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CATALOGUE CCV WINTER 2013-14 THE MUSEUM

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Brian Lake Janet Nassau ALCOTT

BY THE FATHER OF LOUISA MAY 1. ALCOTT, Amos Bronson. Conversations with Children on The Gospels. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Boston: James Munroe & Co. Partly unopened in orig. purple cloth; largely faded to brown. v.g. ¶Amos Alcott, 1799-1888, father of Louisa May Alcott, was a teacher, philosopher, writer and reformer. His methods of teaching were unconventional with learning based on self-instruction through self-analysis with an emphasis on conversation and questioning rather than the stricter and traditional method of lecturing. A friend of the author and leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alcott founded Fruitlands in what proved to be a short-lived transcendentalist experiment in utopian living. 1836/1837 £280

THE FREAKS 2. ALDEN, W.L. Among the Freaks. Longmans, Green & Co. Half title, front. & illus. by J.F. Sullivan & Florence K. Upton. Orig. dec. turquoise cloth; sl. rubbed. Signature of S. Musgrave on half title. ¶Not in Wolff. (Krishnamurti - 25). A novel centred on a Chicago Dime Museum and some of its remarkable performers, with chapters including The wild man of Borneo, How the fat woman eloped, The baby show and The bearded woman. 1896 £150

WAITING FOR ‘OLD ABE’ - CIVIL WAR LETTER 3. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. ALS to ‘Dear Sister’ from ‘Brother A’, HdQts, 12th N.H. Vol, March 20th, 63 [April 3rd 1863]. 86 lines on 4 sides of single folded 8vo sheet. ¶Written on April 3rd (the letter is dated March 20th but was not written until April) just three weeks before the 12th Infantry Regiment, alongside the Army of the Potomac, engaged General Lee’s Confederate Army in the Battle of Chancellorsville. The unidentified Officer, writing home to his sister, describes his new role, attending to the ill Captain Douglas, and assisting the Adjutant in office AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

and out: ‘Instead of drum sticks, I now use the sword. I have to make out details, assist at Guard Mounting in the fore noon and in forming the line of Dress Parade in the afternoon.’ On the day of writing, the 12th Regiment was expected to be reviewed by Abraham Lincoln on his Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac, which took place over four days in Stafford County, Virginia. ‘Today we went out the whole of our Division to be reviewed by ‘Old Abe’ who is visiting the army of the Po - but he did not get round Probably will tomorrow’. 1863 £150 †

SCARCE GUIDE TO PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY 4. ANDERSON, Elbert. The Skylight and the Dark-Room: a complete text-book on portrait photography. Containing the outlines of hydrostatics, pneumatics, acoustics, heat, optics, chemistry, and a full and comprehensive system of the art photographic. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Philadelphia: Benerman & Wilson. Illus, 12 photographs laid down on 5 plates, 14pp ads. Orig. pict. green cloth, bevelled boards. v.g. ¶Not in BL; Imperial College only on Copac; 3 copies only on OCLC; no copies recorded on ABPC & none currently for sale. An exceptionally scarce and comprehensive guide to the science and method of portrait photography, with 12 photographic examples of how to set up and mount the perfect portrait. ‘This book’ Anderson writes in the preface, ‘has been written for learners, not for the learned! It has not been my object to extend the boundaries of our present system of photography, by excursion into debatable ground, but to present that which is generally admitted in a form easily comprehended. By this, however, I do not wish to convey the idea that my book is unscientific in its method; certainly not. I mean merely, that I have striven to avoid encumbering the work with the many abstruse and still unsolved questions which environ the subject’. 1872 £2,800

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ANONYMOUS REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND - ‘WE INTEND TO TAKE THEIR HEADS FROM THEIR SHOULDERS’ 5. ALS to ‘Dear Thomas’ (Paine), from London, signed ‘I.D.’, Decr. 31st, 1792. ‘Our Combination consists of 233621 Englishmen and 15342 foreigners which added together amounts to 248963 ...’ 26 lines on both sides of single folio sheet with late 18thC Britannia watermark; old folds, a few marginal tears without loss. ¶‘To Mr Thomas Paine, Member of the National Convention, Paris’ is written in a later hand, at the foot of the first page. A remarkable document from a collection including correspondence between the prominent English radicals John Thelwall and Thomas Hardy. The letter, from an unidentified correspondent and purportedly to Thomas Paine, author of The Rights of Man and the figurehead of the English radical movement, calls for Revolution in England and the decapitation of the King, Prime Minister & other leading British Parliamentarians: ‘Great G [George III]: his tutor W.P. [William Pitt] H. D. [Henry Dundas] and several others we intend to take their heads from their shoulders or give them a dose which will answer the same purpose’. Written just months after the arrest of Louis XVI in ‘the Revolution of 10 August’ and subsequent September Massacres, the letter implies the possibility of imminent Revolution in England: ‘Our Combination consists of 233621 Englishmen and 15342 foreigners which added together amounts to 248963 so that their [sic] are but 51037 deficient of our compliment, and I imagine in less than four months time shall be quite the thing and if that be the case you may return safe to England ... If W _ [war] is declared agst. F___ [France]our new R___n [Revolution] will commence as soon has [sic] the Raschals [sic] begins to P____ [panic?]’. It is tempting to imagine an English radical movement waiting in the wings for Thomas Paine to return from France and march at the head of a revolutionary army, some 250,000 strong. It is certainly true that radicalism in England had advanced from the primarily middle class pre Revolutionary movement for parliamentary reform. By the 1790s however, ‘radicalism had made major advances on the position which it had occupied a decade before. The movement became more radical in its ideology, more revolutionary in its aims and more influential in its impact on the masses’. Radical corresponding societies emerged in cities and large provincial towns, the most influential being the London Corresponding Society (LCS) founded by John Frost and Thomas Hardy in January 1792. By the end of 1792 the LCS had expanded rapidly to include 9 divisions and had affiliates in Manchester, Norwich, Sheffield and Stockport. It is conceivable that the ‘40’ remarked on by the correspondent refers to a provisional revolutionary government but the only document that purports to detail arrangements for such a body is dated 1798. Secret intelligence in France sent to the Home Office records that: ‘The Directory [provisional government] is to consist of Paine, Tooke, Sharpe, Thelwall, Lansdown’ (Historical Manuscripts Commission Report on the manuscripts of J.B. Fortescue preserved at Dropmore, volume iv, page 70). In December 1792 however, the radical movement was certainly not comprised of a violent revolutionary force of the the size implied in this letter. In fact, ‘only a minority considered any kind of physical force tactic which would apply irresistible pressure to the governing elite. Fewer still contemplated violent revolution’. In 1792, the number of active members of the LCS numbered 650 with the Sheffield Society for Constitutional Information numbering 2500 members of which only approximately 600 were active (Thale, Selections from the Papers of the London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799). The conclusion can only be that the 233,621 Englishmen referenced in this letter appears to be a fantastical and purely fictitious number. The question therefore is what purpose does this letter serve? Was Thomas Paine genuinely the intended recipient of this letter or was it a propaganda ploy to invoke revolution on one hand or promote fear of revolution on the other? Above all else, the question that has at this point no answer is who is ‘I.D.’? It is possible that he truly was a British revolutionary and associate of Thomas Paine. Or perhaps he was a lone fantasist dreaming of spilling royal blood. It is also conceivable that ‘I.D.’ was a fiction of the state machine, an object of fear spread to counter the threat, real or false, of the British radical movement. Conversely he may have been a fiction of the radical movement, invented to ANONYMOUS

exaggerate the strength of a movement that sought to fight for the rights of liberty, equality, fraternity. What can be certain is that this letter indicates the panic and the fervour that existed in Britain during the period of revolution in France, a period in which revolutionary whispers echoed through the streets of London and elsewhere, and government fear of a popular uprising was a genuine cause of concern. With thanks to Professors James Walvin, Bill Speck, John Barrell, and Greg Claeys. 1792 £1,500 †

THE BURTON LEGENDS 6. The Burton Legends. Illustrated with teetotal cuts. By a Burton brewer. John R. Day. Orig. printed paper boards; neatly rebacked, sl. bubbled by damp. ¶No copies recorded in Copac. A humorous history, in verse, on the importance of the famous Burton Spring. A reproach to the teetotal movement. ‘Yet even o’er Drink let us have a fair fight - / If you hold that it’s murder to smell it / Come you down from the Bench, my good Sir it’s not right / You should give me a license to sell it.’ 1876 £85

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POLITE SOCIETY 7. The Manners of Polite Society; or, Etiquette for ladies and gentlemen. Ward, Lock & Tyler. Half title proceeding title, illus 16pp Cata. Orig. green cloth, bevelled boards, dec. in gilt & black. Hinges a little weak, spine sl. rubbed at head & tail. An attractive copy. ¶Dated from the preface. Also seen in brown cloth with the same blocking but re-set and with different pagination. [1875] £65

A SPANKING COPY 8. The Nameless Crime; a mystery shown in two tableaux vivants. Printed by Whipwell & Co., Bottom Lane. Beautifully printed in pink & black on hand-made paper. Uncut in contemp. vellum, lettered in gilt, ‘THE EXTRA BUCKLE’ on spine; sl. dulled. 46pp. ¶Not on Copac which records one title, Rosy tales! : exhibited for the delectation of all true lovers of the birch, printed by Whipwell & Co. [c.1890]. Mendes [30] - ANONYMOUS

unseen. One of 250 copies printed but not numbered. ‘This may be the same as an item in the Nicholas Brown List: The Nameless Crime - a play in one act... and its appearance in the Avery catalogue, suggest that it was uniform with The Whippingham Papers and The Romance of Chastisement.’ Erotic verse in the form of a semi-tragedy in one act. ‘Oh! must it be birching? I see by your eyes,/That savagely sparkle, you mean to chastise;/ And I, while confessing the penance is sore,/ Can relish the Rod from the hand I adore.’ [c.1889] £380

YELLOWBACK COVER DESIGIN 9. Original Artwork for the front cover of ‘Creatures of Clay’ by Lady Violet Greville. Pen & ink on card with printers’ instructions in pencil on verso. 16 x 23cm. TOGETHER WITH a copy of the book: GREVILLE, Violet, Lady. Creatures of Clay. A novel. George Routledge and Sons. 1885. Ads on e.ps. Yellowback in orig. printed boards; spine worn but sound. ¶First published in 3 volumes in the same year, this is the original artwork for the one volume yellowback edition, part of Routledge’s Railway Library, number 1031 (see Topp p.359). 1885 £180 †

CREWKERNE PRINTING 10. The Sceptic. By a Lady. 12mo. John Russell Smith. Printed in Crewkerne. Half title. Orig. blue cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; at some time excellently rebacked retaining orig. spine strip. A v.g. copy of a scarce novel. ¶BL copy only on Copac. An improving story, the villain turning from the ‘dark caverns’ of scepticism. 1850 £525 ANONYMOUS

GUIDE TO WAITING AT TABLE 11. Waiting at Table: a practical guide. By a member of the aristocracy. Frederick Warne. Half title, 4pp ads. Orig. blue-grey cloth; front board sl. marked ¶BL & V&A only on Copac: Cambridge records an [1880?] edition in 194pp with this copy being 115pp. A comprehensive guide for servants waiting at every imaginable table; from breakfasts to wedding receptions, garden parties to hunting parties. 1894 £125 ______

12. (AUSTEN, Jane) Emma: a novel. By the Author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’. &c. &c. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 12mo. John Murray. Nick to upper margin of title, vol. I. Bound without half titles in contemp. half brown calf, gilt bands, compartments in blind, light brown morocco labels; some sl. rubbing to extremities but a very nice copy. Inscription on leading f.e.ps: ‘Elizabeth Anne Sandford with affectionate love from her Aunt, Anne Anderton, Wake Green, Decr. 29, 1869’. ¶Gilson A8. 1816 £15,000

13. (AUSTEN, Jane) Sense and Sensibility: a novel. By the Author of “Pride and Prejudice”. 2nd edn. 3 vols. Printed for the Author, by C. Roworth, & published by T. Egerton. Half titles; some minor paper flaws, mostly marginal but occasionally within text touching a single letter, some light spotting but overall a nice clean copy. Contemp. half brown calf, marbled boards, expertly rebacked in matching calf, ruled & dec. in gilt, red morocco labels. A handsome copy. ¶Gilson A2; with textual revision. 1813 £7,800 BABBAGE

14. BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. 3rd edn. enlarged. Charles Knight. Engr. titlepage, vignette; sl. spotted. Orig. purple wavy- grained cloth, Spine lettered in gilt with gilt border; boards sl. marked, spine faded to brown. Embossed stamp of Castle Archdale, Irvinestown. v.g. ¶With a preface to the 1st, 2nd & 3rd editions. On the actions and purpose of machinery and the facts connected with their employment. ‘The present volume’ Babbage wrote, was ‘one of the consequences that have resulted from the Calculating Engine ... having been induced during the last ten years, to visit a considerable number of workshops and factories.’ Although never completed in his lifetime, Babbage invented the first mechanical calculator, the Difference Engine, that weighed 15 tonnes and stood 8 foot high. 1832 [1833] £450

15. BAILLIE, Joanna. (Works - A Collection of Plays in four volumes.) T. Cadell; Longman. Uniform contemp. full brown calf, borders in blind, gilt spines. A v.g. bright set. ¶The four volumes are: A Series of Plays: in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind. Each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy. 3 vols. Vol. I, 4th edn (T. Cadell), 1802; vol. II, 2nd edn (T. Cadell), 1802; vol. III, FIRST EDITION (Longman), 1812. Miscellaneous Plays. FIRST EDITION (Longman), 1804. 1802-12 £400

16. BAKER, John, of Sydenham. The Christian House, built by Truth on a Rock. Or, An antidote to infidelity. Printed for the Author; & sold by W. Williams. Illus; sl. water staining. Disbound. 20pp. ¶A rather verbose poem in the manner of The Political House .... ‘The Age of Reason’ illustrates the ‘Vile Books’. Not in Jackson. 1820 £85 BARKLY

BOERS & BASUTOS 17. BARKLY, Fanny Alexandra. Among Boers and Basutos. The story of our life on the frontier. 2nd edn. Remington. Half title. Orig. olive-brown cloth, blocked in black, lettered in gilt. v.g. ¶The spine is blocked ‘A. Heywood & Son’. With a gilt advertising stamp for ‘Boyles Blackburn, Jap Nuggets’ (tinned sweetmeats) on front cover. A memoir of life on the frontier by the wife of Arthur Cecil Barkly, the last British governor of Heligoland. 1894 £150

18. BEACH, Charles A. Too Good For Anything: or, A Waif of the World. Frederick Warne & Co. Half title. Orig. light brown cloth; sl. rubbed. v.g. ¶Wolff records two titles by Beach, Andrew Deverel: the history of an adventurer in New Guinea, 1863, and Lost Lenore, or, The adventures of a rolling stone, 1864, edited by Captain Mayne Reid. Mrs Reid’s Memoir describes Beach as ‘the cannibal’: ‘he had lately landed from Australia...had travelled round the earth more than six times, and had lived with cannibals’. Not in BL; Exeter only on Copac. [c.1900] £50

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LONDON PEOPLE 19. BENNETT, Charles Henry. London People: sketched from life. 4to. Smith, Elder, & Co. Half title, front & plates; some spotting. Orig. blue cloth, bevelled board; sl. rubbed & dulled. Armorial bookplate of Horace Noble Pym. a.e.g. ¶Perceptive mildly satirical portraits of London types from the Cornhill Magazine, depicted in a Court, on a train, at the play, in Covent Garden Market, &c; some of the accompanying text is by John Hollingshead. 1863 £150

AESOP’S FABLES 20. BENNETT, Charles Henry (Illus.) The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into Human Nature. Designed and drawn on the wood by Charles H. Bennett. Engraved by Swain. 4to. Chatto & Windus. Hand-coloured front., illus. title, hand- coloured plates. Orig. green pict. cloth, blocked in gilt; sl. rubbed. Embossed stamp of W.H. Smith. v.g. ¶First published in a single edition in 1857 by W. Kent & Co. This is the first and only edition published by Chatto & Windus. 22 illustrated fables from The Wolf and the Lamb to The Wolf and the Crane. 1875 £180 BENTHAM

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21. BENTHAM, Jeremy. Bentham’s Radical Reform Bill, with extracts from the reasons. E. Wilson. Half title. Recently bound in half calf, new e.ps. 85pp. ¶A call not only for universal suffrage, annual Parliaments, and election by ballot (the commonly understood principles of radical reform), but for ‘Secret, universal, equal, and annual suffrage’. 1819 £450

22. BENTHAM, Jeremy. Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the form of a catechism, with reasons for each article, with an introduction, shewing the necessity of radical, and the inadequacy of moderate reform. FIRST EDITION. R. Hunter. Rebound in marbled boards, black cloth spine, black morocco label. ‘From the author’ trimmed through at head of titlepage. Stamps of the Tate Central Library. v.g. ¶Written largely between 1809-10, Bentham - perhaps in fear of prosecution - did not publish this radical and forceful call for reform until 1817. Reprinted in 1818 by T.J. Wooler, this volume contains an amended reprinting of George Wilson Meadley’s A sketch of the various proposals for a constitutional reform in the representation of the people ...(1812). 1817 £750

HELP FOR THE WORKING CLASSES 23. (BICKERSTETH, afterwards WARD, Charlotte) Lending a Hand: or, Help for the working classes. Chapters on some vexed questions of the day. FIRST EDITION. Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday. Half title, final ad. leaf. Orig. blue cloth. v.g. ¶Family life, Homes for the English workman, Shelter for the homeless, The Mulhouse experiment, The Workman’s Sunday, Domestic servants, Mendicants, The Sick poor in London. 1866 £150

24. BIERCE, Ambrose. Fantastic Fables. FIRST EDITION, first state. New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press. 4pp ads. Orig. light-yellow pictorial cloth; spine sl. dulled. A nice crisp copy. ¶Tales and sketches by the master of wit. 1899 £180 BIRDWOOD

ORIGINAL CLOTH 25. (BIRDWOOD , James) Heart’s-Ease in Heart-Trouble: or, A sovereign remedy against all trouble of heart that Christ’s disciples are subject to, under all kinds of afflictions in this life. By J. Bunyan. Printed for W. Johnston, at the Golden-Ball, in Ludgate-Street. x, 11-143, [1]p ad., front. port. 12mo. Orig. hessian cloth, v.g. Signature of Ann Ashmore, Mar. 14. 1836 on the inner pastedown. ¶ESTC T58040. Although attributed to Bunyan on the titlepage the author is actually James Birdwood (or Burdwood). First published in 1690, all editions are scarce. Of this one, ESTC locates 13 copies (5 in USA), but all 3 BL copies are imperfect, as are both John Rylands’ copies, with only the Bunyan Library in Bedford and the Bodleian recording complete copies. 1762 £200

AN IRISHMAN IN LONDON - INSCRIBED COPY 26. BLAKE, James. Jim Blake’s tour from Clonave to London. Illustrated with sketches by E.N., A.R.A., photographed by G.W. Wilson. Preface and notes by A.A. 4to. Dublin: printed for private distribution, by M.H. Gill. Half title, plates with photographs onlaid; the odd spot. Orig. green cloth; sl. rubbed & dulled, leading inner hinge affected by sl. adhesion. a.e.g. 24pp + 9 plates. ¶The sketches are by Erskine Nicol and the notes by Adam Anderson. Inscribed by Anderson to the publisher Alexander Thom, signed with initials. 1867 £250

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NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE 27. BOURNE, Henry. The History of Newcastle upon Tyne: or, The ancient and present state of that town. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed and sold by John White. [4], viii, 245, [6]pp, engraved folding map mounted on linen, decorative head & tail pieces & initial letters. Folio. A fine clean large copy, bound by F. Bedford in 19th century gilt panelled calf, spine gilt decorated in six compartments, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers; expert repairs to hinges & corners. The Huth Library copy, with oval gilt morocco label & armorial bookplate of Viscount Ridley. a.e.g. ¶ESTC T139229. First edition, published by subscription, three years after Bourne’s death, for the benefit of his young children, Henry and Eleanor. This work, he complains, was compiled in the midst of ‘malice, ill-nature,’ and ‘disappointments’ which, perhaps, all local historians are doomed to experience. Another edition with the same titlepage was published in 1757, but is distinguished by having text printed on p.246. 1736 £1,200 BRAIDWOOD

28. BRAIDWOOD , James. On The Construction of Fire-Engines and Apparatus, the training of firemen, and the method of proceeding in cases of fire. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh: sold by Bell & Bradfute, and Oliver & Boyd, &c. double front. tipped in on stub, folding plates. Uncut in recent half brown calf by Philip Dusell, gilt spine. Signed ‘M. Braidwood 1.2.22. on recto of front. Additional inscription on title: ‘City Road 14.12.69’ with signature of J. Grant, in similar hand on (p.1). A handsome copy. ¶Not in BL; Oxford & NLS only on Copac. James Braidwood, 1800-1861, founded the world’s first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824 and this text represents the earliest comprehensive guide to the construction of equipment and the training of officers within the increasingly organised fire services of 19th century urban Britain. His success in Edinburgh, which was built on personal acts of bravery and his ability to train his officers in modern methods of fighting fires, brought Braidwood to the attention of London fire fighters. In 1832 he was appointed the first Superintendent of the London Fire- Engine Establishment, an organisation which was to become the London Fire Brigade in 1865. Braidwood died in 1861 fighting a fire at London Bridge which burnt for two weeks causing £2,000,000 of damage. 1830 £2,250

EGYPT 29. BREASTED, James Henry. Egypt Through the Stereoscope: a journey through the land of the Pharaohs. New York: Underwood & Underwood. 6pp ads. Orig. brown cloth with pocket (unusually) on outside of back board containing 19 maps on 17 plates, mostly folding, with ink numbering & some annotations, in sl. torn brown wrappers. A near fine copy. [1905] £68 31 BRITAINE

RAISED TO GRANDEUR 30. (BRITAINE, William de) Humane Prudence, or, The art by which a man may raise himself and his fortune to grandeur. The seventh edition corrected and enlarged. 12mo. Richard Sare, at Gray’s-Inn-Gate in Holborn. [8], 229, [3]pp, 2pp ads at end. Small paper flaw on F3 sl. touching a few letters. Contemp. speckled calf; excellently rebacked. Various inscriptions & notes, mostly contemporary, on e.ps. ¶ESTC R9197. Wing B 4807. Aphorisms. ‘When you make your Application to any Person you must first know his Character, next feel his Pulse, and then attack him by his strongest Passion, which is his weakest side, and you will never fail to obtain your ends.’ 1697 £250

CUALA BROADSIDES 31. BROADSIDE. A Broadside. Published monthly. 4to. No.2-12; 2nd year no.1-4, 7, 12; 3rd year no.1, 3, 4, 5, 9; 4th year no.1, 3, 4; 5th year no.1-4; 6th year no.1-4, 10; 7th year no.1; New series 1935 no.4, 8-10, 12; new series July 1937 no.7. Dublin Dublin: Cuala Press, &c. Hand col. illus., music. Each issue a single folded sheet; some nos. spotted, sl. dusted, one with tear at margin, 6th year no.3 disbound. ¶Folk songs, ballads, &c. by W.B. Yeats and others. Each issue published in 300 copies, from no. 4 by E.C. Yeats; new series ed. by W.B. Yeats and F.R. Higgins; mostly illus. by Jack B. Yeats. 1908-37 £1,850

A MISSING CAT 32. BROADSIDE. Five Shillings Reward. Strayed, from 37, University Street, black cat. Broadside printed in red & black on yellow paper; sl. creased with 1 small internal hole not affecting text. 28 x 21cm. 1871 £25

33. BROCK, Mrs Carey. The Rectory and the Manor. Fifth thousand. Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday. Front. Orig. green cloth. Prize inscription on leading f.e.p. FINE. ¶Not in Wolff. First published in 1860. This edition not in BL or recorded on Copac. 1866 £40

LONDON TO NAPLES 34. BROCKEDON, William. Road-Book from London to Naples. FIRST EDITION. John Murray. Front., additional engr. title, plates. Contemp. half vellum, spine dec. in gilt, green morocco label; sl. dulled & marked but a v.g. attractive copy. 1835 £380

35. (BRONTË, Charlotte) Villette. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Smith, Elder & Co. 12pp cata. (Jan. 1853) vol. I, colophon leaf vol. III, pale yellow e.ps; sm. marginal tear to pp 209/210 vol. I, & pp 79/80, & 196/6 vol. II. Orig. dark brown cloth by Westley’s & Co., boards blocked in blind, spines blocked in blind and lettered in gilt; some small expert repairs to hinges & head & tail of vol. I. Small pencil inscription of J.J. Brigg, 1900, on leading f.e.p., vol. I. v.g. ¶Smith p.138 - his primary binding; Sadleir 349; Wolff 828 with later cata. 1853 £3,200 BROWNING

