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MISTRESS OF AN EAST INDIA COMPANY GRANDEE 1. [REYNOLDS, Joshua.] A lady and child. London, published May 10th; 1787 by W. Dickinson, engraver no. 158 Bond Street. Painted by Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J. Grozer. Mezzotint (platemark 35.3 x 50.2cm, sheet approx. 37.1 x 52cm) small collector’s ink stamp to verso, a fine impression, very good condition. A fine example of this large mezzotint engraved by Joseph Grozer (c.1755-1798) after a painting by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). Published in 1787 by William Dickinson (1746-1823) it bears the address of his central London premises situated at 158 Bond Street. Titled “A lady and child”, the print displays a fashionably-dressed young mother seated with her laughing child, the pair depicted against a backdrop of manicured parkland. Reynolds’ own manuscript accounts record the sitter as “Mrs. Seaforth”, noting that the portrait was paid for by “Mr. Barwell.” One of the most wealthy nabobs of the East India Company, Richard Barwell (1741-1804) was known for his extravagant lifestyle both in India and after his return to England in 1780. “Mrs. Seaforth” here was used as an alias for his mistress Rebecca Lyne (b.1764?), mother of several of Barwell’s illegitimate children. Reynolds, known for his judicious choices in transposing his clients on to canvas depicted as appropriate characters drawn from classical antiquity, had already painted her in 1786 as the Roman Vestal Virgin Tuccia, perhaps with a deliberate brushful of irony. Chaloner Smith 17, II; Hamilton, p.130, III. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 4

GEORGIAN MARITAL SCANDAL - DECEPTION, DEBT & DEFAMATION 2. NEWTON, Andrew. A letter from Andrew Newton to the Right Honourable Henry Lord Apsley, lord high chancellor of Great Britain. In answer to a pamphlet published by his Lordship, intitled, The case of the unfortunate Martha Sophia Swordfeger. London, printed in the year 1771. First edition, large paper issue. 4to (21 x 25.75cm) [2], 83, [1]pp., very good, stab-sewn in the original marbled paper wraps, paper loss to spine but stitching sound, small stain to margin of last 2 leaves not affecting text, blindstamp of John Fowles to corner of flyleaf, wrapper with light wear to extremities. First edition, large paper issue, rare, of this lengthy narrative by Andrew Newton of the East India Company, recording his version of events in relation to the history of his relationship with Martha Sophia Swordfeger, one of two daughters of Charles Boyle, fourth earl of Orrery (1674-1731) and his mistress Margaret Swordfeger (d.1741). Newton was accused of entrapping Swordfeger into a pretended marriage, however in this account he paints Swordfeger herself as a calculating dissembler who made extraordinary efforts to entrap him in a web of lies and deception. Swordfeger, who seems to have concealed her background and aristocratic connections from Newton, managed to convince the lord chancellor Henry Bathurst second earl Bathurst (1714-1794) of her claims, his in - terest in the case being precipitated by Newton forming plans to marry Bathurst’s cousin. This present narrative, a response by Newton to accusations aired publicly by Henry Bathurst in The case of the unfortunate Martha Sophia Swordfeager (London, 1771), takes the story back to 1749, charting Swordfeger’s attempts in the in London to style herself as Mrs. Newton. In the capital she ran up sizeable debts in Newton’s name while he was abroad in India, then fleeing to Ghent, continuing to assert that she and Newton had been married. Including much detail concerning the finances of Newton and Swordfeger, this tangled tale of bitter recrimination catalogues false tes - timonies, broken promises, perjury, debt and defamation - themes that reverberate through the novels of the Geor - gian era. ESTC locates 5 locations only for this large-paper issue (bL (2); bC; nCSmH; nPU; nCtY-BR) & 3 locations for the standard paper issue (bL; bO; bSTA). £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 5

REGENCY RECIPES IN MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK 3. [COOKERY.] Catherine H. Jackson’s Receipt Book. [West of England.] 1814. Manuscript, ink on paper. 8vo (12 x 18.5cm) [4], 88, [89-138]pp., a few blank leaves at the end, flyleaves with some negligible foxing, autograph inscription to front flyleaf “Cath.e H. Jackson’s Receipt Book. 1814”, marbled pastedowns, contemporary red morocco, rubbed but sound. Dating from 1814, this carefully-penned manuscript records over 200 recipes written by Catherine H. Jackson in her “receipt book.” The majority relate to cookery, including meat dishes, soups, jellies, preserves, baking and pud - dings, however there are also some medical and household recipes. Examples include: “Calves feet jelly ... Hare soup ... Puddings without a name ... To make blancmange ... Custard pancakes ... German puffs ... A baked quince pudding ... Mock turtle ... Beef a la mode ... Ginger bread nuts ... Green sweetmeats ... To fricassee lobster ... Italian cream ... To wash gloves ... For chillblains ... To dye linen yellow ... Barberry Losenges ... Mustard whey ... Sheep feet jelly ... Brain cakes.” Several recipes show the growing taste for Asian and oriental flavours: “Lilla pickle ... To make curry powder ... A common curry ... To make yeast the Turkish manner ... To make Mulgatanny ... Indian arrow root blancmange.” The sources of a number of the recipes are identified: “Mr. Turton’s white soup ... Mr. Turton’s mince pies ... Mr. Quin’s sauce ... Mrs. Morgan’s lemon ketchup ... ” That the compiler Catherine Jackson resided in the West of England is suggested by the places of residence cited for several sources, indicating connections with fashionable Bath, Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire: “Mrs. R. Hibbert of Birtles Hall [Cheshire]” supplied a recipe for an “Orange drink”; “Mrs Willis, Halsnead Hall [Lancashire] supplied instructions for “Goosberry vinegar”; “Mrs. Phillipson of Bath” supplied instructions for “Liquid pounce”; “Mrs Gould of Bath” supplied a method “to preserve strawberries whole.” This is an appealing example of a middle-class English cookery manuscript dating from the era of Jane Austen. £2500 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 6

BATH PASTEL PORTRAIT OF PROSPEROUS GEORGIAN DOWAGER 4. VASLET, Lewis. [Maria Heathcote.] [Bath, 1787.] Pastel, on vellum over wooden stretcher, oval (sheet approx. 25 x 30cm) in the original oval giltwood frame, verso signed and dated on paper backing at head in ink “L. Vaslet fecit Bath 1787” with additional nineteenth century manuscript notes recording presentation/provenance penned by witness “R[ichar]d Meade King”on “183[7?] Oct.r 23d”, two negligible wormholes at lower margin of sheet, frame with some light wear to extremities. Drawn in Bath in 1787 by Lewis Vaslet (1742-1808), this fine pastel portrait depicts Maria Heathcote (1706-1792) of Southbroom House in Devizes, Wiltshire. The half-length portrait records her dignified appearance at the age of eighty, clad in a black lace shawl, with details including two white silk bows and a brooch. Born Maria Eyles, in 1724 she married the prosperous London merchant George Heathcote (d.1768), thrice MP for Devizes and Lord Mayor of London in 1742. A large oil portrait by John Vanderbank (1694-1739) depicting a youthful Maria Heath - cote at the time of her marriage in 1724 remains at Southbroom House, today the principal building of Devizes School. In addition to Vaslet’s signature, “L. Vaslet fecit Bath 1787”, the paper backing here bears an early nineteenth century ink inscription identifying the sitter as “Mrs Heathcote of Southbroom House & mother to Mrs Walley Mendip Lodge.” This is a reference to Maria Heathcote’s daughter Augusta Utica Whalley (1742-1807), wife of the poet and traveller Thomas Sedwick Whalley (1746-1848). A further ink note records a later provenance: ““183[7?] Oct.r 23d Mrs Rickards this day gave this picture to her nephew John Wetherston Rickards and delivered it to Miss Mary Theodosia Rickards to take care of it for him in my presence R[ichar]d Meade King.” Lewis Vaslet was born in York, where his father Andrew ran a boarding school for girls. He studied painting in Italy before establishing himself in England as a portrait artist in pastel, oil, and miniature. An occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy, he is associated primarily with Bath where he resided for much of his career, though he also is known to have travelled around the country, working in York, Oxford and Norwich. In 1787 when this portrait was taken Vaslet was working from 43 Walcot Street in Bath. For information on Vaslet, see: Neil Jeffares, “Lewis Vaslet”, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006; online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/arti - cles/vaslet.pdf], accessed/update 14-03-2018. £2750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 7 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 8

GEORGIAN HASTINGS & SUSSEX COASTLINE IN WATERCOLOUR

5. [BISSE, Thomas.] [Volume of watercolours depicting views in Hastings and surround - ing coastal areas of East Sussex.] [Hastings & surrounds? c.1800.] Book containing 27 drawings (all in watercolour, excepting 1 in crayon) on card & paper (sheets ranging from approx. 20 x 14cm to approx. 27 x 19cm ) tipped on to backing sheets, 12 of the wa - tercolours varnished contemporaneously for effect (a few of these with some minor yellowing), the majority in landscape format, title-page with contemporary ink title “Hastings” with small pasted-in oval vignette en grisaille, backing sheets with ink captions & numbers (running from no.79 & no. 114, presumably a few of the watercolour sheets now lost), contemporary marbled card covers, front cover with modern label penned with ink note concerning provenance, light wear to extremities, very good. A fine volume of watercolour views depicting Hastings and surrounding coastlines and countryside in East Sussex drawn c.1800 by Rev. Thomas Bisse (c.1754-1828) of Portnall Park in Virginia Water to the east of London. Educated at Wadham College Oxford, as an artist Bisse seems to have been a gentleman amateur, from c.1785 to c.1805 compiling several volumes of drawings and sketches of a topographical nature, of which the present volume titled “Hastings” is one. Included amongst the wa - tercolours here are sketches of buildings along the Sussex coast, scenes of fishermen and their boats at Hastings, and picturesque views, several including Pevensey Castle and Beachy Head. A small watercolour vignette en grisaille depicts a bathing machine amidst the waves. Titles of the wa - tercolours include: “Nockholt Beaches ... Fairlight Down ... Lovers seat at de Govers Hastings ... Shepherd House ... A spring in the rocks ... Hastings from under the Nore Rock ... Rock under the castle ... In the rocks toward Bohemia Farm ... Interior of the castle ... from the castle ... Bo Peep ... approach to Bo Peep ... From Bexhill ... Beachey Head as seen from Bexhill ... Outide of Pevensey Castle ... Pevensey Castle ... at the foot of Beachey Head ... A swell ... Storm coming in ... Hastings fishing boats going out ... Coming in ... A reposo ... Hastings boats ...” Provenance: an ink note penned on a label on the front cover reads: “The Bisse Collection Portnall Park 1785-1805 passed down to the De Salis family who sold them to Mr S.A.Oliver Egham.” £1950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 9

ACCOMPLISHED AMATEUR ETCHER - FRIEND OF TURNER & LINNELL 6. DANIELL, Edward Thomas. [A group of twelve prints: etchings and dry - points]. I. Florden Bridge. 1825. Etching (platemark 12 x 16.2cm, sheet 12.9 x 17.5cm) fine. Thistlethwaite 8, first state. II. Butter Hills, Norwich. [c.1826.] Etching and drypoint (platemark 8.8 x 16.5cm, sheet 9.3 x17.3cm) fine. Thistlethwaite 9, second state. III. Landscape with bridge, Millgate, Aylsham. [c.1827.] Drypoint (platemark 6.8 x 11.8cm, sheet 7.5 x 12.5cm) fine. Thistlethwaite 14, third state. IV. Landscape with bridge, Millgate, Ayl - sham. [c.1827.] Drypoint (platemark 6.8 x 11.8 cm, printed on a double sheet: top sheet 11 x 17.6cm at - tached to larger thick backing sheet approx. 30 x 22) fine, dark impression. Thistlethwaite 14, third state. V. Bure Bridge, Aylsham. 1827. Etching (platemark 18 x 28.7cm, sheet 19.2 x 30.5cm) three wormholes (lower right in river), small patch of negligible foxing at lower margin. Thistlethwaite 15, third state. VI. Ruin at Rome. [c.1831/1832.] Etching and drypoint (platemark 19.3 x 26.1cm, sheet 24 x 30 cm) printed on folded sheet, paper evenly toned, three wormholes (in sky), a few marginal folds outside platemark; together with contemporaneous copy by unknown hand roughly sketched in pencil incorporating extra figure present in untraced first state (sheet 18.5 x 23cm). Thistlethwaite 20, fourth state. VII. Trowse Hythe. Signed and dated “ET Daniell 1831”. Etching and drypoint (platemark 8.1 x 12cm, sheet 9 x 12.8cm) fine. Thistlethwaite 33, third state. VIII. Coast scene. Signed and dated “ET Daniell 1831”. Etching (platemark 10.2 x 15 cm, sheet 11.1 x 16cm) fine. Thistlethwaite 34, second state. IX. Coast scene. Signed and dated “ET Daniell 1831”. Etching (platemark 10.2 x 15cm, sheet 15.3 x 20.7cm) light horizontal fold at centre, laid on card backing sheet (approx. 23 x 35.5cm). Thistlethwaite 34, second state. X. Craigmillar Castle. [c.1831.] Drypoint (platemark 9.2 x 15.6cm, sheet 10.2 x 16.5cm) dark impression, one wormhole (in sky ). Thistlethwaite 35, third state. XI. Canal lock at Oxford. [c.1831/32.] Drypoint (platemark 5.5 x 9.1cm, sheet 6.6 x 10.1cm) fine. Thistlethwaite 41, second state? (not signed). XII. Farmyard near Norwich. 1833. Etching and drypoint (platemark 10.5 x 18.2 cm, printed on a double sheet: top sheet 16 x 18.5 cm, backing sheet approx. 12.6 x 20cm). Thistlethwaite 44, fourth state. Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 10

A fine group of scarce etchings and drypoints by the accomplished amateur artist and explorer Rev. Edward Thomas Daniell (1804-1842). Taught to draw at Norwich by (1768-1821) and to etch by Joseph Stannard (1797-1830), Daniell became a friend and patron of John Linnell (1792-1882) and when living in London played host to many notable artist friends including J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and David Roberts (1796-1864). Asso - ciated with the , Daniell’s reputation as an artist is supported primarily by his exceptional skill and sensitivity as an etcher. An adventurous traveller, he died of malaria at Adalia in Syria in 1842 during a tour of the eastern Mediterranean. Among the subjects here are scenes around Norwich and Aylsham, and also views taken in locations further afield, including Scotland (Craigmillar Castle) and Italy (Rome). Examples of Daniell’s prints are held at the , Victoria and Albert Museum and Museum. See: Jane Thistlethwaite, The etchings of Edward Thomas Daniell (1804-1842), in: Norfolk Archaeology 36, part 1, 1974; Norwich School prints paintings and drawings by The Rev E.T. Daniell 1804-1842, catalogue for an exhibition arranged by the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, Aldeburgh June 8 th -30 th 1968. £2250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 11

MANUSCRIPT RECORD OF REGENCY SOCIAL LIFE OF FUTURE WILLIAM IV 7. [WILLIAM IV.] [Visitors book of] His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. [London, 13 July 1818 – 1 January 1822.] Manuscript, ink on paper. Folio (17 x 40cm) [273]pages, occasional stains and marks, in original green vellum, marbled endpapers, joints starting but sturdy, light wear to extremities, vellum very slightly bowed, cover penned with contemporary manuscript title in ink “His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.” Recording the names of hundreds of guests of the future William IV (1765-1837), this volume served as a vistitors book for the Duke of Clarence, running from 13 July 1818, the day of his marriage to Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792-1849), to 1 January 1822. Presumably it was used at William’s home at Bushy House in Teddington – it does not seem to have travelled to Germany with the couple during their stay there in 1818/19. William lived at Bushy in the relaxed manner of a country gentleman, entertaining there in a relatively informal style. A large number of visitors recorded here have signed the book in their own hand, however there are also many instances in which the names of small groups of relatives or associates have had their all their names penned by a single member of their party. Some of the names might perhaps also have been written in by a butler or other servant. Including names drawn from across the gentry, the military, the clergy, politics, exploration and artistic, literary, theatrical and musical circles, the book records a varied cross-section of prominent members of British society, as well as some notable foreign visitors. For example, on Friday 15 December 1820 the names of eighty-eight visitors are penned in the book, among them a representatively varied mix: “His R.H. the Duke of Sussex … Lt Col Wyngard G. Guards … Captain Hume Gendr. Gds. … Mr Blackburn … Capt Hunter Grenadier Guards … Revd. H. Stanhope … His Royal Highness Duke of Gloucester … Dowager Duchess of Richmond … Mr John Calvert … The Archbishop of Canterbury … Mr Justice Bert … Lady Bert … Baron Langsdorff … Sir William Scott … Earl & Countess of Harington … John Franklin HM Yacht R Sovereign … Rear Adml Douglas … Sir Robert & Lady R Wigram … Lord & Lady Fowley … Sir Alex. Johnston … Earl of Yarmouth … R. Admiral Lake … Earl of Pomfret … Mr Merrick Hoare .. Sir Chr. Robinson … Admiral Nugent … Lord Saye & Seale … Mr Justice Holroyd .. The Bishop of London … Countess Mingden … Lord & Lady Ashbrook … Lady Brownrigg … Sir David Dundas …” The volume is of considerable value as a record of those with whom the Duke of Clarence associated during these years preceding his ascent to the throne. £6500 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 12

HUGE LONDON PLAYBILL ADVERTISES THE ELEPHANT OF SIAM 8. [ELEPHANT.] Theatre Royal, Adelphi ... Monday, January 4, 1830, and during the week, will be presented ... an entirely new and gorgeous serio-comic Indian burletta spectacle ... The elephant of Siam, and the Fire fiend! ... [London.] Printed by Thomas Jullion, Theatre Royal, Adelphi. [1830.] Playbill. Elephant folio (approx. 45.5 x 69cm) blank verso laid on conservation backing for strengthening, some light paper toning, a few small waterstains and repaired tears, small marginal losses (paper repaired) affecting first and last line (touching a few words at foot), old folds. This huge playbill advertises performances at the Adelphi Theatre in London in January 1830 of The elephant of Siam, and the Fire Fiend , a “serio-comic Indian burletta spectacle” in which a real elephant appeared on stage. The elephant, named Mademoiselle D’Jeck (d.1837), had appeared first in Paris in July 1829 before being brought to England at the behest of Frederick Henry Yates (1797-1842), manager of the Adelphi. Evidently this production was planned specifically to make the most of this unusual opportunity. The playbill contains much information concerning the staging of the performance, cast and scenery, including “visit of the Royal Elephant ... Temple of the Idol ... subterranean entrance to the mausoleum of the king of Siam ... dance of devotees, by the Siamese youths ... defeat of the conspirators by the Royal Elephant ... draperied antechamber, opening to the magnificent state elephantine banqueting room ... triumph of the elephant ... splendid procession and pageant! ...” Even in the heyday of the English menagerie it was unusual to find a live elephant incorporated into a theatrical performance. This elephant folio size playbill is a rare survival advertising an unusual dramatic spectacle. £2500 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 13

