the books of his three daughters are all represented in the catalogue of titles. This volume includes a record of the 39 rules and regulations of the library together with an 868 page catalogue of its books.

1884 £450 166. ( DUDLEY LIBRARY) Laws and Catalogue of the Dudley Library, established December 19th, 1805. Dudley: printed by W. Maurice. One contemp. annotation. Orig. drab printed boards, roan spine; spine & hinges worn, front hinge a little tender. Inscription on leading f.e.p.: S. & E. Dudley. Decr. 29th 1831’. ¶ BL only on Copac; OCLC adds Harvard only; no other editions recorded. A rare example of the catalogue and rules of a provincial library. The Dudley subscription library was formed in 1805 when the Dudley Book Society merged with the Dudley Library, donating all of their books which are marked with an asterix in the catalogue. The library is substantial with over 4000 titles divided into VI classes: Antiquities, history, biography, &c.; Romances, novels, Tales; Poetry, plays, and translations, &c.; Arts, sciences, commerce, &c.; Divinity, &c.; Periodical works, reviews, &c. The 20 laws of the library, which begin the volume, record that all members, proposed and elected by fellow members, should pay an annual subscription of one guinea in advance, and the admission fee of three guineas. Those paying 20 guineas cash or donating books worth 30 guineas would gain life membership. The committee (listed on p. xi) was elected by members (p. xii-xiii) at the annual meeting held at the local pub, the Dudley Arms. Also listed, at the end of the volume, is a list of the donors and donations, together with the members of the Dudley Book Society.

1826 £650

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POLYTECHNIC CIRCULATING LIBRARY 167. H AGGARD, Sir Henry Rider. Mr. Meeson’s Will. 18th thousand. Longmans, Green, & Co. Half title, front., illus. title, plates, illus. Orig. maroon cloth; sl. worn. Label of the Polytechnic Circulating Library on leading f.e.p. ¶ The label includes 13 numbered rules for the Polytechnic Circulating Library, on Regent Street, London. Members are ‘specially cautioned against losing their library cards, as they will be held responsible for any books taken out in their name ...’

1897 £50 UNRECORDED PARISH MAGAZINE WITH RECORDS OF THE LOCAL LIBRARIES 168. (HAREWOOD & EAST KESWICK LIBRARARIES) PERIDOICAL. The Harewood Parish Magazine, Vol. V, numbers 1-12, 1892. Wetherby: Backhouse & Atkinson, printers. Contemp. half calf; rubbed & a little worn. Inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Frances Jones, July 5th 1918’. ¶ The twelve issues of the unrecorded Harewood Parish Magazine are bound, interspersed within The Church Monthly: an illustrated magazine for home reading (1892), the titlepage for which is at the front of this volume. At the end of the volume is a copy of volume II, issue number 1 of the Harewood Parish Magazine (1889), together with The Banner of Faith, January 1889. Amongst other local news, the issues of the Harewood Parish Magazine record the progress of the Harewood and East Keswick Sunday Schools and libraries. The second issue records that ‘Lady Harewood has kindly presented 21 new books, chiefly of travels and adventure, to the library’. Number 3 notes the purchase of more books for the Harewood Library, records the four library rules, and includes a full list of the books held in the library. Number 4 includes a list of the books in the East Keswick Sunday School and Library with additional books noted in the following issue and again in issue 10. Harewood and Keswick are in West Yorkshire. Harewood House, built by John Carr and Robert Adam, is the home of the Lascelles family and Harewood Baronets. 1892 saw Henry Lascelles succeed to the title of 5th Earl of Harewood. Issue number 7 reports on the death and life of Henry Thynne Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood.

1892 £150

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IPSWICH BOOK CLUB 169. H OWARD, Charles. Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family. A new edn. Printed for W. Clarke. Half title, 4pp ads. E.ps replaced. Orig. blue paper covered boards, attractive oval printed label of the Ipswich Book Club on front board; neatly rebacked in cloth, printed paper label. ¶ This title first published in 1769. The library label, dated 1817 (partially in manuscript) is decorated with a printed floral border, cut crudely into an oval & pasted to the front board. Presumably the book was purchased directly on publication for the use of this provincial book club about which no information can be found.

1817 £120 ESTABLISHMENT OF REPEAL READING ROOMS 170. L OYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION. Rules for the Establishment of Repeal Reading Rooms, unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Loyal National Repeal Association, held on Monday, the 13th Jan. 1845. Dublin: J. Browne, Printer. A single folded sheet. 4pp. ¶ Copac records the BL & Cambridge only; OCLC adds UC Berkeley and National Library of Australia; a copy is also held by the Library of Congress. Repeal reading rooms were intended to: ‘diffuse among the people useful information, and early intelligence on all subjects of public interest, especially on the great national question of Repeal; to collect and combine popular opinion in aid of Repeal; to afford a source of rational occupation for the leisure hours of the industrious classes, whence they may be instigated to increased patriotism, temperance, and virtue; and especially, to promote the weekly collection of the Repeal fund, and to extend the Repeal organization, so as to confer on the Repealers, in the several localities, the influence they should exercise as a compact body ...’

1845 £150 IN ORIGINAL BOARDS 171. P UBLIC LIBRARY, Newcastle Upon Tyne. A Catalogue of the Public Library in St. Nicholas’ Church, Newcastle Upon Tyne; with a copy of the will of Robert Thomlinson ... To which is added a catalogue of books contained in the old library. Newcastle: printed by T. & J. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley. Half title, engraved title. Orig. light brown cloth boards, printed title on spine; sl. dulled & rubbed. A v.g.

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¶ Five copies only on Copac; no further copies on OCLC. Robert Thomlinson, the rector of Whickham, in his will of 1745, gifted his substantial library of over 1600 books to the existing library at St. Nicholas’s Church together with a fund for the salary of a librarian and the payment of annual rent. Following the death of its first librarian Rev. Nathaniel Clayton, the library fell into decline until, in the 1820s, the rent and librarian’s salary was withheld because of the library’s neglect. In 1826 the process of cleaning and repairing books was begun with the help of the bookseller Emerson Charnley who was also granted permission to print this catalogue of the library’s books together with an updated version of its rules and regulations. Today, the collection of the St. Nicholas’ Church Public Library is held at the Newcastle City Library.

1829 £550 A LADY EMERGING FROM THE LIBRARY 172. ( SMITH, John Raphael) A Lady Coming from the Circulating Library. T. Birchall & J.R. Smith. Uncoloured mezzotint. Plate 35 x 25cm, with good margins. ¶ BM 1898,0712.10: ‘Engraved in mezzotint and published by J Birchall and J R Smith, without the name of the engraver, in April 1781. Mrs Frankau in John Raphael Smith, 1902, states that the print was engraved by the artist after Singleton (then 15 years old), but gives no reason for the statement. Chaloner Smith follows Frankau, describing the print under J R Smith’. The British Museum also holds a coloured copy. No other copies traced. A handsome illustration of a woman, clutching a volume in both hands, outside a circulating library with its window full of books.

1781 £850 †

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SHELDRAKE’S CIRCULATING LIBRARY 173. S MOLLETT, Tobias. Humphrey Clinker. With illustrations by Phiz. Routledge, Warne & Routledge. Front. & plates. Contemp. library binding of quarter black roan, brown cloth boards, library number at head of spine; rubbed. Label of Sheldrake’s Circulating Library, Aldershot, on front board & leading pastedown. ¶ The label on the leading pastedown notes that ‘subscriptions are 2s. 6d. per month, payable in advance. Two volumes allowed at one time, and changed as often as may be required. A selection of new volumes added every month ...’

18691 £150 BOOK CLUB RULES 174. W OODBRIDGE SOCIAL BOOK CLUB. Rules of the Woodbridge Social Book Club. Woodbridge: Geo. Booth, printer. 2pp on folded 4to cream card leaf, folded with printed docket title. v.g. ¶ No copies in library records; one other copy located, printed on blue paper and dated 1869. A rare example of a separately printed list of rules for a provincial book club, presumably intended to be distributed amongst members at one of their monthly meetings. This issue for 1869 in which Mr. J.B. Hart is recorded as Secretary, includes the XI rules of the Woodbridge Social Book Club. ‘I. The members shall meet monthly, at the House of such one of them as shall have been agreed upon the preceding Club night, or otherwise as they stand in rotation on the book list, upon the Thursday before, or being the day of the full moon, before eight o’clock in the evening ...’ The rules cover subscription fees and fines applicable to numerous misdemeanours in addition to how books are chosen, bought, and then sold each year by auction at an annual meeting which finalised the book club accounts and ended with a dinner, and the consumption of a considerable amount of wine. ‘A dinner shall be provided (at an Inn to be then agreed upon) for the annual meeting, and the bill for such dinner, and as many bottles of wine as there may be persons present, shall be paid in equal shares by all the members present, and such of their friends as may be introduced; and when the last of such bottles of wine shall be brought in, the chairman shall inform the company, and any further orders shall be at the expence sic of the persons giving them ...’

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PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION FOR YOUNG GARDENERS 175. L OUDON, John Claudius. Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land-Stewards and Farmers; in arithmetic and book-keeping, geometry, mensuration, ... and perspective: with examples showing their application to horticultural and agricultural purposes. With a memoir of the author. FIRST EDITION. Longmans. Front. port., illus., index, 32pp cata. (October 1845). Orig. dark green cloth. A v.g. crisp copy. ¶ Loudon, landscape-gardener and horticultural writer, renowned for his capacity for hard work. During the mid-1830s he was editing five monthly publications, working from 7am to 8pm without break for food and working in the open air; after supper he wrote until two or three o’clock in the morning. Several of his publishing ventures were disastrous; he died with the threat of bankruptcy and arrest hanging over him. On the 13th December 1843 he dictated his ‘SelfInstruction’ to Jane, his wife, until midnight and on the following day he died in his wife’s arms, while still standing. The work was edited and prepared for the press by Jane Loudon, with added sections on mechanics, hydrostatics and hydraulics by Dr Jamieson and farm book-keeping by Mr Jay.

1845 £250 ELECTRICAL ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN 176. M cKENZIE, F. Violet. Cookery Book. Sydney: Electrical Association for Women (Australia). Initial ad. leaf, illus. Orig. printed paper boards, blue cloth spine, cut flush; sl. rubbed. Presentation inscription on titlepage: ‘to the sweetest of English Ladies from F. V. McKenzie. ¶ Not in BL or on Copac; OCLC records Cornell & Utah only in North America and four copies in Australia. The Electrical Association for Women was established in England in 1924 to promote electricity in the home as a means to releasing women from drudgery. The President from 1938-1957 was the Dowager Lady Swaythling and this copy is from her own collection.

1936 £120

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THE NEW ATLANTIS 177. ( MANLEY, Delariviere) Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atlantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. In four volumes. Written originally in Italian. Seventh edition. Printed for J. Watson, in Wardrobe Court ... Sold by A Dodd. Front., vii, 226, 2pp cata. (Sept. 19, 1735); x, 11-272pp; xiv, 15-279pp; xii, 13-280pp. 12mo. Contemp. full tan calf, panelled in gilt, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, red & green morocco labels; extremities & sl. rubbed, corners a bit bumped, small abrasions to some boards, lower front hinge of vol. I starting but sound. Armorial bookplate of Penry Williams on leading pastedowns. An attractive copy in contemporary binding. ¶ ESTC T72173. Manley, c.1670-1724, was the well-educated, though not classically trained, daughter of a cavalier soldier, Roger Manley, who had contributed to the continuation of Knolles’s and Rycaut’s Turkish History. She has historically been referred to as Mary, but it is now generally accepted that that was her sister and her given name was Delariviere. First published in 1709 under the title of The New Atlantis, this is her most famous novel which gained her immediate notoriety for its scandalous and scathing satire. The work discredited many of the leading Whig politicians and moderate Tories, and she was arrested for libel following the publication of both volumes, first in May and then in October. She maintained throughout questioning that the work was fictional, and those who had been offended could not come forward with evidence as it would expose them as the characters of ridicule from the book. She was eventually cleared of all charges. It forms ‘a sequence of erotic tales which serve as political parables (critiques of corrupt Whig politicians from an ardent Tory defender)’. (Ref: Ballaster, R. Fabulous Orients. Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785. Oxford 2005.