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36. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. 5th edn. 3 vols. Chapman & Hall. Orig. royal blue wavy-grain cloth; spines sl. unevenly faded, but a nice set. Sl. later pencil inscription on leading blank. ¶Reprinting the fourth edition. 1862 £125

A WOMAN’S VIEW OF THE REVOLUTION 37. BRYANT, Louise. Six Red Months in Russia; an observer’s account of Russia before and during the Proletarian Dictatorship. Heinemann. Half title, front., illus. with 15 plates, facsimile documents on e.ps. Orig. maroon cloth. Ownership inscription on initial blank. v.g. ¶An eye-witness account of the earliest days of post-Tsarist Russia. 1919 £60

PRESENTED TO ISAAC FOOT 38. BUCHAN, John. John Macnab. FIRST EDITION. Hodder & Soughton. Half title, front. Orig. light blue cloth; rubbed & worn. Signed presentation inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Inscribed to Isaac Foot by John Buchan’. ¶Isaac Foot, 1880-1960, British politician, father of Labour Party leader Michael Foot. [1925] £150 BUCHAN

THIRTY-NINE STEPS 39. BUCHAN, John. The Thirty-Nine Steps. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood. Half title, 2pp ads; sl. marginal browning throughout, binding sl. cracked but still firm at pp192-3. Orig. light blue cloth; spine sl. faded & a little rubbed. Contemp. ownership inscription on leading f.e.p., booklabel of Christopher Clark Geest on leading pastedown. A nice copy. ¶The first and most famous of Buchan’s novels featuring the hero, Richard Hannay. 1915 £600

40. BUCKTON , Alice Mary. The Burden of Engela: a ballad-epic. 2nd edn. Methuen & Co. Half title, 40pp cata. but with pp 3-36 removed. Orig. blue cloth, attractively dec. in gilt; sl. marked. v.g. 1904 £30

INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY 41. BUTLER, Samuel. Selections from Previous Works, with remarks on Mr. G.J. Romanes’ “Mental Evolution in Animals” and a psalm of Montreal. (Op.7.) Trübner & Co. Final ad. leaf. Orig. brown cloth, bevelled boards; sl. dulled but a very nice copy. Inscribed presentation copy from the Author: ‘Mr. Salter with the author’s very kind regards’. ¶Hoppe (15): ‘The first issue of the first edition is rare (the hundred and twenty copies sold up to 1890 must have included Longmans’ reissue.)’ W.H. Salter was author of Essays on Two Moderns: Euripides & Samuel Butler, 1911. 1884 £350

BUXTON ON THE SLAVE TRADE 42. BUXTON, Thomas Fowell. The African Slave Trade and its remedy. John Murray. 14pp prospectus, folding map. Orig. brown publisher’s cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Armorial Downshire bookplate on leading pastedown. A v.g. copy. ¶First published in 1839. The prospectus is of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa, instituted June, 1839. The provisional Committee, whose names are listed, was chaired by Buxton. 1840 £450

WAR IN INDIA 43. CAMBRIDGE, Richard Owen. An Account of the War in India, between the English and French, on the Coast of Coromandel, from the year 1750 to the year 1760. Together with a relation of the late remarkable events on the Malabar Coast, and the expeditions to Golconda and Surat; with the operations of the fleet. Illustrated with maps, plans, &c. The whole compiled from original papers. Printed for T. Jefferys. xiii, [3] glossary, xxxii, 276, 15 Appendix, [1] blank, 48 ‘Proceedings of the Commissaries at Sadrass’, xix Index, [1]p directions to the binder, 4 maps (3 folding), 9 folding plans, 6 engr. plates (3 folding). With an additional ‘plan of the country round Pondicherry’ not called for in the list of plates. 4to. Some light foxing, offsetting of text on to one plate, minor worming to a few blank upper margins of the final ‘proceedings’. Full contemporary marbled calf, raised & gilt banded spine, red morocco label; sl. wear to hinges & edge of label. ¶ESTC N30886. One of two variants published in 1761, this having the more regular pagination and the main text numbered to page 276. 1761 £680 43 CARD GAME

ALICE IN WONDERLAND 44. CARD GAME. The New and Diverting Game of ‘Alice in Wonderland’; consisting of forty-eight pictorial cards, adapted, drawn in fac-simile, and elaborately rendered in colours, from Sir John Tenniel’s original designs, by Miss E. Gertrude Thomson. Thomas de la Rue & Co. 48 cards with additional [4]pp rule book in original paper wrapping. In orig. double slip case, the outer case printed in red with card 4 ‘the dormouse in the teapot’ laid on to verso; outer case a little marked. A v.g. clean and bright set. [c.1920] £220 †

PETER PAN 45. CARD GAME. Peter Pan. The new artistic and amusing game. Published by authority of J.M. Barrie. The International Card Co. 52 colour cards with additional [4]pp rule book. In the orig. double slip case; the outer case printed in green with ‘Peter Pan’ card laid on to verso; sl rubbed & dulled. ¶From drawings by Charles A. Buchel. Printed by Thomas de la Rue & Co. [c.1920] £220 † CHARTISM 46. CARLYLE, Thomas. Chartism. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. James Fraser. 1p. ads. Orig. black cloth, bordered & decorated in blind, spine uplettered in gilt; v. sl. rubbed at head & tail of spine. v.g. ¶Chartism marks Carlyle’s first foray into contemporary social and political issues reflecting his personal insight into the causes and effects of working class deprivation. It was, he said, ‘a matter in regard to which if something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody’. 1840 £150 BY A WILD IRISH WOMAN 47. CAROLINE, Queen Consort of George IV. ANONYMOUS. The Magic Lantern; or, Green Bag Plot laid open; a poem. Exhibiting a correct, complete, and convincing illucidation of the treatment, sufferings and persecution of the Queen ... By a Wild Irish Woman, author of ‘The House that Queen Caroline Built’. S.W. Fores. Illus. Disbound. (44)pp. ¶Lady Morgan’s The Wild Irish Girl was published in 1806. Lady Blessington’s Magic Lantern did not appear until 1822. 1820 £40 CAROLINE

48. CAROLINE, Queen Consort of George IV. ANONYMOUS. Salve Regina! Or, A lay of sympathy and loyal homage to a persecuted woman and a legitimate Queen Caroline of England. Printed & published by John Fairburn. Half title. Disbound. 15pp. ¶Written on Caroline’s return to England. Not in Jackson. [1820] £80

ART & LIFE 49. CARPENTER, Edward. Angels’ Wings: a series of essays on Art and its relation to life. (3rd edn.) Swan Sonnenschein. Half title, front & plates. Orig. dark blue cloth; spine dulled. v.g. ¶A slip indicating a change of publisher to George Allen & Co. is pasted to the title. 1908 £50

LOVE & DEATH 50. CARPENTER, Edward. The Drama of Love and Death: a study of human evolution and transfiguration. 2nd edn. George Allen. Half title, 2pp ads. Orig. blue- grey cloth, lettered in gilt. t.e.g. v.g. 1912 £40

PENNY READINGS 51. CARPENTER, Joseph Edward, ed. Penny Readings in Prose and Verse. Frederick Warne & Co. 4pp ads. Ads on e.ps. Orig. orange cloth, lettered in black; spine dulled & faded, sl. rubbed. ¶Including pieces by Richard Steele, H.W. Longfellow, Charles Lamb, Robert Browning, Robert Southey, Samuel Johnson, &c. 1865 £45

MORE PENNY READINGS 52. CARPENTER, Joseph Edward, ed. Penny Readings in Prose and Verse. Frederick Warne & Co. 4pp ads. Ads on e.ps. Orig. orange cloth, lettered in black; sl. rubbed & dulled. ¶Including pieces by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, Edgar Allan Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe, &c. 1867 £50

53. (CARPENTER, William) The People’s Book; comprising their chartered rights and practical wrongs. 12mo. W. Strange. Recently rebound in drab boards, plain brown cloth spine. ¶BL only on Copac. An analysis of the system of government, highlighting the ‘manner in which the national resources have been hithero employed, for the purpose of creating and securing support for corrupt and profligate governments’. 1831 £150

CARROLL, Lewis See also item 44.

54. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. 78th thousand. Macmillan & Co. Half title, front., illus., 1p. cata.; occasional pencil marks. Later half red morocco, gilt compartments. Contemp. gift inscription on half title. t.e.g. A nice copy. ¶First published in 1865. 1886 £450 CARROL

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ALICE IN ITALIAN 55. Le Avventure d’Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie. Tradotte dall’Inglese da T. Pietrocòla- Rossetti. Con 42 vignette di Giovanni Tenniel. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION. Turin: Ermanno Loescher. Half title, front., illus., duplicate title loosely inserted at end. Orig. orange cloth; sl. rubbed, small repair to head of spine. a.e.g. A nice copy. 1872 £1,250

ALICE IN WONDERLAND 56. HARGREAV ES, Alice, née Liddell. ALS from The Beaches, Westerham, Kent, to ‘Ablitt’, 14 May, 1934. ‘I wonder if you can come to me as you did last year when Galpin goes away ...’ 11 lines on 1 side only of single folded sheet with embossed address. WITH: carte de visite portrait of a teenage Alice Liddell, printed by J. Blizard, Taunton. ¶Written presumably to one of Hargreaves’ housekeepers five months before her death in November 1934, aged 82. Born Alice Liddell, Mrs Hargreaves, 1852-1934, is remembered as the inspiration for the character of Alice in Alice in Wonderland. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) became acquainted with the Liddell family after their move to Oxford in 1856. Having regaled Alice and her two sisters, Edith and Lorina, with the fantastical story of Alice and her adventures, Dodgson, wrote the story down at Alice’s request, presenting the manuscript of the then titled Alice’s Adventures Underground to Alice in 1864. 1934 £125 † ______

57. CARTON, James. Twice Married. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh. Half title. Orig. red cloth. v.g. ¶Not in Wolff; another copy seen in morocco-grained maroon cloth with similar blocking. 1886 £75 CERVANTES

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DON QUIXOTE - FINE SET 58. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the original Spanish by Charles Jarvis. 4 vols. T. M’Lean Half titles, colour plates. Contemp. half dark blue calf, raised bands, elaborate gilt compartments; sl. rubbed. A very attractive set. ¶With engravings by John Heaviside Clark. 1819 £950

INDIAN COOK BOOK 59. CHABUAH MISSION HOSPITAL. The Memsahib’s Cook Book. Sold in aid of Chabua Mission Hospital. Edited my Margaret M’Intyre. Dibrugarh: printed by the Borooah Press. Orig. grey wrappers; sl. damp stain to front wrapper, spine worn with sl. loss. 60pp. ¶Not in BL; no copies recorded on Copac, and apparently no books published by the Borooah Press in the National Library of India. The press was established in 1928; this book is coded on the front cover ‘B. P. 209.’, and was printed at cost price to assist the hospital. The recipes are for English dishes, followed by three pages of ‘cooking craft’, two pages containing Hindustani names for food and Indian measures, concluding with an Index. [c.1935] £120

PRINTED CLOTH 60. CHESTERTON , George Laval. Peace, War, and Adventure: an autobiographical memoir. 2 vols. Longman. 2 vols in 1. 2pp ads; some occasional light spotting. Orig. orange cloth with the imprint of Bickers & Bush, publishers’ ad. laid down, but sl. loose, in identical printed cloth on back board. A very nice copy. ¶A remainder binding; Bickers and Bush of 1 Leicester Square, appear to have published miscellaneous works between 1849 and 1863. A distinguished CHESTERTON

army officer, George Laval Chesterton served in the Field Train of the Royal Artillery during the Peninsular War, fought with the British in Washington D.C., Baltimore and later New Orleans, and was then recruited to the British Legion to fight in Columbia under Bolivar. Returning to England in 1820 to the surprise of his family who thought him dead, Chesterton became a prison reformer. A friend of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Fry, who also campaigned for the rights of prisoners, he became Governor of Middlesex House of Correction in 1829. 1853 £350

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LIFEBOATS 61. CLIFFORD, Charles. How to Lower Ships’ Boats. A treatise on the dangers of the present system, and their remedy, with a full description of the new method approved and adopted by the Admiralty ... With official reports. 5th thousand. Charles Wilson. Plates, 4pp endorsements. Orig. dark blue cloth; sl. rubbed & dulled. Signs of label removed from leading f.e.p. 76pp. ¶With a folded advertising sheet, Saving Life at Sea, loosely inserted: ‘Sir, - I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the value of “CLIFFORD’S PATENT METHOD OF LOWERING SHIPS’ BOATS”, having had an opportunity of testing its efficiency in the “Cospatrick” when on fire’. First published in 1855 as a 27 page pamphlet, Clifford’s method for lowering life boats was officially adopted in May 1858 by the East India Company, European and American Steam Ship Company, and the Steam Navigation Board, Melbourne. 1858 £280

62. COBBETT, William. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent ... with economic and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of those counties respectively. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. William Cobbett. Plate, 12pp. ads. Orig. brown drab boards; carefully rebacked in contemp. pebble-grained blue cloth, neat new paper label. Contemporary signature in brown ink of George Young of Staines. ¶Pearl 167. 1830 £850 COBDEN-SANDERSON

63. COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas James. Credo. (Printed at the Doves Press) (8pp) with additional blanks. Contemp. full crushed morocco by the Doves Bindery, letterd in gilt on front board & spine; very sl. dulled, otherwise a handsome copy. Unidentified leather booklabel on leading pastedown. Small paper label printed with ‘63’ on following f.e.p. a.e.g. ¶One of 250 copies printed on paper; an additional 12 copies were printed on vellum. [1908] £320

64. (COLERIDGE, Mary Elizabeth) Fancy’s Following. By “Anodos”. FIRST EDITION. Oxford: Daniel Press. Contemp. dark blue crushed morocco, blocked in gilt. Signature of L.H.G. Noble on leading blank. t.e.g. v.g. 58pp. ¶No. 88 of 125 copies; the Author’s first book of verse. Lilias Hilda Geils Noble was the daughter of Sir Andrew Noble and friend of the author Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, the great-granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s elder brother, James Coleridge. 1896 £250

65. (COLLIER, John) DENNIS, John. The Usefulness of the Stage, to the Happiness of Mankind, to Government, and to Religion. Occasioned by a late book, written by Jeremy Collier. Printed for Rich. Parker. [8]. 143, [1]pp. With the errata list on last page; some marginal waterstains on a few leaves, final leaf sl. brittle. Attractively rebound in quarter speckled calf, marbled boards. Unobtrusive stamps of Hampstead Public Libraries. ¶ESTC R12743. A&R 308; Wing D 1046. 1698 £225

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66. COLLINS, William. Italian Peasants. Gouache & gum arabic on grey card in oval card mount. Approx. 25 x 20cm. On verso of mount are two labels laid on to brown paper: ‘Italian Peasants, by W. Collins R.A. Presented by Lady Currie’ and ‘Mrs Moltino, Jany. 1910. ¶William Collins, 1788-1847, father of the novelist William Wilkie Collins, was a highly popular landscape and genre painter. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1820. In the Autumn of 1836 Collins left Britain for Italy and remained there, immersing himself in study, until 1838. On his return to Britain he began a series of paintings depicting Italian life and it is likely that this striking image was created during this period. [c.1839] £1,750 †

68 72 COLLINS, William Wilkie 67. Little Novels. New edn. Chatto & Windus. (Piccadilly Novels.) Front., 32pp cata. (Sept. 1891). Orig. green cloth; sl. damp mark to fore-edges, sl. rubbed. v.g. 1890 £120

MOONSTONE 68. La Pierre de Lune. Roman Anglais, traduit avec l’authorisation de l’auteur par Mme. la Comtesse Gédéon de Clermont-Tonnerre. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. 2 vols. Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie. Half titles. Contemp. half red morocco, gilt spines; corners sl. bumped. Contemp. signatures on leading f.e.ps & booksellers’ tickets on leading pastedowns. v.g. ¶The Moonstone. See Sadleir 598 for the first edition 1872 £450 69. Sans Nom. Traduction E.D. Forgues. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. 2 vols. Paris: J. Hetzel. Contemp. half red pebble-grained calf, marbled boards. v.g. ¶No Name. See Sadleir 601, Wolff 1371 for the 1862 first English edition. 1863 £150 ______COLQUHOUN

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE SERVANTS TO THEIR FUTURE MISTRESS 70. (COLQUHOUN, James, 5th Bart.) Manuscript address from the servants in the employ of James Colquhoun, Bart. to Miss Charlotte Mary Douglas Munro [sic]. The Elms, December 12, 1875. 12 lines of neat ms on recto only of single sheet; old folds. ¶‘The Domestic Servants in the Employ of Sir James Colquhoun, Bart. wishing to shew their Esteem for him upon the occassion [sic] of his marriage, are desirous to present regard to his Bride, with their sincere good wishes for their future Health, Happiness, and Bliss.’ Sir James Colquhoun, of Luss in the County of Dumbarton, married Charlotte Monro on December 8th, 1875. 1875 £65 †

FROM THE LIBRARY OF CLAN MACLEAN 71. COLQUHOUN, Patrick. Treatise on the Wealth, Power, and Resources, of the British Empire, in every quarter of the world, including the East Indies ... 2nd edn, with additions & corrections. 4to. Printed for Joseph Mawman. Sl. indentations to opening leaves. Uncut in orig. brown paper boards, paper label; sl. rubbed in places, label with small repair. Armorial bookplate of Maclean of Ardgour. Signed on leading f.e.p. by Auls (?) Maclean, 1822. A very nice copy indeed in its original binding. ¶The Scottish Clan of Maclean of Ardgour, on the western shore of Loch Linnhe, was founded by the warlord ‘Gillean of the Battleaxe’ in the late 12th century. In 1822, the Clan’s chief was Sir Fitzroy Jeffreys Grafton Maclean, 8th Baronet of Morvern and 24th chief of Clan Maclean. Colquhoun, himself from a Scottish Clan, was the first to attempt a comprehensive statistical analysis of the wealth and revenue of Britain and Ireland. With a preface to the 2nd edition. Illustrated with copious statistical tables. 1815 £480

72. COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: together with the Psalter of Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press, by W. Jackson and W. Dawson. 1795. 8vo. BOUND WITH: Psalms. A New Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches. By N. Brady and N. Tate. Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater. 224pp. 8vo. 1798. Two titles bound together in full contemporary dark red straight grain morocco, gilt borders, gilt decorated spine, marbled endpapers. With the 19th century book label of Rev. C. Ellicott, Whitwell & recent bookplate of Jack Wallis; some foxing, old waterstaining to rear endpapers, a little rubbing to hinges & board edges, sl. crack to upper half inch of top hinge. a.e.g. An attractive copy. ¶ESTC records a single copy (Liverpool) of a 1795 edition of the Common Prayer with a near identical imprint, but noting the final leaf as P8, whereas in this copy it is Z2; The Psalms is ESTC T182470, Birmingham and York Minster only. 1795 / 1798 £250 PROGRESS OF THE HUMAN MIND 73. CONDORCET, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de. Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind: being a posthumous work of the late M. de Condorcet. Translated from the French. Printed for J. Johnson. [8], iii, [1], 372pp, half title. 8vo. Some offset browning from turn-ins on pastedowns & e.ps, some occasional light foxing, pencil notes on following e.ps. Contemporary calf, black morocco label, double gilt ruled spine; sl. rubbed & marked. ¶ESTC T108055. First English Edition of one of the major texts of the Enlightenment, written while Condorcet was in hiding in Paris in 1794. 1795 £950 CONRAD

TYPHOON 74. CONRAD, Joseph. Typhoon And Other Stories. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. William Heinemann. Initial ad. leaf. Uncut in original grey cloth blocked and lettered in gilt; sl. rubbing. Inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘G. Pembroke, 17th June 1903’. v.g. ¶Wise 13. 1903 £380 INSCRIBED COPY 75. COOK, Eliza. Diamond Dust. FIRST EDITION. F. Pitman. Half title, 8pp ads. Orig. sand-grained green cloth, bevelled boards, blocked & lettered in gilt. Inscription on title: ‘To the Misses Constable, with the affectionate regards of Eliza Cook’. Later signature facing title. v.g. ¶An extensive collection of aphorisms. [1865] £85

COOKERY See items 59, 169, 224, 248, & 250. ______

ACKERMANN’S WESTMINSTER ABBEY 76. (COOMBE, William) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Folio. Printed for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh. Col. fronts., & plates, subscribers’ list vol. I pp.vii-xiii; some offsetting & foxing but largely a nice clean copy. Full contemp. calf, tooled in blind & gilt, marbled edges; sl. rubbed & well re-backed with gilt raised bands, red & brown morocco labels. Armorial bookplates of Charles Langton Massingberd. ¶First plate in volume II signed Pugin, indicating a slightly later issue. This plate, Aymer de Valance, was signed F. Mackenzie in the first issue. 1812 £750 ORIGINAL COVER DESIGN 77. COOPER, Alfred W. Original Artwork for the front cover of ‘Round Nature’s Dial’, by Helen Marion Burnside. Watercolour on card, with printers’ notes in pencil. Another sl. altered copy in pencil on verso, drawn in reverse, presumably for engraving. Name of Alfred W. Cooper in pencil at upper margin of verso; sl. abrasion to corners of verso having once been laid down. TOGETHER WITH a copy of the book: BURNSIDE, Helen Marion. Round Nature’s Dial: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. George Routledge & Sons. [1887]. Half title, Front. & colour illus; sl. foxing. Orig. pictorial light blue cloth; sl. dulled. ¶The initial artwork for the front cover design for Round Nature’s Dial, illustrated by Alfred W. Cooper. Published by Routledge and Sons, the illustrations were ‘engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans’. [1887] £150 †

DORCHESTER GUIDE - ORIGINAL BOARDS 78. CRISWICK, James. A Walk Round Dorchester; an account of every thing worth the observation of the traveller and antiquary, within that ancient town ... Also an account of the abbeys of Milton, Cerne, and Bindon, together with the Sherborne, Lulworth, and Corfe castles. Dorchester: J. Criswick. Front., folding map. Uncut in orig. drab boards, pink marbled paper spine, paper label; spine a little dulled with some sl. rubbing. A v.g. copy in original boards. 1820 £250 76 81 CROWE

ADVENTURES OF A MAID SERVANT 79. (CROWE, Catherine) Susan Hopley; or, The Adventures of a Maid-Servant. Edinburgh: William Tait, &c. Half title, front. Contemp. half brown calf; hinges sl. splitting. Renier booklabel. A nice clean copy. ¶In 1-6, IV-XVIII parts on better quality paper; text in two columns. This popular novel originally published in 3 vols, 1841, with subtitle ‘Circumstantial evidence’ was immediately plagiarised by T.P. Prest as Susan Hoply, 1842 (Medcraft No.28). It obviously also suggested the subject for Reynolds’s ‘Mary Price’. James lists an edition published by Tait in 1848. This is the first one- volume edition, Sadleir 663a, Wolff 1654a. 1842 £120

80. CULPEPPER, Galen, M.D., pseud. The Antidote, or, Cure for radicals; with a Recipe for ‘Sculls that cannot teach, and will not learn’. Delivered in a dream. Baldwin & Co. Half title, apology slip. (ii), vi, 37pp. Disbound. ¶Printed in Bridgwater and listing West Country booksellers. The apology slip reads: ‘THIS production was written in October, and intended to have been published before the sitting of Parliament: but owing to the very reprehensible conduct of the Printer, to whom the manuscript was first delivered to be printed, it’s publication has been retarded’. 1819 £55

BIBLE GALLERY 81. DALZIEL, Edward & George. Dalziel’s Bible Gallery. Illustrations from the Old Testament ... Engraved by the brothers Dalziel. Folio. George Routledge & Sons. Half title, India proof plates; binding cracking in places, some plates loose. Orig. parchment covered boards, dec. in red & gilt. v.g. ¶First published in 1880. With illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton, Edward Poynter, H.H. Armitage. Ford Maddox Brown, Solomon Solomon, &c. 1881 £1,500

DIRECTORY OF PORT CHARGES 82. DANIEL, James. The Shipowners’ and Shipmasters’ Directory to the Port Charges at Nearly 600 Ports, Sub-Ports, and Creeks of Great Britain and Ireland, and the islands belonging thereto. An enlarged & improved edn. Mrs. Janet Taylor. Orig. wavy-graind green cloth, paper label; a few nicks. v.g. ¶This edition not recorded on Copac. 1869 £120

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FIRST COLLECTED EDITION 83. Christmas Books. FIRST ENGLISH COLLECTED EDITION. Chapman & Hall. Front. after Leech, final ad. leaf, ads on e.ps. Orig. olive green cloth, blocked in blind, spine blocked & lettered in gilt. Armorial bookplate of John Browne. Small bookseller’s ticket, G. Mann. A v.g., close to FINE, copy. 1852 £400

