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Newbury, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXXV [1785].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover, second edition, leather-bound, octavo (220 x 140 mm), pp. [8], lvii, [1], 376p, plates \u0026amp; map, contemporary full calf, smooth spine with gilt bands, initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present, 1 folding engraved map, 10 engraved plates. Condition: collated complete, binding worn with hinges cracked and tender, rubbing and scuffing to covers, points and spine ends worn and rubbed, the contents are mildly toned and browned with some scribbling to front pastedown partially removed, one or two small holes affecting text, the plates are complete and in good order, however, the folding map has suffered significant loss (see image). Fair. Extremely scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Note: Based on John Rickman's 'Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage' (1781), but edited and extensively revised by David Henry and intended to form the sixth volume of his 'An historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators', 1773-75. Sometimes also attributed to John Ledyard or to William Ellis. Rickman, second lieutenant of the Resolution, but for the greater part of the voyage on the Discovery, was the first to publish an account of Cook's Third Voyage. The work was, however, wrongly attributed to Ledyard until 1930 when Judge Howay demonstrated that Ledyard had simply copied whole sections of Rickman's book. The publisher, Newbery, recognised the potential of Rickman's anonymous journal, correctly assuming that it would be as successful as Marra's account of the Second Voyage, which he had also published; in fact this is considered the best edition in which the 1781 text is entirely re-edited and expanded. The folding plate is of some importance being the first representation in print of Hawaii. The early folding map of the North West Continent of America is considerably altered to show many more details. There also five additional plates, which are copied from those in the official account of the third voyage. The plates, now totalling ten, include: A man and woman of Von Diemens; A man of Mangea and a woman of Eaoo; Omais public entry on his first landing at Otaheite; Representation of the Heiva at Otaheite; A man and woman of Sandwich Islands; A man of Sandwich Islands in a mask; A man and woman of Nootka Sound; A man and woman of Prince William's Sound; A man and woman of Onalashka; [folding] Representation of the murder of Capt Cooke at O-Why-ee. [BCJC 1615; English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC): T142050; Forbes 106; Holmes 53; Howes R276; cf. 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Walker; W. Clarke and Son; J. Barker; J. Edwards; D. Ogilvy and Son; J. Cuthell; R. Lea; J. Nunn; J. Lackington and Co.; T. Kay; J. Deighton; J. White; W. Miller; Vernor and Hood; Cadell and Davies; T.N. Longman; C. Law; Murray and Highley; and Lee and Hurst, 1798.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Leather-bound. Complete in 9 volumes. Small format (12mo) (150 x 90mm), pp. [xxi], 423; (4), 427; (4), 439; (4), 395; (4), 420; (4), 439; (4), 330; (4), 411; (4), 355, (24 - Glossary). English text in single column. Exquisitely bound in contemporary full morocco, spines gilt with five raised bands, boards and edges gilt ruled, gilt inner dentelles, all page edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present. Each play with a divisional title. Notes and glossary by John Nichols.--Cf. Jaggard. With Rowe's Some account of the life, \u0026amp;c. of William Shakespeare in v. 1. 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To which are added, the method of midwifery; of preparing the unguentum matris, and the unguentum styracis; a short introduction to botany; and some examples of reports in surgery.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, and T. Ward. MDCCXXVII [1727].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBound together with:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Le Clerc, M. (Charles Gabriel), 1644-1700]. \u003cstrong\u003eA description of bandages and dressings, according to the most commodious ways now used in France. Translated into English, with forty copper plates representing the figures of the several parts of each dressing.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, and R. Wilkin in St. Paul's Church-yard, J. Walthoe and T. Ward in the Temple. MDCCXXVII [1727].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. 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Signatures: A4 B2 a-i4 A-M4 N2 (M2 misassigned N2). Italian text. Contemporary full vellum, smooth spine, gilt, with morocco lettering-piece. Portrait frontispiece of the dedicatee; etched title-vignette; head-pieces with portraits of Leonardo da Vinci and of Stefano della Bella; numerous etched diagrams and figures throughout the text; footnotes; rear index. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure with slightly bowed boards. Moderate marking to covers. Some light browning. A couple of leaves with marking mostly in the margins. Without inking.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: A rare edition, with utterly charming engravings after della Bella's famous illustrations in his manuscript copy of the Trattato. Edited by Francesco Fontani, whose name appears in the pref. 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Slezer are among the most interesting and informative of early topographical prints. The view of Edinburgh from the north… is a notable example” (Russell). This work is often referred to as the “Queen Anne View,” because of the bold dedication to the Queen at the bottom of the engraving. Edinburgh Castle appears on a promontory to the right, and Holyrood Palace appears to the left. 