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173311867London: J. Peele. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1733. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Stapled inside heavy card covers. No lib marks on the pamplet itself. ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 61 pages . J. Peele paperback
179014111790. Red crayon on cream laid paper 3 3/4 x 4 inches 95 x 102 mm ; 3 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches 95 x 80 mm. Each with scattered early repairs done with non-archival tape on the verso; the smaller of the two drawings has a repaired corner upper-right with in-drawing in red crayon. Condition issues are all consistent with age and the versos remain largely uneffected. A lovely duo. unknown
178014231780. Ink and wash on tissue thin Japon paper adhered to period cream laid paper 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 inches 132 x 84 mm the full sheet. With some handling wear and general surface soiling the matrix has some spots of light brown discoloration in the margins. A sweet composition with lovely detail. <br /> <br /> Written in ink appears "The Country illegible. Heart; I beg you will excuse illegible. In the meantime here is something to cherish this lady's health. Apr. 4 June 2." Inside the cartouche someone has written in pencil "Pleasant old drawings of no importance are sold by the illegible Gallery on Greenwich Avenue in New York CH 29184." The New York telephone exchange CH 2-9184 is the alphanumeric format for CHelsea 2-9184. unknown
179014091790. Ink and wash in gray ink on cream laid paper 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches 115 x 140 mm. Scattered light surface soiling and areas of residue from a former mount on the verso. Scattered inscriptions in pencil on the verso. All condition issues are consistent with age. A classic Grand Tour composition. unknown
1764BB0114London: printed for C. Hitch G. Hawkins C. Bathurst J. Tonson J. Worral R. Baldwin T. Longman J. Bathoe C. Corbett T. Lownds G. Kearsly T. Becket W. Nichol and M. Richardson 1764. Full Calf. Fine-. Best edition" Lowndes with Grey's annotations and Hogarth's plates of the most celebrated satire of the seventeenth century. Complete in two octavo volumes with engraved half-length portrait of the author by Vertue and 16 full-page engravings five folding by Mynde after Hogarth. 2xivxxxvi42416; 244624pp. Contemporary full calf spines in six compartments divided by gilt-ruled bands red morocco lettering pieces gilt all edges speckled red. Engraved armorial spade shield bookplates of J. G. Vernon on front paste-downs. A superlative set: endpapers and a few preliminaries and final leaves browned at margins but otherwise clean and bright; plates pristine in deep rich impressions; boards firmly attached bindings tight and intact. Grolier English 100 32. Bland pp. 216-19. Wither to Prior 137. Dibdin Library Companion p.731 "the best critical edition not only of this author but doubtless of every other of the period". Brunet I 1427-28. Lowndes 335. Maslen & Lancaster Bowyer Ledgers 4485. Paulson Hogarth’s Graphic Works 73-84. Second Hogarth edition with Grey's notes with "many emendations upon that of 1744" according to Lowndes. Originally published in three parts between 1663 and 1678; the first edition with Hogarth's plates appeared in 1726 and the plates were re-engraved for this edition. Influenced by Rabelais and particularly Cervantes' Don Quixote Butler's mock-heroic poem satirized Roundheads Puritans Presbyterians and other factions of the English Civil War. "Although 'written in the time of the late Wars' Hudibras was not licensed to be printed until 11 November 1662 two years after re-establishment of the monarchy when a satire on Puritanism could no longer give offense to the ruling party. On the contrary the satisfaction which it gave to the King and court had much to do with the great success it achieved." Grolier English Literature 100 32. Samuel Pepys bought a copy and finding no humor in it sold it the same day. Still the book enjoyed enormous popularity and on 5 November 1663 the Second Part appeared. Fourteen years passed before 'Hudibras: the Third and Last Part' dated 1678 was entered in the Stationers' register on 22 August 1677 and put on sale. Multiple editions as well as pirated issues of the individual parts as well as combined editions were published by 1680. According to Bland Hogarth's plates are a "landmark in English illustration and emphasize its divergence from an international style. . . . nothing could be more different from French work of the time . . . Hogarth aims at the common man; where the French illustrator is salacious he is coarse; where the French illustrator chooses a classical or aristocratic subject he prefers a contemporary plebeian one; and he is moral where the Frenchman is amoral." N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst, J. Tonson, J. Worral, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, J. Bathoe, C. Corbett, T. Lownds, G unknown
1744BB0761London: printed for E. Curll in Covent-Garden 1744. Full Calf. Fine. 12mo: xxx42;72pp with frontispiece portrait of the poet frontispiece to the separately paginated Cyder woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary speckled calf covers framed with double fillets in gilt spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt recent red morocco lettering piece gilt edges speckled red. A Fine—indeed exceptional—copy. Foxon p. 570. Tenth Edition but first under this title collecting The Splendid Shilling; Blenheim An Ode in Latin and English and most importantly Cyder—A Poem in Two Books Fourth Edition printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper 1744. Many of Philips's poems including his first the Splendid Shilling which The Tatler commended as "the finest Burlesque Poem in the British Language" were composed in Miltonic blank verse. "Philips's greatest poem the two-book georgic Cyder 1708 begun at Oxford celebrates his native land and in particular Herefordshire with a combination of accurate knowledge of apples and cider making and a ‘sketch of our National History.' The botanist Philip Miller told Dr. Johnson that ‘there were many books written on the same subject in prose which do not contain so much truth as that poem.' . . . Philips taught Pope who drew on Cyder in Windsor Forest how to use Paradise Lost for un-Miltonic purposes and to suggest that paradise might still be found in England's green and pleasant land." ODNB. printed for E. Curll, in Covent-Garden unknown
1800D6751circa 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Full red morocco arms of George III stamped in gilt on boards lettering "Standing Orders" and ornament stamped in gilt on spine a.e.g. inside gilt dentelles; 8vo 5x7 inches; approx. pp. 200 entries beautifully handwritten in ink with numbered subject headings in the margins and an index at rear. Scuffing along joints and edges of boards; joints tender. Recorded by one or two scribes addressing parliamentary procedures in the 17th and 18th centuries. <br/><br/> hardcover
17572222049<p>First French edition. Octavo. Translated by Robert Towneley. With English text on opposite pages. Frontispiece portrait and 14 engraved b/w plates three of which are folding. Contemporary speckled leather edges stained red spine labels joints partially cracked. Good. 3 volumes each with errata. No signatures.</p><p>Each volume with heraldic bookplate.</p> hardcover
1775BB0445London: printed for J. Dodsley Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie St. Paul’s Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly in the Poultry; and T. Davies Russel-Street Covent-Garden MDCCLXXV 1775. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine. First Edition. 8vo; xii 392pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer to period style in full speckled calf spine in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt original olive-green lettering piece gilt. An excellent example the pages clean bright and free of foxing. Lowndes 2380. Sheridan was an Irish stage actor educator and incidentally godson of Jonathan Swift and father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan as well as a major proponent of the elocution movement. In Western classical rhetoric elocution the art of delivering speeches was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation emerging as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. Sheridan's lectures on the subject collected in Lectures on Elocution 1762 and Lectures on Reading 1775 provided directions for marking and reading aloud passages from literature. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-S unknown
178936363London: Samuel Ann and Peter Thompson No. 75 St. Paul's Church Yard And may be had at most Music Shops and Booksellers in Town and Country 1789. Folio. Disbound. 4 pp. <br /> <br /> Contains announcements of newly-published "Dances and Minuets for the Year ensuing; Vocal Music &c.; Psalmodia Evangelica; New Editions of the following Music; New Editions of Instruction Books and Pocket Companions for the following Instruments" and announcements of publications forthcoming in December.<br /> <br /> Slightly worn and browned; outer edge slightly chipped; leaves loose; binder's holes and chipping to inner margins with minor paper loss. "Peter Thompson was the founder of the important business carried on by the Thompson family for half a century. They were the last survivors of the music trade which once thronged St. Paul's Church Yard and their place of business had very likely been one of the shops held by members of the trade a century or more previously . In 1780 Peter . a grandson of the original founder is added to the firm which now stands as Samuel Ann & Peter and the business prospers still more." Kidson: British Music Publishers Printers and Engravers pp. 125-26. Samuel, Ann, and Peter Thompson, (No. 75) St. Paul's Church Yard, And may be had at most Music Shops and Booksellers in Town and unknown
1710CC238London: John Morphew Near Stationers- Hall 1710. Hardcover. Very Good. VOLUME TWO ONLY as published separately xvi336 ivpp.iv blank. Dedicationviii pp forward to Louisa of Savoy Countess of Angoulesm; Preface iv Errata 1 pp ; pub. Book listings 1pp; Volume II only. Original full calf in brown patterned calf with raised bands to the spine and paneled boards. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS.A thinly veiled satire of 18th Century Whig politicians contemporary British society and sexual scandals among the elite' ESTC No T106834 A contemorary satire by Delarivi. Cambridge panel and gilt design raised bands and lacking the morocco label on the spine. <br/> <br/> John Morphew, Near Stationers- Hall hardcover
1707biblio7<p>The Works of Abraham Cowley Printed and Published by Jacob Tonson 1707-08 3 Volumes with 33 beautifully engraved plates including one folding linen-backed plate. Volume 2 has 2 pages of advertising at the rear. The text is trimmed by the book binder not affecting text with occaisonal light browning and spotting. Volume 3 M2 has a marginal repair and boards are loose on Volume 1 and Volume 3 has upper joint split. Cloth Slip-case a little rubbed at the extremities but the binding is superb and certainly worthy of repair. Gold leaf edges with gold leaf filigree and wonderful Red Moroccan leather. Binder is unknown but certainly is of the quality of a Riviere binding placing the rebinding of the book in the 1800's. The bookplate is the initials 'D D' entwined with one another and the words. Quis Separatbit and the date 1783 making this owner a standing member of the Order of Saint Patrick founded by George III in 1783 specifically for the Irish aristocracy who in many cases supported the Catholic Irish rights some of course did not. This work is very nice with many wonderful poems plays and writings as well as many notables living during Cowley's time. A rare and beautiful set.</p><p>Title: The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley .<br />Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street.<br />Authors: Cowley Abraham 1618-1667. <br />Sprat Thomas; 1635-1713. <br />Publication: London J. Tonson<br />Edition: The 10th ed. Adorn'd with cuts.<br />Year: 1707-1708<br />Description: 3 v. fronts. plates part fold. ports. 21 cm.<br />Standard No: LCCN: 12-18676<br />Notes: Vols. 1 and 2 paged continuously./ "The mistress Pindarique odes Davideis" v. 1 and "Cutter of Coleman-street" v. 2 have special title-pages./ <br />Vols. 1-2: 10th ed.; v.3 has title: The 3d and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: being the 2d and 3d parts thereof: Adorn'd with proper and elegant cuts. Part II. What was written and publish'd by himself; now reprinted together. The 8th ed. Part III. His six books of plants . London Printed for C. <br />Harper 1708./ The 3d pt. with special t-p. is 3d ed./ "The tragical history of Piramus and Thisbe" the 8th ed. with special t.-p. has imprint: London Printed for <br />C. Harper 1708. "Loves riddle" with special t.-p. has imprint: London Printed by B. Motte for C. Harper 1707; "Naufragium joculare" with special t.-p. has imprint: Londini typis B. Motte; veneunt apud C. Harper 1707.<br />Class Descriptors: LC: PR3370; Dewey: 821.4<br />More Records: Show record information<br />Entry: 19760419<br />Update: 20110503<br />Accession No: OCLC: 2124771</p> Tonson, Jacob hardcover
1771032312Dublin : W. Sleater and J. Williams 1771. Book. Very Good. Leather & Boards. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. One quarter burgundy leather over marbled red boards. 2 Volumes. 16 mo: 6 3/4 x4 1/4 inches 17.5 x 11 cm. Vol1: 292 pp. Vol 2: 230 pp. Vol 1: b&w frontis with tissue guard; paper bookplate glued to front endpaper; inscription in pencil to free endpaper dated 1916; offset to title toned to extremities throughout. Vol 2: b&w frontis with tissue guard; paper bookplate glued to front endpaper; spotting to free endpaper frontis title and first few leaves. Toned with some foxing and a few stains throughout. Text blocks are clear square and tight. Mild wear to edges and some discoloration leather. Housed in a new burgundy cloth hard shell slipcase. A very good contemporary rebound set. W. Sleater and J. Williams Hardcover
1794215352London: Debrett; Longman; Debrett; Debrett 1794. All but the last title first editions. 80; 6 42; 4 61 3; 4 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarters blue polished calf gilt spine t.e.g. Upper cover detached. All but the last title first editions. 80; 6 42; 4 61 3; 4 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Debrett; Longman; Debrett; Debrett unknown
180010251800. Ink and wash in black ink with pen in black ink on watermarked C & I Honig cream laid paper 14 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches 378 x 311 mm the full sheet. In very good condition with some minor areas of light brown spotting in the right-center sheet margin. An excellent drawing with fine detail. The ruins of the Temple of Vespasian and Titus are located in the Roman Forum in Rome. The temple is a marble ruin that honors the deified emperors Vespasian and Titus. Located near the Temple of Saturn all that remain standing are three Corinthian columns that formed part of the colonnade. The temple was also dedicated to the son of Vespasiano Titus. Construction started on this temple in 79 AD. unknown
175025101750. Graphite ink and wash on cream laid paper with an extensive yet partial and illegible series of alphabetic watermarks. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 185 x 115 mm the full sheet. With an contemporary support adhered to the top sheet edge. 19th century text in graphite added to the shield held by the putti. The image has been cropped to exclude the top portion of a recumbent figure whose legs are covered by a shroud and whose left hand remains visible in the left-center image area propped upon an pillow holding a heart. While this drawing appears to have been completed in the mid-18th century given the Neoclassical style media and paper the text "Kind Hearts and Coronets" comes from the poem Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The poem was pubished in 1842 indicating that the pencil inscription in the image was added later. unknown
173189ghW. Innys London 1731. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 365 pages as found. Seventeen copper plate illustrations Table 12 missing plus frontis illustration. Two of these are folded - they are in tight snug condition. At some stage rebound in board with leather spine and facings. The spine edges have wear but the binding is strong and very stable. The faces have wear and scuffing. They are strong and dignified. The front and end pages are spotted by foxing. The papertrims are bound. The contents are very firm to the binding. They are considering their age lively and engaging. They are as informative and welcoming as at publication. One of the folded plant illustration tables contentedly shows a Hottentot mother puffing serenely and happily at a marijuana pipe! There is wear and marking and staining throughout. However the bodies of the pages are clear and bold and certain despite character-instilling tanning. A useful gratifying enchanting book that rests comfortably in the hand and on the shelf. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. W. Innys, London hardcover
17820005107London: Printed for the Author and sold by S. Hooper 1782. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo; xvi 192 pages modern quarter sheep extra gilt spine marbled boards. Rare. <br/><br/>First issue without the "Additional Subscribers" Eddy & Fleeman Preliminary handlist of books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson subscribed 48. After a military career Parker prospered as a theatrical performer and raconteur treading the boards throughout the British Isles. "His wit humour and knowledge of the world rendered him at one time an indispensable appendage to convivial gatherings of a kind - DNB." Dr. Johnson Sir Joshua Reynolds and others befriended him and both are listed here in the Subscriber's List. He was a prominent Freemason. Included here is his Dissertation on Masonry dedicated to George Montagu. ESTC T128727. Engraved frontispiece. Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Hooper hardcover
