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A Miscellany of Poems, Consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams. By the late Revered Josiah Relph of Sebergham, Cumberland. With a Preface and a Glossary. Glasgow, Robert Foulis for Mr. Thomlinson, 1747.
First Edition. 8vo, (250 x 120mm), pp. [xlix], 157, a few slightly browned pages and worming towards the end, touching some letters of the glossary and contents, but without serious loss, in the original sheep, single gilt fillet to covers, spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt, red morocco label lettered in gilt, joints cracked but firm and corners slightly worn.
ESTC t109779.
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A Philosophical Analysis
and Illustration of some of Shakespeare’s Remarkable Characters. By W. Richardson, Esq. Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow. The Third Edition, Corrected.
London, Murray, 1784.
‘Third Edition, Corrected: a reissue of the ‘New Edition Corrected’, London 1780, with a cancel title-page; First Edition. Two volumes, 8vo, Philosophical Analysis: pp. 207, [1]; Essays on Shakespeare’s Dramatic Characters: [6], vi, [1], 4-170, [4], with half-title, two final advertisement leaves, an errata slip pasted to the foot of p. 170, the title-page in the state with a hyphen in ‘Fleet-Street’ in the imprint; the two works uniformly bound in contemporary calf, flat spines ruled in gilt with red and black morocco labels, lettered and numbered in gilt, with the bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort in each volume.
ESTC t136698; t136684.
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A Poetical Dictionary;
or, the Beauties of the English Poets, Alphabetically Displayed. Containing the most Celebrated Passages in the following Authors, viz. Shakespear, Johnson, Dryden, Lee, Otway, Beaumont, Fletcher, Lansdowne, Butler, Southerne, Addison, Pope, Gay, Garth, Rowe, Young, Thompson, Mallet, Armstrong, Francis, Warton, Whitehead, Mason, Gray, Akenside, Smart, &c. In four volumes. Vol. I [-IV].
London, Newberry &c., 1761.
First Edition. Four volumes, 12mo, (172 x 98mm), pp. xii, 288; [ii], 244; [ii], 276; [ii], 252, small marginal tear to the title of volume three, without loss, in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, flat spines simply ruled and numbered in gilt with black morocco labels lettered in gilt, with a library stamp marked ‘T.K.S.’ on the title-pages, partly obscuring the lettering, and with the booklabel of Old Sleningford Hall pasted on each title-page, partially or completely obscuring the ‘A’ of the title.
ESTC t42700; Roscoe A412.
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Agreeable Ugliness; or The Triumph of the Graces. Exemplified In the Real Life and Fortunes of a Young Lady of Distinction. c.1769?
Second Dublin Edition. 12mo (160 x 100 mm), pp. [iii]-viii, [9]-213, [3] advertisements, portrait vignette on title, in contemporary calf, rather worn, extremities rubbed, headcap chipped, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt.
ESTC t164831 lists National Library of Ireland only; OCLC adds Oakland University.
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Cato Major.
A Poem. Upon the Model of Tully’s Essay of Old Age. In Four Books. By Samuel Catherall, M.A. Fellow of Oriel College, in Oxford, and Prebendary of Wells.
London, Roberts, 1725.
First Edition. 8vo, (193 x 119mm), pp. xvi, 88, with an engraved frontispiece included in the pagination (as in Foxon), the first and last few leaves a little dusty, in contemporary gilt and blind ruled calf, spine ruled, considerably worn and with the joints split but holding on the cords, head and tail-cap missing, the surface of the boards worn, extremities bumped, with the ownership inscription of ‘Jno. Aspinall’ on the title page, an early catalogue annotation on the front free endpaper and the recent booklabel of Jim Edwards.
ESTC t128149; Foxon C72.
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Chit-Chat: Or Natural Characters; And the Manners of Real Life, represented in a Series of interesting Adventures. Dublin, Henry Saunders, 1755.
First Dublin Edition. Two volumes in one, 12mo (170 x 100 mm), pp. [ii], 222, including a final page of advertisements, woodcut vignettes on title-pages, initials and head-pieces, bound in contemporary plain calf, a little worn at extremities, contemporary ownership inscription of Isabella Monck on the title-page, woodcut titles, initials and head-pieces.
ESTC n44248, at BL, Newberry and Yale only.
See Block p. 40; Raven 307.
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Clerimont, or, Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Mr. B******. (Written by Himself.) Interspersed with Original Anecdotes of Living Characters. Liverpool, Charles Wosencroft, 1786.
First Edition. 8vo in fours (208 x 120 mm), pp. vi, [7]-351, in contemporary sheep, front joint weak, some general wear to binding, red morocco label lettered in gilt.
ESTC t68953, listing two copies at the BL, Liverpool, Bodleian and Yale only; OCLC adds Chapel Hill.
Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1786:19.
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Confessions in Elysium; or the Adventures of a Platonic Philosopher; taken from the German of C.M. Wieland; by John Battersby Elrington, Esq. Vol. I [-III]. London, Minerva Press, Lane, Newman & Co., 1804.
First Edition, Minerva Press (Second) Issue. Three volumes, 12mo (170x 96 mm), pp. viii, xvi, 200; [iv], 223; [iv], 228, upper corner of I B2 torn away (wear creased along fold), not touching text, rectangular tear from half title of volume III, with loss but not touching text, in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines ruled and numbered in gilt, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, surace wear to front joint of volume I, otherwise the bindings slightly tight and the spines a little bright and probably touched up, with the contemporary heraldic bookplate of John Congreve in each volume.
Blakey, The Minerva Press, p. 211; Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1804:71.
Both issues of this novel are very scarce. OCLC lists the Bell issue at Cambridge and London University only and this Minerva Press issue at Yale, New York Society Library and Penn only.
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Euphrosyne:
or, Amusements on the Road of Life. By the author of The Spiritual Quixote.
London, Dodsley, 1776 -1780.
First Editions. Two volumes, 8vo, (178 x 112mm), engraved frontispiece to each volume (v. I Collyer after C.W.B.; v. II C. Grignion after W. Hoare) and pp. [iv], viii, [viii], 308; xvii, [i], [x], 211, two further engraved vignettes in the text to volume one by Collyer, engraved tail-pieces on the last page of both volumes (v. I by ‘J.W.’; v. II by C. Grignion), small tear on the last leaf of volume two, without loss and not touching text, final leaves rather browned, in contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels lettered in gilt, and second red labels numbered in gilt, with a later Crichton Stuart heraldic bookplate.
ESTC t146430; t126154.
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Family Pictures,
A Novel. Containing Curious and Interesting Memoirs of several Persons of Fashion in W-re. By a Lady. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II].
London, W. Nicoll, 1764.
First Edition. Two volumes, 12mo (168 x 90 mm), pp. xii, 179; [ii], 214, small marginal stain I, 97-104, show through from the pastedowns affecting several leaves of both volumes, in contemporary speckled calf, single gilt fillet to covers, plain spines with raised bands, numbered in gilt.
ESTC t125378, at BL, Rylands, Bristol and Penn only.
Raven 854.
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Fifty Lyrical Ballads.
By Thomas Haynes Bayly.
Bath, Mary Mayler, 1829.
First Edition. 4to, (238 x 190 mm), pp. [iv], 80, entirely untrimmed, in the original drab boards, worn at extremities with spine delicate, most of the printed paper label still present, foxing to endleaves but the text generally very clean, inscribed on the title-page ‘Mrs D... (?) From the Author’.
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Heraclitus Ridens:
or, a Discourse between Jest and Earnest; where many a True Word is pleasantly spoken, in Opposition to all Libellers against the Government. Vol I. [-II].
London, Benjamin Tooke, 1713.
First Collected Edition. Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [ix], [i], extra title page and blank leaf inserted in preface, 264; [ii], 252, [15] index, in contemporary calf, rubbed, spines cracking, heads chipped, wanting labels, numbered in gilt on spines.
ESTC t111102.
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Histoire de la Décadence et de la Chute de l’Empire Romain; Traduit de l’Anglois de M. Gibbon, par M. Leclerc de Septchênes, Secretaire du Cabinet du Roi. Tome Premier [-Quatrième]. Paris, Debure & Moutard, 1786.
Third Edition. Four volumes, 12mo (164 x 94 mm), pp. xx, 328; [iv], 412; [iv], 410; [iv], 368, text browned in part, with the half-titles, in contemporary Austrian quarter calf over speckled boards, distinctive non-sectional gilding on the covers, yellow morocco labels lettered in gilt, bright blue geometric patterned endpapers, bright red edges, from the Starhemberg library at Schloss Eferding, with the library stamp and usual crayon shelf mark on the half-titles.
OCLC lists San Bernadino, Bamberg, Kassel, Gotha, Dresden and Pisa.
See Cioranescu 38375; Norton 80.
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Iter Boreale, with large Additions of several other Poems being an Exact Collection of all hitherto Extant. Never before Published together. The Author R. Wild, D.D. London, for the Booksellers in London, 1668.
Fourth Edition; First Complete Edition. Small 8vo, (140 x 87mm), pp. [3]-122, [4] table, in contemporary sheep, blind-ruled, early manuscript paper label, with the ownership inscription of John Drinkwater, dated 1920, on a preliminary blank, with later booklabel of Michael Curtis Phillips, wanting the pastedowns and the endpapers but with the initial and final blank leaves (A1 and O8 ‘blank and genuine’), some light scuffing on boards but a lovely copy.
Hayward, English Poetry, no. 121 (this copy); Grolier 976; Wing W2136.
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L'Intriguante;
or, the Woman of the World. By Anthony Frederick Holstein, Author of Isadora of Milan, Miseries of an Heiress, Bouverie, or the Pupil of the World, &c. In Four Volumes. Vol. I [-IV].
London, Henry Colburn, 1813.
First Edition. Four volumes, 12mo (174 x 95 mm), pp. [iii]-ix, [i], 216; [ii], 202; [iv], 200; [iv], 208, tears or uncut edges to several pages, with lost strip along edge of margin but not touching text (Vol II, pp. 19 & 23 and Vol. IV, pp. 23, 167 & 183), with loss but not touching text, with half-titles to Vols. III and IV only, in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines lettered and numbered in gilt, with the contemporary heraldic bookplate of William Kemmis in each volume.
Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1813:33; Block p. 112; Summers p. 366.
OCLC lists Bodleian, Bristol and Yale.
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Les avantures de Joseph Andrews, et du Ministre Abraham Adams, publiées en Anglois, en 1742. Par M... Fielding; et Traduites en François, à Londres, par une Dame Angloise, sur la troisième Edition. Tome Premier [-Second.] London, A. Millar, 1743.
Second Edition in French. Two volumes, 12mo in eights and fours, (162 x 88mm), pp. xxiv, 328; [viii], 348, text very lightly browned in part, in contemporary mottled calf, panelled spines gilt in compartments using attractive tulip tool, spines numbered in gilt, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, the head of spine in volume one chipped with slight loss exposing the headband, some other slight wear to extremities, marbled endpapers with later Italian shelfmark labels, red edges, green silk marker.
ESTC n15028, at BL, NT, Polish Academy of Sciences, Torun University, Rice, Kansas and Minnesota. The other Londres 1743 edition is ESTC t15027, at BL, Bodleian, Brotherton and Harvard.
Amory, New Books by Fielding, Cambridge, Houghton Library, 1987, item 53; Rochedieu p. 107.
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Letters
of the Right Honourable Lady M----y W----y M----e: written during her travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, &c. in different parts of Europe. Which contain among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners o the Turks; Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers. A New Edition. To which are now first added, Poems, by the same Author. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II].
London, Cadell, 1784.
New Edition. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. ix, [i], [ii] Advertisement of the Editor, 220; [iv], 272, small piece torn from the margin of II, 33, in contemporary tree calf, gilt border to covers, flat spines elaborately gilt in compartments, red labels lettered in gilt and red oval numbering pieces set in green morocco labels, gilt, with the contemporary heraldic bookplates of Robert Hunter of Thurston and the later booklabel of Douglas Grant.
ESTC t66781; Rothschild 1452; Blackmer 1150.
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Lord Dun’s Friendly and Familiar Advices,
Adapted to the various Stations and Conditions of Life, and the mutual Relations to be observed amongst them.
Edinburgh, Hamilton & Balfour, 1754.
First Edition, First Issue, with p. viii misnumbered vii. 12mo, pp. vii, (ie viii), 243, in contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands, simply gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gilt, with the contemporary heraldic bookplate of Inglis of Cramond and the manuscript shelfmark ‘Calder House 7.E.’ on the front pastedown and the ownership inscription ‘Cramond’ on the title page.
ESTC t114020.
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Major Piper;
or the Adventures of a Musical Drone. A Novel. In two Volumes. By the Rev. J. Thomson. Vol. I [-II].
Dublin, P. Wogan [&c.], 1794.
First Dublin Edition. Two volumes, 12mo (170 x 100 mm), pp. [iv], 312; [ii], 307, some browning and creasing in text, a couple of gatherings very slightly sprung, in contemporary mottled calf, flat spines pressed out a little where the lower raised band would have been, spines ruled in gilt with red morocco labels lettered in gilt, rubbed at extremities with the front joint of Vol. I slightly cracked, but generally a handsome copy.
See Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1793:40; Block p. 235; not in Hardy.
ESTC t135341, at BL, Harvard & Library Company; OCLC adds NLS.
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Man as He Is.
A Novel. In four volumes. Volume I [-IV].
London, William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1792.
First Edition. Four Volumes, 12mo (c. 190 x 100-115 mm) pp. [iv], vii, [i], 288; [iv], 243, [1] advertisements; [iv], 275, [1] advertisements; [iv], 272, with the half-titles, small tear on I, 9, just touching text but with no loss, light dampstain in Vol. III, gathering B and some of C, small marginal tear without loss III, 275, uncut throughout in the original publisher’s boards with white paper backstrip, the blue boards fairly dusty, the spines considerably chipped but with enough remnants of spine to preserve most of the original ink numbering, some of the covers, particularly to Vol. IV, precariously attached, but holding, the front pastedowns all with a printed lending library slip as pastedown, completed in ink in a contemporary hand, with an early, possibly eighteenth century, playing card (9 of hearts) marking the page at IV, 153,
Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1792:29; Blakey p. 159; see also pp. 62-65; J.M.S. Tompkins, The Popular Novel in England, 1770-1800, pp. 196-197.
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