1736 £650

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QUEEN ZARAH: APPENDIX TO THE NEW ATLANTIS 178. ( MANLEY, Delariviere, attrib.) The Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarahians. Containing the true reasons of the necessity of the revolution that lately happen’d in the Kingdom of Albigion. By way of Appendix to the New Atlantis. In Two Parts. Albigion [London]: printed in the Year. [24],119,[1]; 142pp. 12mo. Some occasional minor browning & small edge tears, leading edge of titlepage close cropped just touching text. Contemporary calf; expert repairs to spine & corners. Without free e.ps. ¶ ESTC T47394. BL only in the UK; Harvard, Chicago, Texas, Yale. The preface to The Secret History of Queen Zarah (first published in 1705) is generally recognised as an important early document in the history of English criticism of the novel. Scholars have called it ‘one of the most substantial discussions of prose fiction in the 18th century’. However John L. Sutton, in his article The Source of Mrs Manley’s Preface to Queen Zarah, (Modern Philology, Nov 1984), has identified that it is not an original essay but a literal translation of an essay on prose fiction contained in a French courtesy book published in 1702 – the Abbé Morvan de Bellegarde’s Lettres Curieuses de Littérature et de Morale. This itself was a paraphrase of the second part of the Sieur du Plaisir’s Sentimens sur les lettres et sur l’histoire published in 1683; a major statement in the development of a coherent theory of the novel. The Secret History is a satire on Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

1711 £2,250

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See also items 39, 71, 88, 90, 91, 113, 116, 136, 256, 257, 276.

GREED BAD, CHARITY GOOD 179. A Wish, by E.E. 28-line verse written as a panel set alongside a series of exchange rate tables. Old fold lines, but in very good clean condition. 38.5 x 22.5cm. ¶ The verse, written against greed and wealth, advocates a simple, and charitable life, with plain elegance, taxes paid, and five hundred pounds a year. ‘Let millions swell the greedy misers store / Nor even leave one sordid wish for more / Close to his selfish heart then hug the prize / Brood o’er the bags and feast his jaundiced eyes ... good will to all mankind I bear / Nor, to my neighbours failings be severe / Spar’d be my own - for who from faults is free / I’ll cover all I can - with Charity.’ [c.1810?] £125 †

BOOK-KEEPING: WASTEBOOK, JOURNAL & LEDGER 180. ( CALVERT, Ian?) Book-Keeping ‘Wastebook’. c.160pp 4to, with a further 36pp. sewn in, blanks excised at end. Orig. stiff drab wrappers; a little worn and creased. ¶ This is the manuscript of a young man training to become a book-keeper, March-December 1813, possibly by Ian Calvert, as this is the only signature in the book, but may be later. The exercises are adapted from Thomas Dilworth’s Young Book-Keeper’s Assistant of 1777, based at Muker, Yorkshire, & recording the inventory of Thomas Spensley of Reeth, the ship ‘James’ and its voyages, and trade with Abraham Van Schooten in the Netherlands. The Wastebook is followed by the Journal, the Ledger ending with Algebraic exercises. A ‘Wastebook’ was one of the traditional ways of keeping financial accounts. It involved a daily diary of transactions and was intended for temporary use only; once the figures were transferred to the Journal to balance accounts, the book became ‘waste’. The system was replaced by double-entry accounting.

[1813] £225

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FOUL LANGUAGE, DIRTY HABITS, & DRINKING BOUTS 181. C HARLES WILLIAMS & SON: PRIVATE DETECTIVE AND ENQUIRY AGENT. Manuscript Report of an Investigation into Possible Child Neglect. ‘RE Mary Young; our inquiries herein result as follows ...’ 73 lines of ms. in black ink, on rectos only of three 4to sheets the first printed with company heading. Fastened with a split pin. Two light old folds. v.g. ¶ A manuscript report, on the headed paper of Charles Williams & Son, Private Detective and Enquiry Agent, Liverpool, regarding the case of an adolescent girl, Mary Young, and the circumstances of her domestic life. The report is addressed to Messrs Campbell & Martin, Edinburgh, and appears to be part of an ongoing investigation into Miss Young and her family. Mary’s circumstances are clearly impoverished, and there are suggestions her schooling is suffering. The report states, ‘Mary is the best dressed of the children, if there is any “best” in the family, but her clothing is poor, and to quote the words of the head-mistress (whom we interviewed in the strictest confidence) “is a bundle of rags”’. The report goes on to assess the family’s living and working arrangements, remarking on instances of mal-parenting: ‘We have made several visits to the house ... for the purpose of observation ... We found that Mrs Young and the man Smith are co-partners in a Greengrocery hawking business. They have a pony & a rough coster cart of poor make, both of which are not worth £3 or £4. ... During our visit last Friday night, Mrs Young & Smith drove up to the house in a semi-drunk state. The little boy, who was barefooted, looked after the pony whilst being fed.’ The condemnatory tone continues, with observations that Smith and Mrs Young ‘are particularly noted for their foul language, dirty habits, & drinking bouts’, and that their two-up-two-down house is ‘practically bare of furniture’ and has a kitchen ‘which is more of a hovel than anything else’. Further evidence of domestic strife is presented, before the rather stark summation, ‘All the children are totally neglected’. As a course of action, the report recommends ‘the interference of the Sanitary Authorities as regards the premises, & that of the Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for neglect’. It concludes with the sobering observation, ‘before she is much older, we feel [Mary’s] character will have developed toward ruin unless something to change her environment is speedily done’. The report is signed ‘Charles Williams & Son’. It forms a fascinating document of early twentieth century social history, providing a thought-provoking commentary on poverty, neglect, and the way in which these evils were confronted.

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LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF THE GLADSTONES 182. GLADSTONE, Sir John, 1st Baronet. A Catalogue of Fasque Library 1840, estate of the Gladstone family. Small 4to. Titles in ms. on leading pastedown, 44pp neat ms. on lined paper, 22pp blank. Sewn in orig. limp marbled wrappers, unlettered; spine a little rubbed, exposing sewing in places. Sl. later pencil signature of D. Sheriffs in prelims. ¶ An impressive and well-preserved catalogue of the books in the Fasque library, the home of Scottish merchant and landowner Sir John Gladstone, father of the four-time British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Sir John Gladstone, 1764-1851, was a Liverpool based merchant and trader, who purchased Fasque in 1829 for the princely sum of £80,000. Beyond farming interests in Britain, his principal source of income was from two large plantations in the Caribbean, worked by approximately 2,500 enslaved people. Gladstone was opposed to emancipation, but reaped the benefits financially as a compensation settlement of nearly £107,000 was agreed in 1837 following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833; the largest such payout in Britain. Gladstone was elected as Tory MP three times between 1818 and 1827, representing three different constituencies. His son William would also begin his political life as a Tory, and as an opponent of immediate abolition, but would gradually soften his stance to the extent that by the end of career he would consider the end of the slave trade one of his crowning achievements in office. After Sir John’s death in 1851, the Fasque estate was inherited by his eldest son, Thomas. A Gladstone presence would remain at Fasque until 1932. The house is now in private hands and run as a luxury hotel. This library catalogue is arranged in a seemingly conventional format, with columns indicating shelf location, title and author, year of publication, and number of volumes. At first glance it appears the works are arranged A through to Z, but on closer inspection it seems the books have not been shelved

MANUSCRIPT alphabetically but rather thematically, and the letters preceding each section refer to shelf location only. For example, under ‘A’ can be found Buddicoms Discourses, Martyn’s Sermons, Religious Tracts, Milners Church History, Southey’s Life of Wesley, several copies of the Holy Bible, and numerous other works relating to divinity. Under ‘B’ there are also a good few volumes of sermons, but there is a marked upturn in secular works, including Goldsmith’s Animated Nature, Sterne’s Works, Phylosophy of Natural History, An Account of all the books printed in the Gaelic, and Police of the Metropolis (1797). As the catalogue continues, the collection demonstrates the broad range of interests of the owner(s), and in particular the fields of politics, diplomacy and statesmanship. Numerous works concern the politics and history of England and Scotland, and there are important volumes relating to the economy and governance of territories overseas (e.g. Law & Constitution of India, Reports of the East India Company, Henderson’s Brazil, Abel’s China, Russell’s Modern Europe, etc., etc.). Literature is well represented in the collection, and it is clear that the library was constantly being added to: Dickens’s Pickwick Papers, Marryat’s A Diary in America, and Brougham’s Statesmen of George 3rd, were all added to the library in the late 1830s. Overall this is a fascinating and diverse collection of approximately 1,200 titles, made all the more interesting for its connection with the future British Prime Minister, who would no doubt have had access to and a good knowledge of the volumes it contained.

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ACCOUNT BOOK OF A PROVINCIAL MONEY LENDER 183. P ARAMOR, S. Account of the Securities of My Owne [sic] Money. 84pp ms. with 27pp ms. dos a dos. Contemp. green vellum wallet binding, metal clasp; lacking clasp fastening. Inscription on leading pastedown: ‘In this book is the account of the securities for my owne money. S. Paramor’. v.g. ¶ An account book for a member of the wealthy Paramor family from the Parish of Eastry in Kent. It is likely to belong to either Saphire or Samuel Paramor, sons of Saphire Paramor (husband to Margaret) who died in 1693. The manuscript is an interesting example of the accounts of a provincial landowner and money lender. It records sums borrowed, but mostly lent by Paramor, ‘on bond’ or as mortgages, together with rents received for properties he owns. The recipients are almost entirely from Kent and include members of the Paramor family. A £1,600 mortgage is recorded as loaned to ‘Coz. Joshua and Mary Paramor’ in 1708/09. Other borrowers include Solomon Joffard of Ash, Stephen Goodson of Sheldon, W. Hen. Watts of Deal, and William Pittock of Mongeham amongst numerous others. The mortgage to Watts, for his house named ‘3 Kings’ was initially for £100 but was later increased to £150 and then £200. Recorded dos-a-dos is Paramor’s rental and annuity income.

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JUVENILE POETRY AND TRANSLATIONS BY THE HISTORIAN OF CORNWALL 184. POLWHELE, Richard. 17 Volumes of Verse, Translations, &c. Compiled by the Cornish poet and antiquary, between the ages of 12 and 17 while attending Truro School. c.850pp. with manuscript on almost every page, in 17 notebooks. Originally each book was in marbled wrappers, but some of these are no longer present. The first 10 vols. are roughly sewn together, presumably by Polwhele, but the sewing is broken. The following 7 vols are similarly sewn and numbered I-VII. Most of the volumes retain their original marbled wrappers; some wear. Signed by Polwhele in several places.