84. A Collection of the Five Christmas Books, in nineteenth-century full crushed morocco. 1. A Christmas Carol. FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue (Stave One). Chapman & Hall. Half title. Hand-coloured frontispiece and three plates by John Leech. 1843. 2. The Chimes. FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Chapman & Hall. Half title, front., engr. title & illus. by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and Stanfield. 1845. DICKENS

3. The Cricket on the Hearth. FIRST EDITION, Printed and published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. Front., engr. title, and illus. by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield and Leech. 1846. 4. The Battle of Life. FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. Bradbury & Evans. Illus. by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield and Leech. 5. The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. FIRST EDITION. Bradbury & Evans. Front., engr. title & illus. by Tenniel, Stanfield, Stone and Leech. Uniform full red crushed morocco by Morrell of London, spines gilt in compartments, gilt borders & dentelles. All with the original cloth bound in at end. Booklabels of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. a.e.g A v.g. handsome set. 1843-48 £6,500 85. David Copperfield. FIRST EDITION, .f.t.p.b Bradbury & Evans. Half title, front., vignette title, plates by H.K. Browne; some plates browned, generally quite clean. Contemp. half dark green calf, spine dec. in gilt, black leather label; a bit rubbed. Signed E E Stevens in contemp. hand on printed title. Loose armorial bookplate, Arthur Earl of Castlestewart. A good-plus copy. 1850 £450 86. Great Expectations. Text Vol. I: second impression, vol. II: fourth impression, vol. III: first impression. 3 vols. Chapman & Hall. Later inserted half title vol. I, engr. title & plates by Pailthorpe; occasional light browning in prelims. Sl. later. full brown crushed morocco by Rivière, spines gilt in compartments, gilt borders & dentelles. Armorial bookplates of William H.R. Saunders. t.e.g. A v.g. handsome copy. ¶Collated with the Clarendon Edition (Appendix D); all volumes are without edition statement but these have been carefully erased from vols I & II. With the late corrections to pp103 & 193 in vol. III. This copy has Pailthorpe’s fine illustrations, published in 1885, bound in. No. 11 of 50 sets of proofs etched in black ink on Japanese paper. 1861 £4,500 87. Hard Times. For These Times. FIRST EDITION. Bradbury & Evans. Half title. Original olive-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt with ‘price 5/-’; spine faded, sl. rubbing, otherwise v.g. In cloth slipcase. ¶Smith 11; primary binding. Smith refers to ‘six internal flaws’ uncorrected ‘in all copies but one’. This copy has these ‘flaws’ corrected, including complete page number on p.244. Hard Times had first appeared inHousehold Words, No. 250, 1st April - No. 229, 12th August, 1854. 1854 £1,750 88. Nicholas Nickleby. FIRST EDITION. Chapman & Hall. Half title, front. port., 39 plates by Phiz. Uncut in later full olive green crushed morocco by Rivière & Son, gilt spine, borders & dentelles. With the front. wrapper to part XIV bound in at end. Armorial bookplate of John Neville Cross. t.e.g. A v.g. handsome copy. ¶With two extra plates bound into the prelims: engraved vignette titlepages on India paper, designed by Browne for the Library Edition, illustrated. 1839 £850 89. Sketches of Young Couples, Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen. By Quiz. Illustrated by Phiz. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. Front. & plates, 2pp ads. Orig. green pict. cloth, bevelled boards. v.g.. ¶First bound together with a collective titlepage in 1840 from the original sheets of the three individual titles that comprise this work. This is the first collected edition. [1869] £120 86 88 90 DICKENS

IN ORIGINAL CLOTH 90. A Tale of Two Cities. With illustrations by H.K. Browne. FIRST EDITION, first issue. Chapman & Hall & At the Office of All The Year Round. Frontispiece, additional engraved title & plates, page no. 213 misprinted 113. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; neatly recased, a little rubbed but a nice bright copy of a title difficult in original cloth. Bookplates of George Henry Virtue (son of the publisher George C. Virtue). In cloth slipcase. ¶Smith 13; primary binding. This copy does not have a catalogue bound in. The last novel to be illustrated by H.K. Browne - a collaboration with Dickens which spanned twenty three years and included ten major novels. 1859 £5,200 ______

91. DISRAELI, Benjamin. Alroy. Ixion in Heaven. The Infernal Marriage. Popanilla. New edn. Longmans. (Modern novelist’s library.) Half title, 8pp cata. ‘Yellowback’, orig. printed boards. Sl. rubbed & dulled. v.g. ¶Topp VI, p.84. Back cover ad. for the series listing 26 titles. The 8pp cata. advertises the Cabinet edition of Disraeli which may include the [1877] Lothair in BL; the printers are Ballantyne, Hanson. All the Disraeli titles except Endymion seem to have been issued together in yellowback. [c.1878] £75

BRISTOLIAN 92. DIX, John. Local Legends and Rambling Rhymes. With illustrations, by “A. Pen.” FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Bristol: George Davey. Front., additional engr. title, plates; some sl. spotting & foxing. Orig. brown cloth, pict. blocked in gilt; sl. marked, spine sl. faded. v.g. ¶First published in The Bristol Mirror newspaper. ‘I have endeavoured’ Dix writes in his address, ‘to render this little book as local as possible: the rhymes, illustrations, &c. are exclusively Bristolian’. 1839 £220

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SCANDAL - THRILLER 93. (DOHERTY, Hugh) The Discovery; or, The mysterious separation of Hugh Doherty, Esq. and Ann, his wife. 3rd edn. 12mo Sold at No. 12, Temple Place, &c. Illus; sl. spotting & occasional small marginal tears. Contemp. marbled boards, later tan calf spine, gilt bands & compartments, maroon morocco label. Signature of the Author Hugh Doherty on title, v. sl. trimmed through. Additional signature of J. Wolus, Rysbrooke, 1878. Recent bookplate of Peter Haining on leading pastedown. ¶A gothic ‘scandal’ thriller relating the quasi-biographical story of Hugh Doherty’s elopement with, and subsequent separation from, his wife Ann. 1807 £580

‘I AM WANTING A SITUATION’ 94. DOMESTIC SERVICE. A collection of letters to Mrs Briggs, Registry Office, 73 Monks Road, Lincoln, relating to the employment of domestic servants. A collection of 50 letters & postcards; some occasional marginal tears, old folds & creases, but largely well preserved. ¶An agent for domestic servants, Mrs Briggs supplied cooks, page boys, housemaids and general servants to households and hotels in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Lancashire. Of the 50 letters, 30 are from prospective employers, 14 are from those seeking employment, and the remaining 6 are miscellaneous. G.A. Latham writes on October 27, ‘I am much obliged for your letter of this morning ... Will you frankly tell me whether you consider S. Geist a good, steady & very respectable girl? ... I should like to engage her & should give her a good home’. The letters are largely short, but Mrs Muskam of Blenheim House writes four pages of great detail on the characteristics she requires of a future servant: I am straight and I better speak my mind then you will know what sort of girl I want ... Try and give me a big strong girl. I have feather beds & very little girls are of no use ... I have 2 sons and myself so I should require a girl who can wait table & I learn them well so they can take higher wages & get into a gentleman’s family’. Responding to Mrs Briggs’ advertisement for a job in The Echo, E. Cass, writes that she is ‘wanting a situation of that description. I am the eldest of nine so of course I am used to work & am not afraid of work ... I am tall & bright & bonny’. An interesting insight into the recruitment of domestic servants. 1905-1909 £220 †

CHATEAU ROUGE 95. DUMAS, Alexandre. Chateau Rouge: or, The Reign of Terror. Translated by L. Lawford. Routledge, Warnes, & Routledge. 6pp cata. Orig. yellow printed paper- covered boards; sl. rubbed with wear to leading hinge. A good-plus copy. ¶Topp, vol.I, p.111. Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge, 1845-46, Paris. First English edition, 1846 (Geo. Peirce) under the title Marie Antoinette. First Routledge edition. This version issued later the same year as The Chevalier de Maison Rouge. 1859 £85

THIRTY FOUR YEAR’S SLAVERY 96. DUMONT, Pierre Joseph. Narrative of Thirty-Four Years Slavery and Travels in Africa. Collected from the account delivered by himself by J.S Quesne. Sir Richard Phillips & Co. Front. Uncut. Disbound. 42pp. ¶From the library of Anne & F.G. Renier. An account of Dupont’s travails; attacked by a British fleet, captured by Arabs in North Africa, enslaved and finally rescued three decades later by the British bombardment of Algiers. 1819 £120 DUN

A ‘DOCTRINE OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE’ 97. DUN, David, Lord Erskine. Lord Dun’s Friendly and Familiar Advices, adapted to the various stations and conditions of life, and the mutual relations to be observed amongst them. Edinburgh: printed for G. Hamilton and Balfour. vii [i.e.viii], 243, [1] p. 12mo. Complete with a preliminary blank. Original paper flaw to F2 with a tear in margin & small hole affecting two letters, light waterstain to head of a few pages. Full contemporary sprinkled calf, raised & gilt banded spine, small floral gilt ornament in each compartment, red morocco label. Early 19th century handsome armorial bookplate of John Borthwick, Crookston. v.g. ¶ESTC T114020. Probably the earlier of two variants of the first edition; this has the misnumbered page (corrected in the other variant), and the shorter imprint name, ‘Balfour’ rather than ‘J. Balfour’. A vehement Jacobite, strongly opposed to the ‘Union’, this is Lord Erskine’s only published work, giving advice to all ranks of society, from the Monarch, to the Merchant, Tradesman and Mechanic, and the Poor and Indigent. Robert Wallace issued a reply in this same year entitled, The doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance considered ... published on occasion of Lord Dun’s friendly and familiar advices. 1754 £250

THE NEGRO POET 98. DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. With an introduction by W.D. Howells. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Chapman & Hall. Half title, front. photographic port.; occasional pencil underlining. Orig. dark grey cloth. Newspaper clipping laid down on leading pastedown. Inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Helen R.C. Ostling with love from Irene, Xmas: 1904’. a.e.g. A near fine copy. ¶First published in New York in 1896. Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906, was born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had both escaped slavery in Kentucky. He was the only African-American student at Dayton Central High School where he became editor of the school newspaper. Having published his first volume of work, Oak and Ivy in 1892, Dunbar came to the public’s attention after the author William Dean Howells wrote a favourable review of his second volume Majors and Minors, 1896. Howell’s backing, with particular praise for his dialect poems, made Dunbar famous, leading to Lyrics of Low Life, a collection of his first two works introduced by Howells. The volume contains a tribute in verse to Frederick Douglass, the former slave, writer and abolitionist with whom Dunbar was associated: ‘Oh Douglass, thou hast passed beyond the shore,/But still thy voice is ringing o’er the gale!/Thou’st taught thy race how high her hopes may soar,/And bade her seek the heights, nor faint, nor fail’. 1897 £180 EDUCATION

EDUCATION ______See items 1, 100, 171 & 172.

LEGEND OF JUBAL 99. ELIOT, George. The Legend of Jubal and other poems. Berlin: Albert Cohn; printed by Stephan Geibel & Co., Altenbourg. (Asher’s collection of English authors, British and American, vol. 99.) Series title. Contemp. half red sheep by Birdsall & Son, dark green leather label. Ownership inscription on fly title, June 1887. v.g. ¶This German-printed edition appeared in the same year as the William Blackwood first British edition. Eliot’s partner George Henry Lewes had offered the reprinting rights to Tauchnitz, Osgood, and Albert Cohn, with Cohn paying £50 to undertake the project. Cohn, a literary scholar and cataloguer, succeeded Albert Asher as head of the Asher publishing house, for the most part continuing to use the Asher name and only rarely issuing works with the Albert Cohn imprint. Not in BL or on Copac. Baker & Ross E1.3. 1874 £175 PRESENTATION COPY 100. (ELLIS, William) Philo-Socrates. Part V. - Among the boys. Smith, Elder & Co. Orig. light brown printed paper wraps; hinges sl. splitting with some repair to head of leading hinge. Inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Caroline Lindley, from her affectionate friend William Ellis’. ¶Published in 8 parts between 1861 and 1864. Intended for the education of youth, Ellis explains, in the form of conversational narrative, the principles of hiring and letting, borrowing and lending, banking, paper money, and taxation. William Ellis, 1800-1881, was a businessman, and economist. He was a friend of John Stuart Mill’s and a supporter of his economic principles, following the Banking School and supporting economic speculations. A passionate supporter of education, Ellis founded his first ‘Birkbeck’ school in 1852 and financed another four himself. Caroline Lindley, also a friend of Mill, was instrumental in establishing another ‘Birkbeck’ school in Hethersett, Norfolk, in 1855. On its opening, Ellis wrote: ‘To her be the attachment, the gratitude, and the respect due to one who moved us to action. To us be the delight of aiding her in her labour of love. As King’s Sombourne was made famous among villages in Hampshire through Richard Dawes, so may Hethersett be made famous in Norfolk through Caroline Lindley’. 1863 £150 OUTBREAK OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 101. ERCKMANN, Émile & CHATRIAN, Alexandre. The Outbreak of the Great French Revolution: related by a peasant of Lorraine. Translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 3 vols. Richard Bentley & Son. Lacking following f.e.p., vol. III. Orig. red cloth, dec. in black; a little dulled & marked, hinges & extremities sl. rubbed. W.H. Smith embossed stamp in vol. I. ¶Not in Wolff who records Erckmann-Chatrain’s title Waterloo: A Story of the Hundred Days, 1870. A translation of parts I & II of Histoire d’un Paysan, 1867. Erckmann, 1822–1899, and Chatrian, 1826-1890, were a writing partnership whose works spanned almost three decades until their working relationship broke down in the mid 1880s. Specialising in ghost stories and military fiction, they are perhaps best known in England for their tales of supernatural horror The Wild Huntsman, 1871, and The Man-Wolf,1876. 1871 £350

ETTIQUETTE, CONDUCT & MANNERS ______See items 7, 11, 30, 142, 143, 213, 257 & 271. FLATMAN

FLATMAN’S POEMS 102. FLATMAN, Thomas. Poems and Songs. The third edition with additions and amendments. Printed for Benjamin Tooke at the Ship in St. Paul’s Church-yard. [46], 170, [4]pp, engr. portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Small mark to foot of frontispiece, minor tear to foot of titlepage, sl. browning. Bound without preliminary blank, but with two final errata & advertisement leaves. Manuscript correction from errata on page 101. Bound by Rivière and Son in full dark red crushed morocco, gilt ruled border, elaborate gilt dec. spine, inner gilt cornerpiece decoration, marbled e.ps; sl. rubbing to board edges, corners a little bruised. Contemporary signature at head of titlepage. Bookplates of E.M. Cox, and John Drinkwater, the latter adding a bibliographical pencil note to leading e.p. a.e.g. ¶This is the variant with errata on M7r and the advertisement, in a different setting, beginning on verso. John Drinkwater notes that there was ‘an earlier issue, with no errata list, and the list of books occupying 4 pages instead of 3. See my copy.’ ESTC R37387. The 3rd edition contains 16 more poems than the 2nd (1676), which in turn had 3 more than the 1st edition (1674). Although an initial blank is noted by ESTC, the frontispiece could possibly have taken its place as A1. The collation of the signature L7 conforms with the Grolier copy, and is complete. (A8, a-b8, B-K8, L7, M8.) 1682 £620 FLAUBERT

MADAME BOVARY 103. FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Moeurs de Province. FIRST EDITION. 2vols. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs. Dedication leaf, vol. I, half titles, with the orig. wrappers, cut down and laid on to green paper, bound before half titles. Near contemp. quarter blue cloth, light brown morocco labels, marbled boards; leading inner hinges sl. cracking. With an unidentified armorial bookplate on leading pastedowns and the armorial bookplate of Charles George Milnes Gaskell on leading pastedown of vol. II. v.g. ¶With the dedication misspelt ‘Senart’ as called for. Charles George Milnes Gaskell, 1842–1919, was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician. First published as a serial between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856 in La Revue de Paris, Madame Bovary was received with great anger by the authorities who brought Flaubert to trial for its obscenity. Cleared by the courts, the novel became a bestseller and is regarded as Flaubert’s first and greatest work. 1857 £2,800 FLORENZ

JAPAN 104. FLORENZ, Dr. Karl, ed. Poetical Greetings From the Far East. Japanese Poems. From the German adaptation of Dr. Karl Florenz by Arthur Lloyd. T. Hasegawa. Printed on double leaves of crêpe paper in the Japanese style, illustrated throughout, 1p. ads. Illustrated double leaf crêpe paper wrappers, sewn as issued; front cover sl. creased. With the orig. illustrated folding card box and fasteners; sl. rubbed & dulled. A very nice copy indeed. ¶Two copies only on Copac; Oxford, dated [1897] and BL dated [1913]. Hasegawa Takejiro, 1853-1938, specialised in publishing books on Japanese culture in European languages. Employing eminent Japanese artists for the illustrations, Hasegawa invited notable European expatriates to translate Japanese books into their respective languages. [1897?] £180

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: TRANSLATED BY GOLDSMITH 105. FORMEY, Jean Henri Samuel. A Concise History of Philosophy and Philosophers. Printed for F. Newbery, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row. [14], 283, [1]pp; 12mo. Titlepage sl. foxed, but a very nice copy. Handsomely bound in recent quarter sprinkled calf, raised & gilt banded spine, red gilt label, marbled boards, vellum cornerpieces. ¶ESTC N5174; Roscoe, A163 (1). Published in French in 1760, and here first translated into English by Oliver Goldsmith. Formey, 1711-1797, was Professor of Philosophy at the French University in Berlin, and secretary of the Berlin Royal Academy of Sciences. He was a major influence on Kant, who corresponded with him and also arranged for him to be sent copies of his works as they were published. Amongst his numerous other writings is L’Emile Chrétien, 1764, which he intended as an answer to Rousseau’s Emile. 1766 £420

MAGIC 106. (FRIKELL, Wiljalba) The Magician’s Own Book. By the Author of ‘The Secret Out’, ‘The Modern Conjuror’, &c. Edited by W.H. Cremer Jun. FIRST EDITION. John Camden Hotten. Initial ad. leaf, half title, front., illus, 30pp ads. Orig. pict. blue cloth; sl. rubbed. ¶Wiljalba Frikell, 1817-1903, born Friedrich Wilhelm Frikell, was a German magician. The first such entertainer to wear evening dress instead of the traditional robes, Frikell became best known for his sleight-of-hand magic, a skill that he honed after losing all his equipment to a fire. [1871] £150 FRÖHLICH

107. FRÖHLICH, Karl. Karl Fröhlich’s Frolicks With Scissors and Pen. The Rhymes translated and adapted from the original German of Frölich. By Madame de Chatelain. FIRST EDITION. Joseph Myers & Co. 25 illustrated rhymes on rectos only; some sl. marking. Orig. red cloth, dec. in blind & gilt; sl. dulled & rubbed. Bookseller’s ticket of E.C. Spurin. a.e.g. A nice copy in custom-made double slip-case, sl. faded blue morocco spine. ¶Not in BL. 25 nursery rhymes attractively illustrated with silhouettes. 1860 £280

108. (GAIETY THEATRE, London) FRASER, Margaret Campbell. Oblong Photo- graph Album with many photographs mounted on green paper. Binding cracking with some leaves loose & with sl. wear to gutter edge. Orig. green cloth; repair to leading hinge. A few loose photographs in pocket at end. ¶Margaret Fraser appeared (with James and Helen Fraser) in the Lyceum Theatre, New York production of A Gaiety Girl on the American tour in 1895 and played roles in several Gaiety productions, c.1897-1901. The Gaiety historian Alan Hyman interviewed her daughter mentioning her fine dancing and that she died in 1974 aged 90. This makes her only 14 when playing a schoolgirl in 1898. Her married name is not given. This private album depicts her on various holidays in Scotland and St. Anne’s on Sea, informally with friends and theatrical colleagues and apparently as a member of a shooting party with Lord Esher and his family. She appears on horseback, with early motor cars, in bathing costume and Guard’s uniform, and with several different dogs. Other performers in the album include Connie Ediss, Seymour Hicks, Phyllis Dare, Willie Warde, Maudi Darrell, Cissie Loftus, Eva Moore, and her friends E.C.R. and Joan. There are also studies of Baden Powell, Anthony Hope and Justin Huntley McCarthy. Altogether a fascinating picture of a ‘Gaiety Girl’. [c.1898-1915?] £450 111 112 GALLENGA

RUSSIA 109. GALLENGA, Antonio. A Summer Tour in Russia. FIRST EDITION. Chapman & Hall. Half title, folding map, final ad. leaf; two lines of annotation in different hand on recto of following f.e.p. Orig. dark olive-green cloth; sl. rubbing. Label of St. Deniol’s Library on leading pastedown. Contemp. signature of Malcolm MacCon on half title. A nice copy. ¶Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga, 1810–1895, was born in Italy but fought in the French army before being involved in the French revolution of 1830. He later became a member of the Italian parliament, was a correspondent for The Times newspaper for twenty years before retiring to the Wye before his death in 1895. St. Deniol’s Library was founded by the Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. 1882 £150

110. GARRATT, Evelyn R. Free to Serve. R.T.S. Half title, front., vignette title, illus., 16pp cata. Orig. green cloth, pictorially blocked in black, silver & gilt, lettered in black & gilt. Owner’s inscription, May 1882. A v.g. bright copy. [1881] £35

ADVENTURES IN THE ARCTIC 111. GILLIES, Robert Pearse. Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 12mo. Henry Colburn. Internal tear to leading blank, vol. I, marginal tear to pp 23/24, vol. I not affecting text. Contemp. full brown calf, gilt spine, black morocco labels; some neat repair to hinges & to label of vol II. Signs of labels removed from leading pastedowns. An attractive set. ¶Not in Sadleir; Wolff 2522. 1826 £850

112. GISSING, George. The Emancipated. A novel. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Richard Bentley & Son. Orig. olive-brown smooth cloth spines lettered in gilt, grey paper-covered boards, printed with a pattern in brown; corners sl. rubbed, otherwise v.g. ¶Sadleir 966; Wolff 2546. Coustillas A8.1. Gissing spent five months on the Continent in 1888; The Emancipated has an Italian setting and is ‘lighter and more deftly ironic than Gissing’s previous efforts’ (Sutherland). 1890 £600

113. (GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von) AUSTIN, Sarah. Characteristics of Goethe; from the German of Falk, Von Müller, &c. With notes, original and translated, illustrative of German literature, by Sarah Austin. 3 vols. Effingham Wilson. Fronts., 28pp index vol. III; sl. foxing to prelims. Contemp. dark green half calf, red labels sl. rubbed. A nice set. ¶First English edition. 1833 £180 GORE

FIRST APPEARANCE 114. (GORE, Catherine) Modern Chivalry: or, A New Orlando Furioso. Extracted from ‘Ainsworth’s Magazine’. Front. & plates by Cruikshank. Bound into 19th century full crushed morocco by Henry Young and Sons, Liverpool, gilt spine, borders and dentelles. Bookplate of E. Peter Jones. t.e.g. A FINE copy. ¶Containing the text and plates of this novel from the periodical, dedicated ‘to Young England, Esq.’, with a specially printed titlepage in red and black. The first appearance in print ofModern Chivalry, which was published later the same year in book form in two vols. 1843 £300

ORIGINAL PEN & WASH 115. GRANT, Charles Jameson. The Hungry Epicure Disappointed. Original pen and wash caricature. Pen & wash, signed C.J. Grant; sl. dusted, trimmed close to upper margin. Mounted on cream card. ¶A gruesome looking lady approaches a table carrying an oversized frying pan filled with a mountain of Eggs and bacon. At the laid table, an angry and equally ugly gentleman, sits in impatient anticipation of his food: ‘Come come Dame isn’t my Eggs and Bacon done yet I’m literally famish’d in waiting’. The Dame replies: ‘I am very sorry to inform your worship that just as I had done um so nice all this here soot fell into the pan’. Charles Jameson Grant was a prolific and radical caricaturist perhaps best know for his series The Political Register (1833-35) which contemptuously attacked the social and political establishment with his grotesque and subversive style. [c.1835?] £1,800 †

