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BROADSIDE: A CONCURRENT DECLARATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY .OF WESTMINSTER WITH THE DECLARATION OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND FOR A FREE PARLIAMENT

(ENGLISH CURRENCY SYSTEM)Biblio.com

Early English Attempts At Paper Currency - The Earl Of Rochester Signs A Lengthy Document To Pay Judges. A Few Years Later The First English Banknotes Would Make This Process Far Simpler

4557LAWRENCE HYDE FIRST EARL OF ROCHESTER 1641-1711. Rochester was named a Lord of the Treasury in 1679. In 1681 he was elevated from Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth to Earl of Rochester. He had friction with King James II and was dismissed from the Treasury in December 1686 with a substantial pension.ROBERT HOWARD 1626-1698. An English Restoration dramatist Howard is best remembered for The Indian Queen and The Committee as well as his ongoing literary feud with John Dryden. During the English Revolution Howard sided with the Royalists at the Battle of Newbury and was imprisoned. After the Restoration he was elected to Parliament and made auditor of the Exchequer.DS. 1pg. 8 x 8 . May 15 1686. Whitehall Treasury Chambers. A document signed Rochester. It was written to Robert Howard the auditor of the Exchequer: At my hearty Commendation By Virtue of his Majestys Letters Patents authorizing the payment of the yearly Sallarys sic to the Judges These are to pray and require you to make and pass Debentures for payment of such Summes of moneye sic as are and shall from time to time be due to Richard Hearn Serjeant at Law and one of the Barons of his Majestys Court of Exchequer upon his Sallary of One thousand pounds per annum according to the direction of the said Letters Patents and let sic the same be satisfied out of any his Majestys Treasure now or hereafter being and remaining in the receipt of the Exchequer not appropriated to particular uses by Act of Parliament For which this shall be your Warrant. Treasury Chamber the 15th day of May 1686. Rochester. The document is addressed To my very Loving friend Sr Robt Howard Auditor of his Majestys Records of Exchequer. This document concerns the creation of some of the first exchequer bills of credit which was Englands first attempts at paper currency. Obviously it was cumbersome to pay people since lengthy documents such as this example had to be written out and signed by an official. The first bank to permanently use banknotes was the Bank of England in 1695. The currency promised to pay the bearer the value of the note on demand. The next year the Bank of Scotland followed suit. The document has chipping to the margins and three tape stains to the edges and is in very good condition. The manuscript comes with numerous articles about the Scottish economist John Law who first introduced paper money in France and lecture notes from what seems to be an economics professor who used this document in his or her classes. unknown

Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

(English Dialects) Brockett, John TrotterBiblio.com

A Glossary of North Country Words in Use. From an Original Manuscript in the Library of John George Lambton Esq. M.P. with Considerable Additions

1825305815Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by T. and J. Hodgson for E. Charnley 1825. First edition. One of 32 Large Paper copies. Engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Colalrd after W. Nicholson on india paper and mounted engraved armorial headpiece to dedication page. xxxvi 243 1 pp. Royal 8vo 248 x 181 mm. Contemporary brown straight-grained morocco covers with double gilt rule and corner arabesques covers centered with gilt arms of Brockett family motto: Invictus Maneo spine gilt a.e.g. Small stain at foot of spine and a few small scuffs to boards offset and minor spotting to title spotting to endpapers later gift inscription to f.f.e.p. but overall a fine copy internally in an attractive binding. First edition. One of 32 Large Paper copies. Engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Colalrd after W. Nicholson on india paper and mounted engraved armorial headpiece to dedication page. xxxvi 243 1 pp. Royal 8vo 248 x 181 mm. An attorney by profession Brockett 1788-1842 was a dedicated antiquarian with an interest in philology printing and book collecting. His 1818 Hints on the Propriety of Establishing a Typographical Society in Newcastle led to the founding of that society. Brockett assembled remarkable collections of books medals and coins and the sale of part of his library in 1823 through Sotheby's lasted fourteen days and raised more than £4000. That sale catalogue notes numerous bindings bearing his arms by the great London binder Charles Lewis 1786-1836. The present binding is unsigned but of a very high quality suggesting it may also be an example of Lewis' work for presentation or for the author's own shelf. The regular edition was printed in 600 copies. This large paper copy is about 2 inches taller. A fascinating work on dialects in the north of England in a fine binding bearing the arms of the author. Vancil p 34; O'Neill B-198 Regular Issue printed by T. and J. Hodgson, for E. Charnley unknown

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

(ENGLISH REFORMATION). FULKE, WILLIAMBiblio.com

A REJOYNDER TO BRISTOWS REPLIE IN DEFENCE OF ALLENS SCROLL OF ARTICLES AND BOOKE OF PURGATORIE. ALSO THE CAUILS OF NICHOLAS SANDER D. IN DIUINITIE ABOUT THE SUPPER OF OUR LORD AND THE APOLOGIE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND TOUCHING THE DOCTRINE THEREOF

1581ST15633London: Printed by H. Middleton for George Bishop 1581. 168 x 110 mm. 6 5/8 x 4 1/4". 4 p.l. 792 pp. Contemporary flexible vellum yapp edges flat spine with ink titling front hinge reinforced with paper. Title page with early ink inscription of Richarde Grosvenor; front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Grosvenor's descendant Hugh Duke of Westminster dated 1884; front free endpaper with bookplate of the Fox Pointe Collection. STC 11448; ESTC S112728. ◆Vellum somewhat soiled small chip to head of rear cover a little soiling to title page isolated faint foxing or small rust spots but an unusually clean and fresh copy internally in a serviceable binding with antique appeal. This is an infrequently seen polemical treatise from the English Reformation addressing theological arguments over Purgatory and transubstantiation one of 21 such works Fulke 1528-89 produced to refute Roman Catholic attacks on the doctrines of the Church of England. According to DNB "Fulke conceived the project of answering all works of controversy written in English by papists since 1558 and of doing so by the technique of exhaustive rebuttal answering every point large and small made in the writings of his opponents. . . . Fulke was well equipped for this role by his vast erudition especially in patristic literature and his command of biblical and classical languages as well as his painstaking concern for accurate detail and the rules of logical argument." During the last decade of Fulke's life "no year passed without the appearance of one or more books by him in defence of Protestantism and in confutation of the church of Rome. His language was unmeasured and even in that age he was conspicuous for the virulence of his invective against his opponents. His learning was however extensive and sound and he was an able master of controversy." Our copy resided in the Grosvenor family library at Eaton Hall for more than 200 years and later passed into the Fox Pointe Collection of Howard Knohl who in the 1980s began collecting English language first editions from before 1700 amassing a library of more than 4000 titles one of the largest privately owned collections in this subject area. This is a rare book: ABPC and RBH find no other copies at auction since 1975; ESTC and OCLC locate just two copies in North American libraries. Printed by H. Middleton for George Bishop unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis4 992,00 $US≈ 4 223,73 €

(EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). (BINDINGS - LATE 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH). ROGERS, SAMUELBiblio.com

