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• EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER(ABERCROMBIE, John) Every Man His Own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete, Gardener's Kalendar than any one hitherto published. Containing, not only an account of what work is necessary to be done in the hot-house, green-house, shrubbery, kitchen, flower, and fruit gardens, for every month in the year, but also ample directions for performing the said work, according to the newest and most approved methods now in practice among the best gardeners. In this edition, particular directions are given with respect to soil and situation. By Thomas Mawe. The eighth edition, corrected, enlarged, and very much improved. Printed for S. Crowder, G. Robinson, and W. Goldsmith. 1779 [38679] [2], ii, 486, [12]pp index., attractive engr. frontispiece of a gardener at work, (by Isaac Taylor); 12mo. Some dusting & browning to titlepage & frontispiece, one or two fore-edges a little chipped or frayed. Neatly & attractively rebound in calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. £300
  ESTC T62258. Henrey 1059. First printed in 1767, this immensely popular gardening book ran to more than 25 editions, in no small part due to the spurious announcement of authorship to Thomas Mawe, gardener to the Duke of Leeds. Although he was a nurseryman himself, the true author, John Abercrombie, was so doubtful of his reputation that he paid twenty pounds to Thomas Mawe to allow him to place his name on the titlepage. The ruse worked, sales were boosted, and Abercrombie later went on to become gardener at Kew. ‘I am sorry to record such a scurvy bit of hypocrisy in so competent a man. The book sold, however, and sold so well, that, a few years after, the elegant Mr. Mawe begged a visit from the nurseryman of Tottenham Court, whom he had never seen; so Abercrombie goes down to the seat of the Duke of Leeds, and finds his gardener so bedizened with powder, and wearing such a grand air, that he mistakes him for his Lordship; but it is a mistake, we may readily believe, which the elegant Mr. Mawe forgives, and the two gardeners become capital friends.’
  

• ADDISON, Joseph. The Evidences of the Christian Religion ... to which are added, Several discourses against atheism and infidelity, and in defence of the Christrian Revelation, occasionally published by him and others: and now collected into one body, and digested under their proper heads. With a preface, containing the sentiments of Mr Boyle, Mr Lock, and Sir Isaac Newton, concerning the Gospel-Revelation. The third edition. Printed for J. & R. Tonson in the Strand. 1742 [38782] xxvi, [2], 330pp., preliminary & final blanks., dec. head & tail-pieces; 12mo. Contemp. unlettered calf, raised & gilt banded spine; sl. wear to foot of spine & corners. A nice copy in unsophisticated condition. £65
  ESTC T74585.
  

• FIRST COLLECTED EDITION(ADDISON, Joseph) The Free-Holder, or Political Essays. Printed for D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St. Paul's Churchyard: and J. Tonson, at Shakespear's Head in the Strand. 1716 [38482] [7], 8-400pp; royal 8vo. Light browning to some page edges. Full contemp. red morocco, broad gilt dec. borders incorporating flowers, crowns & stylised foliage, central gilt device to both boards, spine gilt in compartments, black gilt label; head of spine neatly repaired, foot chipped & joints cracked but firm, spine a little faded. £220
  ESTC T601. First collected edition of Nos.1-55 (Dec. 23 1715-June 29 1716). Rothschild 10.
  

• ADDISON, Joseph. Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the years, 1701, 1702, 1703. The fourth edition. Printed for J. Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catharine-street in the Strand. 1733 [38174] [13], 14-304, [8]pp., woodcuts in the text; 12mo. Contemp. panelled calf; spine & corners worn, hinges weakening. £50
  ESTC T74578.
  

• EARLY LIFEADDISON, Joseph. (JACOB, Giles?) Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq.; late one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. With a particular account of his writings. Printed for E. Curll. 1719 [8909] [8], 56pp; 8vo. Later green wraps; sl. torn. £95
  ESTC T39154. The dedication is signed: G.J. Straus p.257.
  

• (ADDISON, Joseph & STEELE, Sir Richard) ANONYMOUS. A Letter to the late Author of the Spectator; occasion'd by his Paper of Monday December 6. 1714. Vol. VIII. No. 630. Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick Lane. 1714 [38499] 51, [1]pp., half title; 8vo. Outer leaves dusty, some foxing. Disbound. £150
  ESTC N46387, 4 copies only (BL, Huntington, Kansas, Texas). ‘To be carefully perus’d by all those who dare be honest in the worst of times.’
  

• (ADDISON, Joseph & STEELE, Sir Richard) MOTTOES. The Mottoes of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians. Translated into English. Printed for Richard Wellington, at the Dolphin and Crown without Temple-Bar. 1735 [38457] [4], 191 [i.e. 201], [1]blank, [10]pp ads; 12mo. Sl. foxing, light browning. Contemp. calf, gilt panelled spine; joints cracked, head & tail of spine sl. chipped, lacking label. £75
  ESTC T97980. FIRST EDITION, with parallel Latin and English text.
  

• (ADDISON, Joseph & STEELE, Sir Richard) MOTTOES. The Mottoes of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians, translated into English. The second edition. To which is added the mottoes of the Freeholders. Printed for Richard Wellington, at the Dolphin and Crown without Temple-Bar. 1737 [38458] 287, [1]pp; 12mo. Contemp. calf with double gilt fillet border, raised & gilt banded spine with repeat floral motif, red gilt label; head & tail of spine chipped. Contemporary signature of Geo: Bayley on f.e.p., later name B.H. Bright at head of titlepage. £75
  ESTC T98536.
  

• L’ESTRANGE’S AESOPAESOP. Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflexions. Part I. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, KT. The third edition corrected and amended. Printed for R. Sare, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A & J Churchill, G. Sawbridge, and H. Hindmarsh. 1699 [38106] 10, 28, [8], 476pp, engr. portrait frontispiece of L'Estrange after Kneller & one engr. plate. BOUND WITH: Fables and Storyes Moralized. Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop, and other Eminent Mythologists. Printed for R. Sare at Grayes-Inn-gate in Holborn. 16, 238, [2]pp advert leaf; folio. Part II, pp.180/181 misnumbered 170/171, p.215 misnumbered 115. Text browned in places, several early marginal pencil sketches of animals, the words 'fables' and 'morals' written in pencil on titlepage to first part. Contemp. sprinkled calf, raised bands, orig. red gilt morocco label, head & tail of spine expertly repaired. ‘John Bailward's book, 1730’ at head of first plate. Possibly from the Bailward family of Horsington Manor in Somerset. A very nice copy. £680
  ESTC R17250. Wing A709; A1247. The first edition of the second part. The L'Estrange edition, part I of which first appeared in 1692, was one of the first translations of Aesop prepared specifically for children. In the preface he criticizes other works for young readers as ‘insipid twittle-twattles, frothy jests and jingling witticisms’.
  

• HISTORY OF WOMENALEXANDER, William. The History of Women, from the earliest antiquity to the present time; giving some account of almost every interesting particular concerning that sex, among all nations, ancient and modern. 3rd edn, with many alterations and corrections. 2 vols. C. Dilly. 1782 [39207] Bound with errata leaves; small marginal tear p.187/188 vol II without loss, some sl. marginal damp staining. Contemp. full calf, rebacked, maroon labels. A v.g. clean copy. £350
  ESCT T36569.
  

• (ALLIX, Peter) An Examination of the Scruples of those who refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance. By a divine of the Church of England. Printed for Richard Chiswell. 1689 [8835] [4], 34, [2]pp.; 4to. Half title, final ad. leaf; Folger Shakespeare Library duplicate stamp. Later drab wraps. £40
  ESTC R14154; Wing A1222. Allix, a distinguished French protestant theologian, settled in England following the revocation of the Edit of Nantes. He argues that by overturning laws, James II has broken his oath to the people, setting them free from their Oath of Allegiance.
  

• FULL SHEET ALMANACKALMANACK. An Almanack for the year of our Lord God 1781 ... By Vincent Wing. Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by John Wilkie. 1781 [41385] Printed in red & black. A large folio sheet with one penny red duty stamp; one spot, old folds with minor splits, and holes in margins from pinning, dusted on verso. £450
  ESTC T27625; BL only. Price five pence.
  

• ALMANACK. London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1796. Printed for the Company of Stationers. 1796 [38409] 12 leaves, engr. throughout, with a ‘View of the inside of the Hall at Carlton House’. 24mo. [60mm x 34mm.] Highly dec. orig. red gilt roan, dark blue & cream triangular roan on-lays, gilt borders, gilt floral spine, marbled e.ps; sl. hole to spine, otherwise in fine state, with the duty-stamp on titlepage as usual. a.e.g. In matching slip-case. £380
  ESTC T 127704, BL & University of Kansas only. The ‘London Almanacks’ were first published by the Company of Stationers in 1690 and continued until nearly the end of the 19th century. As well as being available from stationers' shops, from the mid 18th century they were also distributed by merchants, perhaps as Christmas gifts to favoured customers. Especially popular with ladies, it is likely that dressmakers and milliners may also have given them away. They were designed as luxury novelties, with elaborate gilt tooled bindings, often in imitation of Venetian styles, and slip-cases, although decorative clasps became fashionable in the early 19th century. Although the bindings vary widely, some even being bound in painted silk, the contents are similar: a titlepage depicting the arms of the City of London surrounded by the title and date (which also shows a red tax stamp until 1834); a multi-paged, and sometimes folding, engraved plate of a London landmark; ‘Common Notes’ listing the dates for such days as Easter Sunday, Whit Sunday, Advent, &c; one page per month listing moon phases, festival days, quarter days, etc.; a table of Kings and Queens of England; a listing of Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London; a list of holidays; and a page of coinage.
  

• ALMANACK. GOLDSMITH, John. An Almanack for ... 1789, etc. Printed for The Company of Stationers, and sold by Robert Horsfield. [1789] [13915] 48pp.; 24mo. Printed in red & black. Uncut. Disbound. £65
  ESTC T35697, BL only.
  

• ALMANACK. WHITE, Robert. Atlas Ouranios, the Coelestial Atlas; or, A New Ephemeris for ... 1789 ... The fortieth impression. Printed for The Company of Stationers, and sold by Robert Horsfield. [1789] [13921] 48pp.; 8vo. Printed in red & black. Disbound. £50
  ESTC T59993, 2/4 copies only. The first two words transliterated from the Greek.
  

• ANONYMOUS. The Album of Streatham; or, Ministerial Amusement ... To which are added, The Bulse; a Pindaric ode: Jekyll; an eclogue: and The Journal of the Right Hon. Henry Dundas. The second edition. Printed for J. Ridgway. 1788 [8914] vii, [1], 73, [1]pp; 8vo. Half title. Rebound in half calf, marbled boards, red label. v.g. £80
  ESTC T100381. A satirical work, first published as Extracts from an Album ... , and sometimes attributed to Joseph Richardson.
  

• ANONYMOUS. Answer to the Considerations on the Establishment of a Regency. The fourth edition. Printed for J. Debrett. 1788 [8915] [4], 23, [1]pp; 8vo. Half title; sl. water-marked. Disbound. £30
  ESTC T22046. The 'Considerations' are sometimes attributed to William Wyndham Grenville, q.v.
  

• STRICTURES ON THE PERFORMERS AT DRURY-LANEANONYMOUS. Candid and Impartial Strictures on the Performers belonging to Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and the Haymarket Theatres ... Printed for Martin & Bain. 1795 [31357] vi, 71, [1]pp, bound without half title. Piece torn from upper margin of pp.69-70 not affecting text, last leaf marked. Advertisement shaved at fore-edge affecting a few letters. Disbound. £150
  ESTC T19870. A&R 2344: due attention and praise are paid to the acknowledged stars but the minor players are lightly dismissed: “Mr. Cooke. A wretched singer, and a worse actor”.
  

• SILK TRADEANONYMOUS. The Case of the Italian Merchants, Importing Goods of the Growth of Asia, by Way of Italy. n.p. [1720?] [38648] Single folio sheet, text on both sides, with docket title on verso; tear to upper margin repaired not affecting text. 2pp. £420
  ESTC T017303; 6 copies (3 UK, 3 North America). A petition for the protection of the silk trade against imports of printed calico. Imports of calicoes (inexpensive cotton fabrics from Calicut) to England grew so large that in 1721 Parliament passed the Calico Act to protect English manufacturers, forbidding the use of calico in England for apparel or for domestic purposes. The Act was repealed in 1774 when inventions made English cloth production more competitive with Eastern fabrics.
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• COAL-DEALERSANONYMOUS. The Frauds and Abuses of the Coal-Dealers detected and exposed; in a letter to an Alderman of London. The second edition. Printed for M. Cooper. 1745 [8926] [3], 6-30pp; 8vo. Without half title. Disbound. £125
  ESTC T102505. Dealer monopolies, price-fixing, short measures, &c.
  

• SCOTLANDANONYMOUS. A Key to the Account, &c. Printed for J. Moor; and Sold by the Booksellers. Price 3d. [1714] [38014] [4], 16pp; 8vo. Some near contemporary calculations in margins of final page & outer leaves, a little dusty. Disbound. £65
  ESTC T29388. This relates to An Account of the Affairs of Scotland, by Colin Lindsay, Earl of Balcarres.
  

• ANONYMOUS. A Letter from a Member of Parliament to his friend in the country, upon the motion to address His Majesty to settle 100,000l. per annum on ... the Prince of Wales, &c. in which the ancient and modern state of the Civil List, ... are particularly consider'd. Printed by H. Haines. [1737] [8933] 60pp; 8vo. Errata slip pasted to last leaf which is sl. dusted. Disbound. £35
  ESTC T1527. Arguing that the King should find funding for the Prince of Wales out of his own Civil List of £900,000, rather than the government providing a separate grant.
  

• ANONYMOUS. The Lyfe of Roberte the Deuyll. Printed for I. Herbert. 1798 [18686] [iii]-viii, 49, [1]pp., plates; 4to. Engraved frontispiece, plus 13 other plates; bound without half titles. Ms. corrections and emendations in margins. Neatly and attractively rebound in quarter speckled calf, marbled paper boards, vellum tips, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco label, silk marker. Engraved bookplate of J. Brand Lincoln College, Oxford on verso of titlepage. £150
  ESTC T130688: the text is printed on wove paper, watermarked either 1795 or 1796; no watermark has been identified in the plates. Translated from the French metrical romance and edited by I. Herbert.
  

