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Ross-on Wye Charity School 1 [ABSTRACT]. ABSTRACT OF THE CONVEYANCE AND DEED OF TRUST, for establishing Walter Scott’s charity school, in the parish of Ross, in the county of Hereford, dated 28th August, 1798. Walter Scott died in London, 4th 12th Month, 1786, aged 70. Ross: Printed by Farror and Dobles, Booksellers. [1839]. £ 185 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 32; stab sewn, as issued; inscribed presentation copy from the editor, Nathanial Morgan. Born in Ross in 1716 the son of a poor tradesman, Walter Scott attended the local Charity School, a Blue Coat school funded through public subscriptions and intended for the “instruction of poor boys and girls in the parish of Ross-on-Wye in the Christian Religion according to the doctrines and usages of the Church of England”. In 1785, the year before his death, Walter returned to visit Ross-on-Wye and was distressed to find his old school in a very neglected state. He roused the local townspeople to revive the school, promising to contribute five guineas annually to the funds, and on his return to London amended his will to provide a permanent endowment for the school. The present work sets out the endowment, rules and regulations of the school, lists of the trustees and governors, and concludes with an account of one James Baker, a ‘great benefactor to our parish’, with a copy of his will also included. OCLC records one copy only, at the British Library.

Court of chancery not obscure 2 [ACHERLEY, Roger]. THE JURISDICTION OF THE CHANCERY AS A COURT OF EQUITY RESEARCHED. And the traditional obscurity of its commencement cleared. With a short essay on the judicature of the Lords in Parliament, upon appeals from courts of equity. London: printed for Joel Stephens; and sold by A. Dodd, 1733. £ 650 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 46; with final blank leaf; disbound. The author of this essay in legal history, with a defence of the jurisdiction in certain matters of the House of Lords, was himself a prominent lawyer, who wrote treatises on constitutional matters which were in their time highly regarded. ESTC records three copies in the UK, at the BL, Bodleian and Edinburgh University library, and one copy in North America, at the Boston Athenaeum.

3 ADAM, Alexander. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES; or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; Respecting Their Government, Magistracy, Laws, Judicial Proceedings, Religion, Games, Military & Naval Affairs, Dress, Exercises, Baths, Marriages, Divorces. Funerals, Weights & Measures, Coins, Method of Writing, Houses, Gardens, Agriculture, Carriages, Public Buildings, &c. &c. Designed chiefly to illustrate the Latin classics … Edinburgh: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London; and William Creech, Edinburgh. 1791. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [ii], xiii, [i] blank, 594, [1] errata, [1] blank; some minor light browning and foxing in places, but generally clean; in contemporary continental mottled blue boards, spine with paste paper label lettered in gilt, head rubbed, and boards alittle dust-soiled, nevertheless, still an appealing copy. Scarce first edition of Alexander Adam’s best known and most important work, on Roman antiquities.

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‘Nothing has more engaged the attention of literary men since the revival of learning, than to trace, from ancient monuments, the institutions and laws, the religion, the manners and customs of the Romans, under the general name of Roman Antiquities. This branch of knowledge is not only curious in itself, but absolutely necessary for understanding the classics, and for reading with advantage the history of that celebrated people. It is particularly requisite for such as prosecute the study of the Civil law’ (p. iii). Alexander Adam (1741-1809) was a Scottish teacher and writer. In 1764 he became private tutor to Alexander Kincaid, afterwards Lord Provost of Edinburgh, by whose influence he was appointed in 1768 to the rectorship of the High School on the retirement of Mr Matheson, whose substitute he had been for some time before. From this period he devoted himself entirely to the duties of his office and to the preparation of his numerous works on classical literature. His popularity and success as a teacher are strikingly illustrated by the great increase in the number of his pupils, many of whom subsequently became distinguished men, among them being Walter Scott, Lord Brougham and Francis Jeffrey. The present work passed through a large number of editions and was also translated in to German. OCLC records just two copies outside the British Isles, at McMaster and Washington.

On Display at the Great Exhibition? 4 ADORNO, Juan Nepomuceno. INTRODUCTION TO THE HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE; or, Principles of physico- harmonic Geometry. London, [Reynell and Weight] for John Wheale and Newton and Son, 1851. £ 2,250 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [2], viii, [2], 160, one large folding table and 17 folding plates; two of which with frayed outer margins, light browning; a handsome copy in an elaborately gilt contemporary presentation binding of Russia for the financier Francisco de Murrieta, covers embossed with large floral framework, inner dentelles gilt, green watered silk endpapers; small area of spine damaged, upper joint cracked (but holding firm) and very lightly rubbed, but not detracting from this being a highly desirable copy. A superb copy of the first edition of this rare work by the Mexican utopian thinker and inventor Juan Nepomuceno Adorno. ‘An obscure but fascinating figure in nineteenth-century Mexican thought, Juan Nepomuceno Adorno (1807-1880) was a seemingly indefatigable inventor who dreamed that the physical and moral perfectibility of mankind could be achieved through the combined efforts of technology and the enlightened doctrine he called “Providentially.” Adorno outlined his philosophy of Providentially in his 1851 book Introduction to the Harmony of the Universe, or Principles of Physico- Harmonic Geometry, written in English while Adorno was living in London. The treatise was later expanded, translated, and published in Mexico as Armonía del universo: Sobre los principios de la armonía física y matemática (1862). Influenced by the work of Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier - particularly with regard to social reform and the concept of the utopia, Adorno believed that many social, economic, political, and ethical problems could be eradicated through the vigorous application of progressive technology in fulfillment of divine providence’ (Bell and Molino-Gavilan, Cosmos Latinos - An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain, chapter I, online). ‘Juan Nepomuceno Adorno [1807-1880] was born and died in Mexico City. A philosopher, mechanic, and inventor, he dedicated his energies to the study of the hydrography, meteorology and hygiene, of the Valley of Mexico. He wrote several books on these topics, and also designed a drainage project for the capital. He travelled in Europe between 1848 and 1859 and presented some of his inventions - such as the melograph

2 P ICKERING & C HATTO piano or pianola that when played, recorded music on a roll of paper and then printed it out at the Paris World’s Fair in 1855 … He also published his Introduction to the Harmony of the Universe or Principles of Physico-Harmonic Geometry in London (1851), which he translated into Spanish in a revised and enlarged edition upon his return to Mexico, publishing it as Armonia del Universo’ (Lockhart, Latin American Science Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z Guide). The dedicatee of this copy was the financier and shareholder of the London-based Spanish bank of dubious reputation, Cristóbal de Murrieta & Co., which held the monopoly for guano imports from Peru to Spain and was involved in the settling of financial disputes between Mexico and Peru in the late 1840s and early 1850s. The publication of this edition by Wheale cost £300, which was provided by the author. The lavish binding has got the aura of the splendour of the Great Exhibition, to which the author refers on several occasions. Indeed, Adorno was an exhibitor in two classes in the Crystal Palace; he offered his invention of a cigarette making machine performing ‘14 different operations from a single motive axis, and is capable of making, simply from paper and tobacco, 80 to 100 cigarettes in a minute, and neater than those made by hand’ and as cartographer, he exhibited a ‘terrestrial globe, capable of separation into pieces, which may be used as convex maps for navigation, and other geographical purposes’ as well as ‘twelve patent convex maps of the earth, invented by the exhibitor, to form a geographical sphere, or to be used separately for marine purposes, and to constitute useful and ornamental fittings for rooms or cabins’. The final plate in the volume is a depiction of one of his cartographic inventions. OCLC locates four copies in America, in the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, Johns Hopkins University and at Brown University.

‘Sincere thanks for the valuable present’ 5 ALBERT, H. R. H. Prince, of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux. Buckingham Palace, March 18th, 1843. £ 650 MANUSCRIPT IN INK. pp. 4 (186mm x 227mm); with various fold lines and evidence of some light dust-soiling, nevertheless, still a very appealing item. A fine early letter from the Prince Consort to Lord Brougham thanking him ‘for the valuable present, which the Society for the diffusion of useful Knowledge has made to the Queen and myself in sending us the first volumes of the new Biographical Dictionary which will be a most useful & interesting work’ and also commenting on his soon to be published Political Philosophy. British statesman and Lord Chancellor, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) largely instigated the founding of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (in 1826) with the aim of publishing inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public, many of whom were unable to obtain formal teaching, or who preferred self- education. It was to have a huge impact on the education of the working classes in the nineteenth century, and as is evident from the present letter was used by royalty alike. The second half of the letter is concerned with Albert giving permission on behalf of Queen Victoria for Brougham to dedicate his work on Political Philosophy (1843) to her. He concludes by adding that ‘In

3 P ICKERING & C HATTO continuing my study of this work, I cannot fail to admire the profuse information which it gives upon Constitutions of different nations & times, but I feel some regret in seeing you take Dr Paley’s Principle of Expediency as the foundamental [sic] Principle of all Government.’

All mod cons 6 [ALNWICK]. ARCHIVE OF SALES OF WORKMEN’S HOUSES. Alnwick, [1872-1895]. £ 350 Posters, manuscript descriptions of the auction lots, plans, printed and manuscript documents; various formats, some sale posters extraordinarily large; most folded with evidence of dust-soiling, nevertheless an appealing copy. Unusual archive containing a wealth of material relating to the selling of workman’s houses in Alnwick, particularly appealing for the inclusion of the original large auction posters. There are several copies of the same poster relating to ‘an excellent group of workmen’s dwellings situated at the top of Clayport Street on the South Side, and late belonging to Mr. Thomas Archbold deceased’ consisting ‘of a group of 4 workmen’s dwellings of 2 rooms each, under one roof, but with separate entrances, each dwelling has coal house and W.C. in the yard’.

Regulation of Lodging Houses

7 [ALNWICK AND CANONGATE.] BYE-LAWS of the Alnwick and Canongate Local Government Board of Health for the regulation of Lodging Houses and Slaughter Houses. Alnwick: Printed by W. Davison, 1851. £ 125 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 13, [1]; original printed wrappers. Rare bye laws issued by the local board of health for the districts of Alnwick and Canongate by virtue of ‘The Public Health Act 1848’. The first part of the work discusses the number of lodgers allowed in Common Lodging Houses in the districts along with a detailed explanation of the state of cleanliness expected should an inspection be made; the second part concentrates on slaughterhouses, and keeping them in a ‘cleanly and proper state’. Not in OCLC.

8 [ANON]. A CATECHISM: The Subject, Noah’s Ark. Sangerfield: Printed by Joseph Tenny. 1815. £ 285 FIRST EDITION? Small 12mo, pp. 32; lightly foxed and browned throughout, due to paper stock; stitched as issued in the original rather worn marbled publisher’s wraps. Rare Catechism discussing in question and answer form, the subject of Noah’s Ark. ‘Ques. 7, How many tuns would the ark hold? Ans. 6,220,800,000 being divided by 231, the number of inches in a gal. wine measure, the quotient will be 26,9,2,9.870 gallons, This quotient divided by 63, the number of gallons in a hogshead; the quotient would be 427,458 hogsheads; This number divided by 4, the number of hogsheads in a tun, the quotient will be 106,864 and 2-4 the number of tuns the ark would hold’ (pp. 13-14). All perfectly simple. With the unusual imprint of ‘Sangerfield’, a town in Oneida County, New York, which was first settled in 1792. Not in OCLC.

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9 [ANON]. MANUSCRIPT SKETCHBOOK OF A PICTORIAL TOUR From Perth & St.Andrews, Scotland To Streatley Village, Bedfordshire, England. [Scotland & England], [c.1810?]. £ 550 MANUSCRIPT IN PENCIL AND INK. Two vols, 12mo, 10, [44 blank] ff.; 20, [34 blank] ff; original half-calf over marbled boards, spines gilt (rubbed) with head and tails chipped, boards detached; internally in very good original state. Charming manuscript sketchbook in pencil & ink containing a pictorial record of what seems to have been a tour in Scotland and then a sea journey back to Southern England via Yarmouth. The first volume of this two volume set contains twenty highly competent illustrations, for the most part identified by captions, on rectos only of views of the Island of Inchkeith, views of St. Andrews including prominent landmarks such as the castle, cathedral, Greyfriars; views of surrounding countryside of cottages with wheatsheaves, Grangermuir House; views of Perth including a view of the fishing smacks. The selection contains two views, presumably made during the journey, of the harbour at Yarmouth, Norfolk and of a view of the coast near Cromer, Norfolk. The later part of volume one contains views, including one in ink, of buildings and pastoral scenes in and around Streatly village, Bedfordshire. These include views of the village; rectory & church and Streatly House. The second volume contains ten illustrations, of which two are partially completed, of competent pastoral scenes. These are composed with some skill and eye for pictorial composition. The views appear to be of scenes in Kent, England. One view is identified as Greenhithe and the remainder unidentified. One illustration contains a view of what appears to be a Kentish oast house.

Just before the Glorious Revolution 10 [ANON]. PRINCE GEORGE’S LETTER TO THE KING … The Lord Churchill’s Letter to the King. [No place, printer or date, i. e. London, 1688]. £ 385 Folio (35.8 x 22.3 cm); entirely uncut; one marginal spot, central fold with repaired tear. Rare broadside containing letters regarding the Popish threat coming from the Continent. The first letter transcribes the text of Prince George of Denmark to his father-in-law James II of England, hinting that he might give up his loyalty for Prince William of Orange who was soon to become King William I. Both Prince George’s letter and Lord Churchill’s express concern for the state of religion in England. The Lutheran Prince George addresses James II: ‘your Majesty has always shown too uninterested a Sense of Religion, to doubt the just Effects of it in one whose Practices have, I hope, never given the World cause to censure his real Conviction of it … how then can I longer disguise my just concern for that Religion’. The present broadside is one of two editions published in the same year (the other edition prints the two letters in two columns). ESTC locates copies of this edition in the National Archives, at Oxford, in the British Library, the Huntington, at UCLA, and at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

11 [ANON]. THE SCHOOL OF WISDOM AND ARTS; being a complete repository of what is most curious in art and nature. Containing, I.A survey of man, with sublime Reflections on his most noble Part, the Soul. II. A particular Description of the

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Structure of the Human Body ; and the wonderful Properties of the Eye described. III. Astronomy, Oratory, Politeness, and Morality. IV. A Review of the Creation, viz. Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insect ; their Industry, Sagacity, &c. V. Of the Globe: Gravity, Air, Light, Sound, Water, Clouds, Pain, Hail and Snow, with their Properties and Use. VI. Nations compared with each other. Vii. Drawing, Painting in Water and Oil Colours ; Gilding, Etching, Engraving, Painting upon Glass, and Bronzing. Viii. Dying Silk, Linnen, Woolen and Leather. IX. Impressions from Figures, Busts, Casts, Medals, Leaves, &c. X. The Arts of Painting Marble and Glass ; of Staining Wood, Bones, Horn, Ivory, Paper, Parchment, &c. XI. The whole art of Pyrotechny or Fire-Works. XII. The art of making porcelain after the Chinese manner, with many curious particulars, equally amusing and instructive to the Ingenious. Compiled from different authors. Berwick: William Phorson, 1783. £ 850 FIRST BERWICK EDITION. 12mo, pp. iv, 5-339, [1] blank, viii contents; alittle browned in places, but generally clean throughout; in recent half sheep over marbled boards, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Scarce Berwick printing of this appealing lady and gentleman’s pocket guide on subjects such as the human body, astronomy, oratory, morality, nations, animals, painting gilding to name but a few. As far as we are aware the work was first published in Gainsbrough in 1776. OCLC records three copies in North America, at Brown, Library of Congress and Winterthur Museum.

12 [BAKERS’ COMPANY]. THE OATH OF EVERY PERSON THAT IS ADMITTED A FREEMAN. [London, c. 1770]. £ 450 Broadside (25 x 21cm) with large etched coat-of-arms at head; a little spotted, edges untrimmed.

The oath required obedience to ‘the Master, Wardens, And Commonality of Freemen, of the Mystery of Bakers, of the City of London and Suburbs thereof’. It lists rules and ordinances to be obeyed secrets to be kept and dues to be paid. ‘So Help you God’. Not in ESTC or in Goldsmiths’ which lists only one other printed item relating to the Bakers’ Company.

13 BALGUY, Thomas. DISCOURSES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. Winchester, printed for Lockier Davis, in London, 1785. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii, 343; occasionally a little browned; otherwise well-preserved in contemporary speckled calf, spine ruled in gilt and with gilt-stamped lettering-piece; front fly-leaf contemporarily inscribed by one Henry Wilmore as the Gift of my much esteemed Friend Isaac Hawkins Brown. First edition of this collection of eleven discourses (mostly sermons) and seven charges (addresses to the clergy of of the archdeaconry of Winchester) frequently holding up the established status of the Church of England, and discussing authority and religious liberty. One sermon was preached on December 13, 1776 on occasion of the American war of independence, wherein Balguy uses the words of Moses ‘Sirs, ye are Brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?’ as starting point for declaring the American secession as unnecessary, breaking the laws of civil society and leading to ‘relapse into a state of barbarism’ (p. 73). Thomas Balguy (1716–1795) was a clergyman anxious to defend the established church from the attacks of dissenters, modernizers and sceptics. ‘On the publication of Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779) Hurd [another conservative cleric] set about persuading Balguy to ‘obviate’ Hume’s ‘destructive impiety’ (Kilvert, 135–7). Balguy had long been interested in the subject of Hume’s attack; as an

6 P ICKERING & C HATTO undergraduate he published a Latin poem entitled Divina bonitas demonstrari potest a posteriori (The divine goodness is capable of proof from its effects; see GM, 94/2, 1824, 596–8). In response to Hurd’s urging he published Divine Benevolence Asserted; and Vindicated from the Objections of Ancient and Modern Sceptics (1781). Hume’s name is not mentioned, but the context can readily be inferred: in the preface Balguy describes it as a specimen of a larger work on natural religion, ‘why published at this time, will be too easily conjectured’ (Balguy, Divine Benevolence Asserted, iii). It is interesting as an illustration of what he was lecturing on at St John’s in the 1740s and 1750s (his arguments are mainly drawn from Cicero and Butler), but disappointing as an answer to Hume’ (Oxford DNB). ESTCT93871.

14 BATTYE, Emma. POEMS. Huddersfield: Joseph Woodhead, “Examiner Office”. 1884. £ 225 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 94; with photographic frontispiece portrait of the author; in the original blue publisher’s cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, crease to upper corner and some surface wear, but still a very appealing copy with an earlier signed presentation letter from the author tipped in. First edition of this rare collection of provincial poetry, published by friends of the author following her recent death ‘in the bloom of womanhood’. The poems, mostly of local interest, include ‘On the Moors’, ‘On the Opening of the Victoria Temperance Hall’, and ‘On seeing Holman Hunt’s picture “The Shadow of Death”’. The volume is particularly attractive as it includes a photograph of the author, as well as an earlier letter from her applying for the post of librarian, presumably at a library in Huddersfield. OCLC records two copies in North America, at UC Davis and Princeton, and two in the UK, at the BL and Aberdeen.

Presentation Copy 15 BEAUMONT, Charles. A TREATISE ON THE COAL TRADE. London, J. Crowder for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789. £ 750 FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. 4to, pp. viii, 55; blank final page attached to original rear wrapper; early nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked and lettered, with the armorial bookplate of Ferguson of Raith on front pastedown. A very good copy inscribed on the verso of half-title ‘To William Ferguson Esqr, from his most obedient most Humble Servant the Author, Edinburgh’.

A very desirable presentation copy of the uncommon first edition of Charles Beaumont’s Treatise on the Coal trade. ‘The author, after a long preamble on the importance on the importance of coal, points out the difference between the mines of England and Scotland, with their respective products … [He next proposes] a tax upon coal exported into foreign parts, which raised to loud a clamour against Lord North … [Beaumont’s] third object is, to shew the unreasonableness of the tax of one shilling a chaldron laid exclusively upon the port of Newcastle … Our author proposes, in the last place, to settle the differences between the coal owners and the London buyers. He observes that the embarrassments of the coal owners has risen from their having too many mines open at once, which being more than sufficient to supply the demand, the buyers resolved to receive no man’s coal without a premium of one shilling a chaldron: the owners resolved to refuse this demand,

7 P ICKERING & C HATTO but soon broked their engagement, and have never been able to shake off the yoke. To remedy this hardship, the author proposes that the price throughout the year be fixed at a certain rate, sufficient to allow all parties a profit, to which if the buyers should not agree, government be petitioned to enforce’(The Analytical Review, vol. V, 1790, p. 284). The present copy does not include the 12-page appendix, ‘Subsequent to the treatise being sent to the press’, with separate pagination and register which is found in some copies, although this alluded to in only the British Library copy in OCLC. (It is not present in the Kress or Goldsmiths’ copies, nor is it mentioned by Williams.) Kress B.1536; Goldsmiths 13824; Williams II, p. 96.

16 [BEDDINGTON, Beatrice & Maud]. COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATING TO THE VILLAGE CHILDREN’S HISTORICAL PLAY SOCIETY [Winchelsea, 1910-1914]. £ 950 Eight printed pamphlets, with some letters and pencilled notes, in very good original state. The Village Childrens’ Historical Play Society was founded in Winchelsea in 1910 by the sisters Beatrice and Maud Beddington who had moved there from London the same year. The aim of the society was to promote ‘acting of little historical plays by village children in various localities’. The council included Walter Crane, Rudyard Kipling, May Morris and the most famous actress of the day, Ellen Terry. This small collection of material about the society belonged to ‘Miss Lindley’ of Godstone Place, Surrey - Eugenie Lindley, the elder ‘daughter- at-home’ of a wealthy engineer. Included are the pages of pencilled notes for a Christmas-time performance that she planned to stage - although we have been unable to establish whether it ever took place - in the village school-room. There are eight printed pamphlets, setting out the aims and rules of the Society, and giving reports of progress and expenditure. The correspondence between Miss Beddington and Miss Lindley deals with specific matters re costumes and musical instruments. The final letter discusses the fact that, due to the war, the Society is having to suspend its activities and recommends that if ever ‘you need costumes for a village performance Miss Edith Craig sends paper patterns and advice as to colours and materials for the character of any play’. In all a fascinating collection, giving a first hand insight in to the workings of this little known and short lived Society.

17 BISSET, James. THE PATRIOTIC CLARION. Birmingham: Printed by M. Swinney, High Street, for the author, and may be had at his museum; 1803. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii, [i] blank, [ii], 9-34; with engraved title; a handsome copy bound in contemporary red morocco, spine and boards ruled and lettered in gilt, with only minor surface wear; with armorial bookplate of John Blount on front pastedown. Scarce first edition of this poem written as a call to arms in light of the threatened invasion by the French during the Napoleonic wars. The engraved title is particularly striking, so much so that the author himself feels the need to provide an explanation: ‘Amongst the Warlike Trophies is a likeness of the French consul, ornamented with an appropriate cap and bells - He seems to survey the Imperial Diadem with a jealous and longing eye, but being placed on the Grand Charter of English Freedom, and guarded by the Sword of Justice, he is prevented from the attainment of his ambitious desires by its awful appearance, and the interference of a British Bayonet!’ James Bisset (ca. 1762-1832) was a notable figure in Birmingham’s cultural and commercial life, a prominent member of the Birmingham

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Book Club and author of a number of works including Poetic Survey round Birmingham; with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactories of the place (1800) as well as being the owner of a museum and repository for toys, jewellery, drawings and other ephemera near the Theatre, New Street, Birmingham. OCLC records four copies in North America, at UCLA, Harvard, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and the Newberry library.

18 [BRADFORD J.P. auctioneer]. LEOMINSTER. A CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE LIBRARY OF BOOKS, in excellent condition, and handsomely bound; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. J. P. Bradsford, at the large room, at the King’s Arms Inn, Leominster, On Wednesday, the 2nd of April, 1845. The sale to commence at eleven o’clock precisely. Leominster: printed by Francis Went and son. n.d. [1845]. £ 185 8vo, pp. 8; sewn as issued, a fine copy.

Scarce provincial sale of a gentleman’s working library, containing all the major authors and works, past and present. The conditions of sale are clearly noted on the verso of the title, the third of which states: ‘the auctioneer will not hold himself responsible for any lot or lots, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, after the fall of the hammer’, perhaps sensible given the sale was being held at the ‘King’s Arms Inn’! Not in OCLC.

The Brewster Kaleidoscope 19 BREWSTER, David. METHOD OF USING THE PATENT KALEIDOSCOPE, invented by David Brewster, LL.D. F.R.S. Lond. & Edin. &c. constructed and sold by John Ruthven, Merchant Court, 69, Cowgate. Edinburgh: J. Ruthven and Sons, 1818. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 8; woodcut of royal arms on title-page, illustration of the kaleidoscope and its constituent parts on first page of text; preserved in modern wrappers with printed label on upper cover; a very good copy. Brewster had been granted Patent no.4136 on 10th July 1817 for his “optical instrument or ‘kaleidoscope’.” A.D. Morrison-Low (ODNB) has observed that the natural philosopher David Brewster’s name is connected principally with the invention of two optical devices: the stereoscope and the kaleidoscope. “The kaleidoscope is a primarily a toy which uses simple principles of reflection noticed by Brewster when experimenting in 1816; but it was observed even by his contemporaries that these principles had been known since antiquity. In a manner which was to become something of a pattern, Brewster defended his brainchild in print, then mustered supporters to his aid: a series of articles appeared over the years in encyclopaedias and journals, summarized by the grand Treatise on the Kaleidoscope (1858). In this case he had rashly gone to the expense of obtaining a patent for protecting the manufacture of the kaleidoscope, which was negated when the enthusiasm of the London instrument maker to whom he entrusted the prototype led to the principles of the device becoming known. Instantly, the expensively produced brass tube was copied, and he wrote to his wife: ‘had I managed my patent rightly, I would have made one hundred thousand pounds by it!’ It appears to have been the first instance of a national fashionable craze, and an indication that consumers could create markets overnight in a newly industrialized society.” Copies located only at Glasgow, Edinburgh & Aberdeen Universities in the UK, and UCLA, Calif. Inst. of Arts and Wagner Free Inst. of Science in North America; apparently not in NLS nor BL.

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20 BROUGHAM, Henry. PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS UPON THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE, addressed to the working classes and their employers. London: printed by Richard Taylor, Shoe-Lane … for the benefit of the London Mechanics Institution. 1825. £ 150 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. [ii], 33, 1; recent marbled boards lettered on spine; a very good copy. The greater part of this pamphlet originally appeared in the Edinburgh Review, October 1824 … as a review of David William’s Hints to philanthropists: or a collective view of practical means of improving the condition of the poor and labouring classes of society. Its title in the Review was “Scientific education of the people”. Twenty editions of this pamphlet were called for in 1825. The 20th edition was reprinted at Boston (Mass. USA) in 1826, and a German translation of the same edition appeared at Berlin in 1827 [see Craigie]. Brougham’s scheme as here described “had two main branches, of which the first was the establishment of institutes like those of Glasgow and London, equipped for elementary teaching in small classes, for public lectures to large audiences and for mutual instruction by means of discussions, while subsidiary to the lectures were the library and reading- room, laboratory, workshop and drawing classes. The second branch of Brougham’s plea was realised in the work of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge founded by him and others in 1827 as a means for giving effect to utilitarian principles”. [J.W. Adamson, English education 1789-1902, p. 39]. Craigie (Bibl. of Scottish education before 1872) p. 76.

A Museum on the Move 21 BULLOCK, William. A COMPANION TO THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUM, containing A brief Description of upwards Seven Thousand Natural and Foreign Curiosities, Antiquities, and Productions of the Fine Arts, Collected during several Years of arduous Research, and at an Expense of upwards of Twenty Thousand Pounds by William Bullock, Of Liverpool; And now open for Public Inspection, in the Great Room, No. 22, Piccadilly, London, Which has been fitted up for the Purpose on a manner entirely new … The Seventh Edition. Bath, Printed for the Proprietor, by Richard Cruttwell, 1809. £ 500 8vo, pp. vii, 78, [2], with etched frontispiece; light spotting; disbound. The wealthy Sheffield goldsmith and jeweller accumulated a large collection of artefacts, antiquities and stuffed animals, which in the late 1790s were exhibited in a Museum of Natural Curiosities in the city, before being moved to Liverpool in 1801. In 1808 Bullock (1780s-1849) published a descriptive catalogue of the collection, including exhibits which had been brought back by members of James Cook’s expeditions. The final move took place in 1809, this time to London and the collection was on display in the newly built Piccadilly Egyptian Hall. The exhibition catalogue opens with a list of ladies and gentlemen who presented curiosities to the Liverpool Museum; in the preface Bullock points out that in this edition due to demand by the public the Linnaean classification system was applied to the natural history objects. The catalogue proper begins with a detailed description of artefacts from Captain Cook’s South Sea voyages, all assembled in case number one. The small glass case C contained a right jumble of objects, a North American belt, an African cap, Chinese coins, clear plates of natural mica and lumps of asbestos. After the description of King James the First’s silk stockings follows the contents of the last case, shoes of different nations. - The collection, which included over 32,000 items, was disposed of by auction in 1819.

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There are very few copies of this seventh edition, printed by Cruttwell in Bath, but still describing the museum as being located at Bullock’s house in Liverpool. See Altick, The Shows of London, chapter 18 (pp. 235-252), William Bullock and the Egyptian Hall; OCLC locates three copies of this issue, in the Wellcome, University of Leeds, and at Missouri Botanical Garden.

Early Tourist Guide to North Wales 22 [CAERNARVON]. A SHORT ACCOUNT OF CAERNARVON, and Bedd-Kill-Hart; or, Beddgelart, &c. Caernarvon: printed by T. Roberts. MDCCCVI [1806]. £ 250 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 72; early nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked and lettered, with the armorial bookplate of Ferguson of Raith on front pastedown; a very good copy. First (and only?) edition of this pocket guide which includes an itinerary with notes on what to see, where to stay and the mileages involved. In fact the tour covers much of North Wales and ends up in Shrewsbury. “At Shrewsbury, the tourist may find amusement in visiting the churches - the quarry - the free-school - and the castle”. Anderson (British topography) p. 345; rare outside UK libraries (OCLC locating a copy at Duke but not elsewhere).

23 CAPLIN, Madame Roxey A. HEALTH & BEAUTY; OR CORSETS AND CLOTHING, Constructed in Accordance with the Physiological Laws of the Human Body. London: Published for the author by Darton and Co., 58, Holborn Hill. [1856?]. £ 850 FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. 8vo, pp. xii, 83, [1]; with lithographed title and six lithographed plates; uncut and partially unopened in the original red blindstamped red publisher’s cloth, spine and upper boards lettered and tooled in gilt, some minor rubbing to extremities, but not detracting from this being a handsome and appealing copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. Uncommon first edition of Madame Caplin’s beautifully produced Health & Beauty, giving a history of stays, culminating in her own Hygienic Corset, which had been ‘pirated or attempted by almost every staymaker in London and Paris’ (p. 51). Roxey Ann Caplin (1793–1888), corset maker, writer, and lecturer on health, was born in Canada, the daughter of English settlers; Canadian Indians taught her canoeing and swimming as a child. Probably trained as a milliner, she married about 1835, and by 1839 was living in London. Her husband, Jean François Isidore Caplin (c.1790–c.1872), used his knowledge of anatomy, gained as a Paris medical student, to treat spinal deformities. He moved to London about 1830. In 1838 he patented (no. 7640) a front-opening corset with a back adjusted by pulleys and wheels. In 1839 Madame Caplin appeared in the London Post Office directory as a ‘wholesale and retail milliner and patentee of the mechanical corset’ (her name was given as Emily Roxey, then Roxey Ann from 1849). From 1841 the couple were listed at 58 Berners Street, London. Jean François Caplin, called an orthopaedic corset maker and later an ‘orthorachidiste’, registered designs for a mannequin in 1841 and the Hygean or Corporiform Corset in 1849. However, the Athenée des Arts de Paris’s commendation stated that it was invented and manufactured by his wife. At the Great Exhibition in 1851 she was awarded the prize medal of “Manufacturer, Designer and Inventor” for her corsetry designs, and went on in 1860 to become a member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA). OCLC: 14840835.

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24 [CARR, Charles Heathcote]. A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA ISSUED BY ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN LIMEHOUSE, LONDON - invitations, programmes, flyers, tracts, forms, caricatures, maps, illustrations of the church, admission tickets, school tests, song sheets, etc. [No imprint, c. 1858-65]. £ 1,850 PRIVATELY PRINTED. 99 items, typeset and in lithography, mostly with the Puginesque logo of the church; mounted on 16 large folio leaves of strong drab paper; occasionally a few light spots, very few items browned; otherwise in good condition. The church was founded, funded and built in 1853, after Angela Burdett- Coutts, a philanthropist who collaborated on charitable projects with Dickens, and had given to Charles James Blomfield, the bishop of London, £15,000 for churches to be built at his discretion. In that year the Reverend Carr was installed; the donation was so generous that the church soon became a hub of social and educational activities, with a printshop attached. As none of the items of this collection gives a commercial printer’s name, as would be usual at the time, and the printing and design was carefully carried out, we may assume that they were printed by the church itself, although we have to rely on conjecture because the church and the records were lost during a German bombing raid in September 1940. The architect of the church, Henry Clutton (1819-1893) was quite important; he was the authority on French thirteenth century Gothic, converted in 1857 to Catholicism and began the designs for Westminster Cathedral. Despite Ruskin’s rejection of the use of iron for church architecture, Clutton employed it in the construction of the roof of St. John the Evangelist and was praised for this bold innovation. The Reverend Carr served St. John the Evangelist from 1853 to 1871, was president of the Mutual Improvement Society, organised lectures not only on religious topics, but also on the Armstrong Gun, (leaflet with illustration) musical and theatrical evenings, while also supporting the Dorcas Society. One Christmas carol songsheet is printed in gold and surrounded by Gothic revival ornaments and scenes, while one map of the parish is also printed in gold. The printers worked also for neighbouring parishes, such as St. Paul’s in Bow, produced examination papers for Stepney Grammar School, and printed a summary of the 1861 census in the parish.

‘a belly-full of good and cheap bread’ 25 CHALMER, Francis. AN APPEAL TO THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, on the present scarcity. By Francis Chalmer, Of Liverpool, corn merchant & miller, who was deputed to represent the sufferers by importation of foreign corn in 1796 in Liverpool and the outports of England and Scotland. Dedicated to Colonel Stanley, representative of the county of Lancaster. [Liverpool?] Printed in 1800. £ 285 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiii, [i], 15-92; title and last leaf lightly dust- soiled; in recent half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. ‘The writer appeals to his countrymen … for the exclusion of all government interference in the corn trade; to obtain for the certainty of the merchants importers a positive rule for their conduct in importation, so that they may again venture as boldly as they formerly used to do for the supply of their friends, neighbours and country-men and country- women and children, so as that they may have a belly-full of good and cheap bread, as they always had before the interference of government in the corn trade’ (p. 87). ESTC records copies at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Kansas, Columbia & Minnesota.

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King’s Subjects in the North: 1642, 20th July 26 CHARLES I. HIS MAIESTIES SPEECH AT LEICESTER, to the gentlemen, free-holders, and inhabitants of that county. July 20. [London]: Imprinted at Yorke, and re-printed at London by Alice Norton, 1642. £ 850 Folio, broadside 34 x 24cm. 1 sheet ([1] p.); at head of title, lightly laid; a fine copy. The king greets his subjects in the north: “Since I have found my presence so very acceptable amongst my good subjects in these Northern parts….” explaining his dealings with parliament and hoping to have no need to ask for their military assistance. Wing C2781; Steele 2229; this edition with royal arms with initials at head of title is located in ESTC only at Harvard.

The Magazine at Hull, 1642, 12th May 27 CHARLES I. HIS MAJESTIES SPEECH TO THE GENTRY OF THE COUNTY OF YORKE, attending his Majesty at the city of Yorke, on Thursday the 12 of May 1642 [London]: Imprinted at Yorke, and now re-printed at London, May 16. 1642. £ 850 BROADSIDE. Folio, 1 sheet ([1] p.) 36 x 27cm; fine large woodcut containing the royal arms at the top and two large decorative woodcut borders at either side; lightly laid, a fine copy.

In January 1642, the king attempted to possess himself of Hull, the arsenal in which the arms and munitions collected for the Scottish war had been deposited, and the port where Charles intended to land Dutch and Danish troops. On 23 April the king in person appeared before the town and demanded admittance. Sir John Hotham refused, citing his instructions from parliament, and shut the gates against him. In this broadside of 12 May Charles brands Hotham a traitor and announces the necessity of forming his own guard or militia for his defence. Hotham was nearly persuaded to allow Charles to take Hull. This wavering cost him his life. He was captured before he could admit the royalists and was executed on the order of Cromwell and the commons on 2 Jan. 1645. Wing C2806; Steele 2123.

Class Justice 28 [CHARTISTS]. WARWICK GAOL. Return of an Address of the Hounorable The House of Commons, dated 21 January 1840; - for, Copies of any Memorials or Correspondence relating to the Treatment of William Lovett and John Collins, now Prisoners in Warwich Gaol. [Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 4 February 1840]. £ 385 Folio, pp. 16; first and last page dusted, final leaf with torn away upper outer corner (not affecting printed surface), a little spotted; mid-twentieth century cloth; manuscript label on spine. Rare publication of letters, petitions and documents relating to the imprisonment of the Chartist leader William Lovett (1800-1877) and his co-prisoner John Collins at Warwick Gaol. Lovett had been sentenced after a public address in Birmingham, where he had denounced the police as a ‘bloodthirsty and unconstitutional force’. Subsequently he was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. During this period he wrote the manifesto Chartism, a New Organisation

13 P ICKERING & C HATTO of the People. The volume opens with a petition, signed by both cell mates, asking for the most basic provisions, such as to wear shoes in winter, have bedding, or not to be locked up ‘for 15 or 16 hours in the winter season without fire or candle light’ (p. 1). OCLC locates a single copy, at Columbia University.

29 [CITY OF WESTMINSTER]. LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANICS’ INSTITUTION, GREAT SMITH STREET. Arrangements have been made with Mr. Henry Phillips for one of his popular Vocal Entertainments, On Tuesday, March, 2nd 1847. [London], Hayes, 1847. £ 85 Small 8vo, pp. [4]; a little spotted and dusted; previously folded.

Rare flyer advertising an evening of songs at the premises of the institution which had been founded in 1837. The proceeds were to be spent on books for the institution’s library. One song describes the horrors of the slave trade in America, whereas the notes on an Irish serenade clearly express anti-Irish resentments. ‘The popularity and fashion of serenading in Ireland; the odd mode of going about it; the strange instruments used, and the invariable mistakes that are twined nature round an Hibernian’s movement, render the art of serenading extremely ridiculous’. The baritone Henry Phillips (1801–1876) had his breakthrough in 1824 as Caspar in Der Freischütz . In 1825 he changed his singing voice to bass, visited America in 1844 where he observed a slave market which inspired him to the above mentioned song. The year after the Great Smith Street his voice began to decline drastically. Not in OCLC or COPAC.

‘Composed … in a small tent on the sands of Egypt’ 30 CLIFFORD, M.M. EGYPT; A Poem, descriptive of that country and its inhabitants … London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for R.H. Evans, (Successor to Mr. Edwards,) Pall-Mall. 1802. £ 285 FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. 8vo, pp. vi, [ii], 79, [1] blank; alittle dust-soiled in places, but generally clean and crisp throughout; in the original publisher’s boards, rebacked to style, boards rather dust- soiled, but still an appealing copy, inscribed ‘From the Author’ on the half-title. Rare first edition of this charming collection of poetry by M.M. Clifford (‘of the 12th or Prince of Wales’ Light Dragoons’) ‘composed during the avocations of military duty, in a small tent on the sands of Egypt, amidst the orange-groves of Rosetta, or the tempestuous bosom of the Mediterranean’ (p. vi) during the Napoleonic wars. Besides the main work, which is set out over three cantos, four other works are included: ‘Cintra’, ‘The Leaf’, ‘The Rose’, ‘The Old Man’s Reflections. Written when only Fifteen’ and ‘Asia, an elegy written in Marmorice Bay, during the residence of Sir Ralph Abercrombie’s army there, in February 1801’. Sir Ralph Abercromby KB (1734 – 1801) was a Scottish soldier and politician whose rose to the rank of lieutenant- general in the British Army, and noted for his services during the Napoleonic Wars. We have been unable to find further information on M.M .Clifford, although evidently he served with the 12th Dragoons, who, led by General Sir John Doyle, had recently won their first battle honour in Egypt in 1801 against the French Dromedary corps. OCLC records copies in North America, at Stanford, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), UC Davis, Wisconsin, Madison, the Huntington, Dartmouth College and Brooklyn Museum.

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Presented to his daughter by William Cobbett 31 [COBBETT, William]. [BROWNE, Thomas, Editor]. THE PARSON’S HORN-BOOK … Dublin: Printed and sold by Browne and Sheehan, at the Comet Office … 1831. £ 685 SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED, WITH ADDENDA. 8vo, pp. [iv], 203, [3]; with frontispiece and 12 engraved plates; corner of 83 torn away and reattach, some minor foxing and dust-soiling in places, but still generally clean throughout; in contemporary red cloth, rebacked, extremities worn, with eight page prospectus for ‘a Sunday Newspaper, to be called The Comet’ bound in at the front; inscribed ‘To his dear daughter Suzan from Wm. Cobbett. 27th March 1831’ at head of front free endpaper, and with a much later presentation note (dated Jan 1878) by her tipped in below; a very desirable item. Highly desirable copy, presented by the English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist William Cobbett to his daughter Susan, of The Parson’s Horn- Book satirizing the temporalities of the established Church in prose and verse. ‘The Parson’s Horn Book, now that it is before the public, turns out to be not alone a satirical work, but the most important and deadly stab at the incubus of Ireland, the tithe system and religious taxation, that ever issued from the press’ (contemporary note in the journal the Pilot). Halkett and Laing note the work has also been attributed to Samuel Lover. OCLC: 16993395.

32 COCKLE, Mrs. [Elizabeth]. NATIONAL TRIUMPHS. London: Printed for C. Chapple…, 1814. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 31 [32 adverts for other publications by Mrs. Cockle], extra-illustrated with a folding sepia engraving of “Crazy Castle” laid down on the verso of the front free marbled end-paper and the recto of the following blank leaf, with two further blank leaves before the title- page, and 12 blank leaves at the end of the volume, small contemporary ms. corrections on pages 4, 6, and 10; bound in contemporary ‘spanish’ calf, with gilt floral roll border, gilt spine (lacks label), with the armorial bookplate of Robert Graham on the front paste-down end-paper; front joint and corners slightly worn, but a very good copy.

Rare first edition of this poetical work celebrating England’s martial achievements, by Mrs. Elizabeth Cockle. ‘Bright cup of friendship! by the hand of fame, Inscrib’d with many an honour’d hero’s name! Thine Schwartzenberg - thine Prussia’s glorious son- And his - our own UNCONQUER’D WELLINGTON’ (p. 24). The Mrs. Cockle to whom this work is attributed published a number of works, including Important Studies for the Female Sex, which was deemed by the Anti-Jacobin Review to be a worthy companion to Gregory’s Legacy. She is also listed in the BL catalogue as both Mary Cockle and E. Cockle. Mrs. Cockle is not otherwise identified, but she could be the wife of James Cockle (1782 - 1854), the doctor and inventor of “family antibilious pills.” The engraved plate “Crazy Castle” was the name that John Hall- Stevenson, a friend of Laurence Sterne, gave to Skelton Castle, which was famous for its library; and the plate is an illustration from Hall- Stevenson’s Crazy Tales. No copy traced in UK libraries; OCLC locates one copy only, at Brown University.

33 [COMMERCE]. COLLECTION OF 43 TRADE CARDS AND MOSTLY ENGRAVED BILLS. London, 1737-1756. £ 8,500

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4to, album of 43 trade cards - of various formats up to small 4to, which have been used as receipts or invoices by the traders and have stab holes resulting from the pin they where put on by an accountant or secretary, a few trade cards repeated, four typographically printed, the rest engraved or etched; traces of use; bound in the early nineteenth century in maroon half-morocco over boards; spine lettered in gilt Bills & c.; worn and spotted; ownership inscription by one S. G. Cole, dated Twickenham, 1823 inside front cover. Trade cards are amongst the most perishable and ephemeral objects of the history of commerce; and this collection of early specimens was preserved by ‘Mrs. Forth, sister of Mrs. Ibbetson & Lady Mason & Aunt to the Countess of Shipbrook’, as is stated in the manuscript introduction, possibly written at the time of binding. All trade cards and bills are addressed to Mrs. Frost and give a good idea of the expenses and needs of a fashionable household in mid 18th- century London. The album opens with the large rococo trade card of Stafford Briscoe, jeweller and goldsmith, who traded in Cheapside under the sign of the Golden Ball. On the verso is a manuscript invoice for Mrs. Forth, dated 1755 ‘for mending and Burnishing a Sliper’. There are two earlier versions, printed from a different plates in this volume, used in 1749 and 1754, respectively. This is followed by an etched card showing a pair of leather breeches, published by the breeches maker Thomas Head near Piccadilly, used as a bill in 1740. A bill written in 1737 is on the trade card of the silk merchants Ibbetson & Son, relatives of Mrs Forth. A grocery bill for mainly spices was sent in 1750 by the grocers Wilson & Thornhill of St. Paul’s. Philip Margas at the Golden Fan (with an illustration of such) sent a bill for anchovies in 1749, the textile house of Storey Horne & Storey sent one for a fine scarlet cloth mantle, written on the back of their somewhat naïvely etched trade card. Two bills from the late 1730s are on Thomas Paulin’s paper headed by an etched depiction of the statue of Queen Elizabeth in Convent Garden. Hannah Mumford was a seamstress with her own business and engraved bill, showing the Harlequin and Pierot, the pub sign depicted. In 1738 Mrs. Fort ordered among other textile articles a quilted green pettycoat for for ten shillings six pence from the a tailoring business in Lombard Street, run by three women, Sibella Lloyd, Martha Williams and Elizabeth Storey. Most of these items not in the John Johnson collection in the Bodleian or the British Museum; frequently the specimens are variants of recorded trade cards.

34 [COMMISSION OF PEACE FOR NORTHUMBERLAND]. 26TH DEC. 1796. Commission of the peace for Northumberland. [No place or printer, 26th Dec. 1796]. [Together with]: Manuscript list titled Northumberland, List of Justices named in the Commission of Peace Dated the 26th Febr. 1790 and 1770 Names of the Justices of the Peace in the Commission for North., a four-page list of residents. £ 450 Folio, pp. [2], [2], blank (previously folded); [6], [2] blank; on verso addressed in manuscript to Thomas Adams, Alnwick, and endorsed by him in manuscript ‘Commission of the peace for Northd 26 Decr 1796’, seal removed. A long list of names printed in double columns on two pages. The names include the Earl of Carlisle, Sir Ralph Milbank (Lord Byron’s father-in-law) and Thomas Adams of Alnwick (whose copy this was). All together a Who’s Who of late eighteenth century Northumberland. Not in ESTC.

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First English Printing

35 [CONGRESS]. THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation between the said states; the treaties between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America. Published by Order Of Congress. Philadelphia printed: London reprinted … for J. Stockdale, 1782. £ 2,250 SECOND EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 56, *49-*52, 57-168; occasionally lightly spotted or browned otherwise fresh; early nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked and lettered, with the armorial bookplate of Ferguson of Raith on front pastedown; a very good copy. First printed in Philadelphia by Francis Bailey the year before, this second edition of the first collection of the constitutions of the several states is an important preparation to formulating the Federal Constitution. Many constitutional historians, most recently and persuasively Willi Paul Adams, have argued the role of the state constitutional conventions and constitutions in providing models for the authors of the 1787 constitution. In many cases it would have been this work which provided a convenient reference to the state constitutions. On Dec. 29, 1780, Congress appointed a committee of three to “Collect, and cause to be published, two hundred correct copies of the Declaration of Independence with the Constitutions or forms of government of the Several States, to be bound together in boards.” The contemporary Monthly Review noted, ‘It contains a greater portion of unsophisticated wisdom and good sense, than is, perhaps, to be met with in any legislative case that was ever yet framed. It is, in short, the book which may be considered the Magna Charta of the United States.’ Goldsmiths’ 12259; Sabin 16087; Howes C716.

36 [CONVENERY OF THE TRADES OF LEITH]. PAPERS WRITTEN IN OPPOSITION TO THE UNION CANAL. Leith, William Reid & Co., 1817. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 114, [2] blank, [115-] 118; lightly toned, tiny hole to p. 17; recent marbled boards lettered on spine.

A collection of papers by the Convenery of the Trades of Leith, declaring their opposition to the connection of the port of Leith with the Union Canal, which was still under construction. They took the view that it would give even more business to the subscribers who were running the canal trade as a monopoly, with the tariffs limited only by the tariffs of land transport and that Leith would lose its position as the sea port of the Scottish capital. ‘The prospect held out of carrying the canal to Leith at some future period, must, it is feared, even independent of the contingencies alluded to, end in disappointment. Almost every avenue by which a canal can be carried to Leith, is already shut up with buildings, and every day such an undertaking becomes more and more difficult, so that in a few years it will be nearly impracticable’ (p. 12). The traders succeeded in not having the Union Canal extended directly to Leith. The Canal was opened, some 30 years after the first plans, connecting the Clyde with the North Sea via Lochrin Basin, preserving much of the trade of Leith. Goldsmiths’ 21857.11 (microfilm only); Kress B.7012; OCLC locates copies in Aberdeen and in the National Library of Scotland, COPAC adds a copy at Oxford.

37 COOKE, John. THE COMPTING-HOUSE ASSISTANT: or book- keeping made easy; being a complete treatise on merchants

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38 COOKE, Layton. A SERIES OF STATISTICAL CHARTS shewing the Fluctuations in Quantity and Value of the Products of the Soil with various ascertainments obviously influential on the Husbandry of the British Empire founded on Official and other Authentic Documents. London: Published by the Author, [n.d., 1827?]. £ 4,500 FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio, pp. [34], with 15 hand-coloured engraved charts; early pencil annotations (authorial?) to the first two charts, the upper outer corners folded in preserving the marginal annotations, a very good copy in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, rebacked and recornered, gilt morocco lettering-piece to the upper board, boards scuffed; bookplate of the statistician and pioneer in data visualisation Edward Tufte to the front pastedown. Rare first edition of this set of fifteen statistical charts designed to present their data in the most straight- forward manner possible without any editorial slant. As Cooke asserts in his introduction: ‘The following charts facilitate the arrival at equitable conclusions, without discursive reading or tedious calculation; and being composed of a concentrated delineation of facts, the mind, by a transient view, unbiased by obtrusive commentary, is directed to an accurate knowledge of various subjects of considerable importance…’. The fifteen charts display statistics on the national debt, public finance, the price of British corn, European wheat, imports and exports, duties on imported and exported corn, wool, malt, beer, hops, population, wages, taxation, and the comparative value of money. They are very reminiscent of the pioneering work of William Playfair. COPAC and OCLC locate only two UK copies, at the BL and LSE; and three US copies, at Columbia, Chicago, and Minnesota; not in Goldsmiths’ or Kress.

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Apprentices not to “Haunt Taverns or Play-Houses” 39 [CORPORATION OF LONDON]. THE COVENANTS OF AN INDENTURE OF APPRENTICESHIP, familiarly explained and enforced by scripture, for the use of the apprentices of the City of London. London: printed in the year 1798. [By Henry Fenwick printer to the Honourable City of London?]. £ 500 4to, pp. [ii], 8; Original blue wrappers, some surface loss to the back wrapper where it had been attached to an album leaf otherwise a good copy. The apprentice was bound for seven years to serve his master loyally, not to harm him or assist others in doing so, not to deal on his own behalf, not to marry or commit fornication, not to play cards, dice or tables, or any other unlawful games and not to “Haunt Taverns or Play-Houses”. Both the 1795 and 1797 editions collate 8p. 4to. The present unrecorded version has an extra preliminary leaf laid on the back of the front wrapper on which, facing the title page, is an engraving of the coat of arms of the Salters Company above a printed notice “The gift of the master, wardens and court of assistants of the worshipful company of Salters, for the instruction and benefit of apprentices, bound to freemen of the said company.” The first page with blanks left to be filled in contains the form of indenture; the next pages contain “A familiar explanation of an indenture of apprenticeship”. The final page contains “A copy of the testimony given by every master to the chamberlain when he makes his apprentice free of the City of London.” Not in ESTC on-line; not in Goldsmiths’ etc; see Goldsmiths’ 16270 and 16964 and for editions of 1795 and 1797 (both very rare). 40 CROKER, Thomas Crofton. A WALK FROM LONDON TO FULHAM, by the late Thomas Crofton Croker, F.S.A., M.R.I.A. Revised and edited by T.F. Dillon Croker, with additional illustrations by F.W. Fairholt F.S.A. London: William Tegg. 1860. £ 2,500 8vo, pp. xx, 21-256; with 75 pieces of ephemera and letters inserted throughout; some minor dust-soiling in places, a clean copy throughout; bound in nineteenth century half red calf, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, minor rubbing to extremities, but still a very desirable item. Highly desirable and fascinating revised edition of Thomas Crofton Croker’s Walk from London to Fulham, extra illustrated with the insertion of 75 pieces of ephemera and letters, including an unrecorded work by the author’s son, Dillon Croker, privately printed when he was 9 years old. The Irish antiquary Thomas Crofton Croker (1798–1854) devoted himself largely to the collection of ancient Irish poetry and Irish folklore. He assisted in founding the Percy Society and the Camden Society. He and his wife’s testimonies about funereal customs, particularly the tradition of keening the deceased are among the earliest and most significant contributions to the understanding of the Irish language lament and the accompanying traditions. His only child, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker FSA FRGS (1831–1912) was a British antiquary and poet, who revised and edited a number of his father’s works. The extra material inserted in the present work contains much that is pertinent to Thomas & his son Dillon. Of particular note is the inclusion of Recollections of Dillion Croker; with illustrations (London: Printed for the Author, MDCCCXL), a charming little work ‘printed as an encouragement to an industrious little boy, who wished to see how a book was made’ which, as far as we are aware, is unrecorded. ‘The Zoological Garden is a pleasing sight, what with the monkeys and what with their tricks, it is very pleasant indeed. There are sometimes

19 P ICKERING & C HATTO accidents happen there, such as an elephant tearing a lady’s gown, a baboon biting a gentleman’s finger, and the worst of all, a baby falling down the bear pit’ (Recollections of Dillion Croker, pp. 7-8). Also inserted are a number of items relating to the Percy Society, a scholarly collective founded in 1840 which aimed at publishing limited edition books of rare poems and songs. The president was Lady Braybrooke, and the twelve founding members of the committee included (besides Thomas Crofton Croker), John Payne Collier, Thomas Wright, James Orchard Halliwell (treasurer), Charles Mackay, Edward Francis Rimbault (secretary) and William Chappell. Letters inserted include those by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (three as Halliwell and later Halliwell-Phillipps) on the final meeting of the Council of the Percy Society (dated October 4th 1852), several by Thomas Wright, including one printed, as treasurer, to Croker chasing him for his annual subscription to the Society for 1848/9 (evidently the roll of treasurer changed a number of times as also inserted is a printed receipt for Croker’s subscription paid in 1841, signed by William Chappell) and another talking of books and inviting the recipient to lunch to consult on different matters (and drawing a map so the recipient might find the way as he was recently moved, dated 1847), and one by John Payne Collier discussing money problems (dated 1853). Also tipped in is a broadside in verse, ‘Proposed Report to the general meeting of the Percy Society’ (the ‘1st May 1843-44’ and ‘by Crofton Croker or Query, Planche?’ added in ink) with a note alluding to the recently published Martin Chuzzlewit. Other letters inserted and worthy of note include ten by Crofton Croker himself, and six by his son Dillon, mainly addressed to the antiquarian and amateur archaeologist Charles Roach Smith (1807–1890), FSA. Roach Smith was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the London Numismatic Society and pioneered the statistical study of Roman coin hoards. The present extra illustrated edition was compiled by George? Kendricks from his ‘own autograph & graphic collections’ during the ‘Easter Bank Holiday, 30 March 1891’, as noted in a handwritten note, on ‘Union Club, Trafalgar Square’ headed paper, tipped in after the half-title.

41 [CROUCH, Nathaniel]. A NEW VIEW AND OBSERVATIONS on the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster, shewing the Foundation, Walls, Gates, Towers, Bridges, Churches, Rivers, Wards, Palaces, Companies, Inns of Court and Chancery, Hospitals, Schools, Government …by Robert Burton [pseud.]. London: A Bettesworth, Charles Hitch, and J. Batley, 1730. £ 500 FIRST EDITION THUS. 12mo, woodcut frontispiece., pp. [vi], 312, 145-240, 385-468, [4] advertisements; text woodcuts throughout; pagination erratic in centre, but complete against BL copy; contemporary sheep, spine tooled in gilt with label lettered in gilt, upper joint cracked and extremities worn, but still an appealing copy with the booklabel of the ‘Bibliotheca Phillippica’ on front pastedown. First edition thus, having originally been published by Nathaniel Crouch under the title ‘Historical remarques and observations of the ancient and present state of London and Westminster’ in 1681. For this edition the work has been very much enlarged and continued, and it has many pretty woodcuts throughout. Descriptions of the wards; woodcut coats-of-arms of all the city companies; descriptions of such events as the plague and the great Fire of London; and the many woodcuts add up to make this a most pleasant and interesting work on London.

42 CULLEN, Archibald. PRINCIPLES OF THE BANKRUPT LAW. London: Printed by A. Strahan, Law-Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand. 1800. £ 750

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, [xii], 477, [1] blank, [2] Addenda, [12] index; handsomely bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine ruled and tooled in gilt, with green morocco label lettered in gilt; with the Fasque bookplate on front pastedown; a highly desirable copy.

Uncommon first edition of this in depth look at bankruptcy law, set out over four books discussing ‘Of the persons who may be bankrupt’, ‘Of the Acts which make a person a bankrupt’, ‘Of the commission, and proceedings under it’, ‘Of suits, and other proceedings, at law, and equity’ and ‘Of commissions against partners’, each then set out with further chapters. The author, Archibald Cullen ‘of the Middle Temple’, on whom we have been unable to find any further information, provides a long list of relevant cases, referring to each throughout his work. ESTC records four copies in the UK, at the BL, Cambridge, House of Lords Library and the Advocates Library, with six listed in North America, at Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Free Library of Philadelphia and Yale.

‘A kind of connecting link, between man and monkey’ 43 [CUNNINGHAM, John William]. A WORLD WITHOUT SOULS. London, [Gosnell] for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to her Majesty, No. 190, Opposite Albany House, Piccadilly, 1805. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], 135, [1] blank, [2] advertisements; occasional browning or spotting; contemporary marbled boards; worn and re-backed; from Worcester Public Library. Uncommon first edition of this unusual philosophical allegory. The lost race is a band of soul-less people where, according to the narrator, the theories of Lord Monboddo are confirmed in the way the inhabitants pick up ‘certain oblong papers, mysteriously spotted … for the very important purpose of laying down again,’ and fight duels for no better reason than someone insulting their dogs. Lord Monboddo’s proto-evolutionist theories are reflected upon repeatedly, for example in the assessment of the creatures populating the country O: ‘The creature which inhabits O. is so mysterious, that in discussing any points which concern his nature I am continually at a loss. A little superior to what a monkey is, he is far inferior to what a man should be. Take him now (for nature is ever greedy for gradations) as a kind of connecting link, between man and monkey, and I shall have some grounds on which to reason’ (p. 120). John William Cunningham (1780-1861) was an evangelical clergyman and vicar of Harrow. His book sometimes reads like Lautréamont’s Les chants de Maldoror, or an experimental surrealist text of the middle of the twentieth century; even Monty Python comes to mind. A contemporary review in the Monthly Mirror tried to make sense of the work, by judging ‘The object of the ingenious author of this little tract is to shew the inconsistency of the present race of civilized beings, who, in their professions, would seem to have souls, but in their actions none. The idea is managed with considerable cleverness, and may be read seriously [italics in the original] with advantage’ (vol. 21, 1806, p. 40). Block, p. 50; Halkett & Laing VI, p. 259; Wolff 6835d; OCLC records five copies, at Yale, Chicago, Brown, Texas and the Library of Congress; see also the on-line ‘Lost Race Checklist’ compiled by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, no. 60: ‘imaginary voyage to city of O inhabited by a soulless race allegorical’.

Unrecorded 44 [DAVY, Humphry]. OBSERVATIONS ON SOME PEAT ASHES [drop-head title]. [London, A. Macpherson, 1810]. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 4; in recent wraps.

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Rare, and as far as we are aware unrecorded and uncollected, work by the great chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), reprinting a letter by him giving his observations on peat ashes, and the analysis of the mineral content of the peat. ‘Mr Ferguson asked of Doctor Gilbert Blane to beg that Mr. H. Davy, the celebrated chymist, would take the trouble to analyse some peat ashes, which had been sent to him from Bulwark, Guilkhorn, and Little Etrick, in the parishes of New and Old Deer, in Aberdeenshire’ (p. 1). In the early nineteenth century peat ashes were discussed and used as fertilisers, because they were so much easier to transport than the peat itself. The work concludes with the statement: ‘Mr. F. was only allowed to print Mr. Davy’s letter, &c for private communication, it is expected that Gentlemen, who get a copy of it, will not publish it’ (p. 4). Not in OCLC or COPAC; apparently not in the National Library of Scotland or the British Library.

45 [DERBY]. A WALK THROUGH DERBY, containing a concise account of the public buildings, in the town; compiled from authentic sources. Derby: printed and published by and for G. Wilkins & Son, 1827. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 120; with engraved frontispiece and numerous woodcuts throughout the text; a clean copy throughout; in the original printed publisher’s boards, lightly dust-soiled, upper joint cracked but holding; a very appealing copy. Rare first edition of this remarkably informative guide to Derby, ‘compiled from authentic sources’. The work is of particular interest for its commercial and social information, and especially for the illustrated five page description of the new Derbyshire General Infirmary, famous for its revolutionary heating, ventilation, cooking, washing and sanitary arrangements designed and installed by Charles Sylvester, with the aid of William Strutt, in 1807. Other public and institutional buildings also illustrated and described include Francis Goodwin’s new and radical New County Prison, laid out on the radial principle with 164 cells; and the chapels and meeting houses of the Roman Catholics, Swedenborgians and other dissenters, reflecting an astonishing inability to agree with one another among the 17,423 inhabitants returned in 1821. There is also much on trade and commerce, the local canal network, Arkwright, Jedediah Strutt, the Derby silk industry - with nice picture of the mills - John Lombe, a description of the present mill with a technical account of its plant and machinery; and the stocking frame. Additionally there is a list of trade tokens struck in Derby, and also a list of some of the town’s eminent sons, of whom it could justly feel proud - among them Francis Chantry, John Flamsteed and Benjamin Outram. Tables contain further interesting information. OCLC records two copies only, at the BL and the Corporation of London Libraries.

46 [DICKENS, Charles, Dr. SOUTHWOOD SMITH, Lord ASHLEY etc]. SANATORIUM. First Report of the Committee to the Members. Presented at the Annual Meeting held at the Institution, Devonshire-Place House, New Road, 1843. [London: Maurice and Co., Fenchurch Street, 1843]. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 37, [1]; with contemporary manuscript inscription at the head of the title page “Board and Lodging without

22 P ICKERING & C HATTO medical attendance and in a double bedded room one guinea per week. Half a guinea additional per week for Medical attendance. Single room.” in recent boards. The Sanatorium at Devonshire-Place House, New Road was established by the eminent sanitarian Dr. Southwood Smith. It opened on 30th March 1842; the first nursing home in London. Price Albert was the President, Lord Ashley was one of the vice Presidents, Southwood Smith himself was one of the two Physicians in Ordinary and Charles Dickens was on the Committee. Also on the Committee was Sir Martin Archer Shee whom Dickens had recruited (See Letters II p. 293.) Amongst the subscribers listed is W. E. Nightingale, Embley, Romsey, Hants, Florence Nightingale’s father. (A few years later, in 1853, Florence Nightingale was to gain her first experience of running a nursing institution when she went into residence as Superintendent of a similar nursing home to sick governesses and gentlewomen of narrow means at No I, Upper Harley Street.) Edgar Johnson notes that on 4th June 1844 Dickens presided at the London Tavern over a dinner in aid of the Sanatorium and that in November 1845 he put on a benefit performance for the Sanatorium. His attendance at this meeting in 1843 and the speech he gave are, however, not noted; nor has any reference been found in the Letters. After the Chairman the first to speak was Lord Ashley. He was followed by Charles Dickens (pp.20-21). Dickens mentions various other charities established to provide assistance to certain groups “during the expensive and helpless period of sickness.” He mentions the Provident Clerk’s Association, the Association for the Benefit of Governesses, and that for the Protection of young persons engaged in the millinery and dress-making businesses. Beneficiaries of all three of these charities had been among those successfully cared for in Devonshire-Place House in the first year of its operations. OCLC records one copy only, at the British Library; not in Gimble.

‘Reminiscent of Tristram Shandy’

47 [DOUGLAS, James]. TRAVELLING ANECDOTES through various parts of Europe. [Two volumes. Vol. I ] (crossed through in ink in a near contemporary hand) [All published]. Rochester: Printed by T. Fisher. Sold by J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Debrett, Piccadilly; W. Elmsly, T. Beckett, Strand; and Richardson and Urquhart, Royal Exchange, London. 1782. £ 1,500 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], x, 285, [1] errata; with three engraved plates; title and p. v with mss corrections to text where more than one volume is alluded to (and never published, hence corrections); some minor marking and staining in places, but generally clean throughout; in early nineteenth century half calf, spine lettered in gilt, boards rather dust-soiled and worn with some loss to paper, nevertheless still a very appealing copy.

Rare first edition of James Douglas’s Travelling Anecdotes, an amusing and entertaining work, very reminiscent of Tristram Shandy. Chapters include ‘Carmelite Nuns’, ‘Commercial argument with a French officer’, ‘Stricture on Voltaire’, ‘The Landlords bow’, ‘Managerie of Prince Charles’ and an anecdote of a chance meeting with a ‘Jew pedlar’: ‘I called the Israelite back - he presented a drawer of trinkets to me - a barred onyx ring struck my eye - resolved to purchase something, in compliment to Mr. Pope, I put three ducats into his hand, and the ring upon my finger’ (p. 157). [Douglas] ‘issued and illustrated an anonymous Travelling Anecdotes, through Various Parts of Europe (1782), which was successful enough to require London editions in 1785 and 1786, with a Dublin one following in 1787—by which time the author’s name had been added. Written

23 P ICKERING & C HATTO primarily at Cambridge during his student years, and in an unconventional manner reminiscent of Tristram Shandy, the Anecdotes (some of them military) recalled the author’s earlier experiences at Vienna and in the Low Countries, where, at Tongres especially, his antiquarian interests had been aroused.’ (Oxford DNB). James Douglas (1753–1819), antiquary and geologist, was the third and youngest son of John Douglas (d. 1762), innkeeper of the Hercules Pillars in Hyde Park Road, and Mary Gardiner (d. 1766). His early years are not well documented, but we know he worked for his brother, a cloth merchant, and for a short time was William’s agent in Italy. He was dismissed from this post and to secure an income enlisted in the Austrian army in Vienna. Some time later, he came back to England and entered Cambridge around 1777 but never graduated. In 1779 he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Leicester militia and went to work as an engineer on Chatham Lines, near Rochester, Kent. His interests encouraged him to take part in the excavations of the Anglo-Saxon burial mounds that had been found at Chatham. Whilst a younger man, he had become acquainted with the antiquary Sir Ashton Lever, assisting him in stuffing some of his birds, later displayed in Lever’s museum at Leicester Square. Lever was very supportive of this work and sponsored him and Douglas was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1783. He was also ordained that year. Between 1785 and 1793 Douglas wrote the two books for which is is mostly remembered: A Dissertation on the Antiquity of the Earth. His collection of fossils from the Isle of Sheppey are described, with Douglas doing the illustrations himself. Douglas’s second book Nenia Britannica was published in twelve parts from 1786 to 1793. Douglas again produced the illustrations for this volume, executing not only the original drawings but also the aquatint plates. His personal copy of this book is in the British Library. Douglas’s life as a clergyman took him to Chiddingfold, Surrey, Litchborough, Northamptonshire, Middleton, Sussex and Kenton, Suffolk. He then went back to Sussex, living in several places, latterly Preston, where died of a chill in 1819. He is buried in the churchyard. His wife died the following year and he was survived by three sons and a daughter. ESTC records just one copy in North America, at the Huntington.

The Macclesfield Copy 48 DRIFT, Matthew. THE GREEK GRAMMAR construed for the use of young beginners. London: printed for Tho. Newborough, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul’s Church-yard. 1706. £ 2,250 FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. [iv],115, [1] advertisements on verso of last leaf; a fine copy in contemporary English sheep (slightly worn, joints neatly repaired), morocco label; from the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield with the Shirburn Castle, North Library bookplate. First and only edition: there were two issues, the second with the addition of Ralph Watson of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, to the imprint. This must be because Matthew Drift (educated at Eton and King’s Cambridge) was the Master of Lavenham School from 1696 to his retirement in 1723 (he died in 1726), and Lavenham is only ten miles south of Bury. The book is dedicated to Richard Colman of Brent Eleigh in Suffolk, a small village some two miles from Lavenham: the Colmans were the local squires and in 1715 the will of Henry Colman (Richard’s younger brother) founded the parish library there (see Perkin, Parochial Libraries, pp. 151-2). ESTC on-line record three copies in North America, at UCLA, Indiana State and Illinois.

49 DU BOSC, Jacques. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN DESCRIBED by her true characters and their opposites. Licensed and entered.

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London: printed for Joseph Watts, at the Angel in St. Paul’s Church- Yard, MDCXCII [1692]. £ 1,500 FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. 12mo, pp. [x], xix, [3], 304; with fine frontispiece. portrait (A1v) signed: Sturt sc:. contemporary panelled calf with a twentieth century red label; a very good copy, with the Muirhead and John Lawson book labels. First edition of this translation of L’Honneste femme by Jacques Du Bosc. The dedication signed: T.D. Erroneously attributed to Theophilus Dorrington by NUC pre-1956. Preceded by an English translation by Walter Montagu of the first part only which appeared in 1655. A second edition of the present translation appeared in 1695 by a new publisher, John Wyat. This does not have the frontispiece portrait (which has engraved at the bottom “Printed for Joseph Watts”). Wing D2407B.

The Origins of Heriot-Watt University 50 [EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF ARTS]. FIRST REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE SCHOOL OF ARTS OF EDINBURGH, for the education of mechanics in such branches of physical science as are of practical application in their several trades. [Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay and Co.] May 1822. £ 450 FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST REPORT. 8vo, pp. [ii], 50; early nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked and labelled, with the armorial bookplate of Ferguson of Raith on front pastedown; a fine copy. A foundation document in the origins of Heriot-Watt University which sprang organically, as it were, from this, the world’s first Mechanics Institute. The first Directors of the Edinburgh School of Arts included the inspirational Leonard Horner, together with such heavyweights as David Brewster, James Jardine, James Pillans, William Playfair, and James Skene. Horner was the secretary and it is likely that it was he who wrote the present report. The mission statement incorporated in this first report is worth quoting: “The School of Arts of Edinburgh took its origin from an accidental conversation in the shop of Mr. Bryson, watchmaker, in March 1821. To a question, whether young men brought up in the trade of watch making received any mathematical education, Mr. Bryson replied, that it is seldom, if ever, the case; that they daily experience the effects of the want of this instruction, but the expense and the usual hours of masters who teach mathematics, put it out of the power of working tradesmen to obtain it. It was suggested, that it might be very possible to devise some plan by which such branches of science as would be useful to mechanics in the exercise of their trade, might be taught at convenient hours, and at an expense which would be within their reach; for an institution of this description had long existed at Glasgow, and had been attended with very beneficial effects”. And the Prospectus accordingly declared that “This Association [i.e. ‘School of Arts, for the better Education of the Mechanics of Edinburgh’] has been formed for the purpose of enabling industrious tradesmen to become acquainted with such of the principles of mechanics, chemistry, and other branches of science, as are of practical application in their several trades, that they may possess a more thorough knowledge of their business, acquire a greater degree of skill in the practice of it, and be led to improvement with a greater security of support ……”. The Report provides a full descriptive account of the staff and students, the syllabuses of the various courses, and, of course, a list of benefactors. Among these was our Robert Ferguson of Raith who is recorded as having donated one guinea. Goldsmiths 23497; OCLC records only microform copies.

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Indigent Schoolmasters and their dependents

51 [EDUCATION]. AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC, in behalf of the Association among Protestant Schoolmasters in the North of England, for the support of their aged brethren, widows, and orphans: In which the necessity and utility of that charitable institution are briefly illustrated. To which is subjoined, an abstract of the rules: submitted to the consideration of gentlemen and ladies who are inclined to promote this laudable scheme by their subscription or benefactions. Newcastle: Printed by M. Angus, 1788. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 45, [1]; the introduction signed: Alex. Murray, Robert Green, Minister, James Wood; in recent wrappers, a very good copy. Rare first edition of this plea by indigent schoolmasters and their dependents. The Association was formed under the patronage of the Duke of Northumberland by a group of Newcastle Schoolmasters in 1774 with the purpose of providing for their indigent colleagues. The address on the purpose and necessity of the Association comes first, followed by the “Rules” (p 31-45.) ESTC on-line records the BL copy only; there is another issue with the imprint: “printed by T. Saint, 1774” collating pp. 47, [1], (BL only); not in Goldsmiths’.

52 FAIRMAN, William. THE STOCKS EXAMINED AND COMPARED: or a guide to purchasers in the public funds. Containing an introduction in which the origin and nature of the public debts are explained, and useful information is given relative to the management of business in the funds. An account of the public funds. From the times of their creation to the year 1795; including the imperial and Irish annuities, transferable at the Bank of England and the stock of public companies. And five new useful and extensive tables, for the purposes of examining and comparing the perpetual annuities and the long, short, and imperial annuities with each other, at every probable price: illustrated by observations and examples. Also, a statement of the national debt, and an account of the present plan for liquidating the same. London, H. L. Galabin, 1795. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 93, [1]; errata slip pasted to title-page verso; occasional foxing; a good copy, uncut in contemporary drab boards, manuscript title to upper board, spine missing but cords intact; contemporary ownership inscription of Thomas Wicksted to the title and with a few marginal notes or alterations to the text. The author, who worked as life-accountant to the corporation of the Royal-Exchange Assurance, here offers information on a host of government investment schemes, listing the various public funds available, including annuities, bank stock, South-Sea stock, India stock, etc. This work ran to many editions. Later editions were published under the title An Account of the Public Funds transferable at the Bank of England. Kress B.2930; Dennistoun & Goodman 15 (3rd edition).

Prevention of Smuggling 53 [FORBES, Duncan]. SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF SCOTLAND: in a letter to the Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures. To which is subjoined, A letter from the annual committee of the Convention of

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Royal Boroughs, to the several boroughs of Scotland, or order of the general conveyancing, for preventing the pernicious practice of smuggling. Edinburgh: printed by W. Sands, A. Murray, and J. Cochran. Sold by the booksellers, 1744. £ 500 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], 31, [1], 18; title and last leaf dust-soiled, prelims with some marking, otherwise clean throughout; in recent marbled boards. Scarce first edition of Duncan Forbes’ Some considerations on the present state of Scotland vehemently attacking ‘the pernicious practice of smuggling’, highlighting in some detail the damage that it has caused and is causing to the Scottish economy. ‘In reality the smuggler is obliged to sell his goods for little more than the prime cost, because of the excessive importation beyond the demand, those expenses, not brought to account, gradually consume his stock; and the first unlucky seizure completes his destruction, and leaves him a burden on the poor country, which he had, so far as his credit could go, exhausted of money by his pernicious practices’ (p. 14). Hanson 5752; OCLC: 12858079.

Cookery ‘for all ranks and conditions’ 54 FRAZER, Mrs. THE PRACTICE OF COOKERY, pastry, pickling, preserving, &c. Containing figures of dinners, from five to nineteen dishes, and a full list of supper dishes; also a list of things in season for every month in the year, and directions for choosing provisions: with two plates, showing the method of placing dishes upon a table, and the manner of trussing poultry, &c. … Edinburgh: Printed for Peter Hill, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, London. MDCCXCI [1791]. £ 1,250 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xiii, [i], 254; with two engraved plates; some minor marking in places (particularly pp. 180-183, the recipes for marmalade - evidently the previous owner was a fan of these recipes!), but mainly clean throughout; bound in contemporary sheep, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, some surface rubbing and evidence of worming to upper boards, but not detracting from this being a handsome copy. Scarce first edition of this cookery manual ‘for all ranks and conditions’ by Mrs. Frazer, ‘Sole teacher of these arts in Edinburgh’. ‘The generality of books of this kind are fraught with so many extravagant and useless receipts … not only to render them exceedingly perplexing, but in many instances totally unintelligible. As this work, however, is intended for the benefit of all ranks and conditions, as well for those who have attained a tolerable knowledge of these arts, as those who have had little opportunity of forming any proper notion of them, we have occasionally given examples of the most plain and simple, and of the most sumptuous and elegant dishes, presently in vogue; and at the same time have used such familiarity of expression and regularity of method, as that any person, with the slightest attention, may comprehend them’ (pp. iii-iv). After preliminary hints on boiling, roasting and broiling, Mrs. Fraser includes chapters ‘Of Soups’, ‘Of Fish’, ‘Of Flesh’, ‘Pies, Pasties, &c.’, ‘Of Puddings, Cheese Cakes, Custards, &c.’, ‘Of Creams, Jellies, Syllabubs, &c.’, ‘Sauces’, ‘Preserves, Pickles, &c.’ and ‘Vinegar, Ketchup, Shrub, Wines, &c’. This final chapter is particularly interesting as it includes a section of ‘Bills of Fare’ for dinners from five to nineteen dishes with a plate illustrative of the table setting for the dishes, and also a detailed list of meat, poultry, fish and fruits and kitchen stuffs ‘in Season in every month of the year’. We have been able to find little further information on Mrs. Fraser beyond that she was ‘several years colleague, and afterwards successor

27 P ICKERING & C HATTO to Mrs McIver deceased’. Mrs Susanna MacIver ran a cooking school in the Old Town of Edinburgh for “instructing young Ladies in this necessary branch of female education”. The period in which she was active corresponds to a period in which the Old Town was chronically over crowded with people from all levels of Edinburgh society being crammed into the same tenement buildings. Wealthy families took the middle levels, while poorer families lived in basement, bottom and the very top levels. This evidently had an impact on Mrs Frazer when writing the present work, particularly gearing it to ‘all ranks and conditions’ in society. OCLC records five copies in North America, at Stanford, Indiana, Michigan State, Michigan and NYPL.

Unrecorded Obituary 55 [GEORGE IV]. THE LIFE, REIGN, DEATH, AND FUNERAL, OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, KING GEO. IV. Detailing, from Authentic Sources, His Birth, Education, early Habits, Pursuits, and Attachments; the Steps taken by Geo. III. to induce him to marry; his Union with Her Late Majesty, and the Causes which ended in their unhappy Separation. With the Events which transpired before and since his Succession to the Throne. And the Particulars of his last Illness, Death, and Funeral. Embellished with a finely-engraven and striking Likeness. London: Dean and Munday, [1830]. £ 500 FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. 24, [27]-30 (apparently no text missing), with portrait, steel-engraved by Woolnoth after Wageman; portrait spotted, cropped and with minor chipping to outer margins, title a little spotted; contemporary marbled boards, recently expertly rebacked in sheep, extremities a little rubbed, but still an appealing copy. Unrecorded frank obituary of George IV, probably suppressed because of the scandalous revelations of the late King’s immoral conduct of life, love and marriages. Passages such as ‘The Prince was not yet twenty-four. In three years he had been introduced to circles as dissipated as they were gay, and as immoral as they were dissipated’ (p. 7) or the Prince’s friendship with ‘Sheridan, the wit, the poet, the dramatist, and the orator; but the drunkard, the gamester, and the rake’ (ibid.) were certainly considered not to be furthering the acceptance of the unpopular monarchy. This book speaks frankly of sums of money the Prince and later King wasted, his love affairs, debts and secret and illegal marriage to Maria Fitzherbert. George IV’s extravagant lifestyle - synonymous with Regency follies - earned him the contempt of the people. We were not able to trace the engraving (which is dated June 28, 1830, just two days after the King’s death) in the National Portrait Gallery. Not in OCLC or COPAC.

56 GEORGE, Samuel. WOMAN’S WORLD-WIDE WORK WITH WAR or Preparing for the Great International Peace … London: The Power-Book Co., 58-59 Bank Chambers … 1915. £ 225 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 63, [1] blank; with errata slip pasted in; in recent boards, with the original printed publisher’s wraps bound in (small chip to head of front wrapper). Scarce first edition of this plea made by Samuel George at the beginning of the Great War, stating that ‘unless international work by women is undertaken to prevent other wars we shall, at some time sooner or later see the same spirit of war rise again out of the ashes of the present’ (p. 1). ‘If every woman will lend her aid we shall succeed by peaceful means - without distress to anyone and without show. If we go to work rightly we shall realize that the Woman’s Era will be ushered in like the coming of

28 P ICKERING & C HATTO the Kingdom of Heaven “without observation” - that is, without ostentation or noise … The reunifying of man and woman on an equal base will result in peace of a world-wide character, as I shall hope to show you, but it there is still to be separation of the sexes and nations it is impossible for us to even imagine what future conditions will obtain, for I am convinced that no one knows what the outcome will be; but I thoroughly believe that women can settle the matter by organizing themselves in to one solid body and making their power felt on some questions now before the public mind. If women remain even indifferent we cannot say what will happen; but if they say that there shall be no more war, no more war there will be! I believe it was the direct action of women that ended the Napoleonic wars, and perhaps history will repeat itself again’ (pp. 2-3). The author, Samuel George, edited and contributed to the short-lived feminist-pacifist periodical Woman’s Opinion: The New Army of International Peace, published in 20 parts from May 1915 to February, 1916. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Princeton and NYPL.

A Sumptuous Copy 57 GIBBONS, Thomas. MEMOIRS OF EMINENTLY PIOUS WOMEN, of the British Empire. A new edition, embellished with eighteen portraits, corrected and enlarged by the Rev. Samuel Burder. London: printed by J. Moyes, for Ogles, Duncan, and Cochran; J. Ogle, Edinburgh; M. Ogle, Glasgow; and T. Johnston, Dublin, 1815. £ 750 FIRST EDITION THUS. Three volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 452; vi, 422; vi, 515, [1] blank; with 18 engraved portraits; without the half-titles; very attractively bound in contemporary dark purple straight-grained morocco, sides with triple gilt fillets and corner pieces, spines gilt in six compartments, crimson endpapers; a superb copy. First edition thus, containing eighteen engraved portraits for the first time, of Gibbons Memoirs of eminently pious women comprising a collection of seventy-seven biographies, including Elizabeth Rowe, Anne Dutton, Catherine Talbot, Arabella Davies, Elizabeth Smith, Isabella Brown, Elizabeth Carter, and Sarah Trimmer. The work was originally published in 1777.

58 [GOTHIC CHAP BOOK]. THE BLOOD-STAINED MANTLE; or, a Sister’s Revenge. A legendary Tale. London, Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., [c. 1823]. £ 550 Small 8vo, pp. 24, with folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece; a little spotted in places; in modern boards.

‘The Blood-Stained Mantle is set in medieval Scotland, and features a number of passages devoted to the establishment of sublime imagery (put very simply, images that arouse feelings of awe and terror). The protagonist is Garmallon, in many ways a typical gothic villain. Descended from a ruthlessly ambitious Scottish clan, Garmallon is handsome, but has a “contemptuous turn of his curled lip” and a “sarcastic fire in his dark, soul investigating eye” that warns the reader to be wary of his intentions. This story contains an example of the kind of supernatural effects common to gothic narratives. After murdering his close friend Danlathmon to take control of his land, Garmallon is haunted by the spirit of Dunlathmon as well as Dunlathmon’s living but spectral sister, the now mentally unstable Dar-thulla. She becomes known as the “wild woman of Dunlathmon”, and is believed by the superstitious peasants living in the surrounding area to be a ghost’ (Popular Romanticism, published online by University of Alberta). No copy located in OCLC.