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TABLE-TALK OF SAMUEL ROGERS. TO WHICH IS ADDED PORSONIANA

1856ST17640sLondon: Edward Moxon 1856. Apparently the FIRST EDITION. 200 x 130 mm. 7 7/8 x 5 1/8". viii 355 pp. bound with the half title and with an inserted plate as frontispiece.Edited by Alexander Dyce. VERY PLEASING SLIGHTLY LATER DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO ATTRACTIVELY GILT covers with French fillet border and elegant botanical cornerpieces raised bands heavily gilt spine in compartments featuring elaborate scrolling cornerpieces an intricate fleuron centerpiece and tiny circlets turn-ins with plain and stippled rules and filigree gilt decoration at corners and midpoints of two sides textured silk brown and cream millefleur-patterned endpapers all edges gilt. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 55 PORTRAIT PLATES five in color all with tissue guards. Verso of the front free endpaper with the engraved bookplate of Robert B. Lawrence. A hint of browning to some of the inserted plates but A FINE AND HANDSOMELY BOUND COPY the text especially fresh clean and smooth and the binding bright and virtually unworn. This is a tastefully bound collection of anecdotes and witty banter recorded by poet Samuel Rogers whose private means made his gracious home in Westminster a gathering place for the poets and artists of the age. Scion of a wealthy banking family Rogers 1763-1855 achieved fame with the publication of "The Pleasures of Memory" in 1792. His friend Alexander Dyce who compiled the present work tells us in the preface that Rogers "was in the habit of writing down in all their minutiae the anecdotes &c. with which his conversation abounded." These records provide us with an intriguing glimpse of literary society in London in the first half of the 19th century. Our second work "Porsoniana" contains anecdotes about the "very eminent Greek scholar" Richard Porson 1759-1808 related to Dyce by that individual's close friend William Morby. This edition is one of at least three printings that were issued by Moxon in the initial publication year and it would seem to be the first appearance of the text. In any case our volume has the added feature of 55 inserted engravings of the persons discussed in the book. Although the binding is apparently unsigned the owner's bookplate on the front flyleaf is placed near enough to the top edge that it may be obscuring a stamped binder's signature. The work displayed here is certainly of high enough caliber to have been produced by Riviere or Zaehnsdorf. Edward Moxon unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis468,00 $US≈ 395,97 €

(FOREST LAWS - ENGLISH, 16TH CENTURY). MANWOOD, JOHNBiblio.com

A TREATISE AND DISCOURSE OF THE LAWES OF THE FORREST

1598ST20689London: Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton 1598. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION and First Edition under this Title. 192 x 139 mm. 7 5/8 x 5 1/2". 8 p.l. 154 162-65 159-67 1 blank 6 leaves. Errors in pagination but text complete. Late 19th century dark brown calf covers tooled in blind with plain rules and fleur-de-lys roll raised bands spine panels with small blind-stamped ornament black morocco label marbled endpapers neat repairs to ends of both joints. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Godfrey Wentworth Woolley Park. Beale T-413; Mellon/Podeschi 15; Schwerdt II 7; STC 17291; ESTC S111993. Extremities slightly rubbed boards a little chafed in spots text lightly pressed but not washed a bit of browning to edges and occasional minor marginal foxing or traces of corner creases but quite an excellent copy the text clean and still fresh throughout and the perfectly suitable binding with no significant wear. This is a pleasing country gentleman's copy of the first published treatise on the laws governing English forests. Our author the fittingly named woodsman John Manwood d. 1610 served as gamekeeper of Waltham Forest as well as a justice of the New Forest. DNB tells us that he was possibly a barrister at Lincoln's Inn which would explain his interest in and knowledge of the law. Manwood tells us in the dedicatory epistle that he composed the present work in response to the precarious state of forest preservation stating that "so many do daily so contemptuously commit such heynous spoiles and trespasses" against the country's woodlands but "verie little or nothing as yet is extant concerning the Lawes of the Forrest" to help manage such behaviors. Our copy comes from the first published edition following only the 1592 pamphlet entitled "A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest" issued for private circulation and now extraordinarily rare. According to DNB the present treatise is "the only substantial work on the subject ever to reach the press" making it an enduringly useful source for those interested in the topics contained which include laws about hunting and perambulation in forests. It remained the standard work on the subject until the 19th century and Schwerdt writes that it has been "invaluable to students and lovers of ancient sport." Our copy is from the library of Yorkshire landowner Godfrey Wentworth 1773-1834 who served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire from 1796-97 and in the House of Commons from 1806-08. He probably had no need for a later printing of the work. Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis3 016,00 $US≈ 2 551,84 €

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