GHOSTLY BALLADS COLLECTED BY GOTHIC NOVELIST 9. LEWIS, Matthew. Tales of wonder ... in two volumes. London, printed by W. Bulmer ... and sold by J. Bell. 1801. First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo (16 x 25.5cm) [4], 236; [4], 237-482, [2]pp., a fine set in contemporary mottled calf, boards ruled in gilt with central panels with floral cornerpieces, flat spines tooled in gilt compartments with two bird tools, black leather labels titled & numbered in gilt, marbled paper pastedowns, engraved heraldic bookplates of George Forbes, sixth earl of Granard. A fine, large, set in superior contemporary bindings of the first edition of this seminal miscellany of Gothic tales in ballad form, written and collected by the novelist Matthew Lewis (1775-1818), author of the terror novel The monk (1795). Focusing on the supernatural, horrific and ghostly, this publication exerted a powerful influence on the Romantic imagination, the contents including a combination of reworkings of traditional ballads together with original material, including nine pieces composed by Lewis, among them “The Cloud-King”, “Osric the lion”, “The gay gold ring” and “Giles Jollup the grave, and Brown Sally Green”. Walter Scott (1771-1832) contributed five ballads, and Robert Southey (1774-1843) provided eight. Also included were translations from the German of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). The provenance of George Forbes, 6th Earl of Grannard (1760-1837) of Castle Forbes in County Longford, is noteworthy: his library, dispersed Sothebys 21 July 1993, included many rare gothic novels. Todd & Bowden 7Aa. Summers p.529. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 14

NOTORIOUS GOTHIC NOVEL IN FRENCH TRANSLATION 10. [NOVEL.] FOX, Joseph. Agathina, ou la grossesse mystérieuse, nouvelle Napolitaine. Traduite de l’Anglais ... par J.B.J. Breton ... A Paris, Au Cabinet et Sallon de Lecture, Boulevard Cérutti, no. 21. 1800. First edition of this translation. 2 volumes bound in 1. 12mo (10.5 x 16.5cm) viii, 6-195, [1]; 194pp., both volumes with half-titles and engraved frontispieces (1:“Chaillou del ... Devilliers Sculp”; 2: “Chaillou del ... A Delvaux fs. sc”) a few negligible stains in the margins, very good in original calf, flat spine gilt-tooled in compartments with red leather label titled in gilt, marbled pastedowns, light wear to extremities. First edition of this rare French translation of Santa-Maria; or, the mysterious pregnancy ... (London, 1797), a no - torious anti-Catholic gothic novel by James Fox. This translation was made by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Breton (1777- 1852) the prominent French court stenographer and cofounder of the Gazette des Tribunaux . Fox here combines elements of Radcliffean gothic with the terrors of Lewis. The Italian setting features a narrative that includes drugged nuns, a predatory monk, sleeping potions and the “mysterious pregnancy” of the principal female char - acter. Much-cited in modern histories of the Gothic novel, unsurprisingly several contemporary reviewers seems to have found the content disturbing: “Our modern romance-writers appear to be extremely desirous of ascer - taining how far it is possible to carry extravagance and absurdity ... He has considerably improved on his models. Besides copying, with little variation, the mysteries of all the castles lately built, he introduces the mystery of pregnancy ... a most delicate subject in a work principally intended for the amusement and instruction of females! It would have required abilities of no common kind to conceal the deformity of such a story; but, in the hands of Mr. Fox, it is productive of great disgust.The style of this work accords with the variety of terrific conundrums with which it abounds ... (The Critical Review, vol. 22, London, 1798, pp.113). A different French translation of this novel, made by Adélaïde-Gillette Billet Dufrénoy (1765-1825), was published as Santa-Maria, ou La grossesse mystérieuse (Paris, 1800) .

OCLC lists 1 copy only (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek). Rochedieu p.113; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 00.70. £2500 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 15

POEMS PENNED BY PROMINENT GOTHIC NOVELIST 11. LEWIS, Matthew Gregory. Poems ... London, printed By D.N. Shury ... and sold by Hatchard ... 1812. First edition. 8vo (10.5 x 16.5cm) viii, 112pp., with half-title and final leaf of advertisements, very good in contemporary leather-backed marbled boards, spine ruled & titled in gilt, front joint starting but remaining firmly attached, light wear to extremities. First edition of this collection of poems penned by the prominent Gothic novelist Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), known in particular for his authorship of the seminal horror novel The monk (London, 1795), the Gothic drama The castle spectre (London,1797) and Tales of wonder (London, 1801), a collection of ballads on supernatural themes including both traditional folklore narratives and pieces newly-written by Lewis, Wal - ter Scott and others. During his lifetime Lewis was celebrated as an influential balladist and poet, in particular for his Alonzo the brave and fair Imogine which featured in The monk, however this was the only collection of his poems to be published. It is notable for the inclusion of Crazy Jane, a ballad that seems to be the earliest ref - erence to what became a well-known nineteenth century female character in myth and balladry, and The captive , subtitled “a scene in a private mad-house,” a poem which charts the descent into insanity of a woman detained against her will by her spouse: “My tyrant husband forged the tale, Which chains me in this dismal cell: my fate unknown my friends bewail; Oh! Gaoler, haste that fate to tell! ...” Dibdin recorded Lewis as “a poet of no mean calibre”, noting that “the ballads and little pieces scattered throughout his novel of The monk, were, in their day, the most popular things known. They were chanted in the street, and in the drawing-room ...” (Thomas Frognall Dibdin, The library companion, vol. II, London, 1825, p.748). A very good copy of a scarce book. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 16

FRANCO-IRISH JACOBITE NOVEL IN FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION 12. PRÉVOST D’EXILES, Antoine François. The Dean of Coleraine. A moral history, founded on the memoirs of an illustrious family in Ireland. Translated from the French. In three volumes. London, printed for T. Cooper. 1742-1743. First edition in English translation. 3 volumes. 12mo (10.5 x 17.5cm) [2], 290; 275, [1]; 287, [1]pp., 3 leaves (k8-10) in volume 3 with negligible loss at tips of upper corners (not touching text), very good in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and black morocco labels titled in gilt, some light wear to extremities, overall a very good set. First edition in English translation, rare, of Le doyen de Killerine (1735-1740), third novel of French writer the Abbé Prévost (1697-1763), following Mémoires et aventures d’un homme de qualité ... (1728-1731) and Le philosophe anglois, ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland (1731-1739). Notable in particular for its Irish setting, Le doyen de Killerine traces the story of a well-intentioned but overbearing Irish Jacobite cleric, an eldest son, who accompanies his two quarrelsome half-brothers and their marriageable sister to France, watching over them as they seek their fortunes. Although today Prévost is remembered in particular today for Manon Lescaut (1731) contemporary interest in Le doyen de Killerine is shown by the fact that this London-printed edition was followed immediately by two different Dublin-printed editions, both issued also in 1742. That published for Edward Exshaw appears to be a reprint of this translation, while a different translation by “Mr. Erskine” was “printed for John Smith, George Ewing, and Thomas Bacon” in two volumes. ESTC records 14 locations only (bL; bDk; bO (2); bPC007; bDt (2); bLEu; nMH-H; nCSmH; nCaOHM; nCSt; nDLC; nIU; nCtY-BR). £1950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 17

CELEBRATED JACOBEAN ESSAYS - MANUSCRIPT RECORD OF REPUBLICATION 13. [FELTHAM, Owen.] [A collection of autograph letters and other manuscripts concerning the republication in 1806 by James Cumming of Owen Feltham’s Resolves .] [c.1805-c.1820; the majority 1805 & 1806.] Approx. 45 items (the majority being letters sent to Cumming) 8vo & 4to, approx. [85] pages in total, together with 3 printed items including 1 printed form (letter of thanks from The Society of Antiquaries ) & 1 printed review (extracted from “The Anti-Jacobin,” April 1806), all pasted into a scrapbook (folio, approx. 22 x 35cm, scrapbook paper watermarked 1824), original plain grey boards, plain grey paper spine repaired to style, light wear to extremities, very good. This volume contains approximately forty-five separate items, autograph letters and related manuscripts concern - ing the reprinting in 1806 by James Cumming FSA (1775-1827) of the Resolves (London, [1623]) of the essayist and poet Owen Feltham (1602-1668) as Resolves, divine, moral, and political ... with a short account of the author and his writings ... (London, J. Hatchard, 1806). Cumming, when not engaged at the India Office where he forged a career as a distinguished civil servant, seems to have occupied himself with literary and antiquarian pursuits. Among the writers of the autograph letters here, which concern both the planning for republication and also Cumming’s an - tiquarian researches into Feltham’s biography, are found: the naval officer William Waldegrave, first Baron Radstock (1753-1825); the herald Edmund Lodge (1756-1839) writing from the College of Arms (“it very seldom happens that our musty documents are found so barren as with regard to the name of Felton ...”); his friend the judge Sir James Alan Park (1763-1838) (“Lord Radstock ... has a great scheme in hand as to a proper patron for the new Owen Feltham ...”); the antiquary and topographer John Brand (1744-1806) in his capacity as secretary to the So - ciety of Antiquaries; the barrister John Bowles (1751-1819); the writer John Henry Prince (1770-c.1818); Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822); the clergyman and literary scholar Henry John Todd (1763-1845); the writer and genealogist Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762-1837). In addition there are several retained copies of letters send out by Cumming, as well as memoranda from the business of John Hatchard, bookseller, concerning the printing and publication costs. Taken as a whole the correspondence is of interest both in relation to the study of Owen Feltham’s Resolves, and also as a record of the considerations involved in the undertaking of antiquarian publishing endeavours in the early nineteenth century. £1950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 18

POSTERS FOR RADICAL PUBLISHER’S POPULAR MISCELLANIES

14. HONE, William. [Four posters advertising issues of Hone’s Every-Day Book and Table Book .] [London, February 1825 to October 1827.] 4 broadsides, each folio (approx. 29 x 45 cm) printed on rectos of sheets of yellow or buff-coloured paper, some negligible marginal fraying or dustiness at edges, overall very good. A group of four large posters printed between 1825 and 1827 for the radical bookseller and publisher William Hone (1780-1842) to advertise successive parts of his Every-day Book and Table Book , popular miscellanies for which he was celebrated. Inspired by the ideas of Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) and William Godwin (1756-1836) Hone set up in business on Lambeth Walk in London c.1800 involving himself in various political movements, including acting as secretary in 1807 to the short-lived The society for the gradual abolition of the poor’s rate, supporting protests against the rising prices of theatre tickets and agitating for improvements of conditions in lunatic asylums. It was his politically- motivated trial in 1817 for blasphemy for the publication of three parodies that brought him fame - representing himself, he was acquitted (in three successive trials), riding on a wave of public support for both the freedom of the press and a credible system of trial by jury. As a result of his new-found popularity Hone was able to move to 45 Ludgate Hill. In the 1820s he went on to produce a series of miscellanies that were influential in providing informative literary and historical content issued in parts in an affordable format aimed at a broad readership. These posters, printed on yellow or buff-coloured paper, must have been intended for placing in the window of Hone’s shop or nearby. Little of this sort of large-format advertising material from the early nineteenth century has survived. £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 19

SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS BOOK BUYING IN VENICE 15. [CELOTTI, Luigi.][Autograph letter addressed to Sir Thomas Phillipps at the hotel Leon Bianco in Venice, offer - ing two books by the painter Benigno Bossi and mention - ing the copy by D’Oggione of Leonardo’s Last Supper recently purchased by the Royal Academy.] [Venice, c.1824?] Autograph letter, in Italian, written in the third person. Folio (20.5 x 29cm) [1] page on bifolium, with address panel penned on verso of second leaf, remains of red wax seal, old folds, very good. This letter links two important figures in the field of nineteenth cen - tury book collecting: the singular collector of books and manuscripts Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) and the Venetian art dealer Abbé Luigi Celotti (1759-1843). Penned by Celotti in the third person, it is addressed “per sua eccellenza il Sig. Marchese Phillipps al Leon Bianco no. 31”, indicating that Phillipps was staying in Venice at the best-known hotel in the city, the Leon Bianco . It dates presumably from the 1820s when Phillipps made several buying tours on the continent. Celotti, known in particular for his trading in manuscripts and finely- illuminated miniatures excised from medieval choir books, was at this time purchasing important volumes from monasteries in northern Italy for sale in the London market. Here he offers Phillipps two books by the painter and engraver Benigno Bossi (1727-1792), dupli - cated from his own library. Celotti comments that by reading them Phillipps will be reminded that he has a very faithful servant at Venice. He also advises Phillipps that at the Royal Academy in London he might view the recently acquired (1821) copy of Leonardo’s Last Sup - per painted by Marco D’Oggiono (now attributed to Giampetrino). £450 SWISS MINIATURIST IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND 16 . MUSSARD, Andreas. [Autograph letter signed to George Parkin of Nottingham, offering to sell him a painting “de Mars et de Venus.”] [The Midlands?, c.1750?] Autograph letter signed, in French. 4to (16.5 x 21cm) [1] page penned on recto of first leaf of a bifolium, verso of second leaf with some light dusting to address panel with some traces of wax from seal, recto of second leaf with contemporaneous partial translation into English presumably made by the recipient. A letter penned by the Swiss painter Andreas Mussard (fl. 1750-1765) to “Mr George Parkin at Nottingham”. Writing in French, Mussard offers to sell him a history painting “de Mars et de Venus.” Flattering Parkin as a “conesseur et amateur de la painture”, he describes the piece as the best he has painted in his life, finished in the grand Italian style, and destined for the collection of a prince or a sultan. Mussard notes that he has a pressing need for money and must find four guineas before midday on Monday or he will face legal trouble. He reports that a year ago he refused ten guineas from the Duke of Wancaster [?] but if Parkin would pay him four guineas for the painting he would be rendering him a service. Mussard indicates that he will be at Parkin’s at eight or nine in the morning on Monday. He also makes reference to a volume of Molière, presumably borrowed from Parkin, noting that it is not lost, but he has not been to Scarborough this season as a result of an accident affecting his leg. Mussard seems to have arrived in London in 1751 (see: Daphne Foskett, Dictionary of British Miniature Painters (1972) vol. 1, p.417). He is recorded in printed advertisments painting in Bath in 1765. This letter adds to the little that is is known of him. £350 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 20

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS DISTRIBUTED BY BRISTOL UNITARIANS 17. [UNITARIAN.] A catalogue of books distributed by the Society of Unitarian Christians, estab - lished in the West of England in the year 1792 ... [William Browne, printer, 29, Clare-Street, Bristol.] [1825.] Folio (21 x 33cm). 4pp. on bifolium, drop-head title, uncut, postally-used with verso of second leaf including manuscript address panel penned to “Joseph Gundry Esqr. Bridport”, some neg - ligible wear along old folds, tiny tear from seal opening (not affecting printed text), very good. Based in Bristol, the Society of Unitarian Christians in the West of England had been founded in 1792. This rare printed catalogue containing a priced list of books was posted out to members of the society together with sub - scription details and a small summary of the accounts of the organisation. The catalogue serves as a useful summary of titles favoured by Unitarians during the Regency era. Not in OCLC; no similar book catalogues traced for other years. £350 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 21

OLD MASTER PAINTINGS AUCTIONED IN PARIS 18. [PAINTINGS.] Catalogue d’une collection de tableaux, dessins, gouaches, marbres, bronzes, et autres curiosités; provenans en partie du cabinet d’un artiste. Dont la vente se fera la Lundi 22 Janvier 1787 & jours suivans, rue Plâtriere, en la grande salle de l’hôtel de Bullion. [Paris.] 1787. First edition. 8vo (12.5 x 19cm) 80pp., one page with contemporary ink corrections, very good, stab-sewn in con - temporary plain blue paper wrapper, wrapper with small tear to spine. An excellent copy, stab-sewn in contemporary paper wrapper, of this rare auction catalogue recording a sale of paintings, drawings, gouaches, marbles and bronzes beginning 22 January 1787 in Paris, “rue Plâtriere, en la grande salle de l’hôtel de Bullion.” The title-page advertises that some of the pictures were from the collection of an unnamed artist. The catalogue was distributed by “M. Le Brun jeune, peintre, rue de Cléry, no. 73” and “M. Boileau, huissier-commissaire-priseur, rue du Bacq, no. 262.” Arranged in sections by country, the sale included paintings by Pieter Neefs, Bartholomew Breemberg, Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, Jan Baptist Weenix, Jan van de Heyden, Aelbert Cuyp, Balthazar de Moucheron, Philips Wouwerman, Jacob van Ruisdael, Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The catalogue is of particular value on account of the unusually detailed descriptions of the pictorial compositions. No copy traced in OCLC £2250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 22

OLD MASTER PRINT COLLECTION AUCTIONED IN BRUSSELS 19. GAUCHERET, F.J. Catalogue d’une tres-belle et riche collection d’estampes, de Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Rembrandt, Teniers, Ostade, Brouwer, Carlo Maratti, Guido Rheni, Pietro Cor - tone, Callot & autres fameux maitres Italiens, François, & Flamands. Assemblées depuis longues années par Mr. F. J. Gaucheret ... Dont la vente se fera ... Lundi le 14 Avril 1788 ... & jours suivans ... A Bruxelles, chez Ant. Collaer. [1788.] First edition. 8vo (14 x 23cm) [2], 52pp., a few contemporary price notations in pencil, a crisp, uncut copy in the original stab-sewn blue paper wrapper. Uncut and stab-sewn in the original blue paper wrapper, this is an appealing copy of a rare auction catalogue for the sale in Brussels on 14 April 1788 and subsequent days of the old master print collection assembled by F.J. Gaucheret, “avocat au conseil souverain de Brabant.” The sale, in the “Maison Mortuaire Rue de Beguinage” was held under the direction of “Sr. Jean Laurent Krafft.” Lugt 4298. OCLC locates 2 copies only (Getty Research Institute; Institut national d’histoire de l’art). £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 23

OLD MASTER PAINTINGS COLLECTED IN HOLLAND BY DANISH CONSUL 20. WEST, Hans. Raisonneret Catalog over Consul West’s Samling af Malerier med Indledning samt Liste over Haandtegninger, Figurer, Kobberstik og trykte Værker Samlingen tilhörende. Kiöbenhavn, Trykt hos Andreas Seidelin. 1807. First edition. 8vo (12.9 x 20cm) lxxv, [1], 348pp., a fine copy, clean & fresh in contemporary tree calf gilt, spine gilt-tooled with decoration to a neoclassical design, original red leather label titled in gilt, contemporary name gilt-tooled on spine indicating ownership of “F. C. Raben”, with related bookplate of Raben’s Christiansholm estate & 2 related ink stamps (flyleaf & title-page), marbled pastedowns, some negligible wear to extremities. A superior copy of the first edition of this printed catalogue of old master paintings collected by Hans West (1758- 1811). Consisting of 166 paintings of Dutch, Flemish, Italian and French origin of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the collection was assembled by West following his appointment in 1802 as Danish consul in Holland. In addition various drawings, prints and sculptures are listed also. Incorporating descriptions of the paintings and historical and biographical notes on artists, the book was written and published by West himself after his return to Copenhagen, his lengthy preface being dated 6 December 1806. The paintings were exhibited and in 1809 were purchased for the Royal Danish collection. From 1788 West had been occupied as a schoolmaster on the Danish island colony of St. Croix in the , publishing his observations as Bidrag til Beskrivelse over Ste Croix ... (Copenhagen, 1793) and assembling an important collection of natural history specimens from around the Caribbean. This copy, in fine condition in an appealing contemporary neoclassical binding, is from the library of the Danish traveller and amateur naturalist Frederik Christian Raben (1769-1838). Bibliotheca Danica I: 1109. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 24

FOUNDATION OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS IN GEORGIAN LONDON 21. [ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS.] A list of the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce. March the 21st. 1759. [London, 1759.] 8vo (14.5 x 23cm) 39, [1]pp., a very good copy, uncut, unopened & stab-sewn as issued. Founded in 1754 by the drawing master William Shipley (1715-1803), the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce was intended to promote discoveries in the arts and manufacturing, rewarding in - novation and communicating these advancements to the general public. Recording the names of approaching nine hundred early members, this rare printed list was issued 21 March 1759. Notable members here include Rev. Stephen Hales (1677-1761), the printer John Baskerville (1707-1775), Gustavus Brander (1720-1787), Giovanni Batista Cipriani (1727-1785), Jonas Hanway (1712-1786), Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784) and Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). Amongst the few women listed as members is found is found Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800). The short appended list of “corresponding members” includes several resident in North America and Italy. Higgs 1937; Goldsmiths’ 9469. ESTC locates 8 copies only (bL; bMAEm; bLu; bLwe; eGOT; nNN; nIU; nKU- S). £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 25