• PATIENCE! AND SHUFFLE THE CARDSANONYMOUS. A Modest Defence of Gaming. Printed for R. & J. Dodsley. And sold by M. Cooper. 1754 [11939] 41, [7]pp.; 8vo. With the half title and 7 pages of ads. for ‘Books printed for R. & J. Dodsley’. First and last pages a trifle dusted, sm. tear to blank top margin of pp.15-16. Recent half calf, marbled paper boards. An excellent copy. £620
  ESTC T117772.
  

• RESPONDING TO WRAXALLANONYMOUS. The People’s Answer to the Court Pamphlet: entitled A Short Review of the Political State of Great Britain. Fourth Edition. Printed for J. Debrett. 1787 [13129] [2], 50pp; 8vo. Without half-title. Disbound. £30
  ESTC T82992. The ‘Review’ is by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall.
  

• ANONYMOUS. Reflections on the Formation of a Regency. In a letter to a Member of the Lower House of Parliament. The second edition. Printed for J. Debrett. 1788 [8939] [2], 25, [1]pp.; 8vo. Disbound. £30
  ESTC T11512.
  

• SALISBURY PAMPHLET WARANONYMOUS. The Salisbury Quarrel Ended: or The Last Letter of the Citizen of New Sarum to Mr. Hoadly. In which the true notions of passive obedience and hereditary right are more fully explained. Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row. [1710] [38008] [2], 3-34pp; 8vo. Final line of the imprint cropped & without final ad. leaf. Disbound. £60
  ESTC T12961. ‘The foregoing Letter was sent by the late Mr Mayor… to Mr John Hoadly in answer to his written to Mr Mayor Elect containing not so much any thing of an Answer to the Reply… as some scurrilous and abusive reflections on the Author of it.’ (Postscript)
  

• PROTECTION AGAINST SPANISH PIRATESANONYMOUS. A Short Account of the late Application to Parliament made by the Merchants of London upon the Neglect of their Trade; with the substance of the evidence thereupon; as sum’d up by Mr. Glover. The second edition. Printed for T. Cooper 1742 [18505] 61, [3]pp.; 8vo. Last leaf blank; upper outer corners lightly damp marked. Disbound. £120
  ESTC N22435. The City looks to Parliament for protection from Spanish privateers.
  

• A LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDONANONYMOUS. Sibylline Leaves, or Anonymous Papers: containing a Letter to the Lord Mayor of London: ... Together with an introductory speech ... Printed for T. Cooper. 1755 [8940] 32pp.; 8vo. Half title. Uncut, stitched as issued, a little dusted. v.g. £45
  ESTC T64664. The half title reads: Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-Five. The letter to the Lord Mayor Sir Stephen Janssen(?) prefaces a speech in the House of Lords, both urging the King ‘to reside in these Kingdoms’ in a time of crisis, and oversee his ministers.
  

• SLAVE-TRADEANONYMOUS. Some Observations on the Assiento Trade, as it has been exercised by the South-Sea Company; proving the Damage which will accrue thereby to the British Commerce and Plantations in America, and particularly to Jamaica, etc. Printed for H. Whitridge. 1728 [11972] iv, 38pp.; 8vo. Entirely uncut, with the final (blank) leaf preserved, in recent half calf, marbled paper boards. Some light soiling to extremities, a few feint ink underlinings and marginal marks. A splendid copy in original state. £850
  ESTC T084726 (not in Bodley, or CUL). Sometimes attributed to James Knight.
  

• PRE-ADAMITICAL RIGHTSANONYMOUS. Some Whig-Principles demonstrated to be good sense and sound divinity, from their natural consequences. Printed for Samuel Keble, & sold by John Morphew. 1713 [8942] 24pp.; 8vo. Sl. spotting & dusting, corner torn from margin of last leaf. Disbound. £35
  ESTC T26105.
  

• SPORTSMAN’S DICTIONARYANONYMOUS. The Sportsman’s Dictionary: or, The Country-Gentleman’s Companion, in all rural recreations: with full and particular instructions for hawking, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, riding, cocking. With the method of breeding, curing, dieting and ordering of horses, dogs, pigeons, cocks, &c. ... With large improvements ... The second edition. J. Osborn. 1744 [17034] 744pp. 8vo. 25 plates in all, some folding. A nice clean copy, excellently rebound in half speckled calf, spine with bands, gilt ruled, red label. Ownership inscr. on verso of frontispiece. v.g. £480
  ESTC N23268, 5/7.
  

• HUNTING, SHOOTING, FISHINGANONYMOUS. The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or, The gentleman’s companion for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling ... With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses ... the management of dogs, gamecocks ... the manner of curing their various diseases ... Collected from the best authors ... Illustrated with copper-plates, representing all the different kinds of nets, snares, and traps, etc. Printed for Fielding & Walker. 1778 [18676] [3], viii, [472]pp., 16 plates; 4to. Frontispiece (engraved by T. Cook) + 15 numbered plates (as called for); tears to sig. Z1, 2G4 without loss. Handsomely rebound in half speckled calf, marbled paper boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco label, grey sprinkled edges. £420
  ESTC T131284, 3 copies only in British Isles. A very good copy of this compendium on country pursuits, ‘more necessary to (man’s) welfare than at first he might imagine’. The articles, presented in a single alphabetical sequence, in two-column format, are drawn from various authorities, with a ‘great number of interesting passages’ contributed by ‘several gentlemen of distinguished abilities and experience’. The article on Beavers and Beaver-hunting, for example, relies in part on a communication from ‘One who dwelt in Virginia’. The edition is enlarged from a work originally published in 1735.
  

• ANONYMOUS. Thoughts on the Present Proceedings of the House of Commons. The second edition. Printed for J. Debrett. [1788] [8943] [4], 19, [1]pp.; 8vo. Half title. Disbound. £30
  ESTC T11514. On the regency debate; signed: A private citizen.
  

• THE VICAR OF BRAY: THE NOVELANONYMOUS. The Vicar of Bray: a tale. R. Baldwin. 1771 [8945] 2 vols.; 12mo. A nice clean copy excellently rebound in speckled calf, spine with gilt bands, red labels. v.g. £950
  ESTC T117343, 2/6. Postdating the song celebrating a time-serving parson who accommodates his religion to the tenor of the age.
  

• (ANSTEY, Christopher) The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-r-d Family. In a series of poetical epistles. The second edition. Cambridge: printed & sold by Fletcher & Hodson, &c. 1766 [8948] 139, [1]pp.; 8vo. Half title, some foremargins untrimmed; a few spots. 19th-century half calf; sl. rubbing, dark brown label. £60
  ESTC T88327. Same year as the first edition. With a new Epilogue. Signature on title of George Fludyer.
  

• ANTHOLOGY. Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects. By several authors. I. Crito: or a dialogue on beauty ... V. A modest defence of Gaming ... VIII. Plan of an Essay on Delicacy. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1765 [18860] 2 vols.; 8vo. Half titles, divisional titles to separate pieces engraved vignette by Boitard on first, final leaf of ads. in vol. 2; some light foxing at front and back of vol. 1. Sl. later blind-ruled calf, spines ruled in gilt, red morocco labels, numbered direct, red stained edges; a trifle rubbed, sl. wear. Bookplates of R. Chambre Vaughan Esq. Burlston Hall Co. Salop on front pastedowns, sm. label of Thos. Beet Bookseller on front pastedown vol. 1. v.g. £280
  ESTC T40283. Reprints of 16 separate pieces in all, including Beaumont’s ‘Dialogue on Beauty’, ‘Sir’ John Hill’s spoof Royal Society paper ‘Lucina sine concubitu’, Spence’s ‘Parallel’, Lancaster’s ‘Plan of an Essay on Delicacy’, Gilbert Cooper’s ‘Project for raising an Hospital for Decayed Authors’ & ‘Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland ...’.
  

• ANTHOLOGY. The Poetry of Various Glees, Songs, &c. as performed at the Harmonists. Printed at the Philanthropic Reform, London-Road, St. George's Fields. 1798 [38563] [4], viii, [1], 6-115, [1]pp; 8vo. A v.g. clean copy handsomely rebound in quarter sprinkled calf, marbled boards, vellum cornerpieces, gilt dec. spine, red morocco gilt label. £185
  ESTC T124899 calls for a ‘plate’ which is not present in this copy, but this may refer to the preliminary leaf announcing that the work is ‘presented to the Harmonists by George Fryer’. The collection of some 230 songs includes pieces by Dibdin, Mozart, Stevens, Ireland, Haydn, Smart, and Percy.
  

• (ARMSTRONG, John) The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Essay. A new edition. Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row. 1753 [38787] [4], 43, [1]pp., half-title; 8vo. A little light foxing. More recent sugar paper wrappers. £65
  ESTC T136230. First published in 1736, this is the 8th reprint, unexpurgated.
  

• MILITIAARMY. Militia. Official Forms. No. IX. Summons for Absentees or other Offenders. Printed by J. Towers, near Air-Street, Piccadilly. [c.1750] [41387] Quarter sheet form. £15
  A printed form with blanks to be filled in with names and dates, 175-, and to be signed by a magistrate.
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• THE ART OF THINKING(ARNAULD, Antoine & NICOLE, Pierre.) La Logique ou L'Art de penser, contenant outre les regles communes, plusieurs observations nouvelles, ... Sixiéme edition, revûe & de nouveau augmentée. Paris: chez Guillaume Desprez & Jean Desessartz. 1714 [8949] xlviii, 427, [5]pp.; 12mo. 4pp. privilege at end. Minor worming in margin at tail. Contemp. speckled calf, gilt spine, leading hinge splitting, corner torn from leading free e.p., lacking label. £80
  The 1714 edition not recorded on COPAC.
  

• PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSARNAY, Jean Rodolphe d’. The Private Life of the Romans; wherein several of the customs of modern times are traced to their origin; and many abstruse passages in the Latin classics elucidated. Translated from the French… Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, & explanatory. Edinburgh: printed by J. Orphoot, Blackfriars Wynd, for Peter Cairns, 3 College Street. 1808 [38329] [6], 257, [1]p; 12mo in sixes. Full contemp. calf, gilt banded spine, red gilt morocco label. A fine copy. £90
  The final page announces that ‘the bookbinder will cancel pages 79, 243, & 245’. First published in 1761.
  

• TREASON(ATWOOD, William) The Lord Chief Justice Herbert's Account Examin'd. By W.A. Barrister at Law. Wherein it is shewn, that those authorities in law, whereby he would execute his judgment in Sir Edward Hales his case, are very unfairly cited, and as ill applied. Printed for J. Robinson at the Golden Lion in St Paul's Church-yard, and Mat. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet. 1689 [38604] [2], 72, [2]pp ads.; small 4to. A few marginal marks. Disbound. £280
  ESTC R2780; Wing A4176. Hales accompanied James II on his escape to France, and was charged with high treason.
  

• AUGUSTA, Princess of Wales. Memoirs of the Ancestors of Augusta, Princess of Wales, and of Saxe-Gotha. Particularly Frederick the Wise, John the Good and the Constant, and John Frederick the Magnanimous, Protectors of the Great Luther. In a Letter to a Friend. By the authors of the Abstract, with improvements, of the History of Popery. Printed for John Oswald, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, near Stocks Market. [1736] [40324] iv, 78pp., frontispiece portrait; 12mo in 6s. Some old waterstaining to the text. In later blue paper wraps. £85
  ESTC T90277, one of two recorded issues, this undated on the titlepage but with the date at the foot of page iv. Augusta was the wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of George III.
  

• PLAY-HOUSE COMPANION: FINE COPY(BAKER, David Erskine, &c.) The Companion to the Play-House: or, An historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary. 2 vols. 12mo. T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt; C. Henderson; and T. Davies. 1764 [18893] xlii, [4], A-Ii4 (blank); [2], B-Ee4, [2]. Errata/advertisement leaf vol. II. Ship book label, without name. Contemporary sprinkled tan calf, spine compartments ruled in gilt, lettered direct. FINE. £750
  ESTC T77488. A&R 30: FIRST EDITION.
  

• BARNARD, William, of Westminster. Serious Thoughts on the Trial of Mr. Barnard. With a State of the Conduct of the D**** of M****, and the Magistrate. And some particulars not before published, relating to an incident at Byefleet, ... Printed for J. Coot. [1758?] [1240] [ii], 16pp. Sl. soiled & creased. Disbound. £90
  ESTC T47525, 4/4. A rather obscure affair apparently involving an attempt to blackmail or attack the Duke of Marlborough; signed ‘A British Subject’.
  

• BEATTIE, James. The Minstrel, in two books: with some other poems. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly; and W. Creech, in Edinburgh. 1779 [18683] iv, [4], 107, [1]pp.; 8vo. Leaf of ‘advertisement’ by the author (date January, 1777), contents leaf, and divisional title to ‘The Minstrel’ (‘The sixth edition, corrected’); one or two light spots. Contemporary speckled calf, brown morocco label lettered longitudinally; sl. rubbed. An attractive copy in very good condition. £125
  ESTC T133063.
  

• IMAGINING IMAGINARY ARTISTS(BECKFORD, William) Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters: exhibiting not only sketches of their principal works and professional characters; but a variety of romantic adventures and original anecdotes: interspersed with picturesque descriptions of many new and singular scenes, in which they were engaged. Second edition. Printed for J. Robson, New Bond Street. 1780 [38504] [4], 158pp., cancel titlepage; 8vo in 4s, without the final errata leaf, corner of N3 torn with loss not affecting text, old repair to clean tears to foot of titlepage and following leaf, small ink splash to pp.88-89. Recent quarter calf, grey boards, raised & gilt banded spine, red gilt label, lemon yellow edges. £420
  ESTC T138101. Sheets of the first edition with cancel title. Beckford's first published book, a satire, and mock-guide to the collections at Fonthill Splendens. It is arranged in five biographical sketches, and includes poetic descriptions of landscapes and the paintings. It is one of the earliest spurious artistic biographies, and although Beckford hardly concealed the satire, giving his artists and other characters preposterous names (from the Italian Blunderbussiana to the Dutch Watersouchy), he also included real names with the fake, making it convincing enough to confuse the first reviewers of the book.
  

