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1832930Q24London: John Turrill 1832 . First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5". None. An exceptionally scarce first edition of Robert Montgomery's epic poem 'The Messiah' in six books. The first edition.Very scarce work. 'The Messiah' is an epic poem in six books written by English poet and minister Robert Montgomery. As with the author's other publications this work centralises on the theme of religion with vivid imagery and elaborate language. 'The Messiah' tells the story of the life death and resurrection of Jesus Christ with each book presenting different aspects of Christ's life including his birth teachings miracles and crucifixion. With eleven pages containing a list subscribers to the front of the work and one page of publisher's advertisements to the front and rear.Bookplate of the John Scott Lord Eldon. Bound in cloth with the original spine label. Blanks and endpapers retained. Externally sound with bumping to the extremities and the odd mark to cloth. Backstrip is lifting with cracks along each joint. A little loss to backstrip extremities. Bookplate to front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with light scattered spotting. The occasional page is unopened including title page. Loss to the first two leaves of the list of subscribers not affecting text. Good John Turrill hardcover
1828LTH22-E-17London: Longman Rees Orme and Co. 1828. Fine Binding. Near Fine. 6.5" by 4". None. A finely bound collection of poetry by James Montgomery. The third edition of Montgomery's long poem The Pelican Island and other poems. Published the same year as the first edition. The Pelican Island is nine cantos of descriptive blank verse. This collection has an additional twenty-eight poems by Montgomery. James Montgomery was a Scottish poet known mostly for his hymn writing and editing. Aside from his literary endeavours Montgomery was associated with several humanitarian campaigns such as the abolition of slavery and ending the exploitation of child chimney sweeps. In a full straight grained morocco binding. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear to the extremities and joints. A few marks to boards. Minor tidemark to front pastedown and front endpaper. Gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper 'H Kay the Gift of a Dear Friend'. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spots to the first and last few pages and the odd spot throughout. Near Fine Longman, Rees, Orme and Co. unknown
1839557693London: J.Cunningham Peterborough Court Fleet Street 1839. This Paper board bound book contains Manfrone; or The One Handed Monk : A Romance dated on title page 1839 by author Mary Anne Radcliffe Bound in with The Infidel's Doom Or Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico dated 1840 by author Dr Bird. Along with A Four Page Short Story Entitled The Field of Terror no title page for date or author.Please Email for further details. Stewardson . First Edition. Paper Boards. Very Good AVERAGE/No Jacket. Illus. by Not Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. J.Cunningham , Peterborough Court , Fleet Street Hardcover
1895018728New York: Francis P. Harper 1895. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First edition thus. Octavo 8vo. Three volume set. Original matching green cloth bindings in very good condition with minor bumping to two corners minor shelfwear and slight discoloration to the spine of the 2nd volume. Vol. I: cxiii 356 pages with portrait and facsimile. Vol. II: vi 357-855. Vol. III: 856-955 plus plate of the Falls of St. Anthony and 6 lithographed folding maps in rear pocket two of which are somewhat browned on one panel as a natural effect of offsetting from the binding material inside the pocket. An excellent edition of one of the first explorations of the American West and Southwest. See Wagner-Camp 9. Howes P373 aa "best edition." Limited to 1150 copies; this is number 946 printed on Fine Book Paper. The inner front hinge of the first volume is somewhat weakened and the title page was re-attached. Many pages in the 2nd and 3rd volumes are uncut and unopened. First thus edition. Francis P. Harper Hardcover books
1827138762London: S. P. C. K. 1827. 1st edition. Nice copy. 12mo. full leather xii 264pp. Ferguson 1134. The subject of The Pelican Island was suggested by a passage in Captain Flinders's Voyage to Terra Australis. Describing one of these numerous gulfs which indent the coast of New Holland and are thickly spotted with small islands.' Full green calf with inner gilt borders. Five raised bands at spine with gilt titles & date marbled endpapers. A small and magnificent Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding S. P. C. K. hardcover