PAINTINGS BY DAVID EXHIBITED IN LONDON 22. [DAVID, Jaques-Louis.] David’s pictures, now exhibiting at No. 20, Bedford Street, Covent Garden. Explanation of three original pictures of the Chevalier David, first painter to Napoleon ... [London: printed by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden.] [1815.] Printed leaflet. 4to (18 x 24cm) 4pp., drop-head title, light even toning, contemporary pencil inscription in margin of title: “Monday May 15 1815”, unbound as issued, very good. A rare printed leaflet issued to accompany the exhibition in London in 1815 of three paintings by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), the foremost French painter of the Napoleonic era. The text, in both English and French, offers explanations of the paintings, recorded here as “General Bonaparte’s passage over Mount St. Bernard”, “Napoleon in his cabinet” and “Pope Pius the VIIth, and Cardinal Caprara, his legate.” The place of exhibition is recorded as 20 Bedford Street, a Covent Garden address that from 1816 housed the Geological Society. OCLC lists 1 copy only (Bodleian Library Oxford). £450 SCULPTURES INSPIRED BY ELGIN MARBLES 23. [LOUGH, John Graham.] The statue of Milo attacked by a wolf, and the group of Samson & the Philistines, by Mr. Lough, are now exhibiting at the Great Room, Maddox Street ... [London.] Printed by W. Glindon, Rupert Street, Haymarket. [1827.] Handbill, oblong 8vo (19.5 x 11.5cm) contemporary pencil note in margin “21 June 1827”, very good. This handbill advertises the exhibition in London in June 1827 at the Great Room, Maddox Street, of two large sculptures by John Graham Lough (1798-1876): “statue of Milo attacked by a wolf, and the group of Samson & the Philistines.” Inspired by the works of Michelangelo and also by the Elgin marbles, these two much-lauded early works laid the foundation for Lough’s career as a sculptor. £250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 26

TRANSLATED BY DAUGHTER OF CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR 24. LADVOCAT, Jean Baptiste. An historical and biographical dictionary, containing an account of the Hebrew patriarchs and princes, of emperors, kings, and great captains, of the gods and he - roes of pagan antiquity, of the popes, holy fathers, celebrated bishops, and cardinals; also histo - rians, poets, orators, divines, lawyers, physicians, &c. with their principal works, and the best editions of them; learned women, painters, &c. ... Translated from the French ... by Catharine Col - lignon. Cambridge, printed by John Burges printer to the University; and to be had of the translator, and of W. Page, Cambridge. 1799. First edition in English translation. Four volumes. 8vo (13.5 x 20.5cm) very good in contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, spines titled & numbered in contemporary manuscript, light wear to extremities. First edition in English translation, scarce, of this substantial historical and biographical dictionary translated by Catherine Collignon (1754-1832) from the French Dictionnaire historique (1752) of the celebrated Sorbonne lex - icographer and librarian Jean-Baptiste Ladvocat (1709-1765). The daughter of Dr. Charles Collignon (1725-1785), professor of anatomy at Cambridge, Catherine Collignon explains her reasons for producing this substantial trans - lation in her preface: “The biographical and historical dictionary now offered to the public, has always been highly esteemed in its original language; particularly the edition which mentions the various works of all the authors, whose lives are there in - serted, and also informs the reader which are the best editions. But as this work is now become very scarce, it was suggested by several gentlemen of the University of Cambridge, and many other persons well acquainted with M. Ladvocat’s Dictionary, that a translation would be favourably received, and could not fail of amply repaying the labour of such an undertaking. This induced the translator to engage in it, but she claims no other merit in the per - formance than that of having closely studied, and faithfully given, the sense of the author to the best of her abilities, with as little deviation as possible from a literal translation, to this she constantly attended ...The very kindness and liberality of the University in printing this translation, will be ever gratefully remembered ...” £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 27

POEMS OF OSSIAN PRINTED IN VIENNA 25. [MACPHERSON, James.] The poems of Ossian. Translated by James Macpherson, Esq. Vienna, printed for R.Sammer, bookseller. 1801. 4 volumes. 12mo (8 x 12.5cm) xxi, [1], 290; v, [1], 216 [i.e.316]; [4], 347, [1]; [4], 336pp., with half-title & engraved frontispiece in each volume, very good in original marbled boards, spines with red leather labels titled in gilt, light wear to extremities. Printed in Vienna for the prominent bookseller and publisher Rudolph Sammer, this four volume pocket edition of Ossian provided readers in Austria and Hungary with an opportunity to enjoy the poems in the English of Macpherson’s “translation”. The dating of the preface indicates that the text is that of the London edition of 1773. Sammer reprinted several other British authors in the original English, the last few leaves of the final volume here advertising works by Sterne, Shakespeare, Pope, Gay, Wraxall, Gold - smith and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu among others. £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 28

MACPHERSON’S OSSIAN INFLUENCES SWEDISH VERSE 26. [OSSIAN.] Den wackra morgonen. Idyll. Lund. Trykt hos Prof. Joh. Lundblad. 1794. First edition. 8vo (10 x 17cm) 8pp., unbound as issued, nineteenth century yellow paper spine strip, title with ink ownership inscription “F.G. Kinmonson 20 Decemb. 1835”, some negligible foxing, very good. This anonymous Swedish lyric poem, “the beautiful morning”, concluding with a short prose vignette, shows Os - sianic influence. The verses are sung by an old man, Palemon, sitting up all night at the bedside of the ailing Lamon. The imprint indicates that this was printed at Lund at the press of the Johan Lundblad (1753-1820) Swedish pastor, university professor and printer. Not traced in OCLC or elsewhere – apparently unrecorded. £350 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 29

KING RICHARD’S CRUSADE AS SPENSERIAN EPIC POEM 27. BURGES, James. Richard the First, a poem: in eighteen books. London, printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton. 1801. First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo (16 x 24.75cm) xvii, [1], 339, [1]; [4], 336pp., with half-titles, a fine set with ample margins in contemporary tree calf, edges of boards tooled in gilt, flat spines gilt in compartments, original black leather labels titled & numbered in gilt, foot of spine stamped with crested monogram “FFF”, marbled pastedowns, light wear to extremities. A fine set in contemporary gilt-decorated tree calf of the first edition, scarce, of this epic poem by Sir James Bland Burges (1752-1824) on the theme of King Richard I (1157-1199), the narrative following principally his prominent role as a commander in the Third Crusade (1189-1192). The combined forces of England, France and the Holy Roman Empire, sought to reconquer the Holy Land from the control of the sultan Saladin (1137-1193), founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. After a successful political career Burges cultivated literary pursuits, this being his most noteworthy production. A sprawling epic modelled on the Aeneid of Virgil and versified in Spenserian stanzas , it was praised by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) who sent Burges a copy of his Lyrical ballads (1798) together with his compliments. The gilt-stamped crested monograms (“FFF”) at the foot of each spine indicate the provenance of the politician and book collector Francis Ferrand Foljambe (1750-1814). £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 30

“REVIEW OF POETRY, ANCIENT AND MODERN” 28. [MANNERS, Catherine Rebecca.] Review of poetry, ancient and modern. A poem. London, printed for J. Booth. 1799. First edition. 4to (23 x 28.5cm) [4], 30pp., uncut, stab-sewn & unbound as issued, very good. A very good copy, stab-sewn and uncut as issued, of this poem by the novelist Lady Catherine Manners (1778-1845) offering a “review of poetry, ancient and modern” addressed to an infant son, with references to numerous poets, including: “Matchless Homer’s glowing verse ... Pindar’s wild eccentric fire ... Sappho’s bright poetic flame ... Sophocles, of lofty thought ... Terence chaster, more refin’d ... Much Catullus must we prize ... Horace points his satire strong ... Dante formed his mystic page ... Petrarch’s moving lines inspire ... Chaucer’s mirthful rhymes ... Peerless Shakespeare brightly shone ... Fletcher gains dramatic fame ... Dryden whose expansive mind ... Addison’s enlightened page ... Bright was Swift’s meridian pride ... Meet in Pope’s enchanting lay ...” Jackson, Romantic poetry by women, p.238. £350 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 31

CHELSEA PSALM BOOK FOR NEOCLASSICAL CHAPEL 29. SANDILANDS, Richard. Psalms, hymns, and anthems, selected for the use of Ebury-Chapel, near Sloane-Square, Chelsea ... [London.] Chelsea, printed by D. Jacques. 1792. First edition. 8vo (10 x 16.5cm) vi, 154pp., front flyleaf with contemporary ink ownership inscription (“Right honble Lady Mary Martin”), marbled pastedowns, a fine copy in contemporary polished tree calf, flat spine gilt-tooled in compartments incorporating neoclassical spoked wheel design, edges of boards ruled in gilt. Bound in contemporary polished calf with restrained gilt tooling in a neoclassical style, this is a fine copy of the first edition, rare, of this psalm book complied by Rev. Richard Sandilands (1758-1836), printed in 1792 for use at the opening of the newly-built Ebury Chapel near Sloane Square in Chelsea. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Sandilands at this time held the post of chaplain to Henriette Charlotte Tracy, viscountess dowager of Hereford (d.1817). He later became chaplain at the English Church at St. Omer. His preface notes that the psalm texts included here were both selected and edited by him: “I have selected to the best of my judgement, from the most approved versifications; but have been constrained to take some liberties with the excellent orig - inals; and have sometimes ventured an abridgment or transposition to render the sense more clear, and to im - prove the harmony and smoothness of the stile ...” Many names of the translators of the versions included here are noted, including John Dryden (1631-1700), Joseph Addison (1672-1719), Elizabeth Rowe (1674-1737), Isaac Watts (1674-1748), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Christopher Pitt (1699-1748), James Merrick (1720- 1769) and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), as well as several translated by Sandilands himself. A second edition, also rare, was published in 1818. This copy bears an ink signature indicating the aristocratic ownership of Lady Mary Martin (1769-1814), sister of John Murray, 4th duke of Atholl (1762-1830), wife of Rev. George Martin, vicar of Great Ness. ESTC lists 3 copies only (British Library; Bodleian Library Oxford; Rector’s Library Whitchurch). £1750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 32

MOROCCO-BOUND MORAVIAN HYMN BOOK 30. [MORAVIAN CHURCH.] A collection of hymns, for the use of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren. London printed: and sold at the Brethren’s chapels in Great-Britain and Ireland. 1789. First edition. 8vo (13.5 x 21cm) viii, 276, [40]pp., with index and final advertisement leaf, contemporary full navy straight grain morocco, boards edged in gilt with rococo roll, flat spine gilt in compartments, spine titled & lettered in gilt, slight wear to spine with gilding a little rubbed in places, marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt, light wear to extremities. A superior copy in contemporary straight-grain navy morocco gilt of the scarce first edition of this British Moravian hymnal, compiled and edited by John Swertner (1746-1813), Haarlem-born minister to the Moravian congregation at Dublin. His anonymous preface here dated London 25 March 1789 contains observations on the history and evolution of the English language Moravian hymnals of 1754 and 1769, noting that his preparation of this new compilation was precipitated by “objections to the size” of the earlier volumes and that some hymns were translated “in a peculiar style.” He notes that, in particular, a number of the German hymns here have been “re-translated or altered” for this updated collection which contains in total 887 hymns. £850 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 33

SWEDENBORGIAN KEY TO RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM

31. SWEDENBORG, Emanuel. An hieroglyphic key to natural and spiritual mysteries, by way of representations and correspondences. London, printed and sold by R. Hindmarsh. First edition in English. 8vo (13.5 x 21cm) 83, [1]pp., an excellent copy in original tree calf, spine in gilt in compartments with title direct-lettered in gilt on spine, very light wear to extremities. The rare first edition in English of Emanuel Swedenborg’s Clavis Hieroglyphica (London, 1784), translated by and printed at the London press of the Swedenborgian preacher and printer Robert Hindmarsh (1759-1835). The original manuscript was found amongst Swedenborg’s papers after his death. The lengthy preface by Hindmarsh offers an introduction to Swedenborg’s “science of correspondences,” which had a pre-Romantic influence on the study of religious and artistic symbolism: “the difference between correspondence and mere figure or metaphor, has not been sufficiently attended to ... correspondence in general may be defined, the relation subsisting between the essence of thing and it’s form, or between the cause and it’s effect; thus the whole natural world corresponds to the spiritual world ... the science of correspondences was not only known, but also cultivated in many kingdoms of Asia, particularly in the land of Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Syria, Arabia, in Tyre, Sidon, and Nineveh, and from thence it was conveyed into Greece, where it was changed into fable ... all things that appear on the face of the earth have correspondences, consequently, not only trees and vegetables, but also beasts, birds, and fishes of every kind, and all other animals. The ancients, who were versed in the science ... made themselves images, which corresponded with things celestial; and were greatly delighted therewith ...” Hyde 399. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 34

HACKNEY DISSENTING ACADEMY - JOSEPH PRIESTLEY A LECTURER 32. WORTHINGTON, Hugh. A sermon, delivered on Wednesday the 6th of May, 1789. at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, London, to the supporters of a new academical institution among Protestant Dissenters. London, printed by H. Goldney, for T. Cadell ... and J. Johnson ... 1789. First edition. 8vo (15 x 23cm) 69, [3]pp., a very good, uncut copy in contemporary stab-sewn blue paper wrappers, light wear to extremities. A fine copy, uncut in contemporary paper wrappers, of this sermon delivered in London 6 May 1789 to supporters of the newly-founded Unitarian dissenting academy known as Hackney New College. Delivered by the dissenting minister Hugh Worthington (1752-1813), himself a lecturer in classics at the college, the text focuses on themes of education and the organisation of Christian societies. The radical dissenter Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) taught natural philosophy, in particular chemistry, with other lecturers at the college including Gilbert Wakefield (1756-1801), Andrew Kippis (1725-1795) and the radical republican philoso - pher Richard Price (1723-1791). £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 35

LIFE OF CHRIST “FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR” 33. D’OYLY, Catherine. The history of the life and death of our Blessed Saviour. Southampton, printed and sold by T. Baker. 1794. First edition. 8vo (14 x 22.5cm) vi, 13, 8-711, [1]pp., first issue (i.e. without inserted leaf with “list of subscribers in Scotland”), very good in contemporary straight-grain red morocco, small marginal closed tear to final leaf (no loss), marbled pastedowns, flat spine ruled and direct-lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, light wear to extrem - ities. A fine copy in contemporary red morocco of the first edition of this scarce life of Christ composed by Catherine D’Oyly for use in the Christian education of poor children. A lengthy list of subscribers follows the authors intro - ductory address in which she explains her motivation for writing: “Having much leisure, and wishing to employ it as usefully as possible, she some years ago took upon herself the superintendence of one of those private chari - table establishments, which have been instituted in various parts of the kingdom, for the increase of religion and encouragement of industry amongst the children of the poor; and that she might perform this voluntary duty so as to make a lasting impression upon the minds of her pupils, she determined attentively to peruse the sacred Scriptures, with the several excellent commentaries, and to intersperse such observations of her own mind as might enable her to fulfil that pleasing duty ...” ESTC lists 7 copies only (bL; bGu; bE; bO; bNT; nCaOHM; oAuTU). £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 36

PROMINENT DISSENTING MINISTER – AUTHOR OF AN ESSAY ON TOLERATION 34. FURNEAUX, Philip. [Autograph letter signed, to Samuel Windeatt junr., offering advice concerning the threat of prosecution of dissenting minister Mr. [Henry] Baynham of Totnes.] Clapham, 1 May 1773. Autograph letter signed. 4to (15 x 23cm) [2] pages penned on bifolium, manuscript address panel to verso, two tears from seal opening (resulting in loss of one word but sense recoverable), small marginal tear to margin of first page (not touching text), old folds, very good. A rare autograph letter penned by the prominent dissenting minister Philip Furneaux (1726-1783), written from Clapham 1 May 1773 during the year of publication of the work for which he is best known: An essay on toleration: With a particular View to the late application of the Protestant dissenting ministers to Parliament, for amending, and rendering affectual, the act of the first of William and Mary, commonly called the Act of toleration (London, 1773) . The letter concerns exactly this subject – the rights of nonconformists, of which Furneaux was a leading champion. Writing to Samuel Windeatt Junr. in Totnes Furneaux offers advice on “a threatened prosecution of Mr. [Henry] Baynham”, pastor of a dissenting congregation in Totnes: “I had rather if such a step should be taken, that it had proceeded from some bigot of the establishment than from any who call themselves Dis - senters. Pray give my very sincere respects to Mr. Baynham, and exhort him neither to court not to fear such an event. A prosecution that is real, and not courted or procured, from whatever quarter it comes, would, I make no doubt, be the occasion of passing a very important Bill, and indeed it is the general opinion, that it will succeed on a future occasion, though to be under the execution of the penal laws would render that success more sure and speedy ...” Mention is made also of plans for a visit to Devon and some family matters. £550 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 37

MORAL PHILOSOPHY BY INFLUENTIAL ABOLITIONIST 35. GISBORNE, Thomas. An enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of so - ciety in Great Britain, resulting from their respective stations, professions, and employments. London, printed by J. Davis, for B. and J. White. 1794. First edition. 4to (22.5 x 26.5cm) vi, [2], 846 [i.e.648]pp., complete with half-title, a large, fine copy in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, original leather label titled in gilt, very light wear to extremities. An excellent, wide-margined copy of the first edition, scarce, of this influential philosophical examination of the duties of men by Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846), a prominent abolitionist, close friend of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), and leading member of the Clapham Sect of evangelical Anglicans. Here Gisborne offers his modern framework for an ordered and hierachical society: “To apply moral truths to practical purposes; to point out their bearings on modern opinions and modern manners; and to deduce from them rules of conduct by which the in - habitants of this country in particular, each in his respective station, may be aided in acquiring the knowledge and encouraged in the performance of their several duties, are objects of equivocal utility. They are the objects which it is my wish to attain, as far as I am able, in the present work.” Chapter headings, largely arranged by profession, include: “on the duties of peers ... on the duties of naval and military officers ... on the duties of the legal profession ... on the duties of physicians ... on the duties of persons engaged in trade and business ... on the duties of private gentlemen ...” This was among Gisborne’s most influential works and was followed by his An enquiry into the duties of the female sex (London, 1797). £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 38

POEMS PENNED BY SWISS PAINTER BEFORE EMIGRATION TO ENGLAND 36. GRIMM, Samuel Hieronymus. Samuel Hieronymus Grimms von Burgdorf, Gedichte. Bern in der neuen Buchhandlung. Gedruckt, bey AbrahamW agner, Sohn. 1762. First edition. 8vo (12.5 x 19cm) viii, 56pp., very good in original speckled painted boards, spine rubbed but sound, light wear to extremities. The Swiss watercolour painter Samuel Hieronymous Grimm (1733-1794) emigrated to England from Switzerland via Paris, settling in London’s Covent Garden in 1768. He spent the rest of his life in the city, producing a varied output that included commercial engravings, watercolours, among them classical subjects and topographical views taken around London, and specific watercolour commissions, principally landscapes, drawings of antiquities and buildings. This scarce book of poems by Grimm was published in his native city of Bern at the outset of his artistic career while he was stil living in Switzerland. One of the poems, “Die Reise nach den Alpen”, was composed after a 1758 drawing tour to the glaciers of the Bernese Oberland, drawings from which journey were etched as illus - trations for Die Eisgebirge des Schweizerlandes ... (Bern, 1760) by Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner (1717-1778). OCLC lists 7 copies only (Swiss National Library; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Burgerbibliothek Bern; Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Klassik; Staats & Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg; ULB Sachsen Anhalt Zentrale). £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 39

