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London Remington and Co Publishers..., 1888. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, 220 x 132 mms., pp. [viii], 320; [viii], 302, original cloth, spine blocked in gilt; slightly shaken in casing, spines a bit darkened, but a very good set. The journalist and author Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828 - 1906) began his career writing for Pasquin a rival to Punch and later produced a drama, Mephistopheles, or, An Ambassador from Below. Having been educated in France, he was fluent in French, and later added Russian to his languages when he married in Moscow the daughter of a Scottish engineer working in Russia. He also wrote music history and criticism. A History of Opera (2 vols.) appeared in 1862; The Lyrical Drama and Rossini and his School, both in 1881; together with lives of Rossini (1869) and and of the tenor Sims Reeves (1881). The present book is a page-turner for those interested in the anecdotal lives of famous sopranos.

London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1793. Small 8vo, pp. xxxii, 278 [279 - 280 adverts], including half-title, contemporary tree calf, fragment of label gilt spine (rubbed); front joint cracked, top of spine slightly chipped. The anonymous translator of this work by Haller (1708 - 1777) fails to give the original German title, Briefe über die wichtigsten Wahrheiten der Offenbarung; Murray first published this translation in 1780, the same year as the second German edition. Zachs 943.

A Londres: Chez J. Dodsley, 1783. 4to, 235 x 175 mms., pp. xxi [xxii - xxiii contents, xxiv blank], 290 [291 - 293 Index, 294 blank, engraved portrait of Grammont as frontispiece, further engraved portraits of Hamilton opposite page [iv], and of Cometesse Grammont opposite page 92, contemporary calf; corner cut from title-page and following page to remove name,, joints cracked and tender, corners worn, top and base of spine chipped. With a contemporary inscription of five lines in French on the recto of the front paste-down end-paper, 19th century autograph "Rebecca Hinds 1822" on title-page. Walpole (1717 - 1797) published this first at the Strawberry Hill Press in 1772, printing only 100 copies; this Dodsley imprint is the second edition and Walpole wrote an introduction for it. Hazen: Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, no. 18; no. 54 in his bibliography of Walpole.

London: Printed and Sold by William Phillips..., 1825. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 172 x 102 mms., pp. xiv, 208 [209 advert, 210 blank], entirely uncut, original boards; spine defective, with cords exposed and loss of paper covering the gatherings, edges worn, a modest copy with the bookplate of "R. Howell, Coventry" on the front paste-down end-paper. The physician Thomas Hancock (1783–1849) was born in in Lisburn, county Antrim, the son of Quaker parents, Jacob Hancock and his wife, Elizabeth, née Phelps and attended a Quaker school. Karl Magee in his ODNB entry says of this book that it "contains eye-witness accounts of the rebellion from a number of Irish Quakers and provides an interesting perspective on that conflict." The book was reprinted several times in both the UK and the USA.

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies..., 1809. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xi [xii blank], 412; [ii], 426, contemporary calf, red leather labels; front joint volume 2 cracked and tender, bindings otherwise a little rubbed and dried.

Bristo: Printed and sold by S. Farley....; Sold also by T. Cadell..., 1774. 8vo,, 208 x 120 mms., pp. [viii] [1] 2 – 83 [84 adverts].� BOUND WITH: Percy, A Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. London: Printed for T. Caell…, 1778. Pp. [viii], [1] 2 – 87 [88 adverts], with an errata slip before the Prologue, which was written by David Garrick. FIRST EDITION.� BOUND WITH: The Fatal Falsehood: A Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By the Author of Percy. Second Edition. London: Printed for T. Cadell…, 1780. Pp.[viii] [12 – 87 [88 adverts].� BOUND WITH: Sir Eldred of the Bower, and the Bleeding Rock: Two Legendary Tales. The Second Edition, corrected. London: Printed for T. Cadell…, 1778. Pp. [vi], [1] 2 – 49 [50 adverts].�Four works in one volume, page size 208 x 122 mms., bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt roll border on covers, spine gilt in compartments to an urn motif, black… Read More

London: Printed for T. Cadell..., 1785. 8vo, 170 x 103 mms., pp. [viii], 214 [215 adverts, 216 blank], later calf; spine worn, joints cracked (but firm), corners worn. More (1745 - 1833) drew on her experience teaching at her sisters' school for this book, published anonymously in 1777. Horace Walpole said of her, "How I admire the activity of your zeal and perseverance! Should a new church ever be built, I hope in a side chapel there will be an altar dedicated to Saint Hannah, Virgin and Martyr; and that your pen, worn to the bone, will be enclosed in a golden reliquaire and preserved on the shrine." Less reverently, William Cobbett referred to her as an "old bishop in petticoats."

