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2013 Xmas Misc.Indd Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers 46, Great Russell Street Telephone: 020 7631 4220 (opp. British Museum) Fax: 020 7631 1882 Bloomsbury, Email: [email protected] London www.jarndyce.co.uk WC1B 3PA VAT.No.: GB 524 0890 57 CATALOGUE CCV WINTER 2013-14 THE MUSEUM Cataloguing & Design: Ed Nassau Lake Production: Carol Murphy All items are London-published and in at least good condition, unless otherwise stated. Prices are nett. Items on this catalogue marked with a dagger (†) incur VAT (20%) to customers within the EU. A charge for postage and insurance will be added to the invoice total. We accept payment by VISA or MASTERCARD. If payment is made by US cheque, please add $25.00 towards the costs of conversion. Email address for this catalogue is [email protected]. JARNDYCE CATALOGUES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE, price £5.00 each include: The Romantics: Part I. A-C; Books & Pamphlets 1576-1827; Catalogue 200: A Miscellany; Dickens & His Circle; The Dickens Catalogue; The Library of a Dickensian; Street Literature: II Chapbooks & Tracts; III Songsters, Reference Sources, Lottery Tickets & ‘Puffs’; Social Science, Part I: Politics & Philosophy; Part II: Economics & Social History; The Social History of London; Women II-IV: Women Writers A-Z. JARNDYCE CATALOGUES IN PREPARATION include: Books from the Library of Geoffrey & Kathleen Tillotson; Romantics II: D-R; Books from the Shop; Conduct & Education. PLEASE REMEMBER: If you have books to sell, please get in touch with Brian Lake at Jarndyce. Valuations for insurance or probate can be undertaken anywhere, by arrangement. A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE is available for Jarndyce Catalogues for those who do not regularly purchase. Please send £20.00 (£30.00 / U.S.$55.00 overseas, airmail) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. THE MUSEUM ISBN: 978 1 900718 96 7 Price £5.00 Covers: adapted from item 181 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 ANONYMOUS 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.
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