1860258259London: Routledge Warne & Routledge Farrington Street 1860. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster J. Wolf John Gilbert William Harvey Duncan and others engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Publisher's presentation binding of full green morocco covers with bevelled edges gilt a.e.g. Some rubbing to binding retouched else fine. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster J. Wolf John Gilbert William Harvey Duncan and others engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. A pretty copy in a publisher's deluxe presentation binding with a Christmas inscription by the engravers the Daziel brothers to Mrs William Warne the widow of the publisher William Warne d. 1859. Routledge, Warne & Routledge, Farrington Street unknown
1860258259London: Routledge Warne & Routledge Farrington Street 1860. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster J. Wolf John Gilbert William Harvey Duncan and others engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Publisher's presentation binding of full green morocco covers with bevelled edges gilt a.e.g. Some rubbing to binding retouched else fine. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster J. Wolf John Gilbert William Harvey Duncan and others engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Inscribed by the Daziel Brothers on Christmas Eve to the Publisher's Widow. A pretty copy in a publisher's deluxe presentation binding with a Christmas inscription by the engravers the Daziel brothers to Mrs William Warne the widow of the publisher William Warne d. 1859. Routledge, Warne & Routledge, Farrington Street unknown books
18402307812London: Ball Arnold & Co 1840. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. New edition revised seventh edition and fourth edition respectively. Both volumes feature idyllic fore-edge paintings: the first of a woman and a boy holding hands as they walk a road with large trees on either side in the foreground and copses of trees in the distance; the second depicts two figures rowing a canoe down a stream with a village in the distance. Each appears to be by the same artist. Corners a bit rubbed with evidence of minor restoration to spine head and foot ink name on front endpaper of each volume. 1840 Small Hard Cover. xi 171; 208 12 pp. 12mo. Volumes one and two of what was ultimately a six-volume set of Montgomery's collected poems. The presence of fore-edge paintings on these volumes is somewhat unusual as traditionally this was done on leather-bound volumes often quite a bit larger than these and the practice in general was considerably more common in the 18th century and earlier. That being said these are ably done so it is clear that they are not the work of an amateur and it is possible someone commissioned a contemporary artist to do the entire set and these are the volumes that remain. His poetry while it sold well during his lifetime is remembered best as the victim of excoriating reviews by John Wilson in Blackwood's and Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review. Ball, Arnold, & Co hardcover books
18891112720Boston MA: E.W. Walker & Co. Good copies hardcover 2 volume set 1004 pp. Numerous b&w illustrations. Lavishly illustrated work containing numerous chapters on many of the most signifcant American artists of the late nineteenth century including Walter Shirlaw William Morris Hunt Elihu Vedder Frederick Bridgman William Merritt Chase Carl Wimar J. Francis Murphy J. Wells Champney Albert Bierstadt Sanford Gifford J. Carroll Beckwith Winslow Homer Frederick Edwin Church George Inness Thomas Moran A. F Bellows and many other figures both major and minor. Includes hundreds of illustrations in various media among which are a total of nineteen etchings by S. J. Ferris W. Wellstood J. D. Smillie William Unger R. Swain Gifford Stephen Parrish Henry Farrer Anna Lee Merritt F. S. Church Charles A. Platt Peter Moran and Samuel Coleman. Vol I-Artists included: Dailey Garrett Smillie & others; ext. Illus essays on W. Shirlow Huntington Swain Gifford Wm. Merrit Chase also good info on later 19th c. Artists-many hard to find also Linton"s history of wood engraving in American in 8 parts. Cincinatti Artists of the Munich School. 32 etchings photo etchings and steel plates; 105 full page wide cut illus.; 280 illustrations-528 pages. Vol II-artists included: John Trumbull Ch. Hassam-Wallston H. P. Barnes etc. ext. Essays on F. S. Church J. Wells Champney Alex H. Wyant F. Duvenech etc. All four corners on both volumes rubbed On Volume I - small piece missing on top of spine spine rubbed. On Volume II - piece missing from bottom spine approx. 3/4" x 1/2". Gold stamping on both front covers are bright and legible. Copies of the original in any condition are now hard to find. This set of books will provide hours and hours of learning for the American Art scholar collector and enthusiast. . Good. Hardcover. 1889. E.W. Walker & Co. hardcover
1832002106Boston: Crocker & Brewster 1832 Deputed from the London Missionary Society to visit their Various Stations in the South Sea Islands China India etc. between the Years 1821 and 1829. From the first London edition revised by an American editor. Three volumes bound in faded cloth with paper spine labels 273 287 and 293 pp. Set is a marriage with volume 3 darker. Each volume is foxed. Volume 1 with a large part of label perished. Volume 3 with a library bookplate inside front cover and the first few leaves damp stained. First American edition from the First London. Crocker & Brewster hardcover
1837000885<p>London: Sherwood Gilbert and Piper PaterNoster Row 1837. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition octavo; xxiv 344pp together with full complement of 12 plates 11 of which are hand-coloured. Bound in nineteenth century half leather over marbled boards respined in brown cloth retaining original leather spine label binding lightly worn with minor loss to extremities nineteenth century class marks and ink stamps to front pastedown and title page Edinburgh Medical College Library overstamped with later 'Withdrawn' stamps a clean complete copy of this well illustrated and scarce first edition. <br /><br /></p> Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, PaterNoster Row hardcover
187422814Utah 1874. First printing. Ephemera. Very good condition. A rare complimentary pass for the Morman-built Utah Central Railroad a company founded by Brigham Young to connect Salt Lake City to the First Transcontinental Railroad 40 miles to the north in Ogden. The building of the spur was the critical link connecting Salt Lake City to the national rail system and the outside world. The engraved pass permitted Gen'l Meigs & Son dated January 8 1874 and signed by John Sharp. It reads "to Ogden and return". On the verso are "Conditions under with this ticket is issued" describing the company's policy in case of injury or loss of baggage.<br /> <br /> Union Pacific Railroad officials had declined to build the transcontinental line through Salt Lake City a decision which displeased Brigham Young. He formed his own company the Utah Central Railroad which was incorporated in 1869. The spur was completed in January 1870. Brigham Young attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Utah Central held in Ogden in 1869 digging the first shovel full of dirt. In 1870 he hammered in the final commemorative spike with the words "Holiness to the Lord" engraved on it. Four years later when this complimentary pass was written out to the distinguished passenger General Montgomery Meigs the general was still serving as Quartermaster General of the Army. Meigs is recognized for his exemplary role as supplier in chief for the North during the Civil War. In just one year following the First Battle of Bull Run 1861 with no effective system yet in place Meigs set up the complete supply chain to feed and support the Union war effort. Meigs notably worked out the transportation for the shifting supply lines via wagon and railroad.<br /> <br /> The Utah Central appears to have operated primarily a commercial line in its early years. Newspaper accounts from the early 1870s the Utah Mining Gazette show the acquisition of railroad materials including locomotives cars and rail. This 1874 complimentary pass for General Meigs has a surprisingly low number -- it is numbered 130 -- for a railroad spur which had been completed four years earlier. The line perhaps carried few complimentary passengers as it worked to establish itself. In November 1872 the line acquired a new locomotive made by Hinkley & Williams of Boston at a cost of $14000 Deseret Evening News November 7 1872. By 1878 Union Pacific gained control of Utah Central. Union Pacific combined the shares owned by its officers and directors with the shares it had previously purchased from Brigham Young 5000 of Brigham Young's original 7600 shares. <br /> <br /> John Sharp 1820 - 1891 was Brigham Young's personal representative as well as representative of the LDS Church in transcontinental railroad construction negotiations with the Union Pacific Railroad. Sharp became an officer for the Utah Central Railroad and the Utah Southern Railroad and a director for the Union Pacific Railroad Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution Deseret Telegraph Company and Deseret National Bank.<br /> <br /> Engraved decorative border with the name of the railroad engraved in elaborate font. 4 3/4 x 3 1/4". Original folds with the original ticket punch at the right side small crease left corner some toning at verso. unknown
