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VICTORIAN CLAIM TO THE OWNERSHIP OF NOVA SCOTIA (ALEXANDER, Alexander Humphrys) Promissory Note for 100 Supporting Claim of Ownership to Nova Scotia. Attractively engraved sheet with the coat of arms of Nova Scotia at the top and again at the side in a border of Scottish thistles, visible plate mark. An interesting survival of a strange forgery case. [95897] ¶ Alexander Humphrys Alexander, 1783-1859, was a claimant to the to the vacant Earldom of Stirling who believed he was entitled to the lands that now make up the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. He met lawyer and genealogist Thomas Christopher Banks sometime around 1815, and Banks would go on to advise him in his case to claim the Earldom. Despite the fact that his tenuous connection to the Stirling family was through his mother’s line - and the titles and lands were passed through the male line - Alexander cited an obscure charter that Charles I granted in in 1639 which negated the requirement of a male heir. Amazingly, thanks to the Sheriff of Edinbrugh, Alexander was originally successful in his quest to claim the Canadian property, and he was officially granted the lands at Edinburgh Castle on 8 July 1831. As thanks for his service, he gifted Banks 16,000 acres of Canadian land and made him a Baronet.

Alexander’s ambitious activities eventually drew the attention of the British government, and his claims were challenged in a trial at Edinburgh where he was accused of forging documents. At least two of the seventeen key supporting documents of his claim were determined to be forgeries, and though he was cleared of personally making them. He left the country after the trial, though he continued to pursue his claim in the following years.

This rather strange document was clearly an attempt to raise funds to support his cause, possibly prepared by either Alexander or Banks during or immediately after the trial.

Though this bond certificate claims that it is associated with the Bank of Scotland, Alexander did not bank with them and when they heard about them they threatened to prosecute for fraud. As a result, these bonds were never issued and filled in. [c.1840] $390

DISHES IN SEASON ALMANACK. HILL, Benson Earle. The Epicure’s Almanack for 1842; containing a calendar of the months, adorned with cuts; tables of the various dishes in season: with a collection of original and choice recipes. How & Parsons. Half title, illus.; small tear fore-edge of leading f.e.p. & half title, closed tear to pp 45/46.

Orange e.ps a little oxidised. Orig. purple dec. cloth; largely faded to brown, spine sl. rubbed at head & tail. Ownership signature of H. Vale, 24 Oct. ‘92’ on leading pastedown. [96966] ¶ Published between 1841 and 1843. Copac records a single copy of an 1845 edition which is not listed on OCLC. 1842 $210

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WRITING HOME - LORD MORPETH VISITS AMERICA (AMERICA) HOWARD, George William Frederick, 7th Earl of Carlisle Nine Unrecorded Copy Letters Written During a Year’s Tour of the United States and Canada.

9 ms. copy letters totalling 64pp in various hands; 4 are partial copies of longer letters, occasional edge wear. [95667] ¶ An

unpublished series of letters recording a visit to the United States and Canada in 1841-1842. Following in the footsteps of Harriet Martineau (Society in America, 1837) and coinciding with Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States and the subsequent publication of American Notes (1842), these letters provide an invaluable account of life in Antebellum America.

George William Frederick Howard, 1802-1864, English politician, was the eldest child of twelve born to George Howard, sixth earl of Carlisle and his wife, Georgiana Dorothy Howard née Cavendish. Educated at Eton and Oxford he acquired the title of Viscount Morpeth when his father became the sixth Earl of Carlisle. He was first elected to parliament as the Whig member for Morpeth, Northumberland, and later served as M.P. for West Riding between 1831 and 1841. His defeat in the 1841 election led to his year long tour of North America which is partially described in these letters. Howard, underpinned by his fervent religious belief, was a liberal supporter of reform, promoting religious tolerance, the Reform Bill, and the abolition of slavery. He was made Chief Secretary of Ireland in 1835-41, during which time he fought for reform, with limited success. Later, in February 1855, he was invested with the Order of the Garter and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by the new Liberal premier, Lord Palmerston. Howard became the

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7th Earl of Carlisle on the death of his father in 1848. He remained unmarried, succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother the Reverend William George Howard.

One of 12 children, Howard’s letters home during his time in America are addressed to ‘My dearest M’ (his sister Mary Matilda Georgiana Howard, later Lady Taunton), but are intended for the eyes and ears of the whole family: ‘Your powers of logic will enable you to perceive that if I have not time to write to one, I should have still less to write to all.

Indeed you must be content to consider my letters in the light of circulars by which no one can lose anything as I have only one set of things to tell’. The incompleteness of some of these letters can be explained by the fact that they were copied out and shared by numerous members of the large Howard family. Howard refers twice to a journal written during his journey, the existence of which is acknowledged by the librarian at Castle Howard. The letters however, copies or originals, do not survive in the Howard archive.

Howard’s letters are beautifully written describing America’s vast natural beauty, the never ending expansion of its cities (New York, Boston, and Albany, amongst others), and the people, politics, and society he observes. ‘… I cannot keep thinking that there is something very poetical in the present condition of America, not in its specific details, they are the reverse, but in the general tendency. What can be more fresh or stirring than all this life and energy that are welling up in the desert? It has occasionally the sort of effect of taking away one’s breath, a mixture of the Iliad & a Harlequin farce. The time is not come for me yet (if it ever should come) to let me feel myself warranted in speculating upon sitant(?) results, upon guarantees for future endurance & stability. All I can now do is to look & marvel at what is going before my eyes’.

Departing in early October 1841, Howard lands in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after an ‘uncomfortable’ voyage, observing that ‘the country appeared to me like the last pretty parts of Scotland, producing apparently little but granite and firs...’ After a brief stay with the governor of Nova Scotia Howard arrives with great fanfare in Boston: ‘The harbour looked most bright and pretty, studded with islands, bare of trees, but generally having some bright shining white building. One felt a little envy for those who were coming to their country, friends, and home. The great flag ship in the harbour, manned with naval pupils gave us rather a touching reception, with the yards manned, and the band playing first God Save the Queen and then Yankee Doodle’. The contrast between the modernity of growing cities and the great swathes of American wilderness are a constant theme. ‘I was most struck upon entering Syracuse’ he writes after leaving Boston and travelling through Albany and Utica. ‘We had just emerged from a cedar swamp, untroubled by man, & we at once found ourselves in a place which looked like a great bit of Paris planted there with tall white houses, well lighted shops, billiard tables, &c. The mode & hour of travelling assisted the contrast, as the newly made rail roads were often carried through unbroken bits of the original forest, & under the full moonlight, the wooden spires, domes, & porticoes of the infant towns look every bit as if they were of the Parian stone’.

Howard visits the Trenton Falls and later, Niagara: ‘I felt them to be complete, and that nothing could go beyond them; volume, majesty, might, are the ideas that they convey’.

Finishing back in the Canadian Lakes he describes his ‘canoe life’ on Lake Huron, an experience that has changed little in the intervening two centuries: ‘After a paddle of about 3 hours..., we select one of the innumerable islands to eat our breakfast on; while it is preparing, we generally all bathe; then breakfast of hot tea & coffee & fresh broiled fish which we may procure from some of the Indian canoes we may pass during our paddle.

We... then paddle on till near sunset where we pitch on some thin island where there is enough of flat rock for pitching the tents & wood for the fires to cook; this is a very busy & picturesque home of preparation, with tents being fixed, baggage pulled about, the canoe[r]s of their respective canoes lighting their separate fires, boiling their pots… the meal was spread upon one oil cloth on the bare rock under the star light & consisted of hot pea soup, hot fish, the fine trout & white fish of these lakes, a cold round of beef, hot potatoes, hot plum pudding, wine & hot brandy & water in some abundance & I must own that the song & chorus of our party sometimes rose upon the midnight echoes of the lake…’

Howard’s lofty social standing and clear amiability lead him to numerous society events

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and meetings with friends (Charles Sumner and James Wadsworth) and notable public figures including the recently ousted president Martin van Buren and the authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Hickling Prescott. Of the authors he writes humourlessly of his experience ‘at a little childs ball at Mary Otis’s, where I was guilty of two Quadrilles, & wore for the 1st time your peacock waistcoat, which produced a great effect.... It even struck the dismal eyes of Prescott. I have seen a good deal of him since I wrote, & I do not think I deceive myself in the very high place I assign to him in every mode of attractiveness. I think I never knew such an union of simplicity, sense, gaiety & feeling.

I cannot help grudging what I feel to be one drawback; he is, according to the prevailing mode of this place, an Unitarian, which has led to some little talk between us on the subject. One gets however to look upon them here, as almost orthodox, as there is now rather in vogue a new faith called Transcendentalism, of which Mr. Emerson is the head: he gives lectures which are being much attended, but which by the accounts seem made up of gibberish & blasphemy: it seems to me that I mentioned him to you before. They tell of his going one night with a lady disciple to see Mdelle. Esler (whom by the way I did not happen to go to see at my first arrival, as I see recorded in the English papers,) at one twirl[in]g more than usual licence, the fair exclaimed [“]that is poetry.[“] There came a still bolder bound “that is religion[“] rejoined Mr. Emerson’.

Politics is never too far from Howard’s mind as he refers to news from home and to the current state of American politics. He bemoans the political conservatism of ‘almost all the better society’, ‘the great croakers’ as he describes them. Upon visiting the Whig politician William H. Seward, Howard writes: ‘His party, the Whigs, have been entirely smashed at the late elections. Have I explained before that this is the more conservative of the two parties? They carried everything before them last year & ejected Mr van Buren who was a candidate for a second time for the Presidency. The reverse has been complete, & it is fully expected that he will now be re elected at the next election 3 years hence, which will be the 1st instance in their history of a re election’. ‘This made it seem a propitious time for my visit [to see van Buren], & I was curious to see him, as I had heard the most opposite opinions, & extremely pronounced upon both sides about him.

Mr Vanderpoel and a brother in law took me to Mr Van Buren’s place at Kinderhook… I stayed there two nights & left him to day. He was extremely courteous, & I must say very agreeable, talking with the utmost apparent frankness & unreserve about all their politics & all their public men living & dead, many of the anecdotes & details did them, it must be said, no great credit. He has pictures of Jefferson, & Genl. Jackson the 2 great objects of his devotion, & large prints of the Queen and the Duke of Cleveland... he is now enacting a sort of Cincinnatus part, occupying himself with his farm, but he will evidently feel no reluctance when summoned again from his plough’.

Many of those Howard meets are abolitionists and he is introduced in New York to the anti-slavery campaigner and executive committee member of the American Anti-Slavery Society Maria Weston Chapman. A prolific writer and campaigner, Chapman also organised fairs as fund-raising events for the cause. ‘I have been to an anti slavery fair held by some ladies here, Mrs Chapman at the head, this is the present state of feeling on the subject... I did even more, I gave them some of the pottery china buttons to sell… for the 1st time this year they procured the use of a spacious hall, & some of the richest ladies of the town came to buy. I wonder whether the Creole affair will excite any interest in England as it does in the Southern states & in me…’ He follows up by meeting Chapman at a lunch with William Ellery Channing where she gave him a ‘flourishing account of [her recent trip to] Haiti.

Howard’s letters also give us humorous and occasionally scathing reviews of the books he is reading whilst on tour. In preparation for his trip he reads Catharine Maria Sedgwick on the boat and de Tocquevillie’s America: ‘Tocqueville is quite a book to chew; I think it most strikingly acute, sagacious, even eloquent, pushing its theories too far I think at times; at the same time I doubt if I could have got through it without the impulse of an approaching visit...’ More scathing is his damnation of William Wordsworth’s The Excursion, a review of which he had promised to write home with: ‘I liked it much better than I expected. I thought it full of accurate, beautiful descriptions of nature, of great & varied harmony of versification of pure, refined & lofty feeling. These high & shining merits appear to me in a great degree counter balanced by one grave & it might perhaps be thought fatal objection to the Poem considered as a whole, or still more as it professes to be, only one part of a whole, which is that I think it intolerably tedious; it was almost a necessary result of its plan, what else could be expected from 9 long cantos, composed entirely out of the conversation of 4 old men...’

Howard’s writing is engaging throughout and his views on American society, politics, nature and people provide a thoughtful and important perspective of 1840s America.

1841-42 $5,200

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A TRIP TO AMERICA WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES (AMERICA) (YARROW, Sir Alfred Fernandez, 1st Baronet) GREENHAM, George Hepburn. Our Trip to America. Dedicated to A.F. Yarrow. 1897-1898.

Oblong 4to. (P.H. Fincham, photographer.) 12 platinum photo. plates on stubs, including illus. title, reproducing pen & ink illus. by George Greenham. With platinum photo. inscription by Greenham on additional leaf: ‘3rd November 1898.

In remembrance of a pleasant trip with a dear old friend. George H. Greenham’.