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The textblock shows some light browning, however it remains largely clean. The double page engraved view of Venice and the double engraved plate of the church of S. Nicolo di Castello and the Capuchin monastery of S. Antonio Abate at p. 86 are not called for in the collation. With 40 of 43 other engraved plates by F. Zucchi, lacking the plate of the Rialto at p. 195, the Veduta di Venezia at p. 233, and that of the Giuoco di Forze at p. 337, otherwise complete. Provenance: bookplates of John and Michael Bury. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare reprint edition of one of the most famous historical-artistic 18th century guidebooks to Venice compiled by the famous Venetian printer and publisher Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, which gave great impetus to the quality of Venetian publishing. 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His training and his knowledge of chemistry allowed him to understand the science behind many of the processes used by artists, artisans and manufacturers of the day, and his wish was to explain and improve on the results that were achieved. He strove for this in his publications, including the present work, and the same motivation led him to help fund the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1754. 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And all Suited to the Meanest Capacities, in a Plainer Method Than Heretofore : Being (for Ease) Reduced into an Alphabetical Order, and Explained in the Mother-Tongue. And Towards the Compleating the English Part (Which Hath Been Long Desired) Here are Added Thousands of Words, Phrases, Proverbs, Proper Names, and Many Other Useful Things Mentioned in the Preface to the Work.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed by S. Collins, for R. Bonwick et al., 1716.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Eighth edition. In two parts, complete. Full leather. Thick octavo (8°) (200 x 130 x 65 mm). Unpaginated. Signatures: [ ]² A-7E⁴ 7F². Rebound in period-style full calf, spine with five raised bands, the second compartment with red morocco lettering-piece with gilt titles. English and Latin text in triple columns. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete, else for original initial and terminal blanks. Binding very well preserved. Textblock a little toned. 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Kay opposite Somerset-Place, Strand; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. New edition. Coeval leather-bound. Duodecimo, 12⁰, (175 x 100 mm.), pp. 264. Signatures: A⁶ B-L¹² M⁶. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt rules to smooth spine, red morocco lettering-piece. Bookplate of George Webster to front pastedown. Condition: GOOD. Binding is secure with rubbing to joints and other extremities. Some pen inscription to front pastedown and title-page. Lacking initial and terminal blanks but otherwise the contents are complete and in generally good condition with just minor marks. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Mrs Susanna Maciver and her colleague Mrs Frazer ran one of the few schools of cookery for ladies in Edinburgh. After Mrs Maciver's death (c.1790), the school was continued by Mrs Frazer alone. 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The haggis recipe is of particular interest, and is one of the earliest to appear, and Mrs MacIver's 'Haggie' is often referred to as the archetype of all modern Scottish haggis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susanna MacIver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38059457151147,"sku":"MACIVER1789","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_7812.jpg?v=1612242899"},{"product_id":"phaedon-or-the-death-of-socrates-1789-moses-mendelssohn-first-english-edition","title":"PHAEDON; OR, THE DEATH OF SOCRATES 1789 MOSES MENDELSSOHN, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"THE GREATEST JEWISH PHILOSOPHER OF THE 18TH CENTURY… THE 'JEWISH SOCRATES'\": OFFERED HERE IS AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF MOSES MENDELSSOHN'S MASTERPIECE, PHAEDON, 1789, ENTIRELY ORIGINAL AND COMPLETE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[MENDELSSOHN, Moses (1729-1786)].\u003cstrong\u003e Phaedon; Or, The Death of Socrates.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed for the author, by J. 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Exceptional and extremely rare.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition in English, first printing, preceded by the 1767 first German edition, of Mendelssohn's \"classic of rational psychology\" on the immortality of the human soul, a defining work by the preeminent philosopher \"who launched the Jewish thinking of the modern age,\" his tribute to Socrates modeled on Plato's dialogue the Phaedo, an extremely scarce copy in the original binding. ESTC records two issues [N54707 \u0026amp; T106920], with the final page of the prelims (‘The Life and Character of Socrates’) either numbered ‘lx’, or unnumbered, as here. ‘Three German editions appeared in two years; and it was soon translated into other languages, among them into English in 1789 by Charles Cullen, Barrister at the Middle Temple. In Phædon Mendelssohn aimed at adapting the ideas of Socrates to the eighteenth century. And in this an English reviewer in the Critical considers he has been successful. Cullen prefixed to this translation an account of the life and death of Socrates. His translation is faithful, but his translation is not always good. No other works of Mendelssohn’s were translated before 1830’ (Stockley, p. 36). \"A legend even during his own lifetime, Mendelssohn was regarded as the embodiment of the humanist ideal\" (Encyclopedia Judaica). \"Mendelssohn was a creative and eclectic thinker whose writings on metaphysics and aesthetics, political theory and theology, together with his Jewish heritage, placed him at the focal point of the German Enlightenment for over three decades… he also contributed significantly to the life of the Jewish community and letters in Germany, campaigning for Jews' civil rights and translating the Pentateuch and the Psalms into German. 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It was a challenge \"Mendelssohn effectively disabled with a plea for tolerance and a series of reasons for refraining from such religious controversy\" (Stanford Encyclopedia). In 1767 Mendelssohn used Plato's famous dialogue the Phaedo as a model to publish Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele (Phaedo, or on the Immortality of the Soul). With this seminal work, \"he reached the heights of fame\" (Wigoder, Dictionary of Jewish Biography, 342). First published in English in this rare 1789 edition, the work unites Mendelssohn's \"paean to Socrates with an elaboration of the dreadful personal, moral, and political implications if a person's life is her 'highest good'… This 'classic of rational psychology,' as Dilthey put it, also contains an argument for the simplicity and immortality of the human soul, explicitly singled out for criticism by Kant in the 2nd edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. Mendelssohn supports the notion that the soul is simple and thus indestructible by noting that certain features of the soul, namely, the unifying character of consciousness and the identity of self-consciousness, cannot be derived from anything composite, whether those composite parts be capable or not of thinking… As for the human soul's fate after death, Mendelssohn appeals to divine goodness and providence, which perhaps explains why, following the publication of the Phaedo, he finds himself needing to revisit the proofs for God's existence\" (Stanford Encyclopedia).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA leading philosopher of the German Enlightenment (Haskalah), Mendelssohn \"continues to challenge scholars of Jewish thought and history. In his lifetime he was already recognized as the man who launched the Jewish thinking of the modern age, and also as the founding father of Jewish modernism… particular emphasis has been placed on his historical role as the harbinger of the change in the status of the Jews in Europe—the liberation from discrimination and restrictions, the achievement of equality in civil rights—the emancipation\" (Intellectual History Review). [ESTCT 106920; Goedeke IV\/I, 488, 8; Morgan 6193 (a starred item). 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Condition: Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure with all hinges intact. Minor rubbing to extremities, a few volumes with trivial chipping to spine ends, covers remarkably well preserved. The textblock similarly well preserved, some sporadic light browning and spotting. An excellent complete set and scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume 1: (1739) Suger, Abbé de St Denis; Guillaume de Blois; Guerin; Pierre de Villebon; Mathieu de Vendôme; Pierre la Brosse; Enguerrand de Marigny; Pierre de la Forest; Jean de la Grange; Jean de Montagu; Pierre des Essards; George de la Tremouille; Jacques Cœur; Jean de la Balue; Guillaume Briçonnet; Florimond Robertet. Volume 2: (1739) George d'Amboise, Jacques de Beaune, Antoine Duprat, Françoise de Tournon, Charels de Lorraine, Françoise d'O, Secrétaires d'Etat. Volume 3: (1769) Maximilien de Béthune, Concini, Marechal d' Ancre, Charles d'Albert. Volume 4: (1769) Le Cardinal de Richelieu, Charles de L'Aubespine. Volume 5 (1769) le Cardinal Mazarin, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Nicolas Fouquet, François Sublet, Michel de Tellier, Hugue de Lionne. Volume 6: (1769) François Michel Le Tellier, Louis François Marie Le Tellier, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Simon Arnaud D'Andilly, Michel Chamillard. Volume 7: (1771) Charles Martel, Raoul ou Rodolphe, Simon, Gaucher de Chatillon, Plivier de Clisson, Jean le Maingre de Boucicaut. Volume 8: (1771) Bertrand Du Guesclin, Jean Comte de Dunois. Volume 9: (1769) Louis de la Trémoille, Gaston de Foix, Yve d'Alegre, Le Chevalier Bayard. Volume 10: (1770) L'amiral de Bonivet, Charle Duc de Bourbon, Claude de Lorraine, François duc de Guise. Volume 11: (1769) Charles de Cosse, Anne De Montmorenci. Volume 12: (1769) Scepeaux de la Vieilleville, Blaise de Montluc, Jacques de Matignon. Volume 13: (1770) Louis de Bourbon, André de Montalembert, Paule de la Barthe, Pierre d'Aussun, Pierre Strozi. Volume 14: (1773) Gaspard II. Volume 15: (1773) Suite de la vie de Gaspard de Coligni. Volume 16: (1769) Gaspard de Saulx, François de Coligni. Volume 17: (1769) Henri de Lorraine Duc de Guise. Volume 18: (1771) Charles de Lorraine duc de Mayenne. Volume 19: (1771) Charles de Lorraine duc de Mayenne. Volume 20: (1773) Armand de Gontaut, Charles de Gontaut. Volume 21: (1769) Henri de Rohan. Volume 22: (1769) Henri de Rohan. Volume 23: (1760) Henry da la Tour. Volume 24: (1775) Louis II. Volume 25: (1775) Louis II. Volume 26: (1768) Cesar de Choiseul, Charles de Choiseul. 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To which is added, an Appendix and Postscript, containing, a State of the National Debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Johnson, No. 72. St. Paul’s Church-Yard, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew edition, corrected by the author. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Duodecimo, 12⁰ (180 x 105 mm.), pp. [2], 76. Signatures: [pi]¹ A-B¹² C-D⁶ E². English text. Rebacked retaining the original boards. Preface to the first and fifth editions. Below imprint in square brackets: 'Price Three-pence, or One Guinea per Hundred'. Footnotes. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Upper board detached. Contents compete and very well preserved.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Early edition of this important work on civil liberty, a significant influence on American independence, printed the same year as the first. The first edition of Price's Observations (printed mid-February, 1776) sold out within three days, and by May 14th was in its eleventh edition. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the most influential British advocates of American independence, Price believed every community had a right to govern itself. He discusses four types of liberty (physical, moral, religious, and civil), focusing primarily on civil liberty, the principles of government, and the issues surrounding the war of American independence. Price warned that the war would be financially disastrous for England and argued for new measures to be adopted in the treatment of the American colonies, or else \"ruin\" would be \"our lot.\" He foresaw the possibility that America could establish \"a plan of government, and a growing power that shall astonish the world, and under which every subject of human enquiry shall be open to free discussion, and the friends of Liberty, in every quarter of the globe, find a safe retreat from civil and spiritual tyranny\" (p. 103). This work had a significant effect on the resolve of American colonists to secure self-government. In 1778 Price was offered the singular honor of United States citizenship. \"In recognition of his services in the cause of liberty, Dr. Price was presented with the freedom of the city of London, and it is said that the encouragement derived from this book had no inconsiderable share in determining the American colonists to declare their independence\" (DNB). [Adams, American Controversy 76-118h; American Independence 224h. Sabin 65452. See Howes P586; Kress 7243; Goldsmiths 11512; ESTC: T554].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39852219662507,"sku":"PRICE1776","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_2161.jpg?v=1620982418"},{"product_id":"memorials-of-human-superstition-by-jean-louis-de-lolme-1784-leather-bound","title":"MEMORIALS OF HUMAN SUPERSTITION BY JEAN LOUIS DE LOLME 1784 LEATHER-BOUND","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DE LOLME, Jean Louis (1740-1806)]. \u003cstrong\u003eMemorials of Human Superstition; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canon of the Holy Chapel, \u0026amp;c. By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed for G. 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Notes: First published under the title, History of the Flagellants, this is the first edition with the present title, identified on title as a second edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean Louis de Lolme","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39852374196395,"sku":"DELOLME1784","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_2224_2.jpg?v=1620983851"},{"product_id":"polite-repository-or-pocket-companion-containing-an-almanack-1787-fine-binding","title":"POLITE REPOSITORY OR POCKET COMPANION CONTAINING AN ALMANACK 1787 FINE BINDING","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ALMANAC]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Polite Repository, or Pocket Companion: Containing an Almanack, the Births, Marriages, \u0026amp;c of the Sovereign Princes of Europe, Lists of both Houses of Parliament, Officers of State, Navy and Army, the Baronets of England, and Various other Articles of Useful Information: Ornamented with Elegant Engravings and Ruled for Occurrences \u0026amp;c.\u0026amp;c. To be continued annually.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed [by T. Rickaby] for W. Peacock, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, and sold by all Booksellers, Stationers, \u0026amp;c. MDCCLXXXVII. [1787].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeather-bound with slipcase. Miniature (118 x 80 x 10 mm.), pp. 88. Contemporary red morocco gilt, smooth spine with flower and volute roll; covers with onlays of blue and cream morocco forming an attractive gilt geometrical pattern; elaborate gilt borders of tooth, dotted and foliate rolls; gilt tooled overall with leaf and flower sprays, tools and stars; contained in matching slipcase. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks present. Engraved title-page and frontispiece, and an engraved diary section (pp. [9]- [36]) with 12 engraved head-pieces of country-houses for each month by John Peltro after Laport. Printer from colophon. Red duty stamp to bottom corner of p.6. Condition: Binding tight and secure, the covers beautifully preserved remaining bright, clean and unrubbed. Lacking one leaf - the Table of Contents at A² - otherwise complete. A little browning to title but largely very clean and tidy throughout; the diary section mostly unused, however there are some old penciled notes which have been rubbed out, and one engraving has been neatly hand-coloured. Couple of neatly inked numbers to endpapers. Without the original pencil. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A very rare ‘almanac-cum-diary distinguished by its elegance and miniature scenic engravings’ (Temple), Peacock’s Polite Repository first appeared in 1781 and continued for nearly a century. Survival rates for early issues are extremely low – ESTC lists few examples. 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Book First: Three Sonatas.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed \u0026amp; sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouses, 97 Strand, n.d. [ca. 1780-1810?].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Beauties of Mozart, Consisting of the most Admired Sonatas, Duetts, and Concertos of this Esteemed Author. Book 2: Three Sonatas.