List 31: Recent Acquisitions McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery 3a & 4a Haddington Place Edinburgh EH7 4AE +44(0)131 556 5897 [email protected] http://www.mcnaughtans.co.uk a b x @mcnbooks McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 31: Recent Acquisitions 1. Anacreon. The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, FIRST BLOMFIELD EDITION, 8vo, Moschus, and Musaeus. Translated from the original pp. xii, 400. Contemporary Greek. By Francis Fawkes, M.A. The second edition. straight-grained navy morocco, London: Printed for J. Walker, J. Wallis, and J. Binns, boards with a wide gilt border 1789. composed of a series of repeated pallets within triple gilt rules, 12mo, pp. x, [ii, blank], 321, [3]. Some gatherings printed on four-pointed tools in the corners, blue paper. Contemporary sheep, spine divided by gilt rules, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. Somewhat browned and spotted through- second and fourth gilt-lettered out. Extremities a bit rubbed, corners just a touch worn, tidy direct, edges gilt, green endpa- repairs to joints and spine ends. Early ownership inscription of pers. Occasional foxing and light Alex. Brown to flyleaf. £150 browning. Extremities a bit rubbed. Large printed prize label estc T85627. to front pastedown, award- ing the book to Henry Gott for The posthumous, scarcer second edition of this highly-respected distinguishing himself in reading the Medea of Euripides and translation, first published 1760. Although Fawkes (bap. 1720-1777) had two books of Livy, at Winchester College in 1820. £350 been widely read in his lifetime and formed a friendship with Samuel Johnson, he left little at his death for his widow to live upon, leading to A lovely prize binding with an publication of his unfinished works and and then this reprinting. unusual printed label specifying the precise feat for which the book 2. Burns, Robert. was awarded. The prize was given by Henry Dison Gabell (1764- An Address to the Deil, 1831), headmaster of Winchester by Robert Burns; with from 1810 to 1823, to one Henry Explanatory Notes. Gott. This was possibly the fourth Illustrated with numerous son of the wealthy Leeds wool merchant Benjamin Gott, who engravings on wood, after would have been 16 in 1820 but designs by Thomas Land- who died young six years later. seer. London: William Henry’s older brother William Kidd, 1830. built a significant book collection, including a First Folio (now Folg- er copy no. 9). FIRST LANDSEER EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], 23, [1], 8 (ads) The book awarded is also signif- + frontispiece, additional icant, being the first edition of illustrated title-page, and Callimachus as edited by Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857), Bishop of London. Blomfield’s ecclesiasti- 6 engraved plates. Further cal livings had allowed him time for classical scholarship, and ‘he soon wood engravings within the text. Original printed wrappers. established a considerable reputation, being among the most important A little light spotting. Wrappers soiled, the paper over the spine of a group of scholars, including Maltby, Monk, and Peter Paul Dobree, largely defective and stitching startling to loosen. £120 who were pupils of Richard Porson and adopted his editorial principles... His 1815 edition of Callimachus was for some time the standard text’ (odnb). An unusual survival in the original printed wrappers, which include an additional image on the front wrapper not repeated in the text. 5. Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. London: T. Fisher Un- 3. Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Don Juan. Lon- win Ltd, 1923. don: Printed for the Booksellers, 1829. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 317, [1]. 2 vols., 12mo, pp. [ii], 343, [1]; [ii], 371, [1]. Contemporary half Original dark green cloth, spine red calf, marbled boards, green morocco labels. A few spots. and front board lettered in light Bindings rubbed at extremities. £80 green, white dustjacket printed in black and brown. Original A small-format, probably pirated edition of Don Juan. promotional leaflet loosely in- serted. Lettering on front board 4. Callimachus. Quae Supersunt recensuit et cum darkened, dustjacket soiled and notarum delectu edidit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield. marked, edges creased and slightly chipped, a small piece lost Londini [London]: Impensis Josephi Mawman, 1815. from head of spine panel. £120 2 McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 31: Recent Acquisitions 6. Dalrymple, John. An Essay Towards a General 9. Hamilton, Sir William. Observations on Mount History of Feudal Property in Great Britain. The second Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanos: in a series of edition corrected and enlarged. London: Printed for A. letters, addressed to the Royal Society... a new edition. Millar, 1758. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1774. 12mo, pp. x, [ii], 276. Twentieth-century tan polished calf an- 8vo, pp. iv, 179, [1] + 5 plates and 1 folding map. Contempo- tique, boards bordered with a gilt rule, gilt corner-pieces, spine rary calf, flat spine gilt in compartments between gilt rules, divided by raised bands, red morocco label, other compartments red morocco label, marbled endpapers. A few minor spots, short with gilt corner- and centre-pieces. Lightly browned and handling tear to map. Neatly rebacked preserving original spotted, borders of title-page browned from endpaper offset- spine, label renewed, a little restoration to corners, old leather ting. £100 slightly marked and rubbed. Armorial bookplate of William Cooley to front pastedown, a modern bookplate on loosely-in- estc T143530. serted slip, inscription to initial blank recording gift from William Lort Mansel (1753-1820, Master of Trinity College, Dalrymple (1726-1810) ‘was an early reader of Montesquieu's De l'esprit Cambridge). £350 des lois and he published a substantial Essay towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain (1757) which Montesquieu (who was estc T70122. notoriously generous with his time and encouragement when dealing with young scholars) seems to have read in draft and to whom it was posthumously dedicated. The Essay was generally well received’ (odnb). It was immediately popular as well, reaching its fourth edition by 1759. 7. Ferguson, Adam. The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic. Complete in one volume. London: Published by Jones & Company, 1827. 8vo, pp. viii, 480 + frontispiece, addition- al engraved title-page, and folding map. Near-contemporary biscuit calf, spine divided by raised bands, black morocco label, other compartments with central gilt flower tool. Some The third edition (first 1772, second 1773) of this important collection of browning to engravings. Binding rubbed at extremities, a observations by Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803), envoy-extraordinary couple of tiny spots of wear to front joint. Prize gilt stamp of to the Spanish court at Naples, where he was able to indulge a passion the University of Edinburgh to front board, manuscript prize for volcanoes. His observations were based on eruptions of Vesuvius and ascents of Etna, leading ultimately to a much larger and more heavily label to front pastedown by James Pillans, awarding the book illustrated work, ‘Campi phlegraei’, in 1776. to James Watson for private study of Ovid (dated 1846). £60 An interesting prize, awarded for private study, by James Pillans (1778- 10. Holtby, Winifred. 1864), then chair of Humanities at Edinburgh. South Riding. An English Landscape. London: Collins, 8. Graham, Patrick. Sketches of Perthshire. The 1936. second edition. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., 1812. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xvii, [i], 588, [2]. Original green cloth, 8vo, pp. [ii], iv, 278 + hand-coloured folding map frontispiece. spine lettered in purple. dustjacket Untrimmed in modern grey paper boards backed in cream tex- printed in green, blue, red and tured paper, printed paper label to spine. Some light spotting black. Spine lightly sunned, a and soiling. Armorial bookplate of William Scott Dalgairn few small spots of discolouration, Moncrieff preserved from earlier binding. £95 dustjacket rubbed and a bit chipped at extremities (particu- larly head of spine), spine panel sunned, one or two closed A significant work on Perthshire, not least for recording the story that edge-tears, small hole to rear panel at joint. £95 Robert Kirk had not died, but had been ‘taken’ by the fairies for revealing their secrets in his ‘Secret Commonwealth’. It was Graham, a later holder Holtby’s final and finest novel, published posthumously. of the living of Aberfoyle previously occupied by Kirk, who introduced Kirk’s text to Walter Scott. 3 McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 31: Recent Acquisitions 11. Hone, William. Ancient Mysteries Described, reprint of Bentley’s text - there is an extra index added at the end of vol. especially the English Mystery Plays, founded on Apoc- 2 - nearly thirty years after the previous edition, indicates there must have still been unmet demand for copies of his text on its own after ryphal New Testament Story, extant among the unpub- that point. It is a scarce edition: copac locates copies at just Cambridge, lished manuscripts in the British Museum. London: Leeds, and Liverpool, with Worldcat adding, outside of Germany, just a Printed for William Hone, 1823. handful in France plus one each in New Zealand and South Africa. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], 13. Hughes, Richard. A High 298, 2 (ads) + frontispiece Wind in Jamaica. London: Chatto and 3 plates (one folding, one & Windus, 1929. hand-coloured). Title-page printed in red and black, sev- FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [iv], 283, [1]. eral wood-engravings within Original green cloth, spine lettered in the text. Contemporary olive gilt, cream dustjacket printed in black, calf, boards bordered in blocked orange, and green. Dustjacket dust- with decorative panelling in soiled, spine panel darkened, top edge a blind, spine divided by raised little creased with one short tear and a bands, green morocco label, touch of wear to head of spine panel. Faint pencilled ownership other compartments with inscription to flyleaf.