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THE MUSEUM ISBN: 978 1 910156-20-9 Price £10.00 Outside covers: adapted from item 279; inside back cover: item 219 Brian Lake Janet Nassau ABELARD 1 3 SCARCE EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING 1. (ABELARD, Pierre & ARGENTEUIL, Héloise d’) Letters of Abelard and Heloise. To which is prefix’d, a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes extracted chiefly from Monsieur Bayle. Translated from the French, by the late Mr. John Hughes. The fifth edition, corrected. Printed for J. Watts. [xii], 228pp, engraved frontispiece. 12mo. A nice clean copy. Full contemp. panelled calf; one corner bumped; a few light scuff marks to front board. Contemp. signature of Jam. Spagg on verso of front. & first page of preface. A v.g crisp copy in a contemporary binding. ¶ESTC N2941, BL, Nottingham & Oxford only in UK; Harvard (two copies) and Davis Library only in North America. Watts was the first publisher to translate the letters into English, the first edition being published in 1713. All of the first five editions by Watts are scarce with nine or fewer copies recorded. The letters tell the tale of the love and tragedy between the renowned scholastic philosopher and theologian Pierre Abélard, 1079-1142, and his lover Héloise d’Argenteuil. 1729 £280 ADULT SCHOOLS: MAIDENHEAD IMPRINT 2. ADULT SCHOOLS. Statement Respecting Adult Schools. Maidenhead: printed at the Library, by G. W. Wetton. Disbound. 27pp. ¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. An argument for the expansion of the existing state of adult schools in order to teach all adults to read with the dual result of spreading the teaching of the scriptures to a wider population and preventing the spreading of ignorance from parent to child. The proposal made is for the creation of a General Association composed of subscribers from twenty or thirty parishes, and of a General Fund to be raised through subscriptions. The aim is the creation of ‘an institution for teaching adults to read, in or to promote a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures’. The foreseen difficulties for the Association include the unwillingness of the poorer classes to be taught. ‘Other obstacles’ it states, ‘will no doubt be conceived to exist in the very circumstance of the comprehensive aims of an Institution which professes to embrace the interests of all the grown persons throughout a considerable district’. 1814 £250 ADVERTISING SAMPLE 3. ADVERTISING SAMPLE. SMITH, ELDER, & CO., Seal Engravers, and Die Sinkers, Cornhill, London. Beg respectfully to submit a few specimens of adhesive wafers, and to intimate that they have made arrangements with some of the best artists in London ... Smith, Elder, & Co. Single sheet, 18.5 x 11cm, embossed royal crest at head, printed in green with decorative borders, 11 examples of adhesive wafers, one on an envelope flap tipped on to lower margin; a few small marks, two old folds, previously tipped into an album. ¶A lovely example of an advertising sample for ‘fancy wedding, and mourning stationery’ by Smith, Elder & Co. Presumably this was an offshoot of the publishing company formed by George Smith and Alexander Elder but we can find no record of them as seal engravers and die sinkers. [c.1870] £120 † AINSWORTH, William Harrison See also item 112 4 5 6 CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS 4. Jack Sheppard: a romance. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. G. Routledge & Co. Front. & 26 plates, with tissue guards. Original blue net-grained cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt; slight rubbing. Recent booklabel of Ronald George Taylor. A nice copy. ¶See Sadleir 14 & Wolff 53 for the first edition in three volumes, 1839. The binding on this 1854 edition is, unusually, embossed in the lower blind border on the front board, ‘W. Bone & Son, Binders’. The spine decoration is signed ‘J.L.’ (John Leighton). The first one-volume edition appeared in 1840 in (viii), 480pp + plates. This edition, in viii, 344pp + plates, contains all the fine Cruikshank illustrations to Ainsworth’s highwayman novel. 