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

London, Printed by William Bennett, 1796. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 16, 172, 33 [34 blank], 19th century half calf, marbled boards (slightly rubbed( gilt spine (rubbed), morocco label; front joint cracked (but firm), with the contemporary autograph "C. B. Morgan" and an amorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, bookplate of Reginald L. Hine and his autograph on recto of front free end-paper. Dalrymple (1737-1808), a hydrographer for the East India Company, is perhaps better-known as the author of An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean in 1769–71.

London, Printed by AWilliam Bennett, 1796. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 180 x 112 mms.,pp. xvi, 172, 32, recently recased in quarter calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, vellum corners. A fine copy. Dalrymple (1737-1808), a hydrographer for the East India Company, is perhaps better-known as the author of An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean in 1769–71.

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis..., 1762. FIRST FOULIS EDITION. Small 8vo, 160 x 93 mms., pp. [xviii], 151 [152 errata], later 18th century polished calf, gilt borders on covers, gilt spine; lacks label, upper and lower joints very slightly cracked, but a good copy. The Monthly Review noticed the work in 1763 (Volume 27): "We have always considered James as the most beastly Monarch that ever disgraced the throne of this kingdoms; and this Collection affords a new and most remarkable instance of the most shocking depravity of his taste and manners.... As to the rest of the original letters, &c contained in this small volume, most of them certainly deserve the notice of the public. There are several written by the celebrated Bacon, and other eminent personages of those days; but it will exercise the reader's patience or sensibility, to bear with the continued repetition of such preposterous, fulsome, and slavish flattery as he will meet with in almost every Memorial,… Read More

London: Prnted for C. G. Seyffert n Pall-mall. 1760. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. [viii], 168, contemporary calf, recently rebacked, raised bands between gilt rules, red leather label; lacks half-title and last leaf of Contents, pp. 1 -2 repaired, first three leaves of text dampstained, but clean after that. Mentions or discussions of this work appear in scholarly books on eighteenth-century erotica, e. .g, Karen Harvey: Sex and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (2004), but it is really a fairy story with occasional snatches of possible flagellation or other such popular activities for the 18th century gallant. It was mentioned or reviewed in at least three periodicals, The Monthly Review for 1760 (which suggested the original was in French). The Critical Review confirmed the French origin: "This is a wretched translation of a silly attempt to humour in the French, with scarce any other addition than that of the title-page." Sir Walter Scott had a copy in his library at… Read More

A Londres, Chez John Peter Lyton, 1781. 4 volumes. 12mo, pp. viii, 398; [iv], 403 [404 blank]; [iv], 399 [400]; [iv], 391 [392 blank], including half-titles, engraved portrait and two other engraved portraits and engraved vignette on title-page in volume 1, 3 engraved portraits in volume 4, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spines, red and green leather labels; front cover volume 1 detached, front joints volumes three and four cracked, some other general wear to binding. This note from the publisher appears on the verso of the title-page of the first volume: "All the Editions of this Work, which might appear without the Vignette on the Tittle [sic], and the Portraits &c. ought to be looked upon as Incompleat, and no ways to be relayed [sic] on. London the 1. of December 1780. John Peter Lyton." In the above set, the vignette appears on the title-page of the first volume only; the other volumes have a pattern of ten ornaments in a triangle shape. ESTC locates three different… Read More

Derby: Printed by and for Henry Mozley..., 1820. Large 12mo, pp. 156, including woodcut frontispiece, 6 woodcut illustrations in text, contemporary sheepskin (worn); some fingering of text, but in reasonable condition for a book that was clearly used, to judge from contemporary as well as 20th century inscriptions on the front paste-down end-paper and title-page, viz., on the front paste-down end-paper: "C. H. F. Rivington's Book/ Jany 13th 1820." The industrious Daniel Fenning ( (1714/15–1767) began writing school textbooks in his 30s and continued to do so for the rest of his life. He began working on this book, his most popular and successful, as early as 1739, but it was not published until 1756, but well over a hundred editions were later published.

London, Printed for Nicholas Bourne, at the South Enrance of the Royal Echange; and Richard Royston, n Ivie-Lane. 1645. Small 4to, 182 x 142 mms., pp. [20], 191 [192 blank], including engraved title-page (differently phrased), bound in 19th century half brown morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine, morocco label; front joint rubbed and slightly worn, but a good copy. The Church of England clergyman Daniel Featley (1582 - 1645) seems unable to have noticed a disputation without wishing to take part in it. This work was published in the year of his death, with seven variations in the register and composition; and it was written while he was imprisoned in Lord Petre's house in Aldersgate Street. The Dippers dipt was his final work, and the very good article in ONDB describes it as the best of his prison writings: it "based on notes taken in October 1642 at a disputation with the Baptist minister William Kiffin in Southwark, but greatly expanded to form a polemical history of the Anabaptist… Read More