• GEORGE-ANNE BELLAMY, THE ACTRESSBELLAMY, George Anne. Mémoires de George-Anne Bellamy, Actrice du Theatre de Covent-Garden. Traduit de l'Anglais, sur la quatrième edition, par A.-V. Benoist. Two volumes. Paris: chez H. Nicolle, libraire, rue du Bouloy, no. 56. [1799] [38186] [4], 426pp; [4], 406pp., half titles, engr. frontispiece to each volume; 8vo. A little faint waterstaining to some leaves including second frontispiece. Contemp. quarter calf, sprinkled paper boards, gilt banded spines, red morocco title labels, small black oval volume labels. A very nice copy. £225
  An VII (i.e. 1799). Translation of ‘An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy’ first published in 1785.
  

• (BENNET, Thomas) An Answer to the Dissenters Pleas for Separation, or an Abridgment of the London Cases; wherein the substance of those books is digested into one short and plain discourse. The fourth edition. Cambridge: printed at the University Press, for Alexander Bosvile at the Sign of the Dial, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street. 1707 [38185] [16], 326, [2]pp ads; 8vo. Contemp. Cambridge signature (1709) inked over on the preliminary blank. Contemp. unlettered panelled calf, blind stamped floral cornerpieces, raised bands; head & tail of spine a little rubbed. £75
  ESTC T64055. Bennet’s first book, 1699, fifth edition 1711.
  

• THE ‘ENSLAVING’ OF SWEDEN(BENSON, William.) A Letter to Sir J- B-, by birth a Swede, but naturaliz'd, and a M-r of the present P-t: concerning the Minehead doctrine, ... Printed for A. Baldwin. 1711 [8959] [8], 40pp.; 8vo. Half title; sl. dusted at end. Disbound. £40
  ESTC T38188. To Sir Jacob Bankes and originally published earlier in the year as 'The history of the present state of Sweden'. ESTC speaks of ‘issue’ points while recording only one printing with this pagination.
  

• BERKELEY, George. A Miscellany, containing several tracts on various subjects. Printed for J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper. 1752 [8961] 267, [1]pp.; 8vo. Contemp. calf, gilt borders, red sprinkled edges; surface rubbing, recently neatly rebacked with red label, marks left by tape on leading e.ps. Booklabel of Charles Whibley. £350
  ESTC T39487. First London edition of a collection including Farther Thoughts on Tar-water, An Essay towards preventing the ruin of Great-Britain, A Discourse addressed to Magistrates ..., The Querist, A Proposal for the better supplying churches in our foreign plantations, and his Latin philosophical treatise De motu. Also 'Verses by the Author on the prospect of planting Arts and Learning in America'.
  

• THE LATE TRAGEDIAN(BETTERTON, Thomas) GILDON, Charles. The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the late eminent tragedian. Wherein the action and utterance of the stage, bar, and pulpit, are distinctly consider’d. With the judgement of ... St. Evremond, upon the Italian and French music and opera’s ... To which is added, The Amorous Widow, or the wanton wife ... by Mr. Betterton. Now first printed from the original copy. Printed for Robert Gosling. 1710 [18801] [2], xiv, 176; 87, [1]pp. illus.; 8vo. Engraved front. portrait by Van der Gucht after Kneller, dedication to Steele signed Charles Gildon, Epilogue, from Betterton benefit performance of Love for Love, by N. Rowe. ‘The Amorous widow’ with separate titlepage, pagination and register. Contemporary blind-ruled and decorated panelled calf, spine elaborately gilt, red morocco label, red sprinkled edges; v. sl. wear, sl. weakening of hinges at head. Signature of Judith Alleyne on title, and on f.e.p., engraved bookplate of Hugo Meynell on front pastedown. An attractive copy. £300
  ESTC T96812.
  

• (BEXLEY, Nicholas Vansittart, Baron.) Reflections on the Propriety of an Immediate Conclusion of Peace. Printed for John Stockdale. 1793 [8962] 131, [9]pp; tables; 8vo. 4 tables (2 folding) of English & French exports & imports, 8pp adverts. for Stockdale (not recorded by ESTC). Disbound. £50
  ESTC T110034. Vansittart was Chancellor of the Exchequer 1812-23. Here he supports Pitt’s policy against the radicals with strong economic arguments.
  

• THE BULSTRODE SIREN - EXTRA-ILLUSTRATEDBILLINGTON, Elizabeth. Memoirs of Mrs Billington, from her birth: containing a variety of matter, ludicrous, theatrical, musical and --- With copies of several original letters, now in the possession of her publisher, written by Mrs Billington, to her mother, the late Mrs Weichsel: a dedication; and a prefatory address. Printed for James Ridgway, York Street, St James's Square. 1792 [38657] [6], xv, [1], 78pp, engr. frontispiece, extra-illustrated with thirty late 18th & early 19th century engravings, many depicting characters referred to in text; 8vo. Frontispiece & titlepage rather dusty & marked, but text mainly clean with only some sl. foxing & light browning. In common with most titles recorded by ESTC this lacks the half title. Late 19thC half brown crushed morocco, elab. gilt panelled spine, marbled boards & e.ps. Bookplate of Laurence Currier. t.e.g. £420
  ESTC T39129, the sole 18th century edition of this spurious memoir; A&R 2496. Elizabeth Billington, 1768-1818, was a celebrated opera singer, a favourite of the Duke of Portland who was rumoured to pay her lavishly for private performances at his country house, Bulstrode. Her voice was divine, but her substantial frame and homely face, together with the huge payments she received, made her an easy target for the satirists; Gillray calling her ‘The Bulstrode Siren’. She left England following the publication of these Memoirs, and in 1794 she was performing in Naples when Vesuvius erupted. The Catholic audience took this to be a sign of God's displeasure at the appearance of the Protestant Mrs Billington on the stage of a Catholic city, so her performance was not a great success. It was a double tragedy for her, as her husband died suddenly after her first performance there. She returned to England in 1801, and the following season was paid 3000 guineas for appearances in Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
  

• ORIGINAL CLOTH(BIRDWOOD, James) Heart's-Ease in Heart-Trouble. Or, a Sovereign Remedy against all Trouble of Heart that Christ's Disciples are subject to, under all kinds of afflictions in this life. By J. Bunyan. Printed for W. Johnston, at the Golden-Ball, in Ludgate-Street. 1762 [38148] x, 11-143, [1]p ad., woodcut portrait frontispiece; 12mo. Orig. hessian cloth, v.g. Signature of Ann Ashmore, Mar. 14. 1836 on the inner pastedown. £225
  ESTC T58040. Although attributed to Bunyan on the titlepage the author is actually James Birdwood (or Burdwood). First published in 1690, all editions are scarce. Of this one ESTC locates 13 copies (5 in USA), but all 3 BL copies are imperfect, as are both John Rylands’ copies, with only the Bunyan Library in Bedford and the Bodleian recording complete copies.
  

• BLACKALL, Ofspring. The Lord Bishop of Exeter's Answer to Mr. Hoadly's Letter. London: printed & sold by the booksellers of London & Westminster. 1709 [8963] 31, [1]pp.; 8vo. Top margin trimmed, in some places affecting pagination. Disbound. £20
  ESTC T56672. Catchword 'the' on p.6.
  

• BLAIR’S SERMONSBLAIR, Hugh. Sermons. 5 vols. Printed by W. Strahan: and T. Cadell, in the Strand; and W. Creech, Edinburgh. 1785-1802 [38441] Mixed editions: 13th, 10th, 10th, 6th, 4th; 8vo. Full contemp. tree calf, gilt banded spines, red morocco title labels, dark green oval volume labels; some slight wear to foot of one spine, three heads, minor cracking to three joints. Contemporary signature of Geo. Wyndham to titlepages. £150
  Blair, 1718-1800, Scottish Presbyterian divine. His Sermons went through many editions, and are mentioned in Mansfield Park, Guy Mannering & Vanity Fair.
  

• TRIAL OF BLANDYBLANDY, Mary. The Genuine Trial at large of Mary Blandy, spinster, for poisoning her late father Francis Blandy, gent. ... at the Assizes held at Oxford, ... on Tuesday the third of March, 1752, ... Edinburgh: printed in the year 1752. 1752 [1250] 33, [1]pp. Without half title, with a few ink & pencil marks. Late 19th century half calf. Bookplate of Norman & Janey Buchan. £220
  ESTC T69159; 6/2 locations (Cornell & McMaster only in North America). Mary Blandy was incited by her married lover William Henry Cranston, to kill her father, found guilty and hanged.
  

• BLOOMFIELD, Robert. The Farmer's Boy; a rural poem. 2nd edn. Printed for Vernor & Hood, &c. 1800 / 1822 [26190] xxvii, [3], 104pp. Front. WITH: May Day with the Muses. FIRST EDITION. Printed for the Author and for Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy. 1822. Illus.; some spotting. Contemp. half dark blue calf by J. Seacome, gilt spine, red labels; a little rubbed, head of spine sl. worn. Contemp. inscription leading blank. £120
  Farmer’s Boy ESTC T127559.
  

• REMARKS ON POETRYBLOUNT, Sir Thomas Pope. De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon poetry. With characters and censures of the most considerable poets, whether ancient or modern. Extracted out of the best and choicest criticks. Printed by Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently. 1694 [18821] 2 pt. ([12], 129, [1]; [2], 248pp.); 4to. Sm. patch of worming affecting top inner blank margin of a few leaves, single worm hole affecting a letter or two in first few leaves. Contemporary blind-ruled and -decorated calf, neatly rebacked, corners repaired; sl. rubbed. Signature of R.M. Norman 1836 on f.e.p. £280
  ESTC R15316. Wing B3347. Just under half of Blount’s chosen writers are ‘moderns’, of whom the sole female author is the matchless Katherine Phillips.
  

• THE CELEBRATED POLISH DWARFBORUWLASKI, Joseph. A Second Edition of the Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman. Containing a faithful and curious account of his birth, education, marriage, travels, and voyages. Written by himself; and carefully revised and corrected. And translated from the French by Mr S. Freeman. Birmingham: printed by J. Thompson. 1792 [38552] xxxii, errata leaf, 132pp, with preliminary & final blanks, oval engr. portrait on titlepage, 10pp subscribers' list; 12mo. Sl. foxing to several pages but a very clean copy. Contemp. quarter calf, marbled boards, vellum cornerpieces, double gilt bands to spine, black gilt label; joints cracked but firm, head of spine chipped. £380
  ESTC T110604; 6/4 locations & 2 in Europe. Boruwlaski's autobiography was first published in London in 1788 with the text in French and English, the translation by A.J. Des Carrières. This second edition is a revision by S. Freeman of that translation. Boruwlaski, who died in 1837, lived from 1800 in Durham.
  

• BOSWELL’S HEBRIDESBOSWELL, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson ... Containing some Poetical Pieces ... never before published ... Opinions of Men and Books: With an authentick Account of the Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II in the year 1746. The second edition, revised and corrected. Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly. 1785 [13137] xx, [2], 534, [2]pp.; 8vo. Half title, final leaf advertising Boswell’s Life of Johnson, occasional light spotting, light marginal stain to last few leaves. Early 19thC quarter calf, marbled paper boards, spine decorated in gilt, lettered direct; sl. rubbed, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Bookplate of Charles William Kennedy, University College, Oxford, to front endpaper. An attractive copy. £420
  ESTC T53588.
  

• BACK TO CHRISTIAN BASICS(BOWDLER, John) Reform or Ruin: take your choice! In which the Conduct of the King, the Parliament, the Ministry, the Opposition, ... is considered; and that Reform pointed out, which alone can Save the Country. FIRST EDITION. Printed for J. Hatchard. 1797 [8969] Disbound. Without half title. (2), 42pp. £40
  ESTC T46623. A popular tract, advocating a return to good Christian living.
  

• (BOWDLER, John) Reform or Ruin: take your choice! In which the Conduct of the King, the Parliament, the Ministry, the Opposition, .. is considered. And that Reform pointed out, which alone can save the country! The eighth edition. Printed for J. Hatchard; &c. 1798 [8970] Without final ad. leaf, ink mark on title. Disbound. Signatures of Cath. Downing and Renier. (4), 42pp. £25
  ESTC N148; no copies located in the British Isles. 'Having no more desire to see the inside of Newgate, than to try the air of Botany Bay, I shall always be cautious what I say about the Parliament'.
  

• MAP OF YORKSHIREBOWEN, Emanuel. An Accurate Map of the County of York divided into its Wapontakes. Drawn from surveys with various improvements shewing also by concentrick circles, the distances of all places in the County from the City of York. By Eman: Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty. Printed for Robt. Wilkinson in Cornhil, Carington Bowles in St Paul's Church-Yard, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street. [c.1777] [40350] Large folding engr. map, hand-coloured in outline, in 16 sections mounted on linen. In v.g. fresh condition, orig. marbled card slipcase with Robert Sayer's printed label, priced in manuscript. 55 x 72cm. £200
  

• STABBED AS ISSUEDBOWLES, William Lisle. Elegy Written at the Hot Wells, Bristol. Addressed to the Revd. William Howley. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Bath: printed by R. Cruttwell, &c. 1791 [23940] [2], 9, [1]pp. Half title. Uncut & stabbed as issued; dusted at edges. In sl. faded brown cloth portfolio. Booklabel of John Sparrow. £350
  ESTC T32579.
  

• BOWLES, William Lisle. The Grave of Howard. A Poem. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Salisbury: printed by E. Easton, &c. 1790 [26135] [4], 11, [1]pp. Disbound. £300
  ESTC T35815.
  