1854 £120 TAUCHNITZ EDITION 5. The Lancashire Witches. A romance of Pendle Forest. Copyright edn. 2 vols. Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz. (Collection of British Authors, vol. CLXII.) Series titles. 2 vols in 1. Contemp. quarter red morocco, continental marbled paper boards, spine dec. & lettered in gilt. A v.g. attractive copy. ¶First serialised in The Sunday Times in 1848, Ainsworth, in 1849, printed a few copies for private circulation among his friends. Printed in newspaper fashion with double columns it is regarded by some as the real first edition (Locke). The first edition, published by Henry Colburn, was issued in three volumes also in 1849. 1849 £75 AINSWORTH DICK TURPIN 6. Rookwood: a romance. Revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new preface, and notes, by the author. Richard Bentley. (Standard Novels, no. LX.) Series title, front. & additional engr. title, final ad. leaf. Ads on e.ps. Orig. purple cloth; spine faded to brown, boards a little faded. v.g. ¶Sadleir 3734a binding C; first published in 1834 and, as part of Bentley’s Standard Novels, in 1837. Rookwood, Ainsworth’s first full-blown novel, was published anonymously and, according to the Author, was an attempt at the gothic ‘bygone’ style of Mrs Radcliffe. The Dick Turpin sub-plot, with ‘flash’ slang was particularly popular with the public and contributed to the fashion for ‘Newgate’ novels. 1848 £75 __________ LITTLE WOMEN 7. ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Women. Frederick Warne & Co. (Warne’s Star series.) Half title, 12pp cata. Orig. red cloth, dec. & lettered in black & gilt. Salvation Army prize label, 1904. v.g. [c.1900] £30 ALLY SLOPER THE FIRST BRITISH COMIC STRIP MAGAZINE - GILBERT DALZIEL’S COPY OF THE FIRST 35 ISSUES 8. (DALZIEL, Gilbert) Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday. Being a selection, side-splitting, sentimental, and serious, for the benefit of old boys, young boys, odd boys generally and even girls. Vol. I, no. 1 - no. 35. May 3 - Dec. 27, 1884. Printed for the proprietor, and published by W. J. Sunkins. 36 issues including ‘Ally Sloper’s Christmas Holiday’. A few small tears to gutter margin of no. 1, otherwise issues v.g. & clean. Signed ‘Gilbert Dalziel, Hampstead’ on leading f.e.p. Contemp. cloth boards & maroon calf corner pieces; expertly rebacked in matching calf, uplettered in gilt. v.g. ¶A rare opportunity to purchase the first 36 issues of what is considered to be one of the first British comic strip magazines. In 2001 a copy of the first issue sold for £3,600. The character of Ally Sloper was created by Charles Henry Ross and first drawn by his wife Emilie de Tessier when he appeared in the magazine Judy in 1867. Ross sold the rights of the character to the publisher and printer Gilbert Dalziel and in 1884 Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday became the first weekly comic magazine to be based on a single character, with images by the cartoonist William Giles Baxter. After Baxter’s death in 1888 Ally Sloper’s principal artist became William Fletcher Thomas who was later replaced by Charles Henry Chapman. At its peak of popularity, the weekly circulation is estimated to have been over 350,000. It ceased publication after 1,679 issues in 1916. After three failed comebacks, Ally Sloper was finally curtailed in 1977. Gilbert Dalziel, 1853-1930, was the son of the engraver and publisher Edward Dalziel, one half of the Dalziel Brothers. He studied at the Slade School of Art and apprenticed himself to the family business working on the publication Fun before moving on to Judy from whence Ally Sloper was born. 1884 £3,500 9. (DALZIEL, Gilbert) Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday. ... Vol. III, no. 88 - vol XII, no. 609. Printed for the proprietor, and published by W. J. Sunkins. Approximately 551 issues in 10 volumes, including 9 issues of ‘Ally Sloper’s Christmas Holidays’ & 20 duplicate issues from vol. III; initial leaves of vol. III a little dusted & creased at lower corner, first issue of vol. VII defective, occasional small marginal tears, some light browning, occasionally trimmed close to lower margin.