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Yarmouth: Printed and published by W. Meggy, 1830. [2], 56pp. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities marked and creased, loss to spine. Light damp-staining to gutter, slight loss to lower corner of leaf E1, occasional contemporary inked highlights. A rare survival, in original unsophisticated state of a register of the 1,702 voters of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, polled in the 1830 general election. The contest concluded with British army officer, veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, George Anson (1797-1857), elected as Member of Parliament for the borough having secured a single vote more than his fellow Whig candidate Charles Edmund Rumbold (1788-1857), who retained his seat won in 1818, and comfortably surpassing his Tory rivals. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at three locations (BL, Institute of Historical Research, and Oxford). . First edition. 8vo.

Yarmouth: Printed and sold by J. Keymer, [1812]. [2], 24pp. Interleaved throughout, as issued. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Light rubbing to spine. Internally immaculate. An apparently unrecorded, provincially published, register of the 750 voters of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in the 1812 general election; 'alphabetically arranged and carefully copied from the original poll-books'. Sir Edmund Lacon (1780-1839) secured a comfortable victory for the Tories, defeating fellow Tory, British Army officer William Loftus (1752-1831) and Whig candidate Giffin Wilson (1766-1848). He remained the parliamentary representative for the borough until 1818. . First edition. 8vo.

London: A. W. Bennett, 1859. viii, 456pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, marked, and cocked. Early inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional chipping to margins, scattered foxing. The first edition, in original state, of the edited memoir and diary of Quaker missionary John Yeardley (1786-1858). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1758. 30pp, [2]. Predominantly printed in blackletter. Initial and terminal leaves are blank. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Short marginal tears to head of leaves C1-2. An Anglican liturgy of services to be held on 17th February, 1758, a day of national fasting and humiliation ordered for divine assistance to strengthen the resolve of the British Army and Royal Navy during the continuing hostilities of the Seven Years' War. ESTC T69794.. Quarto.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1927. vii, [1], 182pp, [2]. With an illustrated colour frontispiece, one further colour plate, and numerous black and white illustrations in the text by Norah McGuinness. Original publisher's gilt-stamped navy cloth, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle marked, chipping to head and foot of sunned spine panel. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. The first combined edition of the two titles, initially issued separately by the Dun Emer Press in Ireland, and including the first trade publication of one of Yeats's most highly-regarded poems, 'Sailing to Byzantium'. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942. Original publisher's pale-yellow cloth lettered in red, with the decorative unclipped dust wrapper. Small nick to front board, otherwise crisp. Wrapper a little creased and frayed without major loss. With the ink presentation inscription to FFEP 'For Henry from Francis, 16 ou '42. for ornament, not for reading, sweepe the last chapter, perhaps.' Major Francis Charles Claypon Yeats-Brown, (1886-1944) was a British Army Officer who won the James Tait Black memorial prize for his memoir The Lives of a Bengal Lancer in 1930. Yeats-Brown first wrote to Williamson on the publication of The Story of a Norfolk Farm in 1941, and the two continued a close friendship until Yeats-Brown's death in 1944. A character based on Yeats-Brown appears in Williamson's Lucifer Before Sunrise, published in 1967. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the… Read More

Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1841. xii, 113pp, [19]. With nine terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. The first edition of a collection of devotional verse for children, edited by Frances M. Yonge, with contributions by herself, John Keble, and Joseph Anstice. . First edition. 12mo.

Dorchester: Printed for the author by T. Lockett, 1800. [4], viii, [2], 336pp, [2]. Without half-title: 'Mural nights. Vol.1'. With a terminal advertisement leave: 'Ready for the press, the second volume of Mural nights, containing elements of political knowledge, and a method of studying the ancient classics.' - In fact the second volume was never published. Contemporary sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt. Heavily rubbed, joints starting. Endpapers browned, scattered spotting. A rare survival of the first edition of political writer Henry Redhead Yorke's (1772- 1813) provincially published treatise on the education of children in the virtues of the British state. A former revolutionary, Yorke claimed to have contributed to the revolutions in France, Holland and America, and threatened to propagate a further revolution in England. Promptly arrested for sedition, his beliefs would be altered utterly during his incarceration. This book is one result of his epiphany that children ought… Read More

[Yorkshire]: [s.n.], [1846]. Single leaf broadside. Several old horizontal and vertical folds, manuscript date of April, 1846 to head. Evidence of earlier mounting to verso. An attractive playbill for private theatricals at the Elizabethan country house of Burton Constable, Yorkshire. The theatre was created in the 1840s from the first-floor rooms in the south end of the house. Thomas Hugh Clifford-Constable inherited Burton Constable in 1823; his wife Lady Marianne Clifford-Constable appears as the Duchess de Chartres in J. R. Planche's 'Follies of a Night', along with his son Frederick Talbot Constable (then eighteen). They were joined by Frederick's cousins, the children of Thomas' eldest sister Mary, who had married her cousin Charles Chichester of Caverleigh Court, Devon. Another performer was Edward Samuel Evans Hartopp whose father had established a private playhouse at Little Dalby Hall in Leicestershire. He was a keen amateur actor and an early member of the Canterbury… Read More

[Yorkshire]: [s.n.], [1846]. Single leaf broadside. Several old horizontal and vertical folds, slight loss to one margin, single small hole (not touching text). Evidence of earlier mounting, sealing wax remnants, postmarks (Hull 25.04.1846 and Melton Mowbray 26.04.1846), penny red stamp, and 'Mrs. Evans Hartopp, Harby, Melton Mowbrary' in manuscript to verso. An attractive playbill for private theatricals at the Elizabethan country house of Burton Constable, Yorkshire. The theatre was created in the 1840s from the first-floor rooms in the south end of the house. Thomas Hugh Clifford-Constable inherited Burton Constable in 1823; his wife Lady Marianne Clifford-Constable appears as Fanny in 'The Momentous Question', along with his son Frederick Talbot Constable (then eighteen). They were joined by Frederick's cousins, the children of Thomas' eldest sister Mary, who had married her cousin Charles Chichester of Caverleigh Court, Devon. Another performer was Edward Samuel Evans… Read More

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1805. xi, [1], 638pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. A revised and greatly enlarged edition of Arthur Young's (1741-1820) immensely popular agricultural vade mecum. First published in 1771, the book went through 10 editions in Young's lifetime. . Sixth edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. 144pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, loss to head and foot of spine. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of Edward Greathed and later typed bookseller's description pasted to FEP, scattered spotting. A mid-eighteenth century edition of Edward Young's (bap. 1683, d. 1765) seven verse satires entitled The Universal Passion, initially published in separate folios between January 1725 and February 1728, revised and collected as Love of Fame in 1728. . Fifth edition. 12mo.

London: Printed for J. M. Richardson, 1822. xvi, 382pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary half-roan, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, corners bumped. Very occasional light spotting. The sole edition of East India Company officer Gavin Young's (1785-1841) investigation into the efficacy of applying British models of colonisation of America to her territories in India. Young, believing that the conduct of England towards her Eastern possessions has been 'calculated to retard their improvement', reasons that by removing those restrictions which prohibit Europeans from holding property (originally intended to prevent frauds and embezzlement in the assessment and collection of revenue), and by abolishing the East India Company (and thus their 'anti-colonial plan'), the nation would be greatly improved and her native people freed from poverty. . First edition. 8vo.

Edinburgh: Printed by George Caw, for the author, 1795. [2], 32pp. With half title. Recent marbled paper wrappers, new endpapers. Original stab holes visible, with related marginal tear to half-title. Some browning and marking, especially to half-title. A rare, powerful sermon on the Christian duty of relieving poverty by John Young, minister of the Anti-Burgher congregation at Hawick. Better known for his popular Essays....On Government. II. Revolutions... (Glasgow, 1794), mentioned in the preface to this present volume, Young's rhetoric on the duty of powerful is heady stuff: 'The law of God has fixed no determinate proportion of our possessions to be given for the relief of others. Yet he who gives nothing, or who gives in no due proportion to his own circumstances, or to those of his necessitous brother, is as really guilty of sun, as he who steals or defrauds. The poor have as real, and as just a right, by virtue of the command of God, to a share of our superfluities, and even of our… Read More

London: Printed for J. Robson, 1777. x, [1], 296pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to lower board, slight splitting to joints. Armorial bookplate to FEP, ownership inscription of 'Tho. Cook' to same, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to recto of FFEP, internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed to head of title-page; 'Ad amicum suum J. Royds D.D. / W. Young', final two characters of 'Young' shaved. A presentation copy of the first edition of politician Sir William Young's (1749-1815) history of Athens, a work which garnered the then 28 year old a measure of fame. A revised second edition appeared in 1786, and a third and final in 1804. Young is remembered primarily for his governorship of the colony of Tobago and for his opposition to slavery - albeit his views being somewhat naive and in opposition to the campaign of abolitionist William Wilberforce, perhaps due to his… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. xi, 439pp, 61. with advertisment leaves at end. Illustrated frontisepiece and three black and white illustrations. Ink inscription to F.F.E.P. Original publishers cloth spine over boards with gilt titling. Some rubbing to extremities. Clean internally, partially unopened, one gathering slightly protruding at foot and another at head, both remain strongly attached. . 4th Edition. 8vo.