• BOWLES’ SONNETSBOWLES, William Lisle. Sonnets, written chiefly on Picturesque Spots, during a Tour. The second edition, corrected, with additions. 4to. Bath: printed & sold by R. Cruttwell, &c. 1789 [23941] 31, [1]pp. A wide-margined & clean copy. Disbound. £350
  ESTC T49516.
  

• BOWLES, William Lisle. Verses on the Benevolent Institution of the Philanthropic Society, for protecting and educating the children of vagrants and criminals. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Bath: printed by R. Cruttwell. 1790 [23939] 27, [1]pp. Disbound. £320
  ESTC T50705.
  

• (BRIDGES, Thomas) A Burlesque Translation of Homer. In two volumes. The fourth edition improved. Printed for G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1797 [38245] [8], 360pp; [4], 432pp., frontispiece, titlepage devices, 23 humorous engr. plates; 8vo. Fine contemp. calf with double gilt banded spine, red morocco title labels, small circular black volume numbers. Pencil signature of Richard Thornton Duff, 1807 at head of each titlepage. £350
  ESTC T45464. ‘Good people, would you know the reason / I write at this unlucky season, / When all the nation is so poor / That few can keep above one whore, / Except the Lawyers - (whose large fees / Maintain as many as they please) - / And Pope, with taste and judgment great, / Has deign'd this author to translate - / The reason's this: - He may not please The jocund tribe so well as these; / For all capacities can't climb / To comprehend the true sublime.’ This lively burlesque translation of the first 12 books of the Iliad was first published in 1762 as ‘Homer Travestie’, and originally attributed to Francis Grose. It is written with gusto and a good sense of rhythm, and borders on the libertine: ‘Let him with Nell lay tit for tat / And trim her till I eat my hat’.
  

• RAISED TO GRANDEUR(BRITAINE, William de) Humane Prudence, or The art by which a man may raise himself and his fortune to grandeur. The seventh edition corrected and enlarged. 12mo. Richard Sare, at Gray’s-Inn-Gate in Holborn. 1697 [17247] [8], 229, [3]pp, 2pp ads at end. Small paper flaw on F3 sl. touching a few letters. Contemp. speckled calf; excellently rebacked. £320
  ESTC R9197. Wing B 4807. Aphorisms. ‘When you make your Application to any Person you must first know his Character, next feel his Pulse, and then attack him by his strongest Passion, which is his weakest side, and you will never fail to obtain your ends.’
  

• JOHN WESLEY’S ABRIDGMENT OF BROOKE(BROOKE, Henry) The History of Henry Earl of Moreland. Second edition. 2 vols.; 12mo. Printed by G. Paramore; and sold by G. Whitfield, at the Chapel, City-Road, and at all the Methodist Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1793 [13140] Some foxing and browning throughout. Contemporary tree calf, corners bumped, gilt spines; vol. I a bit rubbed, red morocco labels, numbered direct; a few gatherings sl. sprung. Bookplate of J. Robson to front pastedown, removed from vol. I to reveal earlier printed ownership label of Geo. Peacock. £250
  ESTC T127638. John Wesley’s abridgment of Brooke’s ‘Fool of Quality’ with his preface, Bristol 1780.
  

• THE BASTILLE(BROSSAIS DU PERRAY, Joseph Marie) Historical Remarks on the Castle of the Bastille: with curious and entertaining anecdotes of that fortress, &c. &c. The second edition, considerably enlarged. Printed for H. Gardner, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand; J. Sewell, Cornhill; J. Walter, Charing-Cross; and J. Debrett, Piccadilly. 1789 [38040] [2], [I -v], vi-viii, [1], 10-107, [1]pp., engr. roundel frontispiece ‘View of the Bastille’, folding plan; 8vo. Clean tear to K4 without loss of text, lacking half title. Disbound. A v.g. copy. £150
  ESTC N17964. First published in French in 1774, the English edition is dedicated to John Howard, the prison-reformer, by the translator; ‘Our countrymen may learn from this little Tract, not only to venerate and defend the principles of a free Constitution, but to feel, like yourself, for the unfortunate, of whatever country or condition’. ESTC N17964 recording 5 UK copies, and just a defective copy at Lafayette College in North America. One UK copy defective (National Library of Wales) and Univ. of Essex, BL, and Worcester College all lack the half title, leaving the National Library of Scotland copy possibly the only complete copy recorded. The first three English editions were all published in 1789.
  

• (BROTHERS, Richard) HALHED, Nathaniel Brassey. Testimony of the Authenticity of the Prophecies of Richard Brothers, and of his mission to recall the Jews. Second edition. Printed for H.D. Symonds. 1795 [18555] iv, 40pp.; 8vo. Title and last page lightly dusted; traces of original wrappers at gutter margin of title, old stab sewing marks. Rebound in quarter speckled calf, marbled paper boards, vellum tips, spine ruled in gilt, black morocco label lettered longitudinally. Nice copy. £225
  ESTC T49998. The title leaf is very obviously a cancel with false edition statement and new publisher’s name added; comparison of press figures, etc. confirms that the sheets are from the first printing.
  

• GOD ALMIGHTY’S NEPHEW(BROTHERS, Richard) HALHED, Nathaniel Brassey. Testimony of the Authenticity of the Prophecies of Richard Brothers, and of his mission to recall the Jews. Printed for R. Fauldes. 1795 [18557] iv, 40pp.; 8vo. Endpapers and title a bit foxed. Later half calf, marbled boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco label, red sprinkled edges; sl. wear to hinges. Somerset armorial bookplate on front pastedown. v.g. £280
  In desperation at the futility of war with France, Halhed sought guidance from the Almighty. This was found in the visionary writings of Richard Brothers, whose recommendation ‘to read the modern history of Europe in the prophetic records of the Old and New Testament’ Halhed here endorses. The issue on wove paper; the ‘y’ in Brassey on title is swash. There is no record of the printer R. Fauldes in ESTC.
  

• BROWN. The Brown Loaf, or, A lesson for the rich. Being the pathetic history of Thomas Bennet, a labourer, and his son Andrew. Printed & sold by J. Davenport. [1800?] [26400] Uncut, sl. stained, with later stitching at fold. 8pp. £90
  Not in ESTC or COPAC P.A.H. Brown lists Joshua Davenport for 1802 only, but he is the 1797 printer of ‘The Life and History of … Mother Shipton’. His numerous publications are invariably undated, but most suggested datings are 1795-1800.
  

• RELIGIO MEDICI(BROWNE, Thomas) Religio Medici. The fourth edition, corrected and amended. With annotations never before published, upon all the obscure passages therein. Printed by E. Cotes for Andrew Crook at the Green-Dragon in Pauls Church-yard. 1656 [38217] [18], 297, [1], [4]pp adverts., engr. frontispiece, preliminary & final blanks; 12mo. Text is clean & crisp. Contemp. blind ruled sprinkled sheep, almost imperceptibly rebacked to match. Contemporary signature of Thomas Foley on preliminary blank, with case and shelf location, Foley family armorial bookplate. A very nice copy. £580
  ESTC R22776. Wing B5172. Browne's most famous treatise describing his attitudes as a Christian & a doctor to God, the Church, faith and reason, and his fellow man.
  

• BRYDGES’ SONNETSBRYDGES, Sir Samuel Egerton. Sonnets and other poems; with a Versification of the Six Bards of Ossian. A new edition, with additions. Printed for G. & T. Wilkie. 1785 [8987] [6], 67, [1]pp.; 8vo. Without half title. Contemp. marbled boards, neatly rebacked in sheep retaining orig. red label, inner hinges strengthened, lacking following free e.p. Booklabel of John Sparrow. £225
  ESTC T144980; 4 locations in the British Isles: BL, Brighton, Cambridge & NLS. A few dedicatees are identified in ink in Contents list.
  

• ADDRESS TO YOUTHBRYSON, Thomas. A Serious Address to Youth of Both Sexes, on the necessity and advantages of early piety. Printed by J. Skirvens. 1792 [17249] Title with some foxing. 36pp pamphlet. Disbound. £65
  ESTC T144139: BL, Bodley and Louisiana only.
  

• THE BARREN FIG-TREEBUNYAN, John. The Barren Fig-Tree: or, the Doom and Downfall of the Fruitless Professor: shewing, that the day of grace may be past with him long before his life is ended. The signs also by which such miserable mortals may be known. Printed for R. Robinson, at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1728 [38222] 143, [1]p ad; 12mo. Small marginal repair to F2 not affecting text, tiny repair in gutter margin of titlepage, lacking portrait frontispiece (as does the BL copy), some old waterstaining to first three leaves, and at end, but not intrusive, a little browning to text. £450
  ESTC T58768. First published in 1688 (Harvard & UCLA only), and a single copy of the 2nd edition is in a private collection. The earliest edition recorded in ESTC is the 3rd of 1692, with a 5th edition by 1698, and an 8th edition in 1757.
  

• CLOTH BINDINGBUNYAN, John. The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded: or, A discourse touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the One, and the Nature of the Other: shewing what they are, as they are the two covenants; and likewise, who they be, and what their conditions are, that be under either of these two covenants. The sixth edition corrected and amended. Printed for W. Johnston, in Ludgate-street. 1760 [38654] [12], 204, 203-204, 205-270, [2] contents, [2]pp adverts; 12mo. The first gathering is rather browned, some sl. foxing elsewhere, but a very nice survival in contemp. hessian covered boards, an ownership signature of Ann Motherby dated 1776 on inner pastedown. £200
  ESTC T58487 noting a copy in the BL in a similar, probably publisher’s, binding.
  

• BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to come. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out; his dangerous journey; and safe arrival at the desired country. The thirty-fourth edition, with additions of new cuts. Printed for John Rivington and Sons, B. Law, S. Crowder, J. Bew, and R. Baldwin. 1786 / 1780 / 1793 [38574] 1786. [10], 205, [1]pp ad., woodcut frontispiece (A1), 13 woodcut text illus. ESTC T58919 (4 complete copies only).
  BOUND WITH: The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come. The Second Part. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is set forth, the manner of the setting out of Christian's wife and children; their dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country. The twenty-eighth edition, with the addition of five cuts. Licensed and entered according to order. 1780. [10], 179, [1]pp ad., woodcut frontispiece and 4 woodcut text illustrations. ESTC T58945 (6 complete copies).
  BOUND WITH: The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come. The Third Part. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Shewing the several difficulties and dangers he met with, and the many victories he obtained over the world, the flesh, and the devil. Together with his happy arrival at the celestial city, and the glory and joy he found to his eternal comfort. To which is added, the life and death of John Bunyan, author of the First and Second Parts; [compleating the whole progress]. A new edition. London: printed for R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-noster-row. 1793. [2], 2, iv, 119, [1] blank, [2], 32, [4]pp adverts., woodcut portrait. 12mo. ESTC T58967; 3 copies only, all in BL, all defective. A very good clean fresh copy, some sl. dusting to final titlepage.
  Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full tan calf with raised bands, gilt lettered spine, inner gilt dentelles. t.e.g. £300
  

• BÜRGHER, Gottfried Augustus. Leonora. Translated from the German by W.R. Spencer. With designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc. Printed by T. Bensley; for J. Edwards, and E. & S. Harding. 1796 [8989] Folio. Front., 4 plates, vignettes engr. by Bartolozzi, Harding and Birrell. Uncut. in contemp. half calf, maroon label, marbled boards; excellently rebacked with repairs to corners. £125
  ESTC T93829. ‘Lenore’, written in 1773, published a year later in the ‘Göttinger Musenalmanach für 1774’, an annual collection of poetry published in Göttingen. First English edition. Another English edition also appeared in 1796, translated by J.T. Stanley. Parallel German and English texts.
  

• BURKE, Edmund. A Letter ... to a Noble Lord, ... Printed for J. Owen, & F. & C. Rivington. 1796 [8994] The titlepage is a cancel. Disbound. (2), 80pp. £30
  Todd 65d-g: the fourth-seventh impression, without distinguishing half title, with signature D2 present.
  

• BURKE, Edmund. A Letter from Edmund Burke, Esq. ... to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. ... on the Affairs of America. The fourth edition. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1777 [13150] 79, [1]pp.; 8vo. Disbound. £60
  ESTC T37878. Todd 28e: First Bristol edition, second issue. Contrary to ESTC, no half title is called for in this printing.
  

• BURKE, Edmund. Mr Edmund Burke's Speeches at his Arrival at Bristol, and at the Conclusion of the Poll. The second edition. Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. 1775 [38425] vii, [3], 11-31, [1] blank., with half title; 8vo. Disbound. £45
  ESTC T41525. Todd 23b.
  

• THE SUBLIME & BEAUTIFUL(BURKE, Edmund) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The fourth edition. With an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall. 1764 [38327] ix, [7], 342pp; 8vo. Pastedowns rather browned, e.ps foxed, otherwise a good clean copy. Contemp. calf, double gilt fillet border, expertly rebacked with raised & gilt banded spine, red gilt morocco label; corners neatly repaired. £350
  ESTC T42251; Todd 5d. First published in 1757.
  

• (BURKE, Edmund) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With an introductory discourse concerning taste, and several other additions. Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall. 1787 [38285] ix, [7], 342pp; 8vo. A little light foxing to a few leaves. Full contemp. tree calf, gilt spine & dark green gilt morocco label; expert repairs to joints & head & tail of spine. Armorial bookplate ‘Heineken’. £220
  ESTC T42258; Todd 5j.
  

• REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION: FIRST IMPRESSIONBURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1790-91 [38684] 1790. iv, 356pp; 8vo. A few slight stains but a good clean copy. BOUND WITH: Substance of the Speech… in the Debate on the Army Estimate, in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, the 9th day of February, 1790. Printed for J. Debrett. 1790. [2], 36pp; 8vo. Title-page a little dusty, and bound without the final advert leaf. BOUND WITH: A Letter from Mr Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; in answer to some objections to his book on French affairs. The third edition. Paris printed, and London re-printed for J. Dodsley. 1791. [4], 74, [2]pp., half-title and final blank; 8vo. BOUND WITH: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in consequence of some late discussions in Parliament, relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution. Second edition. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1791. [4], 139, [1]pp., half-title; 8vo. Four items bound together in later quarter calf, marbled paper boards. Spine ruled and decorated in gilt, lettered direct onto the spine, red sprinkled edges. The initials DMC appear at the head of each title, and the signature of Hubert G.Norman, 1943 on f.e.p. There is an early 19th century manuscript list of contents. £680
  ESTC T46573, Todd 53a - FIRST EDITION, first impression; ESTC T48796, Todd 52a - FIRST EDITION; ESTC T3790, Todd 54f; ESTC N174, Todd 56b.
  

• INDEPENDENCE OF PARLIAMENTBURKE, Edmund. Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. ... on presenting to the House of Commons ... A plan for the better security of the independence of Parliament, etc. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1780. 1780 / 1784 [18621] [2], 95, [1]pp.; 8vo. Without half title, light spotting to title, ms. correction to p.22. BOUND WITH: Mr. Burke’s Speech, on the 1st December 1783, upon the question for the speaker’s leaving the chair, in order for the House to resolve itself into a committee on Mr. Fox’s East India Bill. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1784. [2], 105, [1]pp.; 8vo. Without half title, last leaf lightly spotted, short marginal tear. Contemporary speckled calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label, red sprinkled edges; hinges sl. weakening. Signature of Rd. Milles to first title, initials R.M. to second. A very good copy. £120
  ESTC T49639, Todd 33b: First authorized edition, first impression; ESTC T41507, Todd 44a: First edition.
  

• BURKE, Edmund. Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. ... on presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th of February, 1780) a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and for the Oeconomical Reformation of the Civil and other Establishments. Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall. 1780 [38497] [4], 95, [1]blank., half title; 8vo. Some foxing to first ten & final three leaves. Disbound. £75
  ESTC T49639; Todd 33b. This appears to be the first impression with the manuscript correction to page 22 (acquired to ‘lackered’).
  

• BURKE, Edmund. A Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol, previous to the late election in that city, upon certain points relative to his parliamentary conduct. The third edition. Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. 1780 [38424] [4], 68pp., with half title; 8vo. Some light foxing but a good copy. Disbound. £45
  ESTC T49636; Todd 39c.
  

• (BURKE, Edmund) Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. The sixth edition. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1784 [13146] [4], 118pp.; 8vo. Half title. Disbound. £45
  ESTC t050207 5 copies, not noting the half title; Todd 17f.
  

• BURKE, Edmund. Two Letters addressed to a Member of the present Parliament, etc. Printed for F. & C. Rivington. 1796 [8998] Disbound, sl. dusted at end, light damp marking to lower blank margins. (2), 188pp. £35
  Without distinguishing half title: Todd 66 variants D or E are found.
  

• BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury. The Bishop of Salisbury, his Speech in the House of Lords, on the first article of The Impeachment of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Printed in the year ... 1710 [18519] 16pp.; 8vo. Unevenly trimmed, touching outer frame rule at head of titlepage, occasional loss of page number or signature mark elsewhere. Disbound. £40
  ESTC T171992, with ‘House’ and ‘Lords’ in title in italics. Burnet appeals to history to justify an interpretation of the doctrine of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance contrary to that claimed to have been offered by Sacheverell in his infamous sermon. Burnet goes on to condemn the Jacobite press, in particular the periodical The Rehearsal, as treasonable in its efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the Glorious Revolution and the Protestant succession. He ends with a condemnation of all clergymen who scandalously fail to ‘Preach, Speak and Act as they Swear and Pray’.
  

• BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury. The Bishop of Salisbury his Speech in the House of Lords, on the first article of the Impeachment of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. London: printed in the year, 1710. 1710 [18414] 16pp.; 8vo. Some leaves trimmed at foot affecting catchwords & signatures. Disbound. £35
  ESTC T13226. ESTC distinguishes between 3 very similar editions: this one has ‘year’ on title in capitals, ‘House’ and ‘Lords’ in italic, p.3, last line begins ‘on those laws’.
  

• BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury. A Full Examination of several Important Points relating to Church-authority, the Christian priesthood, ... in answer to the notions and principles contained in Mr. Law's second letter to the Lord Bishop of Bangor. In a second letter to Mr. Law. With a Postscript, etc. Printed by W. Wilkins, for Tim. Childe. 1718 [9002] [5], 338, [2]pp.; 8vo. 2pp ads. Disbound. £35
  ESTC T40315. A reply to William Law's attacks on Benjamin Hoadley: Burnet looks to the Glorious Revolution for ‘our Great and Happy Deliverance, from the United Evils of Tyranny and Popery’.
  

• BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury. A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Trapp, occasion'd by his sermon on the real nature of the Church .. in answer to the Lord Bishop of Bangor's Sermon on the same text; wherein the postscript also is considered. The second edition. Printed for Tim. Childe. 1717 [9001] 32pp.; 8vo. Disbound. £25
  ESTC T38367. Burnet rounds on Trapp for daring to challenge a bishop of the Protestant church for attacking Popery.
  

• SIR MATTHEW HALEBURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury. The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench. Printed for William Shrowsbery. 1682 [9391] [18], 218pp.; 8vo. Without the portrait; name cut from corner of title (later repaired), lower outer corner sl. damp stained. Rebound in quarter sheep, vellum tips. £120
  ESTC R215370. Wing B5828 appears to have 'Second edition'. Here, the edition is not specified. With the early signature: W. Butterfield M.C. 2s.6d. The biography concludes with a list of Hale’s writings, published and unpublished, together with a 14-page catalogue of mss. bequeathed to Lincolns-Inn.
  

• UNCUT, UNOPENEDBURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury. A Sermon preach'd, and a Charge given at the triennial visitation of the Diocese of Salisbury. Printed for J. Churchill. 1714 [9000] 68pp. 4to. Uncut, unopened, stabbed as issued. v.g. £40
  ESTC T45879. ‘Be on your guard against Popery’, and ‘against the prophane Tribe of Free-Thinkers’.
  

• BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury. A Sermon Preached in the Chappel of St. James's, before His Highness the Prince of Orange, the 23d of December, 1688. Printed for Richard Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-Yard. 1689 [38612] [4], 33, [3]pp adverts., half-title; small 4to. Clean tear to B2 without loss, v. sl. browning to leading margins. Disbound. £90
  ESTC R22905. Wing B5881. The issue which carries a full, rather than a half, page of advertisements.
  

• BUTLER, Samuel. Hudibras, in three parts, written in the time of the late wars. With large annotations and a preface by Zachary Grey. Edinburgh: printed by Bell & Murray. 1779 [9399] 2 vols.; 12mo. Full contemp. speckled calf; spines sl. rubbed, red labels, red sprinkled edges. A good clean copy. Signature of M.H. Noble, remains of shelf label at foot of spine, vol. II. £75
  This edition not in ESTC.
  

• (BUTTERFIELD, Jane) Circumstances of the death of Mr. Scawen, with genuine particulars relative to Miss Jenny Butterfield, now under confinement, and charged with the murder of that gentleman... with anecdotes of Mr. M-, the brewer, and Captain ----. Printed for J. Whitaker; Mitre Court, Fleet Street; and sold at all the Pamphlet Shops at the Royal Exchange. 1775 [38031] [5], 6-22, [2]pp errata., half title; 8vo. Sl foxing. Disbound. v.g. £120
  ESTC T100200, 2 copies only (BL, Harvard lacking the half-title). The BL copy collates to 30pp, and ESTC notes that pp23-30 form a 'Postcript [sic]. Account of the trial of Miss Jane Butterfield, on an indictment for murder, at the late assizes for the county of Surry, held at Croydon' - not found in this copy. Aged 14, Jenny Butterfield was persuaded by a female employee of Mr Scawen, to leave her father and depart from the path of virtue, to live with him. She was accused of poisoning him with mercury, but was acquitted, even though it was believed that he had left his considerable fortune to her in his will.
  

• ACQUITTED OF POISONING MR. SCAWEN(BUTTERFIELD, Jane) The Trial of Jane Butterfield for the Wilful Murder of William Scawen, Esq; at the Assizes held at Croydon for the County of Surry on Saturday the 19th of August, 1775, before the Right Honourable Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, Knt. Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer. Published by Permission of the Judge. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney and William Blanchard. Printed for W. Owen, at No. 11, and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-street. 1775 [38272] [4], 53, [1]pp., half title; folio. Fine copy very nicely rebound in quarter mottled calf, gilt banded spine, red morocco label, marbled boards, vellum cornerpieces. £380
  ESTC T93407. Aged 14, Jenny (Jane) Butterfield was persuaded by a female employee of Mr Scawen, to leave her father and depart from the path of virtue, to live with him. She was accused of poisoning him with mercury, but was acquitted, although there was suspicion that he had left his considerable fortune to her in his will.
  

• BYROM, John. Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes. Manchester: printed by J. Harrop. 1773 [38316] [4], vi, 352pp., half title; [4], vi, 353, [1]p., half title., 2 engr. headpieces; 8vo. An uncut copy; small repair to head of c3 volume one, some occasional browning. Very nicely rebound in quarter sprinkled calf, gilt bands, red gilt morocco labels, marbled boards, vellum tips. £280
  ESTC T227682. Includes ‘Christians Awake! Salute the Happy Morn’.
  

• BYSSHE, Edward. The Art of English Poetry containing I. Rules for making Verses. II. A collection of the most natural, agreeable, and sublime thoughts, viz. allusions, similes, descriptions and characters, of persons and things; that are to be found in the best English poets. III. A Dictionary of Rhymes. The fourth edition. Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain. 1710 [38138] [12], 36, [2], 482, viii, 36pp; 8vo. Top corner of front e.p. clipped, otherwise internally v.g., clean & crisp. Contemp. unlettered panelled calf, blind stamped floral cornerpieces, raised bands; v. sl. chip to base of spine, bottom inch of upper joint cracked. E. Libris Chris Clitherow March 21 1709 on the inner pastedown, and later armorial bookplate of Sir Edward B. Baker, Bart. £320
  ESTC T130588; Case 225 (d).
  

• A LETTER TO THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER(CAMDEN, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of?) A Letter from Candor, to the Public Advertiser. The second edition, printed from a more legible copy. Printed for J. Almon. 1764 [9007] pp.3-54 (i.e. 53), [1]; 8vo. Sl. damp marked; wormed at end with loss of a few letters. Disbound. £40
  ESTC T37863. The attribution is uncertain: first published as 'A Letter to the Public Advertiser'. This, according to the ESTC, is the first issue of the second edition. 'Every printer should be totally free, & therefore impartial'.
  

• PRIME MINISTER TO THE EMPEROR OF FEZ AND MOROCCO(CAMPBELL, John) Memoirs of the Duke of Ripperda: first Embassador from the States-General to his most Catholick Majesty, then Duke and Grandee of Spain ... containing a succinct account of the most remarkable events ... between 1715 and 1736. Interspers’d ... with ... particulars relating to ... the Spanish court, etc. Printed for John Stagg; and Daniel Browne. 1740 [18725] xv, [1], 344, [8]pp.; 8vo. Half title, page of ads. at end of prelims. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, gilt-ruled spine, label missing, red sprinkled edges; rubbed. A good sound copy. £95
  ESTC T63900. Bound in at the back of the volume is ‘A Catalogue of books printed for and sold by Samuel Birt’ (ESTC T122989), an alphabetical listing of 24pp with separate signatures and pagination.
  

• (CARTER, Elizabeth) Poems on Several Occasions. The third edition. John, Francis and Charles Rivington. 1776 [6275] [viii], 120pp. Contemp. sheep, gilt borders & spine, worn label; sl. chipping to hinges, which are weakening. Signature of Elizabeth Horn, 1829. £200
  ESTC T82899.
  

• CATHARINE THE GREATCATHARINE II, Empress of Russia. The Life of Catharine II, Empress of Russia. An enlarged translation from the French. With seven portraits elegantly engraved, and a correct map of the Russian empire. 3 vols. T.N. Longman. 1798 [40705] Half titles, two plates preceding title + folding map vol. I, 6pp ads vol. III. Contemp. full speckled calf, spines tooled in gilt, black leather labels; lacking small round vol. nos, sl. rubbing. M&W monogram booklabels, signature of A. Muir Mackenzie on titlepages. A good-plus copy. £280
  Translated by W. Tooke from J.H. Castéra’s ‘Histoire de Catherine II’.
  

• PRESENT STATE OF BRITAINCHAMBERLAYNE, John. Magnae Britanniae Notitia: or, the Present State of Great-Britain, with divers Remarks upon the Antient State thereof. The three and twentieth edition of the south part call'd England, and second of the north part call'd Scotland; with improvements, and more exact and larger additions in the list of the officers, &c. than in any former impression. In Two Parts. Printed for Timothy Goodwin, Matthew Wotton, Benjamin Tooke, Daniel Midwinter, and Jacob Tonson. 1710 [38247] [16], 304, 301*-304*, 305-656, 657*-668*, 657-708, [18], [2]pp ads., engr. portrait frontispiece; 8vo. Very small wormhole through half of volume in fore-margin. Contemp. panelled calf, raised bands, orig., but rather indistinct gilt label; lower inch of rear joint cracked, foot of spine sl. chipped. £90
  ESTC T54585. The second part has a separate titlepage: ‘A general list or catalogue of all the offices and officers employed in the several branches of Her Majesty's Government’. Signature of Richard Denton, Minchin Hampton, Glos, 1812 on the front e.p, bookplate of Chas. Hayward, Quedgley, Glocester. Contemporary list of names on the inner pastedown, and various notes and numbers on the rear e.p. & pastedown.
  

• ASIATICK MISCELLANYCHAMBERS, William & JONES, Sir William. The Asiatick Miscellany, consisting of Translations, Imitations, Fugitive Pieces, Original Productions, etc. Calcutta printed, London re-printed for J. Wallis. And sold by Lewis Bull at Bath: and J. Binns, at Leeds. 1787 [13156] [4], 196pp., plate; 8vo. Titlepage sl. browned from offsetting, prices erased at bottom of title. Contemporary speckled sheep, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label; sl. wear. A good-plus copy. £150
  ESTC T205109, which does not mention a plate. Extracts from the first two numbers of the periodical published in Calcutta in 1785 and 1786. In this copy the caption reads ‘Lord, how dreadful is ye Prospect of Death, at ye remotest distance’: a seated figure turns in alarm from his labour of copying the same text, to find a vision of an angel pointing to an open page reading ‘All thy sins are forgiven’.
  