ENGLISH POEMS FOR GERMAN ANGLOPHILES 37. [CARTWRIGHT, Edmund &c.] Four poems viz: I. Armine and Elvira. II. The hermit of Wark - worth. III. The deserted village. IV. The traveller. [Leipzig, 1773.] 8vo (11 x 18cm) [6],34;[4],v,[1],58;[2],iv, 26;[2],vi,28p., with four sectional title-pages each bearing im - print “Altenburgh. Printed for Gottlob Emanuel Richter and committed to A.F.Boeme bookseller in Leipzig.1773.”, initial general printed title-page misbound after first sectional title (but complete), negligible marginal stain to last 4 leaves, very good in con - temporary sheep-backed speckled boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral tools, original label titled in gilt, light wear to extremities. A rare German publication by Altenburg bookseller Gottlieb Emanuel Richter of four English poems: Armine and Elvira (1771) by Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823); The hermit of Warkworth (1771) by Thomas Percy (1729-1811) and two poems by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), The deserted village (1770) and The traveller (1764). The imprints of the sectional title-pages note that the book was “committed to A.F. Boeme bookseller in Leipzig” by Richter, and printing in Leipzig is further suggested by the fact that the four different engraved vignettes, copies after the English originals, bear the engraved signatures of the Leipzig printmaker Gottlieb August Liebe (1746-1819). ESTC lists 4 copies only (bL; bO; eGDAs; nCtY). £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 40

“TRUE ENGLISH GUIDE FOR GERMANS” 38. KING, John. The true English guide for Germans … Der getreue Englische wegweiser … Leipzig, printed for Christian Gottlob Hilscher. 1768. “Now reprinted for the eighth time, with many useful additions and cor - rections.” 8vo (11 x 17.5cm) [8], 490, [6]pp., facing title-pages in English and German, verso of title-page with 19 th century ownership stamp of “Grosherzogliche Bibliothek Neustrelitz” (dispersed), contemporary speckled paper-covered boards, spine with original manuscript labels, joints rubbed but sound, light wear to extremities. The most popular English language guide for Germans in the eighteenth century, this work by “Johann König, En - glischen sprachmeistern in London” offers “1. A new and useful grammar; 2. A copious and well digested vocabulary; 3. Phrases and idioms; 4. A collection of proverbs; 5. Familiar dialogues; 6. A collection of choice letters; 7. An historical account of the magnificence and splendour of the city of London. 8. Directions and superscriptions for English letters.” First printed in London in 1706 as A compleat English guide for High-Germans, subsequent editions were produced in Leipzig, with twelve editions printed by 1802. All are scarce, most being recorded only in a few copies in German or Polish libraries. ESTC records 1 copy only of this edition (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 41

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LONDON & AMSTERDAM FOR FRENCH VISITORS 39. LE ROUGE, Georges-Louis. Curiosités de Londres et de l’Angleterre. A Bordeaux, De l’Imprimerie de la Veuve Calamy. 1766. Third edition. [BOUND WITH] LE ROUGE, Georges-Louis. Abrégé de l’histoire et des curiosités de la Hollande. A Bordeaux, De l’Imprimerie de la Veuve Calamy. 1766. Second edition. Two works bound together. 8vo (10.5 x 17cm) [4], 132, [6]; 48pp., title-page of first work with some negligible foxing, very good in contemporary French calf-backed sponge- painted paper boards, flat spine gilt in compartments with floral tooling, original red leather label titled in gilt, green silk bookmark, some light wear to joints & extremities. Guides to eighteenth century London and Amsterdam for French visitors, the two titles bound together here were the work of Georges-Louis Le Rouge (1712-1790), a Hanover-born geographer remembered in particular for his collaborations with the London-resident Huguenot cartographer John Roque (1709-1762). The preface to the London guide here indicates that Le Rouge translated this from the English, the original title being Joseph Pote’s The foreigner’s guide: or, A necessary and instructive companion both for the foreigner and native, in their tour through the cities of London and Westminster (London, 1763). The guide to Holland, principally Amsterdam, appears to have been written by Le Rouge himself. First published in 1765, the London guide was augmented with the addition of the guide to Holland in the second edition of 1766, all printed at Bordeaux. The preface here includes mention of Lerouge’s hopes to erect a fountain for prisoners, presumably in Bordeaux, and it may be that this was to be funded by the sale of these guides. Scarce. £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 42

IRISH GRAMMAR PRINTED IN LOUVAIN

40. MACCURTIN, Hugh. The elements of the Irish language, grammatically explained in English. In 14. Chapters. Printed at Lovain, by Martin van Overbeke. 1728. First edition. 8vo (18.5 x 11cm) [15], 12-158, [2]pp. (complete, in 2 parts, second part in Irish with separate title-page, pagination continuous) occasional negligible toning, a very good copy in original continental calf, spine gilt in compartments, front joint cracked but sturdy, light wear to extremities. This scarce and significant Irish grammar by the poet and antiquary Hugh MacCurtin (1680?-1755) was produced during a sojourn at the Irish Franciscan College at Louvain in Belgium and printed in the city at the press of Martin van Overbeke, printer to the college. The Irish typeface used here, known as Louvain type “A”, had been employed at Louvain since the first quarter of the seventeenth century and this grammar is recorded as being the last printed book in which it was used. On publication in 1728 this was the most substantial Irish grammar to have been printed. MacCurtin’s scholarship was augmented by his drawing on the manuscript of an unpublished grammar by Francis Walsh. In the printed dedication to John James Devenish, then governor of Courtray, MacCurtin explains his mo - tivation for producing the book: “this essay will (I hope) invite many to arrive at a sufficient knowledge of this lan - guage, and encourage them to study the antiquities of the kingdom ... the Catechism in Irish reimprinted and annex’d is most worthy of your ...” The preface contains references to “ancient Irish mss,” Irish orthog - raphy, and the need for the preservation of the Irish language. Maccurtin later compiled The English Irish dictionary (Paris, [1732]). Alston XIV, 29. For infomation on Louvain Type “A”, see: E.W. Lynam, The Irish character in print, Irish University Press, 1969, pp. 8-10. £4500 , Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 43

FRENCH GRAMMAR FOR “THE YOUNG NOBILITY ... OF SCOTLAND” 41. FREEBAIRN, James. A new French grammar, wherein the defects of former grammars are supplied, and their errors corrected ... , printed by Robert Frefbairn [sic]. 1734. First edition. 8vo (10.5 x 16cm) xv, [1], 301, [3]pp., title-page and flyleaves with ownership inscriptions of Thomas Tod dated 1742 & 1743, engraved heraldic bookplate of “Archd. Tod writer to the Signet,” very good in original plain calf, joints and spine imperceptibly strengthened, light wear to extremities. First edition of this scarce French grammar compiled by James Freebairn (d.1733) for the “use of the young nobility and gentry of Scotland.” Freebairn had been an excise officer in Perthshire and had supported the Pretender in the Jacobite uprising of 1715 before fleeing to the continent where he resided in France and Italy. After his return to Scotland he established himself in Edinburgh as a French master. This grammar, printed by the author’s brother Robert Freebairn, seems to have been produced to remedy what Freebairn perceived as errors in a recently-published grammar titled The most complete, compendious and easy French gram - mar ... (Edinburgh, 1729) which had been produced by his competitor William Ker. Alston XII, 254. ESTC lists 9 locations only (bL; bC; bEu; bE (3); bO; nMH-Ed; nCLU-C; nIU; oAuVSL). £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 44

FRENCH MISCELLANY PRINTED FOR SCOTTISH SUBSCRIBERS 42. KER, William. Nouveau recueil, très utile pour bien entendre la fable, le sublime, l’histoire, & la poesie, &c. A Edinbourg, Imprimé par Guillaume Cheyne. 1737. First edition. 8vo (11.5 x 18cm) [6],iii-lxxxiv,456pp., a very good copy, crisp and fresh in contemporary gilt-ruled calf, spine gilt in compartments with original gilt-titled leather label, small eighteenth century paper label at foot of spine bearing manuscript shelfmark, light wear to extremities. A very good copy of the first edition of this scarce Edinburgh-printed collection of French texts, a miscellany including fables translated from Ovid’s Metamorphoses , treatises “par Mess. Del’Academie Françoise” on “l’âge des premiers hommes ... les eclipses ... la peinture”, extracts from St. Evremont and Boileau, Cribillon’s tragedy Rhadamisthe et Zenobie and Voltaire’s play Alzire . The printed dedication is addressed by the compiler, William Ker, a teacher of the French language in Edinburgh, to lady Caroline D’Arcy, countess of Ancram (d.1778). Presumably the principal aim of the publication was to provide a varied anthology of French texts for language learning. Amongst the lengthy list of Scottish subscribers are listed a small number of women. ESTC locates 10 locations only (bABu; bL; bC; bE (2); bO; eGOT; nMA; nNjP; nLNT; nPU). £750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 45

“A VISIT TO THE CONTINENT IN 1816” 43. STEVENSON, Seth William. Journal of a tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland, including a visit to Paris, and a walk over the field of Waterloo: made in the summer of 1816. Norwich, printed (not for sale) at the Norfolk Chronicle Press, by Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson. 1817. First edition. 8vo (14.5 x 24cm) xiv, [2], 349, [1]pp., a fine, uncut copy in contemporary boards, original printed spine label mostly intact, flyleaf with authorial presentation inscription (“Mrs Berney, with the author’s respects”), contemporary bookplate of “Elizabeth Berney ... Bracon Ash, Norfolk.” A fine copy of the first edition of this scarce privately-printed account of a continental tour made in 1816 by the prosperous Norwich antiquary and publisher Seth William Stevenson (1784-1853). Dedicated to the Society of United Friars, a literary and philanthropic fraternity of which he was a member, the journal traces Stevenson’s travels through Rouen, Paris, Versailles, St. Denis, Vincennes, St. Cloud, Brussels, Waterloo, Mechelen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Delft and The Hague. This is a substantial narrative which contains much intelligently-reported detail concerning architecture, museums, paintings, churches and other matters of antiquarian interest. A decade later a subsequent tour by Stevenson was published as A tour in France, Savoy, Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the in the summer of 1825 (London, 1827). The author was elected FSA in 1817 and, in addition to continuing the Norwich-based publishing activities of Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson and editing the Norfolk Chronicle , he is remembered for his contribution to numismatic research in his commencing A dictionary of Roman coins, re - publican and imperial (London, 1889). £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 46

PARISIAN THEATRE, BED BUGS & MARSEILLE STREET MARKETS 44. [PALMER, Joseph.] A four months tour through France. London, printed for G. Kearsley. 1776. First edition. Two volumes bound as one. 8vo (10 x 15.5cm) [2], ii, 187, [1]; [4], 187, [1]pp., very good in original calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, imperceptible strenghtening to joints, small nineteenth century bookplate with motto “Humani nihil alienum”. This account of a four month tour through France in 1775 by Joseph Palmer (1749-1829), a nephew of the artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, later dean of Cashel, is presented in epistolary form, the letters being addressed to the dedicatee William Salkeld. Palmer’s journey took him through Calais, Boulogne, Abbeville, Amiens, Clermont, St. Denis, Paris, Lyon, Avignon, Aix, Marseille, Tarascon, Montpelier, Toulouse, Bourdeaux and Tours. His entertaining commentary as a witty and well-educated observer includes reports on the Parisian theatre, a comic interlude on the theme of bed bugs and descriptions of galley-slaves street-vending in Marseille. Palmer’s observations on France and the French are seasoned with much detail concerning the English as travellers, including such matters as avoiding being overcharged by unscrupulous innkeepers, the practicalities of dining, coach hire and arranging lodging. Both this and the Dublin edition (also 1776) are scarce. ESTC records 10 copies only (bL; bE; bO; bSAN; bMRu; nCaOHM; nCU-BANC; nNcGU; nCtY-BR; oAuANL). £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 47

TALES BY ITALIAN RADICAL EXILED IN LONDON 45. ANGELONI, LUIGI. Italian tales by Luigi Angeloni Frusinate, with analytical translations and a key to writing Italian on the principles of the Hamiltonian system by Philip Orkney Skene. London, sold by Messrs. Longman and Co. ... 1829. First edition. 8vo (12 x 19.5cm) xvi, 123, [1]pp., with additional title- page in Italian, a very good, uncut copy in contemporary pink paper-covered boards, negligible wear to extremities, flyleaf with ink authorial presentation inscription “presented to Lady Blunt the 29th April 1831, at Lewes, by P.O. Skene.” An excellent copy, uncut in contemporary boards, of the first edition, rare, of this selection of Italian tales by Luigi Angeloni (1758-1842). An Italian writer and patriot from Frusinone in the province of Lazio, his anti- Napoleonic stance precipitated expulsion in 1823 from France, leading to permanent residence in London. Angeloni’s preface notes his moral and political aims in composing these tales, mentioning collaboration with his “amico” Philip Orkney Skene (1793-1837) in preparing the publication. Skene, a gifted linguist and promi - nent Owenite, has provided “analytical translations” into English, together with “a key to writing Italian on the principles of the Hamiltonian system.” OCLC locates 3 copies only (British Library; Cambridge University; University of St. Andrews). £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 48 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 49

DRAWING BY ITALIAN ARTIST & POET - TUTOR TO GABRIELE ROSSETTI 46. TIBERI, Nicola. [Paul the Anchorite being fed bread by a raven.] [Vasto? c.1780?] Signed at foot: “N.Tiberii invenit, et delineavit.” Drawing, ink on single sheet of paper (sheet 30.4 x 21.2cm, drawing 26.2 x 18.3cm) some negligible paper toning at margins, sometime laid down on second sheeet of [eighteenth century] paper for preservation, in very good condition. Depicting the first Christian hermit Paul the Anchorite (d.c.341), also known as Paul of Thebes, being fed bread by a raven in the wilderness, this pen drawing dateable to c.1780 bears the signature of Nicola Tiberi (1745-1805). Known as a poet, painter, draughtsman and engraver, Tiberi was a member of the circle of writers and artists centred on the southern Abruzzo town of Vasto in the second half of the eighteenth century. This accomplished drawing, achieved through the sensitive use of cross-hatching, exhibits the skill that is also in evidence in Tiberi’s surviving engravings, included among which are his illustrations for Anacreontiche morali di Cloneso Licio ... (Rome, 1788) by his brother Gisueppe Tiberi (1732-1812). A volume of Tiberi’s own poetry was printed as Idili e novelle ... (Macerata, 1800). The poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), father to Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and Christina Geor - gia Rossetti (1830-1894), spent his youth in Vasto before moving to England and as a young man was taught to draw by Nicola Tiberi. A rare example of a drawing by this Italian poet and artist who appears to have exerted some tangential influence on the development of the Pre-Raphaelite sensibility. £2750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 50

ITALIAN ENGRAVER & DEALER IN ANTIQUITIES 47. [KAUFFMAN, Angelica.] Johannes Vulpatus caelator eximius Ann. LXVII [Florence.] Ang: Kauffman pinx. Steph: Tofanelli delin: Raph: Morghen sculp: [1800.] Engraving, on thick wove paper (platemark 18.8 x 25.1cm, sheet 25.5 x 32.5cm) large margins, a little negigible dustiness at marginal extremities, a fine impression in very good condition. This scarce engraving depicts the celebrated Italian engraver, archaeological excavator and dealer in antiquities Giovanni Volpato (1735-1803). The founder of a school of printmaking in Rome, Volpato produced prints for the Grand Tour market, also establishing a porcelain factory that produced replicas of works from classical antiquity. He associated with several English residents in Rome, including Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798) and Thomas Jenkins (1722-1798), with whom Volpato excavated at Ostia in 1779. This engraving prepared from a drawing by Stephano Tofanelli (1752-1812) after a painting by Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) was etched by Volpato’s pupil Raphael Morghen (1758-1833) in Florence in 1800. The British Museum holds a number of different impressions of this plate from the Tarnia collection of the engravings of Raphael Morghen (see: 1843,0513.882). £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 51

ITALIAN LANDSCAPES DRAWN BY GRAND TOUR ARTIST 48. [WALLIS, George Augustus.] [Two volumes of counterproofs of landscape studies drawn in the Abruzzo region of Italy.] [Rome/Abruzzo, 1795.] 2 volumes of counterproofs of drawings, charcoal on paper. Large folio (bindings approx. 41.5 x 55.5cm). Volume I: 48 double-page counterproofs (approx. 76 x 54.5cm), 3 larger sheets with additional fold-out page (these with counterproofs printed on both sides) & 14 single page counterproofs; Volume II: 60 double-page counterproofs, 5 larger sheets with additional fold-out page (these with counterproofs printed on both sides) & 9 single page counterproofs; initial leaf of each volume inscribed in pencil “brochures”, a few marginal tears, the fine quality, thick paper watermarked “Bracciano” with related coat of arms, a few sheets coloured light brown/buff (the majority uncoloured/cream in colour), bound [c.1835] in uniform calf-backed brown moire silk-covered boards, rebacked and recornered to style retaining original labels (gilt-titled “Brochures”), engraved heraldic bookplates of “Sir John Stuart Forbes bart. of Pitsligo & Fettercairn”, pastedown of vol. 2 with small printed label of bookbinder “Robert Seton stationer and bookbinder to the King Edinburgh”, light wear to boards, very good. These two volumes contain over 100 large format counterproofs of drawings made on a sketching tour in the countryside of the Abruzzo region of Italy in 1795 by the landscape painter George Augustus Wallis (1761-1847). Of Scottish parentage, Wallis spent much of his life in Italy, arriving in 1788 and travelling extensively in the central and southern regions. Bookplates in both volumes record the ownership of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes, 8th baronet, of Pitsligo (1804-1866), however the original provenance in all probability lies with his grandfather Sir William Forbes, 6th baronet, of Pitsligo (1739-1806) a leading Scottish banker, friend of James Boswell and member of Samuel Johnson’s Literary Club. Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 52

In 1792 Sir William Forbes set out on a tour to Italy with his wife Elizabeth, née Hay, (1750-1802) in the hope that the climate might bring an improvement to her health. Rome was followed by a visit to Naples, where, with James Clark as guide, Forbes was introduced to a number of artists, among them Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829) and George Augustus Wallis (see: John Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800, Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 369-370). Counting Sir William Hamilton (1730- 1803) amongst his patrons, Wallis was at this time establishing the reputation for himself in Italy as a pioneering and fashionable landscape painter that would lead to him being described as “The English Poussin”. Forbes returned to Edinburgh in 1793, however, given the Forbes provenance of these counter - proofs it seems likely that some continuing contact was established as a result of their meeting in Naples. Wallis is recorded as having moved to Rome in 1795, his proto-Romantic sensi - bility leading him to forge links in particular with the neoclassicists Asmus Jacob Carstens (1754-1798) and Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839). In the same year he made a sketching tour in the Italian countryside with fellow artist Joseph Gandy (1771-1843) during which these drawings were produced. For an account of Wallis and Gandy’s tour in the bucolic paradise of the Abruzzo, then a relatively unexplored region that lay outside the usual Grand Tour itineraries, see: Tiziano Casola, Joseph Michael Gandy e George Augustus Wallis in Abruzzo nel 1795: il giornale di viaggio di Gandy e alcuni schizzi di vedute, in: S.R. Ožvald & C. Mazzarelli (eds.), Il carteggio d’artista. Fonti, questioni, ricerche tra XVII e XIX secolo, Silvana Editoriale, 2019, pp.130-143. Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 53

Technically the creation of counterproofs can be considered a type of printmaking: drawings made in chalk or charcoal were rolled through a press against an additional dampened blank sheet of paper, with the resulting counterproof impression displaying the original drawing in reverse. Counterproofs served a variety of uses in the eighteenth century – considered as works of art in their own right they were useful to artists also as retained records of drawings sold. These counterproofs may in fact have been sent to Forbes in the hope that some of their compositions might meet with approval and result in the commissioning of landscape paintings from Wallis.