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed \u0026amp; sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouses, 97 Strand, n.d. [ca. 1780-1810?].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)].\u003cstrong\u003e The Beauties of Mozart, Consisting of the most Admired Sonatas, Duetts, and Concertos of this Esteemed Author. Book 3: Three Sonatas. With an Accompaniment for the Violin.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed \u0026amp; sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouses, 97 Strand, n.d. [ca. 1780-1810?].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Beauties of Mozart, Consisting of the most Admired Sonatas, Duetts, and Concertos of this Esteemed Author. Book 4: Six Airs with Variations, one with an Accompaniment for a Violin.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed \u0026amp; sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouses, 97 Strand, n.d. [ca. 1780-1810?]. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Beauties of Mozart, Consisting of the most Admired Sonatas, Duetts, and Concertos of this Esteemed Author. Book 5: Three Sonatas or Trios for the Piano Forte, Violin \u0026amp; Violoncello.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed \u0026amp; sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouses, 97 Strand, n.d. [ca. 1780-1810?].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Beauties of Mozart, Consisting of the most Admired Sonatas, Duetts, and Concertos of this Esteemed Author. Book 6: Two concertos, with an Accompaniment for a Violin.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed \u0026amp; sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouses, 97 Strand, n.d. [ca. 1780-1810?].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst edition. Six books of music bound in one. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Folio (335 x 250 mm.); pp. (2), 40; (2), 44; (2), 39; (2), 39; (2), 43; (2), 36. Musical score, no linguistic content. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper-covered board. Each part with a title-page and portrait vignette. Contents: Book 1: Three sonatas; Book 2: Three sonatas; Book 3: Three sonatas with an accompaniment for the violin; Book 4: Six airs with variations, one with an accompaniment for a violin; Book 5: Three sonatas or trios for the piano forte, violin \u0026amp; violoncello; Book 6: Two concertos, with an accompaniment for a violin. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Lacking upper board, spine worn, lower joint cracked. Contents generally good with some light browning, small piece cut away from top corner of first title-page, occasional old annotations in pencil. 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Baldwin, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe second edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (170 x 120 x 25 mm.), pp. [2], 184, folding tables. Signatures: [ ]¹ B-Z⁴ ²A⁴. English text. Bound in contemporary calf. Initial and terminal blanks present. Contents: Frankpledge; Watch and Ward; Free Labour; Freedom and Protection to Strangers; Redemption from Slavery; Agrarian Law; Exception; Limitation of Landed Possessions; Publick Revenue and Paper Currency of Intrinsic Value; Tax on Pride and Indolence, and on Persons who have Superior Emoluments above the Ordinary Class of Labourers; Additional Regulations; [folding tables]: 'the Total Amount of the Public Allowances for the Whole Settlement' and 'the Proposed Form of an Indenture for Free, or Public Labour'; Appendix I: 'Short Forms of Prayers'; Appendix II: '(Memorandums.) On Diet or Temperance'. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Collated complete. Upper board and part of spine detached but present, some rubbing and abrasions to extremities. Contents clean with some light browning, minor tears to edges of folding tables. Extremely scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare second edition of a guide for settlers and officials in the colonies. The author was a noted abolitionist, Christian, classicist, author, and musician; he was one of the earliest British campaigners against slavery. Sharp devised a plan to settle freed and runaway black slaves in Sierra Leone and thus founded Freetown in that country in 1787 - he is now considered one of the founding fathers of the nation. Very few institutional copies held and rare to auction. 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[1786].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[bound with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerra: a philosophical discourse of Earth. Relating to the culture and improvement of it for vegetation, and the propagation of plants, as it was presented to the Royal Society. By J. Evelyn, Esq; F.R.S. With notes by A. Hunter, M. D. F.R.S.\u003c\/strong\u003e Printed by A. Ward, for J. Dodsley; T. Cadell; J. Robson; R. Baldwin; and J. Todd, M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Edition. Three parts in one, complete. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Thick quarto (320 x 250 x 120 mm.), pp. 311 + index; 343 + index; 74 + index. English text. Volumes I \u0026amp; II with engraved frontispiece by F. Bartolozzi and 41 engraved plates by J. Miller (of which 1 folding) + folding table as called for, with 'Terra: A Philosophical Discourse of Earth...', bound in at end with separate title page dated 1786 + 1 aquatint plate. Heraldic bookplate on front paste-down. Exquisite near contemporary binding of green straight grain morocco, spine gilt with red leather title-plate in second compartment. Condition: Collated complete. Binding tight and secure with the hinges perfectly intact. Some very light rubbing to boards. Contents beautifully preserved, being a fresh and clean copy, the plates magnificent, one folding table with slight tear, old neatly inked signature to title-page. Very good and scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Evelyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175580217515,"sku":"EVELYN1786","price":995.