Contemp. brown morocco album by P.H. Fincham, photographer, &c., lettered in gilt on front board ‘Our Trip to America by G.H. Greenham’; hinges & extremities sl. rubbed. Label of P.H. Fincham, photographer, etc., West Dulwich, on following pastedown. a.e.g. A lovely copy. [95625] ¶ Not

on Copac or OCLC. We can find an oblique reference to another possible copy at Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History, in Virginia. Privately printed by the photographic studio P.H. Fincham for George Hepburn Greenham as a memento of a trip to America with his friend the wealthy shipbuilder and philanthropist Sir Alfred Yarrow, 1842-1932, and another unnamed man. The other copy was presumably gifted to the third member of the travelling party. Greenham, an Inspector at Scotland Yard (and author of Scotland Yard Experiences: from the diary of G.H. Greenham, 1904) was invited to America by Yarrow as part of his working tour to research the working practices of U.S. shipbuilding companies. The twelve plates, all captioned, include four that allude to the purpose of the trip. ‘Visiting Holland’s submarine boat on a wretched day’ illustrates a docked U.S.S. Holland, the US Navy’s first modern commissioned submarine, launched in May 1897. Another humorously depicts a lady on a Buffalo ‘street elevator’ and a third illustrates portraits of ‘some other Americans we met’ inscribed: Chairman of House Committee Engineer’s Club, New York, Commercial Cable Company, Captain of a Stern Wheeler, [Louis] Cassier, and Lena - Delta. The fourth is a Heath Robinsonesque scene: ‘G.H.G. has an awful nightmare after visiting engineering establishments for days’. The remaining plates include two of the boat journey to New York, ‘A deputation of reporters on arrival of the distinguished visitors at New York’, an observation of American fashions, portraits of ‘some of the darkies we saw in Richmond’ (five portraits of a waiter, flower seller, lady of the wash tub, loafer, and news-boy), ‘Back view of Commodore B._W.’ and ‘Underneath the falls of Niagara’.

[1898]

$3,500

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A WELSH ETONIAN’S TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN 1816 (AMERICA) (YORKE, Pierce Wynne?) Manuscript Tour of the United States and Canada.

90pp ms. in a neat cursive, on both sides of 45 8vo leaves. Sewn into contemp. maroon paper wrappers; a few small marginal tears & marks. [97005] fascinating firsthand account of the United States and Canada. Travelling from New York to the Niagara Falls, this journal precedes by decades the more celebrated accounts of Harriet Martineau (Society in America, 1837) and Charles Dickens (American Notes, 1842). The narrative here describes an America fresh with bullet holes from the War of 1812 (June 1812- February 1815) and an influx of immigration following the economic downturn in post war Europe. 1816 was also the Year Without a Summer, thus called for the severe climate abnormalities and unusually low temperatures. Our anonymous author ends his journey in Canada, paying respects to his school friend, Colonel Cecil Bishopp, who died at Fort Erie during the late war during ‘undoubtedly the most contested action during the whole war. The scene of operations was immediately around this house [their lodgings] which bears many marks of it by the bullets and grape shot lodged in its walls’.

Bishopp, 1783-1813, son of the politician Sir Cecil Bishopp, 1700 1788, was ‘an old school fellow and intimate friend of mine who died of wounds he received at Fort Erie...

We had lived much together in the early parts of our military lives after we had left Eton’.

Standing at the scene of his friend’s death, ‘I paid a friendly tribute to his memory; a sigh!

And sorrow... how much glory he had missed by being cut off so early…’

An Old Etonian, our author also professes that he is a proud Welshman often comparing American scenery to his home in North Wales. He admires ‘a truly Cambrian scene’ and, on arriving at Skeneattess, he records that ‘had I not lived in North Wales, I should have been much more delighted with the scenery of this country’. At Canadaigua, he notes a scene that brought Tre Madoc to mind, ‘when seen from Mofa Lodge’. The one American scene that stands above the beauty of his beloved North Wales is that of Niagara: ‘When my friends in Wales speak in raptures of some of the falls, I before so much admired, I shall say Niagara, Niagara, Niagara’.

With the generous assistance of Michael Meredith at Eton College, we can put forward two possible candidates for the authorship of this journal. From the early Eton Lists, we can locate two Welshmen who were in most of Cecil Bishopp’s classes, John Lucas of Stout Hall, Glamorgan, and Pierce Wynne Yorke of Dyffryn Aled, Denbighshire.

Yorke heralded from north Wales (Lucas from the south) and although we can find no evidence of him being a military man, or more specifically a member of the Foot Guards (of which Bishopp and the author belonged), his son, also Pierce Wynne Yorke, is listed as a member of the Foot Guards in 1847.

‘My wish in visiting America’ our author writes, ‘is to see as much of the scenery and manners as possible’. He sees a country much of which ‘is newly settled and is only a few years taken from the wild state of nature overgrown with antediluvian forests’. Arriving in New York, he travels 460 miles in 14 days culminating in the spectacular sight of Niagara falls: ‘At length coming to an angle in the road... our impatience to see this great wonder of nature was so great that we jumped out of the carriage doing our utmost to proceed to the scene... I gazed with wonder at the sublimity of the scene I now witnessed and as much as I had heard and as much as I had read, and as much as I had imagined, I must declare that the scene before me fully exceeded any expectations. I was in one moment amply rewarded for all the distance I had travelled and the inconveniences I had experienced in my journey to behold this stupendous cataract’.

He writes of an America of opportunity; an escape from poverty and economic decline of post-war Europe, and the economic possibilities of a new nation and its vast swathes of land. Some immigrants were escaping ‘punishment due to their crimes... Characters of this description are largely distributed over the United States & are certainly no loss to our Empire’. Others ‘escaped the present distress in the lower orders in England... In these miserable times... when commerce is at a stand, the land not worth cultivating... that it is almost impossible for the people to support themselves... It is not to be wondered at that ¶A

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persons should leave their own country, & try their fortunes in another holding out all the temptations that America does to the lowest orders of society’. He writes that ‘Irishmen, of the very lowest order, are the chief immigrants & these people are as little likely to gain support in the city of New York as they are at home... There is a deadly prejudice against Irish labourers in America’. For the more privileged class the opportunities are abundant.

‘Of all countries in the world, I would say that America affords the greatest advantages to the middle class. There are no idlers here’.

He both admires and fears the possibilities that the country offers. Although the period at which her manufactures compete with those of England ‘must be very distant... I fear her power’. Taking great pride in British institutions and society, he writes of England’s influence on most that is good about America. ‘Altho’ as a nation I can in no way approve of their manners as everyone here seems to be governed by his own interest, & many of them look with the eyes of envy on the superiority of the British... The most moderate part of the American people however, as all are termed federalists, are upholders of their English manners & English institutions. This party mostly consists of men of property & education, & evidently seem to possess the same enjoyments that are held by the better orders of society in England’.

He discusses politics, ‘as is always the custom when an Englishman & American meet’. He remarks on the constitution, again finding anything of value taken from the English model. ‘With federalists in power’, he writes, ‘they look to government & the courts to have the strength to enforce its laws, & defend itself from the factious rule of designing demagogues who are first raised in authority by flattering the vanity of the lowest orders’. Indeed, this ‘factious rule’, ‘the predominance of the mob faction in this country, cannot fail of producing at some future time all the miseries of Greece and Rome, when democracy was led by designing demagogues’. He compares the Democrats of the south unfavourably with federalists in the north describing the Southern States as ‘filled with people of the most violent and disorderly tempers’.

During his tour, the author records a number of encounters with indigenous Americans, the first being a view of ‘the miserable remains of the former inhabitants of these regions’, describing their villages as ‘the picture of all that is wretched’. ‘I suppose’ he continues, ‘they will soon be exterminated from all the European part of the territories of the United States. In the Spanish part of America however, I believe they yet flourish & are somewhat civilised. Here they are nearly as savage as at the time this country was first taken possession of by the English’.

Later, he sees ‘two young lions about 6 months old, & had been taken when cubs by the Indians. The ‘black boy’ playing with one of them told him that his master intended keeping him till Xmas when he would eat him for his dinner’.

Although we have been unable to trace, with absolute certainty, the Old Etonian Welsh author, this journal provides an invaluable account of the United States in its infancy.

Written just a year after the conclusion of the War of 1812 and 40 years after the Declaration of Independence, 1816 ‘found America on the cusp of political, social,cultural, and economic modernity’. Americans ‘who had emerged from the War of 1812 with their political systems intact, embraced new opportunities. For the first time, citizens viewed themselves not as members of a loose coalition of states but as part of a larger union’.

Much, no doubt, to the author’s distaste, 1816 also marked the end of federalist control of American politics with the Democrat James Monroe elected president in November.

1816 $9,400

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‘I LIVE UPON ASPIRATION’ - ELIZABETH GARRETT WRITES FROM BARBARA BODICHON’S HOUSE ANDERSON, Elizabeth Garrett. ALS to ‘Dear Sir’, from 5 Blandford Square, March 31st. ‘I have to thank you much for sending me the volume of Jury Reports...’ 25 lines on three sides of a folded 8vo sheet watermarked 1865; thin card mount on verso. v.g. [97103] ¶ A brief but wonderful letter by Elizabeth Garrett writing of her aspiration to make an impact on the world. The letter is written before her marriage to James George Skelton Anderson in 1871, and seemingly just before she obtained her licence from the Society of Apothecaries in 1865 which allowed her name to be entered on the medical register.

She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. Garrett had been inspired to follow a medical path after meeting Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, an Englishwoman brought up in the United States who, in 1859, was the only woman on the Medical Council’s Register. The two met at the home of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon from which Elizabeth writes this letter. Bodichon, 1827-1891, from a liberal reforming dynasty, was the leader of the Langham Place Group which placed her at the forefront of the women’s movement campaigning for married women to be granted legal recognition, and for women’s right to work, to vote, and to have access to education. It is there that she met a young, aspirational Elizabeth Garrett; the beginning of a lasting association. Her passion, and ambition are clear from this letter: ‘I only sent you the medical circular’s report of my examtn. at the Hall. I have not written anything myself though in common with all enterprising students I look forward to making some discoveries & giving them to the public some day or another. When that happy time arrives you shall have a presentation copy’. She concludes that ‘At present I live upon aspiration’. Following her qualification from the Society of Apothecaries, Garrett later she took a medical degree from the University of Paris, the first woman to obtain this degree. In 1873 she was admitted to membership of the British Medical Association. Resisting pressures to resign when the association voted against the admission of further women in 1878, she remained the only woman member for nineteen years. This, as the ODNB writes, ‘was one of several instances where Garrett, uniquely, was able to enter a hitherto all male medical institution which subsequently moved formally to exclude any women who might seek to follow her’. [c.1865] $1,700

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COLOURED CRUIKSHANK PLATE ANDREWES, George. A Dictionary of the Slang and Cant Languages: ancient and modern. As used by Adam Tylers. Badgers. Bullies. Bully-Huffs... And every class of offenders. 12mo. George Smeeton. Hand-coloured folding front ‘The Beggar’s Carnival’ by George Cruikshank; small tear to fore-edge of B3 affecting one letter. Contemp. or sl. later half mottled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; leading hinge sl. worn with small nick to tail of spine. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Stephens. (32)pp. [79917] ¶ Cohn

29 who notes, quoting the Widener copy, that the engraving is a collaboration between George and Isaac Cruikshank with the latter responsible for the figures. ‘One great misfortune to which the public are liable’, Andrewes writes in his ‘advertisement’, ‘is, that thieves have a language of their own; by which means they associate together in the streets without fear of being over-heard or understood. The principal end I had in view in publishing this dictionary, was to expose the cant terms of their language, in order to the more easy detection of their crimes’. The final leaf lists ‘The sixty orders of offenders’ from High Tobers to Rumbubbers. The verso advertises the third edition of Andrewe’s work The Stranger’s Guide; or, The frauds of London detected.

[1809] $3,500

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‘NATURAL AND AMUSING’ ANONYMOUS. The Modern Fine Gentleman. A novel. In two volumes. 2 vols in 1. Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank, for R. Moncrieffe. [ii], 2-264pp. 12mo. Contemp. speckled calf, raised bands, red morroco label; surface worming to front & back boards, corners sl. bumped. Ink ownership inscription on leading pastedown ‘Cne. Tipping, Bellurgan Park, 1775’, later date added ‘1781’. [90169] ¶ ESTC N64555, not in BL, this edition Yale only. 1774 London edition BL, NYPL, Penn and Yale. A 1774 review of the London edition reports that the ‘characters are tolerably well supported; its incidents are natural and amusing; and it contains nothing in the least offensive to decency and good manners’. This copy belonged to the Tipping family, whose family home Bellurgan Park is located on the Carlingford Road half way between Belfast and Dublin.

1775 $1,700

MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE ATKINSON, John Augustus. Sixteen Scenes Taken From The Miseries of Human Life, by one of the wretched. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to. Wm. Miller. Handcolured engraved title, 16 further hand-coloured plates (one folding) with accompanying text page; the odd mark & crease. Orig. green cloth boards; largely faded to brown, sl. rubbed & marked. [97113] ¶ Abbey, Life 259; Tooley 89. Based on the Reverend James Beresford’s The Miseries of Human Life, published in 1806 by Miller. A charming suite of hand-coloured plates illustrating the various forms of miseries experienced amongst the wealthier classes in Regency Britain. These include Miseries of the Country, Miseries of Games, Sports, &c..

Miseries of London, Miseries of Social Life, &c. John Augustus Atkinson, c.1775-1830, was an English artist and engraver. As a young man he travelled to St. Petersburg to learn under his uncle James Walker, engraver to Empress Catherine the Great.

1807 $1,000

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WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BICKLE, J. A Volume of Original Comic Illustrated Stories & Sketches.

