THE LIBRARY OF DR W. G. KERR: PART EIGHT

ENGLISH

LITERATURE

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THE LIBRARY OF

DR W. G. KERR

PART EIGHT: ENGLISH LITERATURE

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1. [ANON.]. THE THESPIAN DICTIONARY; or, dramatic biography of the eighteenth century; containing sketches of the lives, productions, &c. of all the

principal managers, dramatists, composers, commentators, actors, and

actresses, of the United Kingdom: interspersed with several original

anecdotes; and forming a concise history of the English stage. London, by J.

Cundee for T. Hurst, 1802.

8vo, pp. [276], + 7 plates of actors and actresses, tipped-in postcard of Old Sadler’s

Wells added at start; pencil annotations to rear endpaper; a few stains otherwise a good

copy in contemporary calf, double gilt fillet and blind-rolled border, flat spine gilt, with

morocco lettering piece; upper board detached, a little rubbed at extremities; ownership

and purchase inscriptions to front endpapers, signature of Mrs. Craigie of Linton to

title-page. £320

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First edition. The work expounds the careers of celebrated actors and actresses,

playwrights, composers, etc. of the time. The eighteenth century was something of a

golden age for the theatre, a renaissance following Puritan restrictions during much of

the seventeenth. Perhaps best known is the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane, London,

which saw great performances from the likes of legendary Shakespearean David

Garrick. The Dictionary is necessarily selective; ‘the most insignificant [thespians] are,

in justice to their demerits, consigned to oblivion’ (the advertisement).

2. [ANONYMOUS]. A visit to the Bazaar... London, for Harris & Son, 1820.

16mo, pp. [2], 92; 32 full-page plates; lightly toned and foxed, dampstain to a few

leaves; still a fair copy in contemporary red quarter-roan over marbled boards, flat

spine gilt-ruled; edges speckled blue; joints and corners worn, spine chipped at head

and foot; signature of Arthur Loveday to front paste-down. £500

Third edition (first, 1818). A children’s book, recounting a trip to the Soho bazaar, ‘a

most respectable institution’, founded by John Trotter to provide a source of

maintenance to the bereaved womenfolk of Napoleonic soldiers. A light-hearted look

at 19th century consumerism, examining the eclectic and exotic wares proffered by the

bazaar, with a moral undertone of honest trading. Opie B336

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3. BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs. London, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [et al.], 1815.

12mo, pp. [8], 124; with 11 half-page engraved vignettes by Thomas Bewick; a few

small marks; a good copy in contemporary half-roan over marbled boards, flat spine

gilt; extremities worn; signature of J. M. Fisher to front endpaper, and of the Rev.

William Jordan to front paste-down. £25

Eighth edition (first, 1802). The Rural Tales followed the sensational success of

Bloomfield’s Farmer’s Boy (1800). The Rural Tales are shorter and more metrically

varied than the preceding work, ‘mostly vignettes and lyrics depicting the joys and

vicissitudes of rural life and the folk ways of villagers’ (ODNB). The poems are

complemented with vignettes from Thomas Bewick, who had begun his collaboration

with Bloomfield in the Rural Tales and is best-known for his History of British Birds

(1797-1804).

4. BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Wild Flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry. London, for Vernor, Hood, and Sharp [et al.], 1806.

8vo, pp. [10], 132; 8 full-page engravings by Luke Clennell and Allen Branston; a few

small marks, offsetting from binding to first and last leaves, some pages marked with

red ink from edges; a fair copy in near-contemporary black half-morocco over pebble-

grained cloth, title gilt to spine; extremities lightly worn. £40

First edition. The Wild Flowers continues the pastoral theme at which Bloomfield

specialised. The poignant dedication is addressed to Bloomfield’s only son, Charles, in

which the poet expresses his parental anxieties for the future of his lame child, whilst

reiterating the love felt towards him.

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5. [BRONTË, Anne]. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. By Acton Bell. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1859.

[Bound with:]

SAVAGE, Marmion Wilme. The Falcon Family; or, Young Ireland. London,

Chapman and Hall, 1854.

Two works bound as one; 8vo, pp. 472; [4] 316; occasional foxing, some corners

creased, otherwise a very good copy in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards,

spine with raised gilt bands and morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges; front internal

hinge broken; bookplate of James Grahame to front paste-down and his signature to

title-page in ink. £250

‘New edition’ (first, 1848), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Brontë’s second and final

novel. Having witnessed the decline of her brother Branwell into drink and drugs, Anne

used the preface of the second edition of the book to defend the book’s ‘realistic

representation of “vice and vicious characters” as the best method of warning

inexperienced youth to avoid the “snares and pitfalls of life” ’ (ODNB).

‘Cheap edition’ of Savage’s first novel, first published in 1847. Savage (1804–1872)

was known for his satiric tone, classical learning, and knowledge of native Irish lore.

For Paralee Norman, ‘the Falcons serve as Savage’s metaphor for the Anglo-Irish. The

novel presents a stark political warning to sponging governors and accidental

supporters, but the ‘young Irelanders’ (Savage coining the term) and tractarians are

disparaged’ (ODNB).

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6. BROOME, William. Poems on several occasions. London, Henry Lintot, 1750.

8vo, pp. xxiii, [I] advertisement, 280, with engraved frontispiece portrait; tear to

frontispiece (repaired), occasional marginal ink annotation; a very good copy in

contemporary sheep, panelled spine with red morocco lettering-piece; rebacked, lightly

worn; ink annotation frontispiece recto. £100

Re-issue of the 1739 second, enlarged edition, (first, 1727), with a new dedication to

Charles, Lord Townshend. The volume is a collection of original poetry, biblical

paraphrase and translations from Horace, Homer, and Hesiod. Among the new material

is an elegy to Broome’s friend and fellow translator Elijah Fenton.

Broome (1689-1745), an accomplished Greek scholar and a ready versifier, was

educated at Eton and Cambridge, where his translations from the Iliad in the style of

Milton (included here) first brought him to Pope’s attention. Pope employed him in the

arduous task of extracting critical material for the notes to his Iliad; for Pope’s Odyssey

Broome not only provided all the notes but actually translated eight books. Broome

came to resent Pope’s refusal to acknowledge his contributions adequately in print, and

relations deteriorated until Pope attacked him in Peri Bathous and the Dunciad. Here

there are two poems addressed to Pope before the falling out, but also the pointed note

that ‘The Author has not inserted into this Collection any part of his Translation of the

eight books of the Odyssey, published by Mr. Pope’, a deliberate reminder to readers of

his still-unacknowledged work.

Foxon, p. 88 (2nd edition).

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7. BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. English bards, and Scotch reviewers; a satire... London, James Cawthorn, 1810.