• CHAPONE, Hester. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind; addressed to a young lady. A new edn. Printed for J. Walter, Charing Cross; and C. Dilly, in the Poultry. 1787 [38819] Final ad. leaf. Contemp. full speckled calf; rubbed maroon leather label, hinges weakening but sound, sl. chipped at head & tail of spine. Armorial bookplate. Signature of Martha Campbell & partially removed signature of Harriet (Ramsay?) A good sound copy. £75
  

• (CHARLES X, King of France) Vie Privée de Charles-Philippes de France, ci-devant Comte d'Artois, frère du Roi, et sa correspondance avec ses Complices, ... pour servir de clef à la Révolution Française, ... 2e édition, revue corrigée et augmentée. Turin (i.e. Paris): n.p. 1791 [9013] 80pp., plate; 8vo. Front. port.; pp.17-24 misbound. Later half green binder's cloth, marbled boards, red leather label. Armorial bookplate of Sir Henry Bellingham. v.g. Below the portrait is a short verse which blames Artois for all France's ills. £45
  BL Catalogue suggests Paris imprint.
  

• (CHATTERTON, Thomas) GREGORY, G. The Life of Thomas Chatterton, with criticisms on his genius and writings, and a concise view of the controversy concerning Rowley’s poems. G. Kearsley. 1789 [26209] [2], vi, 263, [1]pp. Front.; browned & sl. spotted, sm. library stamps & ref. numbers on first few pages. Later quarter calf, vellum tips, red label. v.g. £220
  ESTC T145606. In 1765, at the age of 12, Chatterton first conceived of the ‘Rowley Romance’ based on Thomas Monk, an imaginary monk of the 15th century. “What is most wonderful, however, about the ‘Rowley Romance’ is that Chatterton produced with his boyish hand the poetical works not of one alone, but of twelve antique poets.” (DNB). Though an accomplished forger of antiquarian manuscripts, he was still highly thought of by Byron, Campbell, Scott, Southey, Walpole and Wordsworth. Dante Gabriel Rossetti described him, without reservation, ‘as great as any English poet whatever.’ Chatterton died at the age of 17 from an arsenic overdose.
  

• FIRST EDITION, UNCUTCHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of. Letters Written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: together with several other pieces on various subjects. Published by Mrs Eugenia Stanhope, from the originals now in her possession. In two volumes. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1774 [38312] [2], vii, [1], 568pp; [2], 606pp, 1f errata., half titles., engr. portrait frontispiece; 4to. A large uncut, unpressed copy; some sl. marginal waterstaining to final few leaves Vol. I, and to upper margin of some leaves Vol. II, half titles a little dusty. Orig. boards recovered in blue sugar paper, buff paper spines. £650
  ESTC T136181; Gulick 54.
  

• CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of. The Life of the Late Earl of Chesterfield: or, the man of the world. Including his Lordship's principal speeches in Parliament; his most admired essays in the paper called The World; his Poems; and the substance of the system of education delivered in a series of letters to his son. Printed for J. Bew. 1774 [9016] 2 vols., plate; 12mo. Half titles, front. port. vol. I. Contemp. mottled calf, spines gilt, red sprinkled edges, red labels; some surface wear. A nice copy. £180
  ESTC T101770; Gulick 54.
  

• NEW DISCOURSE OF TRADECHILD, Sir Josiah, Bart. A New Discourse of Trade: wherein are recommended several weighty points, relating to Companies of Merchants; ... The fourth edition. Printed for J. Hodges; W. Meadows, C. Corbet, &c. [1745?] [9017] [4], xlvi, 260, [2]pp.; 12mo. Final ad. leaf. Full contemp. calf, gilt spine & borders, red label, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. v.g. £250
  ESTC T90663. First published in 1669 with the aim of bringing down the rate of interest, by the East India profiteer. This edition concludes with Sir Thomas Culpepper's 'A Small Treatise against Usury' (pp.235-60). ESTC records three separate printings of an undated ‘fourth edition’: in this, the final leaf of ads. is unpaginated.
  

• RESPONDING TO THE DUNCIADCIBBER, Colley. A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be so frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's name. Printed: & sold by W. Lewis. 1742 [9018] [3]-66pp.; 8vo. Without half title, title washed & repaired at one corner. 19th-century speckled calf, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; rubbed, spine chipped, hinges splitting. £180
  ESCT T37905; A&R 2573; Guerinot p.288-89, with catchword -S on p.39. With note 'From Lord Rosebery's library'. Cibber responding, without wit, to the Dunciad.
  

• CICERO’S ADVICE TO HIS SONCICERO, Marcus Tullius. Tully’s Offices, in English. The third edition, revised and corrected by Tho. Cockman. Printed by Sam. Buckley. 1714 [17251] [iv], viii, 265, xxv.pp. Half title (‘Tully’s Morals’), index. Contemp. panelled calf. A very nice copy, with contemp. inscr. of A. Chichester of Exeter College. £120
  ESTC T138406; only 4 locations in the British Isles: BL, Birmingham, Canterbury & Edinburgh.
  

• SHREWSBURY TAKEN FOR PARLIAMENT(CIVIL WAR) (BRERETON, William) Shrewsbury Taken. A Copie of Sir William Breretons Letter to the Parliament: and the copie of a letter from the Committee of Shropshire: with a full relation of the manner of the taking of Shrewsbury, by Colonell Mitton and Colonell Bowyer, with Sir William Breretons and Colonell Mittons forces, on Saturday last, February 22. And the particulars of that great victory against P. Maurice's forces there: also a list of the chiefe prisoners names; and what was taken in the said garrison. Printed by Robert Austin, in the Old Baily. 1645 [38057] [2], 13, [1]pp; small 4to. Half dark green crushed morocco, blank leaves at the end; some sl. foxing, several contemp. manuscript marginal notes. Small gilt morocco book label of Austin Smith. £450
  ESTC R212285. Wing B 4371; Thomason, E.270[26].
  

• (CIVIL WAR) FAIRFAX, Thomas. Letter to the Honoble William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons. Concerning all the passages of his army since his advance from Exeter, and the manner of routing the Princes and the Lrd Hoptons forces at Torrington, together with all the particulars in that expedition. Also another letter from a gentleman of quality, of the whole passages of this great victory. Both which were read in the House of Commons. Printed for Edw. Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons. 1645, Feb. 24 [i.e. 1646] [38291] 8pp; small 4to. Fine crisp copy bound in half red crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt, the volume bulked out with additional blank pages. Modern leather bookplate of Austin Smith. Some contemporary ms. notes which are sl. cropped. £550
  ESTC R200618. Wing F 195; Thomason, E.324[15].
  

• THE LATE FIGHT AT TORRINGTON(CIVIL WAR) (RUSHWORTH, John) A True Relation concerning the late fight at Torrington, between the forces under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the forces under the command of Lord Hopton and others. Sent in a letter to the Honorable William Lenthal, Esq. Printed for Edw. Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons. 1645, Feb. 20. [i.e.1646] [38292] 8pp; small 4to. Fine crisp copy bound in recent half red crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt. The volume bulked out with additional blank pages. Modern leather booklabel of Austin Smith. Some contemporary ms. notes which are sl. cropped. £450
  ESTC R25118. Wing R 2334a; Thomason, E.323[8].
  

• (CIVIL WAR) (THOMPSON, William) Montrosse Totally Routed at Tividale in Scotland on Saturday last, by Lieutenant Generall Lesley. Where were taken and kill'd, two thousand foot, eight hundred horse, and nine knights; and all the Kings papers and writings sent to Montrose are taken. Sent to a Member of the Honorable House of Commons, and appointed to be forthwith printed. Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, Sept. 18. 1645 [38056] 6, [2]pp., typographic border to titlepage; small 4to. Complete with the final blank. Recent half red crushed morocco, blank leaves at end; some sl. foxing. Small gilt morocco book label of Austin Smith. A v.g. copy. £350
  ESTC 200271. Wing T 1019; Thomason, E.301[19].
  

• GRAMMAR(CLARE, William) A Compleat System of Grammar English and Latin: wherein that most excellent art is plainly, fully and distinctly taught ... whereunto is annexed I. Rules for construing, composing and placing Latin according to the Ciceronean style. II. The Doctrine of English particles, whereby youth are enabled to express themselves pertinently, elegantly and fully. Dedicated to his Highness the Duke of Gloucester. H. Walwyn, at the Three Leggs ... 1699 [17147] Small 4to. [8], 150, [2]pp ads; titlepage close-trimmed in lower margin, some browning & spotting to text. 18th century calf; a little rubbed, red label. £200
  ESTC R24833. Wing C 4412B is the first edition of 1690 (i.e. 1699) (one copy at Cambridge); this second edition is Wing C 4413 also not in BL.
  

• SAXON ARCHCLAXTON, John. F.A.S. Description of a Saxon Arch, with an Inscription in Dinton Church, Buckinghamshire, and of sundry antiquities found in that parish ... Read at the Society of Antiquaries March 10. 1785. (Reprinted from Archaeologia). 1785 [9023] 5, [1]pp., plates; 4to. Two folding plates, (one sl. torn). Disbound. £25
  ESTC T144477; BL & Bodleian only. Caption title. The plates are engraved by Basire after designs by ‘Mr. Brett, of Aylesbury’.
  

• CAIRO TO SINAI(CLAYTON, Robert) A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and back again. Translated from a manuscript, written by the Presetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide at Grand Cairo. To which are added remarks on the origin of hieroglyphics, and the mythology of the ancient heathens. Dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries, London. The second edition, corrected. Printed for William Bowyer; and sold by J. Ward. 1753 [38659] 170pp., 2 folding plates; 8vo. A little browning to edges of titlepage. Contemp. mottled calf, gilt spine, red gilt label; joints cracked, head & tail of spine chipped, corners worn. A good sound copy. £250
  ESTC T130544 collates this edition as 168pp, and none of the copies note the Postscript paginated p.169-170 bound at the end of this copy. Alston III 819: pp. 55-159 on hieroglyphics.
  

• THE SPANISH INQUISITIONCLEMENT XI, Pope. Ad Futuram Rei Memoriam, &c. Exponi nobis nuper fecit dilectus filius Andreas de Cabrejas Promotor Fiscalis Consolii Inquisitionis contra haereticam prævitatem in Hispaniarum … n.p. [1718?] [40360] 4pp; folio. With a contemporary marginal note & date 1718 on verso of final leaf. Disbound. £80
  A proclamation issued in February 1718 by Pope Clement XI, 1700-1721. Andrés de Cabrejas, was fiscal of the Suprema, and a representative of the Spanish Inquisition.
  

• ARITHMETICCOCKER, Edward. Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick. Wherein is shewed the nature and use of decimal fractions in the usual rules of Arithmetick, and the mensuration of plains and solids… whereunto is added, his Artificial Arithmetick, shewing the genesis or fabrick of the logarithms… also his Algebraic Arithmetick. Perused, corrected, and published, by John Hawkins, writing-master at St George's Church in Southwark. The sixth edition. Printed for J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, and F. Clay, in Trust for Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington. 1729 [38428] xvi, 448pp., diagrams in the text; 8vo. Some slight browning to text. Full contemp. calf, raised bands; sl. wear to corners and head & tail of spine, lacking label. £180
  ESTC T30887.
  

• (COCKIN, William) The Art of Delivering Written Language; or, An essay on reading in which the subject is treated philosophically as well as with a view to practice. Printed by H. Hughs, for J. Dodsley. 1775 [17151] Half title; sl. marking to final page otherwise a very nice uncut copy. Excellently rebound in half calf, spine gilt, red label. £350
  ESTC T22445; Alston VI 407, sole edition, the attribution based on an inscription in one BL copy. Dedicated to David Garrick.
  

• COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Poems on various subjects. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Printed for G.G. and J. Robinsons; Bristol: J. Cottle. 1796 [26328] Half title, errata leaf, final ad. leaf; some minor internal marks. Contemp. full tree calf, black label, with small unobtrusive repairs. Corners a little rubbed, otherwise v.g. £1,800
  ESTC T125613. Wise 8. First edition of Coleridge’s first collection of verse.
  

• COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Poems. 2nd edn. To which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb, and Charles Lloyd. Printed by N. Biggs for J. Cottle, Bristol, & Robinsons, London. 1797 [24162] Expertly rebound in full dark brown speckled calf, red label. A v.g. handsome copy. £950
  ESTC N11843; Wise 11. Containing many poems published here for the first time.
  

• (COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor) SCHILLER, Friedrich. The Piccolomini, or the first part of Wallenstein, a drama in five acts. Translated from the German by S. T. Coleridge. FIRST EDITION. WITH: The Death of Wallenstein. A tragedy in five parts. Translated from the German by S. T. Coleridge. FIRST EDITION. Longman & Rees. 1800 [26317] Front. port. sl. spotted, 3pp ads. part II; a little browned. Contemp. half calf, gilt borders, black label; lower corners sl. chipped, spine sympathetically rebacked. £500
  ESTC T61110 & T61109; Wise 16 & 17. The Proofs were read by Charles Lamb, Coleridge being on a visit to Wordsworth at Grasmere. “Take no thought about your proof sheets; they shall be done as if Woodfall himself did them.” Lamb to Coleridge, 16th April 1800. Lamb also contributed the poem on p.89 of part I, the first time it appeared in print. Bound without half title to Pt. I. Bound in before part I is the general title page for Wallenstein: a drama. Longman & Rees. 1800.
  