York: Printed for W. Alexander..., 1820. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 182 107 mms. pp. iv, 5 - 168, original printed boards, uncut; boards a bit soiled, but a good copy with the contemporary autograph "Mary Stevens 1822" on the recto of the front paste-down end-paper TAYLOR, Hannah, formerly HARRIS (1774-1812) was born on 21 Nov. 1774 probably in Yorkshire, the eldest of six children in a Quaker family. Her father, William Harris, was a mariner who died at sea when she was fifteen. She had married by 1799, the year with which her memoir begins. Her husband, Henry Taylor of North Shields, Northumberland, was in the navy and went to sea soon after their child was born. Although the memoir does not give details, he seems later to have abandoned her; this and the death of their child were events from which she never recovered. She lived with her siblings both in Ireland and in Cumberland for the rest of her life. In Ireland she visited Clonmel which had a large and very active Quaker community. The… Read More

London: Edward Moxon..., 1851. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. ccxv [ccxvi blank], 168; xii, 387 [388 printer's imprint], 7 page list [p. 8 is printer's imprint] dated July, 1851 of Moxon imprints inserted in volume 1 before front free end-paper, including half-titles, engraved portrait as frontispiece in volume 1, embossed cloth in light green to a border design with scroll inset; adverts leaves with several pinholes in top margins, corners a bit worn, upper rear joint volume 1 snagged. With a virtually illegible inscription (possibly "---- Dickens [or Dickins] with/ Edwin's & [?] Lewis's love"), undated, on the recto of the front free end-paper, and a later inscription, "Louisa Holder/ from Julia Wilson/ Christmas 1900" on the half-title of each volume. Julia Wilson is possibly the sister of Emilie Isabel Barrington (nee Wilson, 1841 - 1933).

London: Edward Moxon..., 1851. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xii, 376; iv, 359 [360 printer's imprint], with half-title in volume 1, engraved portrait (foxed) in volume 1, original embossed cloth; tissue paper between portrait and title-page in volume 1 defective, both volumes shaken in casings, tops and bases of spines snagged.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xviii, 498; x, 423 [424 blank], including half-titles, contemporary half calf, linen boards, red morocco labels; joints slightly cracked. With the armorial bookplate of W. H. Mullens on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume.

London: Printed for W. Johnston..., 1765. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 216 x 135 mms., pp. xiv, [iv Contents and Errata], 573 [574 blank], dedication (to Henry Home, Lord Kames) leaf in cancelled state,contemporary straight-grain plum morocco, spine gilt in compartments with titles blocked in gilt, all edges gilt; joints a bit rubbed, some slight general wear to binding, but a very good copy, with the bookplate of the politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen [Rab] Butler (1902 - 1982) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. Heath (1704 - 1766) approves of Theobald's emendations but is rather less enthusiastic about those of Warburton. He was a notable literary scholar and book collector, and most of his publications were on classical literature. His book was one of two on Shakespeare to be purchased in 1770 by the Library Company of Philadelphia for its collection. Dr. Johnson made use of a number of Heath's comments for his own edition of Shakespeare.

Edinburgh: Printed by Mundnell and Son, R. Babk Close; Sold by A. Guthrie, Bookseller, South-Side, 1795. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 229 x 130 mms., pp. [62], including eight pages of subscribers, engraved (by R. Scott after D. Allen) frontispiece, two ofther full-page engraved plates (by F. Thomson after Van Der Gucht), bound in early 19th century quarter cloth spine, boards, with paper labels on spine and and front cover. A very good copy. Hector Macneill (1746–1818) spent most of his early career working in the West Indies, particularly in Jamaica, but he found time to write his first poem before departing for Jamaica, The Harp: a Legendary Tale, which he published in 1789. His most famous poem, is, of course, this one, first published in 1795; there were 14 editions in the first year. The Critical Review noticed it in the same year, saying that it should be no surprise that the work was so popular in Scotland, "when we consider the merit and moral tendency of the production. The… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by D. Willison, for A. Guthrie, Manners & Maller, and Ar. Constable, 1800. 8vo, pp. [viii], 52, engraved frontispiece, 2 other engraved plates, half-title bound after title-page; text a little browned, disbound. This work was first published in 1795, as Scotland's Skaith; this edition carries MacNeill's dedication to David Doig, thanking him for his assistance is preparing the poem for publication. "Sk[c]aith" means harm, and the poem is a ballad against drink.