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59 [GREAT EXHIBITION]. THE HOUSE THAT ALBERT BUILT. Illustrated by Henning. [London, Sold by G. Vickers, Strand, and all Booksellers] [1852]. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 16; apart from a few minor marks, a clean fresh copy throughout; in later cloth backed marbled boards with the original printed wrappers bound in, a little marked and dust-soiled, but still a very appealing copy. First edition of this scarce satire on the Great Exhibition, with wonderful Punch like illustrations by Archibald Samuel Henning (c.1805–1864). ‘This is the house that Albert built, for the ingenious of ev’ry nation, To expose their wares, As they do at fairs, To critical examination. One another outvying, In works of taste and utility, And no more, as of yore, defying, To deeds of bloody hostility. Open to all sorts of people,- Native and alien, Christian and heathen, Civilised and barbarian, Freeman and slaves, Masters and men; The only question asked, ARE YOU A MAN AND A BROTHER?’ (p. 2). Henning, son of the sculptor John Henning designed the cover for the first issue of Punch (17 July 1841) and a number of illustrations for Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor (1851). OCLC records three copies at BL and National Art Library in the UK, at the NYPL in the US.

Food for the Working Classes of Glasgow 60 GREAT WESTERN COOKING DEPOT. FOR THE WORKING CLASSES. Glasgow, [no printer] for Head Office, [c.1870]. £ 200 Handbill printed on both sides (268 x 114 mm); a little foxed in the margins. Founded by the Glasgow merchant and philanthropist Thomas Corbett, the Great Western Cooking Depot was one of the earliest of the temperance houses, which experienced a roaring success. Corbett’s aim was to ‘supply working people with good meals at from twopence to four and one half pence’. Every item of a meal on this handbill, from a bowl of broth or porridge, over bread and cheese to lemonade is priced one penny, breakfast was three and a half; a three course dinner cost five Pennies. ‘The cooking establishment is situated in Pitt Street, from whence enormous supplies of victuals are sent out every morning to all parts of the city. Including Glasgow and its suburbs, there are now twenty-eight branches of the Cooking Depot in operation. Most of them are in the immediate vicinity of public works, and are largely taken advantage of by the workmen, who, in the great majority of cases, reside at a considerable distance from the works, and could only go home to dinner at great personal inconvenience. The same tariff of charges prevails at every one of the branches, and all of them are supplied direct from the Central Depot. The business of the institution has become so gigantic that applications to establish other branches in different parts of the city have had to be refused’ (J. Stephen Jeans, Western Worthies, 1872 p. 95).

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61 [HANWAY, Jonas.] MIDNIGHT THE SIGNAL. In sixteen letters to a lady of quality. London: sold by Dodsley, 1779. £ 2,500 FIRST EDITION. Two vols, 12mo, pp. [vi], 230; [vi], 226; including unusual and attractive engraved titles showing a lady dancing at a ball while Father Time points to a clock behind her, nicely rebound in old- style calf-backed marbled boards. Although listed in Block as a novel, the work takes the form of a series of letters originally written by Hanway in order to “caution his ward” against the bad effects of midnight routs and crowded assemblies. The last three chapters are devoted to “the mode of educating young ladies under a school-mistress.” Block, p. 312.

62 [HAWEIS, Thomas]. ESSAYS ON THE EVIDENCE, characteristic doctrines, and influence of Christianity. Bath: Printed and sold by S. Hazard … 1790. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], vi, [ii], 394; marginal worming to second half of work (but not affecting the text), otherwise apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary mottled calf, spine ruled in gilt with morocco label lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed, but still an appealing copy. Scarce first edition of Thomas Haweis’s sixteen Essays on the evidence, characteristic doctrines, and influence of Christianity, written under such headings as ‘On the uniformity of truth’, ‘On toleration’, ‘On evil speaking’ and ‘On the benefit of early marriage’. ‘Whoever reads Lord Littleton’s account of the conversion of St. Paul, or Mr. West on the resurrection, will find that christianity though not derived from argumentative reason, as its source, is accompanied by the most luminous evidence, and will bear the most exact investigation - These at least were men as enlightened and improved, as the most determined, and supercilious enemies of revelation. We could appeal to names modern or ancient, if they were of any weight in the controversy - Men, whose depth of judgement, improved knowledge, and high attainments in all that can deserve the title of wisdom, were adorned by the most genuine piety and purity of manners, a Bacon, a Hale, a Leighton, a Boyle … with all the army of confessors, who have enlightened and amended the age in which they live - But perhaps it may be somewhat still more efficacious to suppress their overweaning affectation of superior wisdom to mention to the moderns, that Newton, Locke, Maclaurin, are associates with those, who plead for the truth of the Prophecies, and for the miracles recorded in the Bible’ (pp.47-49). As a Church of England minister Thomas Haweis (1734-1820) was one of the leading figures of the eighteenth century evangelical revival and a key figure in the histories of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion, the Free Church of England and the London Missionary Society. OCLC records four copies, at the BL, Cambridge, NLS and Trinity College Dublin; no copies found in North America libraries.

Life after the Royal Marines

63 HAWKER, Robert, D. D. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, on the subject of the French revolution; after a three years experiment of its effects; with a particular address to the orthodox dissenters, and to the clergy of the Establishment. [Plymouth?] Printed in December, 1794. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 43, [1] blank; title and last leaf dust-soiled and with a few marks, otherwise apart from some light foxing in places, a clean copy throughout; in recent marbled boards.

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Scarce first edition of this work warning the people of England, and in particular the Orthodox Dissenters, of the dangerous effects of the French Revolution after ‘three years experiment’. ‘Time, that great arbiter of all doubtful occurences, hath settled the point; and shewn the fallacy of the humane man’s hopes, more than realizing the wise man’s fears. The three years uncampled in history, of bloodshed and murder, which hath already taken place, in that most wretched of all countries, (to say nothing of the boundless prospect still opening before it) hath fully demonstrated, the error, in which Frenchmen have been involved’ (p. 11). Robert Hawker (1753-1827) was a Calvinist divine and ‘one of the most popular extemporaneous preachers in the kingdom’ [DNB]. Before taking holy orders he had a medical training, serving three years as assistant- surgeon to the Royal Marines. He was the grandfather of the poet R.S. Hawker. Although the ESTC states “[London]” as the place of printing, the majority of Hawker’s works at this time were printed in Plymouth. Indeed, a year after the present work he published Misericordia; or, Compassion to the Sorrows of the Heart which was intended to benefit the Misericordia in Plymouth, a hostelry founded by Hawker “for relieving the wants of the forlorn and distressed Stranger …” ESTC records two copies in North America, at Newberry and Rutgers, and five copies in the UK, at the BL, Canterbury Cathedral Library, Durham, Senate House Library and the Morrab Library.

One of her earliest works 64 [HOFLAND, Barbara]. POEMS, by Barbara Hoole. Sheffield: Printed by J. Montgomery, at the Iris Office, and sold by Vernor and Hood, Booksellers, in the Poultry, London. [1805]. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. iv, [ii] dedication, v-li, [i] blank, 256; minor foxing in places (slightly stronger to pp. 1-17), but otherwise clean throughout; in recent paper back boards, spine with printed label. Rare first edition of this early collection of poetry by the prolific novelist Barbara Hofland. Barbara Hofland (1770-1844) was the daughter of a Sheffield manufacturer named Wreaks; she was raised by a maiden aunt before marrying her first husband, T. Bradshawe Hoole, a merchant. Upon the early death of her husband she published the present volume of poems which attracted over 2000 subscribers - enabling her to open a boarding- school at Harrogate. With her second husband, the painter Thomas Hofland, she settled in London and began publishing novels, including a series representing the moral virtues: Integrity, Patience, Self-Denial, Humility, Energy, Fortitude, and Decision. OCLC records just two copies, both in the UK, at the BL and NLS.

Columbus Breaking the Egg, Signed by Hogarth 65 HOGARTH, William. SIGNED SUBSCRIPTION TICKET FOR THE “ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY” depicting Columbus breaking the egg. [London]. 1752. £ 3,500 205mm x 193mm, with the famous engraved image of Columbus breaking the egg; lettered below the image with subscription receipt: “Recd. [Nov 30, 1752] of [Mr John Aniss] five shillings being the first Payment for a short Tract in Quarto call’d the Analysis of Beauty; wherein Forms are consider’d in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory Prints serious and comical, Engrav’d on large Copper Plates fit to frame for Furniture. N.B. The Price will be rais’d after the Subscription is over.”; below the plate mark, to right, signed “Wm Hogarth” with red wax seal on separate page adhered to ticket; framed

32 P ICKERING & C HATTO and glazed in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century; a very appealing item. Rare signed engraved subscription ticket for William Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty showing Christopher Columbus having just demonstrated the method for making the egg stay upright. His audience look on in amazement and one man behind him beats his forehead in frustration at the simplicity of the solution. At either end of the table are men caught still in the act of attempting to balance eggs. While simply executed with no great attention to detail or fineness of engraving, the ticket served a satirical purpose. Hogarth expected much the same reaction to his book as Columbus had received. Hogarth considered that he too had discovered a “New World”, but one with the sphere of art rather than geography, and just as Columbus’s detractors had mocked the navigator’s accomplishment as simple and inevitable, Hogarth expected the art connoisseurs to mock his thesis on the serpentine “Line of Beauty” as self-evident and unimaginative. According to Trusler, Hogarth was correct in his assumption: ‘In the print of Columbus there is evident reference to the criticisms on what Hogarth called his own discovery and in truth the connoisseurs remarks on the painter were dictated by a similar spirit to those of the critics on the navigator they first asserted there was no such line, and when he had proved that there was, gave the honour of discovery to Lomazzo, Michael Angelo, &c &c.’ (Trusler, John, The Works of William Hogarth. London: Jones and Co., 1822, p. 56). To strengthen the connection between himself and the Columbus of the tale he included two eels in a bowl in the centre of the table their bodies demonstrating the “Line of Beauty” as they coiled around a pair of eggs. Trusler sees a further example of Hogarth’s serpentine line in the twisted tablecloth and a hint of it in the knife blade. To further underline the ironic nature of the print the composition is based on Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, with the bowl containing the eels and eggs replacing the Host. Hogarth expert, Ronald Paulson also sees echoes of Hogarth’s early picture of Sancho’s Feast (which was probably produced in the 1720s) and connections to the final plate of A Harlot’s Progress where the body of Moll Hackabout takes the role of the Host. Another of Hogarth’s ideas on the nature of Beauty is also illustrated: the ugly, coarse, common, “lower class” attributes are given to Columbus’s critics while Columbus himself is portrayed with the refined lines of the nobility - Hogarth proposed that ugliness arose where “beauty seems to submit, in some degree, to use”, but here, as in many of his images, the inner qualities are reflected in the outward appearances. Various copies of the present ticket (first issued in April 1752) are extant, some of which are held by the British Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum and the Hunterian Museum.

66 [HOMFRAY, Francis]. THOUGHTS ON HAPPINESS, A Poem, in Four Books. Kidderminster: Printed and sold by G. Gower … 1802. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], iii, [i] blank, 5-94, [14] list of subscribers; wanting the half-title, but including the list of subscribers; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt with recent red morocco label lettered in gilt; a very good copy. Scarce first edition of Homfray’s long and serious poem presenting his Thoughts on Happiness. “Ye craggy steeps, whence nodding beeches throw Their chequer’d shadows on the flood below, Where the full river thro’ the valley glides, Crown’d with green alders down his shelving sides!” Francis Homfray (1757-1809) was a member of the family firm of ironmasters which, during the second half of the eighteenth century and

33 P ICKERING & C HATTO the first half of the nineteenth century, played a major part in the development of the iron industry in Shropshire, Worcestershire and in South Wales. The subscribers’ list includes several Homfrays, their addresses including Broadwaters, Kidderminster, Hyde near Stourbridge, and Hill near Stourbridge. Johnson 457; Jackson p.267; COPAC & OCLC together locate copies only at BL, Birmingham, Cornell and NYPL.

67 [HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY]. ARCHIVE OF MATERIAL RELATING TO THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, including pamphlets, broadsides and other ephemera detailing of speeches, orders and lists of names of gentlemen proposed for the Court of Assistants: I. DISPOSITION OF THE FIREWORKS, ordered by the Honourable Artillery Company. To be displayed in the Artillery ground, on Tuesday night, August 12, 1783. On his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, Captain-General of the Company, coming of Age. [London, 1783]. 1 page, 200mm x 173mm, printed on recto only; minor dust-soiling to edges, otherwise in clean crisp condition.

II. A LIST OF GENTLEMEN ELIGIBLE FOR TRUSTEES FOR THE NEW LEASES, lately granted by the Corporation of London to the Artillery-Company. [London, n.d., c. 1785]. 1 page, 230mm x 130mm, printed in red on recto only; minor chipping at head, otherwise in fine original stat e.

III. A LIST OF GENTLEMEN PROPOSED FOR THE COURT OF ASSISTANTS, OFFICERS, &c. of the Honourable Artillery- Company, October 25, 1786. [London, 1786]. 1 page, 252mm x 204mm, printed in red on recto only; small tear within text, otherwise in very good original stat e.

IV. A LIST OF THE CHIEFS, OFFICERS, COURT OF ASSISTANTS, MEMBERS, &c. of the Honourable Artillery Company. In the Year 1788. London: Printed by Stephen Clark, Number 15, Broker-Row, Moorfields. [1788]. 8vo, pp. 20; with engraved printed title; stitched as issued in contemporary marbled wraps

V. AT A COURT OF ASSISTANTS OF THE HON. ARTILLERY- COMPANY, held at the Armory-House, on Wednesday, May 12, 1790. 1 page, 260mm x 192mm, printed on recto only, with arms at head; lightly dust-soiled at head, and evidence of folding, but still a very good copy. VI. ADDRESS TO THE INHABITANTS OF LONDON, from the Court of Assistants of the Hon. Artillery-Company. [London]. MDCCXCIV [1794]. 8vo, pp. [iv], 15, [1]; arms of the company on title; stitched as issued in the original, rather worn, printed pink wraps, split at spine (but holding firm).

VII. AT A COURT OF EMERGENCY OF THE HON. ARTILLERY- COMPANY, held at the Mansion House, on Thursday, August 21, 1794, at Three o’clock in the Morning. [London, 1794]. One page, 233mm x 183mm, with arms at head, printed on recto only; minor chipping to edges, otherwise in very good original stat e. VIII. AT A COURT OF ASSISTANTS OF THE HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY, held at the Armory-House, on Thursday, 23d July, 1795. [London, 1795]. 1 page, 346mm x 212mm, printed on recto only, minor wear to edges, otherwise in fine original stat e.

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IX. AT A MEETING OF THE HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY, held, at the Armory House, on Wednesday, February 1, 1797. [London, 1797]. 1 page, 312mm x 193mm, printed on recto only with arms at head; in fine original stat e. X. Printed letter ‘SIR, YOU ARE DESIRED TO ATTEND A GENERAL COURT OF THE HON. ARTILLERY-COMPANY … to elect a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Twenty-four members of the court of Assistants, Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel …’ Signed ‘William White’. Armory House, November 2, 1797. [London, 1797]. 1 page, 312mm x 195mm, printed on recto only with arms at head; in fine original stat e.

XI. AT A COURT OF ASSISTANTS OF THE HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY, held at the Armory-House, on Thursday, December 7, 1797. [London, 1797]. 1 page, 316mm x 200mm, printed on recto only with arms at head, minor wear to edges, otherwise in fine original stat e.

XII. A LIST OF GENTLEMEN PROPOSED FOR THE COURT OF ASSISTANTS, OFFICERS, &c. of the Honourable Artillery- Company, Wednesday, December 6, 1797. [London, 1797]. 1 page, 283mm x 223mm, printed in red on recto only; in fine original stat e.

XIII. A LIST OF THE CHIEFS, OFFICERS, COURT OF ASSISTANTS, MEMBERS, &c. of the Honourable Artillery Company. In the Year 1798. London: Printed by Clark and Norris, Moorfields. [1798]. 8vo, pp. 14; with engraved printed title; with light waterstain visible throughout; stitched as issued in contemporary marbled wraps

XIV. AT A COURT OF ASSISTANTS OF THE HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY, held at the Armory-House, on Thursday, July 26, 1798. [London, 1798]. 1 page, 317mm x 197mm, printed on recto only with arms at head, in fine original stat e. XV. HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, LONDON. ‘The Court of Lieutenancy of the City of London having thought proper, in the Year 1795, to prefer claims to the use of the Artillery ground and armory house, for training and exercising the new militia of the city …’ [London, 1800]. Large broadside, 680mm x 485mm, printed on recto only; some chipping to edges, otherwise in fine original stat e.

XVI. HON. ARTILLERY-COMPANY. At a Special Court of Assistants, held at the Armory-House, on Wednesday, 29th July, 1801. [London, 1801]. 1 page, 319mm x 195mm, printed on recto only, in fine original stat e.

XVII. Printed letter ‘SIR, I HAVE TO DESIRE YOU TO TAKE NOTICE, THAT THE FIELD DAYS OF THE HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY WILL TAKE PLACE EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING …’ Armory House, 26 Sept. 1804. [London, 1804]. 1 page, 244mm x 193mm, printed on recto only; in fine original stat e.

XVIII. BRIGADE-ORDERS. London, Armory House, August 3, 1804. 1 page, 316mm x 191mm, printed on recto only, in fine original stat e.

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XIX. ADDRESS FROM THE COURT OF ASSISTANTS OF THE HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY, to the inhabitants of London. London: Printed by W.P. Norris, 15, Broker-row, Moorefilds [sic]. 1813. 8vo, pp. 16; stitched as issued in the original printed wraps, with the companies coat of arms on front cover; a fine copy. XX. A LIST OF THE CHIEFS, OFFICERS, COURT OF ASSISTANTS, &c. &c. of the Hon. Artillery Company. For the Year 1816. London: Printed by W.P. Norris, Broker-Row, Moorfields. [1816]. 8vo, pp. 12; with engraved printed title and attractive vignette on title; a fine copy, stitched as issued in contemporary marbled wraps. [London, [1783-1816]. £ 3,500 Collection of material, as listed above; housed in a custom made green cloth box, spine lettered in gilt. Fascinating archive of material relating to the Honourable Artillery Company, the second oldest military organisation in the world (behind the the Vatican’s Pontifical Swiss Guard). The history of the Honourable Artillery Company can be traced back as far as 1087, but it received a Royal Charter from Henry VIII on 25 August 1537, when Letters Patent were received by the Overseers of the Fraternity or Guild of St George authorising them to establish a perpetual corporation for the defence of the realm to be known as the Fraternity or Guild of Artillery of Longbows, Crossbows and Handgonnes. This body was known by a variety of names until 1656, when it was first referred to as the Artillery Company. It was first referred to as the Honourable Artillery Company in 1685 and officially received the name from Queen Victoria in 1860. The Company served in Broadgate during the Gordon Riots of 1780, and in gratitude for its role in restoring order to the City, the Corporation of London presented “two brass field-pieces”, which led to the creation of an HAC Artillery Division (guns which are now on display in the entrance hall of Armoury House.) In 1860, control of the Company moved from the Home Office to the 106War Office and in 1889 a Royal Warrant gave the Secretary of State for War control of the Company’s military affairs. In 1883 Queen Victoria decreed that the HAC took precedence next after the Regular Forces and therefore before the Militia and Yeomanry in consideration of its antiquity. The present collection of material presents an interesting insight in to the organisation as it was at the end of the eighteenth, beginning of the nineteenth century.

68 [HUME, David? also attributed to Adam FERGUSON]. A HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE CASE OF MARGARET Commonly called Peg, only lawful Sister to john Bull, Esq: London: Printed for W. Owen, near Temple Bar. MDCCLXI [1761]. £ 1,250 FIRST EDITION. 12mo pp. [iv], 188; C5, small tear to lower margin not affecting text bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ruled in gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label; joints repaired. An important contribution to the Scottish militia question which has variously been attributed to Adam Ferguson and David Hume. ‘Written in imitation of John Arbuthnot’s History of John Bull (1712), and casting Scotland as Sister Peg to England’s John Bull, the pamphlet traced the course of relations between the two countries from the Union, through the two Jacobite risings, up to the Seven Years’ War and the refusal of a Scottish militia. Although hardly polite about the English ministers, the pamphlet was still sharper in the treatment of Scottish deference to ‘the people above’’ (Robertson p. 113/4). It is an important work for eighteenth century British political thought, and especially for

36 P ICKERING & C HATTO the Scottish Enlightenment and Scotland’s perception of itself in this critical period of its history. This work has usually been attributed to Adam Ferguson, in spite of David Hume’s mischievous letter of 3. February 1761, to Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk, in which he pretended to claim authorship. In fact, he believed Carlyle was the author and wanted to make him own up to it. In 1982, David Raynor, in his introduction to a new edition of Sister Peg (CUP), maintained that Hume was indeed the author and convincingly reassigned authorship to him, however arguments were raised against this reattribution by Roger Emerson in Hume Studies (x.1., 1983, pp. 74-81) and Richard B. Sher (Philosophical Books, 24, 1983, pp. 85-91). Chuo 111; not in Jessop; for the historical circumstances see John Robertson, The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue, Edinburgh, 1985.

69 HUTCHESON, Francis. A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY, in three books; containing the Elements of Ethics and the Law of Nature. … Translated from the Latin. Glasgow, Printed and Sold by Robert Foulis, Printer to the University. 1747. £ 400 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo in 4s, pp. [iv], iv, [xii], 347, [1] blank; minor dust-soiling and light stain to title, otherwise a clean copy throughout; in recent half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt; an appealing copy. First English translation, apparently by the author himself, of Hutcheson’s Philosophiae moralis institution compendiaria. His Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria appeared along with the Metaphysicae synopsis in 1742, with the Logicae Compendium appearing much later in 1756. ‘Together they constitute three small pocket volumes … and it is difficult to realize that together they contain almost as much matter as the System [of Moral Philosophy (1755)]. Nor can it be maintained that the Compend of Morals is only a popular exposition, designed for students and the general reader; since, though dedicated “to Students in the universities,” it contains more references to authorities than any other of Hutcheson’s works - indeed he states that he had intended “to make references” to the more eminent writers, ancient and modern, who treated of the subject … a cursory inspection of the “Compends” - and especially that of Morals - shows that there is a large increase in Stoic terminology and modes of thought, and this is explicable by the influence of Marcus Aurelius, whose works were translated by Hutcheson and Moor during the summer of 1741’ (Scott, pp. 244-246). Jessop, p. 145; Gaskell 259; OCLC: 3381244.

70 JEMMAT, Mrs Catherine. MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE, London, Printed for the Author, 1766. £ 1,250 FIRST EDITION. 4to, half-title, title, 6 ff. (incl. subscribers), pp. 28, 33-227 (+1, blank); internally crisp and clean; uncut in the original boards, hinges cracked, some loss to paper spine, housed in a custom made cloth box, spine lettered in gilt. First edition of this collection of works by Catherine Jemmat, including an ‘Essay in Vindication of the Female Sex’ (pp. 101-108): ‘I have been making some reflections on that great disadvantage which the female sex experience, if they are once so unhappy as to be branded with the title of prostitute.’ A lively mixture of literary styles and devices (including the transmigration of the first-person perspective through a succession of creature incarnations, including a dung-hill worm, all of whom meet a

37 P ICKERING & C HATTO hideous end at human hands), embracing diverse subject matter, including much of Irish interest, an anti-Semitic poem. OCLC: 6616707.

71 JURIEU, Pierre. SEASONABLE ADVICE TO ALL PROTESTANTS IN EUROPE of what Persuasion soever. For Uniting and Defending themselves against Popish Tyranny. Written in French, by the Learned Monsieur Jurieu. Done out of French. London, Printed for R. Baldwin, 1689. £ 450 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Small 4to, pp. [iv], 39, [1] blank; a clean fresh copy; bound in recent boards.

Scarce first English translation of this unidentified work by Pierre Jurieu. ‘The protestants of France suffer themselves to be carried away with a torrent of vanity, pride, and luxury, and a supine negligence possesseth the whole kingdom, insomuch that they heighten these crimes in their countrey-men. England hath her faults, that are no less culpable; piety is not regarded there; the men are proud, and the women disorderly to a high degree, vain and pompous even beyond imagination. The kingdoms of the north, and the reformed provinces of Germany are plunged in a debauchery that debaseth, and renders them like brute beasts, and every where in general reigneth a prodigious indifferency for religion’ (p. 3). Pierre Jurieu (1637-1713) was a Calvinist minister and tireless controversialist. In 1681, having taught in a Protestant academy at Sedan, he took refuge with Pierre Bayle in Rotterdam, whence he directed a stream of polemic against Bossuet, Arnauld, and many other opponents. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes he published Lettres pastorales adressées aux fidèles qui gémissent sous la captivité de Babylone (1686-9), which combine theological argument, history of the early Church, and modern martyrology. Wing J1213; McAlpin IV p. 346; ESTC records five copies in North America, at Harvard, Yale, Union Theological Seminary, the Huntington and the Folger.

72 [KEATE, A.E.] SERIES OF SIX CHARMING PEN AND INK DRAWINGS, Of The Hobson Family Trip To Europe And A Fortune Hunter’s Attempt To Ensnare Their Daughter [n.p., n.d., but c. 1850]. £ 850 MANUSCRIPT IN PEN AND INK. Oblong 4to, 30.5 x 25cm, 20 ff. of which 14 blank; with old printed auction catalogue entry on upper pastedown. in late nineteenth century half calf over brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board detached, corners worn, and head and tail of spine chipped, nevertheless a very appealing item, internally in excellent condition save for some minor light dust-soiling. Charming series of six extremely competent pen, ink & white watercolour sketches following the fortunes of the Hobson family in Europe from their arrival in Antwerp; taking dinner at Radeu; The meeting of an ‘illustrious foreigner’ at a dance and his interest in Miss Hobson; Mr & Mrs Hobson watching the blossoming romance between “the illustrious foreigner” and Miss Hobson; further assignations on horseback; to the final scene of the arrival of a friend of the Hobson’s who puts the “illustrious foreigner” to flight and “…no more is heard”. The series do much to illustrate British contemporary attitudes and stereotypes concerning foreign travel and foreigners. We have been unable to find any further information on the artist A.E. Keate, which is surprising considering the quality of the present sketches.

73 [KER, Anne, sometimes KERR]. CLAIRVILLE CASTLE; or, The history of Albert & Emma. With the death of the usurper, Morenzi. London: Printed for, and sold by J. Ker, … [n.d., c. 1804]. £ 285

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FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 38; with engraved frontispiece (slightly ink marked); lightly browned and dust-soiled throughout, with neat and early sewn repair to a tear across the last leaf, without loss; in recent marbled boards.

First and only edition, set in southern France. The last five pages contain a second story, Ogus & Cara-Khan; or the Force of Love. We have been unable to trace a source for either, and the Gothic novella is not in any of the usual fiction bibliographies. The plot seems to be largely based on Albert and Emma, written by M. Hawke and Robert Vincent, and serialised in the Universal Magazine of 1796. The author was born as Anne Phillips in Chelsea in 1766, the daughter of John Phillips, the author of A General History of Inland Navigation, and married the printer John, who considered himself to be related to the Dukes of Roxburgh. He was most likely the illegitimate son of the unmarried Duke of Roxburgh (1740-1804), the book collector after whom the eponymous Club is named. Through these clandestine noble relations Anne got many subscribers from the highest echelons of British society for her succession of Gothic novels and stories, which began in 1799 with The Heiress di Montalde. She was most likely able to use the St. James library of the Duke of Roxburgh. After a long list of publications she died in 1821. Anne Ker ‘was a commercial writer whose desire to sell aligns her with many other female writers of the time. Lacking the literary innovation or coherent morality to be praised by the reviewers or remembered today, the works of authors like Ker represent fiction as it both existed in and influenced its society, subsequently offering valuable insights in to that context. Ker is of additional biographical interest: she seems to have been a determined and outspoken character whose bold opinions on fiction contributed to contemporary debates about women’s writing and reading. As becomes apparent through Ker’s correspondence with with the Royal Literary Fund, her life also exemplifies some of the hardships experienced by female authors of the Romantic period’ (Rachel Howard, Anne Ker (1766–1821), A Biographical and Bibliographical Study in: Cardiff Corvey, Reading the Romantic Text, issue 11, online). Koch 43 (in: John Gladstone Steele, ‘Anne and John Ker. New Soundings’, in: Cardiff Corvey, Reading the Romantic Text, issue 12, online); not in Halkett & Laing; OCLC records two copies only, at Stanford and Virginia, COPAC adds a further copy, at the BL.