8vo, pp. v, [1], 84, [1], [3] publisher’s advertisements; untrimmed; toned, a little

foxing; a good copy in contemporary paper boards; lightly soiled, some losses to

overlaid paper spine. £100

Third authorised edition, (first, 1809). ‘A variant of Wise’s authorised edition’

(Kohler). Byron’s ‘first major poem,’ (ODNB) a satire, with explanatory, and often

acerbic, footnotes by Byron:

But who forgives the Senior’s ceaseless verse,

Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse?

What heterogeneous honours deck the Peer?

Lord, rhymester, petit-maître, pamphleteer*!

The Earl of Carlisle has lately published an eighteen penny pamphlet on the state of the Stage, and offers his plan for building a new theatre; it is to be hoped his Lordship will

be permitted to bring forward any thing for the Stage, except his own tragedies.

Kohler 13; Randolph p. 16 ‘Scarcer than the first edition’; Wise, p.24..

8. BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An historical tragedy, in five acts. With notes. The prophecy of Dante, a poem.

London, John Murray, 1821.

8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 261, [1]; without the half-title; lightly toned and foxed, short tear to

pp. ix-x, repaired, touching a few letters; a good copy in half-calf over marbled boards,

spine with raised gilt bands, panels blind-stamped to a floral design; joints and corners

very lightly worn. £60

Second edition. Two issues of the first edition were published by Murray earlier in the

same year.

Kohler 194.

9. BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Prisoner of Chillon, and other poems… London, John Murray, 1816.

8vo, pp. [2], 60, [1] blank, [5] advertisements; a few small marks; a very good copy in

later limp black morocco, title gilt to upper board, inner dentelles and edges gilt. £250

First edition, first issue of Byron’s 392-line narrative poem. The Prisoner tells the

story of the incarceration of François Bonivard, a monk imprisoned in Chillon castle,

on Lake Geneva, from 1532-1536.

Kohler 122.

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10. BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Sardanapalus, a tragedy. The two Foscari, a tragedy. Cain, a mystery. London, John Murray, 1821.

8vo, pp. viii, 439, [1]; foxed; a good copy in contemporary half-roan over paper boards,

panelled spine gilt; extremities and boards lightly worn; contemporary annotation ‘Vol

5 Byron’s Works’ to fly. £150

First edition, the issue with the reading ‘Sardanapalus’ on the fly-title B1. A variant,

priority not established, reads ‘Sardanapalus / A Tragedy’ (Randolph).

Sardanapalus develops the life of the (possibly fictional) Ctesian Assyrian King, who,

legendarily decadent, when under siege in Ninevah preferred to burn himself and all he

possessed rather than be taken by the Medes.

‘The most splendid specimen our language affords of that species of tragedy which

was the exclusive object of Lord Byron’s admiration’ (Lake).

Randolph, p. 75; Stratman 847; Wise II, pp. 32-3.

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11. BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem. London, John Murray, 1816.

8vo, pp. [4], 89, [3], [2] advertisements; lightly toned and foxed; a good copy in

twentieth century quarter cloth over marbled boards by John Durham & Son; signature

in ink to half-title. £200

First edition, describing a key battle of the Ottoman conquest of Greece in the seventh

Ottoman-Venetian war, which witnessed the tragic massacre of most of the Venetian

garrison as well as the inhabitants of the citadel. The story came full circle when, in

1823, Byron fought in the Greek War of Independence, struggling to reclaim Greece

from the Ottomans of his poem.

Kohler 115, Lowndes 339, Randolph 55, Wise I,107.

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12. BYSSHE, Edward. The art of English poetry. Containing I. Rules for making verses. II. A collection of the most natural, agreeable, and sublime

thoughts, viz. allusions, similes, descriptions and characters, of persons and

things; that are to be found in the best English poets. III. A dictionary of

rhymes… London, Samuel Buckley, 1708.

Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [12], 36, [2], 482, viii, 36; toned, a little foxing, a

few small marks, printer’s device excised from the half-title of the second part, with

loss to a few words of the list of abbreviated authors’ names and Horatian motto; a

good copy in contemporary speckled calf; panelled spine; extremities worn, spine

chipped at head; contemporary signature of and annotations by Rebeccah Wilson to

flyleaf. £200

Third edition, ‘with large improvements’ (first, 1702). Quoting from perennial

favourites such as Shakespeare, Milton and Donne, Bysshe’s popular work sets out the

choicest morsels of English verse in an attempt to cultivate juvenile tastes.

Case 225 (c).

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13. [COMBE, William]. The tour of Dr. Syntax, in search of the picturesque…in search of consolation… in search of a wife. A poem. London, R. Ackermann,

[1812, 1820, 1821].

3 vols, 4to, pp. iii, [3], 275, [1, blank]; [6], 277, [1, blank]; [4], 279, [1, blank], with 80

hand-coloured aquatints; minor repairs to some leaves and plates, otherwise a fine copy

in full red morocco gilt by Riviere; edges and inner dentelles gilt; very faint annotation

to recto of frontispiece vol. 1. £1500

First editions, individually issued in 1812, 1820 and 1821. Written as a parody of the

prevailing mode for travel books, the works, following the fortunes of a clergyman and

a priest with text by William Combe and caricature-style illustrations by Thomas

Rowlandson, were an instant success, and were much imitated, as indicated by the

preface to volume three in which Combe writes:

‘… And I, surely, have no reason to be dissatisfied, when Time points at my eightieth

Year, that I can still afford some pleasure to those who are disposed to be pleased’.

The tour of Doctor Syntax is Combe’s most famous work: ‘Combining light-hearted

satire of William Gilpin's theory of the picturesque in art with a central character

modelled on Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Henry Fielding’s Parson Adams, Combe

created a lovable eccentric whose misadventures on the road structure the Tour. For

over a century the many editions and numerous imitations of the Tour attested to the

popularity of Combe’s humorous hero’ (ODNB). Abbey (Life) 265-7. Tooley 427-9. Ray 34.

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14. CONGREVE, William. The works of Mr. William Congreve: in three volumes. Consisting of his plays and poems. London, J. Tonson, 1730.

3 vols., 8vo, pp. [26], 272, [6]; 283, [5]; 382, [2]; light toning, otherwise a very good

copy in contemporary panelled calf, double gilt fillet border; panelled spines with gilt-

tooling and lettering pieces; extremities lightly worn, joints cracked but holding. £400

Fifth edition of Congreve’s complete works. Included are comedies, various poetic

compositions, attempts at masque and opera as well as a tragedy, The Mourning Bride

(the source of the famous misquotation, ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’). The

first three-volume collected edition of Congreve’s works had been published in 1710.

Congreve was a member of the Kit-Cat Club, which brought together some of the

leading thinkers of his day, united under Whiggish political leanings. A late proponent

of Restoration comedy, Congreve was renowned for his wit and acute insight into the

social mores of his day.