51pp, pen & ink illustrations with ink & pencil ms., two full-page pen & watercolour illustrations. Contemp. dark olive green limp morocco, stamped J. Bickle at head of front board; a little rubbed & worn. [96587] ¶ A delightful album of comic illustrations and stories consisting of ‘Passions of ye Period’, ‘A Few Clippings from Mavors, Spelling Book’, ‘A Day’s Fishing in the Sea’ and ‘The Sage, The Seed, and The Snail’. In addition, there are two full-page colour sketches and 14 pages of ink illustrations and manuscript. The artwork is accomplished and humorous, occasionally savagely so, with the four named stories accompanied with manuscript inscriptions. [c.1880?] $1,300

ELIZABETH BLOWER FIGHTS FOR A PLACE ON THE STAGE BLOWER, Elizabeth. ALS to ‘Sir’, Friday May 3d, 1782. ‘After your liberal & candid promises to my father yesterday, I think I may rely that you will excuse me troubling you again...’ 53 lines on 3 sides of a folded quarto sheet; old folds, sl. dusted. [96156]

¶ 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 $660

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ERA-DEFINING LONDON JEWISH NOVEL BLUMENFELD, Simon. Jew Boy. FIRST EDITION. Jonathan Cape. Half title, orig. purple cloth, lettered in blue. Yellow & black pictorial d.w., unclipped; rear panel v. sl. marked. Bookseller’s ticket of A.H. Spencer, Melbourne on leading pastedown. A lovely copy of a scarce title. [96784] ¶ Very

scarce in the jacket. Blumenfeld’s unsentimental bildungsroman is arguably the first novel of twentieth-century Jewish East London. Not since Zangwill’s novel Children of the Ghetto had the area been written about with such vivacity and verve, and contemporary audiences were fascinated by the sheer volume of detail on Jewish life at the time. The protagonist, the ‘penniless, skinny little’ tailor Alec, is a relentless autodidact who holds the dancehalls and fashions of his peers in contempt, favouring the classical concerts put on by the Jewish Workers Circle even as he feels detached from the older Russian-born people who make up the bulk of the attendees. Left-wing politics form a crucial part of life; there are arresting depictions of anti-fascist marches, and Alec is laid off from his job in a sweatshop in retaliation for leading a strike against the implementation of the controversial Bedaux System for measuring employee productivity. For all the main character’s youthful alienation, the novel is a picture of an integrated city - East London is in flux with middle-class Jews moving to the suburbs, and the working classes who remain sharing many of the habits and haunts of their Cockney and Irish neighbours.

Alec befriends Jo-Jo, a black activist, who is portrayed clumsily but with a great deal of admiration and warmth. The noise of city life is celebrated; Alec travels to Barnes to visit his girlfriend’s sister and her middle-class husband and becomes determined to ‘out’ her, and let her stuffy suburban neighbours know she is Jewish.

The scene is presented in marked contrast to Sunday lunch in Whitechapel, with chess in the parlour and Hebrew Hymns round the piano. Ultimately, however, Blumenfeld is a realist not a romantic: fascism, oppression, and the Labour Exchange loom large, and the characters (in particular Alec’s mother) carry their trials and disappointments with them.

It was published the following year in the United States under the less provocative title The Iron Garden.

1935 $1,700

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BOXING TICKET BOXING. HOOK, Ted. Ted Hook, the old English Gentleman.

Nottingham. T. Smith, printer. Colour printed card with illustration of Ted Hook. 12 x 6cm. v.g. [97108] ¶ We can locate one further copy, sold at auction in 2006. A very rare boxing ticket, or betting card for a bout involving Nottingham boxer Ted Hook, the old English gentleman: ‘All in nun or not, Except in the ring’.

The top and bottom of the front of the card include the number 594. Printed on the verso is: ‘Important. You are respectfully requested to take the same care of my tickets as I do of your money. If you give or allow anyone else to take your ticket you will lose your money. One loss - one payment!’

Presumably this ticket was issued by Ted Hook himself who, in addition to the purse received for the bout, would be able to take side bets on the outcome of the fight. [c.1870?] $480

FLIRTING WITH THE SWELLS BROADSIDE BALLAD. BEAUTIFUL. Beautiful Girls. Birt. Single sheet 4to broadside, large woodcut illus. beneath title. 24 x 16cm. v.g. [97147] ¶ Bodleian Ballads Online Bod12259. [c.1840]

$300

DANDY WIFE BROADSIDE BALLAD. DANDY. The Dandy Wife. T. Birt. Single sheet 4to broadside, illus. 26 x 18cm. v.g. [97148] ¶ Bodleian Ballads Online Bod19439. [c.1828]

$250

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NYMPHS UPON THE TOWN BROADSIDE BALLAD. SPORTING. The Sporting Ladies Reply, to Mr Reynard the Fox’s List, or Burlesque, on them, and their profession, &c. Hawked by a black badger, his secretary. [Tune, O’ a the Arts the wind, &c.] Edinburgh: Printed for the Author. Single sheet folio broadside in two columns with ad. at end; sl. browned, old folds. 28 x 21cm. A nice copy. [97329] ¶ Not recorded in Bodleian Ballads Online; not in BL, both Copac and OCLC record only one copy at NLS. From the imprint: ‘Price to Gentlemen, 2d. Tradesmen and Servants, 1d.’

An exceptionally scarce prostitution broadside regaling in verse the stories of the ‘Nymphs upon the town’ and the gentleman, presumably at Leith Racecourse, to whom they offered their services.

‘Ye Noblemen and Gentlemen, Who’re come to join the Fun, To see the Races o’er again, And Nymphs upon the Town.

Behold us all so trim and neat, We cannot fail to please, Be’ sure you’ll find us quite complete, In what gives Lover’s ease...’

Prostitutes were often referred to as ‘sporting ladies’ and broadsides advertising the wares of such ‘petticoat amblers’ were often printed for and distributed at race meetings. Earlier examples, from the 1780s, included crude woodcut illustrations and listed the names and services of the women who attended the races.

The satirical advertisement at the bottom of the sheet lists the services of ‘Peter Puzzlewit & Co. General Agents and Undertakers of Lottery Prizes and other Sales, late from Cork, and last from the Orkneys’.

They ‘challenge every other dealer in point of blank verse, and rhyming metre, to rival them in ready made Epitaphs, Epigrams, Love Sonnets, Hymeneal Songs, Birth Day Odes, &c. all extemporary, on any subject, or in any verse, with any number of feet, and to any or no tune but their own, composed for the occasion, at the very lowest prices, according to the Employer’s Income Tax. They also do business in prose, at next to nothing, for Clergymen, Lawyers, and QuackDoctors...’ [c.1820] $1,700

KEEPING THE COCK INN BROADSIDE BALLAD. WIDOW. The Widow That Keeps the Cock Inn. E. Hodge’s (from Pitts) Wholesale Toy & Marble wharehouse. Single sheet 4to broadside, illus.; sl. marked. 24 x 19cm. [97114] ¶ Not recorded on Bodleain Ballads online.

‘A traveller for many long years I have been, But I never went ever to France Most cities and all market towns I’ve been in, From Berwick on Tweed to Penzance, Many hotels and taverns I’ve been in my time, And many fair landlady’s seenBut of all the fair charmer’s who other outshine Give me the sweet widow The dear little widow, I mean the sweet widow that keeps the Cock Inn...’ [c.1850]

$390

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INSURANCE FOR MILITIAMEN BROADSIDE. ROYAL WILTSHIRE MILITIA. The Many Can Help the Few, But not the Few the Many. For the mutual benefit of every person liable to serve in the militia, during the whole time it shall continue embodied. Salisbury: n.p.

Single sheet folio broadside; a few old creases. 34 x 20.5cm. Contemp. ink signature of Anthony Eanry(?) on verso together with an 8 line ms. v.g. TOGETHER WITH: Proposals for an Association, or Mutual and general insurance for all persons liable to serve in the militia. 1790. Single sheet 4to broadside; old creases.

28 x 22cm. v.g. [96590] ¶ Neither broadside in ESTC or on OCLC; no copies traced.

Two unrecorded broadsides appealing for subscribers to a mutual benefit society to be active during the embodiment of the Royal Wiltshire Militia. The first states that ‘The Militia Laws, notwithstanding the Propriety and Necessity of them, must be allowed on all Hands, to be a great Grievance and heavy Tax on the Publick in general, but more particularly so, on the lower Class of People’. Each subscriber to the society was to pay ten shillings and sixpence with all funds deposited at the Bank in Salisbury. ‘As this is for the mutual Benefit of every Subscriber, it is obviously their mutual Interest effectually to support it; for this Purpose it is agreed, that should it ever happen that the Subscription in the Bank shall appear to be insufficient to answer the Demands of the ensuing Drawing, which according to the nearest Calculation, it is presumed will not be the Case for some Years, the subscribers shall have Notice thereof in the Salisbury, Bath, Sherborne, and Hampshire News-papers, to make a further subscription of as much as may be thought necessary, not exceeding five shillings in any one Year on each Policy...’ The society was to be disbanded and the accounts fairly settled amongst all subscribers ‘immediately after the militia shall be disembodied’.

The second broadside, organised by many of the same people - a list of names being printed on each item - calls for a subscription of five guineas. In a footnote, it refers to the earlier 1782 society in addition to a ‘similar plan, entered into at this office the beginning of the year 1787’. ‘The Subscribers to the Militia Association, entered into a this Office in the Year 1782, who were not afterwards drawn to serve in the militia, may, on delivering up their Policies to the respective Agents, within three Months from the Date hereof, receive back a Dividend of 2s. 6d. each on the Stock which remains, after having paid Five Guineas to all those who were drawn, and every contingent expense.’

The Wiltshire Militia was organised in late 1758. It was embodied in 1778, at which time it was ranked the 19th regiment of militia, and remained active for five years. It was regularly re-ranked through its embodiment, becoming the 38th in 1779, 22nd in 1780, 37th in 1781, and 9th in 1782. It was embodied again during the French Revolutionary Wars, ranked as the 35th.

1782/1790 $620

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HAWORTH POOR IN THE HEIGHT OF THE BRONTË SISTERS LITERARY RENAISSANCE BRONTË FAMILY. Form of Rate. An Assessment for the Relief of the Poor in the Township of Haworth, in the Parish of Bradford in the West Riding of the County of York and for other purposes chargeable thereon according to Law, made this twenty eighth day of April One Thousand Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Six, after the Rate of one shilling and sixpence in the pound. Being the first Rate for the year ending 25th of March 1847. [1], 91, [3], (187pp). Oblong 4to. Ledger with printed headings, completed in black ink in a uniform attractive & legible hand. Contemp. reddish-brown sheep; somewhat rubbed & worn, paper label defective, spine cracking & chipped at head & tail, but still a sound binding. [97115] ¶ A fascinating ledger and important primary source offering insight into the social makeup of the Brontë family’s wider community in Haworth during a particularly important period for them. During the timeframe covered in this volume, all of the surviving Brontë children, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne, were at home with their father at the Haworth Parsonage. Anne and Branwell had recently left their employment, as governess and tutor respectively, at Thorp Green - Branwell dismissed and Anne resigned - likely following an affair between Branwell and the Lady of the house. Charlotte had been back in Haworth since January 1844, having discovered she was homesick in Brussels without the company of her sister Emily who had remained in Yorkshire following their aunt Elizabeth’s death in October 1842. The sisters attempted to set up a school for girls in the Parsonage in the mid 1840s, but had trouble attracting students because of their rural location.

In early 1846, having given up on their home school, Emily, Anne and Charlotte decided to use the inheritance from their aunt Elizabeth to publish a collection of poems through London publishers Aylott & Jones. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was published in the spring of 1846. Though it was (famously) a commercial failure - with Charlotte recounting in a letter that it only sold two copies the first year - it did mark the first appearance of the sisters in print. Despite not achieving the immediate success they had hoped for, the months following the publication of Poems was a productive time for them all. Indeed, it was during the period covered by this ledger, with the girls at home at Haworth, that they wrote their most enduring works: Jane Eyre was published in October

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1847, with Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey appearing in December of the same year.

The Brontë sisters were hugely influenced and inspired by their home environment, and this ledger captures a snapshot of their immediate community during the most creatively fruitful period of their lives. Patrick Brontë’s entry appears on the verso of folio 20, where his name is recorded as ‘Rev.nd P. Bronte’. His ‘land, house and garden’ are listed as being owned by the ‘Trustees of the Church’ and are rated at £7 13s 6d; he had paid is poorrate liability of 11s 6d in full. Other familiar names appear as well, including John and Joseph Earnshaw, and many family members of the mill-owning Greenwood family, who would have been well-known to the Brontës.

Printed headings include: Name of Occupier, Name of Owner, Description of Property, Name or Situation of Property, Estimated Extent, Gross Estimated Rental, Rateable Value, Rate, Arrears due, or if excused, Total Amount to be collected, Date, Amount Actually Collected, Present Arrear, Amount not recoverable, or legally excused. The final two leaves include a ‘Declaration of the Overseers and Churchwardens’ with the signatures of William Greenwood, John Dugdale, and George Feather, and Justices of the Peace William Meis (?) and Joseph Greenwood.

1847 is the final year that the Brontë family would all be together. Branwell, whose mental and physical health had been decline since his return to Haworth and exasperated by opiate and alcohol addiction, died in September 1848. Emily caught a terrible cold at Branwell’s funeral, and died from complications of tuberculosis just three months later.

Anne, deeply affected by the death of her brother and sister, was diagnosed with advanced consumption in January of 1849 and was dead by May. This ledger is a record of the home and neighbours of the remarkable Brontë sisters during the most productive years of their literary lives, as well as the people and places that shaped them.

