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N. p., n. p. [?1852]. Folio, 312 x 198 mms., pp. 46 facsimile of a manuscript, with Taylor's autograph replicated at end,19th century binder's cloth; stab-holes in inner margin, front hinge cracked. The "memorandum" is preceded by this note: "This manuscript was in 1827 sent to Sir John Shelley Bart by Sir Herbert Taylor at the time of the Funeral of His Royal Highness The Duke of York which Sir John Shelley attended by command -- presented by Frances, his Widow to her Son for the Maresfield Park Library 1852." As facsimiles go, this is about as convincing as they come, and it has every appearance of being a fair copy of of Taylor's Memoirs of the last Illness and Decease of H. R. H. the Duke of York (1827; three editions).

Paris, Dentus, Impr.-Libraire..., 1803. 3 volumes, 8vo, 192 x 122 mms., pp. [5] 6 - 396; [iv], 408; [iv], 385 [386 test], including half-title in each volume and engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume, 9 other engraved portraits, folding engraved map at end of volume 3, attractively bound in contemporary half calf,, gilt spine, red leather labels, speckled boards, with the small oval library klabel "Bibliotheque de Cirey" on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. A very good to fine set. While Yorke (1720 - 1790) was at Cambridge University with his brother brother Charles York (1722 - 1770), he "wrote the greater portion of the Athenian letters, or, The epistolary correspondence of an agent of the king of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War (1741). The latter work was an academic exercise edited by Thomas Birch, and other contributors included Henry Coventry, John Green, Samuel Salter, Catherine Talbot, Daniel Wray, George Henry Rooke, John… Read More

[?Sydney] [No publisher] [?1947]. 8vo, 192 x 116, pp. 28, with a single leaf preceding what passes for a title-page, with an additional poem "Christmas Gift," original printed wrappers; stain on front cover. Author's note on verso of title-page: "I wish To thank the Editors of the ABC Weekly and The Australian's Women's Weekly for first publishing some of the poems appearing in this book." One of the poems is dated December, 1941. Yvonne Webb was born in Newcastle, New South Wales in, probably, 1917. Her collected poems were published in 1939. She might be the same Yvonne Webb, a scholar, who published The Scholar Explorer in 2016. OCLC locates two copies of this work, National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales.