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Caerfyrddin [i.e. Carmarthen]: Argraffwyd dros yr Awdur gan J. Ross [Printed for the Author by J. Ross], 1773. vi, [12], 311 [i.e. 310]pp. With a list of subscribers. p.297 misnumbered 269, p.307 misnumbered 298, and pp.308-310 are misnumbered 309-311. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities worn, corners bumped. Short closed horizontal tear to tile page, occasional chipping to margins. Later inked ownership inscriptions of Mariah Lewis and John Lewis to FEP and front blank fly-leaf, near contemporary ownership inscriptions and pen-trials of John Thomas to FFEP, title page, and verso of final leaf. A rare survival of the first edition of a Welsh translation of a collection of precepts derived from the Old and New Testaments, based upon Bishop of Chester and theologian Francis Gastrell's (1662- 1725) Christian Institutes (1707). ESTC records copies at just two locations in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and one further in North… Read More

Llanelli: Argraffwyd gan Rees a Thomas, 1837. 23pp, [1]. Disbound. Leaves browned and spotted. The second edition, printed in the year after the first, of Lewis Powell's (1788-1869) Welsh language verse elegy to minister of Trellech, Monmouthshire, Morgan Jones. . Second edition. 12mo.

London: Edward Stanford, 1905. xiii, 158pp. With two folding maps of Amsterdam and Rotterdam Harbour respectively, numerous small line maps in the text, and a large folding coloured map of Dutch Waterways housed in rear pocket. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. The first edition of chemist and avid yatcthsman Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe's (1845-1925) authoritative manual on navigating the waterways of Holland. . First edition. 8vo.

[s.i.]: [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1840?] Single sheet, printed on one side only. Printed in two columns. Numbered at the foot '[song 219.]' Three small burn-marks, else clean and crisp. The second located copy of a nineteenth-century broadside featuring poet Thomas Campbell's (1777-1844) popular nautical ballad 'Ye Mariners of England', celebrating the strength of the Royal Navy: 'The spirit of your fathers Shall start from every wave; For the deck it was their field of same, And ocean was their grave. Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy tempests blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.' The verse was first composed in 1800 and first printed in the Morning Chronicle in January, 1801; the reference to the death of Nelson being a later insertion. OCLC records a single copy, at California; COPAC adds no further. . Dimensions 200 x 250 mm.

London: Printed for the Translator, 1748. xvi, 296pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and one further engraved plate depicting Flora Macdonald. Later half-calf, buff paper boards, tolled in blind, lettered in gilt, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, scorched, upper joint split. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title, partially erased, resulting in small marginal hole, closed vertical tear to leaf Gg1, plate shaved at fore-edge. The first edition in English of a heavily romanticised account of the early life of Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), 'the Young Pretender', translated from the Italian of Michele Vezzosi, former secretary to the 'Old Pretender' and the young Stuart's valet de chambre following his defeat at Culloden and the failure of the Jacobite Rising. ESTC T125466.. First edition in English. 8vo.

Dublin: Printed by T. M'Donnel, 1798. xvi, 168pp. With a list of subscribers. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf. Lightly rubbed, some loss to head of spine. Leaf G4 detached, else internally clean and crisp. Bookplate of the Circulating Library of the Catholic Congregation at Spetchley to FEP. The sole edition of Irish Roman Catholic priest William Gahan's (1730?-1805) penultimate published work, a primer intended to instruct a juvenile readership in the fundamental of Christian worship, with reference to the works of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Thomas Paine, and 'intended as an antidote against the contagious doctrines of atheists, materialists, fatalists, deists, modern arians, socinians, &c.' ESTC records copies at seven locations in the British Isles (Aberdeen, BL, Franciscan House of Studies, NLI, NLS, RIA, and St. Patrick's College), and two further in North America (APS and California). ESTC T133497.. First edition. 12mo.

