Search Results: Titles starting with F from John Price Antiquarian Books

Te Amsterdam, nij deErven P. Meijer, en G. Warnars, 1784. 3 volumes. 12mo, 132 x 74 mms., pp. [iv], 124; [vi], 132; [ii], 110 [111 - 112 index], engraved vignette of Gellert on each title-page, engraved frontispiece in volume 1, 149 engraved plates, by N. van der Meer after J. Buys, contemporary continental half calf, speckled boards, spines ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco labels. A very good to fine set, with the bookplate of Walther Konigsbeerger in each volume. Gellert (1715 - 1769) studied theology at Leipzig University but eventually became a tutor in philosophy, where his lectures were widely appreciated by both students and colleagues. Fabeln und Erzählungen was published in 1746-1748 and translated into other European languages. Gellert modelled his fables on those of Fontaine, and several were set to music, most notably by Beethoven.

Florentiae I. P. Aere, & Typis Petri Caietani Viviani...., 1744. Large 4to, 290 x 210 mms., pp. [ii], lii, 134 [135 - 136 appendix], engraved vignette of lynx on title-page, 38 superbly engraved illustrations of plants at end, contemporary vellum, blocked in gilt on spine; no blank prelims, but a fine copy. The scientist Fabio Colonna (1567-1650) recognized that the study of leaves by themselves was not sufficient to discern or to classify them properly, especially with regard to those that could be used medicinally. An epileptic, he was drawn to the study of botany as means of finding herbs and concoctions from plants that could be used to ameliorate the symptoms and effects of epilepsy.

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1754. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 240 x 195 mms., pp 7 [8 blank], 19th century marbled wrappers; leaves very closely trimmed with lost of upper portion of "The" in top margin of title-page, as well as second line of imprint in lower margin. The fable of Jotham is recounted in Judges 9, 7-15, where Jotham mocks the choice of Abimelech as king. In this instance, two merchants are invited to stand for a borough in Cornwall and pass an instructive evening in Exeter.

Edinburgh: Printed for W. Gray and W. Peter..., 1755. 2 volumes. 12mo, pp. ix [x blank], 374; [ii], xxii, 345 [346 - 370 Index], contemporary calf, red leather labels; top of spine volume 1 chipped, base of spine volume 2 chipped, spine volume 2 creased, front joint volume 1 slightly cracked (but firm). This was the first edition to be published in Edinburgh.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and J. Watts. 1753. 2 volumes. 8vo, 200 x 117 mms., pp. [xiv], 194; [iv], 155 [156 blank], volume 2 a fifth edition, with the binder having bound leaves signed (a) - [(a2)], between the last two leaves (M1.2, pp. 154 - 155), engraved vignette on title-page of and engraved head-pieces for each of the fifty fables in volume 1 (mostly by Van Der Gucht after Kent), engraved frontispiece and 16 full-page engraved plates, one for each fable in volume 2, mostly by G. Scotin after H. Gravelot and many plates with a date of 1738, contemporary calf, gilt spines, red leathr labels; bindings a bit scratched, front hinge volume 1 cracked and cover holding on for dear life, but a good set with four bookplates: Earl of Munster, The Honourable G. FitzClarence (1841), Lt. Col. Fitz Clarence, and, and A M Broadley (1902). George Augustus Frederick FitzCalrence, First earl of Munster (1794–1842) was the eldest son of the actress Dorothy Jordan (1761 - 1816) and the Duke of… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsey and Company, for Archibald Constable..., 1809. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, 184 x 112 mms., pp. [lxiii - lxiii [lxiv blank], 192; x, 241 [241 blank], bound in contemporary half plum calf, gilt spine; binding a little worn, but a good copy. The Quarterly Review noticed the work in 1810, beginning with this amusing observation: "Although the well-known division of authors into writers for fame - writers for bread - and writers for both is tolerably comprehensive on the whole; yet the classification, we conceive, may be conveniently extended, by adding to it the farther division, of writers from ennui.... The pupil of the School of Ennui is usually guiltless, in his outset, of any designs upon the attention of the public; but his little performances accumulate by degrees...; he induces a good-natured friend with a recital...and his good-natured friend can scarcely refuse to praise [the work]: thus encouraged, by a person of the most unequivocal and sincerity, the… Read More

Glasgow, Printed for Alexander M'Kenzie [no date], [?1755]. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 160 x 92 mms., pp. viii, [9] - 192, with X2 paginated 164 on recto and 163 on verso, registration continuous throughout, volume 2 with half-title only, 19th century half calf, gilt spine, marbled boards. A very good copy. The printer, Andrew and Robert Foulis, is identified by the typeface. In this issue, page 35 is not signed E2, but in other respects it conforms to ESTC T13842 (BL and NLS), without the printing features identified in ESTC T18340. The Foulis brothers printed Gay's Fables under their own imprint in 1761, as well as Poems on Several Occasions in 1751. Not in Gaskell.