Vigorous sketches in charcoal made swiftly en plein air , the drawings here record the verdant hillscapes east of Rome in the Abruzzo along the valley of Roveto: forest paths, clearings, valleys and dense woodland. Several of the compositions incorporate hill towns in the distance or picturesque ruins. A small number feature close observation studies of branches or trees. Similar tree stump studies were painted in oil by Wallis (see: National Gallery,UK, L872). A significant number of these drawings bear inscriptions penned by Wallis recording the name of the location depicted and the date 1795. Some also bear a number. Locations noted on the drawings here include: “Atena - afternoon [Atina] … Balsorano … Valle di Roveto from Capistrello 1795 … Belmonte near Atina 1795 … Atina 1795 … View from Capistrello looking toward the Valle Roveto 1795 … Civitella in the Valle di Roveto beautiful effect morning Abruzzi 1795 … Monte Celano with the tower morning 1795 … Montagna di Cervaro … Trasacco in the place where Claudius resided, distant view of Alba … Mulino di Morea Valle di Roveto 1795 … Tagliacozzo done in the rain ...” In contrast to the careful and controlled handling displayed in finished oil landscapes and watercolour drawings by Wallis, the counterproofs here show a more energetic, playful, expressive and experimental drawing style. Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 54

For an introduction to Wallis, see: Colin J. Bailey, The English Poussin – An introduction to the life and work of George Augustus Wallis, in: Annual Report and Bulletin of the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 1975-76, pp.35-54. A catalogue of works by Wallis is included in: Monika von Wild, George Augustus Wallis (1761-1847), englischer Landschaftsmaler, Monographie und Œuvrekatalog, Frankfurt am Main, Lang, 1996. An account of the 1795 expedition by Wallis into the Abruzzo under the heading “Skizzentouren 1795” is included (pp. 93-96), with the appended Œuvrekatalog listing 13 drawings from this tour (Z78-Z90, pp.305-307). Several counterproofs made by Wallis are listed, but none for drawings produced on this trip. It appears likely therefore that the more than 100 counterproofs here may offer the only known record of many drawings made by Wallis during this tour, representing a significant addition to the recorded output from this formative stage in his artistic career. £27500 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 55

PROMINENT ANTIQUARY & NATURAL PHILOSOPHER 49. [FABER, John.] Martin Folkes Esq.r F.R.S. [London.] J Vanderbank pinx.t 1736, I. Faber fecit 1737, sold by I Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. [1737.] Mezzotint (platemark 25.3 x 35.5cm, sheet approx. 28.5 x 40cm) light wear to margins, a little foxing outside the platemark, blank verso with 20th century ink note: “President of the Society of Antiquaries ...”.

Depicting the antiquary and natural philosopher Martin Folkes (1690-1754) after a painting by John Vanderbank (1694-1739), this mezzotint portrait was engraved in 1737 in London by John Faber (c.1695-1756). By his late forties Folkes had been elected a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries, gained membership of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society and had held the office of deputy grand master in Freemasonry. He is shown here wearing a soft cap, leaning on a weighty tome, with a classical bust and Tuscan column in the background. Chaloner Smith 133, state ii (following the unlettered proof of the same year). Provenance: Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 56

BOTANIST & ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST 50. [FABER, John.] Mr. Gilbert Knowles. Ætatis 49. Ao. 1723. [London.] T. Murray pinx: John Faber fecit. [1723.] Mezzotint (platemark 18.6 x 25.5cm, sheet 21 x 27.5cm) some light wear to the margins, very good. This mezzotint depicts the botanist and Roman Catholic priest Gilbert Knowles (1667-1734) at the age of 49. Printed in 1723, it is the work of the London engraver John Faber (c.1695-1756), after a painting by the Scottish portrait painter Thomas Murray (1663-1735). Hampshire-born, Knowles studied at Douai and was ordained in 1700, then being sent to Yorkshire.This is the separately-issued first state of this print – a second state with the text altered at foot was used as a frontispiece to Knowles’s Materia medica botanica (London, 1723), printed by the learned William Bowyer (1663-1737). Chaloner Smith 212, state i of ii. Provenance: Hon. C. Lennox Boyd. £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 57

SATIRICAL GEORGIAN SILVER FOB SEAL 51. [SEAL.] [Fob seal with satirical “Provision for the convent” matrix design.] [London?, c.1780.] Fob seal, silver. (length 2.8cm, dimensions of oval matrix 2.2 x 1.9cm) light wear to extrem - ities, in a very good state of preservation. This rare satirical Georgian fob seal in silver can be dated to c.1780. On first glance the design of the matrix appears to display a classical vignette of some sort, however closer inspection reveals that it is in fact modelled on the English satirical print usually titled Provision for the convent. Popular between c.1760-c.1790, the scene shows a monk returning to a monastery carrying a large bundle of wheat on his back. The head of a young woman can be seen poking out from the top of the bundle and a pair of female feet emerge from the base (for an example of the print see: BM Satires 3777). This Georgian satire on Roman Catholic monasticism seems to have been disseminated widely – for an example of an eighteenth century tea bowl and saucer bearing the design, see: Christie’s, Sale 9724, Chinese Export Art, New York, 23 January 2001, lot 113. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 58

MANUSCRIPT PIETY PENNED BY WIFE OF CLAPHAM RECTOR 52. NOURSE, Jane Cadogan. [Religious commonplace book.] My pearls. [London, c.1804-c.1840.] Autograph manuscript, ink on paper. 4to (16 x 21cm) [26, tabbed index], 704 pages, several sections penned in a second hand (perhaps Rev. James Hyde Gill?), a few drawings and manuscript notes pasted in, very good in contemporary plain vellum, rubbed but sound, front cover with ink inscription: “My pearls.” This substantial manuscript commonplace book on a religious theme was compiled between c.1804 and c.1840 by Jane Cadogan Nourse (d.1849) née Gill, wife of Rev. William Nourse (d.1835), rector of Clapham (1821-1835) and curate of Patching (1826-1835). It offers a voluminous overview of early nineteenth century Anglican piety, combining extracts literary, poetic and religious, records of sermons given by her husband, biblical quotations, moral musings, notes concerning family and friends, prayers and devotional exhortations: “pearls from Fenelon ... the antiquity of the Vaudois church ... the Jews, prophecies concerning them ... memoir of the Revd. Henry Martyr late fellow of St. John’s College Cambridge & chaplain to the Hon.ble East India Company ... “Let there be light” a mission hymn by Mrs Sigourney New York ...” £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 59

GEORGIAN YOUTH DEPICTED BY DUTCH MEZZOTINTER 53. [BLEECK, Pieter van.] The maid in rural happyness, pursues her innocent employ ... [London.] Morellio pinx.t P[ieter]. V[an]. B[leeck]. 1757. Mezzotint (platemark 31.5 x 28cm; sheet 33.5 x 29.5cm) a fine impression. A fine impression of this rare mezzotint produced in London by the Dutch artist Peter van Bleek (1697- 1764), after a work attributed to the Spanish baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682). A young girl and boy are feeding a pair of rabbits at dusk, the girl holding a large cabbage. Born in The Hague, Van Bleek moved to London in 1723 establishing himself as a portrait painter and mezzotint engraver. £750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 60

HOARE FAMILY INVESTMENTS IN HAMPSHIRE ESTATES 54. [HOARE, Henry.] [Release by trustees; the trustees of Henry Hoare, citizen and goldsmith of London (his sons-in-law Henry Cornelisen of Braxted in Essex, esq, and Paul Foley of the Inner Temple, esq), with his widow Jane Hoare and brother Benjamin Hoare, to his son and heir Henry Hoare of Stourton in Wiltshire, esq.: 1. Messuage and 190 ¾ acres of land called Gollards Farm in Amport, Hampshire, late part of the demesne lands of the manor of Quarley, occupied by William Benson, esq. 2. The manor of Quarley in Hampshire with the coneygree, dovehouse, buildings and manorial profits. Recites: leases of 1 and 2 above for 21 years from 24 June 1717 at £7, William Farrer, esq, master of the Hospital or Free Chapel of St Katherine by the Tower to Henry Hoare of Stourton in Wiltshire, esq, for the lives of his sons Henry Hoare and Richard Hoare and of Harry Benson, with a covenant to renew, 3 September 1722; will of Henry Hoare, bequeathing the property to his son Richard Hoare and appointing his wife Jane Hoare and son Henry Hoare executors, 19 February 1723; codicil appointing Henry Cornelissen and Paul Foley trustees to convey the property to his son Henry Hoare at 21, 9 March 1725.] [London?] 28 June 1728. Manuscript indenture, ink on single sheet of vellum (approx. 90 x 72cm) in English, initial engraved “This indenture” printed with calligraphic decoration, signed and sealed in red wax at foot by Henry Cornelisen, Paul Foley, Henry Hoare, Jane Hoare & Benjamin Hoare, verso with endorsements including signatures of witnesses Benjamin Benson, Norman Mead, Charles Parkes, Thomas Hawkins, John Humphreys, embossed blue tax stamp in margin, recto with small stain affecting a few words, some light wear along old folds, verso with some dust marking, overall very good. [TOGETHER WITH] BENSON, William.] [Award of George Greenway, clerk, arbitrator between William Benson and Jane Hoare, Benjamin Hoare, Henry Hoare and Christopher Arnold. Recites: settlement by William Benson, kt, of freehold and leasehold estates and personal property on Henry Hoare of London, goldsmith, and Robert Whittell, gent (both since dead), in trust for his wife Martha for life, and two of WB’s daughters Martha Benson and Susan Benson, with ultimate remainder to WB’s eldest son William Benson, esq, 20-21 Aug 1711; Henry Hoare chiefly acted in the trust and parts of the estates were sold; death of Henry Hoare 12 Mar 1725; probate of his will by his widow Jane Hoare (who has acted very little), brother Benjamin Hoare and son Henry Hoare; William Benson kept his cash with Henry Hoare and Benjamin Hoare, bankers, and after HH’s death with Benjamin Hoare, Henry Hoare the son and Christopher Arnold (partners from the death of HH the father); four accounts of the Benson trust stated, the last on 7 Feb 1721; statement of cash accounts, the last on 20 Jul 1722; disputes concerning the accounts since the death of HH the father; Chancery bill exhibited by William Benson against Jane Hoare, Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 61

Benjamin Hoare, Henry Hoare and Christopher Arnold and others but before an answer was submitted the parties agreed to refer the matter to arbitration; arbitration bonds in £10,000, 20 Mar 1731; agreement that Henry Hoare the son should become purchaser from William Benson of Gollards Farm in Hampshire, part leasehold and part freehold, the purchase price to be settled by George Greenway of Kimpton in Hampshire, clerk; inability to complete the arbitration by the agreed date of 1 May 1731; further bonds extending the time to 15 May 1731; GG awards: 1. That the suit commenced by William Benson should cease. 2. Henry Hoare should by 24 June pay William Benson £2600 for the freehold and leasehold interest in Gollards Farm (granted by Henry Hoare the father to William Benson for 20½ years from 29 Sep 1719 at £30, 6 Nov 1719), in which sum £1940 is allowed for the lease. 3. That four accounts stated between Henry Hoare the father and William Benson, 1714-1721 (details) shall be taken as liquidated and not be opened or unraveled. 4. That from the death of Henry Hoare the father on 12 Mar 1725 £830 9s 4½d is due to the trust estate. 5. Further details of sums owing between the parties, leading to the payment by the Hoares to William Benson of £1024 4s 5½d in Middle Temple Hall on 24 June 1731 in full satisfaction of all accounts. 6. Further details of accounts to be settled between the parties.] [London?] 15 May 1731. Manuscript indenture, ink on two joined sheets of vellum (largest approx. 74 x 63cm) in English, signed and sealed in red wax at foot by George Greenway, verso with endorsements including signatures of witnesses Thomas Francis & Josiah Shaw, embossed blue tax stamp in margins of both sheets, some light wear along old folds, verso with some dust marking, overall very good.

These two large indentures record complex transactions involving the Hampshire estate of Quarley and the descendants of the banker and philanthropist Henry Hoare (1677-1725). His eldest son Henry Hoare (1705-1785), banker and patron of art, is known in particular for his development of the famed Stourhead estate in Wiltshire. Also mentioned in these documents is the politician, architect and literary critic William Benson (1682-1754) who was involved in the building of Stourhead and other significant projects (see: ODNB). £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 62

MANUSCRIPT CATALOGUE OF ELIZABETHAN CHARTERS OF WARWICK 55. [WARWICK.] A state of the charters and grants of diverse estates to the town & corpora - tion of Warwick: and of the decrees of the C[our]t of Chancery relating thereto: and of the orders & minutes of the acts of the corporation. [Warwick?, c.1760.] Manuscript, ink on paper, in English. 4to (16 x 19.5cm) [35] pages of text, with a few additional blanks, drop-head title, very good in contemporary blue comb-marbled card wrapper, light wear to extremities. Penned c.1760, this manuscript was compiled as an antiquarian record of charters, grants and related doc - umentation concerning the administration of the town of Warwick from the 1540s through the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline eras. The three sections are headed: “A state of the charters and grants of diverse estates to the town & corporation of Warwick: and of the decrees of the C[our]t of Chancery relating thereto: and of the orders & minutes of the acts of the corporation,” “Orders and rules made by the corporation taken from the long parchment unbound book, entituled Articles- Constitutions-Orders &c.” and “Particulars which appear by the extracts from the charters – decrees of the Court of Chancery – and minutes of the Act of Corporation ...” The blue comb-marbled paper binding is reminiscent of that produced at Fulneck near Leeds by the Moravian congregation there in the mid-eighteenth century. £550 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 63

GEORGIAN COUNTRY ESTATE AUCTIONED 56. [ESHOTT HALL.] The particu - lars of the capital and very valu - able freehold estate, most desirably situate in the parish of Felton, in the county of Northum - berland ... comprising the exten - sive manor of Eshott ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. On Wednesday the 22nd June, at twelve o’clock, at Gar - rawy’s Coffee House ... [London?, 1791.] Printed leaflet. Folio (19.5 x 31cm) [2]pp on bifolium, with printed docket title on verso of final leaf, second leaf with horizontal tear along old fold (no loss of text), with several contemporary ink annota - tions relating to the sale. [TOGETHER WITH] [ESHOTT HALL.] A particular of the manor and lordship of Eshot, in the parish of Felton, in the county of Northumberland ... [London, 1791.] Broadside. Folio (30 x 38cm) several marginal tears along old folds (not affecting text). These printed sale particulars contain much information concerning the estate of Eshott in Northumberland, auc - tioned at Garraway’s Coffee House in London 22 June 1791. An additional broadside advertises the manor house and lists the farms included. The sale by the Carr family was precipitated for financial reasons, with Eshott Hall being purchased by the Alnwick attorney Thomas Adams (d.1813): “the mansion house is of stone, modern built – in the first floor, a large dining room, drawing room, a parlour and light closet adjoining proper for a small library, butler’s pantry, servants hall, pastery, large kitchen ...” These copies most probably were retained by Adams as the manuscript annotations present appear to be in his hand. Neither item is recorded in ESTC. £450 NEOCLASSICAL TRADE CARD FOR A SUFFOLK SURVEYOR 57. [TRADE CARD; BROWN, William.] W. Brown, architect and surveyor, Ipswich. [London.] J. Robinson sculp. W. Brown inv. et delin. [c.1825.] Trade card, engraved (plate mark 11.5 x 7.6cm; sheet 13 x 12.2cm), uncut, in a fine state of preservation. This rare engraved trade card advertising the services the Ipswich architect and surveyor William Brown (1778-1851) depicts a classical ruined buiding with Doric columns, similar to the Temple of Poseidon at Paestum, with Brown’s credentials inscribed on a chunk of masonry in the foreground. The card, designed and drawn by Brown, was engraved by “J. Robinson”, most probably the engraver John Henry Robinson (1796- 1871). Colvin p.171 lists a number of buildings designed by Brown including the Ipswich House of Correction, Ipswich Provision Market and Norfolk Lunatic Asylum . £250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 64

BUILDING REGULATIONS FOR GEORGIAN LONDON 58. [ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS.] Resolutions of the Associated Architects; with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the cause of the frequent fires, and the best means of preventing the like in future. [London, 1793.] First edition. 8vo (14 x 23cm) [4], 31, [1]pp., a fine copy in original state: uncut and partially unopened in original stab-sewn wrapper. A printed note on these instructions concerning building techniques to reduce the spread of fires advises that they were “to be adopted in all new houses built on the Duke of Bedford’s estates, or houses belonging to his grace, let on repairing leases, in cases where such repairs include relaying of floors, or resetting of wooden staircases”. Descriptions of experiments in the building of party walls, and new flooring and plastering techniques are included. ESTC records 8 locations only (bC; bBEDr (2); bL; nCaOTU; bO; nNNC-A; nNcD; nCStmoGRI).