1846-1847 $10,400

PATRICK BRONTË’S FIRST BOOK BRONTË, Patrick, Rev. Cottage Poems. FIRST EDITION. Halifax: printed & sold by P.K. Holden, for the Author. Half title. Contemp. full red crushed morocco, elaborate gilt borders & spine; leading hinge rubbed & a little weak, margins sl. rubbed. Armorial bookplate of George Armytage on leading pastedown. a.e.g. A handsome copy. [61379] ¶ A collection of moral verse ‘designed for the lower classes of society’. Patrick Brontë, 1777-1861, was born in County Down, Ireland. He moved to England where he was ordained as a priest in 1807, moving to the vicarage of Haworth in 1819.

The father of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and his only son Branwell, Patrick was himself a prolific writer publishing in all, four books, three pamphlets, and two sermons, of which this is the first to be published.

1811 $2,500

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FIRST NOVEL WRITTEN IN CANADA (BROOKE, Frances) The History of Emily Montague. By the Author of Lady Julia Mandeville.

In four volumes. J. Dodsley. Half titles; viii, 240; [iv], 240; [iv], 223; [iv], 213, 1p. ads., 1p. errata.

12mo. Upper corner of rear f.e.p. and final blank torn in vol. II. Contemp. full speckled calf, raised bands, brown morocco labels; heads of spines sl. chipped, some boards v. sl. rubbed. A lovely set of this iconic Canadian frontier novel. [90866] ¶ ESTC

T72176. FIRST EDITION. An epistolary novel with a Canadian setting. Frances Brooke, 1724-1789, was an essayist, novelist, translator and playwright; she lived in Canada for five years with her husband who was a chaplain at the British Garrison in Quebec, during which time she wrote this novel. Emily Montague was favourably reviewed as being appropriate for young ladies, and one reviewer wrote that: ‘our writer has [...] the art of engaging the attention by a lively stile, a happy descriptive talent, characters well-marked, and a variety of tender and delicate sentiments’. A sentence from the novel was used to exemplify the hyperbolic or figurative use of the word ‘literally’ in the first Oxford English Dictionary: ‘He is a fortunate man to be introduced to such a party of fine women at his arrival; it is literally to feed among the lilies’ (vol. IV, p.175).

1769 $1,700

THE ENGLISH EXPOSITOUR (BULLOKAR, John) An English Expositour, Or compleat dictionary: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words, and most usefull terms of art used in our language.

First set forth by J.B. Dr of physick... And now the sixth time revised, corrected, and very much augmented with several additions, viz.... by a lover of the arts. Cambridge: printed for John Hayes, Printer to the University, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, London. [ii], [286]pp. 12mo. Contemp. manuscript notes in ‘code’ on e.ps, initial blank, and title verso bleeding through to recto. Some worming sl. affecting a few letters in lower gutter in gatherings I and K, some sl. foxing. Contemp. full sheep; worn with loss at foot of spine, lacking orig. clasps.

Contemp. ownership inscription: ‘Thomas Walton his booke 1680’ and later inscription ‘W.B. Trevelyan 1939’ on leading f.e.p. [68488] ¶ Alston V 14; ESTC An English Expositour, BL, Oxford, University of Leeds; OCLC adds six copies. A loosely inserted manuscript note from a later unknown source suggests that Dr. J.B. ‘stands high amongst the world’s WORST dictionary makers and doctors’. The author of the note has obviously been consulted on the extensive writing on the endpapers and believes that ‘it is a code rather than a short-hand’, though he cannot read it he does ‘doubt whether there are many state secrets in the stuff’.

Including an index directing to the hard words, by prefixing the common words before them in alphabetical order; a brief nomenclature, containing the names of the most renowned persons among the Ancients, whether Gods and Goddesses (so reputed) heroes, or inventors of profitable arts, sciences and faculties; with diverse memorable things out of ancient history, poetry, philosophy, and geography. Bullokar’s English Expositor is the second dictionary in English after Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabeticall of 1604. So called ‘hard word’ dictionaries explained more challenging words that had entered the English language during the previous decades. An English Expositor was first printed in 1616 and was reprinted in numerous editions throughout the century.

1680 $2,500

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LETTER SIGNED BY CHARLES I - ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, REBELLION IN LINCOLN CHARLES I. MANUSCRIPT. Letter Signed, regarding rebels in the County of Lincoln. ‘We have been informed from our County of Lincoln that some Indictments have been found in that county before our Commissioners of Oyer & Terminer, against some persons who are in Rebellion against us...’ 32 lines in a neat secretarial hand on two sides of a bifolium sheet, signed Charles R at head; old folds. An exceptionally neat and clean letter from the First English Civil War. [93519] ¶ This letter was written on the 7th of May, 1643, as the First Civil War progressed and became more difficult for Charles I. The conflict had begun in earnest in January 1642, after the King failed to arrest the Five Members (the Parliamentarians whom he believed had used Puritan factions to persuade the Scots to invade England during the Bishops’ War, and turn the people against him). Charles’s decision to bring armed guards with him into the House of Commons in attempt to arrest the members, who had been forewarned and already left the building, finally severed the already tenuous relationship he had with Parliament. Fearing for the safety of himself and his family, he fled London. By May 1643, Charles had set up court at Oxford, and had a Royalist stronghold in the areas surrounding Oxford and in some areas in the North.

However, the Parliamentarians were gaining support throughout the country and rebellion groups were appearing even in predominantly Royalist areas.

This letter is written to ‘our trusty and welbeloved Our chiefs Justice & the rest of our Justices of Our Bench at Westminster’ and discusses a group of rebels who have been indicted in the Oyer and Terminer court in Lincoln.

The letter discourages the judges from granting ‘Certiorari’, the order for a case from a lower court to be reviewed in a higher court, because ‘it would much prejudice our Service, delay Justice, & dishearten Our Comissioners and all other Our good subjects’. Charles, while still emphasising his desire for real justice to be done, likely wanted cases of rebellion to be dealt with locally, as there was a possibility that the higher courts in Parliamentarian-held London would be more lenient with the rebels.

The monarchy traditionally had quite a symbiotic relationship with the courts; the King was the primary law-maker and the judges were the interpreters of those laws. At this point, quite early in the Civil War, the courts were still predominantly aligned with Charles, though this would change by 1645, after he suffered a definitive defeat at the Battle of Naseby. This letter is from a dramatic moment of the Civil War, as the Royalist’s strong position was just beginning to falter, and rebellions were appearing even in the primarily Royalist North. A wonderful document signed by Charles I during the beginning of the conflict that would ultimately lead to his execution.

1643 $6,200

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THE PLOT DISCOVERED COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Plot Discovered; Or An Address to the People, against ministerial treason. FIRST EDITION. Bristol. 8vo. Tiny hole in lower margin of final leaf, not affecting text. Handsomely bound in 19thC full tan calf by Rivière & Sons, gilt spine, triple-ruled borders, & dentelles. a.e.g. A beautiful copy of a very SCARCE item. [91184] ¶ ESTC T144411. Wise 4. Coleridge’s response to the so-called ‘Gagging Acts’ of 1795, a pair of government bills that sought to restrict large gatherings, and in doing so mollify political debate. Coleridge was a friend of the John Thelwall at this time, and the publication of the present work showed he was similarly opposed to heavy-handed oppression of free speech and political liberty. In the opening address he argues, ‘We have entrusted to Parliament the guardianship of our liberties, not the power of surrendering them’. This copy was once part of the Hugh Selborne collection, and bears his discreet round library stamp on the verso of the titlepage.

1795 $10,400

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CRUIKSHANK’S CLAIRVOYANCE: ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR CRUIKSHANK, George. Clairvoyance. Original Illustration for The Table Book, 1845. Pencil & watercolour, on paper, signed, 22 x 16.5cm. Mounted. [96613] ¶ Signed

in ink by Cruikshank together with the inscription ‘original sketch Table Book’.

Additional inscription in pencil at upper margin: ‘new ways of opening the eyes...’ An original illustration, with the ubiquitous Cruikshank marginalia (in this example three small pencil sketches) for The Table Book, first published in 1845. The illustration is recorded by Dorothy George in the British Museum Catalogue (number 2352) and described thus: ‘Six scenes of ‘clairvoyance’; the first; a mother operating on her young son, who is riding a rocking horse, and predicting his future as a maimed half-pay officer; the second; a father operating on his daughter and predicting her future of a young man asking her to marry him because of her wealth; the third; a gentleman operating on a drunkard and predicting his future as a gout-ridden invalid; the fourth; a maid-servant operating on her mistress and predicting the loss of her son’s fortune at a gaming table, abused by anthropomorphic crows; the fifth; a kitchen maid operating on a cook and predicting a young man eating the pie; the sixth; an old drunkard predicting his servants raiding his wine cellar; a man visible behind the image holding it up’. A lovely example of a Cruikshank sketch for publication. [c.1845] $2,100

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THE NEVER ENDING TICHBORNE CASE: ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR CRUIKSHANK, George. The Last Man on the Tichborne Jury. Watercolour & wash on paper, signed. 20 x 31cm. Double mounted, framed & glazed. [96965] ¶ Inscribed

& signed by Cruikshank in the lower left corner: ‘This idea suggested by my friend George S. Nottage and designed & drawn by me [signed] Geo. Cruikshank’.

The reverse mount is inscribed ‘The “Last Man” on the “Tichborne” Jury. George Cruikshank’. The image was photographically reproduced on a carte de visite published by the Stereoscopic & Photographic Company. It is not recorded in Cohn. A single copy is recorded on OCLC at the National Library of Australia. Printed on the back of the card is a spoof extract supposedly from The Times in 1930, written as if the trial were still ongoing some 60 years later. The image depicts an exceptionally old man with a fine long white beard, ear trumpet in hand as he listens to a yawning and bored looking barrister.

Piled ceiling high around the old man are ‘Daily Reports’ from the trial dated between 1871, the start of the trial, and 1930. The BM holds a sheet of a very rough preliminary sketch of the old man and his ear trumpet. A rather wonderful satire on the infamous Tichborne case which captivated Victorian society in the 1860s and 1870s. Best known as the Tichborne Claimant, Arthur Orton, sometimes called Thomas Castro, declared himself the rightful heir of the Tichborne Baronetcy. He claimed to be Roger Tichborne, who had been presumed drowned in a shipwreck in 1854. Although Roger’s mother claimed Orton as her own, the family cast doubt on his claims which were thrown out of court during a civil trial in 1871-1872. He was subsequently charged and jailed for perjury and, after his release in 1884, lived in poverty before his death in 1898. In 1895 he confessed to being Orton, which he retracted almost immediately. Although most accept that his claim was spurious, some still argue that he was indeed Roger Tichborne.

[1871]

$5,200

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THE WEALTH OF THE FIRST ENGLISH FEMALE BIBLIOPHILE CURRER, Frances Mary Richardson. Manuscript Estates Rental Book.

4to., 148pp plus blanks; a few stubs of excised pages visible. Beautiful marbled eps.

Contemp. full reverse calf, raised bands, panelled in blind, title on front board: ‘Miss Currers Tenants 1786’ in contemp. ink ms; front board & spine somewhat speckled, corners sl. knocked, but a sound & attractive volume. [97001]

¶ Frances Mary Richardson Currer, 1785-1861, was an heiress and book collector living at Eshton Hall in Yorkshire. Currer’s father died before she was born, resulting in her direct inheritance of two substantial estates including that of Sarah Currer (sole heir of Matthew Wilson, owner of Eshton Hall), and that of her great-grandfather, the physician, botanist, and antiquary Richard Richardson. Among Richardson’s estate was his substantial library of primarily botanical and historical works, which would become the foundation of her own impressive collection.

The particular strengths of Currer’s library were natural science, topography, history, and antiquities, though there were also classical works of Latin and Greek and other rarities; Seymour De Ricci described Currer as England’s earliest female bibliophile. When the books were sold by Sotheby’s in 1862, they were described as being in excellent condition, with many in fine bindings.

Currer is perhaps best known today as the inspiration behind Charlotte Brontë’s nom de plume, Currer Bell.

Richardson Currer used part of her substantial fortune on philanthropic endeavours in Yorkshire and Lancashire. She was patron of the Cowan Bridge School which was attended by all the Brontë sisters except Anne, the youngest. It is also often suggested that she was the ‘benevolent individual, a wealthy lady in the West Riding of Yorkshire’ who gave £50 to support the recently widowed Curate of Howarth, Patrick Brontë. Charlotte also very briefly worked as a governess for Currer’s neighbour John Benson Sidgwick at Stone Gappe, the house that inspired Gateshead Hall, Jane Eyre’s childhood home in the novel.

This volume of estate accounts begins in 1786, when Frances Currer is only one year old, and covers the following 12 years, showing the wide landed interests on which her fortune was based.

As well as property near Eshton Hall (including the Kildwick Hall estate) only 15 miles from Haworth, she owned estates, farms and houses in a wide area of Lancashire and West Yorkshire. One of her biggest holdings was in the area of Bierley & Bowling, south of Bradford. At Darwen, near Blackburn, she leased out mining rights at the Smalley & Hargrave Colliery. Many of her houses, let on leases, are evocatively and romantically named: Avel Clough Head, Bog Bank, Swough, Billy Bridge, Griff Head, Gargrave, Craggs Top, Toad Hole, Cheesecake House, Toftshaw, Far Flag Farm.