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15. CONGREVE, William. The works of Mr. William Congreve. In three volumes. Consisting of his plays and poems. Birmingham, John Baskerville,

1761.

Three vols, Large 8vo, pp. [24], 360; [10], 516; [8], 514, [2], + 5 full-page etchings;

occasional light foxing, heavier to the start of volume one, light off-setting from

engraved plates and bookplates, marginal wormtrail to volume three, some toning; still

a good set in contemporary sheep, panelled spines gilt, red morocco labels, edges

speckled red; bindings worn, joints cracked; armorial bookplates of James Marshall to

front pastedowns. £300

First Baskerville edition.

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16. [CRUIKSHANK, George, later MAYHEW, Horrace, ed.] The Comic Almanack. London, David Bogue, 1835-50, 1852-3.

18 vols., 8vo; numerous plates throughout; lightly toned, a little offsetting from plates,

a few small marks; some unopened pages; good copies in near-contemporary red half

red-morocco over marbled boards, flat spines with gold pattern and lettered in gilt; a

little light wear; pictorial bookplates of W. Bourke Cockran to front pastedowns.

£1200

First editions, the complete run save 1851. Handsomely bound.

Profusely illustrated with illustrations by Cruikshank (later in partnership with Henry

George Hine), the series is ‘…a comic almanac, issued annually, comprising jokes,

poems, stories, lampoons, and full-page plates representing monthly events’ (ODNB).

Over its twenty-year run, the Almanack had various publishers and editors, including

Horace Mayhew, Charles Tilt and David Bogue. The text displays a winning

combination of charming period detail and quirky yet timeless humour:

To Let: The Palms, Peckham. Delightful Family Residence to be let

immediately, consisting of six rooms (all snake-proof), flat roof, with verandah,

capable of making up five beds, stable for two camels, hippopotamus sty,

ostrichry, slave shed, and the usual offices. Apply personally to Mr. Jukes, 14,

Chancery Lane, any morning before sunrise. (p. 36, Almanack 1853).

Gardening operations.

Now is the time to force your cucumbers; but if they will not come by being

forced, try what can be done by persuasion. All your efforts will be useless, if

the cucumber themselves are not in the right frame. (p. 12, Almanack 1844).

Cohn 184. Patten, George Cruikshank, II, p. 9.

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17. DE LA MARE, Walter. Rupert Brooke and the intellectual imagination. A lecture. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919.

8vo, pp. [2] blank, 41, [1] blank; a good copy in paper boards; two newspaper

obituaries of Brooke pasted to front endpapers; a little light wear. £10

First edition. From a lecture ‘read before Rugby School on the evening of 27th March

1919.’

18. DICKENS, Charles. The cricket on the hearth. A fairy tale of home… London, Bradbury and Evans, 1846.

8vo, pp. [8], 174, [2] advertisements; decorative frontispiece, title, and drawings within

the text by G Dalziel after D. Maclise; a good copy in the original publisher’s embossed

cloth, central gilt vignette of the cricket on the hearth, title gilt to spine, all edges gilt;

contemporary presentation inscription to Alexander Campbell to fly. £100

Third edition, first published in the same year. Simultaneously issued as both the

present novella and a play in collaboration with Albert Smith and staged at the Lyceum,

The Cricket is the third of Dickens’ five Christmas Books, and in the years immediately

after publication it was broadly hailed as superior to the now better-known Christmas

Carol.

Eckel, p.119; Podeschi A92; Smith II pp 37-43.

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19. [ENGLISH VERSE]. 1709-1715.

Four works in one, 8vo, pp. [18], 60, [4] index, [10], 52, [2] advertisements, 48, [2], 52,

[4] advertisements, each work with an engraved frontispiece, Gay with six engraved

plates, Pope’s Rape of the lock with five full-page engravings (included in pagination),

several metalcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; lightly toned, but still very good

copies in contemporary calf, binding defective, lacking upper board. £400

The miscellany comprises:

GAY, John. The shepherd’s week. In six pastorals. … The second edition. London,

J.[acob] T. [onson], 1714.

A reissue of the sheets of the first edition, published earlier in the same year, with a

new title-page.

Foxon G71.

POPE, Alexander. The rape of the lock. An heroi-comical poem. In five cantos…

London, Bernard Lintott, 1715.

Fourth edition. The first edition of the poem in this five-canto shape had appeared in

1714, preceded by a two-canto version in 1712.

Foxon P946; Griffith 43.

[PHILIPS, John.] Cyder. A poem. In two books. … With the splendid shilling;

Paradise Lost, and two songs, &c. London, H. Hills, 1709.

Early edition of Philips’ best work, a black verse poem on cider-making and the virtues

of cider written in imitation of Virgil’s Georgics, first published in 1708 to great

acclaim. In this edition, signature A3 is printed under ‘and oft’.

Foxon P241.

POPE, Alexander. The temple of fame: a vision… London, Bernard Lintott, 1715.

Second edition, published in the same year as the first, of Pope’s Temple of fame, an

allegorical poem the inspiration of which Pope declares in the Advertisement: ‘The

Hint of the following Piece was taken from Chaucer’s House of Fame. The Design is in

a manner entirely alter’d, the Descriptions and most of the particular Thought my own:

Yet I could not suffer it to be printed without this Acknowledgment, or think a

Concealment of this Nature the less unfair for being common. The Reader who would

compare this with Chaucer, may begin with his Third Book of Fame, there being

nothing in the Two first Books that answers to their Title’. Allegory itself as a rightful,

millennial tool of poetics is the subject of the final excusatio, an apology designed to

reinstate classical rhetoric figures, attacked as unnatural contrivances by a faint but

growing ‘naturalistic’ outlook on art, within the realm of poetry.

Griffith 45.

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20. FIELDING, Henry. The works of Henry Fielding, Esq. With an essay on his life and genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. London, J. Johnson, 1806.

10 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], 500, with frontispiece portrait; [4], 480; [4], 550, [2] blank;

[4], 463, [1] blank; [4], 428; [4], 554; 538; [4], 480; [8], 431, [1] blank; [4], 467, [1]

blank; silk bookmarks to all volumes; a few small marks, light scuffing at foot of K2 of

vol. IV, text affected but sense recoverable; a nice set in contemporary tree calf, gilt

borders; spines with gilt-tooling and contrasting lettering pieces, a few with some small

losses, some joints cracked; spine of vol. X heavily worn. £100

‘A new edition’. The ‘essay on his life and genius’ was first included in the 1762

second edition.

PRESENTATION COPY

21. [FRAZER, James George, Sir]. Selected passages from his works. Chosen by Georges Roth. Paris, Libraire Hatier, [1924].

