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

Londini: Impensis Kearsley, 1794. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 186 [ 187 - 194 notes]; [ii], 168 [169 - 177 notes, 178 blank], engraved title-page and frontispiece in each volume, contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt, morocco titling labels, small circular black morocco numbering labels; engraved plates slightly detached at inner margin, binding a little dried with corners worn and very slight cracking to front joints. Printed by Bensley, Wakefield's edition of Horace was issued both in a large-paper state and a smaller one as above. Dr. Pirages has wittily remarked that Wakefield (1756 - 1801) "never met a text that he didn't want to emend," and his emendations here are no exception.

Londini: Impensis Kearley, 1794. FIRST WAKEFIELD EDITION. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, 203 x 125 mms., pp. vii, 185 [187 - 194 notes]; [ii], 168 [169 - 177 notes, 178 blank], engraved frontispiece in each volume, two further engraved plates, one in each volumes, errat slip before text in volume 2, bound in contemporary straight-grain red morocco, gilt spines (sunned and darkened), all edges gilt; corners worn, front end-papers vandalized, with top margin of marbled end-paper clipped to a depth of 24 mms., and small triangular clipping of second free end-paper, front free marbled end-paper from volume 2 removed, with previous ownership ticket of Edward John Kenney in each volume, and on the verso of the front free end-paper of volume 1, the ownership autograph "R. W. D. Willoughby/ Demy of Magdalen/ d. d./HCFM. Nov. 1895." The same initials appear on the adjacent recto of the following leaf with "Torquay Jan 93" in pencil. Wakefield's edition was reviewed at length, in two… Read More

Canta Brigiae: Typis Academicis. Impensis Cornelii Crownfiled, Celeberrimae Academiae Typographi. 1713. 8vo, 171 x 102 mms., pp. [xvi], 275 [276 blank], including half-title, contemporary panelled sheepskin, with a few abrasions to the covers, slight worming of lower front joint, top and base of spine chipped, but a good copy with erudite notes on the recto of the front free end-paper. Bentley's famous edition of Horace was first published in 1711, and for this second, smaller edition, the notes were prepared by his nephew, Thomas Bentley. This edition was also published in Amsterdam in the same year.

Patavii [Padua]: Excudebat Josephus Cominus, 1736. 8vo, pp. [viii], xxxix [xl permission], 640, 85 [86 colophon, 87 adverts, 88 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine (rubbed); joints slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners slightly worn. With the autograph "J. G. Phillimore" on the verso of the front free marbled end-paper, and "Augustus Phillimore/ In Memoriam (J. G. P.)/ From R. M. P./ Shiplake/ May 22nd 1865." on the recto of the following leaf. John George Phillimore (1808 - 1865) published a number of works on Roman law and jurisprudence. He was elected M. P. in 1852. The presentation inscription to Augustus Phillimore is by J. G. Phillimore's wife, Rosamond Margaret, daughter of James Lewis Knight Bruce, later the lord justice. Augustus Phillimore is possibly the Vice-Admiral, Sir Augustus Phillimore (!822 - 1897). Macrobius (395 - 423) was a late Roman neoplatonic grammarian and philosopher whose best-known… Read More

London. Printed for C. Moran, in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden. MDCCLXII 1772. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION 4to, 245 x 190 mms., pp. [ii], 22, disbound, with title-page and other leaves detached or loose at innter margin title-page and last page of text soiled, short tear in fore-margin of E1, top margin closely trimmed, inner margin of title-page frayed. The work was reviewed in both The Monthly Review The Critical Review for 1762, with the latter remarking, "We fancy that this author writes as Pistol ate the leek - in token of revenge. Facit inginatio Versus - for he seems to have no other muse -indeed, if he had been a favourite of the Nine, Apollo would probably have twitched his ear, and exhorted him to chuse other subjects than R---ck, F---ks, and the rest of that empirical fraternity, which are by no means worth power. We would, in the mean time, advise our bard to study the elements of English grammar that he may for the future avoid...solecisms." The Monthly Review was… Read More

London: Smith, Elder and Co...., 1863. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Large 8vo (222 x 148 mms.), pp. xvi, 379 [380 printer's imprint]; [iv], 452, engraved portraits of Elizabeth Billington as frontispiece to volume 1, contemporary half cream vellum, marbled boards,black and red morocco labels; lacking the other five portraits called for on the title-pages, which appear never to have been bound in, but an attractive set. Clayton (1834 - 1900) published her first book Notable Women in 1859, a rather hagiographic work, but this collection of lives of notable female singers is more straightforward, if often a little skimpy on biographical details. It was favourably reviewed and was her most successful until the publication of English Female Artists in 1876.

Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae Typographi 1756. Small 8vo, 159 x 90 mms., pp. [vii] viii - x [xii - xvi], 271 [272 blank], including half-title, contemporary sheepskin; joints cracked, spine dried, corners worn. The Edinburgh Select Society awarded this edition of Horace its silver medal. The edition was first published in 1744. Gaskell 320.

Patingham: Printed for the Editor, 1753. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 258 x 202 mms., pp. v [vi blank, vii - viii Index Odarum], 407 [408 Errata], contemporary calf, rather curiously rebacked with a lighter calf overlaying the spine and the corners, with bands more-or-less in art deco style, old label preserved, hinges amateurishly reinforced; ex-library with the bookplate of Queen's College, Oxford and sold note on front paste-down end-paper. A good copy, with the autograph "J. Riland 1753" on the top margin of the title-page and the drop-title. This is possibly John Ryland (1716/17-1798), the friend of Samuel Johnson, who is described as a "good scholar" in the ODNB (the source is Nichol's Literary Anecdotes) entry, but I have not been able to trace any publications attributed to him. ESTC attributes the translation to Bromwich, Francis, and Creech; the latter two are presumably Philip Francis (1708 - 1773) and Thomas Creech (1659 - 1700), but the text attributes various… Read More

Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Elzeviriana. 1629. Small 12mo, 127 x 78 mms., pp. [xvi], 239 [240 blank], 296, [2], 250, including engraved title-page, divisional title-page for each part, contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine; binding a little soiled, but a very good copy. Heinsius (1580 - 1655) spent all his adult life in Leiden, and he became professor of poetics at Leiden University in 1603. He published an edition of Horace's complete works in 1612, with the Elzevirs, but this is the first separate edition of the two satires, with extended notes and commentary. This is the edition of Horace that is thought to have had some influence on Ben Jonson and it is routinely described as "famous," which might be said of almost all Heinsius' editions or Elzevir imprints. Sir Thomas Browne is supposed to have said of this edition, "On my Coffin, when in the Grave, I desire may be deposited in its Leather Case or Coffin my Pocket-Elzivir-Horace comes viae vitaeque dulcis et… Read More