1786-1798 $3,500

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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. [96268] ¶ 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?] $660

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ORIGINAL WEEKLY PARTS IN SCARCE PORTFOLIO WRAPPERS DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey’s Clock. In the 88 weekly parts: Saturday April 4th, 1840 - (Saturday Nov. 27, 1841). Chapman & Hall. Illus. by George Cattermole & H.K. Browne. Sewn as issued in orig. white decorated wrappers.

[97109] ¶ An extremely well-preserved set of the 88 weekly parts, loosely housed in three original and seldom-seen folding portfolios, each covered in grey-green cloth imitating a bound volume, lettered in gilt on the spines ‘MASTER / HUMPHREY’S / CLOCK.’.

The blocking differs significantly from that of the first bound editions of the novel, and we believe is unique to these portfolios. The boards have triple-ruled borders in blind, with the front boards also featuring a central vignette of a casement clock above a floral design. The time is the same on each clock: seven minutes to one. Printed on the leading pastedown of each portfolio: ‘PORTFOLIO for MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK. Price two shillings. The portfolio is intended to contain twenty-six numbers of the “Clock” after the four pages of Advertisements have been cut off. London: William Smith, 113, Fleet Street’. We can find no other example of the 88 weekly parts retaining this binding, which was clearly produced in limited numbers, and at a premium price. The binding is not mentioned by Smith, Eckel or Gimbel.

1840-41 $13,100

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HELEN PRIESTMAN BRIGHT CLARK’S COPY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS (DOUGLASS, Frederick Augustus Washington) The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, from 1817 to 1882, written by himself. 3rd edn. Christian Age Office.

Half title, front., plates, final ad. leaf; some spotting, particularly to prelims. Orig. green cloth, bevelled boards, pictorially blocked & lettered in black & gilt; sl. rubbed, inner hinges a little cracked but remaining firm. Pencil signature of Helen P.B. Clark on half title. A nice copy. [97283] The third printing of this edition edited by John Lobb and with an introduction by the radical politician John Bright. This volume belonged to Bright’s daughter the suffrage campaigner Helen Priestman Bright Clark, 1840-1927. Clark met Frederick Douglass during two trips he made to the UK to campaign against the evils of slavery. The first was in Clark’s childhood before Douglass returned in 1886–87, visiting Clark once again at her home and speaking about race oppression, caste barriers and African Americans’ ‘total inability to protect themselves without the ballot of which they had been deprived by cruel persecution and the fraudulent manipulation of the ballot box’. This gathering at Clark’s home led to her friend Catherine Impey, launching Anti-Caste in 1888, dedicated ‘to the interests of the coloured race’ and the first anti-racism magazine in England. In the 1860s, Clark was involved with the UK branch of the Freedman’s Aid Society which sought to help educate and house formerly enslaved people. In the 1880s, Clark was a founding member of the Society for the Furtherance of Human Brotherhood, and in 1906, with Helena Brownsword Dowson and Jane Cobden Unwin, she became active in the Aborigines’ Protection Society.

Clark is recorded in Elizabeth Crawford’s The Women’s Suffrage Movement. Born to John Bright and Elizabeth Priestman, Helen was niece to a long list of suffrage campaigners, abolitionists and social reformers including Priscilla Bright McLaren, Margaret Bright Lucas, Jacob and Ursula Bright, Margaret Tanner, and Anna Maria and Mary Priestman. Despite her father’s lack of support for female enfranchisement, Clark signed the 1866 suffrage petition and worked tirelessly promoting the cause. She spoke at the 1883 Liberal Convention in favour of a motion for female suffrage. One of a handful of women in a conference attended by over 1600 people (another attendee was the American suffrage reformer Susan B. Anthony), Clark persuaded all but 30 delegates to back the motion.

1887 $1,300 ¶

SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE EDEN, The Hon. Emily. The Semi-Detached House. Edited

by Lady Theresa Lewis. FIRST EDITION. Richard Bentley Half title. Original dark green bead-grained cloth, striped horizontally with light green, boards blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription on e.p., 1859.

[84800]

¶ Sadleir 761; Wolff 1983. ‘An accomplished study in the social contrasts of aristocratic style, bourgeois respectability and crass vulgarity.’ (Sutherland.)

1859 $520

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WITH CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS EGAN, Pierce. Sporting Anecdotes, original and selected; including numerous characteristic portraits of persons in every walk of life, who have acquired notoriety from their achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the diversions of the field...

New edn., considerably enlarged and improved. Sherwood, Jones, & Co. Uncoloured front., vignette title, three hand-coloured plates & two uncoloured, illus.

A fine clean copy. Finely bound by Root in 20thC full dark green crushed morocco, triple ruled gilt borders, central gilt illustration of two boxers in combat, raised bands, compartments lettered & illus. in gilt, gilt dentelles. v.g. [97232] ¶ Cohn 368 noting that three of the text illustrations are by George and Robert Cruikshank and two of the colour plates by Robert including ‘A Visit to the Five Court’ depicting a boxing match and its society crowd. The third is by Alkin. Tooley 202. First published in 1820.

1825 $480

ACKERMANN’S NAPLES (ENGELBACK, Lewis) (ROWLANDSON, Thomas) Naples and the Campagna Felice. In a series of letters addressed to a friend in England, in 1802. FIRST EDITION. R. Ackermann. Hand-coloured front., additional engraved title & a further 16 plates as listed. Untrimmed in orig. brick brown fine-grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine blocked & lettered in gilt, small mark & a three small nicks to front board, otherwise a v.g. crisp copy in the original cloth. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Andrew. [96805] ¶ Abbey

Travel, 166: ‘The book is often said to contain seventeen or eighteen plates by Rowlandson, but in fact probably only nine are by him... Of these only... [the frontispiece] carries Rowlandson’s signature’. Tooley 419. First published in Ackermann’s Repository during 1809-1813 under the title Letters From Italy. A handsome production, with a narrative of the author’s tour through Italy illustrated, at least partially, with hand-coloured plates after designs by Thomas Rowlandson.

1815 $760

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18TH CENTURY HIEROGLYPHIC FAN IN ORIGINAL BOX FAN. 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. [96266] ¶ Schreiber 328 now at the BM, printed in green ink. One other example found at the Huntington.

[1793] $2,600

FOUJITA’S BOOK OF CATS FOUJITA, Tsuguharu A Book of Cats Being Twenty Drawings. Poems in prose

by Michael Joseph. 4to. New York: Covici Friede. 20 plates printed on handmade Archers paper, stamped ‘Made in France’. Uncut in contemp. full parchment; sl. spotted but v.g. Together with the additional suite of 20 plates on Japanese vellum, ‘Thomyris’ signed by the artist in pencil, housed loosely in a parchment binding, leather spine; spine rather dry. Both housed in a cloth slipcase. Two duplicate plates on Archers paper included with the suite of 20. A lovely copy.

[97294] ¶ 408/500, signed by the artist. Necker 1063.

Tsuguharu Foujita, 1886-1968, was a JapaneseFrench printmaker and painter known primarily for his pictures of nude women and cats. He moved to France in 1913, having graduated from Tokyo’s National University of Fine Arts in 1910. Foujita quickly fell in with an artistic crowd in Paris, which included fellow painters Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Alice Prin (for whom he, along with Ernest Hemingway, wrote an introduction for her infamous 1929 autobiography). He was married at least three times (some sources say five), had numerous lovers of both

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sexes, and was at the time the most commercially successful artist of his rather illustrious circle. Foujita is still considered the most important Japanese artist working in the West during the twentieth century. Upon the breakdown of his third marriage in 1931 - and a hefty French tax bill he was unable to pay - he went with his new lover to South America, where he travelled and painted extensively before returning to Japan in 1933. During the war years, Foujita worked as a propaganda artist for the Japanese government, travelling to China as an official war artist in 1938.

He returned to France after the War, becoming a French citizen and renouncing his Japanese citizenship in the mid 1950s. He converted to Catholicism and was baptised in 1959; his godparents were associated with the illustrious champagne houses Mumm and Taittinger. The Foujita Chapel, which he designed and decorated, was built in the Mumm champagne house gardens in Reims two years before his death from cancer aged 81.

Though he is not as well remembered as some of his Parisian avant-garde contemporaries, his paintings and prints are still highly regarded.

Foujita adored cats - a symbol of good luck in Japan - and the animals feature heavily in all genres of his work including portraits and nudes. Aisi Wang of Christie’s New York states that whenever Foujita depicted cats, regardless of genre or medium, that ‘he captured every square inch of fur with such meticulousness that it almost produces a trompe l’oeil effect — making you think the cat is real’. Indeed, the illustrations for this publication perfectly represent the hybrid of Eastern and Western styles that became Foujita’s trademark, and each cat is meticulously rendered with a completely different appearance and personality.

In his 2017 book Of Cats and Men, Sam Kalda describes this work as ‘certainly one of the rarest and most desired books on cats in existence’ (p.43). A charming item by a fascinating and important twentieth century artist.

1930 $55,200

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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. [95921] 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 ‘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 $760 ¶

A YOUNG SCOTSMAN IN PARIS, 1836 GORDON-CUMMING, Alexander Penrose. ALS from Alexander GordonCumming to his mother Lady Eliza Marie Gordon-Cumming, from Paris, the 15th of Feby 1836. ‘My dearest Mamma, you have probably long ere now received my last letter, as I sent it per post...’ n.d. 98 lines on three sides of a folded quarto sheet, integral address leaf retaining stamps & seal; old folds. A wonderful survival.

[96356] ¶ A charming letter from Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming (1816-1666) to his mother Lady Gordon-Cumming, 1795-1842.

Lord and Lady Gordon-Cumming of Altyre, Scotland, had seven sons and six daughters, of which Alexander - the author of this letter - was the eldest. The family clearly enjoyed a close relationship, as is evidenced in this affectionate account of Alexander’s adventures and misadventures in Paris in the winter of 1836, which also includes a good amount of gossip and a few cheeky requests for money.

Alexander is enjoying the life of a young aristocrat in Paris and is taking full advantage of the events and intrigues that the city has to offer, though he does express readiness to depart, writing rather pointedly that ‘nothing is now delaying me in Paris but waiting for a supply of money to defray the home journey.’ He is disappointed that many of the public museums are closed, but has still managed to occupy himself with various fetes and balls, along with a few ‘very nice girls’. He supplies a vivid description of the Promenade du Boeuf Gras writing that it ‘was a very gay day in Paris’ and that the ‘town seemed actually turned upside down, all the boulevards for four miles in length seem to be full of people in costumes and masks […] it seemed an odd way of passing the Sunday’. Turning his attention home, Alexander hints at rumours of marriage woes between Lady Charlotte and the Duke of Norfolk, and wonders about a match between Lady Sophia Lennox and a man called Walter (in fact Lennox married Lord Thomas Cecil two years later).

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Perhaps the most significant revelation IN the letter is that Alexander met a Peer at dinner one night who gave him a ticket to hear Giuseppe Marco Fieschi speak in his defence in the House of Peers. Fieschi had attempted to assassinate the King of France in July 1836, and the trial, a spectacle that ended on February 16th, was so high-profile it brought Parisian society to a standstill. Alexander’s postulation that ‘[Fieschi], Pepin and Morey are sure to be condemned’ was accurate, and the three men were executed by guillotine four days after this letter was written.

Alexander writes that ‘there are at present a very bad set of English in Paris’, and that it is making it difficult for him to be embraced by ‘the societé’. He recounts the story of a man named Murray who had been staying at his hotel, but ‘lost all his ready money (130£) at a hell and started next day for England having cheated the master of the hell by giving him a draught on a bank here where he had no money’. This reference to gambling and cheating is an ironic one, given that more than 50 years later, Alexander’s son William would become embroiled in the ‘Royal baccarat scandal’, one of the most noteworthy gambling scandals and trials in British history.

The recipient of this letter, Alexander’s mother Lady Gordon-Cumming was a horticulturist, palaeontologist and scientific illustrator who worked with many of the leading natural scientists of the time. Becoming interested in the fossils that she found around her estate in Scotland, she began a correspondence with Louis Agassiz, William Buckland, and Roderick Murchison, all of whom visited her and her collection at her home; Agassiz even named a new species he discovered after her. It is exceptional that Lady Gordon-Cumming gained such a positive reputation in a male-dominated field despite having twelve children that she was clearly close to. Alexander signs off his letter rather cheekily: ‘Send a little money. Love and thousands of kisses to dearest Papa and all the bairnes, Dearest Mamma, your most affectionate son’. Lady Gordon-Cumming sadly died from complications following the birth of her thirteenth child while still working on her fossil collection.

This letter is a lovely reflection of the affection between a son and his mother from a period where family relationships - especially among the upper classes - are often considered cold and disconnected.

1836 $660

GRASS’S GREATEST, INSCRIBED TO HIS PUBLISHER GRASS, Gunter. The Tin Drum. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

FIRST U.K. EDITION. Secker & Warburg. Half title. Orig. grey cloth, spine blocked in red & gilt; v. sl. browned at lower edge. White pictorial d.w., unclipped; unevenly browned & marked [CAROL CHECK: a couple ‘pen trials’ to rear panel - are these covered by ‘marked’?], a little creased & chipped at edges. Presentation inscription on half title ‘Für Tom, Meinen Verleger in leider nur kurzer zeil’, ein Gruß, von Gunter’. [96990]

Blechtrommel, Berlin 1959. The inscription to Grass’s London publisher, Tom Rosenthal, translates as ‘For Tom, My publisher in, regrettably, only a short line, kind regards from Gunter Grass’.