8vo, pp. 64; lightly toned, small mark to title; a good copy in quarter-cloth over

marbled boards; presentation copy, with “To Louis Clarke with kindest regards from J.

G. Frazer” inscribed in ink to title-page. £50

First edition. A bipartite work composed of ‘Glimpses of Ancient Lands and History’,

and ‘Literary Pieces’, including the touching ‘Dream of Cambridge’ in which Frazer is

transported back to his youth and to the company of a now long-deceased friend. The

pieces have been selected by Roth from Frazer’s various publications and writings.

22. GAWSWORTH, John. Legacy to love. Selected poems 1931-1941. London, Collins, 1943.

8vo, pp. 80, with frontispiece portrait; a very good copy in the original publisher’s

green cloth with the original dust-jacket; extremities a little worn with small losses to

one corner and head and tail of spine; with an annotated publisher’s review slip. £25

First and only edition. John Gawsworth was the pseudonym of Terrence Ian Fitton

Armstrong. Armstrong is better known as King Juan I of Rodonda, a literary kingdom,

which he inherited from the author M. P. Shiel, along with the rights to his literary

estate. The publisher Jon Wynne-Tyson, (aka King Juan II), considered the bizarre

succession to be ‘…a pleasing and eccentric fairy tale; a piece of literary mythology to

be taken with salt, romantic sighs, appropriate perplexity, some amusement, but without

great seriousness. It is, after all, a fantasy.’

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23. GAY, John. Fables. In two volumes. [Vol 1]. London, for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729; [vol. 2] London, for J. and P. Knapton, 1738.

2 vols; 8vo, pp. [8], 194; [8], 156; engraved title-page vignette, and 50 half-page

engravings to vol. 1, decorative tail-pieces; engraved frontispiece and title-page

vignette and 16 engraved plates to vol. 2; tear with loss of a single letter of the running

title to pp. 79-80 of vol. 2., bookplates removed from the title-page versos of both

volumes, with small losses to the blank margins only; a very good set in later half-calf

over pebbled cloth, all edges red, red shelfmark sticker to top of vol 1; panelled spines

with raised bands, green morocco lettering pieces, extremities lightly worn. £250

Third edition of vol. I, first edition of vol. II. John Gay, best-known for his drama The

Beggar’s Opera, was adept at a wide range of literary genres and was a member of the

Scriblerus club, alongside titans such as Swift and Pope. It was the latter who published

the second book of Fables posthumously, following the author’s death in 1738. The

first volume, of fifty fables, was first published in 1727; as a testament to the work’s

enduring popularity, it has seen some 350 editions to 1900. The Oxford DNB remarks

that the work ‘relies less on ironic wit than on their anthropomorphic and proverbial

charm’. The second book of Fables, Gay’s last work, sees the author taking on a more

political approach: ‘in these last Fables corrupt ministers, their pimps, spies and

placemen, are usually exposed and vanquished’ (ODNB).

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24. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Perth, R. Morison and Son, 1791.

8vo, pp. [2], iv, 145, [1] blank; occasional foxing, otherwise a good copy in

contemporary tree calf, gilt-panelled spine with contrasting lettering pieces; armorial

bookplate to front pastedown. £100

Handsome later edition of one of the most read 18th-century novels, widely cited in

contemporary literature, including by George Eliot, Austen, Dickens, Shelley and

Charlotte Brontë. Often regarded as sentimental novel, sometimes as a satire of the

sentimental novel, The Vicar is Goldsmith’s most famous work. Complete in itself, this

volume is the 3rd volume of Morison’s seven-volume Miscellaneous Works of Oliver

Goldsmith.

Offered with volumes 4, 5, 6, & 7, including Citizen of the World: letters from a

Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East; Poems for Young

Ladies, The Good-Natur’d Man, and She Stoops to Conquer, uniformly bound.

25. HAZLITT, William. Literary Remains … with a notice of his life by his son, and thoughts on his genius and writings by E. L. Bulwer, Esq, M.P. and

Mr Sargeant Talfourd, M.P. In two Volumes. London, Saunders and Otley …

1836.

2 vols., 8vo, pp. [8], cxli, [1], 362; [6], 468; with the engraved frontispiece portrait after

Bewick in volume 1; lacking advertisements in volume 2 but complete with both half-

titles; occasional light browning throughout, otherwise a good copy in half-calf over

marbled boards; spine elegantly gilt; extremities worn; bookplate of Cornelius Walford,

F. S. S. on the front pastedown of volume 1. £150

First edition, comprising twenty-two essays. Essay XIX, ‘My first acquaintance with

poets’, first published in The Liberal, describes Hazlitt’s first impressions of Coleridge

in 1798 upon hearing him preach – ‘Poetry and Philosophy had met together, Truth and

Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion’. Hazlitt was

invited to stay with Coleridge in Somerset, where he met Wordsworth, ‘gaunt and Don

Quixote-like’, and heard the poets read from manuscript the poems of the Lyrical

Ballads: ‘There is a chaunt in the recitation of both Coleridge and Wordsworth, which

acts as a spell upon the hearer, and disarms the judgment’. Other essays in the

collection include Hazlitt’s contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, ‘On Fine

Arts’, and pieces ‘On Liberty and Necessity’ and ‘On Self-Love’. William Hazlitt the

younger provides a lengthy ‘Biographical Sketch’ with numerous letters, and there are

also appreciative essays by Bulwer-Lytton, Talfourd and Charles Lamb.

Keynes 102.

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26. HEWLETT, Maurice. Quattrocentisteria (how Sandro Botticelli saw Simonetta in the spring). Portland Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1908.

12mo, pp. [8], 59, [13], frontispiece portrait; original blue printed paper wrappers

bound in; light off-setting to upper outer corners, otherwise a good copy in turquoise

morocco, single gilt fillet border, ‘Elsie Kilvert’ in gilt text to front cover, waterstain at

head, extremities lightly worn. £15

Second edition, (first, 1904). A Virgil-inspired feat of lyric prose.

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27. HOWELL, James. Dendrologia. Dodona’s grove, or the vocall forrest. [London], H. Mosley, 1640.

Small folio, pp. [10], 1-32, 39-135, 166-219, [1], engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved

plates of trees, elaborate woodcut headpieces and initials; light dampstaining to a few

leaves at start, a little light dustsoiling, small tear to title just touching type ornament

border, a few mostly marginal stains; withal a good copy in contemporary calf, double

blind-ruled border, spine in compartments, extremities lightly rubbed; signature of ‘D.

Jenks’ to the front pastedown, later biographical note on the author to the dedication

verso. £500

First edition of a curious allegory of the political history of Europe from 1603 to 1640,

the historical personages and the narrator figured in the guise of speaking trees (the oak,

the King of England, and so forth). By 1640 Howell was nearly fifty, and although he

moved in literary circles – he was a friend of Ben Jonson – Dendrologia was his first

book. His vocal forest (‘it fortun’d not long since, that Trees did speake, and locally

move, and meet one another’) attracted translations into Latin and French, and intrigued

contemporary readers. One such was John Evelyn, the author of Sylva, who wrote out

an autograph key to the allegory headed ‘The real subject’ (British Library, Evelyn MS.

492).

STC 13872.

28. HUNT, Leigh. Bacchus in Tuscany, a dithyrambic poem, from the Italian of Francesco Redi … London, John and H. L. Hunt, 1825.

8vo, pp. xix, [1] blank, 224, [1], 296-298, [2], with errata slip; lightly toned, a very little

light foxing; a very good copy, untrimmed in contemporary paper boards, spine

defective and partially detached with substantial losses; contemporary signature of Mrs

Whiting to fly, repeated though partially erased to title. £350

First and only edition. Hampered by illness in Italy in 1824-5, Hunt strove still to

work, and so chose ‘the lightest and easiest translation’ (Autobiography, 1850, iii, 109;

from Brewer) he could think of: a poem by the seventeenth century physician and

occasional poet Redi, a hugely successful, exuberant and extravagant extolment of wine

and its merits, in which Bacchus gets drunk in human fashion on a hill outside the walls

of Florence and is borne away in ecstasy by a draught of Montepulciano (which he

pronounces to be King of Wines). Reviews were not generally favourable – even by

Hunt himself, who identified enough errors in the publication to call it ‘the worst

[translation] ever printed’ (Brewer).

Luther A. Brewer, My Leigh Hunt Library (New York, Franklin, 1970), pp. 128-31.

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29. HUXLEY, Aldous. Vulgarity in Literature. Digressions from a theme… London, Chatto and Windus, 1930.

8vo, pp. [4], 59, [1]; a very good copy in the original cloth, both boards printed in red to

a design of dolphins frolicking in the sea within decorative borders; light wear to spine

with small loss; signature of ‘J. A. Park’ to fly. £20

First trade edition. A special edition of 260 was published earlier in the same year.

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30. JEWSBURY, Maria Jane. Letters to the Young. London, J. Hatchard and Son, 1829.

12mo, pp. [12], 240; light foxing, a few marks, tear to p.63-4 with loss of upper outer

corner affecting a few words of text; otherwise a good copy in contemporary half calf

over marbled boards, edges marbled, gilt panelled spine with green lettering-piece;

signature of Mrs Henry Smith, Gamlingay to front free endpaper. £30

Second edition, (first, 1828). Letters to the Young, ‘exhort[ed] its youthful audience to

eschew worldly desires and to concentrate on a humble life of duty, aimed at attaining

eventual immortality… its rhetoric sometimes comes across as self-castigation, as if

bearing witness to Jewsbury’s inner conflicts’ (ODNB).

31. [KARAMZIN, Nikolai Mikhailovic]. Tales, from the Russian of Nicolai Karamsin. [Translated by Andreas Anderson Feldborg]. London, for J.

Johnson by G. Sidney, 1804.

8vo, pp. [12], 262, + portrait frontispiece of Karamsin by Hopwood; lightly toned, a

few marks; a good copy in contemporary diced Russia, gilt Greek key border, flat spine

gilt in compartments with morocco label; upper board detached, a little light wear;

armorial bookplate of John Waldie and another ‘Novels and Romances No.: 513’,

Lubbock of Newcastle bookseller’s label to fly. £450

The first English edition of Karamzin’s Russian Tales, written in the sentimentalist

style that he would pioneer in Russia, influenced by the writings of Lawrence Sterne.

The present collection includes the short stories Flor Silin, Julia, Natalia and Lisa.

‘The theme of ‘Poor Liza’ was a favorite of the German Storm and Stress movement.

Karamzin transplanted it into Russian literature [and it] became the cornerstone and

point of departure for serious Russian prose fiction because, however clumsily, it tried

to motivate its plot psychologically, found the language to express the emotions of its

characters, and placed the action into a recognizable Russian locale.’ (Terras, p. 158).

Crowther 1482, Mirsky p.61 ff; Terras p.158.

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32. LAMB, Charles. The essays of Elia … With an introduction by Augustine Birrell and illustrations by Charles E. Brock. London, J. M. Dent & Co.,

1904.

2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxii, 294, [2]; xi, [1] blank, 254, [2], with 30 engraved plates, and

numerous illustrations within the text; untrimmed; a very good copy in the original red

half-calf over red cloth boards, spine with gilt-tooled floral pattern and text; a little light

wear to extremities; hand-written list inserted in vol. 2. £50

Fifth edition, (first, 1823/33). Charles Lamb’s collection of essays by the fictitious Elia.

The introduction by Augustine Birrell shows the great respect lavished on Lamb: “The

spelling is often quaint, sometimes wrong, but always Lamb’s, and therefore better than

anyone else’s.”

33. [LANG, Andrew translator]. Aucassin & Nicolete. London, David Nutt, 1896.

8vo, pp. xx, 51, [1] blank; lightly toned; a good copy in contemporary half-calf over red

cloth, title gilt to flat spine; extremities lightly rubbed. £50

Reprint of the first edition of the 1887 English translation of this medieval French

chantefable, a ‘loving pastiche of the excesses of courtly-love romances’ (OCEL).

34. LEVER, Charles. Roland Cashel… With illustrations by Phiz. London, Chapman and Hall, 1850.

8vo, pp. [8], 627, [3], + 40 engraved plates, including frontispiece and engraved title-

page; a little browning and foxing, particularly to plates; a good copy in contemporary

red half-roan over marbled boards; joints cracked, worn. £50

First edition, described as a dark satire of middle-class Dublin. Though Irish himself,

the author was often criticised for presenting the Irish as one dimensional, sticking to

closely to the stereotype of theatrical works of the time. It was edited by Dickens for All

The Year Round, though he did not think much of it:

‘Whether it is too detached and discursive in its interest for the audience and the form

of publication, I cannot say positively; but it does not take hold. The consequence is,

that the circulation becomes affected, and that the subscribers complain.’ (Dickens to

Lever, 6 Oct 1860, Letters of Charles Dickens, 9.321)

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35. MANT, Alicia Catherine. Ellen: or, the young godmother. A tale for youth. London, Law and Whittaker, 1815.

12mo, pp. 148, with engraved frontispiece; foxing throughout, a good copy in twentieth

century quarter cloth over marbled boards by John Durham & Son; black lettering piece

with gilt text to spine. £25

Third edition (first, 1812) of a didactic work for youth.

36. [MASSINGHAM, Henry William]. H. W. M. A selection from the writings of H. W. Massingham. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1925].