¶ Polwhele’s juvenile notebooks, in Latin, Greek and English, with translations, together with original poems, and the Rules of the Sentimental Club - first president, Richard Polwhele. There is much revision & crossing through, with original verses showing signs of later revision. Polwhele revisited these manuscript volumes some 58 years later in 1833 indicating that ‘between 14 and 15 of these mss. were written’. Below is a partial listing of the contents of the volumes: Group I. Vol. I: Titled Virgil, Saturday September 26, 1772. 34pp at end dos-a-dos. As well as Virgil, translations of Terence; ‘Some of 93 Psalm done into Latin verse’; Observations on Adjectives. II: Greek Epigrams (an essay); poem beginning ‘Friend to the Gods, hail ...’, heavily corrected & struck through; Verses from Virgil, 28pp dos-a-dos at end. III: Remarks (on Virgil); Remarks on lectures; On collects; The Greek Collect; Greek Epigrams; 40pp dos-a-dos at end. IV: Pantheon; Moral Miscellany; Juvenal; Vocabula Sophocles, Lucian, Horace; 20pp dos-a-dos at end. V: Translations from Sallust, &c.; dos-a-dos on rectos throughout. SIGNED at end, ‘Rd. Polwhele’. VI: ‘A Book for Translation’ taken from Selecta Profanis, &c.’. SIGNED at end. VII: Moral Miscellany, Sallust, Blank Verses from Virgil; To Himself, Anacreon; The Women Song. SIGNED. Sewn in upsidedown. VIII: Some of the Sixth Book of Virgil done into English verse; Translations from Sallust; Pen and wash sketches: Roman Scene; Houses & Tree; Street Scene. SIGNED, inner wrapper. IX: RULES OF THE SENTIMENTAL CLUB. ‘ The business of the Sentimental Club is to write our thoughts on Miscellaneous Subjects, to speak them with grace and emphasis, to talk with propriety and to debate on whatever subject the President chooses ... Fully listing the 27 Rules in 12pp; signed by Richard Polwhele (president), John Arthur, John Painter, Richard Thomas, J. John, Richard Paul, John Mosley and C. Clutterbuck. With ‘Notes for Club Discussions’: ‘To be produced next Thursday the 26th of June. An Essay on Speech’, proposed by Polwhele, with the ‘Argumentative Subject’ of Ambition. For the 2nd July, a ‘Declamation on Charity’ is proposed, with the Argumentative Subject being ‘Whether America or Britain is in the Right’. Among the other content is a version of ‘Verses Written on the Gunpowder Plot’. 10pp. dos-a-dos at end. X: ‘Scraps’: including, ‘A Poetical Chronology of the Kings of England’ from William the Conqueror to James II (written vertically on the page); Notes on Thomson & Claud on versos.

MANUSCRIPT Group II. I: ‘Select Epigrams from Martial and Other Epigramists, done into English Verse. with other finds of poetry and a few Greek epigrams translated into Latin verse as well as English’; An Epigram from Catullus, ‘Foolish Laughter’, heavily edited and revised; Ode to a Grasshopper, heavily revised; Ode on the Gunpowder Plot (’This piece is uncorrected’); In Answer to Posidippus’s Invective Against Human Life, heavily edited. II: ‘The Twelfth Ode of Horace paraphrastically translated into English verse, addressed to Augustus; 15th and 22nd Odes translated; Epigramma. III: ‘The Poet’s Invocation on the Month of May. A Poem’; with ‘Notes Upon the Foregoing Poem’ (by Lyttelton) & frontispiece engraving of ‘The Month of May’; Some of the 6th Aeniad and Some part of the 7th book of Virgil ... done into English verse; Epigram on the Image of Thyrsis ... translated from the Greek; Ode to Harvest (heavily amended); Ode to Justice. IV: ‘Some of Theognidis’s Thoughts Addressed to his Friend, Cyrnus, translated from the Greek’, with inserted engraved front.; Some Thoughts of Solon; Some Thoughts as an Avaricious Person, translated from the Greek of Menander; Epigram on ‘Pallas Bathing’ (heavily edited); Some Odes of Anacreon, done into English verse; Extempore Rapture on a Country Life; Solitude. An Elegy written May 9th 1775. V: ‘Moschus’s Elegy on the death of Prion done into English Verse’, with handcoloured engraved front.; ‘1st Pastoral of Theocritus done into English Verse’; ‘The Sublime Description of the Horse in Job. Translated into English Verse’; ‘Ode to the Coelestial Orbs’; ‘Ode on the Resurrection’; ‘Song ... Composed on the Birth of Mr.Pitt’s Son born in the year 1775’ - crossed through: (‘With Joy these sacred shades I hail ...’ VI: ‘Some Part of the 10th Satire of Juvenal translated’ with engraved front.; ‘Some of the 3rd Satire ... translated’; ‘The 13th Psalm done into English Verse’; ‘Ode to Contentment’ written August 8th, 1775; ‘Ode to Fancy; The Emmet and the Silkworm. A Fable’; ‘Poetical Chronology of the Twelve Caesars. Notes at end by Polwhele: ‘Aged 15 years’ and ‘Between 14 and 15 these mss. were written’ together with a calculation by Polwhele of the 58 years between 1775 and 1833, when he presumably reviewed his juvenile writings. VII: ‘A Poem on the Birth of Our Saviour’ written December 27th, 1775; (Engraved front. of the storm in the Albouran Sea). ‘The True Use of Riches. A moral tale’, April 18th, 1776; ‘Hymn on the Death and Passion of Our Saviour’ written in the year 1776; ‘A Poem on the Resurrection’; Part of the Electra of Sophocles translated into blank verse; 1st Ode (2nd, 7th and 8th Odes) of Horace translated into blank verse; ‘The Little Wish. A Poem’, August 6th 1776. The Reverend Richard Polwhele, 1760-1838, is Cornwall’s most significant poet and historian, who showed his early talent by publishing three works in 1777 and 1778 when only 17 or 18 years of age: The Fate of Lewellyn, Six Odes ..., The Spirit of Frazer, to General Burgoyne ... all printed by R. Cruttwell in Bath.

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A JAMAICAN ESTATE 185. (RAE, William) The Trust Account [for the] Estate of William Rae Deceased, with Wellwood Hyslop and Andrew Murray his executors and trustees, Jamaica ... 7 numbered pages of ms. on 5 folio sheets, ms. title on first page & with secretarial notes on final page, as originally sewn & with signed ms. witness statement attached with pin; old folds & a little dusted. ¶ The Rae brothers, James, William and John, were Scottish born plantation owners on the Island of Jamaica. James died in 1815 whereupon his estate was divided equally between his siblings. William died in 1837 assigning Wellwood Hyslop and Andrew Murray, to execute his will and oversee the ongoing operations at his plantations, Petersfield, St. Davids and St. Thomas. This document, drawn up by the solicitors Mais & Duff, records the outstanding accounts up until the death of Murray on 18 December, 1841. Wellwood Hyslop, the surviving trustee, was an influential merchant and public figure in Jamaica. His roles included that of Colonel in the Surrey Militia horse Regiment, a member of the House of Assembly for the constituency of Port Royal, magistrate and judge, and chairman of the Planters’ Bank. See also Slavery section, items 249-261.

1842 £550 BUTCHER’S SUPPLY TO THE EARL OF SEAFIELD 186. (SEAFIELD, Francis William Ogilvie-Grant, 6th Earl of) Account Book kept by S. MacKinnon, butcher, of purchases by the Earl of Seafield’s household 1815-1816. 24pp ms. with numerous blanks in 8vo account book interleaved with mauve blotting paper. Contemp. half sheep, marbled boards; a little rubbed with sl. loss to head of spine. ¶ The Earl of Seafield, 1778-1853, was M.P. for Elgin and Nairn and descendant of the first Earl, James Ogilvy, 1664-1730, Lord Chancellor of Scotland. The family estates are at Cullen (the Ogilvie family) and Strathspey (the Grant clan). The account book begins on July 7 1815 and concludes with the death of Mr MacKinnon in the summer of 1816: ‘Sept. 3 settled the above by order of the heirs of the late S. MacKinnon as p. account & stamps recd. John Jack’. Purchases are mainly of lamb, mutton, tongue and veal. Quantities and prices provide useful information on household budgeting in Scotland at the time of Waterloo.

1815-16 £125 SUFFOLK RATE BOOK 187. S UDBURY RATES. A Rate made by the Governor, Deputy Governor, Assistants & Guardians of the Poor of the Town of Sudbury (Suffolk) for the Maintenance and Employment of the Poor within their care for one month at a Court by them held the 11th Day of March 1785. 16-page manuscript stitched within the printed, signed and sealed official certification document for the rate assessment. Contemporary plain card outer wrappers, the name of the Constable, Mr James Shelley, on upper cover, date 1785. Some edge wear to outer covers, but internally v.g. 21 x 17cm. ¶ The manuscript records the name of the local inhabitants and their rate payable, and at the end there is a list of the ‘unable poor’ each receiving 2 guineas. Names include the ‘widow Gainsborough’, Mary Gainsborough, and also Jn. Gainsborough. There is an accompanying letter from Gainsborough’s

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187 House museum, noting that the widow Gainsborough ‘may be the second wife of John IX (1711-92). Apart from knowing that her name was Margaret, we know nothing else about her at all’. Thomas Gainsborough’s eldest surviving daughter, born Sudbury 1750, was named Mary, but it is unlikely that the name in this document is that particular relative. It is more probably Mary, 1713-1790, the daughter of John Gainsborough and Mary Burrough, of Sudbury.

1785 £350 EUROPEAN TOUR JOURNAL BY THE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR OF JULES VERNE 188. TOWLE, George Makepeace. Journal of a foreign tour thro’ England, Scotland, Belgium, Prussia, The Rhine, Germany, Paris, Switzerland, Italy. (April to August 1863). 121pp, 8vo, on ruled paper, most pages with horizontal writing, 49pp with writing vertically from bottom to top. 2pp at end with 5 pencil portraits by Mary Towle (including three of young Mr. Towle and his distinctive moustache), with integral blanks. In original stiff boards cut flush, olive blind-blocked green cloth, red edges. Signed in several places by Towle, including leading free e.p.: ‘Cambridge, Mass, US, April 1863’. Small modern label indicating that this volume was from the collection of Edwin Grabhorn, of the Grabhorn Press, (who died in 1965) and sold by the Alta California Bookstore, Albany. ¶ George Makepeace Towle, 1841-1893, graduated in law from Harvard Law School in 1863 and embarked on this European Tour before practising law in Boston 1863-65. For the following two years he was appointed US Consul in Nantes, followed by a similar appointment in Bradford until returning to Boston in 1870 to take up a career in journalism. While in England, he made acquaintance with Charles Dickens, and wrote articles for All the Year Round. His relationship with Dickens begins with a request for an autograph, to which Dickens replies obligingly on the 19th June 1858, and six letters to Towle from Dickens are recorded between June 1868 and February 1870. The first (18th June 1868) invites Towle to a meeting at All the Year Round. On 13th August, Dickens writes concerning a flurry of articles sent (of which 5 or 6 were published in ATYR September-November 1868). Dickens is ‘happy to retain the paper’ on 19th September, and on 6th November rejects an article on wine and apologises for the delay in publishing ‘The Peasant’s Wedding’ - which eventually appears in January 1869. On 9th February 1870, the final letter recorded from Dickens to Towle, thanks him for sending a copy of Towle’s American Society; Dickens suggests they ‘preserve our present relations in reference to these pages after

MANUSCRIPT your return home ...’ From 1873 Towle was commissioned by the publisher James R. Osgood to translate the novels of Jules Verne, including Around the World in Eighty Days, until Osgood went bankrupt in 1876. He also wrote a number of volumes, including books on Europe. The Journal. As would be expected of a man later to be a translator and author, this is a readable and detailed account of a young American lawyer undertaking the European Tour. Towle sails from Boston aboard the Royal Mail steamer Europa on April 1st, 1863, arriving in Liverpool on April 13th. He travels to Glasgow and Edinburgh, then south via Walter Scott’s Abbotsford, the Lake District, Shakespeare’s birthplace, to London, where Towle makes the most of the month of May: his sightseeing takes in the British Museum, St. Paul’s, the House of Lords - but also Bartholomew’s and Bethlehem Hospitals, the Thames Tunnel, the Old Bailey, High Court of Chancery, opera and theatres, Kew, Hampton Court; he listens to Spurgeon at the Tanbernacle, visits Eton College & Brighton and travels on the Underground. His lively European tour takes in Brussels, The Rhine, Germany, France - and although the list of countries includes Switzerland and Italy, the journal ends abruptly in Paris. Towle writes ‘Sailed from Liverpool’ for his return voyage, but does not add the date. The Grabhorn Press was founded at San Francisco by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn in 1920. The press was ‘one of the foremost producers of finely printed books in twentieth-century America’. Edwin died in 1965.

