Search Results: Authors starting with B from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Printed for J. Share; and sold by Badcock and Co..., [1820]. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [iii] - x, [13] - 212 [213 - 218 Index, 219 - 220 glossary; complete despite erratic pagination], engraved frontispiece; pp 119-120 neatly repaired. Bound with: The English Minstrel; A Selection of Favourite Songs, with Music, Adapted to the Voice, Violin, or German Flute. Edinburgh: Printed by and for Oliver and Boyd...[c. 1815]. 12mo (in 6s), pp. viii, 216, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, some woodcuts in text, and music printed from movable type; "Vol. II." printed at the foot of p. [1]. 2 volumes in 1, early 9th century half calf, marbled boards (rubbed), spine blocked in gilt; frontispiece and title-page of first item severely foxed, other mild foxing in text. The second item is a sequel to The English Minstrel: A Valuable Selection of Popular Songs, published by Oliver and Boyd c. 1814. The Preface to the first volume also alludes to an earlier edition, and this… Read More

London: Printed and Sold by J. Bailey... [no date]. [c. 1800]. 12mo, 173 x 97 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 72, recent half Sheepskin, marbled boards, red morocco label, by Bayntun of Bath, with their imprint at top margin of front paste-down end-paper. A very good copy. Some of the material in this volume first appeared as The British legacy; or, Fountain of of Knowledge in 1754, with material from The complete English Cook ; or, Prudent Housewife by Lydia Fisher in later editions.

Cantabrigiae, Typis Academicis: Inpensis Guilielmi Innys...., 1713. 8vo, 176 x 106, pp. [xxxvi], 297 [298 - 303 Index, 304 - 310 blank], contemporary panelled calf; rear cover slightly defective but a very good copy. "The Book of the Courtier" is the usual translation of Libro del Cortigiano, published by Castiglione (1478 - 1529) published in 1528 but many years in the composition. The first version in English was by Thomas Hoby in 1561, and the work was widely reprinted in numbers translations and in the original Italian for two or three centuries. Bartholomew Clerke (1537 - 1590) translated the work into Latin in 1572, with three subsequent editions published in 1585, 1593, and 1603. Clerke is identified on the title-page in a contemporary hand, as "Coll. Regalis olim Socio"; in his career, he was scholar and fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a proctor of the university. Drake (1687/8 - 1753) edited the Latin translation while he was a fellow of St. John's… Read More

In Venetia, Appresso Paulo Ugolino, 1599. Small 8vo, 153 x 99 mms., foliated [xl], 212, contemporary limp vellum; text block pulling away from binding, itself soiled and creased, with repair to inner margin of last leaf; generally just a fair copy, with a contemporary addition to the editor's name on the title-page The scholar Antonio Ciccarelli da Fulgni was active in the late 16th century and died in the same year as this edition of Castiglionle's work appeared, though his function as editor seems to have consisted mainly of expurgating certain passages in the text. "In 1528, the year before his death, the book for which Castiglione is most famous, The Book of the Courtier (Il Libro del Cortegiano), was published in Venice by the Aldine Press[11] run by the heirs of Aldus Manutius. The book, in dialog form, is an elegiac portrait of the exemplary court of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro of Urbino during Castiglione's youthful stay there at the beginning of the sixteenth century. It… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas and George Underwood..., 1823. Large 8vo, 213 x 120 mms., pp. [vii], viii - xxxii, 657 [658 Errata and directions to binder], including half-title, engraved portrait of Howard as frontispiece, one other engraved portrait of Henrietta Howard, his second wife, contemporary half calf, marbled boards spine ornately gilt, red morocco label; slight wear to binding but a very good copy, with the contemporary inscription "Mrs. Fletcher/ Castle Street" on the recto of the leaf before the half-title. This biography was first published in 1818.

London: John Harris..., 1832. 12mo (in 6s), 140 x 87 mms., pp. iv [5] - 252, engraved frontispiece,contemporary quarter sheepskin, marbled boards (rubbed). tilt label; corners worn and binding a bit shabby. This novel for children was to prove the author's most popular publication: Barbara Hofland [née Wreaks] (1770 - 1844) published about 60 novels in her lifetime, and most of them were reprinted at least once. "In Son of a Genius, the lesson which Hofland stresses with more urgency than any other is the importance of keeping receipts. Ludovico finds a receipt, seeks for its owner, and when he is able to return it to him, is rewarded with two guineas. This much is the conventional 'honesty rewarded' episode of so many moral tales. But Hofland goes much further. Not only does Ludovico go through the rest of the tale insisting on receipts from everyone he deals with, thereby cementing the lesson.., but Mr. Higgins, who had lost the original receipt, explains just why this… Read More

A Paris, Chez Claude Barbin..., [1690]. 12mo, pp. [3] - 235 [236 - 239 Index, 240 blank], B1 cancelled, contemporary vellum; ?lacks half-title. RLIN describes a copy with the same imprint with an engraved half-title with p. 46 incorrectly numbered 49; there is blank leaf before the title-page in the above copy, but p. 46 is correctly numbered. The copy in RLIN also does not give pages for the Index but stops at p. 235.