8vo, pp. 368; with photographic frontispiece portrait; lightly toned; a good copy in the

original red cloth, embossed publisher’s emblem to front cover; gilt text to spine. £15

First American edition of this collection of selected writings, edited with a preface and

notes by H. J. Massingham and with several introductory essays including one by

Bernard Shaw. An English edition, published by J Cape was published at the same

time. Comprising of various essays on ‘public men’, ‘war and peace’, ‘the press’, ‘men

of letters’, ‘dramatic criticism’, and ‘religion’.

37. [MATHIAS, Thomas James]. The pursuits of literature: a satirical poem in dialogue. With notes… London, J. Owen, 1797.

Four parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [4], iii, [1], 51, [1], viii, 40, [4], vi, [2], 50, [6], xxx,

122; lightly toned, a little foxing; otherwise a good copy in contemporary half-roan

over marbled boards; some wear to extremities and boards. £350

First complete edition, revised from the publication in parts (1794, 1796 and 1797). Second revised edition, the first complete publication of all four parts of Mathias’

satirical discussion of literature, in which he pours scorn on many of the most famous

literary personalities of his day.

‘Mathias’s Pursuits of Literature, or, What you will, a wide-ranging satire with extensive notes on the conceit and licence of contemporary authors, appeared

anonymously in four dialogues… the poem is confessedly of its political moment,

declaring openly that literature is an important tool of government … The British

Critic approved of the poem as a ‘strenuous enemy and assailant of democratical

principles, and of that monster, French, or Frenchified philosophy’ (8.353–6) (ODNB).

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38. MAYHEW, Augustus. Paved with gold or the romance and reality of the London streets. An unfashionable novel ... with illustrations by H. K.

Browne. London, Chapman & Hall, 1858.

8vo, pp. viii, 408; with 26 plates: 10 vignettes including the illustrated half-title, and 16

bordered illustrations; occasional foxing to plates (offset), but otherwise a good copy;

bound in half-calf over marbled boards, rubbed and worn. £65

First edition. Paved with Gold is an important work ‘written to show the horrors of

slum life, especially for working class children’ (Sutherland). In the preface, Mayhew

declares ‘the extreme truthfulness with which this book has been written. The

descriptions of boy-life in the streets, the habits and customs of donkey-drivers, the

peculiarities of trampdom and vagrancy, have all resulted from long and patient

inquiries among the individuals themselves.’ Illustrated by Browne, whose drawings

for this novel have been particularly noted for their brilliance and vitality (Sutherland).

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39. METEYARD, Eliza. Dr. Oliver’s maid. A story in four chapters… London, Arthur Hall Virtue & Co., and Berlin, Adolph Enslin, [1857].

8vo, pp. 187, [1]; small mark to title, otherwise a good copy in contemporary half sheep

over marbled boards, title gilt to spine; extremities and boards lightly rubbed; bookplate

of St Fort to front pastedown. £60

First and only edition, a work of moralistic prose telling the tale of the honest and

virtuous Honour Freeland, maid in the house of a London Doctor.

Dr. Oliver is perfectly satisfied with the reply he has had from the Rev. Mr Seddon. He

will, therefore, expect Honor Freeland to come home to her place on Monday evening

next, at eight o’clock.

That one word, ‘home’, struck the finest chord in the desolate creature’s heart.

Throughout her coming years with Dr. Oliver, it is ever present with her, urging her to

duty, inspiring her to faithfulness; as he wrote it, he knew not the price it would be his to receive.

40. PARLEY’S MAGAZINE. Volume Second. Nos. 1 & 2. New York, Goodrich & Wiley, 1834.

4to, pp. 32; illustrated title-page and fourteen further illustrations; heavy foxing and

browning throughout; several fore-edges frayed; a good copy in twentieth-century

quarter-cloth over marbled boards, preserving the original printed paper wrappers. £50

Established 1833. ‘Peter Parley’ was a pseudonym of Samuel Griswold Goodrich,

bookseller and publisher. Parley’s Magazine, one of several he edited, contained (inter

alia) stories, poems and natural history. The publication ran until 1844 then merged

with Parley’s Merry’s Museum for Boys and Girls.

41. POOLE, Joshua. The English Parnassus: or a help to English poesie. Containing a collection of all rhythming monosyllables, the choicest epithets

and phrases. With some general forms upon all occasions, subjects and

themes, alphabetically digested… Together with a short institution to English

poesie, by way of preface. London, Henry Brome, Thomas Baffett, and John

Wright, 1677.

8vo, pp. [30], 639, [1] blank; title printed in red and black; toned, occasional foxing,

section excised from title at head; some errors in pagination; a good copy, binding

defective, boards detached and spine split. £350

Second edition, (first, 1657). Choice titbits selected from the literary greats, including

extracts from Shakespeare, Milton and Denham. While not always absolutely accurate

in his quotations, Poole’s work has been labelled ‘a plagiarist’s handbook’ (O’Hehir),

its palpable intention being to facilitate the ready use of literary allusions in everyday

conversation.

Wing P2815.

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42. PIOZZI, Hester Lynch. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D. during the last twenty years of his life ... London, printed for T. Cadell ...

1786.

8vo, pp. viii, 306, [2], with postscript but lacking half-title and errata slip found in some

copies (see Rothschild 1550); sheet K (pp. 129-130, signed *K) a cancel (see note),

small hole to pp. 11-12, affecting text but sense recoverable, larger hole to pp. 279-280,

again affecting text; otherwise a good copy in calf, neatly re-backed; panelled spine

with red morocco lettering-piece and gilt text, and the bookplate of William John

Campion of Danny to front pastedown. £250

First edition. Although Mrs Piozzi was one of Dr Johnson’s closest friends, the

distinguishing feature of her style is a continual protestation of veneration and

admiration combined with anecdote after anecdote, which do not redound to Johnson’s

credit. Walpole called it ‘wretched; a high-varnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a

very vulgar style’, but as James Clifford notes, ‘these same qualities which irritated

Johnson’s contemporaries give for modern readers a delightfully human touch to the

writing’. Apart from the anecdotes, the volume includes the first printing of twenty-

four poems by Johnson, mainly light verse addressed to Mrs. Piozzi or improvisations

which she had copied down.

The removal of sheet K was intended to suppress the one really offensive passage about

Boswell (his remaining appearances in the Anecdotes are insignificant) – an attack

based on the false belief that he had written the scurrilous letter about the Thrales that

had appeared in The St. James’s Chronicle after Henry Thrale’s death. This, however,

did not suffice to prevent bitter private resentment and a growing public animosity

between the rival biographers.

Courtney & Nichol Smith, p. 161; Liebert 116; Rothschild 1549; James L. Clifford,

Hester Lynch Piozzi (second edition, 1952, 1968), chapter XII; Mary Hyde, The

Impossible Friendship (1973), chapter III.