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PREDICTING JAPANESE AGGRESSION IN THE PACIFIC 189. M ARKS, E. George. Pacific Peril (or Menace of Japan’s Mandated Islands). Australian Edition. Sydney: The Wynyard Book Arcade. Front. port. map on title verso; sl. foxing. Orig. printed wrappers, sl. marked otherwise a v.g., crisp copy. Presentation inscription on dedication page: ‘From E. George Marks, to Vincent John Flynn, L.L.B., B.C.L., B.A. (Oxon), N.S. Wales Rhodes Scholar 1927, Author’s copy July 3, 1933. Best wishes’. ¶ This first edition is Oxford only on Copac; King’s College London has a 2nd edn; OCLC adds BL, also Yale, NYPL, and Ralph C. Bunche Library in the USA. A remarkably prescient warning of Japan’s increasing naval power and its threat to the USA and Australia. ‘The American navy, in a Pacific war, may endeavour to induce Japan to fight in American waters ... (Japanese) ships would have to steam 8,000 miles to attack the Panama Canal, leaving on its flank the menace of the American base at Hawaii - assuming that the Japanese failed to seize it at the outset of the struggle.’ The ‘mandated islands’ under Japan’s control were the Marshalls, the Carolines, the Ladrones and the Pelews to the east of the Philippines. Japan attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday December 7th, 1941, which led to America’s involvement in the Second World War. Despite awareness on both sides since 1920 of the possibility of conflict in the Pacific, the attack - without a declaration of war - came as a surprise to the USA. Presented by the author to the Rhodes Scholar and Sydney lawyer Vincent John Flynn.

1933 £150 WITH TRANSLATED CITATIONS AND AN INDEX 190. (MATHIAS, Thomas James) The Pursuits of Literature. A satirical poem in four dialogues. With notes. The fourteenth edition, with the citations translated and with a complete index. Printed for T. Becket, Pall Mall. Contemp. speckled calf, gilt rules and motifs to spine, maroon label. Very slight weakening at head of leading hinge. A v.g., attractive copy. ¶ ESTC T61577. On the leading free endpaper is a pencil note indicating that this volume was purchased from James Lackington in 1809 together with a coded price. An additional ink note on the leading free endpaper dated Jan. 5th 1809, possibly by Lackington, suggesting it is ‘unique’ for containing the Preface to L. B--- Esq., the translated citations and the 68pp. index added to this edition. The ultra-conservative Mathias published the first part of his anti-Jacobin response to the revolutionary controversy in 1794. He captured the polarised opinion of the public at this time with his anonymous satire on his literary contemporaries, to which he added copious, erudite, and very lengthy footnotes; George Steevens later remarking that the poem was merely ‘a peg to hang the notes on.’ He published three further dialogues (all are included here), preserving his anonymity to help fuel the public’s interest. His satire denounced Richard Payne Knight, and in Part IV went on to compare The Monk to Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; continuing on from Coleridge’s critical review of 1797. Mathias was answered by Thomas Dutton’s The Literary Census (1798), and an anonymous vindication of The Monk, entitled Impartial Strictures (1798). ‘Wit and learning may be found in every page ...’ Joseph Hunter. ‘The malevolence of Gifford without the wit ...’ Robert Southey. ‘One of the cleverest books I ever met with ...’ Elizabeth Smith. The Pursuits of Literature proved very popular; the last edition was the 16th of 1812.

1808 £85

MAUDUIT

PAMPHLET, SEWN AS ISSUED 191. ( MAUDUIT, Israel) Considerations on the Present German War. The third edition. Printed for John Wilkie. 144pp. Uncut and sewn as issued. ¶ ESTC T913446. Written during the Seven Years’ War, in which Prussia succeeded Austria as the leading German state. Maduit, 1708-1787, argues against British involvement in German affairs.

1760 £65 LUTHER’S PRODIGY 192. M ELANCHTHON, Philip. Testimonia D. Martini Lvteri de socio laborvm pericvlovm svorvm Philippo Melanchthone. Gorlicii [Gorlitz]: Ambrosius Fritsch. A-F4 [47pp]. Small 4to. Bound with numerous blanks in modern full calf, panelled in blind, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt; title somewhat browned with contemp. ink notes on recto & verso; faint blind stamp on both title & final leaf. Some contemp. ink underlining & one marginal note. A nice copy. ¶ Not in BL; not recorded on Copac; OCLC lists several copies in Germany. Melanchthon, born Philipp Schwartzerdt, 1497-1560, was a towering figure of the Protestant Reformation, and as a close associate and peer of Martin Luther, one of the first theologians to outline the doctrine of the Lutheran movement. The son of an armourer, Melanchthon possessed a precocious intellect, which saw him enter the University of Heidelberg aged only 12; his father and grandfather had died within days of each other the previous year. He was denied the opportunity to take a Master’s degree at Heidelberg on account of his youth, so he went to Tubingen to continue his humanistic studies. In 1516, Melanchthon began studying theology, though his radical views led to him being cast out of the university there. He was invited to join Luther, twenty years his senior, at the university of Wittenberg in 1517, originally as a Professor of Greek but later as a theologian. It was while he was with Luther at Wittenberg that he witnessed first hand the emergence of Protestantism and the rejection of Catholic supremacy in Germany. Melanchthon married Katharina Krapp, the daughter of the city’s Mayor in 1520, and they had four children. He is buried beside Martin Luther at All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg.

1580 £850

MENON

COOKERY, PASTRY, CONFECTIONERY 193. ( MENON, Louis Francoise Henri de) The Professed Cook: or the modern art of cookery, pastry, and confectionary, made plain and easy. Consisting of the most approved methods in the French as well as English cookery. In which the French Names of all the different Dishes are given and explained, whereby every Bill of Fare becomes intelligible and familiar. Containing I. Of Soups, Gravy, Cullis and Broths. II. Of Sauces..., &c. &c. Translated from Les Soupers de la Cour; with the Addition of the best Receipts which have ever appear’d in the French Language. And adapted to the London markets by the editor, who has been many years Clerk of the Kitchen in some of the first Families in this Kingdom. The second edition. Two volumes in one. Printed for R. Davis. xvi, [48] contents, 286, [2] blank, [2] half title to second volume, 289-588pp. 8vo. A v.g. clean copy; several sl. stains to leading edge of a few leaves. Full contemporary sheep, gilt ruled borders, raised bands; expert repairs to joints, head & tail of spine and corners. Early name of M. Findlater on front endpaper. ¶ ESTC T90913, BL and Harvard only. Menon’s Les Soupers de la Cour was first published in 1755, and initially translated into English in 1767 by Bernard Clermont under the title The Art of Modern Cookery Displayed (BL only in the UK). This second English edition of 1769 has the same contents as the first, but with the title now amended to The Professed Cook. ‘Menon’s book covers menus, hors d’oeuvres, entrees, and some desserts. An entire chapter is devoted to sherbets or ices and ice cream. Like Marin that other great contemporary of Menon’s, both placed emphasis on their sauces. Menon’s recipes were surprisingly varied, coming not only from France but Italy, Germany, Ceylon, and Flanders and used in everything from hors d’oeuvres to desserts.’ (ref: Harrison, Une Affaire du Gout 1983.)

1769 £1,500

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WRECK OF THE SEA-HORSE 194. M ’GREGOR, G. Narrative of the Melancholy Wreck of the Sea Horse Transport, in Tramore Bay, on the 30th January, 1816. 363 persons drowned! Waterford: Printed at the Tramore Visiter Office. Unsewn as issued; sl. dusted. Pencil ownership inscriptions of Richard C.D. Tichborne April 13, 1872. (16)pp. ¶ Narrative of the Loss of the Sea-Horse Transport ..., by J.J. (John James) was published in Waterford by John Bull in 1816 (Oxford and Cambridge only on Copac); this later narrative is not recorded by Copac. There is no record of the Tramore Visiter, but BL has a broken run of The Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor 1860-1910. The Sea Horse was a Military transport ship which sank in a storm, resulting in the deaths of all but 30 of the 394 on board. 287 of the passengers were members of the 2nd Battalion, 59th Regiment of Foot being carried from Ramsgate to Cork. On the same day, two other merchantmen - the Lord Melville and the Boadicea - foundered. The total death toll was 612, including 510 members of the 2nd Battalion. The Sea-Horse remains the symbol of Tramore.

[1860] £120 FINE PARADISE LOST 195. M ILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A poem, in twelve books. 12mo. John Sharpe. Half title. Contemp. full dark blue patterned calf, double-ruled gilt borders, spine dec. in gilt; sl. rubbed, corners bumped. A v.g. handsome copy. 1821 £85 CRUIKSHANK FRONTISPIECE 196. M OORE, Francis. The Age of Intellect: or, Clerical showfolk and wonderful layfolk. A series of poetical epistles between Bob Blazon in town, and Jack Jingle in the country. Dedicated to the fair Circassian. 12mo. William Hone. Uncoloured front. by George Cruikshank, title in red & black. Contemp. half calf; later 19thC reback, rubbed & a little worn, inner hinges cracked but firm. Bookplate of Mr John Watson, crossed out in ink & with ownership signature of Henry Clark, on leading pastedown. ¶ Cohn 574, uncoloured, noting that the frontispiece is found in a plane or coloured state. Copac records copies at the BL, Cambridge & Oxford only; OCLC adds copies at Roehampton and NLW with numerous copies in the U.S.

1819 £150

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YEAR 2871: ‘EXCURSION TO THE MOON, FIRST CLASS’ 197. M ORTIMER, Algernon Reginald Hillearn. The Very Latest News, communicated through the medium of Mr. J. Smith, printer, &c. Edited for contemporary readers ... Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. Some foxing, particularly to early pages. Contemp. half calf; repair to leading hinge. ¶ Supposedly a reprinting of a copy of The Hourly News and New Otago Literary Chronicle, ‘Twelve o’clock, April 1, 2871’, mysteriously found on the printer’s floor. This gives ample space for speculation: ‘Excursion to the moon every Tuesday ... First Class 10s. 6d ... Every second Saturday a steam balloon, clipper make, leaves for Venus, calling at Mercury ...’ but mainly humour: Fitzjames; or, The Days of Old, a novel in 25 volumes. ‘By the Lady Bishopess of Salisbury’ and a long review of the Works of Hillearn Mortimer, ‘a mediaeval author’. Emancipation! or, the Mission of Life is being performed at the Grand Theatre Public, Clapham Square. There is much mention of the advance of women to professoress-es and barristeress-in-laws. The Irish are still attempting to establish a republic. ‘His Majesty arrived by pneumatic tube ... and was unpacked amid the cheers of spectators.’ The programme for religious service at the J.S. Mill Chapel is announced. An enjoyable jeux d’esprit.

[1871] £250 BANNERMAN’S CLOTH 198. ( MORTIMER, John) Samples from the Notebooks of an Uncommercial Traveller. Reprinted from the “Diary and Buyers’ Guide,” 1898. Henry Bannerman & Sons. Engraved ‘title’ advertising the firm of Bannerman ‘Spinners, Manufacturers & Merchants’ of Stalybridge, Ancoats, Dukinfield, Manchester ... etc.’, illus., 1p. ads for other ‘treatises’ by John Mortimer. Orig. red cloth; spine sl. faded. ¶ The introduction makes it plain that these ‘miscellaneous sketches’ are ‘little more than pegs upon which to hang pictorial illustrations’ promoting the great works of Henry Bannerman. Towns and cities visited include York, Nottingham, Rye & Winchelsea, Yarmouth to Barmouth, Tunbridge Wells, Derby.

1898 £45 THE RISE OF NAPOLEON 199. ( NAPOLEON I, Emperor of the French) STEWARTON, - The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud: in a series of letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London, written during the months of August, September, and

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October, 1805. 3 vols. 12mo. Printed for John Murray. 1p. ads. Sl. later half calf, marbled boards, brown & red morocco labels, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments; extremities sl. rubbed, heads of spine a little worn. Armorial bookplate of Horatio Noble Pym on leading pastedowns. ¶ Sometimes attributed to Lewis Goldsmith. About the rise of Napoleon. The Critical Review (Vol. VIII, 1806) described the work as an ‘extraordinary publication’, but also suggested that the author, who alleged to have been in military service under the old government, was undoubtedly biased against the new regime. However, even with this acknowledged bias, the reviewer concludes that there ‘may be a good reason for allowing to this secret history a considerable share of our belief ’ since vice and disgrace are to be expected from ‘a court whose very members were lately the lowest of the people, the very dregs of society’. Horatio Noble Pym, 1844-1896, was a solicitor and book collector best remembered now for editing the memoirs of Quaker diarist Caroline Fox.

1806 £380 THE PRISONERS CONDEMNED TO DIE 200. N EWGATE PRISON. A Coppy of the Prisoners Judgment Condemned Tody from Nugate on Mundaie the 13. of Decemb: 1641. With the Examination of the Bishop of Calcedon, and the rest of the Jesuits condemned to die: and the names of the other prisoners condemned, and the matter for which they suffer. Whereunto is added the names of those who deny the oath of Supremacy. Shewed first to the Officers or the prison and after to one of the Jury that so the truth might be printed. Printed by Thomas Paine: In Gold-smiths-Alley in Red-Crosse-street. [ii], 6pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Woodcut of a hanging man with two cheering people on titlepager verso. Contemp. ink numbers on upper right margin of each page. v.g. ¶ ESTC R12550, BL & Guildhall only in UK; Folger, Huntington, UCLA, & Yale in US. The variant with line 15 of title reading ‘officers or the pri-’. A fascinating newsbook reporting on the 31 prisoners who were condemned to be executed at Newgate on December 13, 1641. Most significantly, it reports on seven priests - Abbot, alias Rivers, Edmond Fryer, Peter Wilford, Walter Coleman, John Hammond, Edmond Canon, and Wilmore, alias Wigmore or Turner - who were all charged with treason and sentenced to be ‘hang’d, drawn, and quartered’. Edmund Canon and Edmond Fryar were both elderly and infirm; the author describes Fryer as ‘very feeble, in so much that he could scarce go at all’, and wrote that Canon ‘desired that he might have a Chaire to sit down, in regard of his age’, which was granted, though both men were still handed the harshest possible punishment. John Hammond was allegedly in service to the Queen Henrietta Maria, and she, along with the French Ambassador, played an important role in gaining temporary reprieve for the men. Following the sentencing on 8th December, the Queen instructed the French Ambassador to petition her husband Charles I for a reprieve for the priests. However, tensions between the King and Parliament were already high, especially in regards to the ruler’s suspected Catholic sympathies. Charles refused to grant any reprieves without the support of Parliament, so the matter was quietly taken to the House of Lords which then brought the matter to the House of Commons. It was ultimately decided that Edmond Canon and Peter Wilford would be spared and the rest would be executed as planned, but the decision was not confirmed until the intended execution day, resulting in a delay. When the news broke that the priests’ executions were delayed or halted altogether, the crowd which had formed to watch the public executions, began to riot. The other prisoners who were to be hanged that day joined in the rioting, though they were eventually brought under control and their executions were carried out the following day. Among the non-religious criminals condemned to death were ‘Charles James, an hansome gentile young man ... convicted for Robery and Burglary’; the highway-men Thomas Randall, Edward Dawson, and Henry Smith; Mathew Chenering and Elizabeth Lee ‘Both of them, for stealing of a cloak a genleman, (as she said) was to lie with her the said Eliz. Lee, and the meane while Chenering conveyed a way the cloake’; Edward Hartford ‘a Cookes

NEWGATE Boy, sometimes servant at the Castle in Pye-Corner, for Rape, and Buggery’; and Margaret Heatherfall ‘for picking of a pocket: but by reason shee is with child, she is reprieved’. It is interesting to note the number of criminals who were considered ‘a fine Scholar’, ‘a pretty Youth’, ‘a young proper man’, or otherwise, proving that a life of crime did not only appeal to the underclasses. A wonderful document highlighting the wide range of capital crimes, and the individuals who were convicted of them, in Early Modern England.

1641 £4,200

NEWSPAPER

CORONATION OF QUEEN ANNE 201. N EWSPAPER. The London Gazette. Numb. 3804. From Thursday April 23 to Monday April 27. 1702. Printed by Edw. Jones in the Savoy. 4pp. Folded folio sheet, printed in 2 columns on 4 sides; edges sl. worn, rather browned. Contemp. ink note on top of p.1. ¶ The coronation of Queen Anne, 1665-1714, is recounted in splendid detail in this issue of the London Gazette, including the actual day (April 23, 1702) as well as the first four days of her reign. Anne was the second daughter of the controversial James II, though on the instruction of King Charles II, she was raised a Protestant away from her father. Her elder sister Mary married William III of Orange, and eventually deposed James II as rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland during the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Anne became Queen upon the death of her brotherin-law William III and was immediately popular with the public, which is clear in the effusive description of her coronation included here. After Anne signed the Coronation Oath, she sat in King Edward’s chair and ‘was Anointed, and Presented with the Spurs, and Girt with the Sword, and Vested with her Purple Robes; and having received the Ring, the Orb, and Scepters, was Solemnly Crowned about Four of the Clock with loud Acclamations, the Drums beating, Trumpets sounding, and the Great Guns being discharged’. (The Queen was carried during the procession on a Sedan chair and was seated for much of the ceremony because she suffered mobility issues following many years of ill health and 17 miscarriages). The author wraps up the account of the day writing: ‘Dinner being ended, and all Things performed with great Splendor and Magnificence, about half an Hour past Eight in the Evening Her Majesty returned to St. James’s; The Day concluded with Bonfires, Illuminations, Ringing of Bells, and other Demonstrations of a General Satisfaction and Joy. Most of the remaining document is made up of letters to the new Queen from various officials from around the country, though the printers do manage to highlight two lost property items - a vellum deed left in a hackney coach that departed from the Crown Tavern, and a silver watch. Though Anne’s Coronation was cause for celebration, her popularity waned in later years as the country became embroiled in expensive wars and she became increasingly ill and eccentric.

1702 £220 I KNOW WHAT IT IS TO HAVE ONE’S LIFE THUS TORN IN TWO ... 202. OLIPHANT, Margaret. ALS to ‘Dear Dr. Bridge’, from Windsor, Nov. 8th. 37 lines across 2pp small 8vo. Lightly folded for posting. ¶ A moving letter of condolence to Dr. Bridge, expressing sympathy and solidarity on the death of his wife. ‘I have not ventured to write to you, not because I do not feel for you, as I am sure you will believe - but because words are so incapable of expressing what one feels in the face of such a terrible calamity as yours’. Oliphant reflects, ‘God knows why it was permitted as He alone knows what recompenses He provides for those who are thus afflicted’, before hinting at her own experiences of heartache: ‘I know what it is to have one’s life thus torn in two, and one’s dearest companion removed behind that dark veil’. The unhappy recipient is likely to have been John Frederick Bridge, 1844-1924, organist at Westminster Abbey, whose first wife, Constance Ellen, died in 1879.

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IN ORIGINAL CLOTH 203. O LIPHANT, Margaret. A House Divided Against Itself. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. William Blackwood and Sons. Half titles, 24pp cata. vol. II. Original dark blue smooth cloth, front board blocked & lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt. ¶ Sadleir 1859, which does not have the cata. in vol. II; Wolff 5245.

1886 £850 PANORAMAS

BARKER, Henry Aston

204. ( BADAJOZ) A Short Description of Badajoz, and the surrounding country; with extracts from the London Gazette: explanatory of the picture exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square, representing the siege in 1812. Taken from the Fort La Picurina. J. Adlard, printer. Folding plate; sl. creased. Sewn & uncut as issued in orig. brick red plain paper wrappers, ‘BADAJOZ’ in ink on front wrapper; sl. dusted. An exceptional copy as issued. 12pp. ¶ Henry Ashton Barker was a painter and proprietor, the youngest son of Robert Barker the inventor of the panorama. On 25 May 1793 Robert Barker opened the first purpose-built building for the display of 360 degree panoramas in Leicester Square. Henry worked as his father’s chief assistant, painting panoramas of cities and hard to reach places, and naval and military victories. He painted from first hand experience, travelling extensively to visit the cities and scenes of his projected panoramas. Robert Barker died in 1806. In 1816 Henry bought out the rival Panorama establishment in the Strand with John Burford and his son Robert. He retired in 1824 leaving first John Burford, and latterly Robert Burford, in charge. This panorama depicts the successful siege of Badajoz, Spain, by an Anglo-British army under the Earl of Wellington in 1812. Although successful the siege was one of the bloodiest of the Napoleonic Wars with over 4,800 Allied casualties. Such illustrated pamphlets were printed for the proprietors and sold to visitors at the panorama.

1813 £480 205. ( ROME) An Explanation of the View of Rome, taken from the tower of the Capitol. Now exhibiting at H.A. Barker and J. Burford’s Panorama, near the New Church, in the Strand. n.p. Folding plate. Sewn & uncut as issued in orig. yellow plain paper

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wrappers, ‘ROME’ in ms. on front wrapper; sl. dulled but an exceptional copy as issued. 24pp. ¶ Beneath the sublime panorama of Rome is the announcement that: ‘Henry Aston Barker has the Honour to inform the Public, that, having purchased the Panorama in the Strand, he has entered into Partnership with John Burford, in that concern; and he trusts that the same Attention to effective Correctness will be evident in the future Pictures of that Establishment, which has already met with such general Approbation in his Panorama, Leicester Square’.

1817 £480 ARCTIC EXPLORATION 206. ( SPITZBERGEN) Description of a View of the North Coast of Spitzbergen, now exhibiting in the large rotunda of Henry Aston Barker’s Panorama, Leicester-Square; painted from drawings taken by Lieut. Beechey, who accompanied the polar expedition in 1818, and liberally presented them to the proprietor ... Jas., W. & Chas. Adlard. Large folding plate. Sewn & uncut as issued in orig. yellow plain paper wrappers. An exceptional copy as issued. 12pp. ¶ A double panorama depicting scenes from David Buchan’s arctic expedition in 1818. The panorama itself was seen in Leicester Square by John Keats who noted in his letters, that ‘I have been very much pleased with the Panorama of the ships at the North Pole—with the icebergs, the Mountains, the Bears, the Walrus—the seals the Penguins—and a large whale floating back above the water—it is impossible to describe the place’.

1819 £1,250 207. ( VITTORIA) Description of the View of the Battle of Vittoria, and the great victory gained by the Marquis of Wellington over the French army under Joseph Bonaparte, now exhibiting in Henry Aston Barker’s Panorama, Leicester Square. J. Adlard, printer. Folding plate, lacks sewing. Uncut as issued in orig. blue sugar paper wrappers. 12pp. ¶ This panorama depicts the victory for Allied Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese forces at the Battle of Vittoria, Spain in June 1813, which contributed significantly to the defeat of French forces in the Peninsular War.

1814 £550 _____ 208. ( BARKER, Thomas Edward) (BERLIN) A Description of the View of Berlin, exhibiting in Barker’s Panorama, Strand. J. Adlard. Large folding plate. Sewn & uncut as issued in orig. blue plain sugar paper wrappers, ‘BERLIN’ in ms. on front wrapper. 12pp. ¶ Four copies only on Copac. Thomas Edward Barker was the son of Robert Barker the inventor of the panorama and brother of Henry Aston Barker. On 25 May 1793 Robert Barker opened the first purpose-built building for the display of 360 degree panoramas in Leicester Square. Henry worked as his father’s chief assistant, painting panoramas of cities and hard to reach places, and naval and military victories. In direct competition with his father and brother Thomas Barker and the artist Ramsay Richard Reinagle built and opened a rival panorama on the Strand in 1803. The two panoramas ran in competition with each other until in 1816 the Strand was purchased by Robert Aston. The circular panorama of Berlin is accompanied by 12 pages of explanatory text.