[London] 1730. An engraved plate by William Henry Toms after Egbert van Heemskerck, 380 x 313 mms., "a satire on satire on prostitution set in a brothel in which all the men have been given the heads of apes and the women those of cats. In the centre of the room a prostitute sits on the knee of an old man who fondles her, her legs splayed; she holds a glass in one hand and a flask in the other. A magistrate wearing a lace edged hat and holding a large candle stands over them. Constables with staves stand in the open door, behind which the prostitute's pimp (referred to as her bully in the verse beneath) is hiding; he is dressed as a grenadier. On the right, the brothel-keeper holds up a tally-board pointing out one of the symbols to three men who are startled at the entry of the constables; one is seated at a table holding a glass, another holds a large candle. On the table is a large flask, another rests on the floor beside a big jug, and another lies broken in pieces. In the background on… Read More

Amstelodami, Apud Jodocum Jansonium, 1648. 8vo, 160 x 105 mms., pp. [xvi], 526, engraved printer's device on title-page, contemporary vellum (very slightly worn). A very good copy. Smetius (1535 - 1614) published this very popular anthology of Latin quotations and their authors as a kind of students' dictionary of phrases that could be quickly traced to a classical author.

London, J. Miller, 1843. Slim 8vo, pp. [iv], 137 [138 adverts], marbled boards; all before title-page removed, front cover stained. "In 1843 Horne published the work for which he is best-known, the three-book epic Orion. This poem, broadly of the Spasmodic school, more credibly imagines the torments and distractions which befall genius than the precise nature of its enduring achievements. It was glowingly reviewed (by, among others, Edgar Allan Poe), and its public reputation was cannily enhanced by Horne's decision to price copies at a farthing, gaining him the nickname the Farthing Poet" (Oxford DNB).

A Paris, Chez Christope Ballard..., 1762. 8vo, 193 x 112 mms., pp. [vi], 19 [20 blank], 213 [214 "Attribution de la Charge," 215 - 217 errata and privilege], folding engraved plate, numerous musical illustrations in text, recently rebound in quarter red morocco, marbled boards, title blocked in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Henri Louis Choquel (1702 - 1767) published the first edition of this work in 1759, and this second edition has a new preface. "In 1762...Choquel...described his new invention, a pendulum-metronome, and its uses in La Musique Rendue Sensible par la Mechanique; Choquel emphasized that the instrument was created to fulfill an important function, namely,',,, to learn to beat time with the precision it demands.' Choquel's time-beating procedures were identical to those of his contemporaries Montéclair, Dupont, and Démotz; he was in addition the first to advocate the use of a mechanical device to enable a student to learn to trace… Read More

Paris. Chez Risler, Libraire..., 1834. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 112 mms., pp. viii, 368, including half-title, with pages [1] - 224 consisting of music and letterpress, while pp. [225] - 368 are all letter-press, with this note on the verso of the half-title, "Imprimé par les procédés typographiques de E. Duverger, rue de Verneuil, 4," and the autograph "Russell Howell" on the top margin of the title-page, contemporary half green roan, gilt spine, marbled boards (rubbed); joints, edges and spine a bit worn, but a fair to good copy. The names of the composers are given at the end as "Kolb, Webbe, Haydn, Beethoven, Bornianzky, Bost, Venua, Delaborde, Louis Laur, Viotti, Malan, Guillaume Franc, Wilhem, Comte de Sorgo, Luther, Handel, Mme Hérault, Georges Neumarck, Mathieu, Mme H.-L., Le Mire, Hummel, Henri Scheidemann, Pleyel, Urhan, Paer, Naegeli, Severus Gastorius, Laus, Ladurner, Gratz, Rotter, Knecht, Jacob Praetorius, Claude Goudimel,… Read More

London: Printed for T. Worrall..., [no date] [1734]. 8vo, 187 x 117 mms., pp. 8, 40 [41 - 48 adverts], engraved frontispiece (detaching at upper margin); disbound; corners creased. Baker (1698 - 1774) will be remembered by collectors and scholars as the author of two books on the microscope, The Microscope Made Easy (1742) and Employment for the Microscope (1753). Later editions of this work put the word "Philosophical" before "Poem." The work was reprinted several times in the 18th century and in 1808, with notes by A. Crocker, with the reviewer in The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1809 commenting that "The versification of Mr. Baker is of the good old school, that of Dryden and Prior. Though somewhat negligent, it has in parts a force and freedom which followers of Pope have vainly endeavoured to unite with their more regular harmony." ODNB in its article on Baker refers an edition of 1727 as the first publication of the poem. ESTC does not list… Read More