• LYRICAL BALLADSCOLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (& WORDSWORTH, William). Lyrical Ballads, with other poems. 2 vols. Vol. I: 2nd edn., 1st issue; Vol. II: FIRST EDITION, 1st issue, with 3-line errata. Bristol: printed by Biggs & Co. for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, London. 1800 [25690] Sl. spotted. Contemp. full calf, panelled in blind, gilt spines & borders, neatly rebacked retaining black labels lettered: ‘Wordsworth’ Poems’. £5,800
  ESTC T146537; Wise Wordsworth I, 9; without half titles as issued. Includes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Foster-Mother’s Tale, The Nightingale, The Dungeon & Love by Coleridge, who failed to complete Christabel for Vol. II. Wordsworth’s important Preface giving ‘a systematic defence of the theory upon which the poems were written’ first appears here - a preface he had been ‘prevailed upon by Coleridge to write’.
  

• USEFULNESS OF THE STAGE(COLLIER, John) DENNIS, John. The Usefulness of the Stage, to the Happiness of Mankind, to Government, and to Religion. Occasioned by a late book, written by Jeremy Collier. Printed for Rich. Parker. 1698 [31404] [8]. 143, [1]pp. With the errata list on last page. Some marginal waterstains on a few leaves. Rebound in quarter speckled calf, marbled boards. Unobtrusive stamps of Hampstead Public Libraries. £250
  ESTC R12743. A&R 308; Wing D 1046.
  

• IMMORALITY OF THE STAGE(COLLIER, John) (RIDPATH, George) The Stage Condemn’d, and the Encouragement given to the Immoralities and Profaneness of the Theatre, by the English Schools, Universities and Pulpits, censur’d ... Printed for John Salusbury. 1698 [12366] [8], 216pp. 19th century half calf, later e.ps & maroon label. £400
  ESTC R17141. A&R 321; Wing R1468. A contribution to the controversy started by Jeremy Collier. In this copy an initial leaf has the signature of Theodore Waterland, 1700 at Sturbridge, price 1s-6d. The volume bears the bookplate of David Garrick, but cannot be traced in the sale catalogue of his library.
  

• REVIEW OF COLLIER(COLLIER, John) (SETTLE, Elkanah) A Defence of Dramatick Poetry: being A review of Mr. Collier’s view of the immorality and profaneness of the stage. Printed for Eliz. Whitlock. 1698 [31403] [8]. 118, [2]pp. Half title: A Review of Mr. Collier; sl. damp marked in margins. Handsomely rebound in quarter mottled calf, marbled boards lettered ‘Filmer Defence’. Stamps of Hampstead Public Libraries. £280
  ESTC R16098A&R 304 with pp.77 and 103 misnumbered. Now assigned to the playwright Settle, rather than the incorrectly named Edward Filmer at Wing S2675 bA. BL mentions a possible attribution to Thomas Rymer.
  

• LONDON POLICE(COLQUHOUN, Patrick) A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; containing a detail of the various Crimes and Misdemeanours by which Public and Private Property and Security are ... injured and endangered: and suggesting Remedies ... The third edition, revised and enlarged. By a Magistrate. Printed by H. Fry, for C. Diall. 1796 [13160] xiv, [10], 440, xxviii pp., fold. table; 8vo. Half title, ‘A Summary View of Prisoners committed, etc. in one year, ending in October 1795’; scattered light foxing. Sl. later half calf, marbled paper boards, spines ruled in gilt, lettered direct, blue speckled edges. An attractive copy. v.g. £300
  ESTC T99184.
  

• (COLQUHOUN, Patrick) A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. The fourth edition, revised and enlarged. By a Magistrate. Printed by H.Fry, Finsbury-Place, for C. Dilly, Poultry. 1797 [38175] xxix, [1] blank, [6] contents, 440, xxviii pp index., half title., folding table ‘The Summary View of the Prisoners’; 8vo. A very clean copy printed on good paper; expert repair to small tear in Y4 without loss. 19thC half calf, marbled boards; some sl. rubbing to joints. v.g. £400
  ESTC T62244. The advertisement to this edition draws attention to ‘the establishment of Gaming-Houses, holding out the most fascinating allurements to giddy young men of fortune… drawing into this vortex of inquity and ruin… also the females of the giddy and opulent part of society.’
  

• COLQUHOUN, Patrick. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. The sixth edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. Printed by H. Baldwin and Son, New Bridge-Street, Blackfriars; for Joseph Mawman, in the Poultry, successor to Mr. Dilly. 1800 [38273] [14], xvi, 655, [1] blank, 31, [1]p blank., 2 folding tables; 8vo. Bound without half title. Handsome contemp. sprinkled calf, gilt banded spine, red gilt morocco label. Granard bookplate. £280
  ESTC T140606.
  

• SELLING THE FAMILY SILVER(COMBE, William) The Auction: a town eclogue. By the Honourable Mr. - . 4to. Printed for J. Bew. 1778 [18746] [4], iv, 12pp.; 4to. Title and last page a bit dusted, sm. tear to blank outer margin of titlepage, tear to inner blank margins. Disbound. £280
  ESTC T89060. The frequent auctions of the property of living persons, from which the auctioneers such as Christie and Tattersall grow rich, are taken to be a sign of extravagant and dissipated times: ‘... these Auctions are so many genteel, Honourable and Right Honourable Bankruptcies’.
  

• UNION WITH IRELAND(COOKE, Edward) Arguments For and Against an Union, between Great Britain and Ireland, Considered. The fourth edition, corrected. Dublin: printed for J. Milliken, No.32, Grafton-Street. 1799 [38045] [2], 58pp; 8vo. Lacks A1, half title? Disbound. v.g. £110
  ESTC T33097. A re-issue of the second edition with a new titlepage. Favouring a Union based on ‘equal liberty, equal privilege’.
  

• COOKE, John. Reason paying Homage to Revelation, in the Confession of a Deist at the Gates of Death: with reflections. Printed for the Author; & sold by J. Mathews; Burnham, Maidenhead; Fuller, Newberry; Fenley, Bristol; and Sloap, Chesham. 1796 [9030] vii, [1], 56pp; 8vo. Disbound. Signature of (Anne) Renier. £40
  ESTC T87578, 4/1. Cooke an Independent Minister from Maidenhead describes the death of his apothecary Mr. F. aged about thirty-three, and his death bed conversion to the views of the dissenters.
  

• COOKE, John. Reason paying Homage to Revelation, ... The second edition. Printed for the Author; & sold by J. Mathews, &c. 1797 [9031] vii, [1], 56pp; 8vo. Disbound. Signature of (Anne) Renier. £35
  ESTC T87579, 2/1 - BL & Bodleian only in British Isles. This edition adds Rusher, Reading and Deighton, Cambridge to the imprint.
  

• (COOPER, John Gilbert) Poems on Several Subjects. By the Author of the Life of Socrates. Printed for R. & J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. 1764 / 1772 [38333] [4], 139, [1]p., engr. folding frontispiece by Grignion after S. Wale; 12mo. Author's name added in a late 19thC hand on titlepage. FIRST EDITION. BOUND WITH: LESLIE, John. Killarney: a Poem. Dublin: printed for W. Wilson, Dame-Street. [2], v, [2], 8-62pp., engr. roundel in text; 12mo. Two titles bound together in contemp. calf, gilt panelled spine, upper joint cracked but firm, front board scuffed & knocked at outer edge. Bookplate of Verney Lovett, Trin: Coll. Cant., W. Henshaw sculpt. £220
  ESTC T54962 & T10079.
  

• CORPORATION OF LONDON. The Report of a Committee of Aldermen, in affirmance of the Right of the Mayor and Aldermen, to put a Negative to Bills or Acts depending in the Common-Council of London, etc. Printed for Edward Symon. 1724 [9019] [2], 12pp.; folio. One old fold, sl. dusted. Disbound. £35
  ESTC T131166. The report looks back to the Charter of Edward III for confirmation of certain rights and privileges enjoyed without challenge ‘until the Time of the unhappy Troubles in the Year 1644’.
  

• HYDROSTATICS & PNEUMATICSCOTES, Roger. Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures ... Published from the Author’s original Manuscript, with Notes, by Robert Smith ... The third edition, carefully revised and corrected. Printed for J. Nourse; and sold by T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge. 1775 [13162] [16], 288, [8]pp., 5 folding plates; 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, brown morocco label; sl. wear, red sprinkled edges. Signature of J. Fleming Coll. Oriel. Soc. 1775 to front endpaper. v.g. £320
  ESTC T144814.
  

• (COTTON, Rowland) Cain's Lamentations over Abel. In six books. By R.C. Rogers. Printed and sold by Sabine & Son, no. 81, Shoe Lane Fleet Street. [1800?] [40311] vii, [2], 10-215, [1]pp., emblematic engr. frontispiece, described on pp.iii-iv; 12mo. Titlepage & frontispiece a little soiled & dusted, several small marginal tears not affecting text. Early signature of Robert Booth at head of titlepage & on recto of frontispiece. Contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, red gilt morocco label; covers rubbed, head of spine chipped. £75
  ESTC N70020. ‘Bodleian only’, but this is in BL at Rogers, with some editions at Cotton. The Preface is signed: ‘R.C.R.’
  

• COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. (HARRIS, Thomas & RUTHERFORD, John) A Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Disputes subsisting between the Patentees of Covent-Garden Theatre. 4to. Printed for J. Fletcher. 1768 [32152] Disbound. £380
  ESTC T20781; A&R 1171. This statement was issued in January by two of the patentees to anticipate that to be published by George Colman, the manager of the company, in February, and to prevent any misrepresentations. Lowe states that the ultimate cause of friction was the attempt by Harris to force Colman to cast Mrs. Lessingham his mistress in parts she was unsuited for.
  

• COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. (HOLMAN, Joseph George?) A Statement of the Differences subsisting between the Proprietors and Performers of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Given in the correspondence which has passed between them. By John Johnstone, Joseph George Holman, Alexander Pope, Charles Incledon, Jos. S. Munden, John Fawcett, Thomas Knight, Henry Erskine Johnston. Printed by J. Davis, for W. Miller. 1800 [32153] Including the 3pp Supplement; without half title. Later marbled boards, vellum spine. v.g. £380
  ESTC N25217 - this issue not in BL; A&R 1182. The British Library enters ESTC T20789 under Johnstone, but it is generally agreed that the dramatist Holman was the author. The dispute relates to a charge of £160 to be levied for players’ benefit nights, a limit on their free passes and increased fines imposed by a beleaguered management led by Thomas Harris and Richard Hughes the Treasurer. The pamphlet prints the correspondence between the parties with a long and interesting discussion of the operation of the benefit system. The Lord Chamberlain as ultimate authority decided largely in favour of the management.
  

• (COWPER, William, Earl Cowper) A Letter to Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; occasion'd by the Letter to the Examiner. n.p. 1710 [38520] 16pp; 8vo. Some spotting, quite heavy on titlepage. Disbound. £65
  ESTC T38143. Of the two issues printed this year this has the four identical small woodcut ornaments in a line beneath the title. The letter to the Examiner was written by Bolingbroke.
  

• COWPER, William, Earl Cowper. Poems ... The fifth edition. 2 vols.; 8vo. Printed for J. Johnson. 1793 [18712] John Newton’s preface to vol. 1 dated February 18, 1782. Contemporary tree calf, spines ruled in gilt, later red morocco labels, numbered direct, lemon edges; unobtrusive repairs to hinges. Front endpaper to vol. 1 inscribed ‘Richard Forester French 1793 The Gift of Mrs. Nicholas’, later bookplates of F.L. Edwards. A nice copy. £200
  ESTC T133954; Russell 77.
  

• SWITZERLAND: DUBLIN EDITIONCOXE, William. Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland; in a Series of Letters to William Melmoth. Dublin: printed by George Bonham, for the Booksellers. 1779 [10698] viii, 478, [2]pp.; 8vo. With a final leaf of postscript. An excellent copy, in contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label. Engraved bookplate of N. C. Colthurst, Ardrum, Co. Cork. to front pastedown. £580
  ESTC T133961. BL copy lacks the last two leaves.
  

• THE LIBRARYCRABBE, George. The Library. A poem. The second edition. 4to. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1783 [9035] Without final ad. leaf. A few marks on title, with holes of orig. stabbing; some pencil marginalia. Rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, vellum tips, red label. £200
  ESTC T9003. ‘But what strange art, what magic can dispose / The troubled mind to change its native woes? ... / This Books can do - .‘
  

• THE CELEBRATED POLLY HAYCOCKCREOLE. The Fortunate Transport; or, the Secret History of the Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Polly Haycock, the Lady of the Gold Watch. By a Creole. Printed for T. Taylor, near the Corner of Friday-Street, Cheapside. [1750?] [38178] 44pp; 8vo. Some v. sl. foxing, bound without half title. Well bound in recent full panelled calf, gilt lettered spine, new e.ps. £1,200
  ESTC T65359, 4 copies only (BL lacking half title, Library of Congress, Newberry Library, New York Pubic Library); Raven 1750,7. The variant with last line of page 4 ‘proceed to Particulars:’ The other issue is recorded in three copies only (BL, McMaster, Turnbull) ‘… the inviting attitude in which the fair-one lay, would have tempted the most rigid hermit to have stole a look at the terra incognita, just peeping into view, from under a clean Holland smock.’ The story first appeared in 'The temple of fame: or, the Sc--d---l---s chronicle for the year 1748', volume two, and was also published separately that same year by T. Taylor in Cheapside (one copy survives in the Case Western Reserve University Libraries, Cleveland, Ohio). It is the earliest appearance of the term 'Creole' recorded in ESTC, pre-dating John Hill's 'Adventures of Mr George Edwards a Creole' [1751]. Polly was seduced in Hampstead, transported to Jamaica as a slave, becoming a plantation owner herself before returning to England to live ‘in great splendour and affluence’.
  

• QUAKERSCRISP, Samuel. Two Letters written by Samuel Crisp, about the year 1702, ... upon his change from a Chaplain of the Church of England, to join with the people called Quakers. The eleventh edition. Printed & sold by James Phillips. 1781 [9036] 23, [1]pp.; 8vo. Disbound. £35
  Not in ESTC, which has an 1784 eleventh edition.
  