1814 £480 209. B URFORD, Robert. (BOMBAY) Description of a View of the Island and Harbour of Bombay, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square. FIRST EDITION. T. Brettell. Large folding front., a double panorama with key. Sewn & uncut as issued in plain brown paper wrappers, ‘Panorama Bombay’ in ms. on front wrapper. A superb copy as issued. 12pp. ¶ Copac records copies at the BL, Newcastle, Oxford and the British Musuem; OCLC adds copies at the Huntington, Yale, McGill, and the State Library of NSW. The last single copy to sell at auction was in 1969; an 1832 edition sold

PANORAMAS in 2011. The title verso, which advertises ‘A View of Quebec’ and ‘Views of Hobart Town, and Paris’, have been altered in ink with Quebec crossed through and ‘Florence’ written beside it. ‘Views of Hobart Town’, etc. has been crossed through. Robert Burford, 1791-1861, was a panorama painter and proprietor as was his father John Burford. They worked together with Robert Barker, 1739– 1806, the inventor of the panorama, and then, after his death, for his son Henry Aston Barker, 1774–1856, at the Panorama, Leicester Square. ODNB notes that ‘Burford was an alert and energetic showman, confidently providing London audiences with a seemingly never-ending sequence of sublime and topical patriotic spectacles’. The sublime included exotic and hard to reach (for all but the wealthy or intrepid) places. The patriotic consisted of current affairs: royal visits, sieges and successful battles. The two panoramas of Bombay illustrated here, include a numbered key which are explained in the 12 pages of text.

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LETTERS PATENT - FOR SHIPBUILDING 210. PATENT. GILCHRIST, Archibald. Royal Letters Patent for an invention for “Improvements in Slide Valves”. With the attached seal of Queen Victoria, 1869. Her Majesty’s Patenting Office. Two large legal documents, printed on folded vellum (with names and details added in a fine official hand), attached with law string to the large yellow wax seal of Queen Victoria. The seal, approx. 16 cm in diameter, is housed in its original tin, and the whole housed in the original wooden dark-green morocco-covered box, stamped with the royal coat-of-arms on the lid, & lettered in gilt ‘Edmund Hunt, Patent Agent, 87 St. Vincent St., Glasgow’. Box a little rubbed, & with crack in base.

¶ Numbered 2478/69, this is a nice example of a midVictorian patent document, in this case for an invention by Archibald Gilchrist of Lanark for ‘improvement in slide valves ...’. Gilchrist, 1822-1900, was an engineer and shipbuilder, from 1857 co-chairman of the Glasgow shipbuilding company Barclay, Curle & Co. The patent is recorded in the London Gazette, for September 3rd 1869.

1869 £380 211. P EMBERTON, Mrs., pseud. (Helen Etough Gipps) The World’s Furniture. A novel. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Samuel Tinsley & Co. Contemp. half black calf, spines with raised gilt bands & scarlet leather labels, marbled boards & e.ps; corners a little rubbed. Armorial bookplates of Frederic William Anderton, & later label of R.J. Hayhurst. ¶ Not in Sadleir; Wolff 5517, ’obviously the first work of this lady’. Copac lists five copies of this novel, none of which are attributed. Victorian Research identifies the author as Helen Etough Gipps, née Crookshank, 1830-1877, author of seven three-decker novels. She was embroiled in a divorce scandal in the 1860s and, perhaps wishing to avoid negative publicity, published her society novels under the pseudonym Mrs Pemberton

1861 £380

PEPYS’ DIARY: FINE BINDING 212. P EPYS, Samuel. Diary and Correspondence ... from his ms. cypher in the Pepsyian Library, with a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke deciphered, with additional notes, by Rev. Mynors Bright. 6 vols. Bickers and Son. Half titles, ‘numerous portraits from the collection in the Pepysian Library, printed in permanent Woodburytype’, folding table vol. V. Handsome contemp. tree calf, gilt borders and spines, dark green and red labels; marbled e.p.s with matching edges. A lovely set. 1875 £650

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SHERLOCK HOLMES 213. P ERIODICAL. NEWNES, George, pub. The Strand. Vols. I - XLI, January 1891 - June 1911. George Newnes. Illus; occasional light spotting, sl. damp marking to final leaves vols XVI & XVII. Orig. pictorial light blue cloth, bevelled boards, spine blocked in black & gilt; with sl. variation to bindings, volume size & endpapers, sl. mark to spine vol. II, vol. XII sl. loose in casing, sl. dulled, occasional sl. rubbing to extremities. Overall a nice run. ¶ A long and attractive run of the iconic Strand Magazine which was published from December 1890 until March 1950, a total of 711 monthly issues. It is best known for its publication of short stories and novels by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the character of Sherlock Holmes. Although the famous detective first appeared in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 his appearance in The Strand propelled Holmes to ever greater popularity. The first short story to feature Sherlock Holmes was ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ in 1891. A further 56 short stories and four novels, including The Hound of the Baskevilles, were published in The Strand between 1891 and 1927. Other authors to contribute stories to the magazine included H.G. Wells, Dorothy L. Sayers, E. Nesbit, W.W. Jacobs and Rudyard Kipling.

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£2,500 MAN IN THE MOON 214. PERIODICAL. (SMELLEY, William.) The Man in the Moon. Consisting of essays and critiques on the politics, morals, manners, drama, &c. of the present day. No. 1, 12th Nov. 1803 - no. 24, 26 Jan. 1804. Printed for S. Highley. Collective titlepage, 24 small 12mo issues, signed in 4s, stamped; a little browned in places. Expertly rebound in drab boards, printed paper label. ¶ BL, NLS & Oxford only on Copac with a short run of three issues at Manchester. The last copy to appear at auction in 1983 was incomplete and defective. An alien observer who casts judgement on earthlings (and in particular the English) was an established frame for satire by this time. The lunar gentleman is pithily critical of the theatre, observing that the title of John Till Allingham’s Hearts of Oak ‘would have suited any other play just as well’, and insightful about the brotherhood of man, declaring ‘I confess that when I see the Protestant in his church, the Roman Catholic in his chapel, or the Bramin in his mosque, all addressing the same deity, I feel love and respect for each, and venerate the duty they are engaged in’. He ends by discussing the role of logic in ethics, and the final issue - penned by his earthly editor - discusses the concept of ‘enemies’ and those who play a disruptive role in society.

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FEMALE WARRIOR 215. P ERRIAM, Ann. Carte de Visite Portrait, of ‘the naval heroine, Ann Perriam ... aged 93, ... Exmouth: photographed by Mr. J. Sugg. Carte de visite with black & white portrait photograph pasted on to card, 6.4 x 10cm, printed on verso; sl. remains of adhesive from mount on lower right corner, not affecting image, otherwise v.g. ¶ This very unusual photograph shows a three-quarter length portrait of Ann Perriam, at a very advanced age, seated facing forward wearing bonnet, shawl and a white apron. On the verso, the exciting particulars of Perriam’s naval life are described, under the heading ‘Female Warrior’. ‘The photograph ... represents the naval heroine Ann Perriam, widow, aged 93, of Tower Street Exmouth, who was allowed to accompany her husband on board H.M. Ship “Crescent” and “Orion” ... from the early part of 1794 to the close of 1798’. She was ‘present and assisted in the following great battles: at L’Orient ... June 23 1795; off Cape St. Vincent ... February 14, 1797; The Nile, [under] Admiral Lord Nelson, Aug. 1, 1798, in which 18 of the enemy’s ships were either captured or destroyed’. She was, we are informed, ‘stationed in the magazine with the gunners, preparing flannel cartridges for the great guns’. Of the others who volunteered from Exmouth, she is described as the only survivor. Where her age is printed, someone has added in a neat hand in black ink ‘now 96’, and in the left margin, a later pencil annotation notes ‘Died Jan 1865’. The photograph had appeared in the Illustrated London News in May 1863. An accompanying article described her exploits, explaining that her first husband was a seaman called Edward Hopping, and that as a ‘woman of good character’, she had been able to sail with him. Hopping died in 1802, and she took the name from her second husband John Perriam, a naval pilot. After he died in 1812, she reportedly sold fish on the streets of Exmouth ‘until she was 80 and unable to continue’. For her efforts, this unlikeliest of warriors, and one of only a handful of women to have participated in naval battles in the 18th century, received a ‘paltry pension’ of £10 per annum.

[1863] £580 † TALES OF MYSTERY 216. P OE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour; and Poems. Illustrated with twenty-six engravings on wood. FIRST UK EDITION. Printed and published by Henry Vizetelly, (Readable Books No. 1). Front., vignette title, illus. Late 19th century half black calf, marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, earlier label preserved; sl. rubbed. Contemp. ink signature of J. Franklin Lloyd on leading f.e.p. v.g. ¶ Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849, is one of the great figures of American literature; though he worked as a jobbing writer and gained a reputation as a literary critic during his own lifetime, Poe is best remembered now for his mysterious and

POE macabre stories. ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, which is often considered the first modern detective story, and his most enduring poem ‘The Raven’ both appear in this collection. There are eight short stories and eleven poems in this volume including ‘The Premature Burial’, ‘The Purloined Letter’, ‘Startling Effects of Mesmerism on a Dying Man’, ‘Lenore’, ‘The Haunted Palace’, and ‘The Gold-Beetle’ (published as ‘The Gold-Bug’ in America), one of Poe’s most successful works during his lifetime’.

1852 £1,250 217. POE, Edgar Allan. The Works. Edited by John H. Ingram. 4 vols. A. & C. Black. Half titles, front. port. & folding facsimiles vol. I, 2pp. ads vol. IV. Orig. dark blue cloth; sl. rubbed, small mark to back board vol. II. t.e.g. ¶ Includes: The Tales, Poems, Criticisms, with a Memoir.

1899 £125

‘A NAUTICO-DOMESTIC ROMANCE’ 218. (PREST, Thomas Peckett) The Smuggler King; or, The Foundling of the Wreck. A nautico domestic romance. By the Author of “Gallant Tom”; ... FIRST EDITION. E. Lloyd. Front & plate, illus.; sl. discolouration, some marginal tears, with corner torn from pp.4142 with loss of two letters. Rebound with green cloth spine, grey boards, dark green leather label. Signature on title of Frederick Evans 1845. ¶ Ono 509. Published in 56 pts with dramatic woodcut illustrations of this rare nautical novel by the hack writer and author of ‘Blood’ novels Thomas Peckett Prest, 1810-1859.

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TRANSFORMATION PRINT 219. A LBERT, Prince Consort. Prince Albert’s Stock; or, The Royal fashion for 1843, which is to continue for the succeeding ten years. William Spooner. Transformation, colour litho., with Prince Albert’s neckcloth tipped on in two sections; small tear along one fold. A lovely copy of a delicate item. 32 x 22cm. ¶ Recorded at the John Johnson Collection, Oxford, and the V&A. A transformation print showing Prince Albert’s black neckcloth, attached as two flaps which fold over a portrait of the three Royal children, Victoria the Princess Royal, Edward, and the recently born Alice. 1843 £280 †

JOSEPH GRIMALDI, THE CLOWN 220. ( GRIMALDI, Joseph) HEATH, William. Grimaldis Bang Up in the Popular Pantomime of the Golden Fish. J. Palser. Hand-coloured etching. Plate 25 x 35cm, with large margins. ¶ One of a number of caricatures of Grimaldi by William Heath. Grimaldi, dressed in character as a clown, sits atop a wicker cart pulled by a dog. 9th Jan., 1812 £480 †

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221. ( HEATH, William?) Mr Grimaldi & Mr Norman in the Epping Hunt from the Popular Pantomime of the Red Dwarf. n.p. Hand-coloured etching; trimmed to plate mark, very sl. loss to upper left corner, at some time tipped into a mount. 24 x 34cm. ¶ Attributed to Heath by the Wellcome. Grimaldi dressed as a clown/jockey rides on the back of a giant sheep following Norman who rides a horse which is too small for him.

[c.1811] £320 † CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION 222. JONES, Thomas Howell. The Extinguisher, or Putting out the great law-luminary. S.W. Fores. Hand-coloured etching; sl. tear to lower margin not affecting plate. Plate 34.5 x 24.5cm, with good margins. A lovely copy. ¶ George BM Satires 15718, a satire on the Catholic Emancipation Bill: ‘Eldon’s head rests on a candle-end which is in an elaborate candle-stick of gold plate, standing on the ground. Wellington (left), in uniform, reaches up to cover it with a huge extinguisher inscribed ‘Catholic Bill Majority 168’; he says: “Thus I obscure you, ne’er to shine again.’ Eldon looks to the left, registering intensive melancholy; rays from his head, obstructed on the left by the extinguisher, strike against the profile of George IV, whose head, shoulder, and paunch project from the right margin, leaning towards the candle. The King says ‘Poor Old Bags!”.’