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TRADE CARD FOR A WILTSHIRE INN 59. [INNS.] Angel-Inn, Chippenham. John Lawes begs leave to acquaint the nobility, gentry, and the public in general, that he has taken and entered upon the above inn, which has lately been neatly fitted up ... Coombs, printed, Chippenham. [c.1800.] Trade card (8 x 12cm) printed on card, text framed by decorative border, very good. Dateable to c.1800 this fine trade card advertises the Angel Inn at Chippenham in Wiltshire, then under the new management of John Lawes: “he has taken and entered upon the above inn, which has lately been neatly fitted up .. he has provided a good stock of choice wines and other liquors, and every other article for ... accomodation.” The stagecoach “stages from Chippenham to London” are printed at the foot of the card, which bears the imprint of the Chippenham printer James Coombs (d.1822). £250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 65

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LONDON CABINET MAKER 60. [FURNITURE.] [Invoice for furniture sold by Richard Knowles, cabinet maker, to Josiah Messer of Holborn.] [London, 1788.] Manuscript, ink on single sheet of paper. Folio (23.5 x 37cm) [1]page, blank verso with contemporary endorsement, paper with light even toning, old folds, very good. This manuscript invoice records purchases of furniture in 1787 and 1788 made by Josiah Messer, a Quaker chemist of Holborn, from a nearby London cabinet maker named Richard Knowles, then with premises at 8 Great Earl Street, Seven Dials. Items of furniture listed include “a best staind nurs[in]g chair … 8 sweep sides & fronts looseat[e]d chairs of Jama[i]ca stuff … a seasond wainscuet claw’d table … a Kiddermin[inste]r carp[e]t cont[ainin]g 11 yds …” Knowles also was taking down and putting up bedsteads, cleaning a clockcase and “fitt[in]g a carpett to the parlour.” For references to Richard Knowles, see: G. Beard & C. Gilbert (eds.), Dictionary of London furniture makers 1660-1840 (1986) p.520. £450 TRADE CARDS ADVERTISING LONDON MANUFACTURERS 61. [LONDON.] Carpenter & Hamberger, pewterers & braziers, corner of Panton Street St. James’s Hay Market, London. [London, c.1800.] Trade card, engraved on card (9 x 6.5cm) text framed within oval border, very good. [TOGETHER WITH] Edmund Lloyd, manufacturer of iron, tin, and japanned wares, no. 178 Strand, and at the manu - factory in Clement’s Lane, London ... [London.] Burslem. [c.1800.] Trade card, letterpress text on card (6.5 x 9cm), very good . [TOGETHER WITH] Thompson taylor & ladies habit maker N. 2 Devonshire Street Marylebone ... [London, c.1800.] Trade card, engraved on card (6 x 9cm) text framed within decorative border, very good. These three trade cards for London businesses are all dateable to c.1800 and illustrate the variety of styles employed at this time for small cards, ranging from plain letterpress text to decorative engraved designs. £350 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 66

DUBLIN PRINT & LOOKING GLASS MANUFACTORY 62. [DUBLIN.] Bought of Ja.s Del Vecchio at his Print and looking glass manufactory, No. 26 Westmoreland Street. Dublin.Engrav’d by P. Maguire. [c.1815.] Invoice sheet (23.5 x 19.5cm) with large stipple-engraved billhead (platemark 21.3 x 13.2cm) at head of sheet, the sheet unusued, very good. Dateable to c.1815, the large stipple-engraved billhead here advertises the Dublin “print and looking glass manufactory” of the Italian immigrant James Del Vecchio at “26 Westmoreland Street.” Founded c.1790, the business, specialising in frames and mirrors, was continued by his son of the same name into the middle of the nineteenth century. The engraver of this design was Patrick Maguire (fl. 1783-1820), known in particular for producing book illustrations. £350

HOLBORN JEWELLER & TOY MAN 63. [METCALF, John.] Metcalf, jeweller, hardware and toy man, no.54, Holborn-Hill, opposite Hatton-Garden ... [London, c.1790.] Trade card, letterpress on card (9.1 x 6.2cm) blank verso with contemporary watercolour trials, very good. A letterpress trade card for John Metcalf, “jeweller, hardware and toy man, no.54, Holborn-Hill, opposite Hatton-Garden”, London. A variety of Metcalf’s wares are listed: “great choice of ear-rings, fancy and wedding rings; lockets, bracelets, breast-pins, necklaces, watch-chains; and a variety of trinkets in gold, silver, and metal; pocket-books of every kind; toothpick-cases in gold, silver, and ivory, of every sort; pen- knives, scissars, purses, and beads in the greatest variety; silver and plated shoe and knee buckles, spurs, &c. &c. N.B. mourning and fancy rings, and all kinds of jewellery, on the shortest notice. £250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 67

FINE SILKS SOLD BY LONDON MERCERS 64. [LONDON.] Bought of John Wyatt & William Cronker at the Three Kings, the new house, ye corner of ye Old Bailey, on Ludgate Hill … [London, dated in manuscript 28 October 1725.] Engraved billhead (19 x 14.5cm) engraving of three kings at head of sheet, completed in manuscript and signed off by William Cronker, small hole in centre from impaling, very good. A scarce early eighteenth century engraved billhead issued in 1725 by John Wyatt and William Cronker, London mercers on Ludgate Hill. The decorative engraving at the head of the bill illustrates their sign, the Three Kings. The invoice penned on the sheet to a “Mr Clarke”, records the purchase of “59 yards … flowerd silks” and other fabrics. £350

“WIRE-WORKER, AT THE BIRD-CAGE AND SIEVE ... BRISTOL”

65. [BRISTOL.] William Perkins, wire-worker, at the Bird-Cage and Sieve, in Red - cliff-street, Bristol, makes and sells wholesale and retail, brass and iron wire sieves, &c. ... [Bristol?, c.1765.] Handbill, letterpress (19 x 16cm) text framed by typographic border, a few negligible stains, old folds, very good. This fine handbill advertises the wares of “William Perkins, wire- worker, at the Bird-Cage and Sieve, in Redcliff-street, Bristol.” The text lists a variery of wire-work products manufactured by Perkins, including: “fine double-bottom’d sieves ... fine sieves for dressing flour ... fine wire safes to keep out flies ... fine to - bacco sanders ... fine washing bas - kets for dyers ... wire fenders ...” A note at the foot of the sheet advises “he has a machine for weaving brass or iron wire.” £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 68

HUGUENOT SWORD CUTLER’S TRADE CARD 66. [LONDON.] Isaiah Fleureau sword-cutler, at the Sign of the King’s Arms, at the lower end of St. James’s Street over against St. James’s Gate. Esaye Fleureau fourbisseur ... [London, dated in manuscript “May 9 th 1743”.] Engraved trade card, single sheet, 8vo (15 x 18cm), engraved British royal arms at head, contemporary manuscript notes in margins, verso with manuscript in - voice signed by Isaiah Fleureau, old folds, a few marginal stains, very good. This trade card for the London sword cutler Isaiah Fleureau (1703-1775) was issued in 1743. The manuscript in - voice penned on the verso and signed by Fleureau records the sale of “a gor - get for Lt. Legrand of Brigadier Howards regiment.” Fleureau’s Huguenot descent is reflected in the engraved text which advertises his premises “at the Sign of the King’s Arms, at the lower end of St. James’s Street over against St. James’s Gate” in both French and English. £450 “MAKES & SELLS ALL SORTS OF BRASS & STEEL STOVES” 67. [LONDON.] John Hart, iron- plate-worker, at the Iron Chest in Princes Street, facing Gerrard Street, near Leicester Square Lon - don. Makes & sells all sorts of brass & steel stoves ... [London, c.1765.] Trace card, engraved on paper (sheet 18.5 x 16cm) small tear to one corner not affecting printed surface, old folds, very good. This fine engraved trade card of “John Hart, iron-plate-worker, at the Iron Chest in Princes Street, facing Gerrard Street, near Leicester Square London” can be dated to c.1765. Framed by a decorative rococo border, the engraved text advertises that Hart “makes and sells all sorts of brass & steel stoves, iron & copper cabin stoves, and new invented stoves for curing bad chimneys ... iron chests and book cases to fix in brick work, plate warmers, iron and copper coal scoops ... funnels for chimneys ...” £350 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 69

“EDINBURGH COMPANY OF UPHOLSTERERS AND JOINERS” 68. [PEAT, John.] Advertisement. The Edinburgh Company of Upholsterers and Joiners, at their large warehouse in Carrubber’s Close, have now a very large assortment of all kinds of household furniture, in mohogony and other cheaper woods ... [Edinburgh, 1759.] Handbill (18.5 x 30cm) invoice penned and signed at foot of sheet by John Peat dated 21 July 1759 made out to “Mr. Gilchrist,” old folds, very good. This handbill advertises the stock of the “Edinburgh Company of Upholsterers and Joiners, at their large warehouse in Carrubber’s Close”, noting that they “have now a very large assortment of all kinds of household furniture, in mohogony and other cheaper woods; several very beautiful glasses, in rich carved and gilt frames ... great choice of paper for hanging rooms ... some very beautiful India pictures ... all sorts of upholstery goods, viz. mixed damasks, worsted ... harrateens, chinceys, linceys ... chintz-pattern cottons, cotton and linen cheques ...”, also that they offer “upholstery work” and “funerals furnished in town or country after the English or Scots methods ...” Penned at the foot of the sheet and signed by John Peat, clerk to the company, is a manuscript invoice made out to a “Mr. Gilchrist” dated 21 July 1759 recording the purchase of “an iron door lock” and “a pair [of] hinges and screws.” A rare survival offering valuable references to mid-eighteenth century Edinburgh furniture manufac - ture. £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 70

CLOTH-CUTTING MACHINE INVENTED BY YORKSHIRE CLOCKMAKER 69. [INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.] [Assignment of shares by James Brown of Pately Bridge, York, clock and watchmaker, to Thomas Wilkinson of Manchester, Peter Leicester of Liverpool, and John Gouthwaite of Liverpool: “three equal undivided fourth parts or shares of and in thirty one parts out of thirty two parts” in his invention of and patent for “an engine machine or instrument for cutting all kinds of fustian and other goods made or consisting of cotton silk or woollen or any mixture ...”] 31 December 1792. Manuscript indenture, ink on paper. Large folio (34.5 x 48cm) [3]pages in English, foot of p.[3] with sig - natures of four parties & related red wax seals, contemporary ink and embossed tax stamps in the margin, a few negligible tears along old folds (no loss of text), very good. Dating from the heyday of the Industrial Revolution, this indenture of 31 December 1792 records the sale by the clockmaker James Brown of Pateley Bridge, York, of shares in his new invention - an “engine machine or instrument for cutting all kinds of fustian and other goods made or consisting of cotton silk or woollen or any mixture ...” The purchase by three merchants, Thomas Wilkinson of Manchester, Peter Leicester of Liverpool, and John Gouthwaite of Liverpool of “three equal undivided fourth parts or shares of and in thirty one parts out of thirty two parts” is recorded in this lengthy document together with related financial details of their agreement. Brown’s machine, incorporating different types of knives and rollers, required less labour to operate than existing cutting methods. £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 71

GEORGIAN POST COACH FROM LONDON TO THE MIDLANDS 70. [LONDON.] Blossoms Inn. Lawrence Lane, Cheapside. Leeds, Wakefield, and Sheffield post coach, (to carry four insides) through Huntingdon, Stamford, Grantham, Newark, and Ollerton ... [London.] Geoghegan, printer, Kent Street, Bor - ough. [c.1797] Handbill. Large 4to (22 x 27.5cm) paper with watermark “1797”, some light marginal dustmarking, uncut, old folds, very good. A rare survival, this broadside advertising travel by post coach from London to the Midlands can be dated to 1797 from a wa - termark. Starting out from Blossoms Inn, Lawrence Lane, in London’s Cheapside, with capacity “to carry four insides”, this coach service was operated daily by Nicholson and Prall of London, and Joseph Hindle and Co. of Leeds. Not traced in ESTC. £650

REGENCY ENTERTAINMENT AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

71. [CAMBRIDGE.] University Entertainment. To their royal highnesses the duchess of Gloucester, and the princess Sophia Matilda. July 6th. 1819. [London?] Drawn by R.B. Harraden. Etched by Elizabeth Byrne. [1819.] Ticket (22.5 x 15.5cm), engraved, one corner torn at tip (to validate ticket on entry), contemporary marginal ink inscriptions to “Mr Linton” & “S.H. Alderson”, numbered in manuscript “801” with signature “George Neville VC” to lower corner, a few negligible old creases, very good. This engraved ticket for a Regency-era “university entertainment” at Cambridge on 6 July 1819 depicts “Trinity Collge Bridge & walks.” The etching was produced by the engraver Elizabeth Byrne (fl. 1809-1849) after a design by the topographical artist Richard Bankes Harraden (1778-1862), later the originator of Illustrations of the University of Cambridge (1830). BM 1983,U.676. £250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 72

MANUSCRIPT MUSIC TREATISE ON HARMONIC THEORY 72. GILARDONI, Tommaso. Téorie harmonieuse ou Précis de toutes les regles nécessaires pour ap - prendre les accompagnements et à composer raisonée sur les véritables principes fondamentals, à l’usage de ceux qui souhaitent de profiter de cette science: avec no. 42 petits themes, ou basses pour des sonnates en tous les tons: entremêlés de petites périodes de tablature ... “À Milan chez Les Freres Pirola imprimeurs vis-à-vis le grand theatre MDCCXCVII.” [Milan,1797.] [Autograph?] Manuscript, ink on paper, in French. Folio (22.5 x 33cm) [24] pages, very good in contemporary plain card wrapper, front cover with con - temporary title in ink “Teoria Armonica,” some negligible wear to extremities. This manuscript in French offering a treatise on harmony in music with rules for composition was written c.1797 by the composer and music master Tommaso Gilardoni of Milan. We have not been able to trace any record of this work having been published in any language, though this manuscript seems to be a fair copy made up for publication in Milan by the Tipografia Pirola: “Les Freres Pirola imprimeurs vis-à-vis le grand theatre MDCCXCVII.” It bears a dedication dated Milan 1797 addressed to “citoyen Alexandre Lalance Chef de Brigade Commandant en Chef l’Artillerie Cisalpine.” Following a section addressed “aux lecteurs” is an introduction, with the subsequent work then arranged in three parts: “la premiere partie comprend les éclaircissements des élements, avec les quels se forme l’harmonie, démontrés par des exemples variés et concis. La seconde partie roule sur différent discours à l’égard des consonances et dissonances, d’où elles viennent; qu’est ce que le ton, la situation, ou la nature de tous les tons diatoniques. La troisième et derniere partie régarde tout-à-fait la musique; savoir les trois positions de la main pour accompagner, la situation de tous les doigts, les échelles en tous les tons, ses themes, ou basses avec les regles générales et particulieres ...” Gilardoni seems to have composed the music for an Italian staging of Rousseau’s Pygmalion , the text having been printed as Pigmalione scena lirica nuova traduzione in versi del Sig. Siro Comi pavese. Posta in musica per la prima volta dal celebre maestro Sig. Tommaso Gilardoni milanese. E rappresentato per la prima volta in Pavia nell’estate del 1799 (Milan, 1799). £2500 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 73

“SAUNDERS’S UNPARALLELED TROOP” 73. [SAUNDERS, Abraham.] New Royal Circus, Hull ... Saturday, May 11th, 1811 ... the grandest dis - play of manly agility and eques - trian exercises ... by Saunders’s unparalleled troop!! ... horseman - ship on two horses, by master Blackmor ... Polandric equilibri - ums, by Master Smith ... The An - tipodean Equestrian will go through his act on a single horse ... Tight rope dancing, by Young Saunders ... Slack wire dancing, by the inimitable Miss Saunders ... Robert Peck, printer of the Hull Packet, Scale- Lane, Hull. [1811.] Circus bill. Folio (22 x 54cm) some light patches of dustiness and wear at margins, some discreet strengthening to verso along old folds (not affecting text). This large and relatively early printed circus bill advertises a performance by “Saunder’s unparalleled troop” on 11 May 1811 at the New Royal Circus, Hull. The career of the circus propri - etor Abraham Saunders seems to have begun in the 1760s. Routines by both his son, a skilled equestrian known as Young Saunders, and his daughter, an ac - robat styled Miss Saunders, are noted here. The extensive text of the bill of - fers much information: “The perform - ance will commence with horsemanship on two horses, by Master Blackmor ... Polandric Equilibriums, by Master Smith, who will walk up a lad - der 14 feet high, and unscrew the top round, when the ladder will fall in pieces, and leave him on his head on one side of it. The Antipodean Eques - trian will go through his act on a single horse, and will stand on his head on a quart pot ... Tight rope dancing by Young Saunders, the first rope dancer and horseman in the world ... Miss Saunders will go through her matchless performance on a single horse ... Slack wire dancing by the inimitable Miss Saunders ... Exquisite horsemanship, by Young Saunders, who will leap over garters, a pyramid of lights, platforms of boards, and through balloons ...” £750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 74

CHRISTIAN VII OF DENMARK PAINTED FOR GEORGE III 74. [FISHER, Edward.] Christian VII. King of Denmark, &c. Done from the original picture painted by Mr. Dance, for the king of Great Britain, to whom this plate (with permission) is most humbly inscribed ... [London.] Publish’d according to act of Parliament 1st April 1769, & sold at the Golden Head South side of Leicester Square. Price 5s. Mezzotint (platemark 27.9 x 37.8cm, sheet 29.1 x 39.2cm) very good condition. This fine mezzotint portrait of king Christian VII of Denmark (1749-1808) was produced by the master mezzot - inter Edward Fisher (1722-c.1782) after a painting by Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735-1811), one of a number commissioned from him at this time by king George III (1738-1820). The painting remains in the British Royal collection. Christian VII, a cousin to George III, is here depicted wearing the Danish Order of the Elephant. The ties between the British and Danish royal families were strong during the eighteenth century. Christian, remem - bered in particular for his mental illness, married his cousin, Princess Caroline Matilda (1751-1775) George’s youngest sister. The end of their short and unhappy marriage was precipitated by a coup which exposed Caroline’s affair with Christian’s physician, the prominent Danish reformer Johan Friedrich Struensee (1737-1772), leading to her exile and Struensee’s execution. Chaloner Smith 13, ii (following unlettered proof). Provenance: Hon. C. Lennox–Boyd. £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 75

THANKSGIVING FOR NAVAL SUCCESS AT THE NILE 75. [NAVY.] A form of prayer and thanksgiving to almighty God; to be used on Tuesday the nine - teenth day of December 1797, being the day appointed by His Majesty’s Royal Proclamation for a General Thanksgiving to almighty God, for the many and signal victories, which His Divine Prov - idence hath vouchsafed to His Majesty’s Fleets, in the course of the present war. London, printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. 1797. 4to (19 x 24cm) 43, [1]pp., a fine copy in original straight-grain red morocco, boards bordered with gilt floral roll (repeated on spine), floral cornerpieces, marbled pastedowns, light wear to ex - tremities. Finely-bound in contemporary straight-grain red morocco with gilt floral borders, this book of prayers was printed for use on 19 December 1797, a day appointed by royal proclamation of George III “for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the many and signal victories, which His Divine Providence hath vouchsafed to His Majesty’s Fleets, in the course of the present war.”: “O Eternal Lord God, whose Voice, mighty in Operation, the raging Seas and the stormy Winds obey; who hast compassed the ocean with its bounds, saying, “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed;” O God, who, in Thy Mercy, guidest the Mariner in Safety through the trackless deep; receive, we beseech thee, into Thy gracious and Almighty Protection, the Fleets of Thy Servant our Sovereign, the Vessels of our Merchants, and the persons of all those who serve in them ...” ESTC lists 4 copies only (British Library; John Rylands Manchester; Duke University; Yale Beinecke). £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 76

DEFENCE COUNSEL FOR JOHN WILKES & JOHN THE PAINTER 76. [JONES, John.] James Mansfield Esq.r [London.] L. Vaslet pinx. Engraved by J. Jones engraver extraordinary to his His R. H. the Prince of Wales & principal engraver to His R. H. the duke ofY ork. Published as the act directs May 14. 1791 by J. Jones no. 75 Great Portland Street. Mary-le-bone. Mezzotint (platemark 27.7 x 38cm, sheet 32 x 44cm), very good with large margins. Depicting the prominent barrister and judge James Mansfield (1734-1821), this large mezzotint portrait was engraved and published by John Jones (c.1755-1796) after [a pastel?] by Lewis Vaslet (1742-1808). Mansfield was involved in many famous trials. He argued for bail as counsel to John Wilkes (1725-1797) after his return from continental exile in 1768. In 1777 he defended the pro-American James Aiken (1752-1777) , aka John the Painter, responsible for a spate of arson attacks at British naval facilities. Appointed solicitor-general in 1780, he was involved in the prosecution of Lord George Gordon (1751-1793), charged with high treason for instigating the anti-Roman Catholic Gordon Riots. In 1804 he was knighted and appointed chief justice of the common pleas. Chaloner Smith 52, i (proof with open letters). £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 77

MEZZOTINT PORTRAIT OF GEORGIAN OFFICER 77. [POGGI, Antonio Cesare.] Lieut:t Colonel Biddulph, of the 3d Regiment. [London.] Anth. Poggi pinxt. Thos. Watson fecit. [c.1774.] Mezzotint (platemark 31.7 x 42.8cm, sheet 33 x 44cm) a few negli - gible fox marks in the margins, very good condition. A fine military mezzotint portrait, this print depicts John Biddulph, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment traditionally raised in Kent and garrisoned at Canterbury. It was engraved and published by the London mezzotinter Thomas Watson (1743?-1781) after a painting by the Italian painter and art dealer Antonio Cesare Poggi (fl. 1769-1836). Poggi is thought to have arrived in London with Pasquale Paoli (1725-1807) in 1769. The date of printing is identified as 1774 in Henry Bromley’s A catalogue of engraved British portraits ... (London, 1793, p.376). Biddulph commanded the Buffs in in 1762-1763 during the Seven Years War. In 1763 the regiment was sent to Minorca, returning to England in 1771. During the period of the American War of Independence he is recorded as remaining Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment until 1779. Chaloner Smith 7, ii of ii. £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 78

GEORGIAN NAVAL OFFICER DEPICTED AT SEA 78. [FABER, John.] The honourable Thomas Mathews Esq.r rear admiral of Great Britain & admiral of the White Squadron of his majesties fleet, done from an original painting taken on board the Namur in Hieres Bay Jany. 1742/3. [London.] Arnulphy pinx. I. Faber fecit 1744. London printed for John Ryall & Rob.t Withy, at Hogarth’s Head in Fleet Street. [c.1755.] Mezzotint (platemark 25.1 x 35.2cm, sheet 26.5 x 36.5cm), very good. Depicting the long-serving British naval officer Thomas Mathews (1676-1751), this atmospheric mezzotint by John Faber the younger (c.1684-1756) was made after a portrait by French artist Claude Arnulphi (1697-1786), painted at sea “on board the Namur in Hieres Bay Jany. 1742/3.” Mathews leans on a cannon, telescope in hand. The background seascape depicts a sea battle, presumably the British and Franco-Spanish fleets exchanging fire at The Battle of 22 February 1744. The British defeat lead to a public enquiry which saw Mathews tried by court-martial in 1746. First published in 1744, this impression (iii?) can be dated to c.1755 from the imprint of John Ryall and Robert Withy, London print publishers based “at Hogarth’s Head in Fleet Street.” £450 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 79

PIONEERING STUDY OF DISEASE STATISTICS & WEATHER 79. WINTRINGHAM, Clifton. Commentarium nosologicum, morbos epidemicos et aeris vari - ationes in urbe Eboracensi locisque vicinis, per sedecim annos grassantes complectens ... Londini, Typis Gul. Bowyer; impensis J. Walthoe. 1733. Second edition. 8vo (12.75 x 20.5cm) 168pp., printed on thick paper, bound in contemporary gilt-tooled navy morocco, both boards with gilt-tooled composite centrepieces, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, light wear along joints & corners, very good. A deluxe copy printed on thick paper and bound in contemporary gilt-tooled navy morocco of this pioneering treatise on epidemiology by the York physician Clifton Wintringham (1689-1748). Practising as a physician in York for more than thirty years, Wintringham became an expert on diseases, publishing several works on the subject. This is the most significant of his printed medical studies, offering his commentary on the epi - demiology of outbreaks of smallpox, measles and typhus in York incorporating his own observations on vari - ations in weather and temperature recorded between 1715 and 1730. With a dedication addressed to Dr. Richard Mead (1673-1754), this substantially-enlarged second edition, printed in London by the scholarly printer William Bowyer (1699-1777), followed the much shorter provincially-printed first edition (York, 1727). It is noteworthy as one of a very small number of epidemiological works published in the first half of the eighteenth century examining the relationship between weather and disease through the observation of meteorological data. An appealing copy of this scarce and significant book. Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1967. £2500 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 80

NEW SURGICAL PROCEDURE FOR CATARACT REMOVAL 80. EARLE, James. An account of a new mode of operation for the removal of the opacity in the eye, called cataract. London, printed for J. Johnson … and R. Faulder … by Wilks and Taylor. 1801. First edition. 8vo (13.5 x 22cm) iv, 68pp., 2 engraved plates, heraldic bookplate of “J. Talbot Clifton of Kildalton,” a fine copy in contemporary straight-grain red morocco, boards with gilt border, flat spine ruled and titled in gilt, light wear to extremities, marbled endpapers. A fine copy in contemporary red morocco of the first edition of this treatise expounding a new method for the removal of cataracts. Sir James Earle (1755-1817), a prominent surgeon associated with St. Bartholomew’s Hos - pital in London, was appointed surgeon-extraordinary to George III in 1786. Earle’s treatise begins with an out - line of the structure of the eye, after which he explains the usual methods of “couching and extracting, as hitherto practised” which he has “long been disattisfied with”, then outlining his new method: “it consists of a small spear- pointed lancet, of a proper breadth, which introduces a pair of fine forceps into the globe of the eye, and, when sufficiently inserted, the sharp or spear-point, by means of a spring, is withdrawn, leaving the forceps behind: with these the cataract may be gently seized, made to quit its connections, and be brought away through the opening …” Several patient studies are included, among them an account of cataract treatment upon “a negro, who had been received into St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on account of a bad leg, and a general ill state of health.” One of the two engraved plates illustrates the old method of cataract removal while the other depicts Earle’s new method. Wellcome III, p.508. £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 81

GOUT TREATED BY NEW REFRIGERATION CURE 81. KINGLAKE, Robert. A dissertation on gout; exhibiting a new view of the origin, nature, cause, cure, and prevention, of that afflicting disease; illustrated and confirmed by a variety of original and communicated cases. London, printed for John Murray. 1804. First edition. 8vo (14.5 x 23.5cm) xx, 348, [12, (ads.)]pp., a very good copy, uncut in the original paper-backed blue boards, spine with original printed label, joints cracked but firmly attached, light wear to ex - tremities. An excellent copy of the first edition of this significant treatise on gout by the physician Robert Kinglake (1765- 1842). The dedication is addressed to the Duke of Portland: “The honour which your Grace has conferred on me, in liberally permitting this new work on gout to be addressed to your notice, is enhanced by the prospect of its af - fording your Grace that lively interest, which you must feel in every attempt to cure a disease, which has afflicted with deplorable inveteracy your illustrious ancestors, and from the severity of which your own health has not been exempted ...” This appears to be the work for which Kinglake is remembered, notable as the vehicle for the first proposal of his controversial refrigeration treatment: “Gouty excitement, whether it proceeds the length of in - flammation, or only to the diseased irritation, affords by its nature, or proximate cause, a striking example of the only suitable mode of cure. This must consist in both the local and the general dimunition of the excessive heat which prevails. Until this shall be effected, not a truce even can be gained with the disease ...” Wellcome III, 393. £750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 82

“HIGH LIFE ... OR, THE HISTORY OF MISS FAULKLAND” 82. [NOVEL.] [HIGGS, Henry.] Aurélia, ou La vie du grand monde, traduit de l’Anglois ... A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, chez Briand. 1789. 2 vols. First edition in French. 8vo (10 x 17cm) [4], 269, [1]; [4], 240pp., with half-titles, a few negligible marginal marks, engraved heraldic bookplates [c.1790?] “Bibliotheque de Mr. le C.te de la Leyen”, title-pages with related small nineteenth century heraldic stamp (von der Leyen library, dispersed), very good in contem - porary leather-backed, sponge-patterned boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral tooling, original gilt-titled citron morocco labels, silk bookmarks, light wear to extremities. First edition in French translation, scarce, of the epistolary High life: A novel. Or, The history of Miss Faulkland (London, 1767) by Henry Higgs. This is a novel of manners, somewhat anticipating Evelina (London, 1778) by Fanny Burney (1752-1840), that received favourable reviews in England, in particular garnering more than five pages in The critical review (vol. 24, London, 1767, pp.350-355): “The manufacturers of novels, in one respect, resemble the bakers of gingerbread; for their ingredients are the same, and the chief difference lies in the manner of disposing the decorations. Whether they are in the shape of a king, a queen, or a cuckold, they still consist of flour, water, brown sugar or treacle ... The manufacturer whose work lies before us, has (to do him justice), the merit of baking it in the lightest manner, and of proportioning his ingredients with tolerable skill, so as to prevent it from cloying his customers. The reader, as upon many similar occasions, forms already an idea of miss Faulkland’s being a divinity in flesh and blood. She is daughter to a parson who is dead; and though happy in her rural retirement, is sent for to town by her aunt-in-law, lady Wellford, a very good kind of woman, but no better than she should be. Her life is a continual scene of dissipation. She is dis - tractedly fond of play, has very bad luck, is reduced in her circumstances, , and depends for retrieving them upon her daughter, who is heiress to a large fortune. Her necessities prevail upon her to betray our heroine to Sir Harry Courtney, who is a married man and a fashionable husband ... We shall not particularize all the treacherous schemes practised against our heroine ... she falls at last into the hands of a noted bawd, who pretends to be a woman of fortune and character, and that the courtezans she entertains in her house are her virtuous daughters ...” The original English title from which this French translation was made seems previously to have been identified as several other works, including Samuel Hoole’s Aurelia; or, the contest (London, 1783) and The lady’s drawing-room. Being a faithful picture of the great world (London, 1744), as cited in both Rochedieu (Appendix I, 53) and Martin, Mylne & Frautschi (89.4). However, having compared the texts we can confirm that the English source text is High life. £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 83

POLIDORI’S ITALIAN NOVELLAS FOR BOARDING SCHOOL GIRLS 83. POLIDORI, Gaetano. Saggio di novelle e favole di G. Polidori ... Londra, mdccxcviii. [No. 42.] Broad St. carnaby market. [London, 1798]. First edition. 18mo (7 x 11cm) [12], 120, [22], [4]pp., with stipple-engraved frontispiece and 3 plates, very good in original Polidori-bound straight-grain red morocco, flat spine ruled and titled in gilt, spine tooled at foot with name “Miss Este”, flyleaf with ownership inscription “T. Broadhurst Bath,” marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt, light wear to extremities. First edition of this scarce book containing four novellas and three fables in verse by the Italian writer, publisher and printer Gaetano Polidori (1764-1853), an Italian immigrant resident in London from c.1790, father of the physician and writer John William Polidori (1795-1821). Illustrated by four engraved plates, the novellas ( Cecco e Lucia; Uguccio; I venicativi puniti; Le matrone ambiziose ) and verse fables ( Il topo e i cavalli; Il corvo; la scimmia ed i fangiani; Il merlo e la folaga ) were written by Polidori for the improvement, both moral and linguistic, of a young female readership. The dedication is addressed to the governesses of the boarding school for girls in which Polidori was employed as Italian master (“Le signore Ogg & Robinson, maestre d’una scuola di damigella in Queen Square a Londra.”) This book was printed in London at Polidori’s own private press at his house at No. 42 Broad Street. A priced four page list of “Italian and French books” sold from his premises is appended. The particular style of straight-grain gilt-ruled red morocco binding in which this book is bound is associated with works from Polidori’s press. Presumably it was bound in his workshop or nearby in London following his specifications. The gilt lettering( “Miss Este”) tooled at the foot of the spine indicates the identity of the first owner of the book, perhaps a student at the Queen Square boarding school at which Polidori was teaching. A possible “Miss Este” is Harriet Este (1780- 1820), only daughter of Revd. Charles Este (1753-1829), who in 1801 married the plantation owner Nathaniel Wells (1779-1852). ESTC lists 8 copies only (bL; bC; bOa; bO; nAzTeS; nMH-H; nCU-BANC; nKU-S). £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 84

MINERVA PRESS NOVEL IN FRENCH TRANSLATION 84. [NOVEL.] [JACSON, Frances Margaretta.] La femme de bon sens, ou la prisonnière de Bohême: traduction de l’Anglais par B. Ducos, traducteur de Henry. A Paris, chez Maradan. An VI. – 1798. 4 vols. 12mo (8.5 x 13.5cm) [4], 219, [1]; [4], 221, [1]; [4], 218; [4], 215, [1]pp., each vol. with half-title and engraved frontispiece, a few leaves with some negligible dustiness, very good in con - temporary calf-backed painted paper-covered boards, flat spines with red leather labels titled and numbered in gilt, some light wear to extremities. A French translation of the Minerva Press novel Plain Sense (London, 1795) by Frances Margaretta Jacson (1754-1842). Published anonymously, this was Jacson’s first novel and found popularity and some critical acclaim: “A story more interesting and affecting, or better told, than this, has seldom come under our ex - amination. Austere as critics are imagined to be, they are not insensible to the charms of such a heroine as Ellen Mordaunt … we will not diminsh the painfully pleasing suspence in which this novel must hold its readers … The character of Ellen is actually distinguished, not so much by plain sense, as by highly cultivated judgement, exquisite feeling, and invincible integrity …” ( The British critic , a new review, for July ... December. MDCCXCVI. Volume VIII. (London, 1796) p.673). The publisher Maradan also produced a 3 volume edition of this translation in the same year. The translator, Basile-Joseph Ducos (1767-1836), also put into French Mary Wollstonecraft’s The wrongs of woman or, Maria (from Posthumous works … (London, 1798)) as Maria, ou le malheur d’être femme (Paris, 1798). Not in Rochedieu; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi, 98.12. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 85

MINERVA PRESS NOVELIST & FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS 85. [NOVEL.][CRAIK, Helen.] La religieuse et sa fille, ou Mémoires de la famille Courville. Traduit de l’Anglais, par J. D***y ... Paris, Dentu. 1808. 2 vols. bound in 1. First edition in French. 8vo (10 x 15cm) [4], 288; [4], 314pp., with half-titles, title- pages with small nineteenth century heraldic stamp (von der Leyen library, dispersed), a few leaves with some light foxing, final leaf of volume 2 with tiny holes affecting 2 letters, in near-contemporary marbled boards, spine with paper label titled in man - uscript, light wear to extremities. First edition in French translation, rare, of the Minerva Press gothic novel The nun and her daughter, or, Memoirs of the Courville family (London, 1805) by the Scottish writer Helen Craik (1751-1825). In addition to five novels, Craik also penned poetry and was a friend and correspondent of the poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). The narrative here begins with a shipwreck, with family secrets, an Italian convent, nuns, dark chambers, clandestine birth and incarceration following. This work received at least one favourable contemporary review, reproduced in the ad - vertisements appended to other contemporary Minerva Press titles: “The nun and her daughter is superior to most publications of this sort. The story is told in a manner that indicates a fertile imagination, and excites a great deal of interest. Monthly epitome, May 1805.” OCLC locates 2 copies only (Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg; Bibliothèque Nationale de France). £1950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 86

SUPERNATURAL NOVEL BY MARY SHELLEY’S FATHER 86. [NOVEL.] GODWIN, William. St. Leon: a tale of the sixteenth century … in four volumes. London, printed for G. C. and J. Robinson … [by] R. Noble. 1799. First edition. 4 vols. 12mo (11 x 18cm) [4], xii, 331, [1]; [4], 331, [1]; [4], 286; [4], 336pp., with half-titles in each volume, early nineteenth century bookplates (“Conyngham”), very good in contemporary marbled boards backed in red leather, flat spines ruled and lettered direct in gilt, small foliage device at centre of each compartment, light wear to extremities. First edition of this supernatural gothic tale, the second novel written by the philosopher William Godwin (1756- 1836), father of Mary Shelley (1797-1851). Set in the sixteenth century, the narrative centres on St. Leon, a French nobleman impoverished by gambling, who is gifted the secrets of the philosophers’ stone and elixir of immortality by a wandering Venetian alchemist. Rather than leading to a life of contentment, his wealth and Rosicrucian knowledge casts St. Leon into isolation as a pariah. He experiences a series of misfortunes in the course of his travels, suffering persecution in Italy, imprisonment in , and the loss of his family. In Hungary he establishes a friendship with a gothic giant named Bethlem Gabor, however Gabor desires St. Leon’s arcane secrets, turning against him and incarcerating him in the dungeon of his castle. St. Leon’s escape is facilitated by an attack on the castle by Austrian soldiers. It transpires that his son, Charles, is the commander of the force, and St. Leon attempts their reconciliation. An influence on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), and Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the wanderer (1820), Godwin’s novel is recognised as a pioneering experiment in genres, merging elements of the supernatural, philosophical and domestic. This handsome set bears the bookplates of the Anglo- Irish courtier Henry Conyngham, 1 st Marquess Conyngham (1766-1832). Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1799:42. Frank, The first Gothics 140. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 87

GOTHIC TALE OF KIDNAPPING & IMPRISONMENT IN ITALY 87. [NOVEL.] [ROUVIERE, Henrietta.] Suzanne, ou Le chateau du Saint-Bernard, traduit de l’Anglais ... Paris, chez Domère. 1821. First edition of this French translation. 2 vols bound in 1. 12mo (10.5 x 15.5cm) [4], 250; [4], 250, [2]pp., with half-titles, marginal closed tear with no loss to 1 leaf in vol. 1 (pp.75-6), both title-pages with small nineteenth century heraldic stamp (von der Leyen library, dispersed) occasional light foxing, very good in contemporary marbled boards, spine with remnants of old paper label, light wear to extremities. First edition of this rare French translation of the Minerva Press gothic Lussington Abbey (London, 1804), first novel of the Irish writer Henrietta Rouviere Mosse (d.1834). She is thought to have arrived in London c.1802 as Hen - rietta Rouviere, marrying in December 1806 Isaac Mosse (1766-1828), a businessman and author. Set in the sev - enteenth century, the narrative here traces the history of Susan, an orphan girl of mysterious origins, taken into the care of a noblewoman, The Marchioness of Oriel. Susan’s charms attract the attention of both the Marquis of Oriel and his cousin Osmond Lussington, however the Marquis is granted Susan’s hand, much to the torment of Lussington. On the day of their marriage Susan disappears in mysterious circumstances. Oriel and Lussington track her journey through France to Italy, where they uncover rumours of a tormented Englishwoman who has been locked up for many years in a remote chateau. In investigating the story they locate Susan, and in rescuing her discover the true story of her origins and the identity of her kidnapper. In this anonymous French translation the title of the novel has been changed to Suzanne, ou Le chateau du Saint-Bernard , with the title-page stating, erro - neously, that it was the work of Regina Maria Roche. This is a completely different translation to an earlier French rendering published as L’Abbaye de Lussington (Paris, 1807). OCLC locates 2 copies only (Universitätsbibliothek München; Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Stras - bourg). £1750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 88

HARRIET LEE’S FIRST NOVEL - TRANSLATED FOR FRENCH READERS 88. [LEE, Harriet.] Herbert, ou Adieu richesses, ou Les mariages. A Edimbourg, [i.e. Paris] et se trouve a Paris, chez Buisson. 1788. 3 vols. bound in 2. First edition in French. 12mo (10.5 x 17cm) [4], 264; [2], 275, [1], [2], 282pp., a few negligible dust marks in the margins, engraved eighteenth century French heraldic bookplates of “Mr. Blondel maitre de requetes intendant de commerce”, marbled pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary French marbled calf, ruled in gilt, flat spines gilt in compartments with original red morocco labels titled & numbered in gilt, light wear to extremities. A very good copy of the first edition in French translation, rare, of The errors of innocence (London, 1786), the first novel of Harriet Lee (1757-1851). Together with her sister Sophia Lee (1750-1824) she established a successful school in Bath before they both found literary fame in the 1790s as novelists and playwrights, writing in the Gothic genre in particular. This translation was made by Pierre Bernard Lemare (1753-1809), who had already translated into French Sophia Lee’s novel The recess (London, 1783-5) as Le Souterrain, ou Matilde (Paris, 1786). The epistolary narrative here is centred on themes of marriage, remarriage and aristocratic disinheritance. “ ... The writer discovers a very intimate acquaintance with the manners of fashionable life: and some striking scenes of it are drawn with a spirited and elegant pencil. The tendency of this novel deserves our warmest praise; and though there are faults in the execution, yet where there is so much to commend, we censure with reluctance ...” (The monthly review, vol. 75, London, 1786, p.230). Rochedieu p.181; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 88.77. £1750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 89

