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

London: Printed for T. Davies...; R. and J. Dodsley..., 1763. 8vo (in 4s), 206 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 94 [95 - 96 Epilogue], top margin of title-page defective with loss of one letter in title, title-page mounted. BOUND WITH: COLMAN (George) and GARRICK (David): The Clandestine Marriage, A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The Third Edition. London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt..., 1766. 8vo, 206 x 122 mms., pp. [vi], 90 [91 - 94 Epilogue]; lacks half-title, text water-stained. BOUND WITH: [WYCHERLEY (William)]: The Plain Dealer: A Comedy. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. With Alterations from Wycherly [sic; the alterations are by Isaac Bickerstaff.]. 8vo (in 4s), 206 x 122 mms., pp. [viii], 100, text lightly water-stained. BOUND WITH: [WYCHERLEY (William)]: The Country Girl,A Comedy, (Altered from Wycherley [by David Garrick]). London: Printed for T. Becket and P. a. De Hondt..., 1767. 8vo, 206 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 78, text… Read More

London: Printed for AR. and J. Dodsley..., 1755. 12mo, 155 x 95 mms., pp. [v] vi -xii, 298. BOUND WITH: The Eloquence of the Pulpit, An Ordination-Sermon. To which is added a Charge by James Fordyce..., The Fourth Edition. Glasgow: Printed for R. Banks, Bookseller in Stirling, 1755. 12mo, 155 x 95 mms., pp. 70. BOUND WITH: The Methods of Promoting Edification by Public Institutions: An Ordination-Sermon. To Which is added a Charge by James Fordyce. Glasgow: Printed for R. Banks, Bookseller in Stirling, 1755. 8vo (in 4s), 155 x 95 mms. pp. 68, with page 68 mis-numbered as 99, pages 47-48 repeated in pagination, but text and register are continuous. BOUND WITH: The Tenoke if Virtue, A Dream. Published from an original Manuscript. Bt James Fordyce. London: Printed for the Author, And sold by T. Field, in Pater-noster Row, 1757. 8vo, 155 x 95 mms., pp. [iv], 91 [92 Errata]; without engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette before title-page. Four volumes bound in 1, contemporary half… Read More

Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co. Limited, Printer, 1890. Three works in one volume with general title-page (as above): Address by John Ramsay, Esq., of Kildalton, [Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow], President of the Chamber, on The Opening of the Suez Canal. 11th January, 1879. Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co. Limited, Printer, 1890. 8vo, 210 x 135 mms., pp. [3], 14. BOUND WITH: Diary of a Trip to Egypt on the Occasion of the Opening of the Suez Canal. 1891. 8vo, pp. [5], 6 - 55 [56 blank]. BOUND WITH: Diary of a Trip to America. 1891. 8vo, pp. [3], 4 - 72, bounin thin boards, cloth spine, title of two items on front cover; stain on front cover. John Ramsay of Kildalton (1814-1892) was a Scottish writer, traveller, politician, and whisky-producer. He began his career as a whisky distiller in 1836 on Islay in the Inner Hebrides. He built Kildalton Castle, now in ruins. He became a member of Parliament in 1868. The two travel items are full of information and data. Copies located only in… Read More

London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1751. Small 8vo, 155 x 92 mms., pp. [ii], xxiv, 154 [155 - 156 adverts], contemporary calf; joints cracked (but firm), lacks label. The translation here is by the physician and translator Thomas Brewster (1705 - ?) began publishing his translations of Persius in 1733 and published translations of all six satires in 1751. ODNB notes that "Edward Owen praised Brewster's translation, noting the poet's 'uncommon delicacy of ear' and 'perfect knowledge of his author'." Henry Fielding also complimented him on his translation, quoting from it in his Miscellanies; Brewster was also one of the subscriber to the Miscellanies. Fielding also brought real-life into fiction by making Brewster the physician who attends the philosopher Square at the end of Tom Jones.

London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1751. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], xxiv, 154 [155 - 156 adverts], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments (but faded); joints cracked, lacks label. With the contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Salwey, L L D, Richards Castle, Salop, on the front paste-down end-paper, and the 20th century library ticket of Payson G. Gates on the verso of the front free end-paper. The translations of Persius' satires by Thomas Brewster were published separately in the early 1740s, and this "second edition" is the first to collect them all in one volume.