1829 £450 † 223. (ROWLANDSON, Thomas) A Box Lobby Hero. The branded bully, or the ass strip’d of the lion’s skin. n.p. Hand-coloured etching, ‘designed by Gobbo and executed by Hicho’; trimmed within plate mark, 2 pin holes to lower corners, signs of removal from an album on verso. 26 x 33cm. ¶ George BM satires 7064 noting two copies, one dated 1786 underneath image. A crowd of eleven amused spectators watches the punishment of a bully, a tall man standing in profile to the left. A much shorter man, fashionably dressed, his arms folded, spits in his face. A man (right) pulls his long queue and kicks him. A fashionably dressed young woman (left) derisively holds out a smelling-bottle towards him; a stout woman holding a basket of fruit offers him one of her oranges. A dog befouls his leg. On each side a laughing man watches the attack through an eye-glass. On the wall is print of an ass wearing a lion’s skin inscribed ‘The Old Fable Verified’.

[1786] £280 †

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DANDY 224. A Dandy. S.W. Fores. Hand-coloured etching; previously tipped on to a large sheet. Plate 35.5 x 25cm. v.g. ¶ George BM Satires 13071. A dandy looks fondly into a mirror in a handsome but rather untidy room. To the left and right of the title are two stanzas of verse: ‘A lad who goes into the world dick like me, Should have neck tied up you know, there’s no doubt of it’ almost as tight as some lads who go out of it. With whiskers well oil’d, and boots that hold up the mirror to nature; so bright you could sup ...’

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REPEAL OF INCOME TAX 225. T he Doctor Administering His Gilded Pill. S.W. Fores. Hand-coloured etching. Plate 34 x 22cm, with large margins. A pleasing copy. ¶ George BM Satires 9849, a caricature on the debate whether to repeal income tax during the peace of 1802. Beneath the title are five lines of text: ‘I need not take up your time by a description of the Income Tax. You are already perfectly acquainted with its features. In its principle, it is unjust; in its operation, vexatious and degrading; and in its tendency immoral it subverts the public spirit of liberty, which nature has planted in the human breast and constitutes the dignity of men ...’

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THE NIGHTMARE OF NIGHT MAYOR 226. T he Night Mare; or Magistratical Vigilance. Thos. Tegg. Hand-coloured etching; trimmed closed to plate mark. Plate 24.5 x 26cm. ¶ George BM Satires 12816, one of a number of caricatures satirising Sir Matthew Wood’s campaign, as Lord Mayor of London, against the city underworld. In the title ‘Night Mare’ is crossed through to become ‘Night Mayor’.

1816 £320 † A MINIATURE DANDY HUSSAR 227. A Tenth Rejected; or, The dandyfield coxcomb in a bandbox. John Fairburn. Handcoloured etching; trimmed within plate mark and laid on cream card. 23.5 x 34cm. ¶ George BM Satires 14646: ‘A farmyard scene, with a corner of the house on the left. A grossly fat and carbuncled parson on a quest for tithes encounters the farmer’s wife, who runs towards him proffering an open bandbox, with a dangling lid inscribed 10th. A miniature hussar, very dandified in shako and pelisse, stands in it, superciliously inspecting the parson through an eye-glass. The woman, who is plump and well-dressed, wearing apron and bonnet, says: Seeing your Reverence comeing for your Tithes, I have brought you a Tenth. The parson, who holds a large book, Tithe list, and has a chicken in his capacious pocket, answers with a scowl and gesture of refusal: Take it back! take it back! good Woman; I never tithe Monkeys. The little hussar says: Eh! eh! what does that there fellow say? An amused yokel with a pitchfork leans over a gate (left). A cock crows on a dunghill, an ass brays. Corn-sheaves stand in a distant’.

1824 £180 † _____ 228. W OODWARD, George Moutard. The Head of the Family in Good Humour. Thomas Tegg. Hand-coloured etching. Plate 34.5 x 24.5cm, with good margins. ¶ George BM Satires 11213. A satire with only a ‘partial relation to facts’; ‘The satire relates particularly to Napoleon’s Continental system, which included all the powers of Europe except Sweden and Portugal’. ‘John Bull, a hideously carbuncled ‘cit’, looks down grinning at a semicircle of men on a much smaller scale who surround his half-length figure. They are (left to right) Napoleon, wearing a huge bicorne, who looks up to say ‘Ships. Colonies and Commerce’. A man in military uniform, quite unlike Alexander, his back to Napoleon, says: ‘Russian Vengeance attend John Bull. A fat Dutch burgher puffs smoke towards John, saying, I’ll eternally smoke him’. A scowling man in civilian dress with tousled hair says: ‘Let him tremble at the name of America’. Prussia, a handsome military officer in place of the damaged soldier who after Tilsit represented Frederick William III in English caricature, says: “Beware of Prussia”. A similar officer (Francis I) says: ‘Austria will never Pardon him’. A Spaniard wearing a cocked hat says: ‘Spanish Fury overtake him’. A scowling face says: ‘Let him beware of Denmark’. John says: ‘Dont make such a riot you little noisy Brats, all your bustle to me is no more than a storm in a Chamber pot’.

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229. ( CRUIKSHANK, George) ‘An East End Club-House’. Original artwork for in ‘Our Own Times’. Pencil sketch enhanced with green watercolour, 10 x 16cm, with six smaller sketches (one in ink) & numerous pencil annotations in the margins. Sheet 18 x 22, laid down, mounted, framed & glazed. ¶ Princeton hold the original sketch for the ‘The Ragged School’, also published in Our Own Times. Our Own Times (Cohn 193) was issued in only four original monthly parts, dealing lightly with subjects like Ragged Schools, sweated labour, hydropathy and other social issues, associated with the ‘Hungry Forties’. Each issue includes a plate by Cruikshank. ‘With these designs’, writes Richard Vogler, Cruikshank ‘places himself in the mainstream of nineteenth-century

PRINTS & ORIGINAL ARTWORK humanitarianism ... The obscurity of the magazine in which these etchings appeared has caused them to remain virtually unknown to most scholars concerned with the Victorian age - a regrettable situation since they so aptly chronicle major social problems’ of the time. Here, Cruikshank sketches seven working people and children on a cramped bench, with two more cooking at an open fireplace. As was his way, he surrounds the sketch with a series of six vignettes and numerous pencil notes. On the right hand margin he writes: ‘to be asked for on Xmas Eve, a shin of beef ... a fat goose ... bottle of gin, 2 gallons of beer ... & no gammon, good nature, indignation, Raffle ... dance ... contrast this with the “Club House”.’

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ORIGINAL DRAWING FOR ‘WINDSOR CASTLE’ 230. C RUIKSHANK, George. The Search for Herne the Hunter. Original watercolour for the Novel ‘Windsor Castle’, by William Harrison Ainsworth. Pencil & watercolour on paper, signed & annotated, with an additional pencil sketch to left margin, 13 x 19.5cm, edge mounted with recent ms. annotation ‘Cruikshank’s Works vol. II page 140’. ¶ A finished watercolour for ‘The Search for Herne the Hunter’ published opposite page 131 in the first one-volume edition of William Harrison Ainsworth’s novel Windsor Castle. Originally published in three volumes in 1843 with only three Cruikshank plates, the first one-volume edition, illustrated by Cruikshank and Tony Johannot, was published in the same year. A historical novel depicting Henry VIII’s pursuit of Anne Boleyn, intertwined with the tale of Herne the Hunter, a ghost that haunts Windsor woods. Sutherland describes the novel as representing ‘the most extraordinary collaboration between author and illustrator in the Victorian period’. Ainsworth had intended for the distinguished French artist Johannot to illustrate the whole work, but he contributed two and Cruikshank the remaining fourteen full page illustrations.

[1843] £850 † ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR 231. D IGHTON, Robert. Original Watercolour for ‘Quarrelsome Taylors; or, Two of a Trade Seldom Agree’. Watercolour, signed ‘Dighton del’, manuscript title beneath; small section beneath image neatly cut away. Approx. 35 x 25cm. Mounted, framed & glazed. ¶ A magnificent original watercolour by Robert Dighton for a print published by Bowles & Carver in c.1794 (see George BM Satires 8595). George describes it thus: ‘A ragged “botching tailor” is climbing out of his bulk or stall (right) to attack with his goose a tailor who hastens from him, turning to snip his shears contemptuously. Above the penthouse stall is a placard, “Simon Snip - maks & mendes Mens & Buoys reddy mad Close. N.B. nete Gallows for Breaches.” A garment and a pair of braces hang on a line; within a window is a sheet of patterns. The other, who is neatly dressed, carries a coat under his arm; a book of patterns protrudes from his coat pocket. A street receding in perspective (right) and the façade of a dignified house (left) form a background.’ George notes that his original painting was part of the collection of Jeffrey Rose that was sold at Sotheby’s on 23 February 1978. Robert Dighton, 1751-1814, was the son of the printseller John Dighton and his wife Hannah. He is best know as a popular singer and as a designer of droll mezzotints and engravings. The first prints designed by Dighton were of actors in character for John Bell’s edition of Shakespeare’s works (1775–6) and for Thomas Lowndes’s New English Theatre. He also designed comic literary scenes and later, like this fine example, large caricatures including ‘Mr Deputy Dumpling and Family Enjoying a Summer Afternoon’ (1781), ‘The Return from a Masquerade—a Morning Scene’ (c.1784), or ‘The Frenchman in Distress’ (1797). (ODNB online.)

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232. D IGHTON, Robert. Two Original Watercolours. ‘The Harmony of Courtship’ and ‘The Discord of Matrimony’. Two watercolours, signed ‘Dighton del’, with pencil title beneath & ink number, 406 & 407 respectively. Both approx. 15.5 x 11cm. Framed & glazed. ¶ A charming pair of original watercolours by Robert Dighton, printed as mezzotints by Bowles & Carver (see George BM Satires 8920 & 8921). In ‘The Harmony of Courtship’, a couple lean into other affectionately as they gaze into one another’s eyes. In ‘The Discord of Matrimony’, the same couple, the lady with her back to her husband, scowl at each other with venom.

[c.1796] £3,000 THE PRINCE AND THE DEVILS 233. M ARKS, John Lewis. Original Caricature of the Prince of Wales Standing Within a Circle of Dancing Blue Devils. Ink & watercolour on paper watermarked 1813, signed ‘J.L. Marks’; small chip to left margin, expert Japanese tissue repair on verso of left & right margins. ¶ A jolly looking Prince of Wales, dressed as a court jester and holding a goblet in his left hand, stands on a stage as ten miniature blue devils dance in a circle around him handin-hand. One devil wears a mitre, another a judge’s wig. A small pencil sketch of a head is drawn beneath the prince’s right arm. We can find no example of a similar printed work by Marks. Dorothy George notes that John Lewis Marks was active between 1814 to 1832 although his career went on beyond the latter date. A caricaturist working initially with the publisher Tegg, Marks also engraved and published his own work. [c.1814] £750 †

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234. N IXON, John. Original Pen and Ink Caricature, ‘Amsterdam Shanks Leggs Servant Shaving Him’. Pen, ink & wash on paper, edge mounted on to sl. larger sheet. 17 x 22.5cm. Mounted. ¶ Provenance: Hospital de la Povidence (French Hospital), Rochester. Inscribed in Nixon’s hand with the title ‘Amsterdam, Shanks Leggs Servant Shaving Him’, and identifying the two other characters (to the left and right) as ‘J. Nixon’ and ‘G. Nixon’. The scene is in a large bed chamber with a portrait of Emperor Joseph on the far wall above above a large fireplace. John Nixon, 1755-1818, was ‘not only an able landscapist, but also a notable caricaturist’. His primary business, alongside his brother Richard, was as an Irish merchant, and it is almost certainly within this context, that he travelled to the scene of this sketch, in Amsterdam.