One of the weirdest and greatest novels of the twentieth century - a sprawling, unsettling, ‘frolicsome, black fable...’, part bildungsroman (though the protagonist, Oskar Matzerath, decides to stop growing at the age of three), part memoir (though Matzerath, the quintessential unreliable narrator, catapults between the first and third person), part farce (though the horrors of the twentieth-century are hurled constantly and unsparingly at the reader). The central conceit of a small man making a big noise to disrupt society and expose its evils was soured by Grass’s 2006 revelation that he concealed his teenage membership of the Waffen-SS. Nonetheless Rosenthal continued to hold Grass and his work in high esteem, writing that ‘Some novelists’ memoirs are proof that all of their books are only skilfully worked autobiographies; some reveal that their books are pure works of imagination. Grass is neither -- or both.’

1962 $3,100 ¶ Die

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WITH ALS FROM PATRICK HAMILTON HAMILTON, Patrick. Hangover Square; or, The Man with Two Minds, a story of darkest Earl’s Court in the year 1939. FIRST EDITION. Constable. Half title.

Orig. pale green cloth, spine lettered in red; spine a little faded. Green pictorial d.w., unclipped; small closed tear to rear panel, a little marked, chipped & creased, spine sl. sunned. Six-line ALS from the author on Savile Club notepaper loosely inserted. A rare survival. [93566] ¶ Anthony

Walter Patrick Hamilton, 1904-1962, is perhaps the closest the twentiethcentury ever got to having its own Charles Dickens, with his extraordinary command of atmosphere and boldly unforgettable characters, but it is Dickens refracted through a grubby saloon-bar window. Hamilton’s life was blighted both by alcoholism and by the severe injuries he suffered upon being hit by a car. Hangover Square is his peerless, chilling masterpiece and one of the most evocative prose works in English, taking place in a booze-soaked London of damp streets, spartan boarding houses, and empty bonhomie that’s wholly indistinguishable from bullying. The only thing worse than the grubby, lonely pubs is the fact that they close between 3 and 5. Ostensibly the tale of George Harvey Bone’s obsession with the desperate, calculating Netta, much has (rightly) been made in the past of the odious character Peter as an allegory for fascism, but in his portrayal of the craven, self-interested, passivity of the rest of the group, Hamilton offers a warning against stupefaction that is as dire as anything in Huxley. The undated ALS to an unknown correspondent is brief but perfectly Hamiltonian in its acerbic resignation, ending ‘Would have been in before, but have been ill again, naturally’.

1941 $4,800

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INSCRIBED BY TED HUGHES FOR EMMA TENNANT, WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING (HUGHES, Ted) ATTAR, Farid ul-Din. The Conference of the Birds. A philosophical religious poem in prose. Translated into English by C.S. Nott.

Routledge & Keegan Paul Ltd. Half title, illus. Orig. limp card wrappers. Inscribed ‘For Emma, with love Ted’ on half title with drawing of a swooping eagle. [96610] ¶ Known

in Persian as Mantiq-ut-Tayr, The Conference of the Birds is a Sufi epic poem dating from the second half of the twelfth century. This translation first appeared in 1954, of which this is the first paperback edition and sixth printing overall. The present volume was given by Ted Hughes to his lover, the novelist Emma Tennant.

The text was obviously hugely important to Hughes, and he described its influence on Crow in an interview with Amzed Hossein: ‘The whole story is more like a… My model was really The Conference of the Birds, you know, the Attar poem - that book by the Sufi poet… I’d a notion of a journey of that kind in the background, of a creature that starts out, like one of the birds in The Conference of the Birds, separated from everything, just a creature with no attribute whatsoever except the will to keep searching. And then I was to take him through all his adventures, through the Seven Valleys until he found himself.’

At the time this edition was published, Hughes was working with Peter Brook on Orghast, a retelling of the Prometheus myth to be staged in Persepolis. The poet’s drawing on the half title shows an eagle swooping, beak open and claws outstretched, vigorously evoking the demigod’s punishment.

1974 $900

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JOHNSON’S DICTIONARY JOHNSON, Samuel. The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State. (The second edition.) Printed for J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, &c. [ii], 37, [1]. 8vo. Sl. loss to upper corner of final leaf not affecting text, faint damp marking to final leaf. In 20th century quarter red morocco, red cloth boards. Stamp of Alexander Gardyne on title verso. [84220] ¶ Fleeman 47.8PD/2; Alston V 362; ESTC T116686. Scarce in commerce; only three copies at auction since 1978. First published in quarto in 1747; this was printed to coincide with the publication of the first edition. It begins: ‘When first I undertook to write an English Dictionary, I had no expectation of any higher patronage than that of the proprietors of the copy, nor prospect of any other advantage than the price of my labour; I knew that the work in which I engaged is generally considered as drudgery for the blind, as the proper toil of artless industry, a task that requires neither the light nor the learning, nor the activity of genius, but may be successfully performed without any higher quality that that of bearing burthens with full patience, and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution.’

1747 [1755] $3,500

FIRST EDITION FOLIO JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. In two volumes. For J. & P. Knapton, &c. 2 vols. Folio. Five near contemporary annotations with some later pencil markings, titlepages neatly strengthened at gutter margin, paper flaw to lower margin of D1 without loss, sl. damp staining to upper margin vol. I & lower margin vol. II, not affecting text.

Overall a very nice clean copy. Handsomely rebound in half speckled calf, raised gilt bands, compartments ruled in gilt, red & green morocco labels. [83913] ¶ Fleeman 55.4D/1a; Alston V 177; ESTC T117231. FIRST EDITION. One of the contemporary annotations highlights an omission by Johnson noting below the word Co’gitative: ‘Cognate - adj. relative - used by Johnson in the word AMÉNDE’.

1755 $13,100

THE FIRST DUBLIN & FIRST QUARTO EDITION JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language... In two volumes.

Dublin: printed for Thomas Ewing. 2 vols, engraved frontispiece portrait. 4to.

Small tear to lower corner of c2 vol. I with sl. loss to catchword, occasional light spotting & browning, inoffensive water marking to initial leaves vol. I & to near margin of titlepage vol. II. Near contemporary full calf, raised bands, red & black morocco label; expert repair to hinges. 19th century signature of George Morgan in vol. II, French inscription (’A Ma chere Sofia...’) dated 1897 on leading pastedowns together with decorated printed stamp (’pontet fils’) on leading blanks; later armorial bookplate of William George Buchanan on leading pastedowns. All edges green. A handsome copy. [83972] ¶ Fleeman 55.4D/5a; Alston, V 184; ESTC T117233. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION and the first to be published in quarto. It includes a four page list of 290 subscribers. A second issue of this edition was published in 1777. Fleeman notes that ‘the variety of signatures and the occasional presence of press-figures (relatively uncommon in Irish books), suggest that the work was produced simultaneously in parts by different printers’. The portrait, published by Longman on August 21st, 1786 was issued with the first London quarto edition, published in 1785. This edition includes Johnson’s revisions made for the fourth folio edition. In the advertisement to this edition Johnson writes: ‘Perfection is unattainable, but nearer and nearer approaches may be made; and finding my Dictionary about to be reprinted, I have endeavoured, by a revisal, to make it less reprehensible. I will not deny that I found many parts requiring emendation, and many more capable of improvements’.

1775 $3,500

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EIGHTH EDITION 1786 JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings, and authorized by the names of the writers in whose works they are found. Abstracted from the folio edition, by the author Samuel Johnson, A.M. To which is prefixed, a grammar of the English language. The eighth edition. In two volumes. Printed for J. F. & C. Rivington, L Davis, W. Owen, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. Occasional light spotting but a nice clean copy. Contemporary tree calf, elaborate gilt spine, maroon morocco title & volume labels with green morocco inlay for volume numbers; expert repair to hinges. Contemp. initials ‘J R’ on titlepages. A handsome copy in contemporary binding. [84157] ¶ Fleeman 56.1DA/12; Alston V 202; ESTC T83956, 5 locations only in the British Isles.

1786 $1,700

QUEENEY’S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY (KEITH, Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess) BRITISH AND FOREIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY. Renewal Notice for a Subscription to the British and Foreign Public Library, 50 Conduit Street.

Printed sheet, completed in ms., folded for sending with ms. address on verso. [97230] ¶ The address label and renewal notice is in the name of the Rt. Hon. Lady Keith, Harley Street. Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, née Thrale, 1764–1857, was a British literary correspondent and intellectual. She was the eldest child of Hester Thrale Piozzi, 1740-1821, the diarist, author, patron of the arts and confidante of Samuel Johnson. As a child she was constantly surrounded by the literary set of her mother which included Samuel Johnson. Johnson ‘called her ‘Queeney’, wrote childish rhymes for her, played horses with her, wrote to her, and directed her education’ where she studied Latin alongside the author Fanny Burney (ODNB). The ‘Queeney letters’, a large collection of letters addressed to Keith by Johnson, Fanny Burney and her mother Hester was published in 1934. Having turned down a marriage proposal from the poet Samuel Rogers, Thrale became the second wife of George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, 1746-1823, marrying in 1808. This document, signed in print by the proprietor of the library and publisher, Henry Colburn, documents her membership to the British and Foreign Public Library which was acquired by Colburn in 1806. Subscriptions for five months cost £1.4.0 with an addition 3s.6d for ‘catalogues’ but with 12s deducted for Miss Elphinstone, Thrale’s daughter.

1819 $690

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ENGLANDS PROPHETICALL MERLINE LILLY, William. Englands Propheticall Merline, Foretelling to all Nations of Europe untill 1663. the Actions depending upon the influence of the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, 1642/3. The progresse and motion of the Comet 1618. under whose effects we in England, and most regions of Europe now suffer. What kingdoms must yet partake of the remainder of the influence, viz. of war, plague, famine, &c. When the English Common-wealth may expect peace, and the City of London better times. The beginning, and end of the Watry Trygon: an entrance of the fiery triplicity, 1603. The nativities of some English Kings, and some horary questions inserted. Printed by John Raworth, for John Partridge. [xvi], 136pp. 4to. Woodcut border around titlepage, woodcut charts & tables throughout; some leaves v. sl. browned, small tear along lower margin of pp.13/14 affecting small part of one chart. Beautifully rebound in modern full speckled calf, boarded in blind, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco label. [93583]

ESTC R8902. First and only edition. William Lilly, 1602-1681, was an important English astrologer; he was the son of an indebted yeoman farmer but managed to increase his station by marrying the wealthy widow of his former master. He published his first astronomical treatise, Merlinus Anglicus Junior, in 1644 and published frequently after that. In 1647 he released his most famous work, Christian Astrology, an extensive compendium of astrological technique that was the first of its kind to be printed in English rather than Latin. That work solidified his reputation as an astrologer, and remains one of the seminal texts on Western horary astrology today.

Lilly aligned himself with the Parliamentarians during the Civil War, and his predictions often reflected his favour of Parliament. Despite this, he had supporters on both sides of the conflict, including Parliamentarian and Speaker of the House of Commons William Lenthall, and staunch Royalist Elias Ashmole. Lilly fell into disrepute following the Restoration, but maintained Elias Ashmole as a patron until the end of his life; indeed, it was Ashmole who requested he write his autobiography, which was published in the year he died.

In this work, Lilly explains how various historical events, starting in the mid fifteenth century, were caused by the astrological conditions that existed at the time they occurred. The events discussed include the Protestant Reformation, several wars between England and France, the invention of the printing press, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, and many others.

He then turns to his present day and seems particularly troubled by a comet that was visible in 1618 and how that will affect the upcoming year. He writes that the appearance of a comet on December 16, 1618 suggests that 1644 is ‘like to bee very full of action, and many battells to bee fought in the North, and Northwest of England, and so also South-west, and full West from London, &c. Both the Comet, and the figura Mundi signifie the year to bee extreme ill &c. And it threatens the death of a great Queen, or Lady, and also of an Ecclesiasticall person, and persons; nay it portends sudden death to some great King, or Prince; God blesse His Majesty of England, &c. The Pope can find no leasure to die’.

A fascinating early treatise by one of the most important and prolific English astrologers covering a particularly turbulent period of the Civil War. 1644 $3,500 ¶

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THE WRITING SLOPE OF COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ (MARKIEVICZ, Constance Georgine, née Gore-Booth, Countess) A rosewood travelling writing slope once belonging to Countess Markievicz, with a brass label on the front engraved with the initials CGB., i.e. Constance Gore Booth. Countess Markievicz was a pivotal figure in the Irish republican movement, and, upon her election as MP for Dublin St. Patrick’s in 1918, was the first ever woman elected to the Westminster parliament. Rosewood writing slope, 35 x 24.5 x 9.5 cm. Maker’s label: Palmer’s, Cutler & Dressing Case Maker, 1 St. James’s Street. An attractive example despite some age-wear. [97101] From the collection of Loretta Clarke, the noted collector of Irish Republican memorabilia, and thence through auction, a very nice example of a late Victorian rosewood writing slope or lap desk, once the possession of Constance Markievicz, née Gore-Booth.

The sloping lid is inlaid with brass and ebony, with a brass plate at the centre bearing a stag and hind, and the initials ‘CGB’. The brass edging on the lid is mostly missing, present on one portion of the right side only.

