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New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr..., 1862. 8vo, pp. 486, 10 pp. adverts at end, original embossed cloth, rebacked in leather, morocco label. Boyd notes that the work has "long occupied a place in the colleges and academies of our own land." Nothing similar has supplanted it since its publication one hundred years ago, "yet, neither in its original form, nor with such additions as have been made, in this country, to the original work, is it free from some grave objections, that have served, in many instances,t o prevent its adoption as a text-book, especially in female seminaries." He has therefore deleted "matter...objectionable on account of its indelicacy." Many objections have been made to Kames's aesthetic theory, but an ability to corrupt young womanhood seems to be unique. Boyd also adds material from Cousin, Baron, Hazlitt, Jeffrey, and one of his own essays.

Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech...and T. Cadell & W. Davies, London, 1807. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], 525 [526 blank]; iv, 482; vii [viii blank], 514 [515 - 516 adverts], contemporary half roan, marbled boards (slightly rubbed), rebacked, gilt rules across spines, red and black morocco labels. Kames's Sketches was first published in 1774, partly in response to the first volume of Lord Monboddo's Of the Origin and Progress of Language. It proved to be a popular work and was republished several time sin the 18th century and again in the 19th century.

Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, Edinburgh; and for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London. 1774. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 4to, 266 x 205 mms., pp. [iii] - xii, 519 [520 blank]; [ii], 507 [508 blank], contemporary calf, red titling label on volume 2 only; end-papers slightly foxed, joints cracked (but firm) and corners worn, but a fair to good set, with the armorial bookplate of Spain Halls, Finchingfield, Essex on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. The provenance is fascinating. Spains Hall had been owned by only three families since 1066. It was named after Hervey de Ispania, and it passed to another family, when Nicholas Kempe married Margery de Ispania in the 1400s. The Kempe line died out in the 1700s and the tailor Samuel Ruggles bought the property, but it came on the market for the first time in 250 years in 2016. Further details can be found at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000240. When this work was first published, James Boswell was prompted… Read More

London: Printed for M. Cooper..., 1749. 8vo, pp. [iv], 217 [218 blank, 219 - 220 Note], contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments; half of rear blank end-paper removed, portion of rear marbled end-paper torn away, spine rubbed with loss of gilt, lacks label, upper front joints cracked. Writing to Kames in June, 1747, David Hume said of this work that he had read the essays "with great Satisfaction, the Reasonings are solid, the Conjectures ingenious, & the whole is instructive. The Stile is also very good; correct & nervous & very pure...."

Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech; and T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1807. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 4to, pp. xvi, 329 [330 blank], 105 [106 blank, 107 "To the Binder," 108 blank]; xi [xii blank], 253 [254 blank], 163 [164 errata], including half-title in each volume, engraved portrait (slightly spotted and off-setting on title) of Kames in volume 1, 2 engraved plates of hand-writing in volume 2, recently rebound in quarter calf, morocco labels, marbled boards. Tytler's biography of Kames is a curiously common book, given that only 750 copies of the first edition were printed, and it did not sell well. Tytler (who was created Lord Woodhouselee in 1802) persuaded the publishers to produce another edition, which appeared in 1814, after Tytler's death in 1813. When no reviews of the work had appeared, Kames wrote to the publishers on 21 October 1808 (ms. letter in NLS) asking them to send copies to the Critical Review and the Monthly Review, with his compliments. The… Read More

London Printed by T. N. for H. Herringman at the Sign of the Blew Anchoar in the Lower Walk of the New Rxchange. 1678. . Folio, 27 x 171 mms., pp. [xxvi], 198, [6], 124, with imprimatur on leaf c4v: Imprimatur. Aug. 20. 1667. Roger L'Estrange, divisional title page on leaf Z1r: Translations. By K. Philips, contemporary calf, dark red morocco label; lacks portrait, water-stained throughout,edges browned small hole in lower margin of A1 very slightly affecting text; with an ownership inscription on top margin of title-page: "Ann Pierrepont Her Booke Aug: 1699." With the ownership ticket of Dr. Richard Luckett (1945- 2000), of Magdalen College, Oxford on the front paste-down end-paper and some of his notes and cut-out prices from old catalogues loosely inserted at end, and one leaf of handwritten notes, probably in his hand. Philips (1631 - 1664; née Fowler) married at the age of 16 James Philips, her stepbrother (the son of her mother's second husband). Her poems… Read More

Edinburgh [no publisher], 1836. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 280 x 225 mms., pp. [iv], viii, 32 pp. of engraved music on recto only, engraved plate between the music on pp. 21 and 22, engraved portrait of Kelly [sic], engraved title-page, contemporary annotation on p. v, contemporary quarter morocco, plain boards (soiled); corners worn. With the small bookseller's sticker of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth in the lower corner of the front paste-down end-paper, and a note in a 20th century hand, "only 60 copies printed." Thomas Alexander Erskine, sixth Earl of Kellie or Kelly (1731 - 1781) was born in Fife and studied music in Edinburgh, where he was a member of the Edinburgh Musical Society in 1750, and he became its director in 1757. New Grove describes him as "arguably Scotland's greatest composer." Charles Burney said of him that he "'possessed more musical science than any dilettante with whom I was ever acquainted." This edition of his minuets was prepared… Read More