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PRINTED ON SILK 116. (GRANT, Charles Jameson) The Managers Last Kick. n.p. Hand-coloured caricature, 64 x 64cm, printed on silk with floral border; a few small internal holes, trimmed close with sl. loss to lined border on upper margin. Overall size 80 x 81cm. ¶Adapted from a broadside The Managers Last Kick, or The Distruction of the Boroughmongerswith a woodcut above 3 columns of text, 2 of verse and the other ‘A Dialogue Between John Bull and his Friends’. No copies on silk known and only one copy of the broadside located in the British Museum. The image has here been simplified for the purposes of printing on silk with some of the text printed within the double ruled border enclosing the image. Attributed to Grant by the British Museum but not by Dorothy George, 17342. William IV, riding ‘The Good Old Grey’, accompanied by Brougham and other Ministers, chases boroughmongers who fall head first into a pit. The most conspicuous boroughmonger is Sir. R. Wilson in uniform with a kettle labelled ‘A present from Southwk’. Others include Wetherell, Peel and Hunt. Members of Parliament including Hobhouse ad Burdett try to save themselves by clinging to the top of the pit, Burdett clutching the coat-tails of Hobhouse. An obese John Bull watches the doomed anti-reformers waving his hat and shouting ‘Huzza!’. Behind is the facade of Bethlehem Hospital with a lunatic waving from each window: ‘No Reform; Corruption for ever’. One of them is Wellington saying ‘Its a Mistake. They are The Bedlamites’. [c.1832] £1,500 †

117. GRANT, James. Jack Chaloner: or, The Fighting Forty-Third. FIRST EDITION. George Routledge & Sons. (Railway Library, no. 870.) Half title. Inserted 4pp W.H. Smith ads tipped in between following e.ps. ‘Yellowback’, orig. yellow pictorial boards; a little rubbed, corners worn. Contemp. pencil inscription on half title. v.g. ¶Topp p. 334. Back cover ad. for Dr. Rooke’s Oriental Pills & Solar Elixir, and Crosby’s Balsamic Cough Elixir. [1883] £125

SEDUCTION, BIGAMY & MURDER? 118. GREENWOOD, Frederick. Margaret Denzil’s History. Annotated by her husband. Reprinted from the ‘Cornhill Magazine’. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Smith, Elder & Co. Original green sand-grained cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Apart from two slightly loose gatherings in vol. I, FINE. 2pp ads. in both volumes. ¶Sadleir 1064; Wolff 2741. Greenwood was one of the leading editors of the late Victorian period, as well as a journalist and novelist. He wrote the final chapters to Mrs. Gaskell’sWives & Daughters after her death, and also to Thackeray’s Denis Duval. Margaret Denzil’s History was first published in the Cornhill Magazine November 1863 to October 1864, a ‘sensation’ novel involving adoption, bigamy, seduction and suspected murder, though in fact no actual murder takes place. Sutherland’s synopsis skilfully negotiates the intricacies of an extremely complicated plot. 1864 £750

WOODCUT DESIGNS 119. (GUBITZ, Friedrich Wilhelm) Original Designs for Woodcut Illustrations. 178 original illustrations in pen, pencil & occasional watercolour on tissue & paper, with an additional 17 printed illustrations, tipped in on 38 rectos and 1 verso of 38 oblong 8vo leaves. Orig. marbled paper wrappers; spine defective, sm. tear to back wrapper, binding loose. ¶An original work book of the German illustrator, theatre critic, poet, and art professor, Frierich Wilhelm Gubitz, 1786-1870. Gubitz, the son of a type-setter, GUBITZ

was appointed Professor of woodcut illustration at the Berlin Academy of Art. The printed illustrations within this volume were published in Gubitz’s Sammlung von Verzierungen in Abgüssen für die Buchdrucker-Presse,(Collection of Ornaments in Casts for the Printing-Press) no. 867- 1272, published in Berlin, 1826 but part of a long running series dating between 1823-59. The sketches, largely on tissue, are highly accomplished; the drawings are of classical or religious figures, ornamental designs, family scenes and two nautical landscapes. [c.1826] £2,500

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120. Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: a tale of country life. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Longmans. Half titles. Orig. red cloth, front boards & spines lettered in black; spines sl. dulled, small marks on front board of vol. I & on spine of vol. II. A nice, crisp copy. ¶Whatmore F9; Scott 12; Sadleir 1084; Wolff 2850. This novel first appeared serially in the periodical England and in various English and British Empire newspapers, the last of his novels to be issued as a ‘triple-decker’. In vol. I of The Days of My Life, Haggard comments ‘... I made money ... for the instance I sold ... “Colonel Quaritch V.C.”, a tale of English country life which Longman liked - it was dedicated to him - and Lang hated it so much that I think he called it the worst book ever written. Or perhaps it was someone else who favoured it with that description’. 1888 £450

121. Heart of the World. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Longmans. Front., illus. by Amy Sawyer, 24pp. cata. (Dec. 1895); Orig, dark blue cloth, bevelled boards; spine sl. dulled. v.g. ¶Whatmore F19; Wolff 2857. First published serially in Pearson’s Weekly, vol. 5, Aug. 1894 - Jan. 1895, nos. 212-236. The first American edition was published in May 1895. 1896 £100 HAGGARD

122. Joan Haste. With 20 illustrations by F.S. Wilson. FIRST EDITION. Longmans. Half title, front., plates, 24pp cata. (July 1895). Orig. dark blue smooth cloth, bevelled boards; v. sl. rubbing to spine. v.g. ¶Whatmore F18. 1895 £90

KING SOLOMON’S MINES 123. King Solomon’s Mines. Forty-eighth thousand. Cassell & Co. Half title, fol. col. front., 4pp ads, 16pp. cata.; the odd spot. Orig. red cloth; sl. dulled, spine faded. Pencil inscription on leading pastedown. 1887 £125 ______

124. HALÉVY, Ludovic. The Abbé Constantin. Illustrated by Madeleine Lemaire. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co. Front., title in red & green, illus. with 11 plates. Orig. dark green pict. cloth. v.g. ¶L’Abbé Constantin, 1882. First English edition? National Library of Scotland has an English edition that it has dated 1884. Halévy is usually associated with Henri Meilhac with whom he wrote drawing-room comedies and, more famously, the libretti for Offenbach’s operettas. [c.1884] £45

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IRISH LIFE 125. HALL, Anna Maria, Mrs. S.C. Lights and Shadows of Irish Life. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Henry Colburn. Contemp. half green calf, gilt spines, maroon morocco labels; sl. rubbing. v.g. ¶Loeber H18. 1838 £280 HALL

126. HALL, Ruth. The Boys of Scrooby. FIRST EDITION. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Front. Orig. grey pict. cloth. Label removed from leading pastedown. v.g. ¶Not in BL or on Copac. A tale of ‘the earliest happenings in these now United States’. 1899 £20

MARRIAGE AS A TRADE 127. HAMILTON , Cicely Mary. Marriage as a Trade. FIRST EDITION. Chapman & Hall. Half title, 8pp ads. Orig. olive-green cloth; sl. dulled & rubbed, evidence of label removed from front board. Stamps and label of the National Council of Women. ¶Examines the widespread subjugation of married women. Hamilton was an active and vociferous campaigner for women’s suffrage. 1909 £225

128. HAMILTON , Elizabeth. Memoirs of Modern Philosophers. 4th edn. 3 vols. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell and sold by G. & J. Robinson, London. Contemp. full speckled calf, gilt borders, spines ruled & with devices in gilt, red morocco labels, small vol. number labels in black morocco. Contemp. owner’s inscription on title vol. I. v.g. ¶See Loeber H117 for the first edition of 1800. Hamilton’s satire targets the the new philosophy of the late 18th Century, and particularly the clamour for social reorganisation that was enflamed by the revolutionary events in France. William Godwin’s works Political Justice (1793) and The Enquirer (1797) provide a poltical ideology for several of Hamilton’s characters, who take inspiration from his enthusiastic espousal of social liberality and self-determination. However, according to Hamilton, this alignment with modern philosophical trends does not bring increased fulfillment or contentment, and leads only to moral decline and human tragedy. The author provides an alternative path to happiness and contentment, one not founded on lofty political ideals, but the age-old principles of obedience, dependability, prudence, and piety. 1804 £380 HARDY

MELLSTOCK EDITION 129. HARDY, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Hardy. Mellstock Edition. 37 vols. Macmillan and Co. Front. port., vol. I. A few volumes unopened & all uncut in original dark blue cloth, gilt medallion on front boards, elaborate gilt spines; some minor rubbing but an attractive example of Hardy’s definitive collected works. ¶Limited to 500 copies, SIGNED by Hardy in vol. I. 1919-20 £4,500

130. HARRAL, Thomas. Anne Boleyn and Caroline of Brunswick compared; in an address to the people of England. W. Wright. Portrait on title; the odd spot, three small holes near inner title margin. Disbound. (ii), 50pp. ¶From the Renier library. Addressed from Ipswich in support of King George against Queen Caroline. 1820 £40

WEST INDIES 131. (HAWTAYNE, George Hammond) West Indian Yarns. By ‘X. Beke.’ Demerara: J. Thomson, Georgetown. Sl. spotting. Orig. half glazed paper, printed drab paper boards, paper label; spine sl. darkened, a little rubbed. ¶BL, Oxford & Southampton only on Copac. Reprinted, chiefly, from the Demerara Argosy. 1884 £180

132. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Twice-Told Tales. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Boston: American Stationers Co. 4pp initial ads, 12pp cata.; clean tear to pp 78-79 repaired with archival tape, one gathering mis-bound. Sl. later half dark green calf, gilt compartments; some sl. rubbing but a v.g. copy of Hawthorne’s second book. 1837 £380 HEATH

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR CARICATURE 133. HEATH, Henry. The Magic Slide. Or, Funeral Departure of a Joint Committee. Ink & water colour on three sheets. Signed. Mounted. Approx. 66 x 19.5cm. Not recorded in George; the original drawing for what appears to be an unpublished caricature by Henry Heath. It depicts a line of disgruntled lawyers and dejected heirs following the reading of a will, processing from a house on the left where young boys look out through a window marked Tenants in Tail, crying out ‘Voila, the Rogues March! Huzza! Huzza!!’. [c.1830] £1,500 †

PENNY DREADFUL 134. HEMYNG, Bracebridge. Money Marks: or, The Sailor Highwayman. George Vickers. Illus. Dark brown binder’s cloth. From the collection of Ronald Rouse, Norwich. v.g. ¶Ono 278-279. Pt. 1 of Money Marks is headed ‘The Sailor Highwayman, or, Money Marks’ unlike the Ono copy where the subtitle is ‘The Highwayman of the Seas’. It seems to be the same setting in 20 pts. and 156pp. [c.1865] £125

GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE’S COPY 135. (HENNELL, Mary) An Outline of the Various Social Systems and Communities; which have been founded on the principle of co-operation. With an introductory essay, by the author of ‘The Philosophy of Necessity’ (Charles Bray). FIRST EDITION. Longman. Authors’ names added to title in pencil, the odd pencil annotation. Signature of G.J. Holyoake on leading blank with additional later signature of J.J. Deakin. Unsympathetic green marbled e.ps. 20thC half green crushed morocco. Label on following e.p. of Midlands Workers’ Library. v.g. ¶First published in 1841 as an appendix to The Philosophy of Necessity by Charles Bray, Hennell’s brother-in-law. This separate publication, with an extensive introduction by Bray, came after Hennell’s death from consumption in 1843. HENNELL

Charles Bray, 1811-1884, was a hugely successful Coventry ribbon manufacturer, social reformer, and philanthropist. He married Mary Hennell’s sister, Caroline, and from their home ‘Rosehill’ they debated radical social and political opinion with prominent Victorian reformers including Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau, and, from early in 1844, George Eliot. The object of Hennell’s work, supporting the ideas of the ‘Rosehill Circle’ as it became known, ‘was to add force to certain arguments in favour of the organization of industry, by proving that such is no new doctrine, fresh-created in the brains of our modern visionaries, but one which has had its enlightened advocates in all ages and almost in every clime’. The copy of fellow reformer and co-operator George Jacob Holyoake, 1817-1906. 1844 £450

THE EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY - IN BALLET 136. HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE. Programme. Season 1885. 4to. George Berridge & Co., printers. Sl. creased with a few small tears to lower margin. Orig. wrappers. ¶Following A Villa to be Sold, a comic divertissement arranged by Enrico Cachetta., the evening’s main attraction is Excelsior, a grand spectacular ballet in eleven tableaux by Luigi Manzotti. Tableaux VIII, Inauguration of the Suez Canal, Ismalia, also includes a grand allegorical pad de cinq entitled The Emancipation of Slavery. Excelsior was Manzotti’s greatest achievement as a choreographer celebrating the end of slavery and the progress of humanity heading ‘confidently to the victory of Civilization over Obscurantism, foreshadowing in the spectacular apotheosis a future of Science, Progress, Brotherhood and Love’ (Bonelli). 1885 £75

137. HOFLAND, Barbara, formerly Hoole. The Barbadoes Girl. A tale for young people. 5th edn. 12mo. A.K. Newman & Co. Front., additional engr. title; sl. foxing. Following f.e.p. removed. Contemp. quarter green morocco; rubbed & sl. worn. ‘Tremayne’ ownership signatures. ¶First published as Matilda: or, The Barbadoes Girl, in 1816. [1825] £20 HORT

138. HORT, Lieut.-Colonel Richard. The Embroidered Banner, and other marvels. FIRST EDITION. John & Daniel A. Darling. Col. front. & plates by Alfred Ashley, 8pp cata. on smaller paper, 4pp ads. Original olive-green cloth by Josiah Westley, gilt centrepiece ‘Libertad’, spine decorated & lettered in gilt, signed J.L. (designed by John Leighton); some water marking on front board. ¶Sadleir 1219, his copy of the first edition in ‘red morocco cloth’. This copy is more likely to be the primary binding, as is Wolff’s copy, 3290. 1850 £150

IN ORIGINAL BOARDS - ABOLITION OF SLAVERY 139. HOUSE OF COMMONS. An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790, and 1791; on the part of the petitioners for the abolition of the slave-trade. FIRST EDITION. Printed by James Phillips. Folding plate (with 2 inch tear not affecting image) & map. xxvi, [ii], 155pp. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper spine, sl. chipped paper label; spine sl. creased with a few small nicks. A v.g. copy in the original binding. ¶ESTC T143402. With an alphabetical list of the names and witnesses examined by the committee. The folding plate depicts the disposition of bodies on a slave ship. The report of the Select Committee investigating the evidence against the slave-trade was used by William Wilberforce to introduce the first Parliamentary Bill for the abolition of the slave-trade in April 1791. The motion was easily defeated but it marked the beginning of a protracted campaign which culminated in the passing of the Slave-Trade Act in March 1807. 1791 £3,200

HUBBARD

CONQUERING THE MOON 140. HUBBARD, Lafayette Ron. Fortress in the Sky. The Hubbard Association of Scientologists, Int. Illus. Orig. pictorial wrappers, stapled as issued; staples rusted. 19pp. ¶One copy only on OCLC, not in Library of Congress, not in BL or on Copac; no copies recorded on ABPC. Reprinted from Air Trails Magazine, May 1947; published originally under the pseudonym of Capt. B.A. Northorp. ‘The first article written in English on the military aspects of the moon in an atomic age.’ A military treatise on the necessity, after the invention of the atomic bomb, for conquering the moon and the establishment of a lunar military base. ‘The atomic bomb’ Hubbard concludes, ‘is only a step on the road to world supremacy. And that step is in the direction of a Moon base’. L. Ron Hubbard, 1911-1986, was a prolific pulp fiction writer and the founder of the Church of Scientology. He was, according to his own blurb on the inside front wrapper: ‘one of the prime movers in the effort of getting man out into space. He has designed rockets, he is a leading writer of science fiction, he has developed the psychology of space, in Scientology’. In addition, he was ‘one of the first nuclear physicists in the U.S., an officer trained in all phases of rocketry [although he was twice removed from his commanding post on the grounds of incompetence], space psychology and disaster relief, he can be considered one of the nation’s foremost exponents of the new Atomic Age and one of the few qualified by training and experience to confront its problems’. [1957] £380 HUGHES

141. (HUGHES, Thomas) Tom Brown’s School Days. By an old boy. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Macmillan & Co. Front. port., illus. title, plates & illus. Orig. dec. blue cloth by Burn & Co., bevelled boards; sl. repair to upper front corner, otherwise a fine bright copy. a.e.g. 1869 £250 MANNERS 142. HUMPHRY, Charlotte Eliza. Manners for Men. (6th edn.) Tall 8vo. James Bowden. 4pp ads. Orig. light-brown dec. cloth; sl. marked & dulled. Embossed stamp of W.H. Smith on leading f.e.p. 1898 £75

143. (HUTCHESON, Francis) An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations on the Moral Sense. The third edition, with additions. Printed for A. Ward. xx, [4], 339, [1]pp. 8vo. Full contemporary calf, raised bands, red morocco label; sl. wear to upper hinge, small scratch to rear board. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort. v.g. ¶ESTC T61185. First published in 1728. Together with his earlier work, Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), Hutcheson’s Essay was one of the most important works of moral philosophy of the early 18th century; widely translated and vastly influential throughout England, continental Europe, and America, especially amongst the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment. This third edition of 1742 is a distinct and revised edition with many additions and emendations, mainly to the Illustrations. 1742 £380 JANSON

JANSON, Hank, pseud. (Stephen Daniel Frances) The Hank Janson books of the 1940s and 50s were among the most popular series of pulp fiction selling upwards of five million copies by the mid 1950s. Hank Janson was both a pseudonym and a character in many of the novels which, up until 1953, were written solely by Stephen Daniel Frances and afterwards by numerous authors including the occasional title by Frances himself. For another volume of pulp fiction, see item 276

144. Hotsy, You’ll be Chilled. FIRST EDITION. New Fiction Press. Illus title. Orig. pict. wrappers; sl. spotting. v.g. ¶The cover illustration (signed Heade), as with almost all of the pulp fiction titles, features a buxom lady, her clothes almost ripped from her body, and fighting against an unseen foe. [1951] £125

145. Ripe for Rapture. FIRST EDITION. Roberts & Vinter. Half title. Orig. pict. wrappers. v.g. ¶The cover illustration is a red-headed lady in a night-dress being strangled by a gloved man in the compulsory uniform of hat, overcoat, shirt and tie. [1960] £40

146. Vengeance. FIRST EDITION. New Fiction Press. 2pp ads., leaves stapled. Orig. pict. wrappers. v.g. ¶The cover illustration is a seductive but vulnerable-looking blonde woman sat, arms above her head, on a large settee. [1953] £175

147. Whiplash. FIRST EDITION. New Fiction Press. Half title, illus title. Orig. pict. wrappers. v.g. ¶The cover illustration is a woman in her night dress, kneeling on a bed with her head bowed and a hand to her eyes. [1952] £85 ______

ASTRONOMY 148. JEANS, Henry William. Hand-Book for the Stars: containing rules for finding the name and positions of all the stars of the first and second magnitude. 3rd edn. Robson & Son. Front. & illus. Orig. green cloth; sl. rubbed. Contemporary signature of W.S. Brook on leading pastedown. v.g. 1868 £150

SHEFFIELD PRINTING 149. JEFFERSON, T.E. The Battle Field, and The Hermit: poems. FIRST EDITION. Sheffield: Robert Leader. Orig. red-brown cloth wrappers, printed paper label; sl. dulled. 26pp. ¶Leeds & BL only on Copac. 1859 £50

150. JOCELYN , Ada Maria, Mrs. Robert. Only a Flirt. A novel. George Bell & Sons. (Bell’s Indian and Colonial Library.) Orig. pink cloth; sl. marked & dulled. A nice copy. ¶First published in Britain by F.V. White in the same year. 1897 £35 144 145

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TWO VOLUMES, QUARTO 151. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals ... 9th edn.; corrected & revised. 2 vols. 4to. J. Johnson, W.J. & J. Richardson, R. Baldwin, &c. Front. port. vol. I. Handsomely rebound in half calf, spines gilt, red & green morocco labels. v.g. ¶Bound without half titles. The 8th edition, 4to, was published in 1799, see Alston V.191. 1806 £950

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EGYPT 152. JONES, Sir Thomas, Bart. The Horrors of War renewed in Egypt! Where the brave Abercromby, and many thousand gallant men, were sacrificed! In consequence of a breach of the Convention of El-Arish, clearly demonstrated, in the celebrated speech ... in the House of Commons the 27th of March, 1801 ... Printed by W. Williams for J.S. Jordan. Sl. spotting. Disbound. (3), 6-58, without half title or initial blank. ¶Not in BL. [1801?] £75

153. KENNARD, Mary E., Mrs. Edward. Twilight Tales. F.V. White. Half title, front. & 5 plates by Edith Ellison. Orig. green cloth, front board blocked & lettered in black, spine blocked & lettered in gilt; v. sl. rubbing. Ownership inscription on half title dated 1890. v.g. ¶First published in 1886; 13 animal stories. 1888 £35 KENNEDY

154. KENNEDY, James. Probable origin of the American Indians, with particular reference to that of the Caribs. FIRST EDITION. E. Lumley. Disbound, spine strengthened with linen-backed tape. ¶A paper read before The Ethnological Society on 15th March 1851. 1854 £250

155. KINGSLEY, Henry. Ravenshoe. New edn. Ward, Lock. (Library of select authors.) Half title; 6pp ads. ‘Yellowback’, orig. printed boards; rubbed & sl. worn. A good-plus copy. ¶Back cover ad. for Fry’s Cocoa; text coded 3-83. Originally no. 196 in the Select library of fiction, later 104, this has the same front cover illustration. Spine has royal arms and Select authors’ roundel. [1883] £55

156. KINGSLEY, Henry. Tales of Old Travel. Re-narrated. FIRST EDITION. Macmillan & Co. Half title, front., 56pp cata. (Aug. 1869). Orig. green dec. cloth by Burn & Co.; hinges sl. cracking. W.H. Smith embossed stamp on leading f.e.p. A v.g. bright copy. ¶Including: The shipwreck of Pelsart; The wonderful adventures of Andrew Bettel; The old slave trade; Alvaro Nunez, &c. 1869 £45

PLAIN TALES - CALCUTTA EDITION 157. KIPLING, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills. FIRST EDITION. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. Half title, 24pp cata. (Dec. 1887); sewing sl. loose. Orig. olive-green pictorial cloth; unevenly faded, sl. lifting of cloth on back board, hinges sl. cracking. Stamp of Thacker & Co. Bombay on leading pastedown along with booklabels of Oliver Corse Hoyt & Christopher Clark Geest. Small catalogue entry laid down on following pastedown. In half red morocco Solander case. ¶Stewart pp 28-40, binding 2; Martindell 17; an early issue with 24 rather than 32pp advertising catalogue, pagination misplaced in gutter on p.192. The first English and American Editions were published in 1890. The preface states that 28 (of the 40 short stories) appeared originally in the Civil and Military Gazette; Stewart notes that 32 had appeared in that publication, 29 in the series entitled Plain Tales from the Hills with the remaining 8 tales ‘more or less new’. 1888 £420

LANDOR’S POETICAL HOAX - SEWN AS ISSUED 158. LANDOR, Walter Savage. Poems from the Arabic and Persian; with notes. By the author of Gebir. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Warwick: printed by H. Sharpe, and sold by Messrs. Rivingtons, London. Half title; old horizontal fold. Sewn as issued. A very nice copy of a rare item. [6], 13, [1]pp. ¶ESTC T54967; BL & Oxford only. First Edition, 2nd issue with the English Preface. The work is in fact a poetical hoax: the poems are by Landor himself and imitations not of originals but of the imitations of Sir William Jones, and John Nott’s Select Odes from the Persian Poet Hafiz (1787). Landor wanted to append a poem ‘Extract from the French Preface’ in praise of Napoleon, and in particular his policy of encouraging the arts and sciences in Egypt and elsewhere, but the Rivingtons refused to have the treasonable piece appear in copies bearing their name on the titlepage. 1800 £780 LANDSEER

159. LANDSEER, Thomas Twenty Engravings of Lions, Tigers, Panthers & Leopards by Thomas Landseer, from originals by Stubbs, Rubens, Spilsbury, Rembrant [sic], Reydinger & Edwin Landseer; with an essay on the carnivore by J. La[ndseer]. FIRST EDITION. Landscape 4to. I. & H.L. Hunt, & J. Landseer. Front., engraved title, plates; edges of front. sl. creased, plates sl. spotted with damp mark to upper margin of first 4 plates. Contemp. half black calf, gilt spine; a little rubbed. 35pp. ¶Twenty full-page engravings of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, &c., chiefly after the designs of Sir Edwin Landseer. In 1858 Edwin was commissioned to design the four bronze lions that now adorn the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. 1823 £385

WITH SEGUNDO’S TREATISE ON THE BITTING OF HORSES 160. LATCHFORD, Benjamin. The Loriner. Opinions and observations on bridle-bits and the suitable bitting of horses. 4to. Printed by Herbert Fitch. 14 double-page plates with 138 illus. 10pp. Contemp. half black roan. v.g. ¶Published with a reproduction of Don Juan Segundo’s A Treatise on the Suitable Bitting of Horses; with a description of a new system of bridle bits ... 1 folding plate, 57pp. Latchford was the bridle-bit, stirrup, and spur maker to the Prince of Wales. The Loriner was first published in 1871. Copac records two copies of the 1871 edition; this edition is not recorded on Copac or BL. Segundo’s work on bridle-bits was first published in Spanish in 1803. 1883 £280