74 KEYNES, John Maynard. THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT INTEREST AND MONEY … Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin’s Street, London. 1936. £ 1,500 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [i] blank, [i] advertisement, xii, 403; some minor foxing along fore-edge, otherwise a clean copy throughout; in the original blue publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with minor wear to extremities; complete with the remains of the original printed dustwrapper, spine lightly sunned and with small damp spot at foot, light surface wear, but otherwise a very clean copy. First edition, complete with the remains of the original dustwrapper, of Keynes’ General Theory: the most influential economic work of the twentieth century which helped to shape economic and social life in the west for over forty years and still has its committed followers today. ‘Few would dispute today the main thesis of this epoch-making work, or could imagine the furore of disagreement aroused by its first appearance. That national budgets are major instruments in a planned economy, that financial booms and slumps are controllable by governments rather than by laissez-faire is now a universally accepted doctrine. Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ was the first important application of the Keynesian doctrines’ (PMM). Moggridge A 10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man, 423.

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75 [LADIES’ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ABOLITION OF STATE REGULATION OF VICE]. TO OUR FELLOW-WOMEN - members of the Abolitionist Federation, and others, - in the Northern Countries of Europe. [LNA, January 1893]. £ 85 8vo, pp. 16; rather chipped and worn; withdrawn from the Women’s Library. ‘We do not propose to enter into the details of the clauses dealing with the repression of immorality or the better protection of the young. We confine ourselves to one point - that is, the compulsory examination (visite obligatoire) of women. While that remains, everything in the nature of the regulation of vice is possible, and will follow. When that is taken away, no such regulation of vice is possible’ (p. 1). Including numerous names at the end.

76 LANE, William. LOYALTY AND FREEDOM; OR, THE TRIUMPH OF PATRIOTISM. A poem in honour of the brave efforts of the noble Spaniards for the emancipation of their country from the tyranny of the French usurper. By the author of The battle of Trafalgar, or victory and death. London, printed for the author by Lane, Darling and Co., 1808. £ 500 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 23; contemporary ownership inscription (“Mr Ferguson”) at head of title; recent marbled boards lettered on spine. Rare first edition of this patriotic poem written in support of the Spanish guerrilla movement (“where small detachments cop’d with numbers dense” - p. 4) and the British involvement in the Peninsular War, by the bookseller, publisher and occasional writer William Lane (1745?-1814). It begins in heroic style: “Of arms, and martial chiefs, the muse shall tell, Who nobly conquer’d, or more nobly fell; Not in profane ambition’s horrid clause, But grandly striving for their country’s laws; For hallow’d freedom, for the sacred shrine, For civil rights, and loyalty divine”. Lane is best known today as the founder of the Minerva Press which specialized in gothic and romantic novels written by and for women, and for developing the circulating library system. Both OCLC and COPAC locate one copy only, at the Bodleian, apparently not in the British Library.

Unrecorded? 77 [LAW] [POWIS, William Herbert, Marquis of.] GEORGE MACKENZIE, ESQ; - - APPELLANT. The Right Hon. William, Marquis of Powis, and Robert Garden, Gent. administrator of Captain Robert Sempill, deceas’d, The appellant’s case. [London, 1738]. £ 300 Folio, pp. 4; docket title: ‘George Mackenzie, Esq; - appellant. The right Hon. William Marquis of Powis, and Robert Garden, Gent. Administrator of Capt. Robert Sempill deceas’d. Respondents. The Appellants case. To be heard at the Bar of the house of Lords on the (Ms “first”) day of (Ms “March”) 1737. Signed: Will. Hamilton. W. Murray. Creased where folded, section of blank paper torn from the upper margin of the first leaf, not affecting the text, otherwise a very good copy William Herbert second Marquis, titular Duke of Powis (d. 1745), Jacobite, acted as page of honour at the coronation of James II and was a colonel of a Welsh regiment. He was committed to the tower in 1689, and was arrested during the Jacobite alarm of 1715. He spent several years abroad where he suffered from financial embarrassments.

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In this case the appellant George Mackenzie sues for the return of valuable bonds which he had lent to the Marquis, his sister and daughter when in Paris in 1723. The Marquis promised the safe return of the bonds but failed to do this and apparently absconded to England taking them with him. Not in OCLC or ESTC which has copies of the Respondent’s case (two issues; both at the British Library only).

‘Ladies, me thinks I see your curious eyes advancing to behold this Noveltie’ 78 LE MOYNE, Pierre. THE GALLERY OF HEROICK WOMEN. written in French by Peter Le Moyne, of the Society of Jesus. Translated into english by the Marquesse of Winchester. London, by R.Norton for Henry Seile, over against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet street. 1652. £ 5,850 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, LARGE PAPER COPY. Folio, (401 x 260 mm.), pp. [xxiv], 127, [1], 181, [1], [2] table, engraved. frontispiece. (or add. Fr. title) by Audran after Cortan, & 21 full-length engraved plates of notable women engraved by Mariette after Vignon, with captions in French; minor marginal worming affecting early gatherings and just touching three of the engraved plates (but without significant loss), otherwise apart from some minor foxing in places, a clean crisp copy throughout; contemporary dark brown morocco, sides panelled in gilt, cupid’s head motif in gilt at inner corners, spine with double gilt rules either side of bands, unlettered, gilt edges; with the contemporary inscription of Bridgett Price, bequeathing the book to “my Cousin Dorothy Bayly”, and later but still early inscription of Dorothy Warren; with 19th century engraved bookplate of George Montgomery Traherne on front pastedown; a very desirable copy. Scarce first edition in English, and a highly desirable large paper copy, of Pierre Le Moyne’s Galerie des Femmes Fortes, first published in 1647. ‘The assembly of these Gallant women might be greater then I have made it: And albeit Solomon was troubled to finde one single Heroick Woman, yet since his time enough have appeared to Plant here a whole Colonie. Of all this great number I have chosen twenty of the most renowned and illustrious amongst them. And not to produce them confusedly & in disorder, I have divided them into four squadrons. The first of Jewish Woman [including Debora, Judith and Salomona]; The second of Barbarian Women [including Panthea, Camma, Monima and Zenobia], to take the word Barbarian in the same sense as it was understood by the Grecians: The third of Roman [including Lucrecia, Porcia, Arria and Paulina] and the fourth of Christian Women [including the French Judith, the Maid of Orleans, and Mary Stewart]. I exhibite a picture of each; and the subject of this picture is taken from the most resplendent and courageous part of her Life … Every picture is accompanied with a sonnet … and the sonnet is seconded by an Historical Elogie, where the life of the Heroess is abbreviated, which serves for the subject of the picture. I adde a Moral reflection to the Elogie, which tends more directly and immediately to the benefit and regulation of manners. And there I mark out what is most profitable and instructive in the preceding example … I advertise women of their duties and obligations, and cause them to take in by grains and drops the pure spirit of Christian Philosophie, and the extraction of her Maximes, which they scarce receive but with distaste, in books where it is without seasoning and in grosse’ (Preface). Pierre Le Moyne (1602-1671) ‘lived through the perilous years of France’s rise to European leadership and died at the apogee of that growth. He was an energetic and prolific participant in many of the cultural struggles of the period, on what we would now think of as the “liberal” side. In 1647 he contributed to the continuing debate about the relative status of the sexes with La galerie des femmes fortes (The Gallery of Strong

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Women). He published an epic (Saint Louis, 1651-1653) at a time when the pertinence of that genre was much in dispute. He participated in political and historical discussion with De l’art de regner (1665; On the Art of Ruling), Memoires d’etat (1666; Memoirs of State, a work on Marie de Medicis’ regency), an equally topical work on the nature and purpose of historiography (De l’histoire, 1670; On History), and an unpublished Histoire de Cardinal Richelieu. As a Jesuit, he joined wholeheartedly in the anti-Jansenist campaign, with his Manifeste apologetique pour la doctrine de la Compagnie de Jesus (1644; Apologetic Manifesto on behalf of Jesuit Doctrine) and Veritables sentiments de sainte Augustin et de l’eglise, touchant la grace (1650; True Opinions of St. Augustine and the Church, concerning Grace). He is probably best known today for his Devotion aisee (1652; Comfortable and Easy Piety), a work presenting the ethical views of his order, for which he was mightily taken to task by Pascal in the eleventh Lettre provinciale (Provincial Letter). He contributed to more general ethical debates in Entretiens et lettres morales (1665; Moral Conversations and Letters). In addition he produced many shorter pamphlets and poems’ (A New History of French Literature edited by Denis Hollier, pp. 278-279). Wing L1045; Willems 864.

79 LE VASSEUR, Rev. P.C. THE FRENCH STUDENT’S VADE MECUM, or Indispensable companion: in which are displayed the different cases of persons and things, as required by all the French verbs and adjectives, the different prepositions which they govern, those required by the substantives, and the different moods, which must follow the conjunctions. Birmingham, Printed by R. Jabet, Herald Office, High-Street, for the Author, 10, Upper Temple- Street, 1809. £ 150 FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. xiv, 175, [1] blank, [2] errata; a clean fresh copy throughout; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, some minor rubbing, but not detracting from this being a handsome and appealing copy, with the contemporary ownership signature, dated 1814, of Fanny Needham on front free endpaper. Scarce first edition of this ‘indispensable companion’ for the French scholar. ‘It is obvious that much assistance must be afforded by such a dictionary’ wrote a contemporary book reviewer in The British Critique. And the colleague, writing in the Monthly Review judged: ‘As the size of the work is convenient, and as the plan is in some respects dissimilar from that of other elementary books in the same language, it may prove an advantageous addition to their number’. OCLC records two copies, at the BL and Yale; COPAC adds one further copy, in Birmingham.

80 [LEICESTER]. BYE-LAWS FOR THE BOROUGH OF LEICESTER, duly made and obtained at meetings of the council, holden on the 31st May, 1836, 24th February, 1841, 1st January, 1845, and 5th February, 1845, under the authority of 5th and 6th William IV. Cap. 76. Printed by J.S. Crossley, Leicester. 1845. £ 125 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 22, [2] blank; stitched as issued in the original green printed wraps, contemporary presentation at head, a very clean and desirable copy. Bye-laws relating to sanitary matters, nuisance, exposing unwholesome meat, shop fronts, market regulations, street stalls, mad dogs, indecent writing or posting on walls etc. Not in OCLC, NSTC or BLC.

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81 LOCKE, John. ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY … To which is added, some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman, by the same author. Whitehaven: Printed and Sold by W. Sheperd. 1764. £ 550 8vo, pp. vii, [i] blank, 72; apart from a few light marks, a clean copy throughout; bound in contemporary sheep, rebacked, boards and corners rather rubbed, but still an appealing copy, with the nineteenth century label of ‘Hartnett’s School Library’ on front pastedown. Uncommon Whitehaven printing of Locke’s Elements of Natural Philosophy, which was first published in the posthumous collection of Several pieces of Mr. Locke, never before printed, or not extant in his works in 1720. It has been suggested that Newton wrote much of this draft of an elementary textbook, found among Locke’s papers and written some time after 1698, presumably composed while Locke supervised the education of young Francis Masham at Oates. Of this edition Yolton notes: ‘Reprint, probably unauthorized, following the Foulis or Taylor edition. Perhaps the bookseller Sheperd felt close enough to the Scots border to escape detection of infringement laws’ (p. 372). Yolton 324; Attig 797; ESTC records five copies in North America, at Michigan, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Historical Society, Johns Hopkins and the Huntington, OCLC adds one further copy, at Yale.

82 [LOHSE]. [WILSON, Miss K]. MISS LOHSE. A Memoir by her Friend. London, privately printed at the Chiswick Press. 1911. £ 185 FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. 8vo, pp. 46, [2]; with photographic portrait frontispiece of Miss Lohse, and a photograph of her grave tipped in at rear; a clean fresh copy throughout; in the original red publisher’s calf, upper board lettered and tooled in gilt, with the original, rather brittle, tissue wrapper; with tipped in presentation slip from the author ‘From Miss Wilson, Lewick, Hawkthorne Road, Christchurch’; a very appealing copy. Rare first edition of this Memoir on the Christchurch teacher and educationalist Johanne Lohse (1839-1910). ‘Though she was a strict disciplinarian she always tried to make her discipline as little irksome as possible by making few rules, but insisting upon their being obeyed. She delighted in her clever pupils, but prided herself more on her success with the less gifted; she always said “any one can teach clever girls, but I like to help lame dogs over stiles, that is the real test of a teacher’s power”’ (p. 25). OCLC records four copies, all in New Zealand.

83 [LOTTERY BROADSIDE]. THE ALCHYMIST. Who in former times fruitlessly devoted years of study, to find the art of converting one metal into another, little dreamt that the present year, 1816 would begin with a plan, by which any man, woman, or child may convert a few bank notes (made out of mere rags) into 50,000 guineas by purchasing two tickets in the present lottery … [London] Hazard, Burne & Co., Contractors, Royal Exchange. [1816]. £ 550 FOLIO BROADSIDE. Single sheet, 312mm x 212mm; printed on both sides; some dust-soiling and browning, and upper corner torn away (without loss of text) outer margins a little frayed; still good for such an ephemeral item. A most appealing and rare broadside advertising an early nineteenth century lottery draw held by Hazard, Burne and Company, a broker based at the Royal Exchange.

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Prizes range from two of 25,000 Guineas, to 6,660 of £500, £200, £100 or less ‘being formed according to the original plan of lotteries, with less than two blanks to a prize! … All the 20,000 tickets in one scheme, and the whole two hundred thousand pounds paid in money’. The draw was to begin on Valentine’s day. The government contracted brokers such as Hazard to sell lottery tickets on its behalf, as lotteries provided an important source of revenue for the Exchequer. Brokers also sub-contracted ticket sales to regional agents who were usually booksellers or printers. The verso of the present broadside provides significant information on forthcoming events at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.

84 McCARTHY, Charlotte. JUSTICE AND REASON, Faithful Guides to Truth. A Treatise under Thirty-Seven heads. To which are added, Letters Moral and Entertaining, (Never before Publish’d.) … London: Printed for the Author, MDCCLXVII [1767]. £ 850 FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. viii, xxiv, 222, [2]; a clean fresh copy throughout; contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, minor marking to boards, nevertheless, a handsome copy, signed by the author at the foot of the errata page and with the contemporary armorial bookplate of Sir Timothy Waldo, one of the subscribers, on front pastedown

First edition of this scarce work by Charlotte McCarthy, which, although primarily an improving religious book on Christian behaviour and morality, includes additional features that make it rather more interesting than might have been expected. Charlotte dedicates her book to the King (George III) and in her dedication prelude she reveals something of her earlier life. ‘I was an orphan, my Royal Liege’, she claims. ‘By the extravagance of my father, (a gentleman, and who had serv’d the Government justly, near fifty years,) left destitute of dependence. A diabolical poison prepar’d by a Jesuit, in order to destroy me, thro’ an unwarrantable prejudice receiv’d on account of religion; depriv’d me of my health, strength, and means of livelihood ……’. There is a long - and quite detailed - list of subscribers, with names, occupations, and addresses, perhaps the majority of whom seem to have been tradesmen of one sort or another. The final leaf in the book has verses dedicated to the infant George Augustus, Prince of Wales, who was ‘at the age of one year, and eight months’. Justice and Reason ‘takes an unusual view of religion, sympathetic to Catholics but not Methodists, widely speculative (how God felt when about to create man), with personal and supernatural anecdotes; attached fictional letters include one from a devil relating a failed tempting venture; a poem addresses the still innocent - because infant - Prince of Wales’ (Blain, Clements & Grundy, Feminist Companion to Literature in English, 1990, p. 683) Besides the present work McCarthy published, as far as we are aware, two other works, The Fair Moralist; Or, Love and Virtue. By a gentlewoman. To which is added, several occasional poems, by the same (London, 1745) and News from Parnassus, or, Political advice from the nine muses, to his grace, the D----- of B-----d. : A poem (Dublin, 1757). Provenance: The owner of the volume, Sir Timothy Waldo (1711-1780) lived at Hever Castle in Kent. OCLC records six copies in North America, at UC Berkeley, UC N. Reg Library, Illinois, Minnesota, Rice and Simon Fraser University.

Influenced by Burns 85 McINDOE, G. POEMS AND SONGS, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect … Edinburgh: J. Stark, for the author, 1805. £ 550

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 175, [1] blank, [1] errata, [1] blank; minor stain to outer edge in places, and also some light foxing, otherwise a clean copy; uncut in the original publisher’s boards, expertly rebacked, lightly dust-soiled, but still a very good copy.

Scarce first edition of this lively collection of poems clearly influenced by Burns (with a verse by him on the title), and written chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Pieces include ‘Rab and Will, or Twa Weavers’, ‘The Glasgow Grocer Volunteers’, ‘Cheese and whisky’ and ‘A Game at the Ice’, a descriptive poem on the sport of Curling, still one of Scotland’s most popular and successful sports to this day. We have been unable to find further information on the author, G. McIndoe. He notes in the ‘Advertisement’ that ‘Placed in a situation unfavourable to study, he has had few opportunities of improving himself in literary acquirements, or in that knowledge which enables one to appear with advantage as a guide to the instruction or amusement of others’. OCLC records five copies worldwide, at the NLS, Glasgow, Aberdeen and BL in the British Isles, and South Carolina in North America.

86 MACKAY, Charles (1812–1889), poet and writer. FIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED ‘CHARLES MACKAY’ on recent articles, publications on America to an admirer. Fern Dell, Dorking 1879 & 1883. £ 250 Each letter together with original envelope. A group of letters, all addressed to an admirer and amateur poet John C. Baron of Witton, Blackburn. 1883 appears to have been a bit of a black year for Mackay as in the letter dated April 26 1883 Mackay reflects that ‘liberal writers scarce ever receive recognition or reward at the hands of a liberal administration & I do not think I am like to be an exception to the (ungrateful) rule of the past.’ In the letter of Oct 1st Mackay again reflects on the poor lot of his trade ‘I have lain on the bed of suffering, expecting each day to be my last - as looking death in the face … Mr Gladstone has not responded favourably to the appeal in my behalf [for] my last years (or days) from the pressure of the severest declining distress.’ One feels he protested too much as he lasted another six years and left an estate valued at £2718 6s. 9d according to the ODNB.

“Good Taste” in Scottish Gardens 87 McNAB, William. HINTS ON THE PLANTING AND GENERAL TREATMENT OF HARDY EVERGREENS, in the climate of Scotland, particularly the following: Strawberry tree. Common holly. Common laurel. Portugal Laurel. Alaternus. Laurestine. Arbutus unedo. Ilex aquifolia. Prunus laurocerasus. Prunus Lusitanica. Rhamnus alaternus. Viburnum tinus. Edinburgh: Thomas Clark. 1830. £ 600 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 40; recent marbled boards lettered on spine; a very good copy. “It is unquestionably true”, McNab writes, “that evergreens are cultivated in Scotland much more sparingly than good taste would dictate. Every one capable of enjoying the beauties of rural scenery must regret this, and in proportion to such regret will be his desire to see the evil corrected, which is the sole object of the present essay ……”. William McNab (1780-1848), Scottish horticulturist, exercised a “supreme influence of Scottish gardening” [E.H.M. Cox, A history of gardening in Scotland, 1935, p.207]. He had already worked for some years at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (1801-1810), before being head-hunted for the prestigious, but poorly paid, post of superintendent

45 P ICKERING & C HATTO of the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh (1810-1848), where he was a highly acclaimed success. It was, claimed the Edinburgh professor Thomas Traill, “owing to him [i.e. McNab] that Scotland has attained such a high name for its scientific horticulture”. We have been unable to locate another copy (not in Lindley, COPAC, OCLC, BL, NLS, etc.); a single copy of a second edition of 1831 found at Glasgow.

88 [MALTA]. UNIVERSITY AND LYCEUM of Malta 1860. Malta, [no printer or publisher], 16th April 1860. £ 150 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [2, blank], 46; minimal marginal spotting; stitched as issued. Rare survival of this brochure produced by the University and Lyceum of Malta in 1860, giving details of the syllabus and professors in each of the four faculties (Philosophy and Arts; Medicine and Surgery; Law; and Theology). The Lyceum offered courses for intending university students as well as more practical subjects such as navigation and seamanship. The University was established by the Jesuits as the Collegium Melitense in 1592, and re-established in 1769 after their expulsion. Napoleon conquered Malta in 1798 and the University was briefly abolished and transformed into a French educational institution. The French, however, were expelled from Malta in 1800 and the island became a British protectorate. The University was shortly after re-established under Sir Alexander Ball, Governor of Malta. Not in OCLC.

89 MILL, John Stuart. PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY with some of their applications to social philosophy … in two volumes … London: John W. Parker, West Strand. 1848. £ 3,000 FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 593, [1] imprint; xv, [1] blank, 549, [1] imprint; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in early twentieth century half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, lightly sunned; a very good copy.

‘Mill’s declared purpose in writing the Principles and the performance actually embodied in it fit like hand and glove. The original preface is worth reading. He might with little change have reprinted the preface to the Logic. Once more, the program was to untie knots and build bridges. There is no claim to novelty or originality - though several would have been justified. Mill simply explained that there had been no equally comprehensive treatise, especially none that paid so much attention to practical applications, since the Wealth of Nations’ (Schumpeter p. 530). Mill was an outstanding personality of the nineteenth century and his Principles were the undisputed bible of economic doctrine to several generations of students. Goldsmiths 35525; Kress C7500; Einaudi 3907.

90 MILN, Robert. A COURSE OF PHYSICO-THEOLOGICAL LECTURES upon the state of the world, from the creation to the deluge. Carlisle: printed by J. Milliken: and sold by R. Faulder, Bookseller, New Bond Street, London, 1786. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxiv, [ii], 383, [1] blank; with a list of subscribers; apart from some minor light foxing in places, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a handsome and appealing copy. First edition of this unusual attempt to combine recent geological discoveries by Deluc and Whitehurst with the biblical account of the Creation.

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Miln divides his work into twelve lectures, each taking as its cue an element of the Creation account in Genesis, from the Creation itself, through the Fall and Cain’s banishment, to the Flood, to articulate, as he states in the preface, “my theory of the curse upon the ground, and of the natural means employed by the Creator for the destruction of the old world”, the second of which is largely derived from the work of Deluc. In this way he seeks to explain the existence of fossil remains from a creationist viewpoint. Miln was a clergyman who graduated from Cambridge and worked in the North of England. The extensive list of subscribers is arranged according to town, and is, with the exception of London, almost entirely Northern. Among the subscribers is William Paley, whose work echoes some of the themes found here. ESTC records four copies in the UK, at the British Library, Liverpool University, Marsh’s Library and the National Library of Scotland, with three further copies recorded in North America, at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Union Theological Seminary and UCLA.

91 [MINERAL SALE]. SELECT MINERALS. A catalogue of a valuable collection of minerals; the Property of Mr. Heuland which will be sold by auction by Mr Thomas, At the (late Mr. King’s ) Great Room, 38 King Street, Covert Garden, On Tuesday, the 4th Day of May, 1824, and three following days London: Printed by W. Smith, King-Street [1824]. £ 650 8vo, pp. [1-3] 4-52; signed “Robert Ferguson Esqr.” at head of title, preserved in modern wrappers with printed label on upper cover, a very good copy.

‘Heuland’s influence on mineral collecting in England was enormous; his predilection for fine specimens legendary, and his determination to obtain good locality information ahead of his time … Throughout his career, Heuland held spectacular auctions consisting entirely of his own minerals. The first was held in March of 1808, and included primarily minerals from Chile and Russia. Heuland’s auctions were always well attended and often very profitable; there were at least 50 sales between 1808 and 1849. ‘(Cooper). [Cooper, M.P. Robbing the Sparry Garniture, a 200-Year History of British Mineral Dealers, 2006.] The present sale catalogue identifies ‘new and otherwise interesting localities’ in italics with ‘each lot … put up at 7s, and finding no purchaser at that price, it is to be immediately withdrawn.’ At the end of the catalogue is another note ‘should some anxiously expected minerals still arrive for the sale, Mr. H. will have to add a few more lots of peculiar importance … .’ In all the sale included almost 600 lots, and, although not marked up, it is known that Ferguson of Raith was a member of the Geological Society and an avid collector of fossils and mineral specimens and could well have bought at this sale. Apparently rare: no copy listed by COPAC or OCLC.

92 [MINERVA PRESS]. THE SOLDIER’S COMPANION; containing instructions for the drill, manual, and platoon exercise, as commanded by his majesty: Intended for the use of the volunteers of this country … The forty-third edition, with amendments and improvements. To which are prefixed a few observations on first forming a Military Corps. Ornamented with figures of the various positions of a soldier under arms … London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for Lane and Newman, Leadenhall-Street; And sold by every Bookseller in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. [n.d. c. 1805]. £ 450 8vo, pp. [iv], 40; with engraved frontispiece and two engraved plates; cropped close at head in one or two places (just affecting the page number, but not affecting the text), lightly dust-soiled, but still generally

47 P ICKERING & C HATTO clean throughout; in contemporary publisher’s wraps, spine with evidence of removal from a nonce volume, nevertheless, an appealing item. Rare Soldier’s Companion, printed at the Minerva press, specifically aimed at attracting volunteers, and published ‘at a moment when, for the first time, we are insolently told that England cannot cope with France single- handed!!’ (p. ii). ‘Influenced by a strong and ardent desire to render every facility in acquiring a knowledge of the Use of Arms, the Editor presents his Countrymen with a New Edition of “The Soldier’s Companion;” and presents it at moment when the situation of the country demands the exertions of every Individual in its Defence - at a moment when we are threatened with Invasion by a perfidious and implacable enemy - at a moment when the forbearance and moderation of our government have not been able to avert war’ (p. ii). Although oft reprinted, the present work is actually rarely found on the market. It would seem likely, that due to its nature, many were lost or destroyed when soldier’s carried them in the field. The edition not recorded in OCLC; OCLC records several other editions, but apart from the 35th edition where copies are recorded in three libraries (Yale, Missouri and Essex) only single copies are to be found, mainly in the British library.

93 MONTESQUIEU, Charles L Secondat de. PERSIAN LETTERS Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, author of the Spirit of Laws. Glasgow: Printed by Robert Urie. 1751. £ 180 FIRST GLASGOW EDITION. 12mo, pp. [ii], 310; lightly foxing in places; attractively bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, joints cracked (but cords holding firm), light wear to extremities; contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown (initialled R.T.). Rare first Glasgow edition of Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes, which was among the most influential examples of French prose of the eighteenth century. The work is written with great wit and skill. Montesquieu presents his satirical attack on French values and institutions in the guise of a series of letters sent from France by two Persian visitors, Usbek and Rica. Particularly amusing are the visitors’ sly digs at French politics. They describe Louis XIV as a ‘magician’ who ‘makes people kill one another even when they have no quarrel’ and go on to mock the Pope, the Spanish Inquisitors and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In the same book Montesquieu sought to establish two important principles of political theory - first, that all societies rest on the solidarity of interests and, second, that a free society can exist only on the basis of the general diffusion of civic virtue, as in the republics of antiquity. ESTC records three copies in the US at Cornell, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Columbia and McMaster.

94 MOORE, Jane Elizabeth. GENUINE MEMOIRS OF JANE ELIZABETH MOORE. Late of Bermondsey, in the county of Surrey. Written by herself: containing the singular adventures of herself and family; her sentimental journey through Great Britain; specifying the various manufactures carried on at each town; a comprehensive treatise on the trade, manufactures, navigation, laws and police of this kingdom, and the necessity of a country

48 P ICKERING & C HATTO hospital. To which is prefixed a poetic index. Vol. I [-III]. London: Printed at the Logographic Press, Printing-House-Square, Black Friars; and sold by J. Bew, Paternoster row … [1785]. £ 2,500 FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 12mo, pp. [xii], 144, 169-192, 183-302; [ii], 72, 97-348; [vi], ii, 286; irregular pagination in places; with leaves D6 & D7 in vol. III expertly supplied in facsimile using contemporary paper; apart from a few marks in places, a clean copy throughout; handsomely bound in recent half calf over marbled boards, spines ruled in gilt with red morocco labels lettered in gilt; a very appealing copy. Very rare first edition of this informative treatise by Jane Elizabeth Moore detailing her ‘sentimental journey’ through Great Britain, and describing the trade, manufactures, laws, and police in each town. Jane Elizabeth Gobeil was born on 30 September 1738 into a family of merchants and traders. Her maternal grandfather had been indentured to a silversmith and engraver, and her father was engaged in leather trade and manufacture. Jane’s mother died three years after her birth, and for the next three years she was raised by her material great-grandmother. When her father married a woman he had known for fifteen days, Jane returned to his house but was soon sent to her stepmother’s sister. The couple separated when Jane was ten, and for the next three years she alternated between home and schools. Jane had early demonstrated a “talent at trade”, transacting “business of consequence” when she was only twelve, so when she returned home in May 1753 she was “put to the desk” and began to handle her father’s accounts; eventually she was, in effect, running his business. Although initially she preferred business to marriage, when Moore proposed she accepted him; determined “not to be obligated to any man breathing”, she also bullied her father into dowering her with “a daughter’s share” of the business. She was married on 10 October 1761. In the next three years she bore two children, both of whom died, and continued in both her father’s and her husband’s businesses. When her father died, she learned that he had not provided for the promised dower; “I may be pardoned if I say my grief much sooner subsided, th[a]n it would otherwise have done”, and she engaged in a six year lawsuit contesting the will. ‘Much of the second volume of Jane’s Memoirs alternates among descriptions of her subsequent business concerns, her illnesses brought on by overwork, and her travels throughout the United Kingdom. In 1773, amid the difficulties of wartime trade, she learned that her husband was having an affair with her maid, and the following five years are punctuated with further discoveries of his mistresses and her stepson’s various peccadilloes. Moore suffered several stokes and then a relapse after being abused by his drunken son; by the spring of 1781 “widowhood seemed inevitable” (p. 316), and Jane too was ill. This volume of the Memoirs concludes somewhat with her husband’s death and the subsequent financial difficulties. Volume three is an analysis of Britain’s economic state. Jane justifies such a treatise “from a female pen” by reminding the reader that she is “wholly conversant” with trade and manufacture, and the volume ranges from fisheries and “mechanism and ingenuity in general” to coinage, customs and excise, and several chapters on English law’ (Smith: Life-Writings by British women, 1660-1815: An Anthology [2000], pp. 227-237). Besides the present work she published a volume of Miscellaneous Poems in 1796. The date of her death is unknown. OCLC records four copies worldwide, at UCLA, Trinity College, Harvard & the British Library.

95 [MORTON, John Latimer.] A LETTER TO A FRIEND, concerning the school at Ackworth, in Yorkshire. London: printed and sold by James Phillips, 1782. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 34; with a half-title; twentieth century half brown morocco cloth boards; a very good copy.

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Morton, who writes from Wandsworth, begins with a reference to the Letter of Dr. Fothergill which had inspired him with a desire to visit the school. By 1782 Fothergill was dead but the school he had founded continued to flourish: 190 boys and 120 girls were now being educated there. Morton’s main purpose in writing is to encourage further donations to the school. He also has a word or two on the curriculum; ‘ingenuous lads, designed for carpenters, joiners and builders, might learn the first principles of geometry’ and ‘lads, who have a turn for fine writing’ should not be discouraged as it might come in useful for those intending to become clerks. But such positions are oversubscribed and it is important not to give pupils ideas or expectations above their station; ‘Farmers and mechanicks, with less temptation in their way, are more likely to become the more useful members of society.’ Ackworth School continues to this day, and is one of eight English Quaker schools. ESTC records copies at the Department of Health, the Society of Friends, Oxford, Swarthmore College, and Haverford College.

96 MOSLEY, Sir Oswald. AN INAUGURAL ADDRESS, delivered by Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart. D.C.L. F.G.S. L.S. and H.S. President of the Burton-upon Trent Natural History Society, at the opening of their museum, on Tuesday, the 6th September, 1842. Burton-on- Trent: E. Adams, bookseller, Bridge-Street. 1842. £ 125 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 18; in the original maroon ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lightly faded, but still a very good copy.

First and only edition of this scarce provincial work printed on the occasion of the opening of a museum in Burton-on-Trent. The Burton-on-Trent Natural History Society was established in 1841, and the Marquess of Anglesey agreed to be the patron, having been reassured that the society’s aim was not speculative but merely ‘to afford an hour’s relaxation from the ordinary and monotonous routine of occupation incident to a provincial town’. The main object was evidently to establish a museum, opened in the High Street in 1842. The society probably lapsed after the museum was closed in the 1860s, but it was revived in 1876 as the present Burton-upon-Trent Natural History and Archaeological Society. COPAC & NSTC locate only the BL copy.

Middleton and Hume attacked 97 [MUSSON, Samuel]. A REVIEW OF THE IMPORTANT CONTROVERSY CONCERNING MIRACLES, and the Protestant systems relative to it. To which is added a letter, with some remarks on a late performance, called the Criterion, or miracles examined. London, Printed for M. Needham, Holbourn. [1758]. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], xii, 456; a clean copy throughout; in contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style. Uncommon first edition of this attack on Conyers Middleton (1683-1769) and his tracts on miraculous powers (Introductory discourse to a larger work, designed hereafter to be published, concerning the miraculous powers 1747 and A Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, 1749) together with several references to David Hume (‘the greatest infidel’ p. 286) by the Jesuit Samuel Musson (1686-1769). ‘What is a Middleton, a Hume, this handful of enemies to miracles, and to the credibility of miracles, to the whole world past and present? Nothing, as to number; and as little in every other respect. What reasons are to be expected from them, which never were thought on by any body besides; or if thought on, were despised?’ (p. 181).

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Halkett & Laing attribute the present work to F. Monson, which appears to be an error. Gillow and Bellenger identify a Samuel Musson, Jesuit, and Gillow also attributes this work to him. We have been unable to find any further information on Musson, beyond this. OCLC: 5144355.

Victory on the Nile 98 [NELSON]. [DROP-HEAD TITLE:] VERSES ON THE VICTORY OF THE GALLANT ADMIRAL SIR HORATIO NELSON. Ludlow, printed by H. Procter, October 16th, 1798. £ 3,500 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [1], 4; in old wrappers, a very good copy. Inscribed at the head of the title by the recipient “By a Lady at Ludlow. R. Robinson’s 1798” and below that in a different hand (by the author?) “Oakley Park Oct. 20th 1798” First edition of this poem commemorating Nelson’s victory at the battle of the Nile, a victory both decisive and overwhelming. The fame of it resounded throughout Europe and Nelson was made a peer. He received numerous honours, rewards and testimonials including a number of poems of which the present poem is a previously unrecorded example. Margaret Clive (1735-1817) lived at Oakly (or Oakley), near Ludlow, 1774-1817, and the presumption must be that this poem is by her. Not in ESTC or OCLC.

Debate everything! (except politics and religion, please) 99 [NELSON DEBATING CLUB, The]. RULES AND MEMBERS. [n.p., n.d. but evidently Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ca. 1840. [bound with]: Nelson Debating Club, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Rules. 1844. n.p., n.d. but evidently Newcastle-upon-Tyne, c. 1844. £ 750 MANUSCRIPT. Large sheet of paper mounted on linen (70 x 40 cms), the 14 Rules in ink in a calligraphic hand, the 27 members’ names appended as signatures at the foot; some dustsoiling but in very good state of preservation; large sheet of paper mounted on linen (73 x 40 cms), the 17 Rules in red and black ink in a calligraphic hand, the 15 members’ signatures in ink at foot, in fine state of preservation; bound into a heavy binding of black half roan over marbled wood boards, loose, spine very worn. A charming pair of documents, the second apparently postdating the first as indicated by revisions to and additions to the rules. These rules included the usual administrative conditions, officers of the Club, subscriptions and procedures. One significant change between the first and second versions involved the crucial choice of a subject for debate. The version one rule was that “A subject shall be given every week by the chairman or his substitute to be debated on at the next ensuing meeting, notice of which subject shall be sent to members not present”. This was changed to something rather more collegiate: “Each member shall be at liberty to enter any subject for discussion into a book to be kept for that purpose and that the committee choose from them the subject to be discussed”. A further notable change affected matters of religion and politics. In the first version Rules it was agreed that “on account of the conscientious difference of opinion on the subject of religion that subject shall never be debated”. But the draconian regulation in the second version of the Rules added even tougher censorship: “On account of the conscientious difference of opinion on the subject of religion and of the height to which party spirit runs on the subject of politics, those subjects shall never be discussed”. It might be surmised that the seven identified resignations and the overall reduction

51 P ICKERING & C HATTO in the number of members was exacerbated by the prohibition on debates on religion and politics. Both, after all, were contentious and therefore highly debatable subjects. The club met weekly (Wednesdays at 7 pm) at the Freemasons Lodge in Nelson Street. Members, whose signatures are appended to each document, included several names recognisable in the public life of the city. (A recent owner of the manuscripts has added several notes in pencil identifying many of the members).

Nelson’s Victory Celebrated in Jersey 100 [NELSON]. DUPRE, Edward. ON THE VICTORY OBTAINED BY REAR ADMIRAL LORD NELSON, of the Nile, over the French fleet, on the first day of August, 1798. A poem. By Edward Dupre, L.L.D. Jersey: printed by and for John Stead, 1798. £ 2,500 FIRST EDITION. 4to, unsigned (245mm), pp. 10; without the half title; rebound in boards, a very good copy. Rare first edition, and attractively printed on the Island of Jersey, of this poem by Edward Dupre (1754 or 5-1823) commemorating Nelson’s victory at the battle of the Nile, a victory both decisive and overwhelming. The fame of it resounded throughout Europe and Nelson was made a peer. He received numerous honours, rewards and testimonials including a number of poems of which the present poem is one. ESTC and OCLC record one copy only, at the British Library.

101 [NELSON]. HEATH, Charles. DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE KYMIN PAVILION, and Beaulieu Grove, with their various Views; also, the Naval Temple: with new Notices on Buckstone, a supposed Druidical Relique, near it: to which is now first added, Lord Nelson’s Visit to Monmouth … Monmouth, Charles Heath, [1809]. £ 450 8vo, pp. [92]; one page with a typographical diagram the Naval Temple; occasionally a little spotted; recent marbled boards lettered on spine, a very good copy.

Scarce detailed and descriptive account of the Kymin banqueting house and the Naval Temple by Charles Heath, presumably a Monmouth resident and local historian. The building was erected between 1794 and 1800 by a Monmouth gentlemen’s club who were fed up of being rained on and decided to build the tower with a kitchen, dining room and telescope. The temple commemorates British naval victories and is a small and rather unique structure - apparently influenced by Etruscan architecture. Of particular note is the first hand account of Lord Nelson’s celebratory visit to Monmouth and surroundings in 1802, with details of ‘his Speeches and Conversation at the Dinner Table, his own Remarks on his important Victories, with his public Reception at Rudhall, Hereford, and other Places, on his Tour’ (title page). ‘At the conclusion of this second address, Lady Hamilton sung appropriate words to the National Air of Rule Britannia, with such taste and powers of execution, as called forth the utmost astonishment and delight in the mind of every person at table. The talents, indeed, of those professional British females the writer ever heard at the London theatres, were placed at an immeasurable distance, when compared with the vocal accomplishments of this Lady’ (‘The Dinner at the Beaufort Arms Inn’, ff. 30-35). The first edition appeared in 1802. Not in Upcott, OCLC locates the following copies in America: the 1802 edition at Harvard, the 1807 edition at Yale, the 1809 edition at New

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York Public Library and Yale and the 1913 edition in the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

The Rare First Issue 102 NIGHTINGALE, Florence. NOTES ON NURSING: what it is, and what it is not. London. Harrison, 59, Pall Mall, Booksellers to the Queen. n.d. [1860?]. £ 2,000 FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. 8vo, pp. [v], 6-79; [1]; contemporary ownership inscription “J. E. Browne. 1860”; original black cloth, spine strip renewed. The endpapers carry the date 1860; by a mistake of the original binder the sheet forming the laid and free endpapers at the back has been inserted upside down.

This copy, like the earliest copy known to Bishop and Goldie, does NOT carry “[The right of translation is reserved]” on the title page. The end papers, though, are not plain yellow but printed with the publisher’s adverts. This early issue contains all the misprints corrected later in the year. All this points to this being a very early copy and certainly a copy issued before the revision. Bishop and Goldie A Bibliography of Florence Nightingale, London. Dawsons of Pall Mall. 1962. No. 4. Distinctive issue-points are: Bottom of title page. This does NOT contain “[The right of Translation is reserved.] p. 20. Sidenote: “Why must children have measles, etc. (Uncorrected version) p. 40 line 23 “arrow root” (Uncorrected version). p. 44. Line 22. “chesnuts” (Uncorrected version). p. 65 Sidenote “Physionomy” (Uncorrected version). p. 69 (i.e. p. 67) Sidenote: “…decline” (Uncorrected version). p. 69 Sidenote: ‘“Average rate of mortality” tells us.’ (Original version) p. 73 Heading “Observations on the sick” (Original version).

103 ORMANDY, Fisher. THE CATTLE TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. London, George M’Corquodale & Co., 1857. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. [ii], 91, [1] blank, [9], 104-174, [1], 178-191, [3] the initial two blank, errata on final page; a little foxed towards the end; contemporary plum morocco, ruled and ornamented in gilt, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, endpapers patterned in blind; extremities a little rubbed; armorial engraved bookplate Fisher Ormandy inside front cover. Rare, and as far as we are aware, unrecorded account of cattle traffic on the London and North Western railway between 1850 and 1856. Detailed statistical tables are given of the numbers of livestock transported (sheep and pigs included, as well as cattle) between stations, the significant numbers involved (running in to many thousands), bearing witness to the influence the railways (still relatively new) had on the transportation of livestock. A report is given by the cattle manager, Fisher Ormandy to the General Manager, Captain Huish, for each year. Provenance: the author’s own copy. Very little is known of Fisher Ormandy (1821-1874) ‘Manager of Cattle Traffic’ for the London and North Western railway, save for a short account on the internet. He was married with four children and worked for the railways throughout the 1850’s, eventually leaving to set up business as a Wine Merchant. Unfortunately this business venture was not successful as in 1867, Fisher was bankrupted. Further tragedy was to strike three years later when his four year old daughter died. Fisher himself died only four years later and his wife was left to bring up the three remaining children on her own.

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104 PALEY, William. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO JOHN LAW, Bishop of Killala. Carlisle, Aug. 16th 1794. £ 2,250 MANUSCRIPT IN INK. 4to, 40 lines on 2 pages; with address panel and remains of red wax seals; together with a fragment, 8 lines, of another letter; in very good condition. Fascinating letter by Paley describing battles with his publisher Robert Faulder soon after the publication of his View of the Evidences of Christianity. ‘My Dear Lord, I hope the Duke of Portland will send you to Limerick or something better I have bargained with Faulder for 500£ giving him the Horae Paulinae - in which he makes an account. Faulder haggled hard for some sermons - but was at last in a great hurry to get the assignment and give the notes. I have since found that he has nearly sold the edition in his own shop so as to pocket the 3d in a shilling allowed to other booksellers which it seems is the craft - I found it very little advertised or known in the country, also that the booksellers here had written and received no copies till after repeated letters they at length got an answer from Faulder that he did not choose to sell any more of the edition but in his own shop - This accounts for the edition not going off quite so soon as I looked for - He is now coming out with an uniform edition of my works - the tenth of the philosophy, the second of the Horae and the evidences in two volumes to correspond with the others. I have inserted in the corrections most of those which you suggested - the only one I had any difficulty about was the [3 words in Greek] and my doubt is whether [Greek word] for [3 Greek words] is common so immediately after its antecedent… I have no dependence upon that - if you will stand to it I will insert it as suggested by you. Tell my cousin who I understand is returned that there has been a letter lying here for him more than three months - I suppose it to be of no consequence - but would he have it sent over. Miss Jackson some weeks ago thought Mrs Nicholson in extremis and by her desire I wrote for Mrs Hardman. She is very poorly and no likelihood of amendment but I think not in immediate danger.’ William Paley (1743-1805) philosopher and theologian, archdeacon of Carlisle. John Law, (1745-1810) to whom this letter is written, was a friend going back to his Cambridge days who had preceded him in the archdeaconry at Carlisle and became Bishop of Clonfert. Law had urged Paley to expand his lectures into a book and the result was Principles of Morals and political Philosophy. Paley had offered the manuscript to Faulder, a publisher in Bond Street, for £300. Faulder was only willing to give £250. The negotiation was entrusted to Law who happened to be in London. Meanwhile Paley received an offer of £1,000 from Milliken, a Carlisle bookseller. Upon learning of this Faulder matched the offer and he published the book in 1785. He made a good bargain; it enjoyed great popularity and went through fifteen editions in the author’s lifetime. In 1790 appeared Horae Paulinae. Though this was Paley’s most original work it enjoyed less success than its predecessors. A View of the Evidence of Christianity, the book here mainly referred to, had come out earlier in 1794. Paley’s philosophy anticipated the utilitarianism of Bentham and Evidences of Christianity, which fascinated Darwin when he read it as a theological student at Cambridge, is said to represent a pre-Darwinian world-view.

105 [PATRIOTS CLUB]. THE TOASTS AT THE PATRIOTS CLUB at London. London, Printed in the Year, MDCCXXXIV [1734]. £ 350 8vo, pp. 8, woodcut vignette on title and at the end, headpiece at the beginning of text; title with paper flaws, not affecting printed surface, spotted and browned; disbound, as issued. In the early eighteenth century a host of Whig clubs dedicated to ‘beef and liberty’ sprang up over Britain, the earliest being the Kit-Cat Club. The Patriots Club, or ‘Rump-Steak or Liberty Club’, aimed to campaign

54 P ICKERING & C HATTO and mobilise the Whigs against Walpole, who in some songs and toasts is ridiculed, while several society ladies are cheered on in these drinking rhymes. OCLC locates three copies in American libraries, at Yale, Harvard and in New York Public Library.

106 PICTET, Bernardus. AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST A CARELESS INDIFFERENCY IN MATTERS OF RELIGON: Being a Treatise in Opposition to those that believe that all Religions are Indifferent. Wherein the Vulgar Objections of Atheists, Deists, Sceptics, Libertines, Latitudinarians, &c are briefly answered. With an Introduction by the Reverend Anthony Horneck, D.D. The third edition, corrected. North-Allerton: J. Langdale. 1802. £ 185 12mo, pp. [xi], 12-119; apart from some occasional foxing, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary sheep, a lightly rubbed to extremities; a very good copy.

First published as Traité contre l’indifference des religion in 1692, opposing the indifference at the beginning of the enlightenment. The present translation is by the English divine, Anthony Horneck (1641-1697), with a six page introduction. ‘That I recommend the perusal of this Book, is not so much to gratify the Bookseller, as to promote the Public Good; The work is useful, and may help to reform the Times, and put a stop to the Growth of Licentiousness’ (p. vi). OCLC records two copies in North America, at Emory and Northern Illinois.

107 [PLAYFAIR, William]. CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLIC EVENTS AND REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, within the last Fifty years; or, from 1771 to 1821. With a general Chronology, from the earliest Records to the Year 1770. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street; sold by W. Sams, St. James’s Street, and all the booksellers., [1822]. £ 450 FIRST EDITION THUS. Small 8vo, pp. 7, 49, [3], 11, 14, 12, 11, [11], [13], [11], [13], [11], [14], [10], [10], [11], [11], [10], [11], [10], [10], [11], [11], [11], [13], [12], [14], [11], [13], [11], [14], [14], [14], [16], 18, 12, 11, 11, 16, 18, 15, 13, 13, 12, 14, 14, 18, 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 31, [5] adverts, xliv (index); with folding engraved and hand-coloured table; occasional minimal spotting and browning; bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Rare first edition thus of this chronology with the coloured chart of economic data of Britain (denoting revenue, expenditure, public debt, bread price, and three per cent consols) by William Playfair. In the Explanation he observes that before the economic slump of 1816 ‘the Revenue and Expenditure were equal in time of Peace, but they are not so now’ p. [8]. The chart was designed with enough space to be left for the years up to 1830. ‘The use of abstract, non-representational pictures to show numbers is a surprisingly recent invention, perhaps because of the diversity of skills required - the visual-artistic, empirical-statistical, and mathematical. It was not until 1750-1800 that statistical graphics … were invented, long after such triumphs of mathematical ingenuity as logarithms, Cartesian coordinates, the calculus, and the basics of probability theory. The remarkable William Playfair … developed or improved upon nearly all the fundamental graphical designs, seeking to replace conventional tables of numbers with the systematic visual representations of his linear arithmetic’ (Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, p. 9). The present work was issued, as far as we are aware, up until 1824. Having examined a copy of the 1824 edition it is interesting to note the

55 P ICKERING & C HATTO additions Playfair made to his chart, which are quite considerable from the first appearance in 1820. OCLC locates two copies, at Cambridge and Toronto.

108 [POETICAL MISCELLANY]. THE MUSES CHOICE: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, diversified with an uncommon variety of merry tales; pointed satires; humourous descriptions, comic characters in high and low life; songs, English Welch, Scott and Irish; rebusses on drinking glasses &c. epigrams, smart and tart; epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the improvement and diversion of the young and the gay, the sportive and the facetious; and suited to promote mirth in good company, or divert a melancholy hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals, taken from private manuscripts. London: Printed for J. Warcus, 1759. £ 385 THIRD EDITION. 12mo, pp. 144; engraved frontispiece of a fashionable lady alighting from a sedan chair (small hole at foot); some minor foxing, otherwise a clean copy throughout; in contemporary sprinkled calf, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, very minor light rubbing, but not detracting from this being a handsome copy. Third edition (though no second is recorded) of this lively miscellany, sometimes bawdy. How much is “original” here is difficult to say, but many of the poems come from less than obvious sources; among those we can identify are “The Pig,” by Samuel Wesley (1725, Foxon W347), “Hodge and the Devil,” by J. Nickoll (1737, Foxon N296.5), and the anonymous “Dorinda,” here under a different title (1743, Foxon D404). The first edition appeared in 1754. Bound in at the end is an incomplete copy of The Muses Holiday, or polite Songster (1757). ESTC lists five copies, at the BL, Cambridge and the Bodleian in the UK, Tennessee in North America, and the Alexander Turnbull Library in New Zealand; the first edition is comparably uncommon. CBEL II, 380 (citing the Harding copy, now at the Bodleian).

Bristol Police Acts

109 [POLICE]. A COMPREHENSIVE ABSTRACT OF THE THREE BRISTOL POLICE, and regulation acts passed in the fifth sessions of the sixteenth parliament of Great Britain, and the twenty-eighth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the IIId. King of Great Britain, etc. etc. Anno Domini, 1788. Bristol: Printed by G. Routh, for Sam Johnson, Bookseller, Corn-Street. [1788]. £ 1,250 8vo, pp. [v], 6-73, [1]; bound in nineteenth century brown cloth, two broadsides advertising a Newspaper by W. Routh, one dated June 21, 1788 and the other 1788 have been used as wrappers. In both cases most but not all of the text is legible; a very good copy Rare first edition of these fascinating police acts, covering a wide range of subjects from obstructions, annoyances and nuisances, to licensing hackney coaches, shipping, quays, street widening, party-wall regulations and fire prevention. The “Advertisement” is dated Bristol, August 3, 1788. ‘The three late Bristol acts, are so very important in their consequences …that the following abstract is published with the sole view of rendering them as generally and expediously known as possible. The words of the legislature are no where changed; and the abridgment is so very comprehensive, that the technical phraseology of the profession and

56 P ICKERING & C HATTO repetitions of the same words are the chief things curtailed, which it is hoped will be considered rather an advantage than otherwise, as by this means, common understandings are not so liable to be confounded by tautology and terms of law.’ ESTC on-line records one copy only, at Harvard.

Manuscript Police Logbooks in late Victorian England 110 [POLICE]. LINCOLNSHIRE CONSTABULARY - Grimsby Division. LOG BOOKS DETAILING POLICE MATTERS including subjects such as the misconduct of Police Constables & speed restrictions of motor cars in late Victorian England. Grimsby, 24 June 1873 - 30 March 1892 & 16 April 1892 - 7 June 1906. £ 2,250 MANUSCRIPT IN INK ON RULED PAPER. Two vols, small 4to, pp. 339; 323; occasionally a bit dusted; contemporary half-calf over heavy cloth- covered boards, remains of labels on upper boards, marbled endpapers and edges; rather worn, spine defective; however, still sturdy. Fascinating manuscript log books presenting a rather revealing insight into the police force in Lincolnshire in late Victorian times and the earlier years of the 20th century. The logbooks, chronologically arranged each beginning with an index, cover subjects such as promotions (usually for good detection or courageous acts) and dismissals (usually for drunkenness or neglect of duty), pay sheets and contingent accounts, annual drill, old clothing to be sent in, officers commended, election expenses, subscriptions, pensions, memos from Chief Constables regarding administration of various Acts, general instructions etc., with entries including “The Secretary of State demands that female prisoners shall be attended by a female, accordingly this duty must be performed for the purpose” (1897), and “Arrangement have been made with the War Department that, as far as practicable all deserters or absentees shall be handed over to a military escort after appearing before a magistrate…” (1902). Another subject covered is the ‘Speed of Motor Cars’ where it is noted that ‘Superts. will use a wide discretion as to “Unlawful speed”… 20 miles an hour may be perfectly safe on unfrequented roads, whereas even 12 miles an hour might be dangerous if passing through a village or hamlet’ (1903), quite revealing given the speed restrictions on todays busy roads!

Wollstonecraft Attacked 111 POLWHELE, Richard. THE UNSEX’D FEMALES; a poem, addressed to the author of The pursuits of literature … To which is added, a sketch of the private and public character of P. Pindar. New-York: Re-published by Wm. Cobbett. 1800. £ 1,350 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. pp. vi, 68; printed on English paper watermarked ‘1795’; apart from some light marking in places, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary sheep, rebacked; an appealing copy.

Uncommon first American edition, published by William Cobbett, of Richard Polwhele’s defensive reaction to women’s literary self-assertion, his most notorious poetic production in which he cites Hannah More as Christ and Mary Wollstonecraft as Satan. ‘The poem is primarily concerned with what Polwhele characterizes as the encroachment of radical French political and philosophical ideas into British society, particularly those associated with the Enlightenment. These subjects come together, for Polwhele, in the revolutionary figure of Mary Wollstonecraft’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Unsex’d_Females). ‘The poem betrays a particular animus for Mary Wollstonecraft and, by extension, others Polwhele considered to be of her radical, pro-French

57 P ICKERING & C HATTO camp: writers Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Robinson, Charlotte Turner Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Ann Yearsley, Mary Hays and Ann Jebb, and artists Angelica Kauffmann and Emma Crewe. Strangely, perhaps, only Hays, Jebb and Smith shared political sympathies with Wollstonecraft, and Smith, by 1798, had turned her back on her previous ideas. The others, though, in different ways, all fell afoul of restrictive ideas of female (and class) decorum. Yearsley, for example, a labouring- class poet who had a dispute with her patron, Hannah More, is accused of longing “to rustle, like her sex, in silk” (l.102). According to one editor, ‘one can only conclude that Polwhele attacks these women not for what they are, but for what they are not: they are unsexed, unfeminine, either because they are immodest, or unsentimental, or insubordinate. His remarks on Wollstonecraft, “whom no decorum checks” (l.63), stray from the literary and political into the personal; he invokes her complicated personal history and, of her death in childbirth, comments in a note: “I cannot but think, that the Hand of Providence is visible, in her life, her death… As she was given up to her ‘heart’s lusts,’ and let ‘to follow her own imaginations, that the fallacy of her doctrines and the effects of an irreligious conduct, might be manifested to the world; and as she died a death that strongly marked the distinction of the sexes, by pointing out the destiny of women, and the diseases to which they are liable” (29–30). After a catalogue of the various evils of the age, the poem ends on a positive note when it turns to a group of writers, many of them Bluestockings, who reverse the dangerous literary, philosophical and political trends outlined in the earlier sections. The approved writers, in contrast to the “witlings” (l.9) previously described, are lauded for their facility in combining morality and feminine decorum with literary publication, and comprise a number of Polwhele’s acquaintance: Elizabeth Montagu is praised for her ability to “refine a letter’d age” (l. 188) and Elizabeth Carter for hers to “with a milder air, diffuse / The moral precepts of the Grecian Muse” (ll.189–90). Frances Burney is praised for her ability to “mix with sparkling humour chaste / Delicious feelings and the purest taste” (ll.195–96). “And listening girls perceive a charm unknown / In grave advice, as utter’d by [Hester] CHAPONE” (ll. 191–192). Anna Seward, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Ann Radcliffe, artist Diana Beauclerk, and, most centrally, Hannah More, who is set up as a sort of “anti-Wollstonecraft,” complete the list of proper women writers’ (ibid). The author, Richard Polwhele (1760–1838), was a Cornish clergyman, poet and topographer, who met literary luminaries Catharine Macaulay and Hannah More at an early age. He maintained epistolary exchanges with Samuel Badcock, Macaulay, William Cowper, Erasmus Darwin, and Anna Seward throughout his life. ESTC W8134; Evans 38293.

Poor in Chester 112 [POOR: CHESTER]. AN ACT FOR BETTER REGULATING THE POOR; maintaining a nightly watch; lighting, paving, and cleansing the streets, rows, and passages; providing fire engines and firemen, and regulating the hackney-coachmen, chairmen, carmen, and porters, within the city of Chester. London: printed in the year, 1772. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 112; with numerous contemporary marginal annotations; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, binding a little scuffed but essentially a very good copy. A rare reprint in 8vo format of the Act 2 Geo.III.c.45, a Public General Act which was enacted. The original Act was in folio format; Octavo reprints of certain acts were sometimes produced, usually for the benefit of local officials, but they are rare. ESTC records two copies in North America, at McMaster and Harvard (Baker Library), although not listed in Kress; not in Goldsmiths or Higgs.

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London-Edinburgh Mail 113 [POSTAL SERVICE]. PLAN FOR EXPEDITING THE MAIL FROM LONDON TO EDINBURGH; so that it shall arrive at one o’clock on the second day, (and eventually earlier,) proceed immediately for the North of Scotland, and cross at the Queensferry all the year in Day-Light. Edinburgh, [Balfour and Clarke] for William Blackwood, 1822. £ 275 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 36; recent marbled boards lettered on spine. Scarce first edition of this detailed Plan, giving a fascinating insight in to the logistics of expediating mail delivery between London and Edinburgh, just prior to the arrival of the railways. ‘It is known to those who have been in habit of travelling in the mail, that the increase of speed to eight miles and a half per hour, instead of being an oppression, was a relief to the horses. When the mail went at the rate of only seven miles per hour, the coachmen, having time to spare, used to stop at alehouses and loiter it away; and often, on finding they had staid too long, in order to complete their stage in the time allowed them, drove the horses at a much faster rate than eight miles and a half per hour, over the roads in their old rough, rutted and loose state. Now they have little time to spare, and the horses are driven steadily and regularly; consequently, though their rate on the average is much greater, they are much less distressed’ (pp. 4-5). The anonymous author documents the increased speed of mail coaches between the two cities, a distance of just under 400 miles. Continuous improvements of the road network and an average travelling speed of up to nine miles per hour made delivery feasible within 41 hours. Goldsmiths’ 23598, COPAC & OCLC with copies at Aberdeen, British Library, Edinburgh, Manchester, National Library of Scotland, University of London and a single copy in America, at Columbia University.

Prospectus for the Magdalen Hospital 114 [PROSTITUTION]. THE PLAN OF THE MAGDALEN HOUSE FOR THE RECEPTION OF PENITENT PROSTITUTES. By order of the governors. London: printed by W. Faden, 1758. £ 3,000 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 28; handsomely rebound in calf backed marbled boards, with vellum tips; a fine copy. The first prospectus for a new venture, as the opening paragraph of a four-page introduction, dated July 17, 1758, explains: ‘Noble and extensive are the charities already established in this metropolis: unfortunate females seem the only objects that have not yet catched the attention of public benevolence: but, we doubt not, it will appear on reflection, a task of as great compassion and consequence, necessity and advantage to provide a place of reception for them, as for any under the protection of the public.’ The founders of the Magdalen Hospital were Jonas Hanway, Robert Dingley, Charles Dingley, Robert Nettleton, and John Thornton. Various philanthropists, including John Fielding and Saunders Welch, had offered schemes for dealing with the problem of prostitution, but the plan adopted in the end was the one put forth by Robert Dingley, with Hanway as the administrator and chief spokesman. This pamphlet announces the acquisition of a “commodious house” in Prescot-Street, Goodmans-Fields, to be opened within a month. Also included is a tentative list of rules and regulations, ‘to be improved as experience may hereafter dictate.’ The rules deal with such topics as finances, staff, dress, diet, admission procedures, and discipline. At the end is a list of subscribers, who had provided a fund of £3593 19s, amongst whom are included Hanway, William Dodd and Saunders Welch.

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Higgs 1810; OCLC records three copies in the UK, at Lambeth, the Bodleian and the BL, and four in North America, at Harvard, Yale, Minnesota and the Huntington; not in Goldsmiths’ or Kress.

115 [PUBLISHING]. MASTERS, Robert. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, The History of the College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary commonly called Bene’t College in the University of Cambridge, From its Foundation to the present Time. Cambridge, [John Smith], for the Author, March 1, 1749-50. £ 225 Broadside, 4to (25.2 x19.4 cm); margins a little spotted; otherwise fine. Robert Master’s two-volume history of Corpus came out in 1753 and 1755 and is still the standard work on that college. In 1749 the historian and antiquarian Robert Masters (1713–1798) ‘printed a biographical list of the alumni of Corpus, and was led to compile a large History of the College of Corpus Christi (in two parts, 1753–5) which is the first published account of its kind of any college at Oxford or Cambridge. He had permission to inspect the archives and printed what by the standards of the time are well-edited documents together with a narrative history in which biographical material predominated. His interleaved and extra- illustrated copy at Corpus shows a painstaking concern. John Lamb, master of the college, continued and revised the history, bringing it down to 1831’ (Oxford DNB).

116 [REES, Harriet Susanna Anne, née Horton]. ‘RHYS, Mrs Charles’. THE GRAPHICK SCRAP BOOK, a collection of engravings by Jas Storer, from original drawings by Mrs. Chas. Rhys. With descriptions. 1827. £ 1,250 MANUSCRIPT IN INK. Title-page, dedication leaf, 106 numbered pages, and a leaf of directions to the binder; with 14 engraved plates; inscribed on front free endpaper ‘Lucebella Hare from Mama’; bound in full contemporary blind and gilt stamped olive calf, spine tooled in gilt with label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, some minor sunning to spine, and light surface wear and rubbing to corners, but still a very appealing copy. Charming little manuscript scrapbook put together by the artist Harriet Rees in the year of her death, and dedicated to a Miss M. Hare: ‘The flattering approbation you bestowed on the print of Clifton Rocks emboldens me to offer to your acceptance a set of engravings, which have been executed at different times from drawings of mine. They were published in three separate works, to which I was a contributor … I have added the descriptions, as they were given in the several publications, and trust that what has passed the ordeal of the publick, will not be condemned by you’ (Dedication). The chapters include accounts on ‘Madley Church’, ‘Clifford Castle’, ‘Shrine of St. Ethelbert’, and the ‘Monument of Bishop Cantilupe in Herefordshire, ‘Clifton Rocks near Bristol’, ‘Knowsley, Lancashire’ with details of the ‘Ancient Gold Cup’ found there and concludes with a chapter’s on St. Catherine’s Island just off the coast of Pembrokeshire (with a description just prior to the building of a large fort there in 1867) and Careg Cennen Castle in Carmarthenshire written in the form of a letter “To the editor of the Port Folio” signed and dated by Mrs Rhys ‘Bath, Sept, 1823’. Harriet Rees had settled in Bath and was one of the contributing artists to The Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet and as can be seen from the present collection possessed considerable talent. Her name also appears in Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, by the late James Smith, Esq (1841), in the poem ‘Milk & Honey’ - “Let White print his rival La Poule and Trenise, And dedicate humbly to Mrs. Charles Rees”. On further investigation we have found that she was the daughter of Sir Watts Horton (see below) and part of the illustrious Horton family of

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Chadderton Hall in Lancashire. She was to marry Charles Rees, a Major in 53rd Foot Regiment in 1813, and had three children. The first five of the fourteen engravings included in the present work are dated either 1810 or 1812, and therefore signed with her maiden name ‘Miss H.S.A. Horton’, the latter ones, all dated 1823 are signed ‘Mrs. C. Rees’. Sir Watts Horton (1753-1811), grandson of Sir William Horton IV, married Henrietta, daughter of Lord Strange and sister of the Earl of Derby. Sir Watts maintained a lavish lifestyle and furnished the hall with expensive paintings and furniture. Appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1775, it was necessary for him to entertain county dignitaries, and Chadderton Hall must have been a sight to behold in those days. His hospitality was legendary and his entertainments for the gentry would continue until 5 0’clock in the morning. Archery contests were a regular event in the parkland which stretched over to Middleton Road, whilst cockfighting bouts took place in the large barn. On the death of Sir Watts in 1811, the estate passed to his brother, the Rev. Sir Thomas Horton, who died in 1821 without sons. The Hall then passed to Harriet Susanna Anne Rhys, the only daughter of Sir Watts. After her death in 1827, her husband, Major Charles Rhys of Kilmaenllwyd in Carmarthenshire, Wales, continued to own the estate until his death in 1852.

With Rennie’s fine map of the Central Belt 117 RENNIE, John. REPORT CONCERNING THE PRACTICABILITY AND EXPENSE OF THE LINES SURVEYED BY MESSRS. JOHN AINSLIE & ROBERT WHITWORTH, JUN. FOR A CANAL, PROPOSED TO BE MADE BETWEEN THE CITIES OF EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW, … and also concerning the practicability and expense of the new line by Linlithgow and Falkirk. [Edinburgh, 1798]. [bound with:] Report concerning the different lines surveyed by Messrs. John Ainslie & Robert Whitworth, Jun. for a canal, proposed to be made between … Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1797. [Edinburgh?], 1798. £ 650 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [ii], 27, 12; with large folding engraved and line coloured map composed of two sheets (508 × 1032 mm; cut close at lower margin); map with repaired marginal rear; the second work possibly lacking a subscribers list; recent marbled boards lettered on spine, very good copies. Rare first appearance of this report on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union canal by the civil engineer John Rennie, complete with a large folding handcoloured engraved map presenting a ‘Reduced plan of the different lines proposed for a canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow’. In January 1793 John Whitworth and John Ainslie were commissioned to make a survey and suggest four possible routes between Leith and Broomielaw on the Clyde. Four years later the author John Rennie (1761-1821), a civil engineer and surveyor was asked to comment on four proposed lines for the canal. He responded proposing a fifth line further north through Ratho, Winchburgh, Linlithgow, Falkirk, Cumbernauld and Hillhead or Drumpellier. Here he reports on the two lines being considered at the time, a northern route and the Baton-moss line that ran by Ratho, Midcalder, Baton-moss and Cleland. He supported the Baton-moss line which was claimed to have inexhaustible supplies of coal. After Thomas

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Telford had been authorized to supervise the works, the canal opened in 1822. Skempton 1146 & 1145; Goldsmiths’ 17392, ESTC lists copies in the National Library of Scotland, Manchester Central Library, the British Library and in the Canadian Archives, OCLC adds one copy, at University of Glasgow.

118 [RICHARDS, Thomas Bingham]. LETTERS FROM SICILY. Written in the year 1798, by a Gentleman to his Friends in England. London, Printed for the Author, by W. Stratford and R. Young, 1800. £ 585 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [2], xv, [3], 220 (bound without half-title); apart from minor spotting in places a very good copy in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt and with gilt-stamped morocco lettering-piece; extremities a little worn; front paste-down inscribed by Hely-Hutchinson, an earl of Donoughmore, dated 1808. Scarce first edition of these nineteen Letters from Sicily by Thomas Bingham Richards, presenting an entertaining and informative account of the Island, its history, main towns, geography, customs and practices. Amongst the notable places he visited were Palermo and Catania, each of which a thorough account is given, a vivid description of an ascent of Mount Etna (on which he concludes ‘I could write about Mount Etna for a whole day together, but I should tire you with a multiplicity of ideas, which though strictly true, would to you appear wild and romantic’ p. 72), as well as a visit to the famous Catacombs, where he met with an old hermit who showed him ‘a recluse spot a fragment of a column of granite, erected on a pedestal, against which many of the primary Christians suffered martyrdom, and with the serious air of credulity he pointed to some spots occasioned by the stain of their blood’ (p. 111). Details are also provided of the flora and fauna, the wild boars, and amusing incidents of the people he met along the way, including one account of a Monk who thought he was a French spy (p. 52). Richards note in the preface that he wrote the work on account of ‘the disastrous Revolution, which at the close of the year 1798, compelled the Royal Family of Naples to seek refuge in Sicily’ which had rendered it ‘a more general subject of enquiry, and excited a strong desire to become acquainted with the present state of it’ (p. ii). Not in Halkett & Laing; ESTC locates three copies in America, at Yale, Universities of Chicago and Rochester; OCLC adds University of Oklahoma.

Charity for Poor Scots in London 119 [SCOTS CORPORATION]. AN ACCOUNT OF THE INSTITUTION, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE OF THE SCOTS CORPORATION IN LONDON, of the Foundation of King Charles the Second, annis MDCLXV & MDCLXXVI. Re-Incorporated Anno MDCCLXXV, by the present Majesty King George the Third; to which is affixed a List of the Officers and Governors, and of the Patronesses. London, E. Blackadder for the Corporation, 1811. £ 275 8vo, pp. 51; with a large folding proforma petition form at end, recent marbled boards lettered on spine, a fine copy. Fascinating account of The Royal Scottish Corporation, founded in 1665, and still an active charity to this day. The charity had evolved from an earlier mutual-aid society or ‘box club’ for London Scots called the ‘Scots Box’ and was more properly known as the Hall of the Scottish Hospital of his Majesties Foundation situated in Water Lane, Blackfriars, in 1676. Designed to help impoverished

62 P ICKERING & C HATTO merchants and craftsmen in the capital who were not entitled to Parish poor relief the charity is active today. The work was reprinted a number of times throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, each time bringing up to date the list of current officers, governours and patronesses, the present issue being up until the 20th April 1811. OCLC records one copy only of this issue, at the National Library of Scotland, apparently not in the British Library.

Tree Auction and Benefits of the Canal System 120 SERGENT, John [auctioneer]. PRESTON, 13TH DECEMBER, 1798. SALE OF TIMBER. TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, BY JOHN SERGENT, AUCTIONEER, at the house of Richard Pemberton, the sign of the Wheat-Sheaf in the Square, Preston, on Friday the 18th day of January, Inst. The sale to begin at six o’clock in the afternoon. The following lots of Oak, Ash, and Alder, as the same are now marked in progressive numbers Lot I. 64 Trees, 39 Cyphers, of Alder. Lot II 100 Tress, 30 Cyphers, of Ash. Lot III 143 Trees, 90 Cyphers, of Oak. Standing and growing upon two farms in Cottam, about three miles from, Preston, called Cottam-Hall and Valentines, in the respective possessions of John Harrison and Thomas Hodgkinson. The Lancaster Canal runs through both farms, and near the middle of the land on which the timber grows. Most of the ash is long, clean wood, very suitable for coopers, or chair- makers. Some of the oak is very heavy, fine timber, fit for shafts, planks etc. and the old Hedgerow wood, well calculated for Boat- building. E. Sergent, printer, Preston. [n.d., but 1798]. £ 550 Folio broadside (33 x 21 cm); edges uncut, in fine condition; together with 4 contemporary manuscript leaves [incipit]: Preston 18th January 1799. Proposals and conditions for sale pursuant to a public advertisement of several lots of timber, followed by a record of the successive bids (with bidders’ names) on all three lots and the name of the eventual purchaser with hammer price. This fine group - auction broadside and manuscript notes - probably comes from the hands of the auctioneer himself, who has the same name as the printer and may be related. E. Sergent was a fairly prolific Preston printer, active at the end of the eighteenth century. The growing importance of canal navigation for trade is highlighted by the reference in the printed advertisement to the fact that the Lancaster Canal runs right through the land where the trees were standing, making then much easier to transport. Not in ESTC.

121 [SHAKESPEARE]. [HARRIS, William]. CHRONICLE OF OUR SHAKESPEARE CLUB. Birmingham 1862-1893. Privately Printed for Members Only. [Printed by W. Henry Robinson, Steam Printing Works, Walsall]. [1893]. £ 150 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 46; half title lightly browned, otherwise a clean crisp copy; uncut in the original publisher’s white boards, upper board lettered in black and red, and ruled in gilt, lightly dust-soiled and rubbed to extremities, but still a good copy. First edition, ‘privately printed for members only’, of this work chronicling the founding of ‘Our Shakespeare Club’ in Birmingham in 1862, with short details of members, minutes and events over the following 30 years. The work is set out in chronological order, with each year taken in turn and specific dates given with a variety of information provided, from dinners attended, fines handed out for non-attendance, excursions and

63 P ICKERING & C HATTO presentations, to debates, retirements and deaths. We have been unable to ascertain how long the club continued. It was certainly still in existence at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the National Archive holding the manuscript minute book from 1901-1906. A fascinating record of this provincial club. OCLC records six copies in North America, at Indiana, Princeton, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kent State and the Folger.

122 [SHARE CERTIFICATE]. PAID-UP SHARE. Mudie’s Select Library, Limited. Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862. 26th October, 1864. £ 85 Scarce share certificate for ‘Mudie’s Select Library’, which had been founded in 1842 by Charles Edward Mudie (1818-1890). ‘In 1842, he began to lend books to students at the University of London, charging subscribers one guinea per year for the right to borrow one volume of a novel at a time. This proved so successful that in 1852 he moved his “Select Library” to larger premises at 509, 510 & 511 New Oxford Street, at its junction with Museum Street and Hart Street, just a few yards south of the British Museum. In 1860, the company’s New Oxford Street premises were substantially enlarged, and new branches of the business were subsequently established in other English cities such as York, Manchester and Birmingham. In 1864 Mudie’s was converted into a limited company. The decline of Mudie’s eventually came as a result of the rising number of government-funded public libraries, which offered similar services at a much reduced rate’ (Wikipedia).

123 SIMKINS, Maud Ellen. MIXED HERBS: A working woman’s remonstrance against the suffrage agitation: by M. E. S. London : Sampson Low Marston & Co. Ltd. 1908. £ 250 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 158; with contemporary photograph loosely inserted, perhaps of the author?; in the original brown printed publisher’s boards, joints lightly rubbed, but still a very good copy. Scarce first edition of this anti-suffragist work by Maude Ellen Simkins. ‘The anti-suffragist woman is generally accused of being a person who sits at home at ease, and opposes the suffrage as unwomanly through some finikin conception of a woman’s place in life as sheltered and luxurious. Let it be said then that I have won my anti-suffrage convictions as a working woman of twenty years’ at standing. I am no novelist: the disclaimer is doubtless superfluous in view of the simplicity, the clumsiness of my attempt at narrative: but I wish to say that “Mary Maitland” is a record of things known and seen by a working woman in a working life, an attempt to show, very soberly, how sorely women do need help, and to indicate where their hope lies’ (p. 83). Besides her chapter on ‘Mary Maitland’ Simkins speaks out against the ‘suffrage agitation’ under headings such as ‘The war of the women’, ‘the futile women’, ‘the wage-earning woman on the woman question’ and ‘the shrieking women: their disappearance’. OCLC records five copies in the US, at Yale, Michigan, Miami, Minnesota and California State.

The Society of British Artists’ first exhibition 124 [SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS]. THE EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East. MDCCCXXIV. The First. London, Davidson and Son, [1824]. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 39; page 4 cropped at lower margin, affecting two words, which are still legible, recent marbled boards lettered on spine.

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This was the first exhibition catalogue by the recently founded Society of British Artists, probably catalogued by its first director, the watercolourist Thomas Heaphy (1775-1835). ‘A group of painters met at Lincoln’s Inn Fields on May 21st 1823, to form the Society of British Artists, whose manifesto stated, “This organisation was not formed to rival existing societies but that every Member was to be at liberty to assist and support any other society.”’ Amongst the works on display are 322 Paintings, 41 Sculptures, 217 ‘Architecture, Drawings, Miniatures and Enamels’, and 174 Engravings. The work concludes with a list of the members, together with a list of the exhibitors with their addresses and the catalogue numbers of works exhibited. Artists at this time were the equivalent of the celebrities of today, feted by the aristocracy and royalty and collected by the powerful industrialists of the day. The elite amongst these were sometimes granted membership of the Royal Academy, but as the membership was limited to fifty members made up of sculptors, printmakers and architects, as well as painters, the election of a new Academician was dependent upon the death or resignation of an existing incumbent. The birth of a new society was inevitable and £1000 was raised for such a purpose. The Society’s new galleries were created in Suffolk Street only a short distance from the Royal Academy in Somerset House. These galleries were designed by the fashionable Regency architect John Nash. The Society began with just twenty-seven members under the Presidency of Thomas Heaphy, plus a complement of five Honorary Members. It took until 1876 for the numbers to reach fifty’ (www.royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk). OCLC locates three copies in America, in the Getty, at Yale, and in the Frick Museum; COPAC additionally finds a copy at the Courtauld in London.

125 SOUTHERN, John. A TREATISE UPON AEROSTATIC MACHINES. Containing rules for calculating their powers of ascension; a demonstration of the forces which have a tendency to distend or burst them; and an extensive table, by which the power and weight of any one, from ten to one hundred feet diameter, may readily be found. Also, an expeditious method of constructing them of any round form, such as a globe, a vase, or an urn: With directions for filling them, and making inflammable air, etc. etc. By John Southern. Birmingham: printed by Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, London, 1785. £ 2,750 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 63,[1], two folding engraved plates; contemporary but not original blue wrappers; a fine copy.

Uncommon first edition with appealing provenance, of this work on aerostatic machines by the engineer John Southern. The 1780’s was the decade in which the science of aerostation (i.e. ballooning) really got under way. The first hydrogen balloon (unmanned) was released in Paris in August 1783. On December 1 a manned flight ascended from the Tuileries Gardens in a gondola attached to a similar balloon. (Singer A History of Technology, vol. IV p. 255). Southern’s work on the science of ballooning is not mentioned by Singer and may not have been known to him but John Southern of Soho, Birmingham is mentioned, in the discussion of the planning of a new cast iron bridge to replace old London Bridge, as one of only two engineers to appreciate the problem of elastic movement as well as strength. (op. cit. p. 484). Provenance: from the library of James Watt. ESTC on-line records five copies, at Harvard, the Huntington, Library Company of Philadelphia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Royal Military College.

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126 [ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST’S, EAST DULWICH]. COLLECTION OF 28 FLYERS INVITING TO MUSICAL, LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS. London, various printers, 1875-76. £ 550 All 8vo and mostly printed on coloured paper; all mounted on strong folio sheets, together with additional paper cuttings reporting on the events. The parish of St John the Evangelist was originally a chapelry created from St. Giles-Camberwell parish; the church was built in 1865 on green fields, called Goose Green. The move of the Crystal Palace to neighbouring Sydenham in 1854 and the ensuing railway connection enabled rapid growth of the South London suburb and the need for churches. W. J. Strickland became the reverend of the church and organized educational and cultural events which are documented here in this collection of ephemeral items. The events advertised for and described in newspaper cuttings are for musical performances with readings of edificatory stories interspersed, ‘Penny Readings’, all introduced by one Mr. W. J. Noad, who might have been the collector of ephemera, which are neatly printed on paper of various colours and sometimes in colours.

Bookkeeping for music lovers and others 127 STENHOUSE, William. TABLES OF SIMPLE INTEREST, and of commission, brokerage, or exchange … constructed on a plan entirely new … to which are annexed, a complete ready reckoner, and several new tables useful in commercial operations … Edinburgh: Printed by Alex. Smellie, for Will. & Jos. Deas, and S. Cheyne; and Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, London. 1806. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], xx, [iv], 511, [1] blank; apart from a few minor marks, a clean fresh copy throughout; in contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt with green morocco label lettered in gilt, some minor rubbing to extremities; signed by the author under the printed note ‘No copy of this work is warranted to be genuine, or correct, unless it bears the Authors signature as under’; a handsome and appealing copy. A useful and popular handy interest calculating book by the Edinburgh accountant William Stenhouse. ‘The design of the following work is to enable persons of every trade and profession, if they only understand the common rule of addition, top calculate interest, exchange, commission, brokerage, &c. either on single sums, or on large accounts, with as great precision and facility as the professional Accountant can do by the use of decimal arithmetic, or the higher branches of mathematical science’ (p. viii) The majority of the work is taken with tables of simple interest at 5 per cent from 1 to 365 days, and at the same rate from 1 to 20 years. However, usefully added are tables for calculating commission, brokerage or exchange (from 1 eighth to five per cent), ‘The Merchant’s Assistant, or New Ready Reckoner’ and a table of British weights and measures. The work concludes with tables of ‘Foreign Monies with their par in English currency’. William Stenhouse (1773-1827) was an antiquary with strong musical leanings who trained as an accountant. James Hogg’s introduction to the first volume of Jacobite relics contains an acknowledgement to ‘my friend William Stenhouse, Esq. accountant in Edinburgh, a gentleman whose science, good taste, and general information of all that relates to Scottish song and music, is not perhaps equalled by any contemporary’. OCLC records two copies in North America at South Carolina and the Huntington, with three copies in the UK, at Newcastle, National Library of Scotland and the British Library.

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128 [SUFFRAGETTES]. EPHEMERAL ITEMS ISSUED BY THE FRIENDS OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. [London, [1913]. £ 175 The Friends of Women’s Suffrage campaign was an offshoot of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, aiming at reaching out to working-class women. This little collection comprises the red printed folder containing three four printed canvassing cards (120 x 78 mm), one canvassing card filled in for Miss. D. M. Chapman in Hertford, and three printed and manuscript membership cards issued by the Law-Abiding Suffragists, stating in print ‘I am a Friend of Women’s Suffrage’. Further included in this collection is a printed invitation to the fourth annual meeting of the East Hertfordshire Women’s Suffrage Society of about 1914.

129 [SUFFRAGETTES]. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LONDON SOCIETY FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE [London Society for Women’s Suffrage. 1908]. £ 150 4 page leaflet; fold lines, but otherwise in very good condition. Scarce leaflet to the Society’s members urging them to attend the Annual Meeting at the Caxton Hall on Tuesday 10 November 1908 and to vote only for certain named candidates. This was because the committee was expecting, as it turned out, a stormy meeting, with Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray attempting to persuade the Society to take a more militant attitude. They were unsuccessful!

130 SYMMONS, Mr. THE WHIMSICAL LOVERS: OR, CUPID IN DISGUISE. A Novel. By Mr. Symmons. London, printed for J. Crokatt, at the Golden-Key, near the Inner-Temple Gate, in Fleet street, 1725. £ 1,750 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 61, [1] blank, [1] advertisement; title, last leaf and a few others stained, advertisement leaf with repaired torn away corner affecting ornamental; border; recent half-calf over marbled boards, green gilt-stamped morocco lettering-piece along spine. Rare first edition of this short novel, well-written and with a story line suitable to provide a libretto for an eighteenth century English opera. The female hero of this early and under-researched novel is Miranda, who was admired by everyone for the perfect education she had enjoyed, her character and - of course - her beauty. The plot thickens as the unknown author proceeds to narrate that her father dies and in his will she is put under the guardianship of a friend, whose son, a bit of a shady character with a history of flings, she is supposed to marry. Although Miranda is female perfection personified he refuses to accept this proposal initially and puts her to a test. We have been unable to find any other information on the author ‘Mr. Symmons’. This seems to be his only published work. OCLC locates three copies, at McMaster, Yale and Iowa; ESTC adds the British Library.