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and CO...., 1806. 8vo, pp. [viii], lxxviii, 473 [474 blank, 475 - 480 Index], contemporary lightly mottled calf, spine ornately gilt, black leather label (very slightly chipped); spine slightly rubbed and dried. Gifford's translation was first published in 1802; a third edition followed in 1817.

A Paris, Chez M. Lambert & F. J. Baudouin..., 1782. 8vo, pp. [i - v], vi -clxxv [cllxxvi Table], [3], 4- 575 [576 note], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label; title-page slightly soiled and creased, some slight wear to spine, but generally a very good and attractive copy. Jean Dusaulx (1728 - 1799) published this in 1770, but he is perhaps better known for a book on gambling, De la Passion de Jeu (1779). Thomas Carlyle claimed that Dusaulx never tired of introducing himself as "The [sic] Translator of Juvenal."

London: Printed by W. Buler and Co. for J. Wright..., 1797. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, 157 x 92 mms., pp. [ii], xxxii, [7], 8 - 111 [112 blank], vignette on title-page, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt to a bird motif, black leather label; some slight foxing of text, top and base of spine chipped, very slight wear to joints, but generally a good copy. Sir William Drummond, of Logiealmond (1770?–1828) was educated at St. Andrews and Christ Church, Oxford; he had been a Member of Parliament when he published this volume. He published a number of other scholarly works on classical literature. However, it was his Academical Questions (1805), in which his scepticism, derived from David Hume, about various claims in the Jewish and Christian religions outraged many readers, not to mention those who hadn't read the book but had heard that it was "heretical." In a private letter to Lord Aberdeen, he wrote, "I have attempted to veil its real meaning; but I am… Read More

London, Printed for Sam. Briscoe, and are to be Sold by B. Bragge, at the Raven in Pater-noster-r0w. 1708. 8vo, 189 x 114 mms., pp. [xviii], xvi, [xiv- The Key and Contents], 288, engraved title ,(by Van Der Guch after E. Kight) as frontispiece (neatly repaired on recto), 9 other engraved plates at pages 37, 41, 131,172, 179, 189, 218, 223, and 229, engraved bookplate with motto "Fax Mendis Incendium Gloariae" on front paste-down end-paper, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments (very worn), red morocco label; some foxing of text, joints a little worn, corners rubbed, but a good to very good copy. The first century Roman courtier, Gaius Petronius Arbiter (c. 27 - 67) left his literary mark on European literature with a satirical novel written around the middle of the century, the Satyricon. The narrator is a character named Encolpius, who in the first section asks an old woman where is house is, and she takes him to a brothel, and he professes to be ashamed to find… Read More

Antverplae, Vulgauit Boctius a Bolwert, Typis Hieronymi VerduffI. 1629. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 150 x 96 mms., collating *-**8 A-Ss8; engraved historiated title and 54 full-page illustrations, of which 23 are plates printed in the gatherings and included in pagination, [[xxxii], 631 [632 - 655 index, 656 censura and privilege, engraved title-page, contemporary vellum; some leaves at end of book waterstained. The plate at page 395 is illustrated by the wrong embllem, "cordis dilitatio," and the same plate appears on page [402]. Van Haeften was a Benedictine writer, provost of the Abbey of Affligem. He was born in Utrecht, 1588, and died 31 July 1648, at Spa, Belgium, where he had gone to recover his health. After studying philosophy and theology at the Catholic University of Leuven, he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Affligem in 1609, took solemn vows on 14 May 1611, and was ordained priest in 1613. He then returned to Leuven to continue his theological studies, but was recalled to his… Read More

London, Printed for G. Robinson..., 1780. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], vii [viii blank], 48, [ii], 56, [ii], 39 [40 adverts], 8, 40, [iv], 60, [iv], 36, with Errata slip pasted at end of Advertisement on p. 7 above printed Erratum, two longish contemporary annotations, other small corrections or annotations in text, contemporary calf, spine repaired with brown plastic tape; lower fore-margin of pp. 7 - 8 defective in last item, with loss of about four letters, inner margins of front free end-paper and title-page reinforced with adhesive tape (!), volume split in middle with four leaves detach. With the autograph "W Jones" on the title-page, autograph of Geo. F. Plummer pasted on small slip on front paste-down end-paper, "The Diocesan Library of Oregon and Washington" on recto of front free end-paper. Rather a sad copy. The volume consists of six tracts, two by the editor William Stevens and four by William Jones, and it is perhaps his autograph on the title-page. The… Read More

New York: Published by Mark H. Newman & Co., n. d. [c. 1846]. Oblong 8vo, pp. 204, printed boards (very soiled); text browned and somewhat soiled; spine worn.