ARDIZZONE ILLUSTRATIONS 161. LE FANU, Sheridan, J. In a Glass Darkly. With numerous illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Peter Davies. Half title, front., illus. Contemp. half dark green crushed morocco; spine faded to brown, sl. nick to tail of spine. ¶First published in 1872. Five short stories: Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. 1929 £150 LE GALLIENNE

162. LE GALLIENNE, Richard Thomas. The Romance of Zion Chapel. John Lane, The Bodley Head. Half title. Partly uncut in orig. blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; library label at foot of spine, sl. rubbed. Library stamps of Staffs T.C. & M.C. ¶Not in Wolff. 1898 £35

SMOLLETT’S TRANSLATION 163. (LE SAGE, Alain René) The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. Translated from the French of Le Sage by Tobias Smollett. 3 vols. T. M’Lean. Hand-coloured fronts. & plates. Bound without half titles in 20th century full dark red morocco, lined & dec. in gilt, raised bands, compartments in gilt & with gilt dentelles. a.e.g. A FINE set. ¶With engravings by John Heaviside Clark. 1819 £850

IN SEARCH OF OGRES 164. LEE, Holme, pseud. (Harriet Parr) Tuflongbo’s Journey in Search of Ogres; with some accounts of his early life, and how his shoes got worn out. FIRST EDITION. Smith, Elder & Co. Half title, hand-coloured front. & 5 plates. Uncut in orig. green pebble-grained pictorial cloth. Owner’s inscription on leading f.e.p. dated 1864. A good-plus copy of a scarce item. ¶Wolff 3993. 1862 £85

165. LEIKIN, Nikolai Aleksandrovich. Where the Oranges Grow. A story by ... the ‘Mark Twain of Russia’. Translated from the Russian by Count S.C. De Soissons. Greening & Co. Half title with ad. on verso, title in black and red. Orig. green pictorial cloth; sl. dulled but a good-plus copy. ¶First published in Russian, 1892. First English edition. 1901 £65 LEMON

CHRISTMAS HAMPER YELLOWBACK 166. LEMON, Mark. A Christmas Hamper. George Routledge & Sons. 8pp initial ads, front., 4pp ads. ‘Yellowback’, orig. pict. yellow boards; a little rubbed & soiled. A good plus copy. ¶Topp records an 1859 and 1860 edition published by Routledge, Warne & Routledge; he refers to but does not record a later 1875 edition which is also unrecorded on Copac. Back cover advert. for Routledge’s Anecdote Library. [1875] £120

LEVER’S SEAMANSHIP - FROM THE FASQUE LIBRARY 167. LEVER, Darcy. The Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor; or, A key to the leading of rigging and to practical seamanship. 2nd edn. 4to. Sold by John Richardson. Engraved titlepage + 57 plates. Uncut in orig. printed boards, expertly rebacked, later blue cloth d.w. An attractive copy. ¶First published in 1808, Lever’s work became the standard text during the 19th century. [1819] £420

C.S. LEWIS ON VIVISECTION 168. LEWIS, Clive Staples. Vivisection. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The Nationl Anti-Vivisection Society. Front. port. Orig. blue wraps, stapled as issued; sl. marked, spine sl. faded. 12pp. ¶First published in Boston in 1947. Lewis was asked to write the tract by the president of the New England Anti-Vivisection society, who had read Lewis’s chapter on animal suffering in The Problem of Pain, 1940. In his attack on the practice’s ‘non-moral utilitarianism’, Lewis argues that the ‘Darwinians’ who see humans as metaphysically indistinct from animals, yet justify vivisection out of out of loyalty to their own species, demonstrate a sentimental loyalty to humanity which might as easily be a sentimental preference for their own nation, race or class. [1948] £120

CAKES 169. LEWIS, T. Percy, & BROMLEY, A.G. The Book of Cakes. Edition de Luxe. Large 4to. Maclaren & Sons. Half title, rubricated text, colour plates. Orig. olive-green cloth; sl. rubbed & dulled, hinges a little weak. ¶With decorative end papers and a list of subscribers to the De Luxe Edition. See also item 248. [1903] £450 LIVERPOOL TRACTS 170. LIVERPOOL. A Collection of 11 Liverpool Tracts belonging to Sir John Gladstone. Liverpool. Contemp. half calf, marbled boards. Fasque booklabel on leading pastedown. ¶1. ROSCOE, William. Catalogue of a Series of Pictures, illustrating the rise and early progress of the art of painting, in Italy, Germany, &c. Liverpool: printed by James and Jonathan Smith. 1819. Plates. (iv), 20, (iv). Not in BL; V&A & Liverpool only on Copac. 2. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INSTITUTION. Resolutions, reports and Bye-Laws of the Liverpool Royal Institution. March, 1814-March, 1822. Liverpool: printed by G.F. Harris’s widow & brothers. 1822. Not in BL. Liverpool (2 copies) & Society of Antiquaries only on Copac. 3. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INSTITUTION. Catalogue of the Paintings, the works of the old masters of various schools, and of deceased British artists ... arranged under the superintendance of the Committee of the Liverpool Royal Institution, and which are now exhibiting at their gallery, in Colquitt- Street ... Liverpool: printed by G.F. Harris’s widow & brothers. 1823. 169 LIVERPOOL

Manuscript on verso of final leaf listing members of the institution and a number, possibly a donation, beside each name. The manuscript ends: ‘4 short’. viii, (ii), 41pp. 4. TRAILL, Thomas Stewart. Address Delivered in February, MDCCCXXVIII, at the general meeting of the members of the Liverpool Royal Institution. Liverpool: Harris & Co. 1828. 35pp. Not in BL; NLS only on Copac; Liverpool records 2 copies of an 1829 edition. 5. SANDARS, Joseph. A Letter on the Subject of the Projected Rail Road, between Liverpool and Manchester, pointing out the necessity for its adoption and the manifest advantages it offers to the public ... 2nd edn. Liverpool: printed by W. Wales & Co. [1824]. 32pp. Bound in with a folded 4pp prospectus of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail Road Company. 4 small puncture holes affecting 6 words but not affecting sense. 6. LIVERPOOL MECHANICS’ SCHOOL OF ARTS. Report and Proceedings of the Liverpool Mechanics’ School of Arts, at the half yearly meeting of the members ... Liverpool: printed by E. Smith & Co. 1828. 24pp. Not in BL. Liverpool only on Copac. 7. LIVERPOOL POOR RATE. An address to All Who Are Assessed to the Poor’s Rate, for the parish of Liverpool; by the churchwardens & parish committee; explaining the reasons which have induced them to recommend, that application should be made to Parliament, for an Act for the better management of the poor. Liverpool: printed by G.F. Harris’s widow and brothers. 1814. 40pp. Liverpool, BL & Manchester only on Copac. 8. KIRKDALE HOUSE OF CORRECTION. General Rules, Orders, & Regulations, for the government of houses of correction, and rules and bye- laws for the regulation of the house of correction at Kirkdale, in the county of Lancaster, called the Kirkdale House of Correction ... &c. Liverpool: printed by G. Cruickshank. 1820. 44pp. Not in BL; unrecorded on Copac. 9. Proceedings of the General Court Martial in the Trial of Alexander Grant Carmichael, Captain and Adjutant of the Liverpool Fuzileers, on a charge, exhibited against him by William Earle, Lieut. Col. Commandant of that regiment. Liverpool. printed by W. Jones. 1804. 97pp. BL only on Copac. 10. Mercator’s Address to His Townsmen, the parishioners of Liverpool, respecting the notices of several Bills, intended to be submitted to Parliament: namely, the Liverpool Poor Bill, the Liverpool Church Bill, the Liverpool Paving Bill, the Wallasey Sea-Embankment Bill &c. Liverpool: printed by James Smith. 1814. 49, 8pp. BL only on Copac. 11. The Liverpool Squib Book, being a correct and impartial collection of all the addresses, songs, squibs and other papers, issued during the contested election, March, 1820; to which are added, the whole of the speeches of George Canning. Liverpool: W. Bethell. 1820. 64pp. Not in BL; Liverpool & LSE only on Copac. A scarce collection of Liverpool imprints encompassing the social, economic, political and cultural history of the city in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Of the 11 tracts, one is entirely unrecorded, six are not recorded in the British Library and 9 have 3 or fewer copies on Copac. Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, 1764-1851, was a Scottish merchant, M.P. and father to the four-times Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. He made his fortune in Liverpool as a partner of the grain merchants Corrie, Gladstone & Bradshaw. On his return to Scotland in 1829 Gladstone bought the Fasque Estate in Kincardineshire and was created a baronet by Sir Robert Peel in 1846. A Liberal turned Tory, Gladstone supported George Canning in his campaign to represent Liverpool in the House of Commons. Gladstone represented the constituencies of Lancaster, Woodstock and Berwick between 1818 and 1827. 1804-28 £2,850

171. LLOYD, Elizabeth Maria. Exercises in the Gospel Narrative of the Life of Our Lord, (chronologically arranged) in a series of questions and answers. Accompanied by 50 illustrations. 2nd edn. Sampson Low. 4pp ads. Orig. green limp cloth. a.e.g. WITH: 4 folding plates, backed on linen, with 50 numbered plates. Orig. green limp cloth. In the orig. green paper box, paper label. A remarkably well preserved set. v.g. 1833 £250 170 LOCKE

FIRST IRISH EDITION 172. LOCKE, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. The ninth edition. Dublin: printed by Will. Forrest. [6], 325, [17]pp, engr. portrait frontispiece. 12mo. Full contemporary panelled calf, central panel with small tulip cornerpiece decorations, raised bands, red morocco label. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort. Nice copy. ¶ESTC T155625; 2 copies only, Liverpool and Nat. Lib. Ireland. Two Dublin 9th editions were published in 1728, one by William Forrest, and the other by S. Powell. This copy, although bearing the Forrest imprint, has the frontispiece which is only noted in the Powell printing. The collation suggests that the ten-page subscribers’ list is here bound at the end, and it also has the recorded mis-numbering of pages 264 and 265. The Powell printing, ESTC T175208, is also scarce, recorded in only 3 copies, BL, Cambridge & Oxford. This is the first Irish edition of this work, and with a 1728 Dublin Abstract of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the first appearance of any of his works in Ireland. 1728 £480

LOTTERY

173. 1797 - TICKET-SHARES. Engraved indented one sixteenth share of a ticket in the 1797 Lottery, No. 21,153. Sl. creased. ¶GL 79, drawn from 26 February 1798. Signed by the contractor Richardson Goodluck & Co. with blind stamp and their inked stamp on verso. Additional number S3007. 1797 [1798] £180 †

174. 1805 - TICKET - SHARE. Engraved indented one eighth share of a ticket in the First Lottery for 1805, No. 3,195.Minor marginal tears. ¶GL 96, drawn on 30th September 1805. Signed by the contractor Thomas Hornsby of 26 Cornhill with blind stamp, red ink stamp on verso and additional number 771. 1805 £40 †

175. 1807 - PUFFS. Advertisements for the Third Lottery for 1807. Approx. 9cm wide with small block celebrating winning. ¶GL 106, drawn on 28th June 1808. Issued by the firm Hornsby & Co. 1808 £30

176. 1814 - TICKET - SHARE. Printed one quarter share in a ticket in the Second Lottery for 1814, No. 1,977. Printed in red & black with engraved blocks. Indent cut in fact straight. ¶GL 139, drawn on 18th January 1815. Signed for the contractor Swift & Co. with the additional number B1057 and blind stamp. Ink note on verso ‘Purchased Jany 17 - Between B.B. & J.B.’. 1814 [1815] £50 † 173

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A VALENTINE 177. 1815 - PUFFS. Four advertisement slips for the Second Lottery for 1815, issued by Hazard, Burne & Co. with various printers. 2 rather creased. ¶GL 145, drawn on 14th February 1816. Each has a short poem, ‘The Doubt’ being a parody of ‘To be or not to be’. One bears a pair of doves for Valentine’s Day and another a heart-shaped design ‘A Valentine for Fortune’s Votaries’. The fourth is entitled ‘Prudent Reflections’. [1815] £40

CRUIKSHANK: THEATRICAL CHARACTERS 178. 1816 - PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Eleven Twelfth Night style Theatrical characters issued as advertisements for the Third Lottery for 1816. Partly hand- coloured, one torn, two trimmed. ¶GL 151, drawn on 21st January 1817. The figure’s name and play is given with lottery details, then short verses. Two figures, Moll Flaggon and Sir Francis Wronghead, were also used in the earlier set. Two bear Bish’s name and also include a quotation from the play. Cohn 1609, 1679, 1653, 1612, 1435, 1442, 1613 identify the artist as George Cruikshank; the rest not traced. [1817] £85

HARLEQUINADE & PUZZLE HEADS 179. 1823 - PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Nineteen advertisements (including variants) for the Second Lottery for 1823, issued by Hazard & Co. Of various sizes, some sl. creased or trimmed. ¶GL 187(a), drawn on 12th April 1825. Three slips depict Hazard’s old office at the South Gate of the Royal Exchange; three have puzzle heads with a second face when inverted; five depict Harlequinade characters with billboards, one bears the Wandering Jew, and one is the old Emotion ‘Desire’ slip depicting Parson Trulliber (Cohn 1556). A wider slip portrays Falstaff with advertisement on his shield. [1825] £225 ______

LOVER’S IRISH LEGENDS 180. LOVER, Samuel. Legends and Stories of Ireland. With etchings by the Author. Dublin: W.F. Wakeman. Front. & plates; foxed. Contemp. full tan calf by C. Lewis, gilt ownership stamp lettered ‘Vigilantibus’ on boards, gilt spine, green morocco label; some marking but a v.g. copy. ¶The stamp, a cock standing on a trumpet, is that of Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford,1806 -1864. 1831 £320

181. LUCAS, Edward Verrall. The Book of Shops. Illustrated by Francis D. Bedford. Grant Richards. Oblong folio. 24 full-page col. printed illustrations on right hand pages (plus col. half title, title and contents); sl. stain to upper margin of e.ps. Orig. printed boards, brown cloth spine, gilt lettered; edges & corners a bit rubbed. ¶Cambridge, Oxford and V&A only on Copac. Contents: Bookseller, Baker, Confectioner, Butcher, Fishmonger, Watchmaker, Athletic outfitter, Poulterer, Basket-makers, Ironmonger, Chemist, Bird-fancier, Milliner, Fireworks, Post- office, Hot-potatoes, Toy shop, Fruit stalls, Hair cutter, Pa’s bank, Market, Kerbstone merchants, Village store, Fair. [1899] £650 183 MABERLY

182. MABERLY, Catherine Charlotte. The Love Match. A novel. New edn. David Bryce. Contemp. half maroon calf, spine dec. in gilt, black leather label; spine & corners a little rubbed. From the Headfort library, signed ‘Bective 1854’. A good-plus copy. ¶Wolff has three titles, but not this. See Loeber M7 for the first edition, 3 vols, 1841. Maberly, née Prittie, Irish author. [1856] £45

THE DEATH’S HEAD PIPE 183. McCONNELL, William. The Deaths-Head Pipe. Original caricature. Pencil, ink & watercolour, signed & inscribed. Framed & glazed. ¶A young man smokes an opium pipe sat on an armchair legs stretched out towards an open fireplace. Beside him, emanating from the head of the pipe is a skeletal figure saying: ‘I only let him smoke me to give a colour to the affair. He will soon be mine!’ William McConnell, a one-time pupil of George Cruikshank, was a comic artist of some repute. He was the close friend of the Brothers Brough and of George Augustus Sala, for whom he made a set of elaborate drawings to illustrate Twice Round the Clock. [c.1860?] £750 †

A LETTER FROM GEORGE MACDONALD 184. MACDONALD, George. ALS to the Rev. James Craik, Dc, 8, 1869, from the Retreat, Hammersmith, 12 Earles Terrace, Kensington, W. crossed through. ‘Best thanks for your kind invitation to visit you ...’ 4pp on folded 8vo sheet. ¶Refusing an invitation in Glasgow as he has already agreed to stay with Mr James Campbell, 200 Athole Place. He cannot promise any fixed day but hopes Craik will speak to him after the lecture. James Craik, 1802-1870, was an influential Church of Scotland minister in central Glasgow. 1869 £650 †

MACHIAVELLI’S WORKS 185. MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English. The third edition, carefully corrected. Printed by T(homas) W(ood) for A. Churchill (and 10 others). [24], 168, 179-180, 171-174, 185-186, 177, 188-189, [5], 199-234, 234, 236-262, 265-267, [5], 267-314, 317-431, [5], 433-543, [1]pp. Folio. Some v. sl. worming to extreme outer edge of leading margin, otherwise a fine clean copy. Full contemp. calf, double gilt ruled borders, raised & gilt banded spine with small repeat ‘flower-head’ motif, red & black gilt labels. ¶ESTC T90886. 1720 £850

MALTHUS ON POPULATION 186. MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with An Inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions. 3rd edn. 2 vols. J. Johnson. Traces of library blind stamps on titles, ink pressmarks. Handsomely rebound in half calf, red labels. ¶Kress B.5067. 1806 £450 MANING

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NEW ZEALAND 187. (MANING, Frederick Edward) Old New Zealand; a tale of the good old times. By a Pakeha Maori. 2nd edn. Auckland: Robert J. Creighton & Alfred Scales. Half title; occasional spotting. Orig. green publisher’s cloth; neatly recased maintaining orig. spine. A good plus copy. ¶This second Auckland edition not recorded on Copac. The title was first published in Britain by R. Bentley & Son in 1876. Maning, 1812-1883, moved to New Zealand to seek his fortune aged just 22. He settled among the Nga Puhi Maori soon becoming known as a Pakeha Maori (a European turned native), a name which was to become his pseudonym for his two books on New Zealand, the second being A History of the War in the North of New Zealand Against the Chief Heke. Maning was very active in counselling native New Zealanders in their dealings with European settlers and this book deals with the freedoms lost both to him as a businessman, and culturally to the Maori, after the arrival on a large scale of Europeans. 1863 £180

READING & RECREATION ROOMS 188. MANNERS, Janetta, Lady John. Encouraging Experiences of Reading and Recreation Rooms: aims of Gilds; Nottingham Social Gild ... and hints how to obtain really good books at moderate prices. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. Half titles. Orig. pink paper wrappers; spine cracked with some sl. loss, a little dulled. Presentation inscription on front wrapper: Mr Humphrey’s from Lady John Manners’. ¶Reprinted from The Queen, being a sequel to Advantages of Free Libraries and Recreation Rooms. [1886] £120 MANUSCRIPT

MANUSCRIPT ______See items 3, 5, 56, 70, 94 & 184.

189. (MARCET, Jane Haldimand) Conversations on Political Economy; in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained. By the Author of ‘Conversations on chemistry.’ 4th edn. 12mo. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown. initial 12pp cata. (July 1884), half title. Uncut in orig. grey boards, paper label; spine sl. rubbed & marked. v.g. ¶BL, Edinburgh & St. Andrews only on Copac. At a time when scientific text books were virtually unknown, Marcet did much to popularise the subject. Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy owed its origin to Marcet’s work and Jean-Baptiste Say declared that Marcet was ‘the only woman who had written on political economy and shown herself superior even to men.’ (DNB.) 1821 £150

SIGNED & INSCRIBED 190. MARGOLIOUTH, Moses. Curates of Riversdale: recollections in the life of a clergyman. Written by himself. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Hurst & Blackett. Half dark blue calf, marbled boards; expertly & handsomely rebacked. Inscription on leading f.e.p., vol.I: ‘Mrs Buckley - with affectionate esteem, from the Author, M. Margoliouth’. Later signature of M. Jane Hole on verso of leading f.e.ps. ¶Not in Sadleir; Wolff 4481. BL, Oxford, & Cambridge only on Copac. Born in Poland to Jewish parents, Margoliouth moved to England and converted to the Church of England before being ordained into the Church. He wrote extensively on Jewish history and Hebrew literature and established a Hebrew Christian monthly magazine, The Star of Jacob. 1860 £750

190 191 MARINO

MARINO’S ADONIS 191. MARINO, Giambattista. L’Adone, Poema. Con gli argomenti del conte F. Sanvitale; e l’allegorie di Don Lorenzo Scoto. 2 vols. Amsterdam. [12], 660 (i.e. 662)pp; 658pp, rubricated titlepages. 12mo bound in sixes. Small marginal tear to V1 vol. II, some light browning, a few ink splashes but a v.g. copy. Most handsome early 19th century dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt ruled borders, attractive gilt panelled spines decorated with flower heads, open circles & small gilt dots. Pink endpapers & pastedowns. Armorial bookplate of John Barron, early inscription of J. Stirling, later 19th century bookplate of Alfred Cock of the Middle Temple, ownership name of J. Stroud Read, London, Nov 1928. A note, most probably by Read, records that the volumes at one time belonged to William Roscoe, and were subsequently sold at the Sotheby sale of the library of Alfred Cock in 1898. On the death of the purchaser they were given to Read by the deceased’s widow. An earlier hand on one endpaper notes ‘Will. Roscoe’s Library’. a.e.g. ¶Giambattista Marino, 1569-1625, Italian poet. His epic poem L’Adone (Adonis), was published in Paris in 1623 and dedicated to the French King Louis XIII. It is a mythological poem written in ottava rima and divided into twenty cantos. Marino quotes and rewrites passages from Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ariosto, Tasso and the French literature of the day. The aim of these borrowings is not plagiarism but rather to introduce an erudite game with the reader who must recognise the sources and appreciate the results of the revision. Marino challenges the reader to pick up on the quotations and to enjoy the way in which the material has been reworked, as part of a conception of poetic creation in which everything in the world (including the literature of the past) can become the object of new poetry. In this way, Marino also turns Adone into a kind of poetic encyclopaedia, which collects and modernises all the previous productions of human genius. The poem is also evidence of a new sensibility connected with the latest scientific discoveries (for example the eulogy of Galileo in Canto X) and geographical findings (such as Canto VII with its praise of the passiflora, a plant recently imported into Europe from the Americas). In England he was admired by John Milton and translated by Richard Crashaw. 1651 £620

ORIGINAL BOARDS 192. (MARJORIBANKS, Alexander) Tour to the Loire and La Vendée, in 1835; interspersed with novel and interesting remarks, addressed to the judgement, not to the prejudices of mankind. By a country gentleman. 2nd edn. Effingham Wilson. Front. Orig. pink paper boards, green glazed cloth spine, paper label; spine sl. faded. Signature of J. Menzies and library stamp of St. Mary’s College, Blairs, on leading pastedown. ‘Eastern District’ stamp on title. v.g. ¶Copac records one copy dated 1836 without an edition statement, one 1837 edition, and three second editions only, in BL, NLS & Glasgow. The copy of John Menzies Strain, 1810-1883, a Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the first Archbishop of the Metropolitan see of St. Andrews and Edinburgh. He was elected President of St. Mary’s College, Blairs, Aberdeen, in 1859. 1836 £280

193. (MARRYAT , Frederick) Peter Simple. 3rd edn. 3 vols. Saunders & Otley. Bound for the library of Nun-Appleton Hall in contemp. half green calf, gilt spines with the family crest of a winged horse at head, maroon morocco labels; sl. rubbing but a v.g. attractive set. Bookplate of Sir William Mordaunt Sturt Milner, 4th Baronet, Nun- Appleton, on leading pastedown, vols II & III. ¶See Sadleir 1592a & Wolff 4531 for the first edition of the same year. 1834 £150 MATHEWS

MATHEWS, Charles, the Elder

194. Memoirs of the Youthful Days of Mr. Mathews, ... now performing ... J. Limbird. Col. front. of Mathews as M. de Tourville. Disbound. ¶This edition not cited by Klepac, who notes the Duncombe edition of 1825. [1825] £140

195. Mr. Mathews At Home! in his Youthful Days. Part I ... Part II ... Mr. Mathews’ representation of the pleasures of a sea voyage in The Polly Packet ... Printed & published by M. Metford. Although said on the titlepage to have a folding plate, the col. front. is a fine portrait of Mathews as Mr. Theophilus Tulip. Stabbed as issued; sl. dusted & creased at corners. 26pp inc. plate. ¶This edition has some of the same contents as Memoirs of the Youthful Days of Mr. Mathews. It is not in Klepac. Metford has the same address, 19 Little Queen Street, as Duncombe and is not listed by P.A.H. Brown or Todd. Since his only other publications traced in BL are collections of ribald songs, it may be that Metford was a pseudonym used by Duncombe to avoid prosecution. The BL copy lacks the plate. [1822?] £220