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_4061_2.jpg?v=1624580848"},{"product_id":"the-ancient-and-present-state-of-glocestershire-1768-robert-atkyns-fine-binding","title":"THE ANCIENT AND PRESENT STATE OF GLOCESTERSHIRE 1768 ROBERT ATKYNS, FINE BINDING","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ATKYNS, ROBERT]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire; Illustrated with Seventy-Three Copper-Plates, Containing a Map of the County, a Plan and Prospect of the City, a View of the Cathedral, Sixty One Seats, and Three Hundred and Twenty Coats of Arms, of the Nobility and Gentry Residing in the County at the Time of the First Publication.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed in the year MDCCXII. Reprinted by T. Spilsbury for W. Herbert, at No. 27, in Goulston-Square; and sold by J. Millan, at Charing Cross; T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate; Davis and Reymers, opposite Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn; B. White, in Fleet-Street; Baker and Leigh, in York-Street, and T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; J. Brotherton and H. Parker, in Cornhill; G. Keith, in Gracechurch-Street; J. Buckland, Hawes and Co. Johnson and Payne, in Pater-Noster Row; J. Robson, in New Bond-Street; T. Cadell, successor to Mr. Millar, in the Strand; and W. Otridge, behind the New Church in the Strand; and by T. Dunn, in Glocester., MDCCLXVIII. [1768].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Second edition by Sir Robert Atkyns, knt. Complete in one volume. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Thick folio (2°)(460 x 300 x 90 mm.), pp. [10], 452, [6] pages, [73] plates. English text in double columns. Edited by William Herbert. Stunning contemporary panelled calf; spine with seven raised bands, the compartments fully gilt ruled and tooled, morocco lettering-piece in second compartment. 8 engraved plates, printed on one side, of 320 small coats of arms; 1 engraved county map; 3 views of the city; 64 double-page engraved plates by John Kip (3 of the city, the others of seats) - mostly bird's-eye views. Title-page with decorative woodcut. Preface \u0026amp; Advertisement. Author's epitaph and plate list. Rear index. Head- and tail-pieces. Decorative capitals. Foot-notes. Initial and terminal blanks present. Condition: Collated complete. The original 18th century binding beautifully preserved with the hinges intact and only minor rubbing or scuffing to lower board. Contents largely fresh and clean with just the odd fox spot, all the plates complete and unblemished. A magnificent example and rated very good. Scarce thus. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Second edition issued without portrait frontispiece. Sir Robert Atkyns (bap. 1647, d. 1711), topographer and antiquary. ‘... He compiled comprehensive manorial descents and attempted to record the population of each parish, based on the numbers of houses therein and the yearly birth and burial numbers. The resulting first folio county [the above first published 1712] which eulogizes the Stuarts, is especially valuable for its series of sixty-five engravings by Johannes Kip, illustrating the county seats and manor houses in the first decade of the eighteenth century, and preserving a record of features now altered or entirely lost...’. 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Bound in modern full leather, retaining the original title-plate, spine gilt. Head- and tail-pieces. Decorative initials. Condition: Binding tight and secure, some light browning to a few leaves but largely clean, without previous ownership markings. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare second and expanded edition. \"Physicians writing in midcentury accorded Jurin's work a prominent place in the eventual acceptance of inoculation. James Burges . . . perceived that quantitative arguments were very persuasive, and he provided a brief history of the acceptance of inoculation to illustrate their role. Those who opposed inoculation, Burges wrote, did so 'with all the arguments their wit and prejudices could furnish.' Those who supported the practice, on the other hand, had 'recourse to calculation, by comparing the numbers of those that died in the natural ways, with that of the persons that miscarried under the inoculation, by demonstrating how small the chance was of escaping the distemper, and how little the hazard incurred from this new method of contracting it.' Burges concluded that Jurin's approach 'carried such conviction with it, as soon confounded their opposers, and establish the practice' \" (Rusnock, Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France, pp. 67-68).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Burges","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40742170394795,"sku":"BURGES1766","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_5339.jpg?v=1630261963"},{"product_id":"the-book-of-common-prayer-1741-leather-bound-illustrated-plates","title":"THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 1741 LEATHER-BOUND, ILLUSTRATED PLATES","description":"\u003cp\u003e[CHURCH OF ENGLAND].\u003cstrong\u003e 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 or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches.\u003c\/strong\u003e Oxford: printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, 1741.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReprint. 