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BULLETIN 47 APRIL 2015 PICKERING & CHATTO 1 ST. CLEMENT’S COURT LONDON EC4N 7HB TEL: +44 (0) 20 7337 2225 E-MAIL: [email protected] 1. [ALLESTREE, Richard?]. THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, laid down in a plain and familiar way for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader … Aberdeen: Printed by Francis Douglas, and sold at his Shop in the End of Broadgate. 1759. £ 385 8vo, pp. [xvi], 503, [7] contents, [2] advertisements; a clean copy throughout, with near contemporary ownership signature of ‘Millicent Ellis Nov 28th 1772’ on front free endpaper; contemporary calf, upper joint cracked (but holding firm), some chipping at head and tail of spine, and general surface wear, but still a good copy. Rare Aberdeen printing of The Whole Duty of Man , the bestselling devotional guide which went through twelve editions by 1727, and attained an almost canonical authority in advice manuals of the eighteenth century. ‘ The Whole Duty of Man was intended to show “the very meanest readers” how “to behave themselves so in this world that they may be happy for ever in the next”. This best-selling manual’s prescription of morality and effort was balanced by an emphasis on divine grace and devotional practice: the result was sober, orthodox, common-sense advice pitched at the level of ordinary Anglican parishioners.’ [ODNB] The work is attributed to Richard Allestree (1621/22-1681), noted divine, censor at Oxford and tutor, who was an enthusiastic royalist, working as a courier to the King. He was later canon of Christ Church and provost of Eton College. Three copies recorded worldwide, at the Bodleian (ESTC), NLS (OCLC) and Edinburgh University (COPAC). 2. [ANON]. THE RULE OF LIFE. A collection of select moral sentences, extracted from the greatest authors, ancient and modern, and digested under proper heads. Edinburgh: Printed by and for Gavin Alston. 1772. £ 450 12mo, pp. vi, 259, [1] blank; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary sheep, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, foot of spine chipped, and upper joint cracked, nevertheless still an appealing copy. A rare Edinburgh printed compendium of moral precepts, covering topics such as law, justice, ambition, hope, fear, vanity, friendship, wealth, luxury, and ‘women, love and marriage’. 6 Cruikshank 1 Allestree 2 [Anon] ‘My endeavour has been, to follow nature , and keep close to truth … It cannot be expected, that every sentence should have the authority of a maxim . Stars differ in brightness: yet those that shine the least, may have their influences’ (p. iv). ESTC records two copies, at the British Library and Illinois, OCLC adds one further copy at The Henry Ford collection. Rare anti-materialist work 3. ASZTALOS, Elise von. AN DIE DENKENDEN DEUTSCHEN FRAUEN. Leipzig, Heinrich Matthes, 1868. £ 225 FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. xx, 284; a little browned due to paper stock; original very decorative olive publisher’s cloth, lettered and ornamented in blind and gilt, all edges gilt; from the library of Friedrich Freiherr Gross von Trockau with his lithographic armorial bookplate on paste-down. First edition of this rare anti-materialist work by the little-known artist, actor, and writer Elise von Asztalos, today better known for her memoirs published in 1901 under the title Aus meinem Künstlerleben als Primadonna in Deutschland, Österreich und Italien . Here, Asztalos criticises the materialist tendencies in philosophy and sciences since the eighteenth century. In the preface, written in London the year before, she explains that the purpose of this book is to let women participate in the debate about materialism against romantic, metaphysical and religious views. She furnished her argument with references to, and quotations from, Voltaire, early German idealists, such as Schiller, Hölderlin and Hegel, and the romantic ‘natural philosophers’ Novalis, Schleiermacher, Carl Gustav Carus and others. One passage is printed in French and one in English. OCLC locates only one copy, in the State Library in Berlin. 4. BURET, Eugène. DE LA MISERE DES CLASSES LABORIEUSES en Angleterre et en France; de la nature de la misère, de son existence, de ses effets, de ses causes, et de l’insuffisance des remèdes qu’on lui a opposés jusqu’ici; avec l’indication des moyens propres a en affranchir les sociétés … Tome I [-II]. Bruxelles, Societe Typographique Belge, 1842. £ 950 Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [iv], vi, 7-284; [iv], 342; apart from some light foxing a clean copy throughout; uncut in recent half calf, spines ruled in gilt with green morocco labels lettered in gilt, with the original printed wraps bound in; a very good copy. Scarce Belgian printing of Buret’s condemnation of the exploitation of the working classes in England. The first of its kind, it preceded that of Engels, and went further in theory and analysis than Villermé in his study of