196. Mr. Mathews’ Memorandum-Book, of peculiarities, character and manners, collected by him on his various trips. Performed ... at the Theatre Royal English Opera House, ... Also: a Monopolylogue, called The Crown Inn Danger; ... (2nd edn. Duncombe’s edn.) Duncombe. Fold. col. front. by T. Jones, depicting the characters and Crown Inn set. Disbound. 24pp. ¶Klepac lists the first edition of 1825 on p.67 but had not seen this edition. [1826] £160 ______

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‘CHARACTER’ & ‘INDUSTRIAL EXERTION’ AS QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE VOTE 197. MAXWELL, Sir John, Bart. True Reform: or, Character a qualification for the franchise. Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co. Half green calf, red label; sl. faded. Inscribed Presentation copy: “From the Author”; with the later signature & bookplate of David Murray. v.g. 50pp. ¶Arguing for a return to government by those who know best. 1860 £50

198. MAYHEW, Augustus Paved with Gold: or, The romance and reality of the London Streets. An unfashionable novel. With illus. by H.K. Browne. FIRST EDITION. Chapman & Hall. Front., added engr. title & plates. Uncut in orig. dark green cloth by Bone & Son. Bookseller’s ticket of J. Philipson, North Shields on leading pastedown. A v.g. bright copy. ¶Wolff 4683. The plate from p.128 is placed as frontispiece. 1858 £150

LONDON LABOUR 199. MAYHEW, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor: the condition and earnings of those that will work, cannot work, and will not work. 3 vols. Charles Griffin & Co. WITH: The Extra Volume: Those that Will Not Work. Charles Griffin & Co. Fronts in vols III, & IV, plates, illus., maps. Tear with loss to following f.e.p. vol. II. 4 vols in orig. maroon cloth by Deighton; vol. I sl. damp marked, a little rubbed. Contemporary signature on title of vol. I. ¶The first 3 volumes are from the edition published in 100 parts; the 4th ‘Extra’ volume is, as usual, taller. First published in 1851. [1864/1862] £850

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WINNIE-THE-POOH 200. MILNE, Alan Alexander. Winnie-the-Pooh; with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. FIRST EDITION. Methuen & Co. Half title, illus. Orig. green cloth blocked in gilt; minor mark to spine, some sl. rubbing but a v.g. bright copy. [1926] £750

THE FIRST ANGLING CLUB IN USA 201. (MILNOR, William) An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill. From its establishment on that romantic stream, near Philadelphia, in the year 1732, to the present time. By a member. Philadelphia: Judah Dobson. Front. & 2 ports. WITH: (MILNOR, William) Memoirs of the Gloucester fox Hunting Club, near Philadelphia. Front. & plate, errata leaf; spotting throughout, occasionally heavy. Uncut in orig. pink cloth boards, paper label on front board; spine sl. faded with sl. mark to tail. A v.g. copy in the original binding. In a half red morocco slip-case. 127pp/56pp. ¶Established in 1732 and still in existence today, The Schuylkill Fishing Company of Pennsylvania, also known as the State in Schuylkill, was the first angling club in the American colonies. Initially limited to 25 members, the officers of the club held government titles including governor and lieutenant governor. Its clubhouse, known as ‘The Castle’, was first erected at the foot of the Schuylkill River falls and was moved to its present location in Devon, near Andalusia, Pennsylvania. Milnor served for a number of years as secretary of the Schuylkill Fishing Company and was a member of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, the first organised hunt club in America, founded in New Jersey in 1766. 1830 £650

FIRST FRENCH EDITION 202. MILTON, John. Le Paradis Reconquis; traduit de l’Anglois, de Milton. Avec quelques autres pieces de Poësies. A Paris: chez Cailleau, Place du Pont Saint Michel, du côté du Quai des Augustins, à S. André. xix, [3], 253, [1]pp; 8vo. Old, rather faint waterstain to lower corners of Preface. Full contemp. calf, gilt panelled spine, red morocco label, marbled e.ps, carmine edges, silk marker; sl. insect damage to surface leather on upper board. Bookplate of Jacqueline Hilpert. A nice copy. ¶The first French translation ofParadise Regained, by de Maseuil. 1730 £320

PARADISE LOST 203. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A poem, in twelve books. The eighth edition, adorn’d with sculptures. Printed for Jacob Tonson. [10], 483, [9]pp, engraved portrait frontispiece dated 1670, 12 engraved plates; some browning & waterstaining throughout, clean tears without loss to one plate & Gg3, small pencil dots in margins mark certain passages. Full contemporary calf, ruled borders, small thistle device in each corner, gilt panelled spine, red morocco label; expert repairs to hinges & head & tail of spine. Early ownership signature of Martha Drew, 1748, & 19th century bookplate of Mary Wood. A handsome copy. ¶ESTC T133915, noting that this is not a re-issue or re-impression of the 1705 edition. It was also issued as a volume in The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton (London, 1707).

1707 £350 MOORHEAD

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204. MOORHEAD, Ethel & WALSH, Ernest, eds. This Quarter. Vol. 1, no. 1. Paris: the editors. Plates. Orig. wrappers; neat repair to hinges, a few small marginal tears but a nice copy. In fold-over box. ¶Volume One of This Quarter was dedicated to Ezra Pound and includes a photographic portrait of him by Man Ray. The collection of poetry, plays, prose and miscellaneous pieces includes contributions by Hemingway (Big Two Hearted River), James Joyce (From James Joyce), and Gertrude Stein (Capital Capitals). [1925] £420 ORIGINAL SKETCHES OF LONDON STREET LIFE 205. MOSER, Robert James. Sketch Book. 37 pen & ink sketches on rectos only of a small oblong sketch book by Reeves & Sons; final leaf removed. Bound in orig. hessian cloth. Front cover signed R.J. Moser, with additional inscription on leading pastedown: ‘Rob. Jas. Moser, 23 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead. ¶Robert Moser was born in Southwark, England on 31 Oct 1828 to Richard Moser and Sarah Williams, and died at Hampstead in February 1908. Whether a professional or amateur artist, Moser was a highly accomplished and skilled artist. The sketch book depicts scenes of Victorian street life, sketches of working people, poverty, and idle entertainment. 1888 £2,500 206. MURRAY, David Christie. First Person Singular: a novel. New edn. Chatto & Windus. Half title, initial ad. leaf, 32pp cata. (July, 1887). Sl. dusted. ‘Yellowback’, orig. printed boards; sl. rubbed. v.g. ¶Topp 659. White boards; back cover ad. for Pears’ Soap. 1887 £90 205 NESBIT

207. NESBIT, Edith. At Christmas Time. Marcus Ward & Co. Christmas card, 12 x 18.5cm, with illustrated 3 stanza poem on thinner paper sewn in with orig. ribbon. ¶A Christmas card, ‘with greeting and best wishes for the season’ with a seemingly unrecorded poem by Edith Nesbit; not in the BL or on Copac which records three items by Nesbit published by Marcus Ward & Co. between 1895 and 1896. [c.1896] £30

LANCASHIRE TALES 208. NEWBIGGING, Thomas. Sketches and Tales. FIRST EDITION. Sampson Low, Marston, & Co. Half title. Orig. green cloth. A v.g. bright copy. ¶Eleven tales, including: Lancashire factory doffers; The Larks of Dean; The knight’s stratagem; Afield with the geologists, &c. 1883 £50

KNAPP & BALDWIN’S EDITION 209. NEWGATE CALENDAR. The Newgate Calendar; comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England ... By Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin. 4 vols. J. Robins & Co. Fronts. & illus; the odd spot. Sl. later half crimson calf. v.g. ¶Text in two columns. The Newgate Calendar, originally a monthly bulletin of executions published by the Keeper at Newgate Prison, became a commonplace title for collected works detailing the biography of notorious criminals and their crimes. Originally issued as chapbooks, they soon took on a multi-volume format with a five volume edition first published in c.1774. 1824-28 £550 NEWSPAPER

ORIGINAL MAFEKING ‘SIEGE SLIPS’ 210. NEWSPAPER The Mafeking Mail. Special Siege Slips. Editor and manager G.N.H. Whales. Nos 11 (Nov. 15, 1899), 20, 32, 54, 81, 108, 117, 140, 146, 151, 153, 154 & 155 (June 4, 1900). 13 issues. Single sheet. Mafeking: printed and published by Townshend & Son. Ranging from 33 x 20cm to 37 x 29cm. ‘Issued daily, shells permitting.’ Nos 11, 54 & 81 have 1 side of text only. Printed on dwindling paper stocks, issues vary from coloured tissue paper, heavy official paper (with blind royal government stamp) to ruled accounting paper; no. 140 has a 2 inch tear to lower corner repaired with archival tape; issues are mostly remarkable v.g., bright & clean with some sm. marginal tears & creases. WITH: ‘Natal Mercury’ Souvenir Special. May 19, 1900. 43 x 27cm. Decorated with red & blue vertical stripes & a portrait of Col. Baden Powell; 2 tears along central fold, neatly repaired with archival tape; a few sm. marginal tears with 1 inch internal tear to foot of page not affecting text; a little dusted & marked but text & colour are mainly clean & bright. WITH: Mafeking Municipality Notice Nos 217 & 218 Rationing of the civil population. ¶Issued daily, ‘shells permitting’, 143 issues had been printed by the end of the siege, with printing continuing after May 17 as the Boer War continued elsewhere. Nov. 1, 1899 - 15 June 1900 (nos 1-165). These issues are the original numbers as printed during the siege. There are significant typographical differences between the originals and the reprints produced immediately after the siege. The Siege of Mafeking catapulted Baden Powell, colonel of British troops in the South Aftican town, into an instant national hero. Holding out for 217 days against the superior Boer numbers, Mafeking was finally relieved on May 17, 1900, when Colonel Mahon fought his way through the Boer ranks. Conan Doyle describes the Boer retreat: ‘A long rolling trail of dust upon the Eastern horizon told that the famous siege of Mafeking had at last come to an end’. 1899-1900 £850

211. NEWSPAPER The Rehearsal. A View of the Times, their Principles and Practices. By Philalethes. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 2 - 5, 1704) - Vol. 4, no. 48 (March 26, 1709). 398 issues. 4 vols in 1. Single sheet folio. Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London & Westminster. 34 x 20cm. 2 pp per issue. Weekly, changing to bi-weekly. Vol. 1, index & post-script; Vol. 2, index & preface; Vols 3 & 4, titlepage, preface & index. Vol. 1, no. 65 defective. Trimmed close to top edge, 37 issues trimmed & folded to fit within volume, occasional issues heavily browned, some sl. browned; issues mostly good or v.g. & clean. Bound at the end is a pamphlet entitled ‘A Letter from A Gentleman in the City to his Friend in the Country, Concerning the Prosecution of the Rehearsal, put into the News-Papers’, 4pp. Full panelled calf, neatly rebacked; sl. abrasion to surface of lower board. Bookplate of Pinchinthorpe House, Guisborough. ¶The Rehearsal was published between Aug. 1704 - March 1709. ESTC P1781, P1782 & P483469. ESTC records the BL, Cambridge & Oxford only. No. 1 is entitled the Observator, nos 2-4, 7, 10, 12, 13, & 51-250, The Rehearsal, and nos 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 &15-50 The Rehearsal of Observator &c. No. 14 is entitled Observator’s Tryal and Defence this Good Day’. A precursor to the essay-based papers like the Tatler (1709) and Spectator (1711), Charles Leslie’s Rehearsal (with John Tutchin’s Whig Observator and Defoe’s outspoken Review) was published in dialogue form. Leslie, a High Church Tory, wrote against Defoe and Tutchin’s Scandalous Club whose publications would, he said, instil in the people ‘the principles of rebellion’. Despite the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695 which, theoretically at least, opened the market to non-government approved publications, journalism remained a risky profession. Both Leslie and George Ridpath, Tutchin’s successor at the Observator, were forced to flee the country by the threat of imprisonment for libel. Tutchin himself was beaten to death on the say-so of his political opponents & Defoe, faced with an indefinite spell in Newgate, accepted a handsome Tory salary to turn against the Whig cause. 1704-09 £1,500 210 NEWTE

QUARTO IN ORIGINAL BOARDS 212. NEWTE, Thomas. Prospects and Observations; on a Tour in England and Scotland: natural, oeconomical, and literary. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Printed for G.G.J. & J. Robinson. Plates; pp. 177-184 repeated, p.260 misnumbered 062, plates sl. foxed, occasional spotting. Uncut in orig. blue paper boards, cream paper spine, ‘Newte’s Tour’ in contemp. ink on spine; some sl. rubbing, but an excellent copy in the original boards. ¶ESTC T1309. ‘A general description of the Northern parts of this Island, whose principal object is to give a proper description to the labour of the people, to improve their natural resources in the land and the sea, and to contribute to the independence, the happiness, and the increase of the most virtuous and useful part of the community’. 1792 £750

WORKMAN’S COMPANION 213. NICHOLSON , Peter. The New Practical Builder, and workman’s companion: containing a full display and elucidation of the most recent and skilful methods, pursued by architects and artificers, in the various departments of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, &c. including, also new treatises on geometry, theoretical and practical, trigonometry ... a summary of the art of building ... an extensive glossary of the technical terms perculiar to each department; and the theory and practice of the five orders, as employed in decorative architecture. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Thomas Kelly. Half title, front., plates; sl. foxed. Full contemp. mottled calf, raised black & gilt bands, red & black morocco labels; expert repair to hinges, boards sl. rubbed & marked. ¶The influential treatise of the prolific Scottish architect, mathematician and engineer. Ownership label of ‘W. Smith 1829’ on spine. 1823 [1825] £520 OHNET

GLAZED BOARDS 214. OHNET, Georges. The Marl-Pit Mystery. 3rd edn. Vizetelly & Co. (Vizetelly’s one-volume novels.) Half title. Orig. glazed maroon boards, blocked & lettered in blue & black; spine a little sunned, some sl. rubbing. A good-plus copy in an unusual & fragile binding. ¶La Grande Marnière 1885. First English edition, 1886, under the title The Great Marl-pit. [1890] £65

JERUSALEM - WILLIAM BLACKWOOD’S COPY 215. OLIPHANT, Margaret. Jerusalem: its History and Hope. FIRST EDITION. Macmillan. Half title, front., illus.; some light foxing. Uncut in orig. green cloth, bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, front board with shield blocked in gilt & silver. Armorial bookplate of William Blackwood. t.e.g. v.g. bright copy. ¶With a loosely inserted printed slip: ‘From the Author’. 1891 £120

216. OPIE, Amelia, née Alderson. Illustrations of Lying in all its branches. 2nd edn. 2 vols. 12mo. Longman. Sl. spotting. Contemp. half maroon roan; sl. rubbing. Armorial bookplate of Frederick Greenwood. An attractive copy. 1825 £100

PIMPERNEL SEQUEL 217. ORCZY, Emmuska, Baroness. Eldorado: a story of the Scarlet Pimpernel. 2 vols. Copyright edn. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. Half titles. Uncut in contemp. half red calf, spine elaborately blocked in gilt, dark green morocco labels. t.e.g. v.g. ¶Todd 4430a & 4431a. 1913 £75

ORIGINAL ARTWORK & ILLUSTRATIONS, &c. See items 9, 77, 115, 119 & 281. ______

218. OUIDA (Louise de la Ramée). In a Winter City: a sketch. New edn. Chatto & Windus. Initial ad. leaf, 32pp cata. (Oct. 1882). ‘Yellowback’, orig. printed boards; sl. dulled. v.g. ¶Topp 272 (1880) and like this undated. Back cover ad. for Pears, soap makers. [1882] £50

219. PEGGE, Samuel. Anecdotes of the English Language: chiefly regarding the local dialect of London and its environs; whence it will appear that the natives of the metropolis, and its vicinities, have not corrupted the language of their ancestors. 2nd edn, enlarged and corrected ... J. Nichols, Son, & Bentley. Occasional light foxing. Orig. drab boards, green cloth spine, paper label; some sl. wear to fore-edges, corners a little bumped. A nice copy in the original boards. ¶First published in 1803, this edition includes a postscript by John Nichols and a supplement to the provincial glossary of Francis Grose. 1814 £200 PHILIPS

220. PHILIPS, Francis Charles. As in a Looking Glass. Illustrated by G. du Maurier. Large 8vo. Ward & Downey. Half title, front., plates; sm. tear to lower edge of leading f.e.p. Uncut in orig. brown cloth, blocked in gilt; a little rubbed, sl. knocked. ¶First published in 1885. A variant binding with brown and gold end papers different from that recorded by Wolff 5529. 3 variants are recorded; one, as in Sadleir 1962, in pinkish ochre cloth, one in white buckram, and one in maroon marocco-grained cloth. ‘Is it not remarkable’ Wolff writes, ‘that of an edition of 1,000 copies, I should have found three that differ from each other and from Sadleir’s?’ 1889 £95

221. PICTON, J. Allanson. The Conflict of Oligarchy and Democracy. Six lectures. 2nd edn. Alexander & Shepheard. 4pp ads. Orig. green cloth. v.g. ¶Written in criticism of the British system to help define ‘vague Socialistic aspirations’. 1885 £20

LANGHORNE’S PLUTARCH 222. PLUTARCH. Plutarch’s Lives, translated from the original Greek; with notes critical and historical, and a new life of Plutarch. By John Langhorne, and William Langhorne. New edn, carefully corrected throughout. 6 vols. W. Robinson & Sons, R. Jennings, &c. Front. port., vol. I. Partially unopened in orig. green cloth boards, paper label; boards sl. bumped but otherwise an exceptional copy in the original binding. ¶Langhornes’ Plutarch was first published in 1770; this edition published at £2.14.0. 1823 £350

POETRY See items 6, 8, 36, 48, 51, 52, 64, 92, 98, 99, 102, 104, 149, 158, 191, 203, 204, 207, 208, 234, 249, 263, 282, 285 & 288. ______

PUGIN’S IRON & BRASS WORK 223. PUGIN, Augustus Welby Northmore. Designs for Iron & Brass Work: in the style of the XV & XVI centuries. Etched and drawn by A.W.N. Pugin. 4to. Ackermann & Co. Engr. titlepage & 26 plates; some sl. foxing but internally v.g. Orig. grey-brown embossed patterned cloth, large engr. paper label in black & red; expertly recased maintaining original spine strip, sl. rubbed. Signature of John Shelly(?) on front board. ¶Pencil drawing of a building and its gardens on partly torn single sheet loosely inserted. An architect best known for his Gothic revivalism, Pugin, 1812-1852, believed that where classical architecture was unaccountably pagan, the gothic style was the champion of Christianity. In 1836 Pugin also published ‘Contrasts’, a virtual manifesto of his gothic style. It was from this year onwards that he began his rise to the architectural heights, designing among many others, Scarisbrick Hall and with Sir Charles Barry, the Palace of Westminster. 1836 £280

THE ENGLISH HOUSEKEEPER 224. RAFFALD, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. Written purely from practice; dedicated to the Hon Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper. Consisting of nine hundred original receipts... The tenth edition. Printed for R. Baldwin. Front. port., 3 folding plates, final ad. leaf; front. & ad. leaf laid down on e.ps. Contemp. vellum; soiled. A strangely attractive copy. RAFFALD

¶ESTC T82673. Elizabeth Raffald, 1733-1781, was one of the most celebrated 18th century English cookery writers. Whilst serving as housekeeper to Lady Warburton, of Arley Hall Cheshire, Elizabeth Raffald married her employer’s gardener in 1763, and the following year opened a confectionery shop in Manchester, from which she also ran a cookery school for young ladies. Her collection of advice and recipes, published in 1769, was one of the most successful cookery books of the 18th century, and made her a wealthy woman. She went on to found Salford’s first newspaper,Prescott’s Journal, and also compiled the first directory of Manchester in 1772. 1786 £280

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SAINT CUTHBERT’S TOMB 225. RAINE, James. Saint Cuthbert: with an account of the state in which his remains were found upon the opening of his tomb in Durham Cathedral, in the year MDCCCCXXVII. 4to. Geo. Andrews, Durham; & J.B. Nichols, London. Half title, title in red & black, plates & illus. Uncut in orig. drab boards, brown moiré cloth spine, rubbed paper label; spine a little rubbed, corners bumped. Booksellers’ ticket of R.D. Steedman, Newcastle. ¶A history of Saint Cuthbert, c.634-687, an Anglo Saxon-monk who, after death, became one of the most important medieval saints of northern England with his tomb at Durham Cathedral. In 2011 the British Library purchased the Saint Cuthbert Gospel, ‘the earliest surviving intact European book and one of the world’s most significant books’ which had been placed in Cuthbert’s tomb on his death and removed in 1104. 1828 £150

SCHOOL OF RAPHAEL 226. RALPH, Benjamin. The School of Raphael; or, The student’s guide to expression in historical painting. Illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange, and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings, after the most celebrated heads in the Cartons at the Queen’s Palace. To which are now added, the outlines of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, skeletons ... (Second edition.) Folio. Printed for John Boydell. 8, [i], 6-21, [i]. 102 plates, numbered I-XII, 1-45 with an additional 45 unnumbered plates made up of the ‘celebrated heads’ in outline only; largely inoffensive damp mark to lower margin of most plates, affecting the image of plates II, VI, & VII. 19th century half dark blue calf; sl. rubbing. ¶ESTC N36284, which records Sir John Soane’s Museum only in British Isles and four copies only in North America, does not mention the 45 unnumbered plates in its collation. Copac records additional copies at Oxford, the Courtauld and Edinburgh, the last two including an additional engraved titlepage in English and French. Soane’s copy is as recorded by ESTC with no engraved titlepage. It appears that this title was issued in different formats, with and without the additional unnumbered plates. A separate publication in landscape format, with an engraved titlepage in French and English and including the additional unnumbered 45 plates was also issued by Boydell, probably in 1782. This publication, entitled Recueil de XC têtes tirées des sept cartons des actes des apôtres peints par Ralph was first published in 1722. 1782 £2,500

WINE GUIDE FOR BUTLERS 227. (REDDING, Cyrus) Every Man His Own Butler. By the author of the ‘History and Description of Modern Wines’. FIRST EDITION. Whitaker & Co. Engr. title. Sm. tear to upper corner of leading f.e.p. Orig. ribbed purple cloth, illustrated in gilt with a decanter & two wine glasses on a tray; neat repair to tear in spine with no loss, leading hine sl. cracked at tail. Later ink inscription on leading f.e.p. ¶A guide to the buying, storing and drinking of wine by the journalist and author, Cyrus Redding, 1785-1870. ‘The chief thing in the art of drinking wine’ Redding wisely writes in his introduction, ‘is to keep within those salutary limits which mark the beneficial from the pernicious ... This is best done by studying self-respect, and the art of saying “no”.’. He ends the volume with the ‘wine sayings of my uncle’: ‘Your stomach is your wine- cellar - keep the stock small and cool ... Wine of the second bottle is a bad storyteller ...’. 1839 £520 226 REID

228. REID, Captain Thomas Mayne. The Young Yägers: or, A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa. With twelve illustrations by William Harvey. FIRST EDITION. David Bogue. Half title, with ads. on verso, front. & plates, 4pp ads. Original purple-brown morocco-grained cloth. Some sl. rubbing, boards unevenly faded. Long inscription on leading f.e.p. to 12-year-old James Hibbert from his father, October 14 1857. ¶Wolff 5765 & 5765a in red, and brown, morocco cloth. This copy has only 4pp ads (1857) where Wolff’s copy has 8 + 32pp, both dated 1856. 1857 £150

229. (RICHARDSON, Samuel) The History of Sir Charles Grandison. In a Series of Letters published from the originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. The second edition. In six volumes. Printed for S. Richardson. 8vo. Some occasional foxing & browning, minor marginal tears without loss. Blank corner of Q8 Vol. III, & S5 Vol. VI torn with no loss of text, B7 Vol. IV torn without loss of text. Full contemporary calf, gilt panelled spines, red & black morocco labels; sl. chipping to head of two spines. Armorial bookplate of Patrick Craufurd, Esq., contemporary ownership name of Sarah James, Stratford, on a preliminary blank in first volume. ¶(ESTC T58981.) The edition statement appears only in the 1st and 6th volume, however the second edition is identifiable as being announced on the titlepage in six, rather than the seven volumes of the 1st edition. Vol. I is dated 1754 but was actually printed in 1753, and is the issue with R. Main, Dublin added to the imprint. 1754 [1753-54] £450 RITSON

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MANIFESTO FOR VEGETARIANS 230. RITSON, Joseph. An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty. Printed for Richard Phillips, No. 71, St Pauls Church-Yard. [4], 236pp; 8vo. A little light foxing. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards with vellum cornerpieces, gilt banded spine, with ducal gilt crest and the letter ‘N’ at foot, red gilt morocco label. v.g. ¶Bronson, Joseph Ritson, 27; Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 399. FIRST EDITION. Ritson’s last published work consisted of a defence of his life-long vegetarianism, and has become one of the very earliest manifestos for the cause. He believed that food constituted one of the determinants of human character, and thus carnivores, he insisted, were cruel, choleric and bad- tempered. Meat eating led to robbery, sycophancy and tyranny, and encouraged the predatory instinct. Although his ideas were never to achieve mass appeal, in the early 19th century they were influential. Shelley read the book avidly and became one of the most vociferous converts to this creed, as did his wife Mary, who notably presented Frankenstein’s monster as a vegetarian who refused the food of man and declined to ‘destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment’. 1802 £580

231. RITSON , Joseph. A Select Collection of English Songs, with their original airs: and A historical essay on the origin and progress of national song, by the late Joseph Ritson. The second edn, with additional songs and occasional notes. By Thomas Park. 3 vols. Printed for F.C. & J. Rivington, &c. Sl. spotting. Later (1931) half dark brown calf. ¶Vol.III contains printed music for the songs. 1813 £320 ROBINSON

232. ROBINSON, William Heath. The Child’s Arabian Nights. Grant Richards. 1p initial ads, half title, colour front., full-page colour illus, vignettes in text; binding cracked but firm at pp 46-47. Orig. pictorial paper boards, red cloth spine; boards a little marked & dulled, sl. rubbed at extremities. Faded inscription on leading f.e.p. A good copy of a scarce item. ¶This was his second collaboration with the Arabian Nights having contributed illustrations along with F Pegram and Helen Stratton to Newnes’ 1899 edition. 1903 £350

ROLLIN’S HISTORY IN A SCOTTISH BINDING 233. ROLLIN, Charles. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians. Translated from the French. 3rd edn. 12 vols. 12mo. John & Paul Knapton. Fronts, final ad. leaf, vol. VIII; sl. loss of margin to lower corner of titlepage, vol. IV. Contemp. mottled calf, raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt, red morocco labels; sm. worm hole to foot of spine, vol. XI, corners sl. bumped with some sl. rubbing. A very attractive set in its original Scottish binding from the Invercauld Library. ¶ESTC T136381; first published in 1730. 1749 £750

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PRINCE’S PROGRESS 234. ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina. The Prince’s Progress; and other poems. With two designs by D.G. Rossetti. FIRST EDITION. Macmillan. Half title, front., vignette title, additional printed title. Untrimmed in orig. green glazed cloth by Burn & Kirby’s, decorated & lettered in gilt. John Sparrow’s small booklabel. A v.g. bright copy. ¶SCARCE. 1866 £850 232 ROTHMANN

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THE HAND OF NATURE 235. ROTHMANN, Johann. Keipomantia: or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the universall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq. FIRST EDITION. Printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angell in Corne-Hill. Front., illus; sm. internal hole affecting 2 leaves (pp 107-110) & 4 words. [16], 176, 161-167, [1]p. Contemp. sheep, double ruled blind tooling; corners bumped, hinges sl. rubbed, faint sign of later label removed from spine. Armorial bookplate of Mark Dineley. A good copy in its original binding. ¶ESTC R210441, recorded as Keiromantia; 4 copies only in the British Isles, 5 in North America. 1652 £2,250

EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN 236. RUSSELL, William. Extraordinary Women: their girlhood and early life. Routledge. Front., plates. Orig. green cloth, blocked in blind, spine elaborately blocked & lettered in gilt; sl. dulled. Bookseller’s stamp & later signature on leading f.e.p. v.g. ¶Dalziel engraved woodcuts. Heroines include Mrs Fry, Mrs Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mrs Siddons, Madame de Staël-Holstein, Lady Hester Stanhope, Mrs Opie. [1857] £45 SAINT GEORGE

237. SAINT GEORGE. Saint George and the Dragon. Illustrated by John Franklin. 4to. Virtue & Co. Front., plates & illus. Contemp. hand painted full vellum, signed ‘H.W.’ and dated 1905 on back board. a.e.g. 31pp. ¶Leeds & Manchester only on Copac. ‘The version of this ... is a verbatim reprint from the third volume of Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ...’ The front board is illustrated within a gilt and black border with an image of George on horseback in full armour, thrusting a lance into the dragon’s mouth. [c.1868?] £650

TURKISH MISRULE 238. SANDWITH, Humphry. The Hekim Bashi: or, The Adventures of Giuseppe Antonelli, a doctor in the Turkish service. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Smith, Elder & Co. Half titles; some occasional pencil underlining. 2 vols in 1 in orig. olive green remainder cloth, blocked in blind; sl. rubbed & marked. ¶Wolff 6161 in blue morocco cloth; Wolff notes Sandwith was ‘the well- known army surgeon at the siege of Kars’. Humphry Sandwith first went to Constantinople in 1849. He served under General Beatson as staff surgeon on the Danube and afterwards with General Williams in the Turkish army in Armenia as head of medical staff, where he distinguished himself. This work written some years later under the guise of a novel was ‘a telling indictment of Turkish misrule’ (DNB). 1864 £350 SANDYS

TURKEY & PERSIA 239. SANDYS , George. Sandys Travailes: containing a history of the originall and present state of the Turkish empire: their lawes, governement, policy, military force, courts of justice, and commerce ... 5th edn. Small folio signed in 6s. Printed by Richard Cotes and are to be sold by John Sweeting. Additional engr. title, 2 folding plates (1 map), illus. WITH: HERBERT, Thomas. A Relation Of Some Yeares Travaile Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia, especially the territories of the Persian Monarchie: and some parts of the Orientall Indies ... FIRST EDITION. Folio. Printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome. 1634. Additional engr. title, illus. Handsomely bound in contemp. mottled calf, double ruled gilt borders with floral corner motif, gilt spine, red morocco label; sl. rubbing with some expert repairs to hinges. Armorial bookplate of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle, on leading pastedown. ¶ESTC R33725 & S119687. The engraved title for Herbert’s work is ‘A discription of the Persian Monarch’. An exceptional copy of two of the 17th century’s most important and widely read texts on travel to Europe, North Africa and Asia. In 1610 Sandys, 1577-1644, a poet praised by Dryden and Pope, travelled to France, Constantinople, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, and finally Italy. HisTravailes, were first published in 1615 under the titleA Relation of a Journey Begun an: Dom: 1610 (ESTC S121765). Sir Thomas Herbert, 1606-1682, was a true seventeenth century Cavalier, traveller and adventurer. His work records the mission to the Shah of Persia in 1626-29 on which he accompanied the Earl of Pembroke. From the library of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle, 1750-1842, A British Peer and M.P. whose violent attacks on the policies of Charles James Fox and Edmund Burke resulted in him being satirised in the Rolliad. 1652/1634 £4,500 SATGÉ SAINT JEAN

BATH PRINTING - FINE CLOTH 240. SATGÉ SAINT JEAN, Caroline de, Viscountess. The Cave of the Huguenots; a tale of the XVIIth century, and other poems. Bath: Binns & Goodwin. Engr. front. port., list of subscribers with 6 names added in ms. to the ‘Additional Subscribers’ list, 3 engr. plates, 10pp cata.; plates foxed at margins. Orig. dark green diagonal-grained cloth, coloured to give uniform pale green vertical stripes, elaborately blocked in gilt. Owner’s inscription, August 1866. a.e.g. An exceptional copy in attractive presentation binding. ¶An epic account of the Second Huguenot Rebellion of 1625, during the reign of Louis XIII. [1852?] £150

241. (SCHILLER, Johann Christoph Friedrich von) (CARLYLE, Thomas) The Life of Friedrich Schiller. Comprehending an examination of his works. Printed for Taylor & Hessey. Front. port. after John Bull, errate slip preceding text; lower outer margin pp.351/352 torn not affecting text. Contemp. half calf, marbled boards, black morocco label; a little rubbed. Contemporary signature on title. ¶First edition. 1825 £150 FROM THE ARABIC & PERSIAN 242. SCOTT, Jonathan. Tales, Anecdotes, and Letters. Translated from the Arabic and Persian. Shrewsbury: printed by J. and W. Eddowes. [4], v, [2], 8-446, [2]pp advert leaf; 8vo. A large clean uncut & unpressed copy in orig. sugar paper boards, expertly rebacked, front inner hinge neatly repaired. SCOTT

¶ESTC T84502. Jonathan Scott of Netley in Shropshire, was formerly Persian Secretary to Warren Hastings, the Governor General of Bengal, to whom this work is dedicated. The collection includes ‘Tales translated from the Arabic of the Thousand and One Nights ... procured in Bengal, by my friend James Andersen’. In 1811 Scott also published an edition in six volumes of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments from the MS. of Edward Wortley Montague. 1800 £220

SERVANTS See items 11, 70, 94, 224 & 257. ______

BLACK BEAUTY 243. SEWELL, Anna Mary. Black Beauty: the Autobiography of a Horse. 4th edn. Jarrold & Sons. Front. with name cut from upper margin with sl. loss of image, carefully replaced with similar paper, 8pp ads, brown e.ps. Orig. dark blue diagonal fine-ribbed cloth, blocked & lettered in black & gilt, lettering reversed out of gilt; a little rubbed & dulled but a nice copy. ¶See Wolff 6250 for first edition. [1878] £420

WEST INDIES 244. SEWELL, William Grant. Ordeal of Free Labor in the British West Indies. (2nd edn.) New York: Harper & Brothers. 2pp, 8pp ads; some sl. spotting. Orig. purple cloth; a little rubbed & dulled. A nice copy. ¶A statistical and observational account of the populations, habits and customs, industry, commerce and governance of the West Indies. Enlarged from the original publication in the New York Times. 1862 £120

245. SHAW, George Bernard. SIGNED POSTCARD, addressed to Walter Greenwood, 99 Lower Deedley Road, Pendleton, Manchester, dated 8/1//28. 13 printed lines with 4 lines ms. 11 x 9cm. ¶Beneath a printed paragraph written in the third person admonishing those who request Shaw to contribute a preface to their work, Shaw, in a cantankerous and offhand tone, rebukes Greenwood presumably in response to an earlier letter: ‘I object strenuously. You have evidently no conception of the inconvenience to both authors of two books with the same title. There are plenty of alternatives. What about “who’d have thought it?”’ Walter Greenwood, 1903-1974, was an author best know for his 1933 novel Love on the Dole. Copac, nor the National Archives who hold the manuscripts of most of Greenwood’s published and unpublished works, record any titles before 1930. It appears that Greenwood, having written an unknown and unrecorded article or short story, had written to Shaw to ask permission to use a title that had already been used by Shaw himself. It was a request that met with a typically curt response from Shaw. 1928 £220 †

INSCRIBED: ONE OF 100 COPIES 246. SHORTHOUSE, Joseph Henry. John Inglesant; a romance. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers. Half title. Original parchment by Burn & Co., lettered in red on front and spine. Slightly rubbed and marked, minor repairs, leading inner hinge cracking, booklabel of Alex. Bridge on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. In a handsome custom-made maroon cloth slipcase, with black leather spine label. Scarce. SHORTHOUSE

¶Sadleir 3054; Wolff 6300. There were only 100 copies of this first privately printed edition of Shorthouse’s 17th century philosophical & religious romance. 75 were given away, 25 copies sold. Mrs. Humphry Ward showed the book to Alexander Macmillan who ‘thought it a work of genius, and published it in two volumes in 1881. Then it sold 80, 000 copies’. It was influential on Ward’s own novel of ‘religion in the modern world’, Robert Elsmere. INSCRIBED ‘Mr. & Mrs. Ball from their affectionate brother the Author’. ‘Anyone interested in the Victorian novel of religion will want to read John Inglesant.’ Robert Lee Wolff: Gains & Losses. 1880 £650

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247. SIDGWICK, Cecily, & PAYNTER, Mrs. Children’s Book of Gardening. FIRST EDITION. Adam & Charles Black. Half title, colour front. & plates. Orig. dark green cloth, pict. onlay. Gift inscription with 8 lines of verse on leading f.e.p. v.g. 1909 £45

248. SIMMONS, Owen. The Book of Bread. FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. Maclaren & Sons. Half title, rubricated text, 8 photographic plates tipped on to black paper, 2 silver gelatin photographic plates tipped on to green paper, 12 colour plates 4 additional illustrations. Orig. olive-green cloth; dulled & a little marked. ¶A seminal book on baking admired and collected as much for its photography as for its culinary treatise. ‘However critical readers may be’ writes Simmons in the preliminaries, ‘they will be forced to admit that never before have they seen such a complete collection of prize loaves illustrated in such excellent manner... The loaves are now produced photographically correct, of exactly full size, and the colours are nearly as perfect as it is possible for them to be by any process at present known’. See also item 169. [1903] £650 248 SLADEN

249. SLADEN, Douglas Brooke Wheelton. In Cornwall and Across the Sea: with poems written in Devonshire etc. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh. Half title, 32pp cata. (1/85). Partly unopened in orig. cream dec. cloth; dulled, sl, cracking to front board leading to lifting of cloth. Presentation inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘Teddie Fiske from Douglas Sladen’. 1885 £35

SLAVERY See items 42, 96, 98, 136, 139, 244, 264, 283 & 289.

VEGETARIAN COOKERY 250. SMITH, John. The Principles and Practice of Vegetarian Cookery, founded on chemical analysis, and embracing the most approved methods of the art. FIRST EDITION. Simpkin Marshall & Co. Half title; the odd spot. Orig. green cloth; sl. rubbed. v.g. 1860 £180

251. SPENDER, Harold. At the Sign of the Guillotine. Fisher Unwin. Half title. Uncut in orig. red pict. cloth; spine sl. faded. Bookseller’s stamp of Dalton, Scarborough, on leading f.e.p. v.g. ¶Not in Wolff. 1895 £120

MAKARONY FABLES 252. (STEVENSON, John Hall) Makarony Fables; with the New Fable of the Bees. In two cantos. Addressed to the Society. By Cosmo, mythogelastick professor, and F.M.S. The second edition. Printed for J. Almon. 58, [2]pp.; 4to. Half title, final ad. leaf; sl. sunned. Sewn as issued. ¶ESTC T38886. Stevenson, 1718-1785, a friend of Laurence Sterne’s from Jesus College, Cambridge, proclaimed his sole aim in life was to enjoy himself. At home in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, he formed a club of ‘demoniacks’ indulging in drunken orgies and ‘obscene jesting’. He gained some notoriety by his ‘small pamphlets of licentious but tedious verse, which he issued in quarto STEVENSON

form with ample margins’. He appears in both Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey as ‘Eugenius’. Makarony Fables was first published in late February 1767, and, written in the mode of Aesop, it contained political squibs against the opponents of John Wilkes, mainly John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. 1768 £180

253. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Merry Men and other tales and fables. FIRST EDITION. Chatto & Windus. Half title, 32pp cata. (Sep. 1886). Orig. blue cloth, front board & spine decorated in black & silver, spine lettered in gilt; sl. mark to lower board. v.g. ¶Prideaux 20. The Merry Men, Will O’ The Mill, Markheim, Thrawn Janet, Olalla, and The Treasure of Franchard. 1887 £120

254. (STEVENSON, Robert Louis) LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Robert Louis Stevenson: an elegy, and other poems mainly personal. FIRST EDITION. John Lane. Half title, title port. vignetter, uncut 16pp cata. (1895); pencil doodles on following f.e.p. Orig. blue cloth; front board sl. marked. v.g. 1895 £50

255. (SURTEES, Robert Smith) Soapey Sponge’s Sporting Tour. By the Author of ‘Jorrocks’ jaunts and jollities’. George Routledge. (Sporting novels.) Half title, 6pp ads. ‘Yellowback’, orig. printed boards. Sl. dulled & worn, some damp marking. A good sound copy. ¶Topp p.441 and col. plate. Back cover ad. for Pears’ Soap, uniform fret design spine, ads. are Railway library advertiser, 14th issue, coded 3/1/93. Front cover by John Sturgess. Unpriced. 1893 £60

ABDUCTION: STEALING PLEASANT RAWLINGS 256. SWENDSEN, Haagen, &c. The Tryals of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, John Hartwell and John Spurr. For feloniously stealing Mrs Pleasant Rawlins, a virgin and heiress of a considerable fortune; with intent to cause and procure the said Pleasant Rawlins against her will, to marry the said Haagen Swendsen. At the Queens Bench Bar ... Nov. 25, 1702 ... Folio. Printed for Isaac Cleave. Stain on first eight leaves, diminishing in size. Sewn as issued; stamp of Gloucestershire County Library on title verso. (ii), 30pp. ¶ESTC T51995. Swendsen was found guilty and executed, Sarah Baynton reprieved as she was pregnant. With an early ink note about details of the case inserted. 1703 £125

SWIFT’S DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS 257. SWIFT, Jonathan. Directions to Servants in General; and in particular to the Butler, Cook, Footman, Coachman, Groom, House-Steward, and Land-Steward, Porter, Dairy-Maid, Chamber-Maid, Nurse, Laundress, House-Keeper, Tutoress, or Governess. Printed for R. Dodsley. [2], 93, [1]pp. 8vo. Some sl. foxing & browning, final contents leaf dusted, stab holes visible in gutter of final leaves, titlepage trimmed & laid into contemporary paper. 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt banded spine; spine sl. worn at head. ¶ESTC T69637; Teerink-Scouten 785. First London edition. 1745 £1,250 257 TAYLOR

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258. TAYLOR, Philip Meadows. Seeta. FIRST EDITION / 2nd edn / 2nd edn. 3 vols. Henry S. King & Co. 32pp cata., vol. I, final ad. leaf, vol. III. Orig. green cloth, dec. in black. Unusual blocking of edition statement on spines of vols II & III. A near fine copy. ¶Sadleir 3181; Wolff 6677. A novel on the Great Indian Rebellion of 1857. Born in Liverpool, Philip Meadows Taylor, 1808-76, left for India aged just fifteen to embark on a career as a merchant and administrator. He is best known for his first, and most widely read novel,The Confessions of a Thug (1839). 1872 £750

PRE-RAPHAELITE ILLUSTRATIONS 259. TENNYSON, Alfred, Baron Tennyson. Poems. With illustrations by Millais, Stanfield, Creswick... New edn. Routledge, Warne & Routledge. Half title, front. port., illus; some occasional minor spotting. Handsomely bound in contemp. full crushed green morocco over heavy boards, elaborate gilt borders & dentelles with red floral corner pieces, raised bands, spine blocked in red & gilt; spine very sl. faded. Contemporary inscription on leading blank. a.e.g. v.g. ¶A collected edition of Tennyson’s poems was first published with Pre- Raphaelite illustrations by Edward Moxon in 1857; this is the first edition published with the Routledge imprint. 1864 £280

CRIMES & CALAMITIES 260. TERRIFIC. The Terrific Register; or, Record of crimes, judgments, providences, and calamities. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Sherwood & Co., printed by T. Richardson. General woodcut titles (after Seymour) & indexes. Handsomely rebound in half calf, black labels. ¶All published in 104 16pp pts, each with a woodcut. Some of the parts in Volume I have later edition notes. A grisly collection of murders, executions and TERRIFIC

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general inhumanity designed to illustrate ‘God’s revenge against murder’. There is a printing of the ‘Horrible Affair in the Rue de la Harpe at Paris’ in Vol. II, p.310-312, which probably suggested the Sweeney Todd story. 1825 £750

THE POLICE & THE RIVER POLICE: FINE TREE CALF 261. THAMES, River. (COLQUHOUN, Sir Patrick) A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors ... and suggesting remedies for their prevention. By a Magistrate. The fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Printed by H. Fry, for C. Dilly. 1797. WITH: a Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the river Thames: containing an historical view of the trade of the Port of London; ... FIRST EDITION. Printed for Joseph Mawman, successor to Mr. Dilly. H. Baldwin & Son, printers. Fold. map & table. 1800. 2 vols in matching full tree calf, elaborately gilt spines, red labels; sl. rubbing. v.g. clean handsome copies. 1797 / 1800 £750

262. THAXTER, Celia. An Island Garden. With pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co. Colour front., plates, & illus. Orig. light green cloth, dec. with 5 tall gilt flowers on front & back boards. v.g. ¶First published in 1894. A vidid and lyrical description of Thaxter’s garden on the lighthouse island of Appledore in the Isles of Shoals. 1895 £350

263. THOMAS, Frederick. Humorous and Other Poetic Pictures, legends ands stories of Devon. FIRST EDITION. W. Kent & Co. Orig. red dec. cloth; sl. dulled & marked. Inscription on title: ‘May B. Wood - from Mother, Oct. 1891’. ¶With a list of subscribers. [1883] £30 THOMPSON

CHRISTIANITY v. SLAVERY 264. THOMPSON, George. Christianity Versus Slavery, or, A report, published in the ‘Glasgow Argus’ newspaper, November 8, 1841, of a lecture, delivered at an anti- slavery meeting in that city, by George Thompson ... Dublin: printed by W. Powell for the benefit of the Sisters of Charity. Unopened in orig. cream wrappers, sewn as issued. FINE. ¶Together with ‘an extract from a pamphlet, entitled “Proceedings at the first public meeting of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and Colonization of Africa”...; Three Papal briefs of Urban VIII, Benedict XIV, and of his present holiness, Gregory XVI, December 3, 1839, not alluded to in the above meeting, and now presented, with prefatory remarks, to the Catholics of Ireland, by Hugh Charles, Lord Clifford’. 4 copies only on Copac. 1841 £220

PRINTING 265. TIMPERLEY, Charles Henry. Encyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote; being a chronological digest of the most interesting facts illustrative of the History of Literature and Printing ... Compiled and condensed from Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, ... 2nd edn, to which are added, A Continuation to the present time, ... and a practical manual of printing. Sm. Folio. Henry G. Bohn. Plates & illus; sl. damp mark to leading e.ps & first 4 leaves. Orig. brown cloth, blocked in blind, spine dec. in gilt. Ownership signatures on leading f.e.p. Ticket of Fletcher, Forbes, & Co. Booksellers & Binders on leading pastedown. Modern booklabel tipped on to leading pastedown. A remarkably well preserved and attractive copy. ¶Originally A Dictionary of Printers and Printing. A reissue with a new titlepage and additional 12pp. Bound in after p.32, with titlepage and frontispiece, is The Printers’ Manual, 1838, also by Timperley. vi, 1-32, 1-116, 33-996, 12pp. 1842 £350 TOLSTOI

266. TOLSTOI, Lev Nikolaievich. Work While Ye Have the Light, by Lyof Tolstoi translated from the Russian by E.J. Dillon. William Heinemann. (‘Heinemann’s International Library ed. by Edmund Gosse.) 4pp Editor’s Note preceding half title, 6pp ads + 16pp cata. (Oct. 1890). Orig. pink cloth, spine & front board lettered in black; cloth a little darkened. ¶Not published in Russian until 1892, Geneva. First English edition. 1890 £45

GREENOCK TO OREGON 267. (TRAILL, Catherine Parr Strickland) Canada and the Oregon. The Backwoods of Canada: being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America. M.A. Nattali. Front., illus. stamp of the Union Club, Manchester on title. WITH: The Oregon Territory, consisting of a brief description of the country and the productions; and of the habits and manners of the native Indian tribes. M.A. Nattali. Front., final ad. leaf. Rebound in half maroon calf. v.g. ¶Traill’s work, an account of her journey from Greenock to the disputed territory of Oregan with observations on the country and its people, was first published under the titleThe Backwoods of Canada in 1836. Canada and the Oregon was also published by Charles Knight in 1846; this edition not recorded on Copac. No copies of the second work are recorded as a separate publication on Copac. OCLC records single copies of both titles and examples of both titles bound together. 1846 £280

TRAVEL See items 26, 29, 37, 109, 11, 156, 187, 192, 212, 215, 239 & 267. ______

268. TRIMMER, Mrs. Sarah. Fabulous Histories. The History of the Robins. For the instruction of children on their treatment of animals. Grant & Griffith. (The Favourite Library, no. 3.) Front., vignette title, final ad. leaf. Orig. glazed yellow boards, printed in green & black; expertly rebacked with new spine strip. v.g. [c.1860] £50

ORLEY FARM 269. TROLLOPE, Anthony. Orley Farm. With illustrations by J.E. Millais. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall. 40 plates with some foxing. Original purple- brown wavy-grained cloth, boards blocked in blind, spines dec. and lettered in gilt. Small repairs to heads & tails of spines, e.ps a little marked, with booklabels partly removed. Signatures of R. Hesketh 1883. ¶Sadleir 13; Wolff 6789 (‘not a first issue’). This copy is ‘stabbed throughout’ (the sheets were bound from the parts) and with the points that indicate first issue. 1862 £400

MAN OF FASHION 270. TROLLOPE, Frances. Hargrave; or, The Adventures of a Man of Fashion. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Henry Colburn. Contemp. half red calf, gilt spines, dark green morocco labels; spines a little dulled. Vol II signed Mrs Alcock on titlepage in contemporary hand. An attractive set. ¶Sadleir 3222; Wolff 6813. 1843 £850 269 270 271 TROLLOPE

MATRIMONIAL ECONOMY: COLOUR PLATES 271. (TROLLOPE, Frances) The Mother’s Manual; or, Illustrations of matrimonial economy. An essay in verse. FIRST EDITION. Treuttel & Würtz & Richter. Front., vignette title & 18 plates, all attractively hand-coloured. Sl. later full scarlet morocco by Bayntun of Bath, gilt spine, borders & dentelles. a.e.g. A v.g. attractive copy in custom- made fold-over box. Scarce. ¶Sadleir 3229a; Wolff 6819. ‘The Mother’s Manual, it is hoped, will prove / A useful treatise in the school of love. / Not by dull precept could it e’er obtain / That deep attention it deserves to gain: / Familiar illustration here is made, / The young to flatter, and the old persuade: / Till mothers see what watchful care can do, / And daughters learn what men are fit to woo.’ 1833 £2,250

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 272. TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich. Fathers and Sons. A novel by Ivan Turgénieff. Translated from the Russian, with the approval of the author, by Eugene Schuyler. Ward, Lock & Co. Contemp. blue pebble-grained binder’s cloth. v.g. ¶First English edition, from the 1867 NY translation. Text coded 6-83. [1883] £250

TUSSER’S HUSBANDRY 273. TUSSER, Thomas. Five Hundred Points of Husbandry: directing what corn, grass, &c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved: with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year. To which are added notes and observations explaining many obsolete terms used therein, and what is agreeable to the present practice in several Counties of this kingdom. A work very necessary and useful for gentlemen, as well as occupiers of land, whether wood-ground or tillage and pasture. Printed for M. Cooper. [2], 152, 145-150pp, cancel titlepage (see note below), woodcut head & tail pieces, several small illustrations in text. 8vo. Clean tears without loss to F1, M1, blank lower corners torn on O1-2, paper flaws to X1 & 3 with sl. loss, upper margins sl. close cropped affecting some running heads. Handsome near contemporary tree calf, gilt borders, attractive gilt decorated spine, red morocco label & onlay at foot of spine. Early signature of Edwd. Cooper on titlepage, sl. later inscription on endpaper, ‘The Revd George Ashby’s gift to The Revd Jonathan Carter’. ¶ESTC N7424. An enlarged edition of A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, first published in 1557. The notes are by Daniel Hilman, a surveyor from Epsom, and first appeared in 1710 asTusser Redivivus, a reprint of the more practical part of Tusser’s work arranged in twelve monthly issues, with a commentary at the end of each stanza. The Gentlemans Magazine (Vol 82, part I) noted that ‘it did not meet with encouragement, for in 1744 a new titlepage was necessary to get off the remaining part of the impression’. 1744 £420

WOMEN THE WORLD OVER 274. TWEEDIE, Ethel Brilliana (Mrs. Alec). Women the World Over: a sketch both light and gay, perchance both dull and stupid. FIRST EDITION. Hutchinson. Half title, front., plates & illus., 4pp ads. Orig. red cloth, lettered in gilt, front board blocked in white with an image of the Venus de Milo; v. sl. faded. Park Close bookplate. t.e.g. v.g. ¶A light-hearted consideration of the position and expectations of women in society. 1914 £30 UNIVERSAL HISTORY

275. UNIVERSAL HISTORY. An Universal History, from the earliest account of time. Compiled from the original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes &c. With a general index to the whole. 20 vols. Printed for T. Osborne, A. Millar, & J. Osborne. Plates. Uniformly bound in contemp. Scottish full calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, red morocco label; some occasional sl. rubbing, sl. nick to head of vol. I. A FINE set in its original binding. ¶ESTC T150199; a prospectus for this work was issued in 1746: ‘Proposals (by the proprietors of the work) for printing by subscription, in twenty volumes octavo’. An additional volume, number XXI, was published in 1754 and is not present here. From the Library of the Invercauld Estate, Aberdeenshire. 1747-1748 £2,500

276. VANE, Roland, pseud. (Ernest Lionel MacKeag). Sin Stained. Stoke-on-Trent: The Archer Press. Leaves stapled. Orig. pict. wrappers. ¶Pulp fiction (see also items 144-147). The cover image is of a buxom woman in a night-dress, sprawled on a bed overlooked by a man in a dressing gown. [1950] £75

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277. Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar. Translated by W.H.G. Kingston. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. Front. (‘The Kremlin’ by Ferat), fold-out map preceding Part 1, 88 full-page engravings by Ferat, 24pp cata. (Oct. 1876). Orig. red- brown pict. cloth, bevelled boards; leading f.e.p. removed. a.e.g. ¶Michel Strogoff, 1876, Paris. First English edition. Dated 1877, but on sale in December 1876. JVE V015. Myers 40. 1877 £280

278. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Complete in one volume. Ward, Lock, & Tyler. (The Youth’s Library of Wonder & Adventure.) 2 vols in 1. 4 colour plates, 6pp cata.; clean tear to pp 43/44. Orig. light brown pictorial cloth. a.e.g. Embossed stamp of W.H. Smith on leading f.e.p. An exceptionally bright copy. ¶Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers, 1870. The advertisements note that both volumes should contain 3 colour plates. Taves & Michaluk also so that this edition contains 3 coloured plates but are not clear if that means 3 in total or 3 in each volume. It is probable that copies were bound with varying number of plates as the stock diminished; this copy is as bound, with only four plates. The First English edition was published in November 1872. Published simultaneously in one and two volume editions in the Youth’s Library of Wonder and Adventure Series. This volume includes the two volumes in one with separate half title, contents and pagination for volume II. No one volume edition dated 1876 is recorded on Copac. [1876] £350 275 VERNE

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279. The Vanished Diamond: a tale of South Africa. New and cheaper edn. Sampson Low, Marston, & Co. Half title, front. & plates. Orig. olive-green pict. cloth; sl. dulled, but a good-plus copy. ¶See Myers 45 for first English edition of 1885; JVE V027. L’Étoile du sud: Le Pays des diamants, 1882. 1896 £85 ______

KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN 280. VERTOT, René Aubert de. The History of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem; styled afterwards the Knights of Rhodes, and at present, the Knights of Malta. Translated from the French. 5 vols. Edinburgh: printed for Alexander Donaldson. [8], 362pp; [2], 330pp; [2], 336pp; [2], 348pp; [2], 297, [1], [70]pp index; 12mo. Some foxing & browning, mainly affecting titlepages & final leaves. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, raised & gilt banded spines, later morocco labels; hinges & corners rubbed. ¶ESTC T81010. First published in 1728 in 2 volumes, folio, under the title The History of the Knights of Malta, this 5 volume 12mo version first appeared in Edinburgh in 1757, published by R. Fleming. 275 1770 £450

281. (WALLER, Lewis) HAVILAND, Frank. Lewis Waller as Captain James Wynnegate. Original pencil drawing. Pencil on card, signed; signs of adhesive on margins. 27 x 38cm. Mounted on cream card. ¶Published in the Illustrated London News, January 1908. Frank Haviland (not to be confused with cubist painter and friend of Picasso, Frank Burty Haviland) was a regular contributor to the Illustrated London News, largely drawing portraits from the London theatres. William Waller Lewis, 1860-1915, stage name Lewis Waller, was an English actor and stage manager best known for his WALLER

roles in swashbuckling romances. Despite being an accomplished Shakespearian actor, Waller was often ridiculed for his more puerile roles and the antics of his travelling fan club known as the K.O.W., Keen on Waller. Captain James Wynnegate was the main character in A White Man produced at the Lyric Theatre in early 1908. Written by the American playwright Edwin Milton Royle, the play first appeared at Wallack’s Theatre on Broadway in 1905 under its original title The Squaw Man. The story is a tale of an Englishman who escapes to the Wild West of Montana under the alias Jim Carson. After various scrapes he marries and has a son by the daughter of an Indian Chief; there is no happy ever after. [1908] £500 † WATSON

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS 282. WATSON, Joespeh, Lucy & Robert Spence. Autumn Leaves. (London?) Printed for Private Circulation. Half title, photographic front. & title vignette. Orig. brown cloth by Westleys & Co., bevelled boards, borders & title in gilt; a little rubbed with sl. loss to head & tail of spine. a.e.g. Bookplate of Joshua Watson. Presentation inscriptions on leading f.e.p.: ‘Joshua Watson from his affecte. niece LW. (4th April) /59’ & ‘Mary Spence Watson with uncle Fossy’s best wishes, ? 1888’. Recent blue ink notes on leading f.e.ps. ¶Not recorded in the BL or on Copac; 1 copy only on OCLC. Printed anonymously, Autumn Leaves is a collection of 18 poems. two by Joseph Watson, three by his son Robert Spence Watson, and thirteen by Robert’s sister Lucy Watson. The attribution is made in pencilled initials on the contents page. In another copy presented by Robert Spence Watson to Lizzie Richardson in 1862, similar pencil notes attribute five poems to Joespeh. Joseph Watson, 1807-1874, married Sarah Spence, 1814-1871, in 1835 uniting two of Newcastle’s prominent Quaker families. An eminent solicitor and with an involvement in his father- in-law’s banking business, Watson was also an influential local Quaker, political campaigner (he was ‘a fiery reformer’ and abolitionist) and philanthropist, becoming a founding member of the Royal Victoria Blind Asylum and campaigning for educational reform. Watson was also an ardent lover of literature and had short stories and poetry published in the Newcastle Magazine and Newcastle Chronicle as well as assisting in the publication of Aurora Borealis, a literary annual. This copy was presented by Joseph’s eldest child Lucy, just before her marriage in 1859, to her uncle Joshua Watson, Joseph’s brother. The later inscription is to Mary Spence Watson, presumably a grandchild of Joseph and Sarah (who had 12 children), presented by ‘Uncle Fossy’, John Foster Spence, the son of Sarah Spence’s brother. 1859 £450 WEBB

THE GARIES & THEIR FRIENDS 283. WEBB, Frank J. The Garies and Their Friends. With an introductory preface by Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe. FIRST EDITION. G. Routledge & Co. One gathering sl. proud. Sl. later half navy blue calf, raised bands, gilt compartments; spine sl. faded, very sl. rubbed. v.g. ¶Scarce. BL, Oxford, Cambridge & NLS only on Copac. Including the additional introduction by Lord Brougham with a note acknowledging the late receipt and inclusion of Stowe’s preface. Despite ‘a severe domestic affliction’ Stowe was able to deliver her introduction to the publishers just in time. Whiteman records this edition as a 2nd issue having seen a copy without Stowe’s introduction. Preceded only by William Wells Brown’s Clotel, The Garies and Their Friends was the second novel to be published by an African American. Webb, ‘a coloured young man, born and reared in the city of Philadelphia’, writes of the conflict and racism in a city that was a frontier between free and slave territory. Although, as Stowe writes, ‘Southern influence stimulated scenes of mob violence ... By prompt, undaunted resistance, this spirit was subdued and the right of free inquiry established’. In contrast to the vast popularity of Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Webb’s stark portrayal of Northern racism and the inclusion of an unpalatable mixed-race marriage meant that The Garies and Their Friends did not find a wide audience until it was reprinted in 1969. 1857 £5,800

BUTCHER’S CHRISTMAS STOCK LIST - 1788 284. WEEKS, John, Bristol. Broadside printed list advertising the stock of the Bristol Butcher, John Weeks, for Christmas 1788. Decorative company logo above a largely single column list of meat and fish, with pin hole at head; a few minor tears along old folds but overall a remarkable survival in excellent condition. 10 x 56cm. ¶ESTC T12106 recording British Museum only which also holds a list for Christmas 1790 and a defective list for Christmas 1792, a complete copy of WEEKS

which is held by the University of Kansas; Glasgow University records a copy of the list for Christmas 1789. A fascinating survival, advertising the meat and fish (including for the most part the number in stock) available at John Weeks’ butcher’s shop in Bristol. The list includes Turtle, British Turtle, Pea Soup, 5 Turbots, 29 Soles, 108 Woodcocks, 12 Golden Plovers, 15 Hogs Puddings, Veal, Beef, Mutton and Pork joints and a list of cold items including Baron of Beef, 3 Hams, 11 Collars Brawn, Potted Partridge, Pickled Oysters, &c. John Weeks was a respected Bristol tradesman and government loyalist. In 1793, amidst the height of radical activity and the fear of possible revolution, he chaired a meeting at the Bush- Tavern of the inn-keepers, vintners, and victuallers, which resolved unanimously that in order to ‘shew our Loyalty to the King, and our attachment to our present Excellent constitution, we will suffer no Person or Persons to hold any Society in our respective Houses, or make Use of any Language that tends to subvert the Government of this Kingdom, without giving immediate Notice to our worthy Mayor and Magistrates of this City’. 1788 £2,000

ELEGIES TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON 285. WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of. Ten Elegies for the Duke of Wellington. Contemp. half brown calf, black morocco label; rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey, Wrest Park. ¶1. BRAITHWAITE, Henry Thomas. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. William Pickering. 1852. Half title. 15pp. 4 copies only on Copac. 2. EVANS, Sebastian. Sonnets on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1852. Half title. 16pp. Not in BL; 4 copies only on Copac. 3. MICHELL, Nicholas. The Burial of Wellington. An elegiac and tributary poem. William Tegg & Co. 1852, 16pp. Smaller format, bound in on stubs. BL, Lambeth & V&A only on Copac. 4. MONTGOMERY, Robert. Forty Lines on Wellington. George Routledge. 1852. 6pp. Smaller format, bound in on stubs. BL only on Copac. 5. MONTGOMERY, Robert. The Hero’s Funeral. A poem. 2nd edn. George Routledge. 1853. Half title. 31pp. 2 first, and 3 second editions only on Copac. 6. STAPLES, Henry J. Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by the Funeral of Arthur, Duke of Wellington. William Pickering. 1852. 8pp. 7. TENNYSON, Alfred. On the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Edward Moxon. 1852. 16pp. 8. TUPPER, Martin F. A Dirge for Wellington. 4th edn. T. Hatchard. 1852. 11pp. 9. ANONYMOUS. The Fourteenth of September. A Martial Dirge. T. Bosworth. 1853. 22, (2)pp. BL only on Copac. 10. ANONYMOUS. Elegy Supposed to be Written in the Cathedral on the Occasion of the Funeral of Wellington. By a graduate of the University of Oxford. William Pickering. 1852. 7pp. 1852 £1,250 WESTMINSTER ABBEY

ORIGINAL PRINTED BOARDS 286. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities. Designed chiefly as a guide to strangers. A.K. Newman & Co. Orig. printed paper boards; some sl. rubbing. v.g. Contemporary signature on titlepage. ¶First published in 1753; this edition not on Copac. 1830 £125

HORSE RACING 287. WHYTE, James Christie. History of the British Turf, from the earliest period to the present day. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Henry Colburn. Half title, vol. I, fronts, illus. Orig. dark green moiré cloth; a little rubbed with the odd mark, but a v.g. bright copy. ¶Partly torn bookseller’s receipt, completed in manuscript, tipped in on recto of frontispiece, volume I. The invoice, written on the headed paper of Stassin et Xavier, booksellers to English expatriates in Paris, is made out to Ch. Cibiel of Toulouse, 22 June, 1858. 1840 £420 WHYTE-MELVILLE

288. WHYTE-MELV ILLE, George John. Songs and Verses. New edn. Ward, Lock. (Library of select authors.) Initial ad. leaf. ‘Yellowback’, orig. printed boards. Near FINE. ¶Topp 1134 & col. plate (in pink boards). This copy has cream boards, back cover ad. for Fennings’ medicines, and spine headed by uniform roundel. It has a later form of Ward, Lock imprint, and some common advertisements, but one with date 1889. [c.1890] £110

289. (WILBERFORCE, William) CLARKSON, Thomas. Strictures on a Life of William Wilberforce, by the Rev. W. Wilberforce, and the Rev. S. Wilberforce. With a correspondence between Lord Brougham and Mr. Clarkson; also a supplement, containing remarks on the Edinburgh Review of Mr. Wilberforce’s life, &c. (Edited by Henry Crabb Robinson.) Longmans. Sl. spotted. Blind stamps of York Public Library from titlepage up to p.ix. WITH: Researches Antediluvian, Patriarchal and Historical, concerning the way in which men first acquired their knowledge of God and religion, ... By Thomas Clarkson. Longmans. Blind stamp of York Public Library on final 3 leaves. Bound together in half calf, marbled boards, black morocco label; paper library label at foot of spine, sl. rubbed. Signature of Thomas Jessop on titlepages. Inscription on leading f.e.p.: ‘John Howard. A gift from his Brother H.J. Howard. 16th March, 1872.’ Booklabel of York Public Library on leading pastedown. ¶A defence of Clarkson’s History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade against the ‘ill-will’ shown towards him by William Wilberforce’s two sons in the biography of their father. Possibly(?) the copy of Thomas Jessop, Sheffield steel magnate and philanthropist. 1838/1836 £280

MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A DOMESTIC SERVANT 290. WILKINSON, Martin. MANUSCRIPT Journal of a Servant. 363pp in a largely neat and legible hand. Contemp. vellum with ms. title ‘journal’ on front board, & ‘Martin Wilkinson’ on back board with ‘Date from 1834 to Sep. 1861 to Father’s Death, 27 years’ written above; lacking metal clasp, soiled & a little worn. 20thC newspaper article tipped on to leading pastedown. Label of Hull & East Riding Times Newspaper Office on verso of leading f.e.p. ¶A scarce example of a journal recording the working life of a domestic servant. A well informed and educated man (although his grammar often falters), the young Martin Wilkinson records wandering from castle to stately home, from service to service, serving at various points under Lord Melville of Branston Hall and Sir William Strickland of Boynton. Working it would appear, in the upper echelons of domestic service, and with some degree of privilege, Wilkinson describes an active social life of dinner parties, trips to the races and enthusiastic visits to stately piles: ‘Went with Fowler to Castle Howard, the property & residence of the Earl of Carlise. Saw over the house, saw Lady Carlisle, Lady Mary Howard and two sons, & the Duke of Devonshire... went over the grounds to the temple ... went down to the lake & returned much gratified to Terrington’. Travelling long distances was a feature of Wilkinson’s early life and, as the inserted newspaper article reports, he travelled 13 days, by foot, boat, train and coach, to see the St. Ledger at Doncaster, won in 1842 by Lord Eglington’s bay filly Blue Bonnet. A keen horse racing man, he also witnessed the great Flying Dutchman race at York in 1851. Wilkinson records notable public events throughout, including Queen Victoria’s Coronation and her attempted assassination, the opening of the Great Exhibition, the death of the Duke of Wellington, as well as notorious murder trials such as that of the Stanfield Hall murderer James Bloomfield. As the diary proceeds, with the added responsibilities of a wife and family - he records at least five children and further unsuccessful pregnancies - Wilkinson becomes more reflective, overtly WILKINSON

religious and seemingly depressed. In August 1858 he writes: ‘This has been a very sorrowful day, the agonies of mind I have endured is only known to God. The two great causes of my distress is my own unworthiness before an offended God; the other is my pecuniary circumstances, that I cannot pay people what I owe them’. Anxious for his family’s future, he considers the prospects of the New World before concluding against such upheaval. His anxiety for the well being of his burgeoning family is reflected in an employers’ reference recorded by Wilkinson in January 1859: ‘Martin Wilkinson has lived as house servant with me for twelve months in March, during which time I have found him steady, sober, willing to make himself useful in many ways, intelligent, active, obliging & very anxious to advance the condition of himself & family’. By 1861, having taken work with the Elgood family in York and London, Wilkinson is now the sage old hand, dispensing his thoughts on the troublesome task of domestic service: ‘There is nothing so bad amongst servants as to cherish or to infuse in other minds a spirit of hatred & disinterestedness to our employers or fellow servants, it is an easy thing to prejudice a well disposed mind against a person or thing unless verry [sic] attentively upon the guard & when the mind once gets thoroughly set against a person it views every act in a hazy light & so corrupts the judgement that no right views are taken, one infected sheep in the flock spreads the disease through all ...’ 1834-1861 £1,200 WILLS

ANGLO-AFRICAN WHO’S WHO 291. WILLS, Walter H., ed. The Anglo-African Who’s Who and Biographical Sketch- Book. 1907. 4to. L. Upcott Gill. Half title, ads included in pagination & on e.ps. Orig. red cloth; dulled & a little marked. ¶Includes Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Transvaal, Orange River Colony & Rhodesia. 1907 £150

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VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN 292. WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. 2nd edn. Printed for J. Johnson. Contemp. mottled calf, gilt bands, sl. chipped red morocco label; spine a little rubbed, corners sl. bumped. A good plus copy. ¶ESTC T6723. Windle A5b; half title not called for. ‘Vol. I’ on title but no further volumes appeared. Published in the same year as the first edition. 1792 £1,500

293. WOOD, Ellen, Mrs. Henry. East Lynne. 95th thousand. Richard Bentley & Son. Half title, front. Orig. dark green cloth, blocked in blind, lettered in gilt. Signed ‘Ellen Simons’ in contemporary hand. A v.g. bright copy. 1879 £45

INSCRIBED 294. WOOD, Ellen, Mrs. Henry. Oswald Cray. A novel. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black. Half titles. Orig. dark green morocco-grained cloth, boards attractively blocked in blind, gilt spines. v.g. ¶Wolff 7285; Sadleir 3354. With Presentation Inscription from the Author, ‘For Harry. From Mamma’. 1864 £1,200 295 WOOLSEY

PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION OF FANCY TURNING 295. (WOOLSEY, Edward John) Specimens of Fancy Turning Executed on the Hand or Foot Lathe; with geometric, oval, and eccentric chucks, and elliptical, cutting frame. By an amateur. Illustrated by 30 exquisite photographs. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird. 2pp text, 30 plates with photographic copies of various sizes laid down; a number of plates a little creased. Orig. green cloth; sl. dulled. v.g. ¶Attributed to Woolsey by Library of Congress; BL records the author as Edward John Wall. BL & Imperial College only on Copac. An exhibition of the delicate curves created by the lathe, produced on blackened card and photographed. 1869 £950

MR. YATES’ NEW ENTERTAINMENT 296. YATES, Frederick Henry. Mr. Yates’ New Entertainment. Portraits & Sketches in Town and Country; as performed with the most unqualified success at the Adelphi Theatre. Including Anecdotes of living characters, tales and ... comic songs ... (Duncombe’s edition.) Duncombe, Son. Fold. col. front.; spotted with some offsetting, last leaf creased & torn without loss. Stabbed as issued. 26pp. ¶Yates was partner at the Adelphi, and imitator of Charles Mathews and gave similar solo performances: The frontispiece depicts him as ten different characters. [1827] £120

YEATS’ BROADSIDE CHARACTERS 297. YEATS, Jack Butler. Broadside Characters: drawings. Folio. Dublin: Cuala Press. Hand col. engravings. Unopened in orig. blue buckram with col. onlay. 11 leaves. ¶No. 268 of 300 copies, with an introduction by Anne Yeats. 1971 £380

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298. ZOLA, Émile. His Excellency Eugène Rougon. A realistic novel. Translated without abridgement from the 22nd French edition. Illustrated with eight page engravings. Vizetelly & Co. Half title, orig. publisher’s slip inserted before title - ‘Vizetelly’s original 5s. non-illustrated edition’. Orig. dark blue cloth; spine sl. darkened. A good-plus copy. ¶Son Excellence Eugène Rougon, 1876, Paris. First English edition. 6th in Rougon- Macquart series. Scarce. 1887 £200

299. ZOLA, Émile. His Masterpiece. (L’Oeuvre.) Or, Claude Lautier’s Struggle for Fame. A realistic novel. With a portrait of the author, etched by Bocourt. Vizetelly & Co. Half title with ad. on verso, front., 24pp cata. (Apr. 1886). Orig. green pict. cloth; spine lettering faded. A good sound copy. ¶L’Oeuvre, 1886, Paris. First English edition. 14th in Rougon-Macquart series. 1886 £150

SWITZERLAND 300. ZSCHOKKE, Johann Heinrich Daniel. The History of the Invasion of Switzerland by the French, and the destruction of the democratical republics of Schwitz, Uri, and Unterwalden. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION translated from the French of J.B. Briatte ... with a preface and supplement by the translator. J. Taylor for T.N. Longman & O. Rees. Front. map, 3pp ads. at end. Contemp. half calf, handsomely rebacked. v.g. ¶Historische Denkwürdigkeiten der Helvetischen Staatsumwähzung, 1803-05. First English edition. Translated by John Aikin. 1803 £280

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