171446675Frontis engraving of Lucretius in volume I. Minerva Londinensis vignette to title page Vol.I. Head pieces to both volumes Thomas Creech 1659-1700 was the first author to translate Lucretius into English. The first translation by Creech was published in 1682 . This edition done in 1714 contains translation of verses previously omitted & numerous notes from another hand ref: Internet Archive J.Matthews for G.Sawbridge hardcover
179429828London: Anthy. Milteno 1794. St. Caecilia is seated at an organ with an open music book above the keyboard; two cherubs sing from a music book to her right. <br /> <br /> The model for the painting was the singer/actress Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan née Elizabeth Ann Linley 1754-1792 daughter of the composer and conductor Thomas Linley 1733-1795. <br /> <br /> 370 x 280 mm. Printed on wove paper.<br /> <br /> Some wear; minor chips tears and soiling to edges with remnants of former mount to upper right edge; some creasing; old paper repairs to verso; trimmed to just within plate impression. Anthy. Milteno unknown
179952906London: Printed for the Author by Charles Clarke 1799. 4to. xi ii 385 6 pp. Later maroon half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels and lettering. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Sizer. Slight wear to outer spine joints and extremities. Frontis engraving by Bartolozzi. With twelve small oval tinted mezzotints. List of subscribers at rear. Two leaves of engraved music 'Address to the British Fair' by Samuel Webbe bound in at rear. A series of 12 conversations discussing conduct. An interesting take on domestic education in the form of children's stories. VG copy. . Very Good. Half Morocco. First Edition. 1799. Printed for the Author by Charles Clarke 1799 unknown
17782111902160600070Aono Tomosaburo 1778. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 183x25.4 cm Aono Tomosaburo paperback
1769254985Cambridge: John Archdeacon Printer to the University 1769. 2 vols. 12mo. Bound in contemporary green morocco covers with outer dog-tooth roll border surrounding floral roll border spines in five compartments with raised bands a.e.g comb-marbled endleaves light rubbing to extremities binder's blanks removed from both volumes. 2 vols. 12mo. Archdeacon was University Printer from 1766 to 1793. Darlow & Moule 889; t95018. Provenance: Mary Carlton contemporary bookplate; Nancy Barr gift inscription "given her by her aunt Mary Carlton" John Archdeacon, Printer to the University unknown
17601226London 1760. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper with a large circular watermark bearing a heart and arrow along with several Roman numerals and letters including II and S 8 1/4 x 16 3/ 8 x inches 208 x 423 mmimage area margins trimmed. Color slightly attenuated with some age tone mat tone and light scattered discoloration. Paper tape repair with in-painting at top right extreme corner paper tape support along the top sheet edge. Condition issues are consistent with age. This optic view of London and the Thames shows the north bank of the river from where Somerset House now stands in the east down to London Bridge and the Tower in the west. Also visible is the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Published in London circa 1760 this engraving is one of a series of images that were called optical views or perspectives. They originated in the early eighteenth century as part of the thriving topographical print market in cities such as Paris and London. As monied tourists traveled Europe these views became increasingly popular as souvenirs. After a trip abroad it was common practice among the wealthy denizens of London and Paris to produce "perspectives" after a dinner party. The views were enjoyed with the aid of a device known as a zograscope while the hosts regaled their company with travel tales. unknown
17991960Printed for the Author by Charles Clarke 1799. 1799 4to. xii 2 385 6 p. Engraved frontis. By Bartolozzi 12 tinted litho plates by William Watts 2 sheets engraved music at end. Bound with the half title. Contemporary half calf expertly rebacked and the corners restored. Spine with a contrasting lettering piece. Original endpapers and label preserved. Internally fingermarks to a few pages and faint spotting to the frontispiece and music sheets but overall a very good copy. Osborne 2 884. ESTC T34058. Printed for the Author, by Charles Clarke, unknown