London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn..., 1858. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 186 x 108 mms., pp. xii, 342; [ii], iv, 326, vi, collotype (probably) portrait of Rachel as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black morocco labels; some wear to binding, but a very good set, with the armorial bookplate of Thomas Lator Gregg on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. Greg was a protestant chaplain in various Irish prisons in the 19th century. Purportedly a biography of the French actress Eliza Rachel Felix (1821 - 1858), the work seems to be heavily fictionalized. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women notes, "One of the most famous Jews in nineteenth-century France, the actress Rachel was celebrated for her unparalleled talent and is often credited with reviving the classical French tragedies of Racine and Corneille in the era of Romanticism. Rachel was born on a roadside near the Swiss town of Mumpf on February 28, 1821. By… Read More

London: Printed by H. Haines, at R. Francklin's..., 1735. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 138 [139 - 140 adverts], errata slip pasted to bottom of page 183, library cloth; ex-library with perforations on title-page and bookplate on front paste-down end-paper. Hanson 4814. Kress 4206. Sabin 66641.

London, Princed by R. Raworth, M DC XLVII. 1647. Small folio, 202 x 158 mms., pp. [xii], 223 [224 blank], including engraved portrait by Thomas Cross of Guarini as frontispiece, engraved plate opposite first page of text, contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with old spine and black leather label laid down, with ducal crest imprinted in blind on front cover. A very good copy. Il Pastor Fido was first performed in honour of the nuptials of the Duke of Savoy and Catharine of Austria in 1585 and published in 1590 in Venice; it was frequently reprinted thereafter. Guarini (1538-1612) "is remembered for the immensely popular and influential pastoral play, Il pastor fido (1589; The Faithful Shepherd), which stirred up a far-reaching critical debate. Guarini's controversial innovation was in mixing the noble and sentimental styles to create a new genre, his "pastoral tragicomedy," which went far beyond its model, Tasso's Aminta, in combining heroic and pastoral elements. He… Read More

In Glasgua, Della Stampa di Roberto ed Andrea Foulis e si Vendono Appresso Loro, e Giovanni Balfour in Edinburgo, 1763. Small 8vo, 149 x 88 mms., pp. 264, 7 engraved plates by Sebastien Le Clerc (1637 - 1714), contemporary calf, gilt ruled border on cover, spine ornately gilt to a thistle motif, olive morocco label; lower margin of one plate water-stained not affecting plate, joints cracked (but firm), top and bottom of spine chipped, corners worn, but a fair to good copy, with the bookplate of Joseph Knight dated 1863 on the front past-down marbled end-paper, and three autograph inscriptions on the recto of the second front free end-paper, that of Joseph Knight (faint), "George White A. M./ Rector of Huntspill/ Somersetshire/ late Fellow of Balliol/ College Oxford/ 1789," and "[?Scott Nevell]/ 1870." Guarini's Il Pasto Fido was first published in 1590 in Venice. Gaskell 418.

A Paris, Chez Pankoucke..., a Liège, Chez Plomteux..., 1783, 1784. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 4to, pp. xxx [xxxi - xxxii Privilege General], 766; [iv], 798; [iv], 831 [832 blank], xvi, four folding tables in volume 2, contemporary mottled calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels, marbled end-papers; corners worn, upper and lower front joint volume 3 slightly cracked, tops and bases of spines chipped; ex-library with library stamps in blind on initial leaves, and library pocket on rear paste-down end-paper of each volume. This is part of a much larger work issued over a number of years, with the general title Encyclopedié Méthodique. Other volumes were devoted to music, ancient and modern philosophy, mathematics, grammar and literature, jurisprudence, etc. The editors acknowledge their indebtedness to d'Alembert and Diderot, editors of the great Encyclopedié. Although the Encyclopedié Méthodique aimed at and copied the… Read More

London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1811. 12mo, 157 x 95 mms., pp. [ii], xxxiv, [6], 216, engraved portrait of Beattie (offsetting onto title-page), 3 other engraved plates. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: The Minstrel: In Two Books With Some Other Poems. By James Beattie, D. D. To which are now added, Miscellanies by James Hay Beattie. With an Account of his Life and Character. In Two Volumes. Volume II. London: Printed by J. McCreery...For J. Johnson..., 1807. 2 volumes. Contemporary half red sheepskin, grey boards, gilt spines (a bit rubbed). A good, but probably made-up set, with the armorial bookplate of W. D. Sneyd and his autograph and date - "William Debank Sneyd/ g. 21st 1817" - on the free end-papers of each volume. Chalmers' assertion that some of the works are printed from "scarce copies" is correct, especially in the case of Beattie's translation of Virgil. His son, James Hay Beattie (1768 - 1790) was cogently memorialized by his father in the… Read More