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, 1829. 8pp. Woodcut illustration to title page. Single sheet, printed on both sides, folded and unopened as issued. A trifle creased and toned. A Glasgow printed chapbook, in original state, comprised of seven songs in Scots dialect, including a melancholic lament on the departure of 'The Young Pretender' following defeat at Culloden. . 8vo.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1931. 80pp. Original publisher's tan cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and marked, loss to lettering-piece. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Humbert Wolfe / from / Sylvia Lynd / a fragment of her / debt. 4. 4. 31.' The first edition of Anglo-Irish poet Sylvia Lynd's (1888-1952) third collection of poems, several of which had previously appeared in numerous anthologies including Ernest Benn's Augustan Poets. This copy inscribed to Italian-born British poet and civil servant Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940). . First edition. 8vo.

London: William Darton, [1821]. 62pp, [2]. With an engraved folding frontispiece, two further engraved plates, and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's buff printed limp wrappers. Extremities rubbed, surface loss. Endpapers and frontispiece gutter damp-stained, early ownership inscriptions to verso of frontispiece and head of title page. A rare survival, in unsophisticated state, of the third printing of James Pedder's (1775-1859) conduct of life tale for children. In the introduction, the author explains that the story was first told to his own children who 'at its conclusion...begged that it might be written out, (as they termed it)...it was accordingly written that same evening, almost verbatim'. Pedder, born on the Isle of Wight, emigrated to the Philadelphia in his fifties where he was engaged in sugar manufacture. All editions are scarce, with this third being no exception; COPAC and OCLC together record only one copy in… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, and by his Appointment sold by R. Griffiths, [1748?]. [2], 107pp, [1]. Without half-title. Recent brown half-morocco, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Slightest of wear to extremities. Recent marbled endpapers, marginal repairs to title-page and final two leaves, occasional spotting. An account of Charles Edward Stuart's journeys following defeat at the battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion. The work, authored by a 'Gentleman who was personally acquainted not only with the scenes of action but with many of the actors themselves', has been variously attributed both Andrew Henderson (fl. 1734-1775) and Henry Goring, an advocate of the Young Pretender. ESTC T52876.. First edition. 8vo.

Coventry: Printed and sold by M. Luckman, [1795?] xii, 310pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities worn and marked, upper board held by cords only, lower joint split. Hinges exposed, inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP: ' Master Wm. Hands / August 22nd 1796', scattered spotting. A rare survival of a late eighteenth century anthology of poetry intended for a juvenile readership. The wide ranging selection includes poems by, inter alia, Milton, Dryden, Barbauld, Cowper, Beattie, and Burns. In the prefatory remarks, the anonymous compiler states: 'I found authors and pieces multiply so fast, that I hardly knew what to chuse, or what to reject: indeed, had I inserted every thing which I admired...instead of a small pocket volume, I should have produced a folio. How well this little Collection may answer the end proposed, must be left to the Public to determine; but as the Price is… Read More

London: Printed for S. Crowder, 1787. xi, [1], 240pp. Titlepage in red and black. Recent grey paper boards. A trifle rubbed. Title word 'companion' naively coloured in black ink, very occasional ink-spotting, slight damp-staining to lower margins at gutter. Richard Turner (bap. 1720, d.1791), Anglican clergyman and educational writer on mathematical and scientific subjects. Turner Matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford and later received an honorary doctorate from Glasgow University (1785). His various introductory guides to book-keeping (1761), gauging (1761), geography and natural phenomena (1763), astronomy and trigonometry (both 1765) reference his clerical position as Vicar at Elmley, in Worcestershire, but also describe him as a teacher of 'geometry, geography and philosophy at Worcester'. This present work is an extensively illustrated introduction to geometry for young scholars, and is remarkably scarce. ESTC records copies at four locations in the British Isles (BL, Glasgow,… Read More

Otley: Printed by William Walker, [s.d., c. 1830] 8pp. Original publisher's pictorial salmon pink wrappers. Lightly creased and dust-soiled, sunned. Internally clean and crisp. An apparently unrecorded devotional juvenile chapbook, provincially published by the successful nineteenth-century West Yorkshire printer and bookbinder William Walker (fl. 1810-1875), notable as the founder of Otley's first newspaper. . 16mo.

Edinburgh: Published by Thomas Nelson, 1837. [4], viii, 476pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's brown cloth, later rebacked preserving original back-strip, modern paper lettering. Rubbed and lightly marked, corners exposed. Internally clean and crisp. A revised edition of an elementary publication on the general principles of instruction in English grammar, arithmetic, and geography, first printed in 1813. . 8vo.