[c.1790] £2,200 AN UPTURNED CART 235. ( ROWLANDSON, Thomas) Original Watercolour. Unsigned watercolour & wash on paper; some sl. marking. 15 x 23cm, mounted, framed & glazed. ¶ A particularly striking watercolour depicting the humorous scene of a horse pulling a cart through the shallows of a river. The cart has been upturned with the angry and shocked passengers being unceremoniously dumped into the water as the driver, holding a whip, looks angrily on. On the river bank, in front of a cottage, a man holds out his arms towards the scene that is unfolding in front of him.

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236. Q UINCY, John. Lexicon Physico-Medicum: or, A new medicinal dictionary; explaining the difficult terms used in the several branches of the profession, and in such parts of natural philosophy as are introductory thereto: with an account of the things signified by such terms. Collected from the most eminent authors; and particularly those who have wrote upon mechanical principles. The fourth edition, with new improvements from the latest chymical and mechanical authors. Printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater-noster-Row. xvi, 480pp, diagrams in text. 8vo. Full contemporary panelled calf, raised bands, early handwritten paper label; joints cracked but firm, head & tail of spine sl. chipped. Tinted bookplate of Cholmondely Library, later bookplate Ex Libris Nellen, with ownership inscription dated 1949 on f.e.p. ¶ ESTC T60566. First published in 1719.

1730 £220 EROTIC ALCHEMY & SEX MAGIC 237. R ANDOLPH, Paschal Beverly. Eulis! The History of Love: its wondrous magic, chemistry, rules, laws, modes, moods and rationale; being the third revelation of soul and sex. Also, reply to “Why is Man Immortal?” The solution to the Darwin problem. An entirely new theory. 2nd edn. Toledo, Ohio: Randolph Publishing Co. XVIIpp catalogue of the author’s works. Orig. green dec. cloth, bevelled boards; corners & head & tail of spines rubbed. Bookseller’s ticket of Thesaurus, St. Helier, on leading pastedown. ¶ First published in 1874 with the same collation (BL and the Royal College of Surgeons only on Copac). No U.K. edition is recorded. Randolph, 18252875, was a freed black man, descendant of William Randolph, 1650-1711, the Anglo-American planter and politician of Virginia. P.B. Randolph, following a period in early life travelling the world as a sailor, became a medical doctor and an occultist, spiritualist and medium. He introduced America to ‘erotic alchemy’, ‘sex magic’ and hashish, and founded the first American Rosicrucian society at San Francisco - as well as lecturing against slavery. His works strongly influenced the Theosophists.

1874 £350 238. ( ROBINSON, Emma) Mauleverer’s Divorce. A story of woman’s wrongs. By the author of “Whitefriards”, &c. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Charles J. Skeet. Sl. later half blue calf, marbled paper boards, red & brown morocco labels; spines sl. faded. Armorial bookplate of Charles I. Dickins on leading pastedowns. v.g. ¶ Not in Sadleir; Wolff 5927. Copac records four copies only but not noting the BL copy; OCLC adds copies at Emory at University of Texas. A novel focusing on the sensitive issue of divorce in Victorian England. Dickins’s bookplate bears remarkable similarity to that of his rather more famous near namesake.

1858 £550

ROGERS

OCTAVO EDITION: ORIGINAL BOARDS 239. ROGERS, Samuel. Human Life, a poem. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. John Murray. Half title. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper label; v. sl. knocked at corners. With the contemp. signature of Agnes Stephen on titlepage, and Douglas Grant’s signature on leading f.e.p. v.g. ¶ First octavo edition. Rogers worked on this poem for more than 12 years.

1819 £110 ROMANTICS

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JULIANA HORATIA EWING’S ANNOTATED COPY 240. R OYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. MDCCCLXXVI. The one hundred and eighth. Printed by William Clowes and Sons. Orig. limp blue cloth - the smaller version of the catalogue ‘bound in cloth, with pencil, 1s. 6d.’ (but this copy is without the pencil). ¶ This is the copy of the catalogue owned by Juliana Horatia Ewing, with her emphasis marks and comments. Stars and crosses appear to indicate ‘like’ - Eyre Crowe’s The Rehearsal achieves 3 stars for instance, as does Alma-Tadema’s An Audience with Agrippa and Riviere’s Pallas Athene and the Herdsman’s Dogs. But, inevitably, it is her negative comments that are much more fun: Archer’s Untitled is ‘trash, quite so’; F. Hamilton Jackson’s Endymion is ‘ludicrous, decidedly’; Millais’ Forbidden Fruit is ‘damnable’; E. Bach’s Simplicity is ‘badly named’; D.W. Wynfield’s The New Curate is ‘sickening’; J.R. Herbert’s King Lear Disinheriting Cordelia is ‘awful’. Ewing comments on “She Never Told Her Love” by T. Faed - ‘then she was a fool’ - and on Mournful Moments by J.C. Lawrence - ‘Oh lawks a daisy’. ‘Can’t abide it’ is Ewing’s response to Millais’ portrait of the Duchess of Westminster and she is not surprised ‘He Never Came’ by E.H. Fahey (’I don’t know that I wonder’ though ‘the water is lovely’). ‘I don’t like it’ is the simple comment on the portrait of the Hon. Mrs J. Stuart Wortley by her daughter and J.R. Herbert’s Judith in the Tent of Holfernes is ‘weak to the last degree’ while E. Armitage’s The Hymn of the Last Supper is ‘very hideous, but good’. J. Morgan’s Untitled is ‘execrable’ and P.R. Morris’s Breezy June is ‘Insanity’. Ewing does not comment on probably the most famous painting exhibited in 1876, C.W. Cope’s Selecting Pictures for the Royal Academy, which portrayed the Academicians reviewing the submissions; ironically the painting was included in the exhibition without going through the usual vetting process. Juliana Horatia Ewing, nee Gatty, 1841-1885, was one of the most popular children’s authors of the second half of the nineteenth century. She was married to Major Alexander Ewing, and at the time of this exhibition was living in the army town of Aldershot.

1876 £500

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LEGENDS OF THE DEEP 241. R USSELL, W. Clark. The Father of the Sea and other legends of the deep. 3rd edn. Sampson Low, Marston. Half title, 1p ads. Orig. blue cloth, vellum spine; sl. marked. ¶ First published as The Turnpike Sailor, 1907; all copies under this title recorded by Copac are of the third edition. The preface is a paean of praise to the author, ‘the greatest master of the sea, living or dead’. Russell, 1844-1911, was bedridden for the last six months of his life; this was his last published book.

1911 £45 SCOTT’S POETRY 242. S COTT, Sir Walter, Bart. The Poetical Works ... With life. Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis. Engr. front. & title, additional printed title, plates. Orig. dark pink wavy-grained cloth, spine & front board attractively blocked in gilt; spine faded to tan, following board sl. rubbed. Contemp. gift inscription on leading f.e.p. a.e.g. v.g. ¶ 624pp.

[1873] £25 1890s ADAPTATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE 243. S HAKESPEARE, William. Shakepeare’s Tragedy of Hamlet: as arranged for the Stage by Wilson Barrett ... David Bogue. Half title. 96pp. WITH: The Winter’s Tale, a Comedy in five acts ... as performed by Miss. Mary Anderson and Company, at the Lyceum Theatre, September. W.S. Johnson. 1887. 66pp. Contemp. half maroon calf, spine gilt. t.e.g. v.g. [1884] £65 SCRIPT FOR OLIVIER’S HAMLET 244. ( SHAKESPEARE, William) (OLIVIER, Laurence) FILM SCRIPT. Hamlet. Post-production script. Produced and directed by Laurence Olivier. (6) + 180pp typescript on versos of various coloured folio pages; v. sl. damp affected at beginning & end. Pinned at upper edge in orange wrappers; v. sl. dusted. Three promotional stills from the film loosely inserted. ¶ Text in three columns: scene and runtime, editing notes, and dialogue. Olivier’s 1948 Hamlet was the first version of the play with an English-language soundtrack and the first British film to win an Academy Award (indeed it won four: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Art Direction (black and white), and Best

SHAKESPEARE Costume Design (black and white), and was nominated for a further three). Olivier remains the only Best Actor winner for a Shakespearean role, but his direction was criticised by purists on the grounds that ‘his liberties with the text ... are sure to disturb many’. While it is fair to say that the director’s focus on Oedipal themes and his omission of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern throw the text slightly off balance, the film was a success at the box office, won a Golden Lion, and remains to many the definitive cinematic representation of the play. Pauline Kael mounted a convincing defence of it on the grounds that ‘Whatever the omissions, the mutilations, the mistakes, this is very likely the most exciting and most alive production of Hamlet you will ever see on the screen’. Controversial though the film may have been and strange as it is to read the familiar lines alongside camera descriptions, music cues, and instructions for dissolves and fade-outs, this script represents a landmark in terms of Shakespeare’s place in the cinema age, and the twentieth-century imagination.

1948 £750

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BEAUTIES OF SHELLEY 245. S HELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley, consisting of miscellaneous selections from his poetical works, the entire poems of Adonais and Alastor, and a revised edition of Queen Mab free from all objectionable passages. With a biographical preface. 2nd edn. 12mo. George Lapham. Occasional light spotting. Attractively bound in contemp. full dark green morocco, gilt ornaments & dentelles. a.e.g. A lovely copy. ¶ An attractive copy in possibly a publisher’s binding.

1830 £300 THREE COLONIES OF AUSTRALIA 246. S IDNEY, Samuel. The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines, & gold fields. With numerous engravings. FIRST EDITION. Ingram, Cooke & Co. Front., plates & illus.; the odd spot. Dark green library cloth; v. sl. rubbed but a nice copy. ¶ Samuel Sidney, 1813-1883, English lawyer and author who wrote widely about agriculture, husbandry, railways, and emigration to Australia. Most of his knowledge on Australia came from his brother James’s experiences there in the late 1830s and early 1840s.

1852 £120 HANDSOME COPY 247. ( SIDNEY, Sir Philip) GREVILLE, Fulke, Baron Brooke The Life of the Renowned Sr. Philip Sidney. With the true interest of England as it stood in relation to all forrain princes: and particularly for suppressing the power of Spain stated by him. His principal actions, counsels, designes, and death. Together with a short account of the maximes and policies used by Queen Elizabeth in her government. Written by Sir Fulke Grevil Knight, Lord Brook, a servant to Queen Elizabeth, and his companion & friend. Printed for Henry Seile. [viii], 1-112, 109-153, 158-208, 201-247, [1]. 8vo. Worming to lower margin, touching text in places. An attractive, clean copy, in 20thC full tan calf, gilt borders and spine, maroon and green labels; hinges sl. rubbed. Early ownership initial on title, ‘W.R.H.’ and fairly modern armorial bookplate of Robert George Windsor-Clive, P.C., C.B., Earl of Plymouth. a.e.g. ¶ ESTC R208970, FIRST EDITION, which gives collation: (8)208, 201-247 (1). The text here is continuous and complete despite the further inconsistencies in pagination not noted by ESTC. Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, Elizabethan poet, courtier, soldier, author of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. Fulke Greville, 1554-1628, was also a poet, statesman and soldier, and in 1614 became Chancellor of the Exchequer. He died after being stabbed by a disaffected servant.

1652 [1651]

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SIMES

MILITARY MEDLEY - NO COPIES IN NORTH AMERICA 248. S IMES, Thomas. The Military Medley, containing the most necessary rules and directions for attaining a complete knowledge of the art: to which is added an explication of military terms, alphabetically digested. Dublin: printed by S. Powell. xx [12] 312 [84], plates (some hand-coloured), pp 241-284. Contemp. mottled calf, chipped maroon morocco label; some wear to hinges & head of spine with some loss, corners worn. Contemp. name on verso of leading f.e.p. of Osborne Jephson. Modern booklabel of Thomas H. Duffy Jr. ¶ ESTC T123786, FIRST EDITION, only 5 copies recorded, none in America. First published in London in 1868.

1767 £350

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