• CRISP, Samuel. Two Letters, written by Samuel Crisp, about the year 1702, to some of his acquaintance, upon his change from a chaplain of the Church of England, to join with the people called Quakers. Twelfth edition. Printed and sold by William Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street. 1801 [38044] 24pp; 12mo. Disbound. A very good copy. £25
  The last 18th century edition recorded in ESTC is an 11th edition in 1784.
  

• SUPPORTED BY ANDREW MARVELL(CROFT, Herbert, Bishop of Hereford) The Naked Truth: or, The True State of the Primitive Church. Concerning, 1. Articles of faith. 2. An Appendix to the former subject. 3. Ceremonies & church service. 4. Church service. 5. Preaching. 6. Bishops and Priests. 7. Deacons. 8. Confirmation. 9. Church Government. 10. A charitable admonition to all nonconformists. By an humble moderator, said to be Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford. First printed in the year 1675 and dedicated to the Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament: and now reprinted, and humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Lords and Commons now assembled in its present Parliament. Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Alley in Pater-Noster-Row; and by most booksellers in London and Westminster. 1689 [38628] [8], 71, [1]pp. half-title; small 4to. Paper v. browned, small brown hole to head of titlepage just affecting ruled border. £150
  ESTC R4817; Wing C6972. Herbert Croft, 1603-1691, was appointed Bishop of Hereford by Charles II in 1661. First published in 1675, The Naked Truth voiced Croft's initial appeal for moderation towards dissenters, and initiated a flurry of pamphlets debating the issue. It was attacked the following year in Francis Turner's Animadversions upon a late pamphlet entituled The Naked Truth, which then prompted Andrew Marvell to write his Mr. Smirke: or, The divine in mode: being certain annotations, upon the Animadversions on The Naked Truth [1676]; a much more articulate defence of the dissenters than Croft himself had been capable of. This reissue in 1689 coincides with the passing of the Toleration Act, which allowed protestant nonconformists the right to practice in their own places of worship.
  

• KING WILLIAM & SCOTLAND(CROMARTY, George Mackenzie, Earl of) A Memorial for His Highness the Prince of Orange, in Relation to the Affairs of Scotland: together with the Address of the Presbyterian-Party in that Kingdom to His Highness; and some observations on that Address. By two persons of quality. Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers Hall. 1689 [38625] 30, [2]pp; small 4to. A fine clean copy. Disbound. £125
  ESTC R18197; Wing M169, sole edition. In 1654 Cromarty joined the Scottish rising on behalf of Charles II, and from 1682-1688 he was chief minister to Charles II and James II in Scotland. However in 1688 he made his peace with William III and deserted James.
  

• HERBALCULPEPER, Nicholas. The English Physician Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs, that were not in any impression until this by Nich. Culpepper. London (York?): printed for A. Law, W. Millar, & R. Cater. 1792 [40323] [12], 345, [3]pp table; 12mo. A little light foxing, small hole in E4 affecting a few letters. Contemp. sprinkled calf, double gilt fillet borders, expertly rebacked to match with unlettered raised & gilt banded spine. Generally a very good clean copy. £180
  ESTC T136623. The imprint is false, and was probably used by Wilson, Spence and Mawman of York. It is a re-issue of the 1785 edition with a cancel titlepage. The York Minster copy records a frontispiece, but this is not noted in any of the other 4 copies, and there is no sign of one having been present here.
  

• ‘FIELDING FOR HIS MODEL’(CUMBERLAND, Richard) Henry; in four volumes. By the author of Arundel. Printed for Charles Dilly. 1795 [10730] 4 vols; 12mo. Title page to vol. 1 and two leaves (pp.169-72) in vol. 4 in excellent facsimile on laid paper. Later half calf, marbled paper boards, spines ruled and decorated in gilt, lettered direct; sl. wear at tail of two spines. Engaved booklates of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. to front pastedowns. A sound and pretty set. £280
  ESTC T115224. The second work of prose fiction by the popular dramatist Richard Cumberland, ‘enriched with humour variety and character’ according to the ‘Critical Review’.
  

• (CURLL, Edmund.) The White Crow: or, An Enquiry into some more new doctrines broach'd by the Bp. of Salisbury, in a pair of sermons utter'd in that Cathedral, on the V. and VII. of November, 1710 ... (London): printed in the year, 1710. 1710 [9040] [4], 36pp.; 8vo. Half title; sl. affected by damp; trimming just touching text on one page. Disbound. £50
  ESTC T52434. Correctly paged. Straus p.214, dated Dec. 4 1710. Responding to Gilbert Burnet, by exposing perceived illogicalities and inconsistencies in his arguments.
  

• MANAGEMENT OF A BATTALION: LITTLE FAMILY COPYCUTHBERTSON, Bennett. Cuthbertson’s System for the Complete Interior Management and Oeconomy of a Battalion of Infantry. A new edition, with corrections. Bristol: printed by Rouths and Nelson, for A. Gray, Taunton; and sold by W. Cave, G. Robinson, Messrs. Wallis and Stonehouse, in London. 1776 [18680] vii, 192, [16]pp., folding tables; 8vo. The final gathering forms an Appendix setting out various registers and rosters in tabular form (16 in all, 3 are on folding leaves); without errata slip found in some copies. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label; a trifle rubbed, wear to head of spine. Signature of Ensign Little, 26th Regt. on titlepage, later armorial bookplate of Robert Gordon Gordon-Gilmour, of Liberton and Craigmillar, on front pastedown, with book label of John Prebble, the novelist and historian. v.g. £420
  ESTC T114996; BL only in British Isles, and 4 others. Typescript note signed J.P. June, 1977, summarizing the Gilmour-Little family history tipped to f.e.p. The rather unctuous dedication is to the Right. Hon. Lord Viscount Barrington, His Majesty’s Secretary at War, &c. Cuthbertson’s preface pays tribute to the late Brigadier James Wolfe, ‘who first pointed out ... to what perfection and exactness an English Soldier might be brought’. 5 locs. only in ESTC.
  

• D’URFEY, Thomas. Love for Money: or, The boarding school. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal. Printed for Abel Roper at the Mitre in Fleetstreet, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor. 1691 [43793] [10]. 66pp. 4to. Stabbed as issued; a little creased & browned; tears to final leaf without loss of text. £280
  ESTC R482933: with no ornament on titlepage etc., and dedicated to Viscount Lansdown, Count of the Sacred Roman Empire ... 2 copies only: Edinburgh & Univ. of Pennsylvania.
  

• THE COUNTRY JUSTICEDALTON, Michael. The Countrey Justice: containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace out of their sessions ... To which is now added, the Duty and Power of the Justices of Peace ... An Abridgment ... of all Statutes, relating thereunto. A large table of the principal matters ... Printed by H. Sawbridge, S. Roycroft, and W. Rawlins, assigns of Richard Atkyns, and Edward Atkyns, Esquires. And are to be sold by H. Twyford, F. Tyton, J. Bellinger, ... 1682 [26481] [12], 535, [30]pp. Folio. Contemp. reversed calf; discreet repairs. A nice copy. Early signatures on title & end paper of Hugh Bethell. £480
  ESTC R27851. Wing D148. A very good copy of a later 17thC edition of the book first published in 1618 which became the standard work on the duties of J.Ps.
  

• TRAVELLING AUTOMATONDAVIES, Edward, Proprietor of the Microcosm. A Succinct Description of that Elaborate Pile of Art, call’d the Microcosm. Printed for the Proprietor, Mr. Edward Davis. 1760 [13912] 32pp.; 8vo. Disbound. £520
  Not in ESTC. Davies’s pamphlet was produced to accompany his display of an elaborate automaton constructed by the architect Henry Brides of Waltham Abbey. Pp. 31-2 contain a 36-line verse ‘Parody on Pope’s Prologue to Cato. Address’d to the late Mr. Henry Bridges, constructor of that elaborate Piece of Mechanism, the Microcosm’. ESTC records a number of editions, some provincial, to accompany the display on its travels round the country. None survive in more than one or two copies; this one dated 1760 appears to be the earliest, and is otherwise unrecorded. Later editions are sometimes found with a plate.
  

• (DAVIES, Thomas) The Characters of George the First, Queen Caroline, Sir Robert Walpole, Mr Pulteney, Lord Hardwicke, Mr Fox, and Mr Pitt, reviewed. With Royal and Noble Anecdotes; and a Sketch of Lord Chesterfield's Character. T. Davies. 1777 [40355] iv, 91 , [1]p ad.; 12mo. Uncut in original grey sugar paper wrappers. Upper cover marked from label or bookplate removal. Signed on title: Ethel M. Portal. £125
  ESTC T30444 notes 4 variants are recorded but does not discriminate between them. This is the issue correctly paginated.
  

• DAVIES, Thomas. Dramatic Miscellanies: consisting of critical observations on several plays of Shakspeare: with a review of his principal characters, and those of various eminent writers, as represented by Mr. Garrick, and other celebrated comedians. With anecdotes of dramatic poets, actors, &c. A new edition. 3 vols. Printed for the Author, and sold at his Shop. 1785 [31439] Half titles vol. I & II, front. vol. I, index to each vol. Full contemp. calf; a little rubbing, red labels. A good sound copy. £280
  ESTC T136456; A&R 892. Davies had worked for Garrick and was his first biographer. This less well known work includes interesting comparisons of the performances of different actors and some additional account of Garrick.
  

• DE LOLME’S CONSTITUTIONDE LOLME, Jean Louis. The Constitution of England, or An account of the English Government; in which it is compared with the Republican form of government, and occasionally with the other monarchies in Europe. Printed by T. Spilsbury and sold by G. Kearsley. 1775 [9182] [8], 448pp.; 8vo. Contemp. tree calf, spine elaborately gilt, red morocco label; sl. wear at tail of spine, a trifle rubbed, bottom corner of top board softened. Sig. of Erasmus Burrowes, Brunswick, Sept. 1780. £280
  ESTC T109935. The first English edition of this important work, translated by Gilbert Stuart.
  

• KING, OR NO KING?(DE LOLME, John Louis) The Present National Embarrassment considered; containing a sketch of the political situation of the Heir Apparent, and of the Legal Claims of the Parliament ... A Precedent being moreover introduced, borrowed from the English History, more truly applicable to the King's present situation than any that has been hitherto adduced. Sold by T. Hookham; J. Debrett, &c. 1789 [9047] Final erratum leaf. Disbound. (2), 68, (2)pp. £65
  ESTC T11098. Dated the 23rd January.
  

• (DEFOE, Daniel) An Argument proving that the Design of Employing and Enobling Foreigners, is a treasonable conspiracy against the constitution, dangerous to the kingdom, an affront to the nobility of Scotland in particular, and dishonourable to the peerage of Britain in general. With an Appendix; wherein an insolent pamphlet, entituled, the Anatomy of Great Britain is anatomiz'd; and its design and authors detected and exposed. Printed for the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 1717 [38382] [2], 102pp; 8vo. First & last leaves a little dusty. Disbound. £280
  One of two issues, this being ESTC T6966 with the following points: p.7, l.2 ends: the; p.18, l.6 ends: into; p.68, l.4 ends: their. Furbank & Owens 188(P), an answer to Toland’s ‘State Anatomy of Great Britain’.
  

• FOLIO(DEFOE, Daniel) Jure Divino: a Satyr. In twelve books. By the Author of The True-Born-Englishman. Printed in the Year M.DCC.VI. 1706 [38386] [4], xxviii, [4], vii, [1], 26, 32, 10, 15-28, 30, 32, 20, 28, 34, 24, 26, 32, 23, [1]pp, engr. portrait frontispiece; folio. Frontispiece & titlepage foxed, some sl. spotting but generally a v.g. clean copy. 19thC panelled calf, raised & gilt banded spine, red gilt label; joints cracked but firm, covers rubbed. £520
  ESTC T66291; Furbank & Owens 81; the authorised first folio edition of Defoe's major verse satire endorsing the idea of constitutional government. A pirated octavo edition was published one day earlier. As in all copies, there is a gap in the pagination of Book III (pp11-14, no D1 or D2, but the catchword is correct).
  

• ROBINSON CRUSOEDEFOE, Daniel. La Vie et les Aventures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé, contenant son retour, son isle, ses autres nouveaux voyages, & ses réflexions; traduit de l'Anglois. Nouvelle edition, avec figures. A Amsterdam: chez Z. Chatelain, & Fils. 1784 [38277] Four volumes in two. 177, [1] blank; 180pp; 167, [1]blank; 168pp., 3 engr. frontispieces to Vols I, II & IV, 8 engr. plates; 12mo. Contemp. mottled calf, gilt floral spines, red gilt labels; tails of spines worn, joints sl. cracked. Contemporary signature P. Bouchet on front e.p., and note identifying the author on first titlepage. £150
  This edition not in OCLC, which records a Paris and a disguised London printing of this same year. Plates engraved by C.J.B. Chatelain from designs by Bernard Picart. Translated by J. van Effen and Thémiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe.
  

• (DEFOE, Daniel) Queries to the New Hereditary Right-Men. Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 1710 [38010] [2], 3-15, [1]pp; 8vo. Typographic ornament on titlepage. Disbound. A v.g. copy. £150
  ESTC T56949; Furbank & Owens 113(P). The more common of the four imprints of 1710. Exposing the sinister motives of those stressing Anne’s supposed hereditary right to the throne.
  

• DEFOE vs. SWIFT(DEFOE, Daniel) Reasons Why this Nation Ought to Put a Speedy End to this Expensive War; with a brief essay, at the probable conditions on which the Peace now negotiating, may be founded. Also an enquiry into the obligations Britain lies under to the Allies; and how far she is obliged not to make peace without them. The second edition. Printed for J. Baker at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row. 1711 [38364] 47, [1]pp; 8vo. Titlepage sl. dusty, some light browning to text. Pencil emphases in margins. 19thC dark green quarter roan, marbled boards, gilt lettered spine; corners & head of spine worn. £300
  ESTC T65916; see Furbank & Owens 128(P). The same year as the first edition. A powerful tract, in part a liberal rebuttal to Swift's conservative Conduct of the Allies (1711).<