Once folded down, the underside of the lid forms the writing slope, which is lined with brown velvet. There is a cavity for paper beneath, and several compartments for pens, ink, etc. The box retains its two original ink pots, with spring-loaded twisting lids, but one lid without central inlaid ornament.

The lock is still intact, and two keys are retained.

Born into a liberal Anglo-Irish family, Constance Gore-Booth was raised at Lissadell House in County Sligo. She enjoyed an aristocratic upbringing, and was well-educated. She trained as an artist, at first in Dublin, and from 1892 at the Slade in London. It was during this period her journey toward protest politics began, and she threw herself behind the cause of women’s suffrage.

Moving back to Ireland in the early 1900s, by now Countess, following her marriage to the Polish aristocrat Casimir Markievicz, she became increasingly attracted to the Irish nationalist cause, devoting less time to the arts and more to the Republican movement.

She joined the revolutionary women’s organisation The Daughters of Ireland, in 1908, and also became a member of Sinn Fein. Over the next few years she became a prominent figure in the struggle for Irish independence, often finding herself at odds with the British administration, and being arrested on several occasions.

As Lieutenant Markievicz of the Irish Citizen Army, she played an active role in the Easter Uprising of 1916. She was arrested, and sentenced to death, which was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment on account of her sex; a general amnesty saw her release from prison in 1917. In 1918 she became the first ever woman elected to the Westminster parliament, winning in the Dublin St. Patrick’s constituency for Sinn Fein.

In line with Sinn Fein policy, she refused to take her seat in the House of Commons, instead choosing to sit in the first Dail, the unilaterally-declared parliament of the Irish Republic.

In 1926 she was a founding member of Fianna Fail, but died the following year at the age of 59. Along with her sister Eva, an equally zealous proponent of women’s suffrage and Irish independence, Constance was an avid writer of both letters and political notices; her correspondence was first published in Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz in 1934. An updated version appeared in 2018, which now included her ‘rebel writings’. Constantly on the move in an effort to stay one step ahead of hostile opposition, we can surmise that much of her important writing would have been produced on this lap desk. [c.1890] $7,600 ¶

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MR MATHEWS’ MEMORANDUM BOOK - ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT CRUIKSHANK MATHEWS, Charles, the Elder. Selections from Mr. Mathews’ Celebrated Memorandum Book, comprising a full account of his admirable lecture on peculiarities, customs and manners, who with the most laughable of the stories and adventures... Embellished with characteristic engravings by J. R. Cruikshank.

12mo. J. Limbird. Hand-coloured folding front. Sewn as issued in orig. drab printed paper wrappers; a few small creases but an exceptional copy as issued.

24pp. [97104] ¶ Copac records BL & Oxford only. Includes seven comic songs on the subject of Memoranda in Confusion, Night Coach, Bubbles, Sailing Match, Old and New Times, Public Office of Bow Street, and Finale. Robert Cruikshank’s four sketches (on the frontispiece) are: German Cook, Molly Gramachree, Brother Simper, and Mr Alum.

1825 $520

ZENOBIA (O’KEEFE, Adelaide) Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra; a narrative, founded on history. By the author of Patriarchal Times. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. F.C. & J. Rivington. Bound without half titles. Contemp. full calf, panelled in gilt, spines gilt in compartments, red morocco labels; gilt on spine quite dulled & faded, expert almost imperceptible repairs to hinges. Booklabels from the library of Anne & F.G. Renier on leading pastedowns.

[97221] ¶ Summers p.114;

not in Wolff, who had only one title by her. Adelaide O’Keefe, 1776-1865, was an Irish author and children’s poet who acted as her dramatist father John O’Keefe’s amanuensis until his death in 1833. Her parents separated while she was young, and her father left Ireland with Adelaide and her brother; Adelaide was sent to a convent in France at the age of seven and she remained there until the French Revolution broke out when she was twelve.

This is her second novel and is often considered her most interesting to scholars today because of its quite progressive commentary on religion. In the work, Zenobia, a powerful Roman queen, is taught many religions and converts from Paganism to Judaism and ultimately to Christianity. The Patriarchal Times, which is mentioned on the title pages here, is a retelling of five works from the Bible and her most famous work.

1814

$1,700

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LIFE AND DEATH IN EDWARDIAN LONDON: WORKING DAYBOOKS OF THE FIRST SPECIALIST PATHOLOGIST PATHOLOGY. (FREYBERGER, Ludwig) Two Early Twentieth-Century Manuscript Pathologist’s Daybooks. 2 vols. n.p. 4to. [40], 231pp; [42], 225.

Manuscript written in blue ink in the same tight cursive hand, text predominantly in two columns. Both vols. contemp. half leather, vol. I with marbled boards & vol. II with blue textured cloth; extremities rubbed, spines both defective but bindings sound. A great deal of related material, including letters, newspaper clippings, subpoenas, expense forms, & more than 20 additional case reports are loosely inserted into both volumes. A remarkably interesting collection. [96937] Two volumes offering remarkable insight into the lives and deaths of early twentieth century Londoners. Ludwig Freyberger, 1865-1934, studied medicine at the University of Vienna and qualified as a doctor in 1889. He worked as House Surgeon, House Physician, and Clinical Assistant at Vienna General hospital before he moved to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London in the early 1890s. While in London, Freyberger became a member of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons, and was a barrister-at-law at the Middle Temple. He married Louise Kautsky in February 1894 and the two lived at 41 Regents Park Road with revolutionary socialist Frederick Engels; Louise had previously been married to prominent Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky.

Following a report suggesting that a skilled pathologist should be appointed for cases where General Practitioners did not have the expertise to perform post-mortem examinations, Freyberger was selected in 1902 on the nomination of John Troutbeck, the ¶

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Coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster. Freyberger’s appointment caused uproar in the British medical establishment, as Troutbeck frequently employed Freyberger’s expertise, causing the GPs to lose out on post-mortem cases and, more significantly, the associated fees.

It is clear from these report books that Freyberger was thorough and inquisitive as a pathologist and toxicologist, often taking pages of notes documenting minute details. The lengthiest entry, at nine pages, is his inquiry into the death of Maud Marsh, who died of ‘antimonial poisoning’ administered by serial killer George Chapman (given name Seweryn Klosowski). Chapman was convicted of killing three women, including Marsh, by poisoning. Upon his arrest, Inspector Frederick Abberline - one of the lead officers on the Jack the Ripper case - publicly expressed his belief that Chapman was himself The Ripper. The final entry in the 1902/3 volume is the report on the death of Chapman at Wandsworth Prison 7/IV/03, where the cause of death verdict is recorded as ‘death from judicial hanging’.

There is another verdict of ‘wilful murder’ in the 1908 volume, in this case against a ‘person or persons unknown’ after a 29 year old woman died following an ‘abortion brought about by artificial mechanical means; not brought about by [the deceased] herself’.

The woman suffered heart failure ‘accelerated by pneumonia [...] septic blood poisoning, following upon an abortion, tear in uterus, endometritis sceptica’.

The verdict given for the majority of cases is death by natural causes, though these still leave room for some interpretation. One example of death from ‘natural causes’ is a 6 year old girl who died from complications of an infection caught from a vaccination; another is a 54 year old man who died from ‘suffocation from asphyxiation of faecal vomit [...] while partly under influence of an anaesthetic’.

There are fifteen verdicts of suicide between both volumes with methods including, cyanide poisoning, oxalic acid poisoning, ‘cut throat’, coal gas poisoning, hanging, drowning, and ‘shock of impact wound’. In one suicide entry of a 54 year old man, Freyberger drew a picture of a man lying in bed with a ligature strung around the bedpost and around his neck - possibly suggesting a case of autoerotic asphyxiation. This is the only scene of death the pathologist draws, his few other sketches are of affected organs, tumours, or injuries.

The wide spectrum of causes of death paints a bleak picture of Edwardian London: children dying from ‘improper feeding’ or starvation, women dying from ‘exhaustion’ caused by childbirth, diphtheria, tuberculosis, syphilis, rickets, exposure to the elements, and many more. These volumes offer a wealth of information about the way that death was treated and investigated during a period of significant advancement in medicine and forensic science.

The daybooks were purchased at auction where they had been consigned by the goddaughter of Ludwig and Louise Freyberger’s daughter Louise. The Wellcome Library has other volumes of Freyberger’s pathological daybooks from 1907 onwards.

1902-3 & 1908 $11,700

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FIRST MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRINT. (WOODWARD, George Moutard?) Long Faces; or, The first meeting of the National Assembly After the King’s Escape! W. Holland. Hand-coloured engraving; expert paper repairs to all corners, small closed tear to lower margin not affecting image or text. 35 x 44cm. [97420] ¶ George BM Satires undescribed, ‘After a drawing in the Derby Record Office that is attributed to Woodward’. The speaker of the Assembly gestures passionately towards the shocked, angered, and fearful, look members before him. On June 20th, 1791, Louis XVI, together with Marie Antoinette and their immediately family, fled from their confinement at the Tuileries. Their flight was short-lived and the royal carriage was captured in the town of Varennes and the King returned to the Tuileries. Any opportunity for political reconciliation was gone; the Republic was declared in September 1791 and Louis executed in January 1792.

1791 $1,400

ORIGINAL BOARDS (ROWLANDSON, Thomas) Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, shortly before the revolution; embellished with 17 coloured engravings, from designs by T. Rowlandson. FIRST EDITION. Published by R. Ackermann, Strand. Hand-coloured front. & 17 further hand-coloured plates, 4pp publisher ads at rear. Uncut in orig. drab boards, printed paper label; sl. nick at head of leading hinge, small stain in upper outer corner of following board. Armorial bookplate of Beauchamp C. Urquhart. A v.g. well-preserved copy in half dark blue morocco slipcase. [76659] ¶ Abbey

Travel 89; Tooley 415. According to the BL, the text forms an abridged translation of M.A. von Thuemmel’s Reise in die mittäglichen Provinzen von Frankreich.

1821 $1,400

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THREE FIRST EDITIONS, AND A SECOND SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Pieces, by the late Percy Bysshe Shelley; containing Prometheus Unmasked, a lyrical drama; with other poems. Hellas; a lyrical drama. The Cenci; a tragedy, in five acts. Rosalind and Helen; with other poems. Printed for C. & J. Ollier; and W. Simpkin & R. Marshall. Bound without half title; some light foxing in the first work. Sl. later half dark green morocco, spine dec. & lettered in gilt, green cloth boards; spine faded to tan & a little rubbed, small chip at head of spine. [94926] ¶ An

extremely scarce posthumously published collection, comprising the first edition sheets of Prometheus Unbound, Hellas and Rosalind and Helen, and the second (a first London) edition of The Cenci. Bound together with a new titlepage dated 1823. See T.J. Wise, A Shelley Library, pp69-70. He describes the volume as being made up of ‘remainder’ sheets, with each work being bound up, ‘just as it stood, the whole of the original Half-titles, Title-pages, Advertisement leaves, etc., being retained’. He notes that ‘during recent years [writing in 1924] nearly every available copy has been broken up... and the three first editions have been separately bound. Thus it seldom occurs today.’

Indeed, we can trace only three copies going through auction in the past 40 years.

1823 [1819-1822] $10,400

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TWO LOST VOLUMES OF EMILY SHORE’S JOURNAL SHORE, Emily. Journal of Margaret Emily Shore: Vol. I, from July 5, 1831 to Dec. 31, 1832, at London, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Swanscombe, Potton, Casterton and Woodbury; Vol. II, from Jan. 1, 1833 to May 7, 1833, at Woodbury and Casterton. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, title, 4pp. index, 1-10[3]pp, ending at December 21; old repairs to inner margins of pp. 2-4 affecting some text, 4 leaves excised & rewritten between pp 24 and 25. Without wrappers. Vol. II, [1]-60; 8pp. before p.

[1] excised but with some remnants of manuscript on stubs, rewritten on different paper; pp.9-10 partly cut along inner margin, but retained; another leaf excised between pp.10 & 11; pp.11-12 rewritten on different paper. Orig. marbled wrappers.

Where there have been authorial excisions, the text remains continuous. Together with: Journal of Emily Shore. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1891. Half title, front. port., sl. water stained. Orig. blue cloth; a bit worn. [95672] ¶ Offered

here are the first two Manuscript Journals of the 12 original volumes compiled by Shore from the age of 11. Entirely written in Shore’s distinctive small, neat, and easily readable hand, these volumes are a remarkable rediscovery more than thirty years after the only other known surviving volumes were sold. The three novels, three books of poetry, and Histories of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, that Emily wrote during her lifetime were never published, and today she is remembered only for these journals. However, her wit and intelligence even in these early volumes - shines through each page, giving her a voice that is every bit as charming and perceptive as her direct contemporaries, the Brontë sisters.

Indeed, in another parallel with the Brontë family, both of Emily’s younger sisters went on to be published authors, though they were known primarily for their poetry. Louisa especially had a reputation as an accomplished writer, and was a known supporter of suffrage; she wrote an article in 1874 about the women’s movement for the Westminster Review that was reprinted in pamphlet form several times. Arabella and Louisa together published a number of works, including an elegy on the death of Emily and their brother Mackworth, who was lost at sea in 1860.

Their eldest sister had been their tutor throughout their childhood, and had fostered their love of literature and poetry.