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Portrait frontis. of John Urry, engraved portrait of Chaucer, title-page vignette showing Chaucer's tomb, 26 copper engraved illustrations to decorate each of the Canterbury Tales, and then the one extra for Sir Thopaz, decorated capital initials, chapter head- and tail-pieces, footnotes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContents: Portrait of John Urry as frontispiece, title page with vignette of Chaucer's Tomb, portrait of Chaucer by George Virtue 1717, Life of Chaucer - 21 pages, Testimonies - 11 pages, The Preface - 13 pages, Contents - 2 pages with cut of The Rhime of Sir Thopaz, Eight Godely Questions with their Answeres - 2 pages, Dedication to Queen Anne dated 1714, The Works of Jeffrey Chaucer: Prologue; Knight's Tale; Miller's Tale; Reve's Tale; Coke's Tale; Coke's Tale of Gamelyn; Man of Lawe's Tale; Squier's Tale; Marchaunt's Tale; Wife of Bath's Tale; Frere's Tale; Sompnour's Tale; Clerke of Oxenford's Tale; Frankelein's Tale; Second Nonne's Tale; Chanon's Yeman's Tale; Doctour of Physike's Tale; Pardoner's Tale; Shipmann's Tale; Prioresse's Tale; Chaucer's Tale of Melibeus; Monke's Tale; Priest's Tale; Manciple's Tale; Plowman's Tale; Parson's Tale; Romaunt of the Rose; Troilus and Creseide; The Legende of good Women; Legende of Cleopatra, Thisbe, Dido Quene of Carthage, Hipsipyle and Medea, Lucrece, Ariadne, Philomela, Hypermnestra Boke of Boethius - 5 bokes, Dreme of Chaucer, Assemble of Foules, Floure of Courtesie made by John Lidgate, La Belle Dame sans mercy, Quene Annelida and false Arcite, Assemble of Ladies, Conclusions of the Astrolabie, Complaint of the blacke Knight, A Praise of Women, The House of Fame, The Floure and the Leafe written by Geffery Chaucer, The Testament of Love, The Lamentacion of Marie Magdaleine, The Remedie of Love, The Complaint of Mars and Venus, The Letter of Cupide, A Ballade in Commendacion of our Ladie, A Ballade to King Henry IV, Of the Cuckow and the Nightingale, Scogan unto the Lordes and Gentilmen of the Kinge's house, Certaine Ballades, The Court of Love, Chaucer's Dreame or The booke of the Duchesse or the Death of Blanch, Duchess of Lancaster, Jacke Upland, The Prologue or the mery adventure of the Pardonere and Tapstere at the Inn at Canterbury (not printed before as part of the Canterbury Tales, but Urry believes it be Chaucer's work), Merchant's Second Tale or the History of Beryn, Glossary - 81 pages, Errata - 1 page.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the contemporary calf having been expertly restored; some light wear to extremities. The interior being very clean; one hole to the portrait of Urry which has been repaired and a small hole to leaf a1 (first leaf of The Life of Chaucer) affecting a few words of text, else very fine. Without inking or previous ownership markings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition of Urry's folio edition of Chaucer's works, the first collected Chaucer in the easier-to-read Roman typeface, with three previously unpublished tales, beautifully illustrated with fine copper-engraved portraits, one of Chaucer by Vertue and one of Urry by Pigue, as well as a handsome title page vignette and numerous in-text copper engravings of the various Canterbury pilgrims. A handsome copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Except for Shakespeare, Chaucer is foremost among writers in the English language\" (Bloom, The Western Canon, 105). While this edition is commonly referred to as Urry's, he died before he could complete the work. His successor Thomas Ainsworth also died before the work was ready for the press, and it was revised by Timothy and William Thomas. \"This was the first collected edition of Chaucer to be printed in roman type. The life of Chaucer prefixed to the volume was the work of the Reverend John Dart, corrected and revised by Timothy Thomas. The glossary appended was also mainly compiled by Thomas. The text of Urry's edition has often been criticized by subsequent editors for its frequent conjectural emendations, mainly to make it conform to his sense of Chaucer's meter. The justice of such criticisms should not obscure his achievement. His is the first edition of Chaucer for nearly 150 years to consult any manuscripts and is the first since that of William Thynne in 1534 to seek systematically to assemble a substantial number of manuscripts to establish his text… Urry was a friend of Thomas Hearne, who styles him a 'thorough pac'd scholar' and a 'truly worthy and virtuous, as well as ingenious, gentleman.' A portrait of Urry, engraved by N. Pigné, is prefixed to the work\" (ODNB). This edition contains three previously unpublished tales: \"The Coke's Tale of Gamelyn,\" \"The Merchant's Second Tale\" and \"The Adventure of the Pardoner and Tapster at the Inn at Canterbury.\" This edition also includes a glossary of Middle English terms. With errata on last page. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. One thousand copies were printed on regular paper, as here, along with 250 large-paper copies. Alston, III. 35. Maslen \u0026amp; Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 779, Hammond, 128-30. Lowndes, 426. 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With an Appendix, Containing Observations on the Civil Policy-The Laws and Judicial Proceedings-The Arts-The Sciences-And Religious Institutions, of the Indians.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell; and E. Balfour at Edinburgh: and sold by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell,) in the Strand, 1794.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe second edition; with the author’s last corrections and additions. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo [8⁰] (225 x 135 x 35 mm.). Pp. vi, [2], 441, [23], plates: maps. English text. Stunning contemporary tree calf, smooth spine gilt, boards with gilt ruled frame, speckled page edges, marbled endpapers. Two large folding maps at front. Rear appendix, notes and index. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the covers beautifully preserved. 