ENGLISH MYSTERY NOVELLA FOR FRENCH READERS 89. [NOVEL.] La Sylphide ou L’ange - gardien. Nouvelle traduite de l’Anglais ... A Paris, chez Dufart ... [&] Louis ... 1796. 12mo (8.5 x 13.5) 126pp., with engraved frontispiece, and 2 engraved plates (1 folding with musical notation), a few negligible stains, blank verso of folding plate strengthened along fold, very good in contemporary gilt-ruled French sheep, spine tooled and titled in gilt, marbled pastedowns, light wear to extremities. An attractive copy of this French translation of The new sylph, or, guardian angel. A story ... (London, 1788), a Gothic novella published by William Lane (1745?-1814), later proprietor of the Minerva Press, and inspired by The Sylph; a novel (London, 1779) by Georgiana Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire (1757- 1806). First printed in 1795, this rendering was made by the novelist Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832), translator into French of several of Jane Austen’s novels. This tale, set in seventeenth century Burgundy, centres on Rose, a beautiful and mysterious young woman who, donning various disguises, reappears at critical moments to guide the central male character in avoiding the perils of indebtedness, political in - trigue in Paris and injury at war, before revealing her true and identity and accepting his hand in marriage. Rochedieu appendix I, 72. £650 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 90

RADCLIFFE’S GOTHIC COMPETITOR IN FRENCH TRANSLATION 90. [NOVEL.] ROCHE, Regina Maria. Le fils banni, ou La retraite des brigands ... traduit de l’Anglais. Paris, chez Joseph Chaumerot. 1808. First edition in French. 4 volumes.12mo (10 x 17cm) 196; 205, [1]; 226; 264pp., half-titles present, engraved frontispiece in each volume, very good in contemporary calf-backed boards, spines gilt in compartments with red and green labels titled and numbered in gilt, green silk bookmarks, negligible chip to joint of vol. 4, very good. An attractive copy of this rare first edition in French translation of the Minerva Press gothic novel The discarded son: or, Haunt of the banditti (London, 1807) by the Irish novelist Regina Maria Roche (1763- 1845). A prolific competitor of Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), Roche is known in particular for The children of the abbey (London, 1796) and also Clermont (London, 1798), made notorious as one of the seven “horrid novels” cited by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey (London, 1818). The plot centres on the fortunes of Elis - abeth and Osmund Munro, children of Capt. Robert Monro (the “discarded son” of the title), who face torment at the hands of the gothic villain Lord O’Sinister. Elisabeth, abducted by masked men and forced to marry a foul suitor in a decaying haunted chapel, suffers harrassment from the lascivious Ruthven while imprisoned in Black Crag Manor. Osmund, captured by brigands, discovers he has fallen in love with O’Sinister’s daughter while engaging the villain in a duel. For an overview of the plot, see: Frederick S. Franck, The first Gothics, Garland, New York & London, 1987, pp. 320-321. Levy, Le roman “gothique” Anglais 1764-1824, p.728. £2500 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 91

“DUELS! ADULTERIES! ... AND BREAKING HEARTS!” 91. [NOVEL.] [BICKNELL, Alexander.] Isabelle ou La bonté récompensée. Histoire attendrissante. Destinée a instruire le beau sexe en l’amusant ... Traduit de l’Anglois. A Paris, chez Merigot le Jeune. A Rotterdam, chez Bennet & Hake. 1781. First edition in French. 8vo (10 x 15.5cm) [2], 198pp., engraved heraldic bookplate [c.1790?] “Bibliotheque de Mr. le C.te de la Leyen”, title-page with related small nineteenth century heraldic stamp (von der Leyen library, dispersed), very good in contemporary leather-backed, sponge-patterned boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral tooling, original gilt-titled citron morocco label, green silk bookmark. First edition in French translation, rare, of Isabella: or, The rewards of good-nature. A sentimental novel. Intended chiefly to convey united amusement and instruction to the fair-sex ... (London, 1776) by the novelist and editor Alexander Bicknell (d.1796), known in particular for transforming the journals of Jonathan Carver (1710-1780) into the narrative published as Travels through the interior parts of North-America ... (London, 1778) . This particular romance was reviewed as one of Bicknell’s better literary efforts: “Death! duels! adulteries! fornications! burning livers and breaking hearts! what would the present race of novelists do without you, ye horrid train? Yet, notwithstanding this terrible business ... the work has some merit. For Isabella is a very amiable picture of conjugal tenderness and prudence ...” (The monthly review, vol. LV, London, 1777, p.157). This first edition not found in Rochedieu or Martin, Mylne & Frautschi. OCLC lists 3 locations only (Ostfriesische Bibliothek; Koninklijke Bibliotheek; Taylor Institution, Oxford). £750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 92

“DELUSIONS OF THE HEART”: INFLUENCE ON ANN RADCLIFFE 92. [NOVEL.] [BURKE, Anne.] Ela, ou Les illusions de coeur. Traduit de l’Anglois. A Paris, chez Lagrange. 1788. First edition in French. 8vo (10 x 16.5cm) [4], 211, [1]pp., with half-title, engraved heraldic bookplate [c.1790?] “Bibliotheque de Mr. le C.te de la Leyen”, title-page with related small nineteenth century heraldic stamp (von der Leyen library, dispersed), very good in contemporary leather-backed, sponge-patterned boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral tooling, original gilt-titled citron morocco label, silk bookmark, light wear to extremities. First edition in French translation, rare, of the popular epistolary novel Ela: or, the delusions of the heart. A tale, founded on facts (London, 1787), the first romance known to have been penned by the Irish gothic writer Anne Burke (fl.1780-1805), author of, amongst others, The sorrows of Edith (London, 1796) and The secret of the cavern (London, 1805). It is thought that this novel Ela may have had some influence on Ann Radcliffe’s Romance of the forest (London, 1791) (see: Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements & Isobel Grundy (Eds.), The Feminist Companion to Literature in English , Batsford, 1990, p. 157). The heroine here, influenced by Rousseau, chooses a wayward rogue in place of a more suitable suitor. “This novel represents, in very lively colours, the fatal effects which may arise to the female who indulges the tender passion uncontrolled; who listens not to the voice of reason, nor to the admonitions of her relations and friends. It is indeed a moral, and truly pathetic tale” (The monthly review, vol. 78, London, 1788, p.166). “While its distress for a time pains, its moral mends the heart. The conduct of the story renders it inter - esting, and differs from the frequent narratives which, in this season of the year, the press sends forth in abundance; and it is the conduct and the reflections on the different incidents, rather than the novelty of the story, that distin - guish the delufions of Ela” (The critical review, vol. 65, London, 1788, p.75). It was well-received in America, with editions being printed at Philadelphia (1789), Wilmington (1789) and Boston (1790). Rochedieu p.39; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 88.37. OCLC lists 3 locations only (British Library; Universitäts - bibliothek Augsburg; Bibliothèque Nationale de France). £950 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 93

PIONEERING FIRST NOVEL PRAISED BY FRENCH TRANSLATOR 93. [NOVEL.][SMYTHIES, Susan.] Le coche, traduit de l’Anglois, par monsieur D.L.G. A La Haye [i.e. Paris] . 1767. First edition in French. Four parts bound in one volume. 8vo (10 x 17cm) [4], 104; [2], 96; [2], 133, [1]; [2], 100pp., blank verso of one leaf in volume 3 with some old adhesions, very good in contemporary English calf- backed marbled boards, spine with red label titled in gilt, boards rubbed with some light wear to extremities. First edition of this translation into French of The stage-coach: containing the character of Mr. Manly, and the history of his fellow travellers ... (London, 1753), the first novel of the writer Susan Smythies (b.1720). The narrative offers the personal histories of the various passengers in a stage coach travelling from Scarborough to London. At the time of publication the centring of a narrative around a journey was considered innovative. It was followed by Smythies with The history of Lucy Wellers (London, 1754) and The brothers (London, 1758), which on the advice of her friend Samuel Richardson was published successfully by subscription.The translation here was made by the French playwright Nicolas de la Grange (1707-1767), who has included a short introduction in which he praises the work: “on y trouvera des caractéres bien frapés & bien soutenus, des incidens bien amenès, des situations heureuses, souvent du plaisant, & assez d’intérêt pour n’en pas laisser desirer davantage dans un roman de cette espéce ...” Rochedieu 309; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi, 67.50 £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 94

GERMAN GOTHIC HORROR FOR AMERICAN READERS 94. [WÄCHTER, Leonhard.] The Black Valley; a tale, from the German of Viet Weber, author of The sorcerer. Alexandria, printed by S. Snowden & Co. for J.V. Thomas. 1801. First American edition. 12mo (10 x 15.5cm) 172, [2, ads.]pp., some light marginal dustiness, flyleaf with small hole and manuscript ownership inscription “… Pickering November 10th 1823,” contemporary red leather binding, boards bordered with gilt floral roll, spine gilt in compartments, label lost, boards rubbed with some light wear to extremities, marbled endpapers. A rare American edition of this German “terror” tale by Leonhard Wächter (1762-1837), a translation of Der Müller der Schwarzthal’s drawn from the author’s seven volume Sagen deV orzeit (Berlin, 1787-98). The text here is a reprint of the British edition, also rare (London, 1796; ESTC: nPPL, nMiEM), which received a number of favourable contemporaneous reviews, among them a lengthy treatment from the Analytical Review (vol. XXIII, 1796, pp.507- 510): “The story is improbable, but highly interesting. The characters are strongly marked, but with less regard to moral propriety, than to impressive effect. The passions are expressed with vehemence; that of love in particular, with gay but not indecent luxuriance. The style is concise, figurative, energetic … the principal persons are the daughters of a german baron, Gertrude, Cunegonde, and Adelaide, count Rodolph, Adelaide’s lover, and friar Felix, a consummate hypocrite and villain … taught by the crafty friar to dread wedlock, the three sisters devote themselves to celibacy, and build themselves three cells, with a chapel to each where they become hermitesses, after depositing their property in the friar’s treasury. The fame of these three females, being soon spread abroad, reaches count Rodolph, a knight …” Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1796:87 (for the London edition of 1796); M. B. Tymn (ed.), Horror literature: a core collection and reference guide, p.166 (for a later chapbook edition). £750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 95

“THE FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF GAMING” 95. [NOVEL.] [MACKENZIE, Anna Maria.] Les joueurs, traduit de l’Anglois. A Geneve, chez Barde Manget ... Et à Paris, chez Defer de Maisonneuve ... 1789. First edition in French. 3 vols. 12mo (9.5 x 15.5cm) 280; 230; 252pp., leaf A12 (pp.23-24) misbound behind title-page in volume 1 but set complete, title-pages with small nineteenth century heraldic stamp (von der Leyen library, dispersed), very good in near contemporary sponge-painted boards, spines with original paper labels titled in manuscript, light wear to extremities. First edition in French translation, scarce, of The gamesters (London, 1786), an epistolary novel by the prolific writer Anna Maria Mackenzie centred on the dangers of the English obsession with gambling, one of the defining cultural features of metropolitan Georgian culture. Louisa Jenkins, on visiting her married sister in London, is horrified to discover that her brother-in-law, Edward Wilmot, is a gamester. The tale concludes with Wilmot being freed from incarceration in a debtors’ prison by the charity of a kindly lord, himself a rehabilitated gambling addict. It was well-received in England: “This novel has more to recommend it, than most publications of the kind ...The characters are well supported, and sufficiently various; the story well told ... it possesses the merit of placing, in the most striking light, the fatal consequences of gaming, and illicit amour ... the boundless culpability of Mr. Wilmot often tempts us to despise him, though he is rep - resented in other respects as a sensible man ... a considerable acquisition to the circulating libraries ... (The English review, vol. vii, London, 1786, pp.223-224). Rochedieu p.198; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 89.83. OCLC lists 2 locations only (Bibliothèque Nationale de France; University of Alberta). £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 96

IRISH JACOBITE EMIGRATES TO AMERICA 96. [NOVEL.] BENGER, Elizabeth. Valsinore, ou le Coeur et l’imagination. Traduction de l’Anglais ... A Paris, chez Maradan. 1816. First edition in French. 2 volumes. 8vo (11 x 17.5cm) [4], 248; [4], 295, [1]pp., with half-titles, negligible foxing to first few leaves in each volume, volume 1 with contemporary printed bookseller’s label “Stapleaux ... Bruxelles,” a very good set, uncut in original blue paper wrappers, spines with contemporary printed label, light wear to extremities. First edition, rare, of this French translation of the novel The heart and the fancy, or Valsinore ... (London, 1813) by the novelist and historian Elizabeth Benger (1775-1827). Somerset-born, Benger moved to Lon - don in 1802, transcending her humble origins by establishing herself as a writer and literary hostess. This was one of two novels that followed her poem The abolition of the slave trade (London, 1809), the other being Marian (London, 1812). Set in the eighteenth century and featuring an Irish Jacobite, Cornelius, who em - igrates to America, The heart and the fancy, or Valsinore received several favourable reviews, both in The Gen - tleman’s Magazine (vol. lxxxiv, London, 1814, pp.159-160) and The new review, and monthly analysis ... (London, July 1813, pp. 48-49): “Cornelius is an Irishman of the last century, who ... received his education at Rome, where he became intimate with the exiled princes of the house of Stuart ... he resolves to emigrate, but ... visits a friend in England, with whose sister he becomes much enamoured ... when the Pretender makes his irruption into England ... Cornelius is impelled by a romantic sense of honor to fulfil his former en - gagements, and is consequently involved in ruin .. they settle in America, where Cornelius ... endeavours to obtain a pardon, but just as this is achieved, he is visited by domestic misfortunes ...” £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 97

GEORGIANA’S NOVEL EXPOSING GEORGIAN VICES 97. [NOVEL.] [CAVENDISH, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.] Le sylphe, traduit de l’Anglois. A Geneve; et se trouve a Bruxelles, chez Emmanuel Flon. 1784. Second edition in French. 2 volumes. 12mo (8.5 x 14cm) [4], 240; [4], 207, [1]pp., with engraved frontispiece in volume 1 (complete, with both half-titles), modern bookplate (“Girald”) very good in contemporary continental leather-backed sponge-painted boards, spines gilt in compartments with floral tools, original red and yellow labels titled& numbered in gilt, light wear to extremities. This scarce French translation of The sylph (London, 1779), an epistolary novel exposing the vices and failings of the British aristocracy of the , was made by Pierre le Tourneur (1736-1788). Attributed to Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), the parallels between her own addiction to gambling and fraternising with high society libertines and the rakish characters encountered here by her fictional heroine Julia Grenville suggest an autobiographical dimension to the work, offering an authentic flavour of the life of the eighteenth century British aristocracy. This 12mo edition was printed following the 8vo first of the same year (Genève/Paris: Mérigot, 1784) – both are scarce. Rochedieu p.50; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 84.15. £750 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 98

TWO GEORGIAN HEROINES IN ONE NOVEL 98. [NOVEL.] [HELME, Elizabeth.] Clare et Emmeline, ou La Bénédiction maternelle. Nouvelle. Par l’auter de Louise ou de La Chaumiere, & traduite de l’Anglais par M. Soulés. A Londres, chez Kearsley; et se trouve, a Paris, chez Lagrange. 1788. 2 vols bound in 1. First edition in French. 8vo (10 x 16cm) viii, 167, [1]; [4], 183, [1]pp., with half-titles, engraved heraldic bookplate [c.1790?] “Bibliotheque de Mr. le C.te de la Leyen”, first title-page with related small nineteenth century heraldic stamp (von der Leyen library, dispersed), very good in contemporary leather-backed, sponge-patterned boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral tooling, original gilt-titled citron morocco label, silk bookmark, spine a little rubbed, light wear to extremities. First edition in French translation, scarce, of the epistolary Clara and Emmeline; or, the maternal benediction... ([London, 1788]), second novel penned by the prolific writer and translator Elizabeth Helme (d.c.1814). The narrative is centred on two sisters and their relationships with their husbands. “The story ... is new, probable, and interesting. Instead of an hero, as usual, we have here two heroines, Clara and Emmeline; the latter is the younger sister, who was, by her deceased mother, left under the care and protection of Clara, a young lady, married, contrary to her own inclination, to a gamester and libertine. Clara is, indeed, an amiable wife, a tender mother, a dutiful daughter, and an attentive guardian; but Emmeline, her sister-ward, is weak and credulous ...” (The English review, volume xi, London, 1788, p.312). “Clara and Emmeline rise above the common rank, and are distinguishable for their tenderness and their affection, as well as for the various and interesting situations in which they are placed. - The second plot, however, the character and adventures of lady Anne Delany, appeared to us more entertaining: they had a greater air of originality, and the spirit of the lady was an agreeable contrast to the softness of Clara. Both plots are connected with great address ...” (The critical review, vol. 64, London, 1787, p.480). Rochedieu p.144; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 88.66. £850 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 99

FRENCH TRANSLATION OF MINERVA PRESS AUTHOR’S FIRST NOVEL 99. [NOVEL.] [HUGHES, Anne.] Zoraïde ou Annales d’un village. Traduit de l’Anglois. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez Buisson. 1787. 3 vols. bound in 1. First edition in French translation. 8vo (10 x 16cm) [4], 206; [4], 206; [4], 100pp., with half-titles, engraved heraldic bookplate [c.1790?] “Bibliotheque de Mr. le C.te de la Leyen”, title-page to vol. 1 with related small nineteenth century heraldic stamp (von der Leyen library, dispersed), very good in contem - porary leather-backed, sponge-patterned boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral tooling, original gilt-titled citron morocco label, green silk bookmark, spine a little rubbed, light wear to extremities. First edition in French translation, rare, of Zoriada: or, Village annals (London, 1786), the earliest of four novels at - tributed to Anne Hughes (fl. 1784-1816). Her three others, Caroline (London, 1787), Henry and Isabella (London, 1788) and Jemima (London, 1795) were all published by William Lane (1745-1814) of the Minerva Press. The heroine here, a mysterious orphan arriving from India, fends off the unwanted advances of an unsavoury lord, as - sisted in his pursuit by a scheming clergyman. Marrying Edmond Withers, a doctor’s son, Zoraida discovers a long-lost uncle along the way. The novel found favour with The Monthly review (vol. 76, London, 1786, pp.265), though the reviewer assumed that the writer was a man: “This novelist is superior to most of his brethren at story- telling. His portraits likewise have really something striking in them; the highest coloured of which is that of Parson Swinborne, a truly contemptible character. This picture we are inclined to consider as a likeness ;- but whether it actually be intended for the clerical hero in our eye, or whether it be merely the work of fancy, we cannot pretend to say ...” Rochedieu p.155; Martin, Mylne & Frautschi 87.48. £1250 Samuel Gedge Rare books, manuscripts, prints & drawings 100

THE HISTORY OF SIR HARRY HERALD - ENGLISH NOVEL IN GERMAN TRANSLATION 100. [NOVEL.] Geschichte Sir Heinrich Heralds und Sir Eduard Haunchs. In drey Theilen aus dem Englischen übersetzt. Leipzig, bey Johann Wendler. 1755. 3 vols. bound in 1. First edition in German. 8vo (10.5 x 17cm) [2], 120; 120; 110pp., oc - casional light paper toning, contemporary plain calf, marbled paper pastedowns, spine with gilt-titled leather label, small area of leather loss to back board, light wear to extremities. First edition in German translation, rare, of The history of Sir Harry Herald and Sir Edward Haunch (London, 1754), a novel inspired by The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (London, 1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754). Sir Harry Herald, a Shropshire gentleman, is much concerned with class status and breeding – the marriage prospects of his sons seems to be the main theme of the narrative, which centres on county rivalries, provincial beauties and landed estates. “We have read this performance with some pleasure ... The characters are natural and strongly mark’d; the sentiments generally just and elevated, the style easy, and most of the incidents such as might happen in real life ...” (The monthly review, vol. 11, London, 1754 p.467). The history of Sir Harry Herald is among the earliest modern English novels and this immediate translation into German is noteworthy. Not in British Library. OCLC locates 5 copies (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Uni - versitätsbibliothek Göttingen; Universitätsbibliothek Rostock; Würrtembergische Landesbibliothek). £950