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1788003753C. Taylor. SHELLEY Samuel after. TAYLOR Charles sculp. Plutus. London Published Sept. 7 1788 by C. Taylor No. 20 near Castle Street Holborn. Stipple engraving printed in brown ink 210 × 165 mm sheet. Oval bust portrait within rectangular plate mark; after a design by Samuel Shelley engraved by Charles Taylor. With engraved title and line below: "Just like our purse-proud fellows here." Wide margins; clear plate mark. Minor scuff to lower right corner of sheet not affecting the image; otherwise in very good condition. Issued as part of Taylor's late-1780s series of literary and allegorical heads. The subject derives from John Gay's poem Plutus Cupid and Time. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1788. C. Taylor paperback
1786003752C. Taylor. SHELLEY Samuel after. TAYLOR Charles sculp. The Bard. London Published May 1 1786 by C. Taylor No. 20 near Castle Street Holborn. Stipple engraving printed in brown ink 210 × 165 mm sheet. Oval bust portrait within rectangular plate mark; after a design by Samuel Shelley engraved by Charles Taylor. With engraved title and quotation below: "Visions of glory! spare my aching sight / Ye unborn ages crowd not on my soul." Gray's Ode. Wide margins; clear plate mark. Very small loss to upper right corner of sheet well clear of image; otherwise clean and well-preserved. Very good. One of a series of literary and allegorical heads published by Taylor in the later 1780s. The image represents the prophetic Welsh bard of Thomas Gray's 1757 ode addressing Edward I Plantagenet King from the mountains of Snowdonia. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1786. C. Taylor paperback
178925701789. Stipple engraving. 255mm by 190mm platemark. John Shortland 1739-1803 was appointed naval agent to the transports of the First Fleet in 1786. Shortland's squadron the first to reach Botany Bay arrived on 17 January 1788. Shortland remained at Port Jackson until 14 July when he sailed for England in the Alexander carrying the first dispatches of Governor Phillip to the secretary of state. <br /> From 'The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay . to which are added the journals of Lieuts Shortland Watts and others.' published by Stockdale.Shelley was an English miniaturist and watercolour painter. unknown
1713961P14London: J. Philips; W. Taylor; J. Knapton 1713. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A scarce textbook of arithmetic by Edmund Wingate an enduring work on the subject which was oft-reprinted. A scarce work.First published in 1630 as 'Of Natural and Artificiall Arithmetique' this is a useful textbook for arithmetic done in a "plain and familiar method". With chapters on vulgar fractions decimal fractions the extraction of roots and more.By Edmund Wingate a seventeenth century mathematical and legal writer who was one of the first to publish on the principle of the slide rule.The thirteenth edition with expansions and additions by John Kersey and George Shelley.Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to the front paste down. Hayhurst inherited and improved a group of success retail pharmacies in Lancashire John Hayhurst & Son. Label to the Dalton Hall Library to the front paste down. In the original calf binding. Externally generally smart. Light marks to the boards. A little light rubbing to the spine and extremities. Small tears to the head and tail of the joints. Minor bumping to the extremities. Small chip to the head of the rear board. Hinges are starting but firm. Two bookplates to the front paste down. Ink to the rear paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Good J. Philips; W. Taylor; J. Knapton hardcover