France published the same year. In this book Buret expressed and accentuated the opinions of the rising socialist school. Buret perceived the vice of the industrial system to be caused by the separation of capital and labour. Revolution is, in his view, too destructive a solution, but his own proposals were hardly less profound in their call for social change. The social consequences of intensive industrialisation were far more noticable and more extreme in England than anywhere else in Europe, and European social reformers tended to look to Britain for the illustration of their theories. Buret stands out from his contemporaries as a critical economist in direct line from Sismondi to Marx, with a clear perception of the problems and well-developed and well- written theoretical solutions often found to be lacking in other writers of his time. The work first appeared in Paris in 1840. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Georgetown and Illinois; McCulloch, p. 305; see Kress C5117 & Goldsmiths 31647 for first edition. 5. [COLE, Henry]. ‘Felix Summerly.’ TRAVELLING CHARTS: Or, Iron Road Books, for perusal on the journey: (By Felix Summerly.) In which are noted the towns, villages, churches, mansions, parks, stations, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, cuttings, gradients, &c., the scenery and its natural history, the antiquities and their historical associations, &c., passed by the line of the railway. With hundreds of Illustrations. Constituting a Novel and Complete Companion for the Railway Carriage. London to Rugby and Birmingham (on the London and North-Western.) London, printed by James Holmes, 4, Took’s Court, Chancery Lane. [1845]. £ 250 Folding printed ‘Travelling Chart’ [310 x 21cm] with 136 wood-engraved illustrations; some abrading but no loss. folding down into original wrappers, now overlaid with contemporay brown paper. The last and the longest of Cole’s inventive Travelling Charts . Cole’s ‘personal railway mania then led him to produce “travelling charts” His innovation here was to make the railway journey itself the central feature. The Railway Travelling Charts: or iron road books, for perusal on the journey included details not only of “towns, villages, churches, mansions, parks”, but also of “stations, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, cuttings, gradients”. These features were all marked on a sort of map, which adopted a traditional format for road maps, in which the road meandered down the middle of a page, with details of places and landmarks on each side. In Cole’s charts the railway line went vertically down the centre, flanked by text, and by illustrations in the form of charming little wood engravings after such artists as Richard Cox, jun., Charles C. Pyne, and Fraser Redgrave, the half- brother of the painter Richard Redgrave. The charts were individually printed on long strips of paper, which folded up into handy pamphlets, and were published from the Railway Chronicle office. They described the lines from London to Brighton, Cambridge, Oxford, Southampton, Tunbridge Wells, Guildford and Birmingham, among others’ (Bonyton & Burton: The Great Exhibitor; The Life and Work of Henry Cole , London: V&A, 2003. p. 71). 6. CRUIKSHANK, Percy. THE LITTLE PEOPLES PANORAMA. WHITTINGTON & HIS CAT [cover title ]. London, Darton & Co., [c. 1850]. £ 500 Lithographic strip panorama, consisting of three sheets conjoined, measuring 14 x 158cm, concertina- folding into illustrated boards, folding down to 15 x 11cm; old tape repairs to folds. covers worn and detached. Scarce panorama by Percy Cruikshank giving his take on the old London legend of the Lord Mayor’s adventurous cat. Not in OCLC. 6 Cruikshank 7. [DICKENS]. CHEROOT CASE. Double slipcase for cheroots [c. 1837]. £ 450 12 x 7cm purple patterned leather slipcase within approx. 13.5 x 7.5cm lacquered slipcase; on the upper face appears a scene from Pickwick, after Onwhyn, in colour. Unusual and well preserved spectacle case with the upper side depicting a scene from the Pickwick Papers . The illustration was included originally in The Pickwick Illustrations Thirty-Two Etchings by Thomas Onwhyn And “Sam Weller” published in 1837 and depicts the dramatic scene in chapter 1 from ‘The Madman’s Manuscript’ where the ‘madman’ confronts his confessor exclaiming ‘“Damn you,” said I, starting up, and rushing upon him; “I killed her. I am a madman. Down with you. Blood, blood! I will have it!”’ Probably not the most endearing subject for a cheroot case but an excellent topic for conversation. An unusual item attesting to the early popularity of Dickens. First Scottish work on Scottish Agriculture 8. DONALDSON, James. HUSBANDRY ANATOMISED, or, an enquiry into the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part; and several rules and measures laid down for the better improvement thereof, in so much that one third part more increase may be had, and yet more than a third part of the expence of the present way of labouring thereof saved.