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Edinburgh: Printed for David Brown, 1820. 54pp. With half-title. Stitched in recent blue paper wrappers. Contemporary ink inscription of 'Miss Isabella Crawford, 1820' to head of half-title. George Anderson Vetch (1785-1873), Scottish-born officer in the Bengal Native Infantry who fought in the Anglo-Nepalese War. This was the only title of his five works to be published entirely pseudonymously, perhaps because Sultry Hours, also published in 1820, was on the receiving end of withering criticism in the Asiatic Journal. Vetch prefaces this collection by explaining that 'Some of the following pieces appeared in the Periodical Papers of Calcutta...he looks for no other gratification, that the pleasure of leaving them, as a small town of his regard, amongst his friends in his native land, and of presenting them, as a trifling nuzur, to his friends in India, on his approaching return to that country'. Not in Jackson.. First edition. 8vo.

Bristol: W. Browne, 1836. In 13 parts (with pp.25-33 of a related pamphlet at end), each with individual pagination, most with a separate title page, the majority with the imprint: Bristol, W. H. Somerton, 1835. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, later rebacked, preserving original printed paper lettering- piece. Rubbed and marked. Ticket of William George & Sons of Bristol to FEP, scattered spotting. Presentation copy- ink inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'Boro: of Bristol / March 1836 / Samuel Brown Esqr. / Councillor for the / Bedminster Ward / from the Author'. A compilation of extracts relating to the history and governance of Bristol, primarily relating to municipal reform. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at five locations (BL, Bristol, Duke, LSE, and Virginia). . 12mo.

Bristol: Printed by Gutch and Martin, 1832. 403pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Modern red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp, remnant of original publisher's printed paper lettering-piece pasted to REP. The first edition of an account by Bristolian art critic and poet John Eagles (1783-1855) of the three-day 1831 Bristol Riots that arose after the second Reform Bill was voted down in the House of Lords, stalling efforts at electoral reform. The majority of the city centre was burnt to the ground, up to £300,000 of damage caused, and up to 250 casualties incurred. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by J. and W. Oliver for the Author, 1762. ix, [2], 12-72pp. Disbound. Occasional dust-soiling to margins. A rare survival of the first edition of legal and religious writer Hamon L'Estrange's (bap. 1674, d. 1767) attempt to promote practical Christianity. The second edition of the work also contained a pamphlet entitled 'Justification by faith alone' by John Berridge (1767). ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles (BL), and two further copies in North America (New York Historical Society and The Moravian Archives). ESTC T209982.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1866. 8vo. 117pp, [3]. Original publisher's navy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and sunned, a trifle marked, some chipping to head and foot of spine. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to recto of FFEP, blank marriage certificate pasted to RFEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FEP: 'Ellen E. Henslowe / 29 April 1884 / from the author WHH'. [Together with:] [HENSLOWE, William Henry]. In Memoriam. A sympathising protest in behalf of the naval knights of windsor, against the spoliation of their college institution, and perversion of the founder's will. King's Lynn. W. H. Taylor, 1890. First edition. 8vo. [2], ii, [3], 4-94pp, [12]. With a final errata leaf. Original publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Recent bookplate of R. C. Ficke to FEP, several leaves protruding from text-block. Association copy, inked ownership inscription of Ellen Henslowe to verso of FFEP. OCLC records a single copy (Mariners… Read More

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. 149, [1], 32pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, marked, and bumped. Early ink gift inscription to FEP, early ink ownership inscription of Richard Benyon Croft to head of p.[5], very occasional spotting. The sole edition of an anonymous series of fictional sketches 'written for the author's children, with a view to direct their young minds to the all- important fact; that Religion is a practical affair of the deepest concern to all'. The six narratives, 'from the pen of a sailor', include an account of a ship wrecked on a voyage from Calcutta to England; and 'The Fugitive', the tale of a murderous Englishman who in desperation to avoid capture flees to North America. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by C. Roworth...for T. Egerton, 1808. xxiv, With an engraved frontispiece and a further 12 engraved plates. Uncut in modern navy-half calf, grey cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, plates browned. With a contemporary single leaf broadside of the rule and regulations of the Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen tipped-in to RFEP The first edition of a treatise on the history, construction, and use of the rifle, commonly attributed to politician Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1786-1851). A second edition appeared in 1812. The Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen was a civilian rifle-shooting club founded, as with dozens of other patriotic organisations, during the Napoleonic invasion scare of 1803-04. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, 1788. 28pp. Stitched, as issued. Lightly spotted. A vitriolic pamphlet, first printed in 1774, by Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist William Jones (1726-1800) disapproving of Socinianism. A tireless adversary of popular evangelicalism generally and Unitarians specifically, Jones here claims that: 'The change from Christianity to Socinianism is as little to be envied as the transmigration of those who should leave the scenery of Paradise and the plenty of Canaan, to associate with the savages of the South on a weather-beaten Rock in the Magellanic Ocean.' ESTC T119600.. Fourth edition, with corrections and additions. 12mo.