189517977New York: Francis P. Harper 1895. 1st. First Edition Thus Limited No. 1047 of 1150 copies. Large 8vo. cxiii 356; vi 357-855; 857-955 Index pp. Plates; maps 6 folding in rear pocket of Volume III. A new edition; now first reprinted in full from the original of 1810 with copious critical commentary memoir of Pike new map and other illustrations and complete index. Dark green ribbed cloth with gilt lettering; deckled page edges; some pages uncut. Light wear to extremities; age toning to verso of three folding maps; a near fine set. The first report of a U.S. government expedition into the Southwest. First printed in 1810 "Scholars have preferred the 1895 edition for its annotations clarity and appended documents." - Rittenhouse 467. Coues said of Pike's narratives that their "effect was enormous; their results proved far-reaching; and some of these are still in evidence.and will endure.so long as any interested in the beginnings of our Great West finds a place in the hearts of the people."- Basic Texas Books 163. Howes P373. Francis P. Harper unknown
18976531United Kingdom: Unpublished 1897. Hardcover. Good. ff 245; 535 photographs. Massive folio journal recording the evangelical 'Beach Missions' and indefatigable preaching to poor children of George and Montgomery Goodman who were members of the Children's Special Service Mission later the Scripture Union. Bound in half red morocco with the backstrip leather largely absent upper hinge slightly tender. Goodman was has used a Partridge and Cooper ledger label inside upper cover about 3 inches thick with the manuscript title page: 'Illustrated Diary of Passing Events Containing 535 Illustrations' and a mixture of black ink entries and small and large original photograps taken by Montgomery who makes repeated reference to his interest in photography as on Relief of Mafeking Day: 'Outside the Mansion House was a huge crowd many thousands strong cheering and singing patriotic songs all day - it was hopeless to attemt to use a camera in it so I got permission to stand at the window. From this elevated position I led the crowd in three cheers!'. The most striking sections of the journal concern the trips out of London undertaken by Montgomery his well-known brother George Goodman and family members to their beach missions mostly along the East Anglian coast at Sheringham Frinton-on-Sea. One such 'sand cathedral' was erected at Lowestoft in August 1898 where Goodman describes the lively activities that drew in young people: 'Bible searching competitions and the Gospel Ship. This last was a service in which we had one object a model of a ship from which several of us said a few words one speaking of the helm another of the Captain the Chart the Compass the sails etc drawing lessons from each.' with more formal services by Mr Inglis Fleming. Goodman describes the experience of preaching himself at Lowestoft: 'The boys and girls listened to my address with marked attention though I did not experience great joy in speaking. I took for my subject "Three seekers."' Every aspect of the family's evangelical work is recorded in this journal which actually begins with a 50 page account of a holiday to South American in 1897 Buenos Aires Rosario up the Parana River to San Lorenzo San Bernardino and Bonnemont recorded in photographs and text. The first of the journal's missions was 'at Kenyon Chapel' now Brixton Baptist Chapel setting a pattern that follows for perhaps a hundred similar mission accounts recorded in detailed and often moving descriptions: 'George Goodman was holding a Mission for Children at Brixton and I went each night to assist him. The attendance was good there was earnest attention each evening to the Gospel message. The Pastor Rev James Douglas was deeply in sympathy and was present nearly every evening. We had a crowded little after-meeting in the Vestry when some who had been blessed at the previous mission four years ago were present and gave short testimony. It was a good time.' Easter 1898 was spent at Bentham in Hampshire with a sequence of poems by George Goodman and images of Bentley Mill pp 57-63. Goodman records a Westminster mission at 'Agricultural hall Mission of Rev. John MacNeil' p66 where 'A large staff of Christian workers had been gathered from all parts of London and these under the direction of Rev Snow of Islington were engaged in dealing with the anxious. doubters scoffers infidels and seeking minds. There is no doubt that the mission was greatly blessed of god.' Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1897 Unpublished hardcover