London: Printed for R. Francklin..., 1755. 8vo, pp. [vi], 173 [174 blank, 175 - 176 adverts], title-page in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 16 other full-page engraved plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments; spine slightly split, top and base of spine chipped, joints cracked, corners worn.

London: Printed for T. Bekcet..., 1773. 4to, 207 x 153 mms., pp. [9], 10 - 65 [66 blank, 67 - 68 adverts, including half-title, engraved vignette on title-page, original boards, spine of marbled paper (slightly defective with pieces missing) The first edition was published in 1771 and received somewhat sniffily by The Monthly Review, which concluded its assessment, "On the whole, we may pronounce, of these Fables, that, with all their poetical merit, they contain more ornament than substance, more description than design, more fancy than moral." It fared little better in The Critical Review: "Dr. Langhorne certainly over rates the merits of his Fables.... The plan of these Fables is trifling; and it is ill conducted.... If smooth and lulling versification can atone for the want of manly sense, these Fables will bring their author a temporary reputation."

London: Printed for Joseph Davidson..., 1745. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 124 mms., pp. [v] iv - vi, 180, with adverts leaf before title-page, bound in 19th century, half calf, spine gilt with olive label, rubbed and cracked to front joint; lacks frontispiece, but it seems never to have had one. A reasonable copy, with two 18th century autographs on the top margin of the title-page, the first scored out (?"N. Harley 1756", the second "J. Peake 1782" and "Peake/ Chepstow" on the recto of the second front free end-paper

London: Printed by W. Bulmer...Sold by R. Faulder..., 1796. Large 8vo, 230 x 162 mms., pp. [iv], xxxv [xxxvi blank] [3] 4 - 280, engraved wooduct on title-page, 24 head and tale woodcuts, finely bound, by C. Hering with his pink ticket on the upper margin of the verso of the front free end-paper, in contemporary straight grain red morocco, double gilt borders on covers, with gilt fleurons at each corner, gilt spine, all edges gilt; front joint very slightly rubbed, but a very good and attractive copy with the autograph "J. [or S] Hafford" on the top margin of the title-page, armorial bookplate of Viscount Granville, probably Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville (1773 - 1846). The dedicatory verses by the translator are signed: G. L. W. [i.e. Gregory Lewis Way]; the preface and notes are by G. Ellis. One of the owners has added text to the initials in order to complete the surnames in this copy. The woodcuts are by John and Thomas Bewick. The work was originally issued in two… Read More

Pathopoli [? Leyden], Apud Gilastinum Severum 1657. 12mo, 127 x 67 mms., pp. [3] - 370 [371 "Ad Lectorem," 372, additional engraved title-page (as pages 1 - 2) 18th century calf, later reback, with title in gilt on spine. A very good copy Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) published this work in 1470, and it is credited with being the first book of jokes to be published. The late Dr. Barbara Bowen described it as "the most famous jokebook of the Renaissance" (One Hundred Renaissance Jokes: An Anthology [1988]), and, not surprisingly, many of the jokes are scatological or carminative. Actually, some of the jokes are not bad, and Dr. Bowen has obligingly translate the Latin, for example one about an absent-minded preacher: "Praedicabat Tibure frater parum consideratus ad populu, aggrauans multis uerbis ac destatns adulterium, dixitque inter caetera, adeo graue peccatkum, ut mallet decem uirgines cognoscere quam unicam mulierum nuptam. Hoc & multi que aderant… Read More

London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills..., 1709. 8vo, pp. 16, disbound. Foxon S 435.