London Printed by John Streater, in Little S. Bartholomews, and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the west-end of Pauls 1656. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 270 x 170 mms., pp. [xii], 99, [7], 239, [11], 55, [7], 34, additional engraved title-page, trimmed to margin and laid down, double-page maps of Cheshire & The Isle of Man, double-page plan of Chester, 11 plates of Arms and 5 other folding or full-page plates, engraved illustrations, letterpress title rather soiled, backed with 1 letter restored, 1 double-page map and the plan with splitting along central fold, 1 plate trimmed, affecting caption at foot, occasional short marginal repaired tears, occasional soiling, damp-staining towards end, armorial bookplate on front paste-down end-paper, attractively bound in 18th century red morocco, gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt to Greek motif in compartments, all edges gilt; some light wear to extremities but a very good copy, The work was in fact written by William Smith, William Webb… Read More

London, Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1762. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 178 x 110 mms., pp. [iv], 123 [124 blank] including half-title, with slightly later ownership "Mary Fane 1790" contemporary speckled calf, spine ornately gilt, red morocco label; front joint slightly cracked, but a very good copy. Daniel Webb (c.1719–1798) published several works on aesthetics; this was preceded by his first work, An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting (1760), and he made judicious use of the term "beauties," a criterion popular from about 1780 to 1830 when it seems to have fallen out of use.

London, Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1762. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 178 x 10r mms., pp. [iv], 123 [124 blank] including half-title, contemporary calf, rebacked with new red morocco label; some foxing of early leaves corners worn, but a good copy, with a presentation inscription on the recto of the leaf before the half-title: "M E Hayes/ Given her by hr Uncle Parkinson/ 29th June 1810." Daniel Webb (c.1719–1798) published several works on aesthetics; this was preceded by his first work, An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting (1760), and he made judicious use of the term "beauties," a criterion popular from about 1780 to 1830 when it seems to have fallen out of use. The work attracted an endorsement in the Critical Review for 1762 that many authors would kill for: "There are many other sensible and judicious remarks, of equal truth and beauty, interspersed through Mr. Webb's elegant performance, which, in our opinion, has a great deal of merit, without any… Read More

London: Printed for W. Innys [Part I]; Printed for Cornelius Crownfield and John Crownfield [Part II]; Printed for John Crownfield [Part III.]..., 1730, 1731, 1732. FIRST EDITION of all three parts. 8vo, 198 x 119 mms., pp. [iv], 96 [last page misnumbered 94]; [iv], 160; [iv], 123 [124 adverts], original boards, handwritten label in ink on spine, armorial bookplate of W. Wynne on front paste-down end-paper; binding a little soiled, but a very good copy. Wynne is probably William Wynn[e] (1709 - 1760), the Church of England Clergyman and Welsh-language poet, as the wording on the armorial book plate is in Welsh: "Ne bydd doeth Na Ddarllenno." The motto on the Cardiff Free Library is similar: "'Ni bydd doeth ni ddarlleno" (he who does not read will not be wise). Daniel Waterland (1683 - 1740) was one of many theologians and clerics who published a reply to Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730). His argument that the Scriptures were represented… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row. 1706. 2 volumes. Folio, 313 x 193 mms., pp. [xvi],xlviii, 720 [721 - 732 indexes]; [viii], xl, 742 [743 - 748 Chronological Index, 749 - 789 tables and indexes, 750 blank], folding engraved map between pages 748 and 749 in volume 2, handsomely bound circa 1830 by Hering, with the stamp, "Bound by Hering/ 9 Newman Street" on the verso of the front free marbled end-paper in each volume, contemporary plum morocco with a lozenge on each cover, surrounded by 90 degree triangles with acorn motif and the gilt arms of John Lumly Savile, Eighth Earl of Scarborough, within lozenge, with large gilt armorial shield within large lozenge on covers, gilt spine, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; some occasional foxing and slight staining to some margins from the gilding process, but a fine and attractive set, with the Rufford Abbey bookplate on the verso of the leaf preceding the title-page in each volume.… Read More

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington..., 1800. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 210 x 128 mms., pp, [iv], 42, disbound; title-page almost detached. Inscribed on top margin of title-page "Earl of Altamont/ with Mr Wakefield's compliments." A pencil note attributes the work to David Wakefield, as does ESTC, but the author is more likely to be the barrister and writer on political economy Daniel Wakefield (1776 - 1846), whose mother was the author Priscilla Wakefield (1750–1832), and his elder brother was the philanthropist Edward Wakefield (1774–1854), and his nephew, Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), founder of the National Colonisation Society. Goldsmiths', 1787. ESTC T61518 locates copies in BL, Senate House, and St. Patrick's Library; and Columbia, Harvard, Penn State, and Yale in the United States. ESTC also notes that Jeremy Bentham had a copy in his library, with ms. annotations, but doesn't give the location of the copy.

London, Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1769. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 176 x 104 mms., pp. [iv], v - vii [viii blank], 155 [156 blank, 157 - 160 adverts], including half-title, recently rebound in half calf, morocco label, marbled boards; two very small holes in title-page, but a very good copy. In a long review of the November, 1769, issue of The Monthly Review, the reviewer commented that "Upon the whole, this little work contains many particulars equally curious, useful, and new...." Webb's emphasis in the other two works is more on description than on theory, and in the Observations, he argues that certain clusters of sounds can be observed to produce certain affections and moods. His association of certain sounds with specific physiological states is reminiscent of the work of David Hartley, as well as that of Levesque de Pouilly. Music and poetry can give rise to the same passions and therefore the aesthetic impulses which call them forth are more-or-less identical, or at least the… Read More

Romae: Ex Typographia Palladis Apud Nicolaum et Marcum Palearinos Superiorum Facultate. MDCCXLVIII [1748]. . 4t0, 228 x 178, pp. xx, 288, contemporary vellum, remains of cords at fore-edge, most of front free end-paper removed, front hinge cracked with interior of spine visible; with a late 20th century inscription on front paste-down end-paper: "1 Jan 77/A Rare book/ for rare friends/ Douglas Todd" Born in Clauzetto in Italy, Daniel or Daniello Concina (1687-1756) was an early and influential Dominican preacher, author, and theologian. This work, Usura Contractus Trini, was written on the history of usury and in it Concina vigorously disputed the work by Nicolaus Broedersen of Delft. Broedersen is believed to have been born around 1690, and to have died in either 1762 or 1772. The book Concina took as the target of his criticism was Broedersen's De Usuris Licitis et Illicitis from 1743, whose publication some regarded as outright scandalous. The first edition of… Read More

Bassano: Dalla Tipografia Giuseppe Remondini e Figli, 1815. 3 volumes. 12mo, 138 x 90 mms., pp. [3] - 385 [386 blank]; [3] - 360; [3] - 382, attractively bound in contemporary seepskin, spines richly gilt, red and black morocco labels, blue Dutch end-papers. A very good to fine set. The Italian man of letters Pompeo Venturi (1693 - 1752) began publishing his critical edition of the Divine Comedy in 1732, in Lucca. The work first appeared anonymosly, with further editions in 1739 (Venice) and 1749 (Verona). "Venturi's edition, which is part of the criticism of the figure and work of Dante typical of the privileges the confessional side to the detriment of the philological- literary, since it aims at an explanatory exegesis 'in the service of God.'.In fact, Dante's work is criticized on a doctrinal and personal level more than on that of [textual] criticism, as the Jesuit father aims to defend the temporal power of the popes and their authority from the criticisms made by… Read More

A Amsterdam, Aus depens de l'Eglish Francoise de Londres, 1729. 12mo, 140 x 80, pp. viii, 355 [356 blank] with 282 pages of psalms with printed music, followed by pages 283 - 355 of prayers, bound in contemporary red morocco, with gilt borders, panelled in gilt on both covers, spine richly gilt; many leaves very closely trimmed, often with loss of a letter or two, top and base of spine chipped, front joint slightly cracked, but an attractive copy.

London: Printed for Longman...[et al], 1812. . 3 volumes in 4 (volume 1 in 2 parts). 8vo, pp. lxxxv [lxxxvi Abbreviations], 384, [ii], [385] - 789 [790 blank]; [iv], 404; [iv], 478, including half-title in each volume, contemporary tree calf, rebacked in rather unsympathetic calf and without titles or volume numbers- but sound.

Manchester, Printed for the Author, by G. Nicholson & co...., 1794. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 203 x 127 mms., pp. [11] 12 - 102, including title-page and dedication leaf printed twice, disbound; portion cut from top margin of first title-page to remove name. An Independent minister, David Bradberry (1735–1803) spent most of his career in Ramsgate and Manchester; he wrote very little, of which this poem is the best-known work. It was noticed briefly in volume 6 of The British Critic: A New Review: "The first thing which will strike the reader of this extraordinary performance, will be its whimsical dedication, which, but for its length, we would transcribe. It is formally address to the sovereign of the universe. Nor will anyone be less surprised with the singular structure of the verse...." The verse reminds one of Christopher Smart's poems.

London: S. and J. Fuller, 1825. Oblong folio, 262 x 213 mms., pp. 15 [16 blank], engraved coloured frontispiece and 12 other coloured plates at end of volume, 39 uncoloured plates, 12 aquatint plates, contemporary half roan, marbled boards (very worn), leather label on front cover; previous bookseller's note stating "Replacement title/ Lacking one Plate," plates a bit soiled and foxed at extremities, front hinge broken with cover just holding on, a fair copy only, but he colour plates are fine. The artist and landscape painter David Cox (1783 - 1859) produced a number of manuals to teach drawing, so many in fact, that Stephen Wildman in his ODNB article on Cox affirms that the books were so influential that "they had the unforeseen consequence of training a whole generation of amateurs to imitate his style." His reputation had its ups and downs, but he was often compared to Constable and Turner. In the late 1850s there were several exhibitions of his works, leading the… Read More