184997BAU501U79OLondon 1849. 8vo. T. Brettell for T. and W. Boone Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth title in gold on spine. With a large folding lithographed map by James Wild hand-coloured in outline and a woodengraving of an "Indian village at the Red River settlement". VII 175 pp. added: 26 pp. Second edition of an interesting investigation of the policy conduct and operations of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Pacific coast and in the Canadian north-west by the historian and statistician Robert Montgomery Martin 1803-1868. The Company was founded in 1670 and originally traded in fur but also functioned as a de facto goverment in North America. In the 19th century the company grew and traded all sorts of wares. The first chapter deals with the geography and climate of the area the second with the "constitution and working of the Hudson's Bay Company" the third with "the Indian population their numbers character and treatment by the Hudson's Bay Company" and the fourth with the "christian conduct and beneficent policy of the Hudson's Bay Company" closing with a summary.With a presentation inscription on title-page by the author. With library/deaccession stamps. Bookblock detached from binding but otherwise in very good conditiona and wholly untrimmed.l DNB XXXVI pp. 293-294; Sabin 44915. ABE CAT Alaska Canada & Greenland hardcover
1825016428Bath: Printed By B. Higman 1825. Book measures 17.5x111.cm. vii150pp half title. Bound in modern quarter calf retaining the period boards gilt bands leather label. Boards rubbed with abrasion wear minor loss on edges dirt marked. Binding in very good condition. Internally minor wear on endpapers small stain mark on one page. Pages in good clean condition. Montgomery first publishers book. F. Hardcover. Very Good. Small Quarto. Printed By B. Higman Hardcover
1847187513London: James Madden 1847. First edition of this historical survey and analysis of the British position in China. The author served as Colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1845 but resigned following a disagreement with superiors over the prospects of the colony Martin saw Hong Kong as doomed to failure. He was also a staunch critic of the opium trade. Throughout his professional career Martin c.1802-1868 wrote extensively on colonial matters. "His life was dominated by a self-appointed task - the study of the British empire which Martin saw in terms of a vast free-trade area of new territories in allegiance to the British crown" ODNB. In his dedication to Queen Victoria he describes the development of Hong Kong as a "wasteful application of Your Majesty's treasury. and an erroneous course of national policy." An advertisement in the text gives a print-run of 2000 copies. 2 vols octavo. Vol. I with large folding map hand-coloured in outline as frontispiece 4 folding tables 2 folding maps 6 pp. publisher's advertisements at end of Vol. II. Vol. I with bifolium of publisher's advertisements dated December 1846 tipped to front free endpaper as issued. Original blue cloth spine stamped in blind and lettered in gilt boards panelled in blind front covers with gilt arms yellow coated endpapers edges untrimmed. 1847 ownership inscription of James Thomas Horner 1816-1889 in Vol. I; black ink stamp of James Thomas and Mary Horner 1823-c.1899 in Vol. II. Spines sunned front inner hinge of Vol. I tender inner hinges in Vol. II sometime strengthened with adhesive frontispiece with old adhesive tape repair: a very good set indeed. Cordier 84; Löwendahl 1069; Lust 569. hardcover
184750719Montgomery AL: M'Cormick & Walshe printers 1847. 8vo. 22 pp. Original printed yellow wrappers; lightly foxed but very good. <br/><br/>First separate edition. With three pencil annotations by the author amounting to approximately 100 words each refining his observations and arguments; one manuscript ink correction. Not in Ellison or Owen. Recorded on OCLC but without giving locations. <br/><br/> M'Cormick & Walshe, printers unknown books
188011280Hillsboro Ohio: Highland News Office 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. 12mo 290pp. The final section of the book has its own separate title page which reads: "The Escape and Re-Capture of Maj. J. A. Bering and Lieut. EW. J. Srofe with Prison Life at Camp Ford Texas from Oct. 12th 1864 to May 17th 1865." About very good in the publisher's reddish-brown cloth stamped in blind with gilt spine title. Boards mildly dust-soiled with some scuffing to the spine ends and a few small dings. The cheap paper stock is evenly age-toned and the front inner hinge is tender but holding. A presentation copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Bering on the front paste-down to a fellow soldier who endured some of the events described in the book: "Presented to J. L. Day in memory of the days spent together at Camp Ford Prison Texas by the author J. A. Bering. Lynchburg Ohio Nov 16 / 83." The previous owner almost certainly Day himself has marginally emphasized a few places in the prison narrative indicating situations that he either remembered or personally witnessed. The various companies of the 48th contain several soldiers with the last name day but no "J. L." We suspect that he must have belong to another unit which was being held at Camp Ford around the same time as the 48th Ohio. The 48th Ohio Infantry Regiment was initially organized in October of 1861 near Cincinnati and mustered out on May 10 1866. During the war the unit saw action at a number of key events including Shiloh Corinth Vicksburg and the Red River Campaign. The regiment was captured at the Battle of Mansfield also known as the Battle of Sabine Crossroads in April 1864. <br /> <br /> This regimental history is rare in the trade and significant not just for its detailed account of the unit but also for its account of a Confederate prison. The last copy we could trace in commerce was offered by Ernest Wessen in 1960 who described it as "quite rare." OCLC lists a healthy number of holdings however the records are hopelessly muddled with a number of digital-only holdings under the same accession number. <br /> <br /> A rare presentation copy of a very scarce Ohio regimental history important in any collection of Civil War unit histories. Ryan 50. Nevins I p. 58. Highland News Office hardcover
188137661Oakland CA 1881. 21 3 pp. Frontis portrait of Dr. LeFevre. Stitched in original printed pink wrappers. Light wrapper wear couple of closed margin tears wear along spine slight discoloration. A pristine text. Near Fine. The final three pages print the prospectus of Family's Defender "An Independent Non-Partisan Non-Sectarian Monthly Magazine and Educational Review."<br /> <br /> "This is another case of a husband's shooting a man suspected of being his wife's lover and getting away with it" McDade. Montgomery this pamphlet's author was hired specially to prosecute Schroder. He had recently retired after a long successful career as a trial lawyer in order to devote his energies to reform in public education. But this case induced him to return to the legal wars: "Dr. LeFevre had for many years been my dentist my client and my friend . I believed him to have been foully murdered by an assassin who after killing him was seeking to destroy his reputation by falsely charging him with the seduction of his wife in order to paliate the murder." Angered by this libel upon his now defenseless friend he decided to "assist in the prosecution of the murderer." He did so without fee.<br /> However his efforts-- "to vindicate the good name of the slandered dead and to assist to the extent of my humble ability in protecting society against a repetition of similar deeds of blood in the future"-- failed: Schroder a man "considerably addicted to playing cards and speculation in stocks" was acquitted. In fact says Montgomery Schroder committed an "unmerciful beating of his wife" to force her to testify to a "criminal intercourse with Dr. Le Fevre" that had never occurred. And LeFevre in his dying declaration said that Schroder had murdered him "without any cause!" <br /> McDade 589. Rocq 923. Cowan 439. unknown
18343577London: John Turrill 1834. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bound in black calf with blind stamped decorative border. Gilt raised bands and black spine label. Edges are rubbed. Front hinge is cracking but otherwise binding is tight. Pages are age tanned with occasional foxing. Wonderful hand coloured engravings by well known artists such as William Etty John Martin and Benjamin Haydon. Previous owners's dedication dated 1875 on the flyleaf. A beautiful copy of this very rare book. 1834 John Turrill hardcover