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: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley..., 1832. 3 volumes. Large 12mo, 198 x 121 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 348; [ii] [3] 4 - 329 [330 blank, 331 - 332 adverts]; [ii] [3] 4 -375 [376 blank], uncut, original boards, paper label in spine; ms. correction in pencil, volume 1, page 4, hinges cracked volume 2, top of spine volume 1 very slightly defective, corners slight worn, some general wear to spines, but a good set. The pencil alteration in volume 1 changes "expanded into the brocaded train" to "contracted round a tiny waists" with the initials [?] G/ T". "Mrs Gore, as she was always known to contemporaries, began actively writing and publishing from the time of her marriage. After a succession of historical fictions during the 1820s, she came into her own with Women as they Are, or, The Manners of the Day (1830), a 'silver fork', or fashionable, novel which immediately established her as a leading practitioner of the genre. Over the next three decades… Read More

London, Printed for J. Bell..., 1799. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 170 x 99 mms., pp. [iv], 193 [194 - 196 adverts], recent half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, green morocco; some water-staining of title-page and other leaves, but a good copy. The work is almost certainly not a translation, but a narrative by Du Bois. The Critical Review for 1799 noticed the work briefly: "The loves and adventures of Octar and Zulima form an agreeable and interesting narrative, in which are interspersed very important and useful lessons of life. After the fairy of misfortune has conducted her illustrious pupils through a series of impressive vicissitudes, they receive the splendid reward of virtuous resignation and unshaken integrity. The tale is said to have been translated at the request of a Lady; and it is much to the honour of the young knight, that the ability is not exceeded by the gallantry of his attempt. We have, in particular, remarked the spirit and felicity with which the shrewd epigrammatic… Read More

London: Printed for Rich Wellington..., 1705. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 164 x 97 mms., pp. [xvi], 224 [225 - 226 adverts]; [xiv], 207 [208 blank], garishly rebound in bright orange cloth, Cockerell boards, black leather label; imprint closely trimmed in volume with lost of last line and date, top margins of first six leaves slightly defective and repaired, with slight loss of text. This collection of "familiar letters" was first published in 1697 and reprinted several times in the 17th century; this 1705 edition was the first to be published in the 18th century as well as the last of the early editions of any letters by Rochester. Commenting on these four editions, Dr. Nicholas Fisher notes, "These editions, while not as sumptuous as the editions published by Jacob Tonson in 1691 and 1696, seem to have been directed at the same readership, and 'not unbecome the Cabinet of the Severest Matron': the paper is of good quality, the presswork is clear and there is a significant… Read More

London: Holdsworth and Ball..., 1833. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 515 [516 adverts], uncut, contemporary quarter cloth, plain boards, paper label (rubbed and chipped); lacks all blank prelims, spine and joints a little worn

Plymouth: Printed for the Author, and Published by H. C. Creagh, and W. Curtis..., 1821. 8vo (in 4s), 179 x 111 mms., pp. [xiv], 150 [151 errata,152 blank], including four pages of subscribers, contemporary, contemporary straight grain green morocco, marbled boards, spine richly gilt; binding a bit rubbed, but a good copy with the elaborate autograph on the top margin of the title-page of "W. M. D. Andrew." There is a skip in the pagination at page 110 to page 113, and a photocopy of pages 111 and 112 [P4] from another edition. The leaf looks to me to have been deliberately excised, but the pages are found in another copy. One of the subscribers, "John Dickins [sic]" is perhaps the John Dickens 1785–1851), an assistant clerk in the navy pay office, stationed since 1808 in Portsmouth, and father of the novelist. Given that the book was printed in Plymouth, which is about 170 miles from Portsmouth, it seems unlikely that this subscriber is the same person. In any case… Read More

Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for J. Johnson...London, 1788. 8vo, 181 x 109 mms., pp. [7] 8 - 10, [xi] - xxiii [xxiv advert], [3] 4 - 368, including half-title. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: PERCIVAL (Thomas): Moral and Literary Dissertations; chiefly intended as the sequel to A Father's Instructions. The Second Edition, Revised and much Enlarged. Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for J. Johnson..., London, 1789. 8vo, 181 x 109 mms., pp. xviii [xix adverts, xx blank], [3], 4 - 334 [335 text, 336 blank, 337 - 386 Index], bound in contemporary polished calf, gilt rules on spine, red leather labels; some very slight wear to binding, front joint volume 2 slightly cracked, , but a very good and attractive set, with the autograph and date, "Harriet Comyn, 1791" on the recto of the front free end-paper, and also in her hand, "Given by J. D.," and her larger autograph on the title-page of each volume. Harriet Comyn is possibly the wife of Thomas Comyn (1746/7–1798), vicar of… Read More