131 [TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT]. A SMALL ARCHIVE OF PRINTED EPHEMERA and manuscript material accumulated by J.L. Buzzacott, Sec. & Hon. Treas. of the “Local Contingent” relating to the Direct Veto Bill (Temperance Movement), May-August Hyde Park Demonstration 10th June, 1893. £ 850 Comprising: Handbill (“Places without Public Houses”, a rant against pubs), n.d.; Handbill (“Manifesto of the Committee of the London Auxiliary of the United Kingdom Alliance”, n.d.);

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ALS headed United Kingdom Alliance, Dawson Burns (“Metropolitan Superintendent”) to Buzzacott promising placards to help him educate “the public mind”, 29 May 1893; MS. “Minutes of a Meeting” “for the purpose of forming a Local Contingent in connection with the ‘Direct Veto Demonstration’“, 3pp., 1 June; MS. article on the Public Meeting “Re. Direct Veto” on 1 June, one page; postcard by which Buzzacott is informed that the “contingent” will leave Paddington Green at 2, 3 June; Letter re. petitions, 2 June; Printed Letter headed “Baptist + Total + Abstinence + Association” encouraging support of the Hyde Park Demonstration in favour of the Liquor Traffic Local Control Bill, 1 June; MS. Minutes of the meeting on 3 June, one page; Copy letter, Buzzacott, Hon, Sec. and Treasurer to W. Sutherland, asking for advice on “local Contingencies” for the March, route of procession, etc, one page; Copy letter, Buzzacott to the Secretary, United Kingdom Alliance, 2 June, re. his contingent (anticipating 50), questioning age limit, platform in the Park, latest hour to send petitions, one page; Official Programme (printed) of the Direct Veto Bill Demonstration, two leaves separated, 10 June; Pamphlet headed “Local Veto Demonstration. Hyde Park, June 10, 1893, Western Contingent”, listing Committee, and giving suggestions (eg “Please wear regalia”), and information about assembly travel, combined procession, final mass assembly in Soho Square to Hyde Park via Trafalgar Square, naming Marshals; Handbill encouraging attendance to support “The Direct Veto Bill” on 10 June, reverse listing policies, emphasising democracy, equality, defining intentions, etc; Two Letters from Dawson Burns, United Kingdom Alliance, to Buzzacott about time limit for petitions, 19 June, 3 Aug. 1893. 15 printed and manuscript items; in good original state. Small archive of material relating to the Temperance Movement, providing a fascinating insight in to the movement as it was at the end of the nineteenth century. None of the ephemera listed in COPAC or OCLC.

132 TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. ALS IN THE THIRD PERSON TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY GRAPHIC. Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey. July 31 1890. £ 400 MANUSCRIPT IN INK. 4 pages (175mm x 112mm), written in a neat legible hand on first page only, rest blank; lightly dust-soiled and with central fold line, but otherwise in a good state of preservation; with loosely inserted newspaper cutting discussing ‘Photographs of Tennyson’ and an earlier typed purchase slip for the present ALS. Short and informative note by Tennyson, written in the third person, informing the editor of the Daily Graphic that the best photograph of him is by Mayall of Regent Street and ‘that he is sure that Mayall would send it (if asked) to the Daily Graphic for reproduction’. The photograph to which Tennyson refers to, by photographer John Edwin Mayall, we believe was taken in the 1860’s. It is interesting to note that he favoured this image of himself, rather than those by his friend and neighbour on the Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron, which many consider the best, and are certainly the best known. Tennyson concludes his note by requesting that the ‘Daily Graphic be sent regularly to him’.

133 [THEATRE COMPANY]. COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL PRINTED PROGRAMMES of plays staged by ‘The Beverley Dramatic Company’ [London and Suburbs] [1896-1901]. £ 450 18 plays, most either pp. 4 or single sheet, some tipped in, some loose; housed in an early twentieth century album, spine missing, upper board almost detached.

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Collection of sixteen programmes detailing plays staged by the Beverley Dramatic Company in London and suburbs between 1896 and 1899, with two further plays dated 1901. Amongst the places the company played we find St. Luke’s Hospital (“Jane” a farcical comedy by Nicholls and Lestocq. December 1896 & “Caste” a comedy by T.W. Robertson. February 1897), St. Mary, Newington, Workhouse (“Caste” a comedy by T.W. Robertson. March 1897) and several performances at the ‘London & South Western Railway Institute & Club’. Of particular note are the two plays they staged at the London County Asylum, Cane Hill, Purley, one in 1896 entitled “The Magistrate” (a farce), another in 1898 entitled “School” (a comedy), both of these programmes ‘printed by the Inmates of the Earlswood Asylum, Red Hill, Surrey’. We have been unable to find further information on ‘The Beverley Dramatic Company’. It is evident from the programmes that the two people largely responsible for the running of the company were Mr. J.W. Cooper, who produced and directed nearly all of the plays, and W.H. Edgeworth who is credited as the Stage Manager. Both also had significant roles in each of the plays. It would appear that the company was dissolved sometime between 1899 and 1901, the two final plays for 1901 not being accredited to the Beverley Company - we do, however, still find J.W. Cooper involved, as stage manager in one and as one of the players in the other.

134 TIMMINS, Samuel. THE RESOURCES, PRODUCTS, AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM, and the midland hardware district: a series of report collected by the Local industries committee of the British association at Birmingham, in 1865 … London: Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. 1866. £ 400 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiii, 721, [1]; a clean fresh copy in later half calf over marbled boards, spine with black morocco label lettered in gilt; a very good copy. First edition of this remarkable work presenting a series of reports on the ‘numerous and varied products of the Midland Hardware district, of which Birmingham is the most important and practically, the central town’ (p. vii) compiled by members of the Local Industries Committee which had been founded in 1865 for that very purpose. ‘Ceramic Manufactures in Staffordshire’, ‘Birmingham Button Trade’, ‘Papier Mache Manufacture’, ‘Umbrella and Parasol Manufacture’, ‘Social and Economical Aspects of Birmingham’, ‘Coffin-Furniture Manufacture’ and ‘The Bellows Trade’ are just a few of the numerous reports presented. There is also report on ‘The Medical Aspects of Birmingham’ giving a brief account of the health and mortality of the town, including a small table relating to occupational health.

135 [TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS]. A WORD IN SEASON, to the Labourers in agriculture. Dorchester: Clark, printer. [1834]. £ 385 4pp., caption title, signed: “Your friend and well-wisher”, and dated: February, 1834; folded sheet as issued forming a 4-page pamphlet. A warning to farm labourers against the trade unions at the height of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. ‘These hired Travellers tell you, that by uniting against your Employers, you will obtain higher Wages, - but they deceive you … I tell you, that every man who is proved to have taken an illegal Oath to join the Union, is liable to be transported…I tell you, that Masters will discharge every Union man, and there is no Parish relief for you in that case…’ Goldsmiths’- Kress 28811; not in BLC or NSTC.

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136 TOVEY, Charles. A FREE LIBRARY FOR BRISTOL: with a History of the City Library, its Founders and Benefactors … London: Longman, Brown & Co., Paternoster Row. Bristol: Evans & Arrowsmith, Clare Street. 1855. [bound with:] TOVEY, Charles. THE BRISTOL CITY LIBRARY: Its Founders and Benefactors; its present position in connexion with the library society; and its future prospects; to which is added, plans and estimates for converting the building into a free library; with a catalogue of the books belonging to the citizens … London, Longman, Brown & Co., Paternoster Row. Bristol: Evans & Arrowsmith, Clare Street. 1853. 1853. £ 450 FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPY. Two works bound in one, 8vo, pp. 26; vii, [i] blank, 68, with frontispiece (woodengraved view of the library building), engraved title and four lithographic plans of the library; xvi, 28; apart from a few minor marks clean throughout; in the original green blindstamped publisher’s cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, expertly recased, spine lightly sunned, but not detracting from this being a fine and very desirable copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. These two works (frequently bound together) are a full documentation with illustrations of how the Free Library movement in Britain campaigned, raised funds and succeeded. Since the seventeenth century Bristol had a public library, the second oldest in England, after Norwich. It was an exclusive subscription library; however, by the 1840s ‘membership and revenues fell steadily so that by 1851, the £249 13s raised from 151 subscribers was not enough to maintain the fabric of the ageing building. At the same time, Victorian values of self-improvement and civic pride loosened the library’s hold over the city’s collection of books. In 1848, the town council heard a demand for “the Books belonging to the city and now deposited in the City Library more free of access and more useful than at present and for allowing the circulation of such Books amongst the citizens under proper restrictions”. In 1849, the first report of the Select Committee on Public Libraries was published and in 1850, the Public Libraries Act authorised local authorities with a population of more than 10,000 to raise a rate to provide public libraries. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. In Charles Tovey, Bristol wine merchant and Liberal town councillor, the city found a tireless champion of free libraries and an implacable opponent of the Library Society’s brand of exclusivity’ (Kathleen Hapgood, The Bristol Library Society, in: Bristol Review of Books, 2009, issue 9, online). OCLC records four copies of the works bound together, two in North America, both at the University of California, one at the the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in the Netherlands and a copy in the BL; copies of the the second work alone are at Yale, Washington and the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin.

137 [TRADE CATALOGUE]. GRIFFITHS & BROWETT, General Iron and Tin-Plate Workers, Japanners of Papier Mache and Iron Trays, &c., manufacturers of copper and brass utensils, &c., tinned and enamelled wrought-iron hollow-ware, all kinds of tinmen’s furniture, grocer’s show vases, canisters, &c. &c. Bradford Street, Birmingham; 21, Moorgate Street, London; and 47, Avenue Parmentier, Paris. [Birmingham] Billing Bros. and Whitmore, Printers. 1881. £ 1,250 8vo, pp. xiv, A-C, [i] blank, [iv], 419, [1] blank; two colour illustrations and numerous lithographed illustrations throughout; some pages folding, and with revised price list (1884) and details of additional wares

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138 [TROTTISCLIFFE CHARITY SCHOOL]. SOME RULES & ORDERS FOR THE PERPETUAL ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A CHARITY SCHOOL, In the Parish of Trotescliffe, to be called Mr. Paul Bairstow and Mrs. Mary Godwin’s Charity School. Maidstone, A. Austen, [c. 1825]. £ 225 UNRECORDED BROADSIDE. Folio (42.8 x 30.2 cm); a few folds, otherwise clean and fresh. This charity school was for teaching fifteen boys and girls English and religion. ‘The Master or Mistress [are] to have the Yearly Salary of Eight Pounds; and when it is a school mistress that is appointed, the Girls are to be taught the Use of the Needle’ Mr. Bairstow and Mrs. Godwin had decided. Further regulations are given on school visitations, dismissal of pupils for such things as truancy exceeding twenty days in a quarter. Trottiscliffe is a small village near Maidstone in Kent and has a variety of spellings; it is sometimes even called Trosley. Similarly, Paul Bairstow is called in one government paper Barristow, and in the village graveyard there is a 19th-century tombstone for one Mr. Bristow - probably of the same family.

139 VICK, Godfrey Russell [editor]. “A” CADET PIE. A Souvenir of “A” Company, No. 2 O.C.B., Queens College, Cambridge. May- August, 1917. Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, [1917]. £ 350 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [viii] advertisements, 64, [10] advertisements, with portrait and two plates (one printed on both sides) numerous illustrations and caricatures in the text; uncut in the original publisher’s illustrated cloth; several caricatures signed by the portraitees, a little darkened and rubbed; the advertising and printing agent H.A. Harper’s copy with his name, dated August 16, 1917 inside front cover.

An unusual and attractive privately printed work commemorating the “A” Company of the Officer Cadet Battalion of Queens’ College Cambridge, edited by Godfrey Russell Vick (1892-1958), who went on to become a criminal barrister at the Inner Temple. Consisting of humourous poems, parodies, whimsy, and caricatures of the soldiers, the present copy was also used by its owner as an autograph book souvenir of his time with the Company, with a signed portrait of Vick and many other signatures throughout the volume. We can also find a number of articles loosely inserted, including three manuscript poems by Harper, and a military ribbon. The poems largely capture the ironic, nostalgic flavour of these students sent to war: ‘Look down, oh might Power that be!…and if perchance some flapper did befit us…To fondle and embrace, some little piece of loveliness…’ or ‘To sleep, perchance to dream, aye there’s the rub/ for in our lecture sleep what dreams we see..’, but we can also find references to the trenches: ‘Was it because thou grieved at having cut/ Deep in the outer hide, such deep crevices, Known in the English tongue, by that outlandish name / As Trenches; mud and chalk and bags’. OCLC locates two copies, in Cambridge and in the State Library of Victoria.

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By the inventor of the British Abacus

140 VINCENT, A. AN INTRODUCTION TO ARITHMETIC, in which the method of teaching the elements of this science is simplified and particularly adapted for private instruction … Oxford, Printed for the Author, 1815. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 104, 29, [1] blank; folding engraved frontispiece; head of title and dedication leaf with 1cm missing at head where ownership signature removed, otherwise apart from some light dust-soiling a clean copy throughout; in contemporary calf, expertly rebacked, some surface wear, but still a very good copy. Rare first edition of An Introduction to Arithmetic by A. Vincent, ‘Inventor of the British Abacus’. ‘The Abacus, as invented by Mr. Vincent, proposes to exhibit, at one view, the elements of arithmetic. It is extremely compendious … [and] very ingenious; and as the elements of this science are greatly dependant on memory, we incline to think Mr. Vincent has materially facilitated the means of early acquirement. We shall not decide that the Abacus is equally fundamental with the multiplication table - that will be best understood by elementary teachers of arithmetic - but, whether or not, the very minute and clear explanations with which this work abounds, must necessarily conduce to lessen the dry study of figures. It is, therefore, worthy the attention of the master, and will be agreeable to the pupil’ (Critical Review, Fifth Series, p.634). We have been unable to find much further information on the author, ‘A. Vincent’, other than he was a private teacher of writing and accounts in Oxford. This appears to be his only published work. OCLC records one copy only, at Yale; not in COPAC and apparently not in the British Library.

Raising the tone 141 WALKER, Thomas. THE ORIGINAL … Vol. I [all published]. London: Henry Renshaw, 356, Strand, 1835. £ 225 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 408, 36; apart from some light dust-soiling (where individual parts folded) in places, a clean copy throughout; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt, minor rubbing, but still a very appealing copy with the ownership signature of William Harness (1790-1869), friend of Byron and Shakespeare editor, on front free endpaper. Written by the police magistrate at Lambeth Court, Thomas Walker (1784–1836), it is ‘a collection of his thoughts on many subjects, intended to raise “the national tone in whatever concerns us socially or individually”; the papers on health and gastronomy, however, were the chief attraction of the work. Many editions of The Original were published: one, with memoirs of the two Walkers (the other being the author’s father, also Thomas, the political reformer) by William Blanchard Jerrold, came out in 1874; another, edited by William Augustus Guy, in 1875; and one, with an introduction by Henry Morley, in 1887. A selection, entitled The Art of Dining and of Attaining High Health, was printed at Philadelphia in 1837, and another selection, by Felix Summerley (Sir Henry Cole), was published in 1881 under the title Aristology, or, The Art of Dining. Indeed, these are two series of articles, the first with 11 appearances, the second published in nine issues. Other articles are on the Domestic Economy of the Labouring Classes, an revealing text about the micro-economics of poverty, malnutrition and deprivation. This periodical appeared from May 20 to December 2, 1835 only; however, it was reprinted over ten times before 1890. BUCOP III, p. 462.

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Sir John West’s Port Orders: Unrecorded 142 [WEST, Sir John]. PLYMOUTH PORT ORDERS. [Printed by W. Wood & Son, 52, Fore-street, Devonport, [1845]. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 50; interleaved throughout; with four handcoloured signals in text, a few manuscript corrections and additions in a neat contemporary hand; contemporary dark blue half morocco over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-stamped lettering-piece on front cover; extremities a little worn. The naval officer Sir John West (1774 - 1862) fought in several battles in the 1790s. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Plymouth in 1845, with the Queen as his flagship with 110 guns. These regulations for the navy in Plymouth were issued on board this ship on the first of November 1845, as is written in ink on the first page of text. On the following page is John West’s declaration that he is responsible for securing freights of treasure, mainly gold and silver, and that he is entitled to a share or interest in freight money. This is dated by hand Canopus, in Hamoaze, April 29, 1845. HMS Canopus was a French-built 80-gun vessel, which had fallen into the hands of the Navy under Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. She was for 89 years in British service and was broken up in Plymouth harbour in 1887. The volume initially gives the general orders concerning conduct and discipline among the sailors and soldiers, including the consumption of tobacco and the serving of fresh beef on Tuesdays and Saturdays (Thursdays added in ink), and regulates fitting and refitting of vessels and the hospital. On pages 45 and 46, in the chapter on signalling there are four hand-coloured flags, drawn in ink. The print run of this book was apparently so low, that a printed (woodcut or engraved) illustration made no sense financially. The final four pages contain specimens of forms for the receipt of letters, requesting money from the paymaster and tabellaric forms for reports. It is most likely that this volume was for the use of Sir John West himself, as only he had the authority to amend and correct the printed text, as is done here on eight pages. All corrections are listed on a manuscript slip bound in at the beginning. Not in OCLC or COPAC.

By a close friend of Burns 143 WHITE, Thomas. SAINT GUERDUN’S WELL. A Poem … Dumfries: Printed for the Author; and sold by G.G. & J. Robinson, London; W. Creech, Edinburgh; Brash & Reid, Glasgow; and R. Clugston, Dumfries. [1797]. £ 300 SECOND EDITION, ‘GREATLY ENLARGED’ Small 4to, pp. [iv], 40; title and last leaf lightly soiled, otherwise clean throughout; in later marbled boards, joints cracked, but spine holding firm. Rare second edition, considerably enlarged from the first of 1795, of Thomas White’s poem Saint Guerdun’s Well, attractively printed for the author in Dumfries. In the advertisement, Thomas White ‘Master of the Mathematical School of Dumfries’, notes that ‘the poem was sent to be inserted in a certain periodical publication, which is conducted by a truly learned editor, and respectable admirer of venerable epitaphs and close parodies: He thought it too long for his work; and refused, on the author’s application, to return the copy. This edition is of the narrative form - contains about three hundred verses more than the former - and has the preterites and participial adjectives printed, as before, without elisions’ (p. iii). We have been unable to find little further information on the author, Thomas White, although he was evidently a friend of Robert Burns: ‘Another teacher in Dumfries was Thomas White, one of the twenty

73 P ICKERING & C HATTO friends each of whom Burns presented a new and enlarged edition of his poems, published in 1793. His tombstone in St. Michael’s Churchyard describes him as “a profound and original mathematician, who taught in the Dumfries Academy for forty years, and instructed hundreds to revere his memory”’ (Watt, Burns (1914), p. 66). OCLC records two copies in North America, at Harvard and North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one in the UK, at the NLS.

144 [WOBURN ABBEY]. FORBES, James. HORTUS WOBURNENSIS, A Descriptive Catalogue of upwards of Six Thousand Ornamental Plants Cultivated at Woburn Abbey. With numerous illustrative plans for the erection of Forcing Houses, Green Houses &c. and an account of their management throughout the year by James Forbes, A.L.S,.C.M.H.S. &c. Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G. London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1833. £ 1,600 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [2], xxiv, 440, [16], with lithographic frontispiece, hand coloured and glazed, engraved title with hand- coloured vignette, 24 plates in lithography and engraving, most of which are hand-coloured, several folded; only light browning to the initial leaves, one folding plate torn apart along fold; a good copy in contemporary calf; corners worn, rebacked, green label lettered in gilt. James Forbes (1773-1861) was gardener to the Duke of Bedford and published a number of works connected with the development of the gardens at Woburn, including Salictum Woburnense (1829) Journal of a Horticultural Tour through Germany, Belgium and Part of France in … 1835 (1837) and Pinetum Woburnense (1839). ‘The first part of the work contains a descriptive catalogue in abbreviated terms of the generic and specific character of upwards of 6000 plants … The second part comprises the plans of the Parterres, Pleasure Grounds, Greenhouses, Plant Stove, heathery and other erections, with a description of the different subjects enumerated, the soil, and the general management best adapted for the growth of the Cape, botany Bay, and other exotic Plants. The third part is confined to the plans and details relative to the Kitchen garden …’ (p. v). Arnold Arboretum I, p. 254; neither in Nissen nor Pritzel.

145 [WOMEN]. COLLECTION OF MATERIAL ON US WOMEN WORKERS. Comprising: 1. THE NEW POSITION OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN INDUSTRY. Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 12. Washington, Government Printing Office,1920. 8vo, pp. 158, [2]; stapled as issued in the original, rather defective, publisher’s printed wraps.

2. THE SHARE OF WAGE-EARNING WOMEN IN FAMILY SUPPORT. Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 30. Washington, Government Printing Office,1923. 8vo, pp. 170; stapled as issued in the original green printed publisher’s printed wraps, a fine copy.

3. HOPKINS, Mary. THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AT NIGHT. Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 64. Washington, Government Printing Office,1928. 8vo, pp. 86; stapled as issued in the original green printed publisher’s printed wraps, a fine copy. 4. PIDGEON, Mary Elizabeth. THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN SLAUGHTERING AND MEAT PACKING. Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 88. Washington, Government Printing Office,1932. 8vo, pp. 210; stapled as issued in the original green

74 P ICKERING & C HATTO printed publisher’s printed wraps, a fine copy, ‘Presented by te Viscountess Astor’. 5. MANNING, Caroline and Harriet BYRNE. THE EFFECTS ON WOMEN OF CHANGING CONDITIONS IN THE CIGAR AND CIGARETTE INDUSTRIES. Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 100. Washington, Government Printing Office,1932. 8vo, pp. 187, [1] blank; stapled as issued in the original green printed publisher’s printed wraps, a fine copy. 6. DEMPSEY, Mary V. THE OCCUPATIONAL PROGRESS OF WOMEN, 1910 to 1930. Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 104. Washington, Government Printing Office,1933. 8vo, pp. 90; stapled as issued in the original green printed publisher’s printed wraps, a fine copy. 7. PIDGEON, Mary Elizabeth. WOMEN IN THE ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Women’s Bureau ‘Bulletin 155’ [written on title in ink] Washington, Government Printing Office,1937. 8vo, pp. 137, [1] blank; stapled as issued in the original glossy pictorial publisher’s wraps, a very good copy.

8. PIDGEON, Mary Elizabeth. A PREVIEW AS TO WOMEN WORKERS IN TRANSITION FROM WAR TO PEACE. Special Bulletin No. 18 of the Women’s Bureau. March 1944. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1944. 8vo, pp. 26, [2] blank; stapled and disbound, as issued. 9. MOORE, Louise. OCCUPATIONS FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN: Selected References. Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau No. 229. [Washington], US Government Printing Office, 1949. 8vo, pp. vi, 105, [1] blank; stapled as issued in the original green printed publisher’s wraps, a very good copy.

10. PART-TIME JOBS FOR WOMEN - a study in 10 cities. Women’s Bureau Bulletin No. 238. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1951. 8vo, pp. vi, 82; stapled as issued in the original pictorial publisher’s wraps, a very good copy. 11. WOMEN AS WORKERS: A Statistical Guide. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington. Oblong 8vo, pp. iv, 112; stapled as issued in the original orange printed publisher’s wraps; a very good copy. 12. 1960 HANDBOOK ON WOMEN WORKERS. Women’s Bureau Bulletin No. 275. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1960. 8vo, pp. vi, 160, [2]; stapled as issued in the original green pictorial publisher’s wraps, lightly rubbed to extremities, but still a good copy. . £ 285 Interesting collection of material on US Women Workers published by the US Department of Labour Women’s Bureau, all withdrawn from the Women’s Service Library at Fawcett House.

146 [WOMEN]. PROSPECTUS FOR A SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. Fitzalan House, Melbury Road, Kensington, London. [n.d., c. 1901]. 4to, pp. [4]; folded as issued; evidence of further folding, otherwise in very good original condition.

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147 [WOMEN]. VICTORIAN ERA EXHIBITION, 1897. Earl’s Court, London, S.W. Director General: Imre Kiralfy. Catalogue. Woman’s Work Section. London: Riddle & Couchman, 22, Southwark Bridge Road, S.E. Copyrighted, 1897. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 110, [2] advertisements; with two folding plans; stapled as issued in the original pictorial wraps. Rare first edition of the ‘Woman’s Work Section’ catalogue of the Victorian Era Exhibition held at Earl’s Court in 1897. ‘The Victorian Era Exhibition of 1897 held in Earls Court London, England, was created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 1837 succession of Queen Victoria. The exhibition was officially opened by HRH the Duke of Cambridge, on May 24th 1897. The Director General of the Exhibition was Imre Kiralfy. The main exhibition building, measuring approximately 400 foot in length x 60 foot width, was divided into two sections, the west wing for the Historical & Commemorative Section, which was subdivided into the Military and Naval Room linked by a corridor to the Historical Room, at either side of the corridor, the Dickens and Thackeray Room opposite the Royal Room. The east wing was solely devoted to the Fine Art Section, exhibiting works from artists such as Edward Henry Corbould’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Victorian_Era_Exhibition_1897). The present fascinating catalogue of the Woman’s Work exhibit is broken in to various sections: Nursing, Fine Art, Art Schools, Music, Inventions, Philanthropy, Applied Art and Handicrafts, Education and concluding with Women’s industries. Each section is filled with names of famous women contributors and those who lent items to the various exhibits. Also provided is a coloured folding plan so the visitor could find their way around. OCLC records one copy only, at the London Library.

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148 [WOMEN POLICE FORCE]. REASONED STATEMENT ON WOMEN POLICE. From the Report of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure, March, 1929; together with Extract from the Home Secretary’s Speech of May 2nd, 1932, and the Statutory Rules and Orders assigning Duties to Women Police. London, Fletcher Sons & Co., Printers, Quilp Street … 1932. £ 65 8vo, pp. [ii], 11, [3] blank; stapled as issued, short splits to joints, but holding firm; withdrawn from the Women’s library.

Scarce work documenting the gradual acceptance of women police officers in Great Britain. OCLC records one copy only, at London Metropolitan University.

149 WYTHEN BAXTER, George Robert. THE BOOK OF THE BASTILES; or the History of the Working of the New Poor-Law. London, John Stephens, 1841. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. xiii, 112, *113-*119, [113]-609, with a fine full-length lithographic portrait of the author as frontispiece; lightly spotted in places; original publisher’s green cloth, covers ornamented in blind, spine titled in gilt (‘Price 25 s.’ at foot); a bit shaky, wear to extremities. Wythen Baxter’s The Book of the Bastiles is a vicious attack of the Poor Law of 1834, compiled from newspaper reports of anti-Poor Law demonstrations and speeches, together with lurid accounts of the cruelties practised on pauper inmates by sadistic workhouse masters. The radical Tory Wythen-Baxter reports on child murder in workhouses, documents the violent assaults of inmates by the master of the Rochester workhouse, who was prosecuted and found guilty. The work contains several extracts from reports of the master’s trial and served to persuade the reader as to the frequency of such occurrences. The authorities backing the Poor Law called this book an ‘abusive and ponderous manifesto’. - However polemic, this work is a treasure trove of information of the social conditions of the poor in the early Victorian era, and the campaigning for bettering their chances in society. Surprisingly little is known about Wythen Baxter; he calls himself on the title-page ‘a lineal descendant of the celebrated nonconformist, Richard Baxter, author of the “Saints’ Rest,” etc.’ Richard Baxter flourished in the seventeenth century. OCLC locates only five copies, in the National Library of Sweden, at Sheffield University, California State and in the British Library.

Fire Extinction by Gunpowder 150 YOUNG, David. OBSERVATIONS UPON FIRE, with a view to the best and most expeditious methods of extinguishing it, upon a new plan, with or without water. Edinburgh: printed for the author. 1784. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 48; early nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked and labelled, with the armorial bookplate of Ferguson of Raith on front pastedown; a fine copy. The author takes the subject seriously and offers a practical guidance on fire management and fire extinction. Some of his ideas are simple and pretty mundane - wet cloths, wet straw, earth and so forth. Gunpowder balls used to blow the fire out by violent explosions was perhaps more controversial. “These balls”, David Young advertises, “with printed directions, may be got from the author at Perth, or at Mr. William Fraser’s shop, Luckenbooths Edinburgh, or any other persons houses that may be advertised afterwards. As these balls are but a small expense, whenever there is a water engine, there ought to be a number of them lying there of different sizes, for it is not time to seek even gunpowder itself when a fire

77 P ICKERING & C HATTO happens, and in the confusion that people are in, going near gun-powder by candle-light, accidents might happen”. In a fascinating paper, the author also proposes that specialist salaried firemen ought to be employed. ESTCT78098.

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Notes

Illustrations Front Cover - 58 [Gothic Chap Book] Inside Front Cover - 72 [Keate] Page 80 (clockwise from top) - 9 [Anon]; 54 Frazer; 31 [Cobbett] Back cover - 144 [Woburn Abbey]; 38 Cooke

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