London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, pp. xvi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; lacks all prelims, hole in inner margin of title-page with loss of "S" from "Satyrical," front joint wormed, upper front joints slightly cracked.

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Murray..., [no date] [?1790]. Large 8vo (in 4s), 209 x 125 mms., pp. xvi], 319 [320 blank], [8], 176, with separate half-title and title-page for "Curious and Useful Miscellaneous Articles," 19 folding engraved plates, including frontispiece in first part (lacking plate 19 at page 297), 4 folding engraved plates in second part, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; fore-margin of title-page soiled, front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, but a good copy John Imison (died 1788) was a clockmaker, mechanical engineer, and printer, and in the latter capacity printed some novels with his own woodcuts. The School of Arts was first published in 1785, a second edition in 1787, and another second edition in 1794. This "New Edition" appears to be a re-issue of the second edition, with a cancel title-page, or possibly with the first half-sheet impression reset. ESTC N21609 locates copies in Sir John… Read More

London: Printed and Sold by J. Bailey... [no date]. [c. 1800]. 12mo, 173 x 97 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 72, recent half Sheepskin, marbled boards, red morocco label, by Bayntun of Bath, with their imprint at top margin of front paste-down end-paper. A very good copy. Some of the material in this volume first appeared as The British legacy; or, Fountain of of Knowledge in 1754, with material from The complete English Cook ; or, Prudent Housewife by Lydia Fisher in later editions.

London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. Small 8vo, pp. xxi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], including leaf of adverts (corner torn with slight loss) preceding title-page, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label. A very good copy.

Edinburgh: Printed by Mundnell and Son, R. Babk Close; Sold by A. Guthrie, Bookseller, South-Side, 1795. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 229 x 130 mms., pp. [62], including eight pages of subscribers, engraved (by R. Scott after D. Allen) frontispiece, two ofther full-page engraved plates (by F. Thomson after Van Der Gucht), bound in early 19th century quarter cloth spine, boards, with paper labels on spine and and front cover. A very good copy. Hector Macneill (1746–1818) spent most of his early career working in the West Indies, particularly in Jamaica, but he found time to write his first poem before departing for Jamaica, The Harp: a Legendary Tale, which he published in 1789. His most famous poem, is, of course, this one, first published in 1795; there were 14 editions in the first year. The Critical Review noticed it in the same year, saying that it should be no surprise that the work was so popular in Scotland, "when we consider the merit and moral tendency of the production. The… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by D. Willison, for A. Guthrie, Manners & Maller, and Ar. Constable, 1800. 8vo, pp. [viii], 52, engraved frontispiece, 2 other engraved plates, half-title bound after title-page; text a little browned, disbound. This work was first published in 1795, as Scotland's Skaith; this edition carries MacNeill's dedication to David Doig, thanking him for his assistance is preparing the poem for publication. "Sk[c]aith" means harm, and the poem is a ballad against drink.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Large 8vo, pp. xii, 441 [442 blank, 443 - 444 adverts], 32 portraits, original cloth. A good copy.

London: Printed for W. Innys [Part I]; Printed for Cornelius Crownfield and John Crownfield [Part II]; Printed for John Crownfield [Part III.]..., 1730, 1731, 1732. FIRST EDITION of all three parts. 8vo, 198 x 119 mms., pp. [iv], 96 [last page misnumbered 94]; [iv], 160; [iv], 123 [124 adverts], original boards, handwritten label in ink on spine, armorial bookplate of W. Wynne on front paste-down end-paper; binding a little soiled, but a very good copy. Wynne is probably William Wynn[e] (1709 - 1760), the Church of England Clergyman and Welsh-language poet, as the wording on the armorial book plate is in Welsh: "Ne bydd doeth Na Ddarllenno." The motto on the Cardiff Free Library is similar: "'Ni bydd doeth ni ddarlleno" (he who does not read will not be wise). Daniel Waterland (1683 - 1740) was one of many theologians and clerics who published a reply to Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730). His argument that the Scriptures were represented… Read More