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John Price Antiquarian Books 8 Cloudesley Square London N1 0Ht England Tel JOHN PRICE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS 8 CLOUDESLEY SQUARE LONDON N1 0HT ENGLAND TEL. 020-7837-8008 [email protected] plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose POETRY IN ENGLISH, 1717 TO 1855: 30 ITEMS PRICES IN POUNDS STERLING; POSTAGE EXTRA 28 MAY 2021 SUBSCRIBER'S COPY 1 ASHBY (Samuel): Miscellaneous Poems. The Illustrious Friends; Address to Music and Poesy, &c. &c. London: Printed for W. Miller..., 1794. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 245 x 190 mms., pp. xiv [xv Contents, xvi blank], 158, including list of subscribers, recently rebound in quarter calf, raised bands between gilt rules, morocco label, marbled boards; text washed but remains of large stain (approximately one quarter of each leaf, lower left-hand corner) persist to about page 66. With the contemporary autograph of the M. P., Edward Monckton, one of the subscribers, on the title-page. Monckton also subscribed to Leigh Hunt's Juvenilia (1803). £750 Ashby is unknown to ODNB, but he was a native of Bungay, and many of the subscribers are from East Anglia. The poems include "Reply to the Goitre," "The Captive Fly," "The Anniversary of Belinda's Birth-Day," and concludes with "Address to Music and Poesy." One poem, "Event in Scotland," seems curiously mis-named, as it is a rape narrative, in which a Youth, who "glows with wild desire" pursues the daughter of Acasto, a Scottish laird (apparently), who, in repelling him, throws herself off a precipice to her death. Whether this alludes to an actual "event" (hence the title) or is intended to be an allegory in the manner of the next poems, "Bride-Cake; An Allegorical Vision" is unclear. In these isles, ESTC T39429 locates copies at BL and Oxbridge, then only the Suffolk Record Office. The ESTC locates four copies in the United States (American Philosophical Society, Princeton, University of Minnesota, Yale) and one copy in Australia (National Library). OCLC adds only Indiana 2 BAKER (Henry): The Universe. A Poem. Intended To restrain the Pride of Man. By Mr. Baker. London: Printed for T. Worrall..., [no date] [1734]. 8vo, 187 x 117 mms., pp. 8, 40 [41 - 48 adverts], engraved frontispiece (detaching at upper margin); disbound; corners creased. £250 Baker (1698 - 1774) will be remembered by collectors and scholars as the author of two books on the microscope, The Microscope Made Easy (1742) and Employment for the Microscope (1753). Later editions of this work put the word “Philosophical” before “Poem.” The work was reprinted several times in the 18th century and in 1808, with notes by A. Crocker, with the reviewer in The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1809 commenting that “The versification of Mr. Baker is of the good old school, that of Dryden 1 and Prior. Though somewhat negligent, it has in parts a force and freedom which followers of Pope have vainly endeavoured to unite with their more regular harmony.” ODNB in its article on Baker refers an edition of 1727 as the first publication of the poem. ESTC does not list this edition. OCLC refers to a digital version “ Printed for T. Morral [sic]” published in 1727 and 19840508 locates three copies, Colorado at Denver, Michigan, and Princeton. These copies are also undated and lack the adverts. However, 1727 as a conjectural date is probably wrong. See G. R. Potter’s note on the dating of the work in Modern Philology (1932), 29, 3; 301 - 321. VERY RARE POETRY FROM THE ROMANTIC ERA PRINTED IN THE LAKE DISTRICT: THREE COPIES FOUND (ALL IN U.K.) 3 BRIGGS (John): Poems. On Various Subjects. Ulverston: Printed for the Author by J. Soulby..., 1818. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 185 x 166 mms., pp. viii, 142 [143 "Address," 144 blank], including half-title and list of subscribers, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, marbled boards; bookplate on front paste-down end- paper with name scored out and "Braithwaite" in pencil beneath, but a very good to fine copy. £500 Briggs (1788 - 1824), who was editor of The Lonsdale Magazine, managed to garner about 350 subscribers for this volume. It is of some bibliographic interest, having been printed at Soulby's press a year after his death, probably by Stephen Tyson, who is one of the subscribers, on behalf of the trustees; it is only one of two books issued by this press. Michael Twyman: John Soulby, Printer, Ulverston (1966), pp. 27 - 28. Copies located at BL, Bodleian, Durham. WORLDCAT LOCATES NO COPIES IN NORTH AMERICA 4 BROWN (Robert), of Newhall: Comic Poems of the Years 1685, and 1793; Or Rustic Scenes in Scotland, at the times to which they refer: with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes. Edinburgh: Printed for the Booksellers, 1817. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. [iv], xiii [xiv bank] [5] 6 - 178, original boards, uncut and mostly unopened, binding and edges a little soiled, spine slighty defective but a good to very good copy, with a small circular stamp on the title-page, the letter “K” with a double triangle, and an illegible ms. name at the top margin. £750 The poems are “Lintoun Green, or the Third Market Day of June,” by Alexander Pennecuik, M.D.; “A Panegyrick upon the Royal Army in Scotland,” also by Pennecuik; and “Carlop Green, or, Equality realized” with each item having its own title-page. Copac locates copies in the NLS, Bodleian, Aberdeen, and Newcastle. Neither WorldCat nor OCLC list any copy in North America, but there is one at the University of South Carolina. I did not locate a copy in the British Library. Uncommon. 2 FROM BAGULEY HALL, CHESHIRE, SEAT OF THE POET’S NIECE, WHO OWNED SEVERAL OF THE POET’S MANUSCRIPTS 5 BYROM (John): Miscellaneous Poems. Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 193 x 109 mms., pp. [ii], vi, 352; [ii], vi, 351 [352 blank], 2 engraved vignette head- pieces, contemporary sheepskin, neatly rebacked with old red morocco labels preserved. A very good set with the armorial bookplate of Sir William Browne Ffolkes (probably the second baronet, 1786 - 1860, and MP 1830 - 1837) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume; and two earlier inscriptions in each volume, viz., “Jane Houghton 1786/ Saml Curteis 1790” and “The present of Mrs. Jane Houghton of Baguley [Hall] in Cheshire/ 1790.” £350 Byrom’s subjects are nothing if not eclectic, e. g., inoculation, John Brown’s Estimate, a quarrel between Conyers Middleton and Warburton, the fall of man, a future state, though a larger number of the poems are either hymns or on religious themes. The well-known hymn, “Christians Awake, Salute the Happy Morn” also appears here (II, 58), as well as the six-line epigram, composed in 1725, on the feuds between Handel and Bononcini, ending, “Strange all this Difference should be, /’Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!” Byrom (1692 - 1763) perhaps had less musical acumen than he had skill for a system of shorthand, which was used by John and Charles Wesley, David Hartley, Horace Walpole, and prominent members of the aristocracy. Baguley Hall is “a 14th-century timber-framed building in Baguley, Greater Manchester”; a “former country house, historically in Cheshire, it is now Grade I-listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument” (Wikipedia). The oldest parts of the building date back to the fourteenth century. “The current hall was built by Sir William de Baguley”, and is “probably the oldest timber great hall surviving in England” (Wikipedia). Byrom refers to Baguley Hall more than once in the poems in the present book (e.g., vol. 1, pp. 261, 300), and his “Four Epistles” were written on the premises: at “Baguley" on "August 12, 1756” (vol. 1, p. 261). The presenter of this copy was the philanthropist and abolitionist Jane Houghton (1737-1813) of Baguley Hall. She was the niece of John Byrom, and the owner of several of his important manuscripts (see The Palatine Note- book [1883], vol. 3, pp. 262-3). FIRST APPEARANCE OF “A TRUE TALE” 6 CHANDLER (Mary): The Description of Bath. A Poem. Humbly Inscribed To Her Royal Highness the Princes Amelia. With several other Poems. The Eighth Edition. To which is added, A True Tale, by the same Author. London: Printed for James Leake..., 1744 8vo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. [xii], 85 [86 adverts], including half-title, recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, morocco label; lacking the 11 leaves of adverts. £450 ESTC T63116 describes this as “A reissue of the fifth edition, with a half-title, a different title-page and sig. F7 a cancel,” but does not mention that this is the first appearance of the poem, “A True Tale,” addressed to Mr. Leake, i. e., James Leake, the brother-in-law of the printer Samuel Richardson who printed editions two to seven. “A True Tale” appears here as a result of a proposal of marriage that Mrs. Chandler received in 1741 when she was 54. She refused him and turned the episode into a poem, noting “Fourscore long Miles, to buy a crooked Wife!/ Old too! I thought the oddest thing in Life....” ESTC locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Wales, TCD; Folger, Rice, Yale; National Library of Australia. Foxon, C112. 3 7 D'ISRAELI (Isaac): Narrative Poems. London: Printed for John Murray..., 1803. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 245 x 190 mms., pp. [vi], 55 [56 colophon], uncut, original boards with title printed on front cover, contained in a linen box; covers soiled, edges a bit soiled, front cover holding by one cord, extremities worn, bookplate of Oliver Brett on front paste-down end-paper.
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