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43. POWYS, John Cowper. Wolf Solent. A novel. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1929.

2 vols., 8vo, pp. [6], 490; [4], 491-966; a very good copy in the original purple cloth,

vol. 2 with the original blue and white dust-jacket with a photograph of the author,

edges frayed, small loss at foot of spine. £35

First American edition, (first published in London in the same year), of the first of

Cowper Powys’ ‘Wessex novels’, and his first work to meet with commercial success.

44. PRIOR, Matthew. Poems on several occasions… London, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and H. Lintot, 1754.

12 mo, pp. [24], 402, [6], engraved portrait frontispiece, decorative head and tailpieces

and initials; toned, some foxing, otherwise a good copy in contemporary calf, double

gilt-fillet borders, spine gilt in compartments, chipped at head and lower compartment

substantially lacking, extremities rubbed; ex libris of Dr Huck to fly, armorial

bookplate of ‘Melville’ to front pastedown. £50

One of three 1754 editions, of which two were published in London and one in

Aberdeen. The collection was first published as an unauthorised edition in 1707; the

first authorised edition was issued in 1709.

45. [QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur Thomas, Sir]. My best book… [Plymouth, n.p.], 1912.

8vo, pp. 31, [1]; a good copy in the original white cloth with gilt text to front cover;

signature of the author to verso of title-page. £200

Limited edition (no. 90 of 300 copies). Quiller-Couch, known by his pen-name Q, was

appointed King Edward VII professor of English literature at Cambridge University in

1912. The three short stories in My Best Book, so named because all the profits of it

were destined for the sick and suffering, were ‘stories by which [Q] could wish to be

remembered in after days, when much of my writing will be forgotton [sic]’ (preface).

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46. RAMSAY, Allan. Poems… To which are prefixed, a life of the author, from authentic documents: and remarks on his poems, from a large view of their

merits. London, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1800.

2 vols., 8vo, pp. [2], clxxviii, 380; viii, 608; + engraved frontispiece portrait and

facsimile of a handwritten note by the author; occasional annotations in pencil; some

foxing; a good copy in contemporary half-sheep over marbled boards, panelled spine

with gilt-tooling and text, worn, spines chipped at head, joints cracked. £60

‘A new edition’; first collected poems published in 1720.

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47. RENSHAM, A. G. Poems. London, Chiswick Press, 1892.

8vo, pp. viii, 104, + photographic frontispiece; a good copy in the original blue cloth,

spine with gilt text; a few small marks. £40

Second edition, (first, 1888). An extract from the first edition of 260 pages.

…And she, although he may have left her, cold-

Or slighted – in the hard world’s fretful roar –

If she be woman true, doth him enfold,

Unquestioned, in the arms of love once more…

48. ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, Second Earl of. Poems, (&c.) on several Occasions: with Valentinian; a Tragedy ... London, Jacob Tonson ... 1696.

8vo, pp. [10], xv, [7], 208, ‘177’-‘224’ (i.e., 256); title-page laid down at head with

small section provided in facsimile, title lightly soiled with traces of old ownership

inscription, a few marks, short wormtrack at foot in blank margin of a few leaves, two

small repairs; otherwise a good copy in eighteenth century half-sheep over marbled

boards, panelled spine, all edges blue; spine lacking lettering piece. £1250

Second authorized edition, reprinting Tonson’s superior edition of 1691, edited by

Thomas Rymer and some other of the late Earl’s friends. Pirate editions had previously

appeared at ‘Antwerp’ (1680) and in London (1685). Valentinian, with a prologue by

Aphra Behn, is an adaptation from Beaumont and Fletcher, originally printed in quarto

in 1685.

Wing R 1757; Wither to Prior 987; Woodward & McManaway 1302.

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SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

49. RUTLAND, William R. Thomas Hardy. London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son Ltd., 1938.

8vo, pp. xi, 165, [1]; + engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 photographic plates, badge

of the Order of Merit printed on half-title; a good copy in the original blue cloth; red

lettering piece to spine; title page signed by author, half-title has a dated manuscript

presentation to Douglas Veale, and a separate presentation note to Veale is enclosed.

£40

First edition and author’s presentation copy to a Mr Veale, sometime private secretary

to Neville Chamberlain, and then Registrar of Oxford University.

Published only ten years after its subject’s death, Thomas Hardy ‘attempts to relate,

more succinctly than has yet been done, the essential facts of the life of a great

writer…’ (Preface). The account itself is relaxed and occasionally novelesque – even

Hardyesque – often seeming to pay tribute to the style of Hardy’s more quasi-

autobiographical novels.

50. SECCOMBE, Thomas and ALLEN, J. W. Handbooks of English literature: the age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) … Vol. I Poetry and prose with

an introduction by Professor Hales; Vol. II Drama. London, George Bell and

Sons, 1903.

2 vols., 8vo, pp. [7], xxx, 292; [ii], xiv, 232, [8], advertisements; with printer’s device

to title-pages; partially uncut; a good copy in the original green cloth, gilt text and

publisher’s device to spine; donation note to endpaper of vol. 1. £20

First edition of this Edwardian take on a ‘unique’ literary epoch (introduction). The

authors meticulously strive to place the great poetry and prose of this exciting age

within its literary and cultural context. Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Chapman, Marlowe,

Middleton and many others are subjected to brief biographies (Seccombe was in fact a

major contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography), usually followed by a

lively, opinionated critical discussion: ‘It is difficult to imagine how anyone with a

poet’s ear could have written the wretched sapphics and asclepiads of [Sidney’s]

Arcadia’. Volume I includes a detailed chronological table aligning the chief

publications and the contemporary chronology of the period. Nearly a hundred pages

are dedicated to Shakespeare.

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51. STAGG, John. Miscellaneous poems, some of which are in the Cumberland dialect… Workington, W. Borrowdale, 1805.

12mo, pp. xii, 237, [1] blank; a good copy; uncut; bound in quarter-roan over red cloth

boards, edges rubbed and cover worn; spine with paper lettering piece, heavily worn at

top. £50

Second edition of this collection of poems (first issued in 1804), although a previous set

of different Miscellaneous Poems was published in 1790.

52. STEELE, Richard, Sir. The Dramatic works of the late Sir Richard Steele. Containing I. The conscious lover. II. The funeral. III. The tender husband.

IV. The lying lover. London, W. Feales, [1730-1732].

12mo, pp. [2], 1-72, 65-75, [1], 82, [2], 70, [2] 83, [1]; historiated metalcut initials,

head- and tail-pieces; lightly toned, a little foxing; a good copy in calf, blind-tooled to a

panel design; rebacked, yet spine split and joints cracked; various ownership

inscriptions to endleaves, armorial bookplate of Rev J. Molesworth to front pastedown,

extensive scholarly annotations in ink to rear endpapers. £150

Third edition of the first work, as published by Jacob Tonson in 1730. Sixth edition of

The Funeral: or, grief a-la-mode, published in 1730 by Jacob Tonson. The 1731 fifth

edition of The tender husband: or, the accomplish’d fools, issued by Jacob Tonson.

Fifth edition of the final work, The lying lover: or, the ladies friendship, as published

by Bernard Lintot in 1732.

53. [STEELE, Richard, Sir]. The Englishman: being the sequel of the guardian. London, Samuel Buckley, 1714.

12mo, pp. [4], vi, 292, [12]; engraved vignette to title, decorative headpieces and

initials; toned, a little foxing; a good copy in twentieth century natural morocco,

presentation inscription to Professor Trevelyan by the Hynnig Bindery stuck in at front;

contemporary signature of Jacob Bridges to fly. £50

First collected edition of the periodical, originally published three times a week:

London, Sam. Buckley, 1713-1714. The period covered is 6 October 1713 - 15

February 1714; a further publication, ‘The Englishman’ (1715), was later published as a

second volume to this work in 1716.

54. SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. London, for Charles Elliot, Edinburgh, 1784.

12mo, pp. [12], 450; engraved portrait frontispiece, plates; occasional foxing, a few

marks; generally very good in contemporary tree calf, panelled spine gilt; extremities

rubbed; bookplates of John Scott. £100

Part (volume five) of Charles Elliot’s eighteen-volume set of The Works of Jonathan

Swift, in a ‘new edition’ based on earlier work by the editor and one-time friend of Dr.

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Johnson John Hawkesworth (c.1720-1773). The first edition by Hawkesworth was in

London, 1754-5, for C. Bathurst et al. in 6 vols (4to) and saw many subsequent

editions.

Offered with volumes 1, 4, 6, 16 and 17, including letters, and essays, A tale of a tub,

two volumes of correspondence, and one volume of philosophical thoughts by Martinus

Scriblerus.

55. SYMMONS, Charles. The life of John Milton… London, Nichols and Son…, [1810].

8vo, pp. [6], 646, [16], + engraved frontispiece of Milton and facsimile of a handwritten

poem to John Rouse; a little foxing, particularly to plates, otherwise a good copy in

half-calf over marbled boards, panelled spine with gilt-tooling; spine chipped at head;

ownership inscription to title, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. £95

First separate edition, originally published in 1806 as part of a seven-volume edition of

Milton’s works.

…The history of John Milton… a man, who, if he had been delegated as the

representative of his species to one of the superior worlds, would have suggested

a grand ide of the human race, as beings affluent with moral and intellectual

treasure

56. [THOMS, William J., editor]. A collection of early prose romances. London, William Pickering, 1828.

3 vols., 8vo, pp. [4], vi, 56, [2], vi, 110, viii, 62, [2], iv, 44; xv, [1] blank, xii, 44, [2],

xvi, 53, [1] blank, xx, 57, [1] blank, 133, [1] blank; [vi], x, [2], 135, [1] blank, viii, 138,

vii, [i] blank, 106; a little light foxing to prelims; a handsome set in natural mottled

morocco by Holloway, decorative gilt border, spines gilt in compartments with

morocco lettering pieces, inner dentelles and all edges gilt; armorial bookplates of

Charles T. Hebbert to front pastedowns. £60

First edition of this collection of time-honoured favourites, including Robin Hood and

Doctor Faustus, as well as Wynkyn De Worde’s Robert the Devil, and the Swan Knight.

57. TROLLOPE, Frances. The refugee in America: a novel. London, Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1832.

3 vols., 12mo, pp. [2], 294; [2], 311, [1] blank; [2], 302; tears without loss, mostly

marginal, to pp. 247-8 and 251-2 of vol. 3 touching a couple of words, endpapers

lightly foxed; otherwise a good copy in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards;

flat spines gilt; edges speckled blue; worn; armorial bookplates of C. Cuningham to

front pastedowns. £450

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First edition. Continuing in much the same vein as her notorious factual account of the

same year, Domestic Manners of the Americans, Trollope’s first foray into fiction sends

a small family of the English elite across the Atlantic to further elucidate the cultural

divide. ‘In her former work’, noted the Westminster review, ‘she could only tell us

what ungainly people our descendants are; but now she can show them to us in action,

… in contrast ... with the refinement … of the mother country’.

Sadleir 3235; Wolff 6825.

58. TWAIN, Mark. MDCI. A fireside chatte in ye time of ye Tudors [n.p.], Ye Signe of Ye Gaye Goose, 1948.

8vo, pp. [8], 16; initials and some text in orange; pages untrimmed; a good copy in the

original blue cloth with printed initial letter-style title to front cover; lightly marked;

bookseller’s plate bearing the signature of Lloyd Wolfe to front pastedown. £25

First published anonymously in 1882, and only acknowledged by Twain in 1906.

‘Since its origin in 1876, it has been printed many times as a collectors item, in very

limited editions’ (preface). The current edition, the only one to be published as MDCI

rather than 1601, was issued in an edition of just 300 copies.

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59. VAN DE WATER, Frederic F. Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont Feud… drawings by Bernardine Custer. Weston, VT, The Countryman Press, 1937.

8vo, pp. 119, [1] blank, including 6 plates reproducing ink drawings; a fine copy in the

original cloth, gilt medallion to upper board, presented in the original cloth slip-case

with printed paper label to spine and front cover, some joints of the slipcase broken;

signed by the author and illustrator on verso of half-title. £35

First edition limited to 700 copies, all signed by the author and the artist; this copy is

number 686.

60. WALPOLE, Hugh, [Sir]. Anthony Trollope [from the ‘English Men of Letters’ series]. London, Macmillan and Co., 1928.

8vo, pp. [8], 206, [2]; a little browning to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy in

contemporary red cloth with embossed single-line border to upper board; fore-edge

uncut, upper edge red.. £10

First edition.

‘[Trollope] restores our confidence, calls in our distrust, laughs at our vanity

without scorning us, and revives our pride in our own average humanity.’

61. [WARD, Robert Plumer]. Tremaine, or the man of refinement. London, Henry Colburn, 1825.

3 vols, 8vo, pp. xii, 344, [2] blank; [4], 383, [1]; [2], 380, [4] advertisements, +

engraved frontispiece; endpapers lightly foxed, offsetting to title-page; otherwise a

good copy in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, panelled spines with half-

raised bands, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, edges speckled red; light wear to

extremities and boards, joints starting; armorial bookplates of Alexander Trotter of

Dreghorn to front pastedowns. £60

Second edition, one of three published in 1825. The first novel of Robert Plumer Ward,

telling the tale of a high society dandy.

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