1834ST12776bLondon: John Turrill 1834. Fourth Edition. 191 x 121 mm. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4". xi i pp. 2 leaves 300 pp. <br/> Appealing 19th century black straight-grain morocco covers with a gilt filigree and blind-rolled frame raised bands spine compartments gilt with curling cornerpieces and lancet tools radiating from a central circle black morocco label blind-rolled turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With extra chromolithographed "missal" title page woodcut tailpiece by John Franklin and 10 COLOR LITHOGRAPHS mounted on heavy stock three of these by John Martin The Temptation The Sermon on the Mount and The Remorse of Judas all lithographs with captioned tissue guards. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate bearing the motto "Soli Possumus Facere Nihil" front free endpaper with animated engraved bookplate of George Oliver Clark with the added inscription "To 'Nona' and Michele with 'Didi's' love - Jan. 21 1948." Joints a little rubbed part of the front joint with thin crack spine gilt a little muted corners very slightly worn but the binding without any serious condition issues and definitely pleasing. Isolated faint spots internally but the text and plates generally very clean and fresh.<br/> <br/> This verse retelling of the life of Christ is enhanced with very attractive color lithographs by leading illustrators and presented in a pleasing appropriately somber binding. Foremost among the illustrators represented is John Martin 1789-1854 who began his career modestly as a provincial painter of coats of arms on the coaches of the nobility and ended up being one of the most popular English artists of the 19th century. He studied under the Italian artist Bonifacio Musso and moved to London with his master in 1806. He first exhibited a painting at the Royal Academy in 1812 selling it for 50 guineas and this was followed by a series of other exhibited works most of them huge canvases showing classical or biblical themes some of which carried off substantial monetary prizes. Of particular note was his painting of "Belshazzar's Feast" for which he was awarded £200 in 1821. His illustrations for the present work stand out from the other plates by their scope and grandeur: while most of the other artists chose to portray more intimate scenes the figures in Martin's works are quite small surrounded by imposing mountains towers and sweeping clouds. Humanity is dwarfed by the awe-inspiring divine. In addition to being a painter Martin was a major mezzotint engraver and it was as an engraver that he became immensely popular with the public it was also as an engraver that he earned the largest share of his income. His mezzotint illustrations for American publisher Septimus Prowett's edition of Milton's "Paradise Lost" are perhaps his best and certainly his best-known works. The author of the present book Robert Montgomery 1807-55 was a great admirer of Martin lauding him as "a second Milton" and he was no doubt extremely pleased to have his work illustrated by such an artist. Montgomery rose from very humble beginnings to become a clergyman in the Church of England and a bestselling author of devotional texts. Although incurring the contempt of critics--one describing the author as "a byword for all that is vacant vague and inane"--Montgomery produced religious epics that found an enthusiastic readership among what DNB calls "a large and relatively new class of readers whose tastes and expectations were very different from those of the cultural élite." This work shows up in the marketplace occasionally but it is almost always found in a restored binding and/or in unpleasant condition. John Turrill unknown
1809181771London: for R. Bowyer by T. Bensley 1809. Slave-trade abolition as a triumph of the liberal nation and empire First edition published to celebrate the 1807 abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire comprising three long poems: Montgomery's "The West Indies" Grahame's "Africa Delivered" and Benger's "A Poem Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade". "James Montgomery James Grahame and E. Benger rejoiced in slave-trade abolition as a triumph of the liberal nation and empire in Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1809. The book was intended to 'popularly commemorate' the 'illustrious act of the British Legislature' as the printer's advertisement announced. The abolition bill had 'vindicated our religion and our laws'. Not only was it evidence of 'the dignity of the British Empire' but it had also 'extended its influence to the. universal interest of mankind'. Dedicated to the 'Society for Bettering the Condition of the Natives of Africa' the compilation of poems celebrated the spread of Britannia's liberty to desperate Africa. The book stressed how civilized Britannia had saved heathen Africa by ending the slave trade venerating an Anglo-American pantheon of white abolitionists and downplaying the continued horrors of West Indian plantation slavery. Indeed the compilation celebrated the end of the trade as if it were the end of slavery itself" Gibbs p. 95. The engravings after paintings by Smirke include now well-known images. Smirke had made his reputation with his Shakespearean illustrations - in contemporary sales his art was out-priced only by Reynolds - but George III refused to accept him as keeper of the Royal Academy in 1804 on account of his democratic principles. Montgomery's poem was subsequently published separately and proved hugely popular. Quarto 288 x 227 mm pp. 14 ii 141 1. Engraved title by A. Raimbach after R. Smirke 3 engraved medallion portraits of abolitionists Sharp Clarkson and Wilberforce by W. Worthington after models by Catherine Andras and 9 engraved plates by E. Scriven and Worthington after Smirke one of which used as frontispiece. Contemporary half calf rebacked with red morocco label marbled sides. Slight wear to edges a little light toning and foxing. A very good copy. Sabin 50145. Jenna M. Gibbs Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery Theater and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia 1760-1850 2014. unknown
1809190239London: for R. Bowyer by T. Bensley 1809. Slave-trade abolition as a triumph of the liberal nation and empire First edition published to celebrate the 1807 abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire comprising three long poems: Montgomery's "The West Indies" Grahame's "Africa Delivered" and Benger's "A Poem Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade". "James Montgomery James Grahame and E. Benger rejoiced in slave-trade abolition as a triumph of the liberal nation and empire in Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1809. The book was intended to 'popularly commemorate' the 'illustrious act of the British Legislature' as the printer's advertisement announced. The abolition bill had 'vindicated our religion and our laws'. Not only was it evidence of 'the dignity of the British Empire' but it had also 'extended its influence to the. universal interest of mankind'. Dedicated to the 'Society for Bettering the Condition of the Natives of Africa' the compilation of poems celebrated the spread of Britannia's liberty to desperate Africa. The book stressed how civilized Britannia had saved heathen Africa by ending the slave trade venerating an Anglo-American pantheon of white abolitionists and downplaying the continued horrors of West Indian plantation slavery. Indeed the compilation celebrated the end of the trade as if it were the end of slavery itself" Gibbs p. 95. The engravings after paintings by Smirke include now well-known images. Smirke had made his reputation with his Shakespearean illustrations - in contemporary sales his art was out-priced only by Reynolds - but George III refused to accept him as keeper of the Royal Academy in 1804 on account of his democratic principles. Montgomery's poem was subsequently published separately and proved hugely popular; he is best remembered today as a hymn writer. The Scottish lawyer turned cleric and poet James Grahame was great-uncle of Kenneth Grahame author of The Wind in the Willows. Elizabeth Benger merely "E. Benger" here struggled to forge a literary career trying various genres including poetry before later finding success with historical biographies of royal women paving the way for others such as the Strickland sisters and Mary Anne Everett Green. Quarto 300 x 241 mm. Engraved title by A. Raimbach after R. Smirke 3 engraved medallion portraits of abolitionists Sharp Clarkson and Wilberforce by W. Worthington after models by Miss C. Andras and 9 engraved plates by E. Scriven and Worthington after Smirke. Recent blue pebbled quarter morocco marbled sides and endpapers top edge trimmed others uncut. 20th-century signature to tissue guard and engraved title 19th-century library stamp of Bibliotheque Du Roi Neuilly to letterpress title. Repair to tear at foot of title plates a little browned and foxed. A good copy. Sabin 50145. Jenna M. Gibbs Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery Theater and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia 1760-1850 2014. unknown
1834W30905London: John Turrill 1834. Red morocco spine gilt professionally rebacked over marbled boards with matching marbled end papers. 5 raised bands. Edges red sprinkled. 10 color tissue titled plates plus a color missal title. Woodcut on p. 246 of The Crucifixion by John Franklin. Lithographic luminous plates colored under the direction of Charles Simpson and they are splendid. Fourth Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. John Turrill Hardcover books