A Amsterdam, & se trouve a Paris, Chez Panckoucker..., 1766. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 163 x 93 mms., pp. iv, 202; [ii], 139 [140 blank], contemporary lightly mottled sheepskin, spine richly gilt, red leather label; top of spine and joints slightly wormed, but a good copy with the bookplate of Payen de Chavoy on the front paste-down end-paper, and the autograph dated 1767 on the top margin of each title-page (closely trimmed by binder, partially removing upper portions of letters.) Jean Bloch in "Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu's L'Eleve de la Nature and Rousseau's Emile" (French Studies, July, 1972), that "little has been heard of Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu's L'Eleve de la Nature and its relationship to Rousseau's Emile since Emile Legouis's Taylorian Lecture of 1925. Yet, despite its obvious naivete of detail, its sentimentality and exaggeration, de Beaurieu's book holds what would appear to be a unique position among the host of those which… Read More

Stockton: Printed and Sold by R. Christopher. 1783. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 175 x 98 mms., pp. xii, [13] - 300, including half-title, later full calf, spine blocked in gilt; ex-library, Winchester Public Library, "Withdrawn," two library labels before half-title, library stamp on verso of title-page, and small circular library stamp on top margin of page [13]. The concept of "beauties" as applied to extracts from poetry and prose suitable to be anthologized for the moral benefit of youth or the entertainment of adults seems to be one that began to be popular in the mid 18th century in Britain. In the Preface the compiler asks why another anthology is needed when there are so many on the market, answering that "there cannot be too many books adapted to purposes so laudable; and it is evident from the dictates of reason and nature, that the Youthful Mind is fond of novelty." He or she extolls the size of the type and the quality of the paper, and Hugh Bair's position… Read More

London: Printed for Howes Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, B. Law, and G. Robinson..., 1772. FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes. 12mo, 161 x 96 mms., pp.xi [xii blank], 264; [iv], 263 [264 blank]; [iv], 288; [iv], 288, including half title in each volume, contemporary calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels; several nicks and chips on binding, but generally a very good and attractive set. The (so far) anonymous compiler gives the classic reason for this collection: "designed chiefly for the instruction and improvement of the British Youth of both sexes..."; the work can also find a place in the "libraries of Gentlemen and Scholars, to whom they may occasionally afford some assistance, by present them...with the most admired Writers in the English language, upon subjects of Taste, Learning, and Morality." The Monthly Review for 1772 commented on the popularity of collections like this one, but asserted of this one that, "the collection appears to be,… Read More

London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons..., for T. Cadell and W. Davies..., 1807. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 530, later 19th century half calf, gilt spine, morocco label, binder's cloth. Although Porteus never published a specific attack on Gibbon, he mentions Gibbon unfavourably in a footnote on pp. 346 - 347.

London: Printed for W. Row..., 1811. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [vi], 282, engrave portrait of Porteus as frontispiece, contemporary calf, panelled in blind on covers, gilt spine, black morocco label; base of spine and lower extremity of front joint slightly defective, front board slightly affected by damp at fore-edge. Porteus (1731 - 1808) published a large number of theological works. but the main thrust of these excerpts from his writings is towards evangelical Christianity.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, June. and W. Davies..., 1802. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xii, 396; v [vi Errata], 331 [332 blank], contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments, green morocco labels. A fine set, from the Gawdy Hall Library, with library shelf mark on upper margin of front paste-down end-paper, and the armorial bookplate of the Rev. John Holmes on the verso of the front free end-paper, and below that the book label of John Sparrow

Lugduni [Lyon], Sumptibus Pauli Frelon, 1602. Folio (in 6s), 377 x 232 mms., pp. [xvi], 644, [4], 47 [48 translation, 49 printer's imprint, 50 - 54 blank], title-page in red and blank, engraved portrait of author on verso of last leaf before text, numerous woodcuts throughout the text, man partially inked over/ out (?vandalism, amateur shading, prudery), contemporary vellum (soiled and darkened); no blanks or front free end-papers before title-page, some upper and lower margins of text water-stained not affecting text, rear end-leaves creased, top of spine defective, upper margin of rear cover defective. Piero Valeriano Bolzani (1477–1558), also known as Giampietro Valeriano Bolzani, was a notable Renaissance humanist and a favourite of the Medici. The above work was first published in 1556 at Basel and reprinted frequently thereafter. Cristoforo Buondelmonti, an Italian geographer and monk from Florence, visited many of the Greek islands between 1414 and 1430. In 1422, during one of… Read More