London: William Pickering, 1852. 12mo, 168 x 106 mms., pp. viii, 148 [149 advert, 150 - 152 blank], bound by Barritt in black goatskin over bevelled boards, the covers with raised compartments, tooled in blind with gilt roundels, spine in seven compartments, tooled in blind crosses with a central gilt roundel, gilt dentelles, all edges gauffered in gilt, with a brass clasp. Some very slight wear to binding, but a very good to fine copy. A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Scholars of Winchester Colledge, published in 1674 was attributed to Thomas Ken (1637 - 1711), Bishop of Bath and Wells and nonjuror. ODNB doesn't give a date for Practice of Divine Love, but his Exposition on the Church-Catechism, or the Practice of Divine Love was published in 1685. The six-page "Address to Young Communicants" is dated 1852 and signed with the initials I. L. A. A similar example of a binding by John Little Barritt (1801 - 1863) can be found in the British Library's Database of… Read More

Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon..., 1773. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [iv], 349 [350 blank], leaf of contemporary notes written on recto only loosely inserted, contemporary calf; fore-margin of penultimate leaf slightly frayed, paste-down end-papers not pasted down, lower front joint cracked, binding a little scored and rubbed, lacks label. Kenrick Prescot (1702 - 1779) was Master of Catherine Hall at Cambridge when he published this book; his poems were published at Cambridge in 1772, and Roger Lonsdale includes "Balsham Bells" in his anthology, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse. In this work, Prescot argues that Horace referred not to the great Homer, but to the "Roman Homer," that is, Quintus Ennius. The work was reprinted in 1970. ESTC on-line locates 13 copies (including 5 in Cambridge libraries) in the UK and 5 in North American libraries (University of Western Ontario Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, Harvard University Libraries, Union Theological… Read More

London: Printed [for Henry Curll] in the Year 1726. 8vo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. [v] vi - xi [xii advwets], iv, 180 [181 - 184 index], contemporary calf; jitns cracked andtender, lacks labels, corners worn. This is part one of Ker's memoirs, which eventually extended to three volumes. Designated by OCLC as a "spy," John Ker, of Kersland [formerly John Crawfurd] (1673–1726), assumed the arms and title of John Ker of Kersland in 1697. His various activities in politics, war, education, etc. didn't enhance his fortune, and he found himself in the Kings' Bench Debtor Prison; before dieing there in 1726, he met Edmund Curll,imprisoned for publishing obscene books. The encounter led to Curll's publishing Ker's memoirs. Curll had not acquired Ker's permission before his death, and the texts were published by his son. "Shortly after the final volume of Ker's Memoirs was published, Curll and his son were both arrested; though Henry was quickly released,… Read More

Londini, Apud C. Barhutrst, & G. Hawkins... Oxonii, Apud Jacobum Fletcher [no date] [?1743]. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 244 x 203 mms., pp. 32 [last page misnumberd 22], with ornament of two cherubs and a basket of fruit on title-page. ESTC T133386: "On occasion of the degree of D.C.L. being conferred upon James, Duke of Hamilton; George Henry, Earl of Lichfield; and J. Boyle, Earl of Orrery." 4to, BOUND WITH: KING [Guilelmum]: Epistola Objurgatoria. Ad Guilielmum King, LL. D. Londini, Apud M. Cooper..., 1744. pp. [ii], 20 [21 - 23] 24- 30, with ornament on the title-page depicting a vase of flowers.. additional title-page on p. [21], "Epistola Canonici Reverendi Admodum ad Archidiaconum Reverendum Admodum." ESTC T164835: "Ostensibly an attack on Dr. King but really a parody of his opponent's Latin by King himself." BOUND WITH: KING (William): Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano Habita Idibus Aprilibus,MDCCXLIX. Die dedicationis Bibliothecae Radclivianae.… Read More

Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell..., 1808. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii, 236, contemporary calf, gilt spine. A very good copy. This work is based on letters given to Smith (1776 - 1806) by Dr Mummsen of Altona, one of several works published after her early death. She was an exceptionally gifted woman, described by her mother "a living library; but locked up, except to a chosen few."

Varsovie. de l'Imprimerie de la Banque de Pologne, 1837. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Tall 8vo, 250 x 162 mms., pp, [ii], iii [iv blank], 426 [427 - 428 Appendix, 429 - 432 index, 433 Errata, 434 blank], original printed wrappers, uncut and mostly unopened; library stamp on front cover and title-page, edges a bit soiled, but a very good copy. Krusenstern (1807 - 1888), son of the famous Russian admiral, worked in Russia's ministry of foreign affairs; he published this book on Russian education to correct the errors that he found in the expositions of foreign correspondents about Russia. The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal for 1839 reviewed it at length (18 pages), noting that it is the result of solid research among obscure documents and resources: "These considerations would suffice to stamp this literary production as the work of a partisan, and consequently little worthy of our notice, if the author had not had the good sense to resort for support to… Read More