Margaret Emily Shore, 1819-1839, was born on Christmas Day in Bury St. Edmunds, the oldest of five children born to the Reverend Thomas Shore and Margaret Ann, née Twopenny. She tragically died of consumption in Madeira - where the family had relocated in hopes of improving her health - aged just ‘nineteen years, six months, and fourteen days’. These manuscripts capture the incredible vivacity of Shore as she begins to document her life and experiences as a young girl in pre-Victorian England.

Shore begins her diary by introducing her family: her brothers Richard (10) and Mackworth (6), and her sisters - who would eventually go on to publish her journals Arabella (8) and Louisa (7). After describing her home and neighbourhood - ’Potton contains no less than thirteen public-houses and beer shops’ - she begins her account of a summer spent on the Kent coast. The whole family had undertaken the restorative sojourn after all five children had been ‘dangerously ill’ with ‘a most dreadful fever’ in the Spring of 1831. Interestingly, her sisters made an editorial decision, perhaps based on the distressing nature of the memory, to remove only one sentence from this section: ‘Arabella kept her bed seven weeks and was not expected to live’, which has pencilled square brackets around it in the original manuscript, and does not appear in the published work.

Shore’s voice is immediately distinguishable as she recounts her journey through London and on to the coast. She writes: ‘The Monument is very near, it looks immensely tall, but we did not ascend it. I have read of a man climbing up, getting over the rails at the top, and throwing himself over, he was dashed to pieces. I believe he was insane.’ She has mixed feelings about her visit to St. Paul’s, which she does ‘admire extremely’, explaining that

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‘I have [...] two objections to our adopting the Grecian architecture, (or rather the Roman) one is that there is nothing like an arch in pure Grecian, the other is that there ought not to be more than one story of columns, which does not look at all well’. In another church, her brother Richard admires a painting of St. Stephen by Benjamin West, but Emily is not impressed writing ‘the design is cold and tame, the drawing lifeless and without spirit, and the colouring sufficiently bad’.

Their journey down the Thames on a steam-packet does not make it into the published journal, but she describes Greenwich as ‘very noble’, and the East and West India docks as being ‘so filled with vessels as to look like forests of masts’. Her brother Mackworth made friends with a lady on the packet ‘which was principally carried on by means of cakes’. Travel by steam-packet left a real impression on Emily, and after returning from the coast she laboured over making a pasteboard replica model, which is mentioned several times later in her journals. Emily’s confession that she and her siblings have never seen the sea before and that she, at least, is ‘much delighted with it’, does make it into the printed journal; however, her comments that she does ‘not think the taste of the seawater at all disagreeable’ and ‘often drink[s] it out of limpet shells’ have not been included.

We learn much about Emily Shore throughout these volumes. Her father has an impressive library of over 1000 volumes, which she has ‘long been employed in making an alphabetical catalogue of’. She does admire sumptuously bound books but disapproves of ‘the wide margin, for it is a great waste of paper, when an octavo edition does as well’.

On May 10th 1832, Shore comes down with a ‘bad head-ache and great chilliness and shivering’ which turns out to be measles - though her doctor suggests it is a serious case, she is recovered by the end of the month and writing about the silkworms her family keeps (which her parents call either ‘little frights’ or ‘nasty maggots’). Emily is a great enthusiast of the natural sciences and writes about her favourite shells, plants, flowers, and particularly, the numerous interesting caterpillars she finds. The only writings of hers that were published during her lifetime were essays about birds.

Summer 1832 is spent in Casterton which she likes very much apart from the ‘vilest Tories’ that seem to inhabit the place. In late 1832, the family relocates to Woodbury, which Emily writes ‘both costs me something and has given me something’. Unfortunately, it was discovered that two of her stuffed birds had moths and had to be thrown away, and her aforementioned pasteboard steam-packet was destroyed. However, in order to console her - and to compensate her for the lost model - her parents gave her a sixpence each, and her father ‘offered [her] a shilling for every stuffed bird [she] should throw away, but [she] would not for a guinea’.

The move to Woodbury strained the already fragile health of Emily’s mother, and by the end of January Margaret was extremely ill and relying on opium for pain management.

Emily’s increasingly frail health is also highlighted in the second volume, with many more mentions of her having to stay inside or stay in bed to stave off greater illness - most mentions of her health in the later volume are not included in the printed work. Still, her charming interactions and sharp impressions of the world around her continue. On the afternoon of January 31st, a snowfall causes her and her siblings to discuss ‘what we should do if every flake was a piece of gold money’. After acknowledging that they would have to pay to repair the damage inflicted on the house and property by falling gold, she writes: ‘we should in the first place purchase the whole estate of Woodbury, and rebuild the house on a magnificent scale. Then we should have a splendid garden, filled with all the choicest flowers in the world. And we would have a noble library, and printing-presses for us children, to print all the productions of our pens. In short, there would be no end to the magnificence of our possessions and mode of living.’ Lest we should forget she is a child of 12, she finishes ‘I should like also to have a tame elephant’. Her love of books and learning arises again on Friday February 8th, when she goes with some of her siblings to the new shop in Potton, called Frazers, and asks to see a selection of books for under five shillings, writing: ‘at length I resolved to take some with me, to choose from. These were ‘The Life of William Penn’, Travels in Europe and Asia’, ‘Travels in Africa and America’, ‘Remarkable Voyages’, [and] ‘The Wonders of the Microscope’.’

Her powers of observation are particularly noteworthy on March 27th, when she records that a heavy snowfall has ‘falsified my prediction that winters would gradually get milder and milder, till there was no winter at all’. Turning from climate change to more contemporary matters, Emily recounts an anecdote her father told about Princess Victoria, ‘whose preceptor, Mr. Davis, is brother-in-law to a lady whom papa knows at Bury St. Edmunds’. According to the account, the Princess ‘being like Queen Charlotte, quite careless about letting people stand in their presence’, was very fond of her tutor and wanted him to sit down while instructing her.

In Emily’s world, a sweet vignette of a future queen is as noteworthy as her younger

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brother’s comical impression of their cook, the shortcomings of historic British architecture, her first impression of the ocean, the plight of the working classes, the colours of a particularly beautiful caterpillar, or the handsomeness of her father’s various pupils.

These Journals are a treasure trove of insight into middle class childhood in the 1830s.

We learn through her own words about her relationships with her siblings and parents, the freedom she enjoyed to explore her surroundings, her education, passion projects, religious instruction, political views, illnesses, daily joys and annoyances, and much more. Despite suffering consistent ill-health, and dying lamentably young, every page of Emily Shore’s journal is absolutely full of life. With her astute and ebullient writing, one suspects that had she lived even a decade longer, her various works may have been published during her lifetime, and she would be remembered and celebrated in the same fashion that the Brontës are today.

Emily’s intelligent, observant, and above all spirited, Journal, is perhaps the most important diary by a young woman in the pre-Victorian era. It is widely known today because of the version published by her younger sisters in 1891. Republished in a second edition in 1898, the sisters’ editing removed 80% of the original text; faint pencil markings in both of these volumes denote editorial excisions. Following the death of Arabella and Louisa, Emily’s original twelve manuscript volumes disappeared. Two of them (vols. VII & XII) were purchased at auction by the University of Delaware in 1991, just at the time when a centenary reprint of the published Journal was in the press at the University of Virginia; Delaware also owns volume ten. Subsequently, Barbara Timms Gates has carefully compared the manuscript of the surviving Delaware volumes with the printed text, and Virginia has digitised the manuscripts to demonstrate the textual differences. These two Journal volumes - the first that Emily wrote - have much to offer scholarship as they shine a light into a period of domestic life in which the voices of children, and girls in particular, have often been quiet or indeed completely silent. Emily’s voice, despite her youth and the simplicity of her world, is never quiet. It is simply, as her sisters so beautifully put in their introduction to the first printed edition, ‘a girl’s life, which budded, blossomed, and faded in the close shade of a quiet English country-home’.

The manuscripts offered here are the only two volumes, apart from those purchased

by Delaware, known to have survived.

1831-33 $85,000

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“WE HAVE TRIUMPHED OVER LYTTON & DICKENS” TROLLOPE, Anthony. ALS to ‘My Dear Mr Blewitt’, on the headed paper of Waltham House, Feb 25, [18]70. ‘I have read your paper, and like it so well...’ n.p.

40 lines, in black ink, on first three sides of folded 8vo leaf, laid down. v.g. [93530] ¶ Not

published in The Letters, 1983. A very nice letter from Trollope to the author Octavian Blewitt, Secretary of the Royal Literary Fund, discussing an article Blewitt has written for Saint Paul’s Magazine which concerns both Bulwer Lytton and Charles Dickens. Trollope informs Blewitt, ‘I have read your paper, and I like it so well (with one exception), that I will endeavour to publish it myself.’ Explaining his misgivings, he continues, ‘I do not like the first two pages. I think, considering that we have triumphed over Lytton & Dickens, that they have failed and owned their failure, that you are a little hard on them - or something perhaps too triumphant. The effort was well meant, though we did not agree with them. Both Dickens and my Lord tried their best; and though I think it may be fair (and I think is judicious) to mention the fact that the property is to be sold, I would do it with some little acceptance of their good intentions’. Trollope further explains, ‘Dickens is privately my friend, and of course knows that I edit the magazine. I should hardly like to put in a paper that seemed to be hard on his failure. And I should like it the less as Lord Lytton, some time since owned to me at Knebworth the failure in a very frank manner.’ Signed with initials, ‘Yours always, A.T.’ Blewitt, under Trollope’s direction, evidently softened the hard edges, and the sevenpage article was published in Saint Paul’s Magazine in May 1870, under the title ‘Bricks and Mortar Charities’. It focused on the decision of the committee of the Guild of Literature and Art, ‘to sell the three houses which they erected a few years ago on the Knebworth estate, and to apply the proceeds in small pensions to decayed artists and men of letters’. In the article Blewitt applauded the decision to sell, observing that ‘artists and literary men... have been disinclined to accept a residence rent free at such a distance from their work, without an allowance for furnishing and keeping it up’. Blewitt, along with Trollope, had clearly been opposed to the Guild’s honourably intended but flawed experiment in property ownership, and was pleased to see that Dickens and Lytton had come to accept its inadequacies. There is no specific reference to the matter in Pilgrim Letters, suggesting the decision to give up the Guild’s properties was not too much of a blow to Dickens. If he did take issue with Blewitt’s article, Dickens had little time to respond; he took ill shortly after its publication, and died the following month.

1870

$9,000

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ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY: PRESENTATION COPY WATKINS, James. Narrative of the Life of James Watkins, formerly a “chattel” in Maryland, U.S.; containing an account of his escape from slavery, together with an appeal on behalf of three millions of such “pieces of property,” still held under the standard of the eagle. 2nd edn. Bolton: Kenyon & Abbatt. Titlepage sl. browned, old vertical fold throughout. Later full limp black morocco, lettered in gilt. Author’s presentation on titlepage in brown ink: ‘Thos. Hunt from James Watkins’. 48pp.

[96592] Copac records a single copy of this title, a third edition published in Birmingham in 1853; no copies are recorded on OCLC although WorldCat notes an e-resource of an 1859 18th edition published in Manchester. The last copy to sell at auction was in 1948. James Watkins was born Sam Berry ‘about the year 1821’ on the plantation of Abraham Ensor in Maryland. Enslaved from birth, Watkins’ narrative records a life of constant violence, repeatedly beaten and tortured, often at the hands of his father, the plantation overseer, on whose death he recalls ‘how glad I felt at having got rid of such a cruel overseer’. After a first unsuccessful attempt and violent reprisal, Watkins describes his successful escape to Boston, his marriage, and his further escape to England, following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Whilst in England he wrote his Narrative and delivered lectures in over 1,000 locations between 1852 and 1862 campaigning for abolition. Watkins was one of many formerly enslaved people to write accounts of their experiences of slavery., the most famous perhaps, being that of Frederick Douglass, who, having escaped slavery, became a leading figure of the abolitionist movement in the United States. Douglass published his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845 and, like Watkins, spent years touring Britain (1845-47) lecturing and campaigning for abolition. Watkins’ narrative is followed by ‘An appeal on behalf of those still in bondage’. ‘We only wish that every Briton was as much a man as we see exhibited in the person whose case is immediately before us. Such a dutiful son, affectionate brother, tender husband, loving parent, and grateful friend, puts many of us to the blush... We proclaim an earnest war [against slavery], with the conviction that the day is not far distant, when this blot will be wiped from the world’s escutcheon. Britons, help as you can, and when you can; and may God bless our labours, and hasten the day of Jubilee’.

Previously folded in half horizontally, it seems likely that this pamphlet was purchased at one of the meetings, signed by Watkins, and folded away into a pocket. The final page records ‘A list of the meetings held by Mr. Watkins’ from Manchester and Bertinshaw to Goodshaw and Musbury. ¶

1852

$4,800

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FIRST EDITION OF WORDSWORTH’S POEMS WORDSWORTH, William. Poems, in two volumes. FIRST EDITION. 12mo.

Printed for Longman, Hurst, &c. Half titles, erratum leaf vol. I; light water staining to upper margin of initial leaves & final 12 leaves of both vols. Partially uncut in late 19thC full blue crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, double ruled gilt borders, gilt dentelles, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt; extremities sl. rubbed, hinges a little fragile. Purple morocco & gilt booklabel of Harry Glemby; pictorial bookplate of Edwin B. Holden on leading pastedowns. A nice copy in a lovely fine binding. t.e.g.

[71288] ¶ Wise (8).

1807

$3,000