Dublin: Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham & Co., 1894. x, [4], 51pp. Contemporary green cloth, gilt. Slight rubbing to extremities. Armorial bookplate of Agnes Jekyll to FEP. George William Russell (1867-1935) Irish poet, theosophist and mystic painter. The author's first collected poems which succeeded in establishing him as a part of the Irish Literary Revival alongside the likes of W. B. Yeats and Joyce; indeed Russell appears as a character in 'Ulysses' dismissing the protagonists theories on Shakespeare. Dame Agnes Jekyll (1861-1937) British artist, writer and philanthropist. Perhaps best known as a patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. . First edition. 12mo.

Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute, 1810. [4], 27, [1], 13pp, [1]. With a half-title. [Bound with:] A view of the state of parties in the united states of america; being an attempt to account for the present ascendancy of the french, or democratic party, in that country; in two letters to a friend. By a gentleman who has recently visited the united states. Edinburgh. Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co., 1812. First edition. 110pp. [And:] Letters, by anglicus, addressed to The Editor of the Chelmsford Chronicle, concerning reform in parliament... Chelmsford. Printed for the author, by Meggy and Chalk, 1811. First edition. xii, 56pp. [And:] HAWLES, Sir John. The englishman's right: a dialogue between a barrister at law and a juryman... London. Re-printed...for T. C. Hansard, 1811. [4], 42pp. [And:] A plain statement of the conduct of the ministry and the opposition, towards his royal highness the duke of york. London. Printed by B. McMillan, 1808. Second… Read More

London: Printed for and sold by J. Blacklock…by Messrs. Gray and Sons, 1806. 62pp. With an engraved hand-coloured frontispiece. Without final leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Disbound. Very occasional light spotting. An anonymous pamphlet passionately defending the character and conduct of the Prince of Wales (the future George IV) from attacks levelled by jeweller, and sometime Member of Parliament for Coventry, Nathaniel Jefferys (1758?-1810) who blamed the Prince, once his primary customer, for both his political failure (he was unseated in 1803) and for the financial difficulties that would lead to him declaring bankruptcy in 1806. . Third edition. 8vo.

[London?]: Printed for the benefit, if any, of the Whippers-in, 1783. 30pp. With a half-title. Not in ESTC. [Bound after:] [BLANE, William (editor)]. Essays on hunting. Containing a philosophical enquiry into the Nature and Properties of the Scent; Observations on the different Kinds of Hounds, with the Manner of training them... Southampton. Printed and sold by T. Baker, [1781] xxvii, [1], 135pp, [3]. With a final leaf of errata. ESTC T71428. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, later expertly rebacked, preserving contemporary spine panel. Rubbed and a trifle bumped. Recent bookplate of James Fagan Scharnberg to FEP, scattered foxing. A remarkably rare survival of the second edition, printed in the year after the first, of an anonymous, impassioned, polemical pamphlet defending the practice of hunting following an article within the Monthly Review for September 1781, that had labelled all those who partook in in the sport as 'barbarians'.… Read More

Spitzbergen: Printed for the benefit, if any, of the Whippers-in, 1782. 30pp. Later buff wrappers. Housed in custom red cloth folder with green morocco lettering-piece, armorial bookplate of Gloucester to front flap. A trifle creased, scattered foxing, early ink date to text of first page of text. Armorial bookplate to verso of upper wrapper of Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939), who's extensive collection of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings relating to hunting, hawking and shooting, was sold after his death in a series of sales at Sotheby's, 22nd May 1939-11th March 1946. A remarkably rare survival of the first edition of an anonymous, impassioned, polemical pamphlet defending the practice of hunting, following an article within the Monthly Review for September 1781 that had labelled all those who partook in in the sport as 'barbarians'. The Monthly Review published a rather excoriating response in their July issue for 1782 (Vol. LXVII). The imprint, giving the… Read More

London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C., 1879. [2], 5-16pp, [236], including four blank leaves. Without the initial advertisement leaf (likely not included in this limited vellum issue). Contemporary gilt-tooled and panelled brown morocco, A.E.G., by Ramage. Rubbed to extremities, cracking to joints with short chip at head of upper joint. From the recently dispersed family library of the descendants of John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894), inscribed 'C. Coleridge, 1 Sussex Square, 1879' to FFEP. A choice facsimile - printed entirely on vellum - of the autograph manuscript of De Imitatione Christi by Thomas a Kempis, (1379/80-1471), late-medieval German Catholic monk. Undoubtedly his greatest and most widely-known work, De imitatione Christi is an ascetic manual of devotion rooted within the German-Dutch mystical school, and widely cited as an influence to Christian conversions, including by Methodist founder John Wesley and abolitionist John Newton, author of 'Amazing Grace'. The… Read More

London: Printed for T. Becket and Co., 1771. [8], 66pp, [2]. With a half-title. Disbound. Very occasional light spotting. The first edition of playwright and poet Dorothea Celesia's (bap. 1738, d. 1790) five-act blank verse tragedy, a free translation of Voltaire's Tancrède (1760), performed at the Drury Lane Theatre from 12th January 1771 for ten nights, with alterations by David Garrick. ESTC T21283.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. [22], xxx, 348pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further nine engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards. Heavily rubbed. Recent shelf-label of Peter A. Crofts to recto of FFEP, slight ink-staining to p.121, scattered spotting. A revised edition of a remarkably popular nineteenth century recipe book compiled by Maria Eliza Rundell [née Ketelby] (1745-1828). First published in 1806, the book had immediate success, with between 5000-10,000 copies printed annually. It reached its sixty-fifth edition in 1841. . New edition. 12mo.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1845. [4], xviii, 156, [2], 32pp. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Ink presentation inscription to half-title: 'Hugh McCalmont Esq. / With the best wishes of the / Author's Brother - / London October 1845'. The sole edition of Oxford graduate Frederick K. Naghten's (1822-1845) only published work, a posthumously issued collection of miscellaneous verse comprising a poetic version of the Biblical Song of Solomon, a paraphrase of several psalms, and translations of Spanish and Italian sonnets. . First edition. 12mo.

London: Printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1683. [8], 80pp. Disbound. Title very nearly detached, lightly dust-soiled, small hole to margin of leaf I2. The sole edition of an anonymous apologetic monograph on traditional views of moderation, that is, the possession of a submissive and uncontentious disposition and an ardent devotion to Christian unity. As the author states, the moderate man 'is neither fond of needless Ritualities, nor yet molested with groudless Scruples, neither worships Images nor Imaginations, but submits to the Customs of the Country, tho not to the Iniquities of the Times...And is more concerned to prove himself a good Christian than to prove who is Antichrist'. ESTC R11763, Wing M2331B.. First ediiton. Quarto.

Bodmin: Liddel and Son, 1883. 16pp. Original publisher's printed green wrappers. Extremities dulled, chipping to edges, loss to spine. Text-block detached from wrappers. Ink-stamps of the British Museum to verso of title page and foot of p.16. The sole edition of an anonymous provincially published monograph warning of the dangers of children taking up the habit of smoking, from a clouding of the intellect to the increased chance of developing cancer. The usual databases record copies at three locations (Bangor, BL, and KB). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for B. Bragg, 1707. xxxii, 544pp. With a half-title. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, marked. Recent bookplate of American bibliophile and lawyer Robert S. Pirie (1934-2015) to FEP. The first edition of bookseller John Dunton's (1659-1732) compilation of poetic whimsies, paradoxes, and anecdotes. Subjects vary from the whimsical to the scatological, but focus chiefly on human foibles and ignorance, and the relationship of the sexes. Eight of John Donne's 'Paradoxes and Problems' have been reprinted here without acknowledgement. ESTC T93435.. First edition. 8vo.