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The narrative portion documents, gathers, and summarizes familiar but scattered material; the appendix is broadly descriptive and more innovative, following the pattern developed in the descriptive chapters of the History of America Robertson has been chiefly remembered as a historian. His four published historical works brought him considerable fame and wealth, and they helped establish historical writing as one of the foremost literary genres of Enlightenment Scotland Although in recent years both Hume and Gibbon have often been considered greater historians in terms of intellectual insight and historical comprehension, Robertson's contemporaries generally had no hesitation about making him their equal, if not superior.\" (ODNB).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Robertson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40958251008171,"sku":"ROBERTSON1794","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_6426.jpg?v=1632772024"},{"product_id":"the-history-of-singing-birds-by-count-de-buffon-1791-first-edition","title":"THE HISTORY OF SINGING BIRDS BY COUNT DE BUFFON 1791 FIRST EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707-1788)]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe history of singing birds: containing an exact description of their habits \u0026amp; customs, \u0026amp; their manner of constructing their nests, their times of incubation, with the peculiar excellencies of their several songs, the method of rearing them in cages \u0026amp; the preparation and choice of their food, also the disorders they are subject to with the mode of treatment, including the history \u0026amp; management of canary birds.\u003c\/strong\u003e Edinburgh: Silvester Doig Royal Exchange, 1791.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst English edition. 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Bound in handsome contemporary tree-calf, smooth spine with morocco title-label and gilt bands, red-dyed page edges, title-page device, head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials, shoulder notes. Provenance: H. M. Hunter's armorial bookplate to front pastedown; James Allan's signature to head of title-page. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, very slight rubbing to extremities. Interior very well-preserved with just a touch of light browning. Neatly inked contemporary signature to title. An excellent example.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Third edition, published shortly after the first and second editions. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (sometimes spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773). Like the first and second editions of the same year, this edition contains 28 dialogues, 25 by Lyttelton and three by his friend Elizabeth Montagu. Lyttelton's interlocutors include Addison and Swift, Plato and Fenelon, Cortez and William Penn, Boileau and Pope, Locke and Bayle, and Lucian and Rabelais. In number 28, Elizabeth Montague has Plutarch, Charon and a contemporary London bookseller discussing reading tastes of the day. Lyttelton was a respected and well-connected politician and man of letters. His Dialogues were the quintessential Augustan imaginary conversations; they were widely imitated, and almost no work with the title Dialogue(s) of the Dead was published in England in the decades following Lyttelton's without acknowledging him as a model and inspiration. See the ODNB. The eleven items listed in the errata of the second edition have been corrected in this third edition. 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Maslen \u0026amp; Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 286 (issue B). ESTC: N14578]. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square, the hinges intact. Very light rubbing to extremities. Interior with some sporadic light browning and spotting. Textblock very slightly trimmed. Leaf N3 missing a small corner piece, just touching text. Lacking a frontispiece. Else excellent.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"C. A. 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Baldwin, for J. Rivington and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son, T. Longman, B. Law, H. S. Woodfall, C. Dilly, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Murray, R. Baldwin, H. L. Gardner, J. Sewell, J. Nichols, J. Bew, T. Payne, jun. S. Hayes, R. Faulder, W. Lowndes, G. and T. Wilkie, Scatcherd and Whitaker, T. and J. Egerton, C. Stalker, J. Barker, J. Edwards, Ogilvie and Speare, J. Cuthell, J. Lackington, and E. Newbery, MDCCXC. [1790].\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst edition thus. Ten volumes in eleven - complete. Leather-bound. Octavo (200 x 120 mm.). Pp. lxxix, 414; [4], 315; [4], 539; [2], 636; [4], 570; [4], 604; [4], 624; [4], 600; [4], 702; [4], 648; [6], 692, [34 index]. English text. Bound in stunning contemporary speckled calf. Smooth spines gilt ruled and tooled, black morocco lettering-pieces in the second and fourth compartments. Boards with gilt frames. Marbled endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present. Illustrated throughout with portrait engravings, diagrams and charts, and a fold-out plate. Extensive printed footnotes. Glossarial index in final volume. Vol.1 is bound in two parts, each with separate title-page, pagination and register. Contents: v. 1, pt. 1. Prolegomena: Preface. Preface by Johnson. Advertisement by Steevens. Catalogue of the earliest translations from the Greek and Roman classicks, by Steevens. Preface by Pope. Dedication by Heminge and Condell to the folio, 1623. Preface by the same. Rowe's life of Shakspeare, augmented by Malone. Anecdotes of Shakspeare, from Oldys's mss. \u0026amp;c. Baptisms [etc.] of the Shakspeare family extracted from the registers of Stratford-upon-Avon, by Malone. Shakspeare's coat of arms. Shakspeare's will. