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RENOWNED HISTORY (The)
of Primrose Prettyface, who by her Sweetness of Temper, & Love of Learning, was raised from being the Daughter...
London, Printed & sold by J. Marshall & Co. … (Price 6d in Gilt Paper – 9d bound in Red.) [1788?]
One of three undated editions, probably the last (adding Marshall’s Cheapside premises at 17 Queen St to the imprint), but the only one with an engraved title-page and frontispiece.
£1000
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NEW RIDDLE BOOK (A)
or a Whetstone for dull Wits … Printed at Derby, for the benefit of the travelling Stationers.
[J. Drewry? 1790?]
An attractive illustrated riddle chapbook. The solutions include ‘a pipping pounded into Cyder’, a man fleeing his scolding wife, a hog fattened with acorns, a young virgin, a mermaid, and a paper kite, though how one would ever guess ‘a Taylor at Dinner with a Dish of Cucumbers, served up with...
£750
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NAUNTON, Sir Robert.
Memoirs … with some of his posthumous Writings, from Manuscripts in his own Hand, never before printed.
London: Printed and sold by G. Smeeton … and J. Caulfield … 1814.
First edition, a large paper copy, imposed as a folio rather than a quarto (and fully 11 cm taller than usual).
£450
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PARNASSIUM (The)
: or Beauties of English Poetry. Selected from the Works of Blair, Philips, Young, Pope, Gray, Parnell … The...
London: Printed for W. Lane … [after 1776.]
A very scarce reissue by the enterprising William Lane, later of the Minerva Press, of A Collection of Modern Poems (London, J. James, 1762) – with a cancel title-page and a new frontispiece. The contents comprise the Love of Fame and The Last Day by Young, Gray’s Elegy, The...
£325
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[CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]
Two anonymous manuscript scores.
London, 1820s.
Two charming productions, sent as anonymous gifts, presumably to the wife or daughter(s) of Col. Thomas Nuttall (or Nuthall) (d. 1829) of the Madras Cavalry.
£850
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JUVENAL.
The Satires … translated: with explanatory and classical Notes, relating to the Laws and Customs of the Greeks and Romans …
London: Printed for J. Nicholson, in Cambridge; and sold by S. Crowder … and J. and F. Rivington … 1777.
Third edition of this parallel-text translation edited by Thomas Sheridan, first published 1739.
£1250
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SMITH, Hubert, and Thomas Charles BROMWICH, photographer.
A short Memoir of the late eminent Shropshire Genealogist...
Madeley (Shropshire), J. Randall, 1879.
First separate edition, photographically illustrated, of this short memoir of the Shropshire antiquary William Hardwicke.
£150
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FREEMAN, Arthur, and Janet ING FREEMAN.
Courtship, Slander, and Treason: Studies of Mary Queen of Scots, the Fourth Duke...
London, 2019.
Courtship, Slander, and Treason presents two independent but complementary studies of episodes in the career of Mary, Queen of Scots after her flight to England in 1568: her ‘forbidden match’ with the ranking English peer Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, in 1568–72, and her own...
£55
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FREEMAN, Arthur.
Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books & Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery 400 BC – AD 2000.
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.
The fully revised and enlarged edition of Bibliotheca Fictiva, offered with three in-depth essays on individual forgeries as a complement to the original volume.
£120
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WIEST, Stephan.
De iustitia dei punitiva contra quaedam adserta cl. Eberhardi et Steinbartii aliorumque disserit P. Stephanus Wiest...
Ingolstadt, Johann Wilhelm Krüll, [1787].
Rare dissertation under the supervision of the Cistercian theologian and philosopher Stephan Wiest (1748–1797), at the time rector of the University of Ingolstadt, on the subject of whether divine justice is to be seen as punitive or restorative.
£175
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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò.
Opere inedite di Niccolò Machiavelli.
‘Londra’ [Lucca, Jacopo Giusti], 1760.
First edition of previously unpublished writings by the great Florentine statesman and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), edited by Giovanni Maria Lampredi (1732–1793).
£500
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[GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]
Il Pastor Fido.
‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.
Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s immensely popular ‘pastoral tragi-comedy’, charmingly illustrated by Antonio Luciani.
£175
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SPENCE, James.
The Light of Heaven, on the Path of Youth: A Sermon tot the Young, preached in Cannon Street Chapel, Preston, on...
Preston, John Walker, and London, John Snow, [1849].
First edition, apparently unrecorded, of this sermon on Psalm 119, ‘Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy Word’.
£175
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TULL, H., Rev.
A Sermon preached in St. Mary’s Church Oldham on Sunday Evening December 22 1850 … being the first of six sermons...
Oldham, D. Evans, 1851.
First edition, very rare, of an anti-Catholic sermon by Henry Tull (1791–1859), graduate of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and vicar of St John’s Chadderton, preached and printed in Oldham.
£150
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[FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]
Poems by the Knight of Morar.
London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867.
First edition, privately printed, a presentation copy inscribed on the title-page ‘From the Author . Paris. 1867.’
£350
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MARTIN, Theodore, Sir.
Horace and his Friends. Two Lectures delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution …
Printed for private Circulation. 1881.
First editions of two privately-printed pamphlets by the poet, translator and biographer Theodore Martin (1816–1909) – presentation copies, to the Scottish journalist John Skelton, a frequent contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine (as was Martin).
£400
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SPOTISWOOD, John.
An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Stile of Writs, Simple and Compound, made Use of in Scotland ... The...
Edinburgh: William Brown and John Mosman, and sold by William Brown, 1727.
Third edition, annotated by Neil Ballingall (1750–1843), factor to the Balfour family at Balbirnie, Fife.
£500
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[WALKER, Patrick.]
Some remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden, late Minister of the Gospel at Glenluce...
Glasgow: J. and M. Robertson, 1794.
Very rare chapbook life of the Covenanter Alexander Peden (1626–1686), first published 1724 and much reprinted; the ‘second part’ first appeared in an edition of 1778.
£225
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ANNAN, Thomas.
Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow.
Glasgow, T. Annan Photographer; J. Maclehose, Publisher and Bookseller to the University, 1871
A very good copy illustrated with albumen rather than carbon prints.
£3450
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DAVIDSON, John.
Smith: a Tragedy.
Glasgow, Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888.
First edition of a rare foray into drama by a Scottish poet who influenced T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens. John Davidson (1857-1909) was highly regarded during his lifetime by writers like W.B. Yeats, and later by Eliot, Stevens, and Aldous Huxley. Along with Yeats, Ernest Dowson, and others,...
£300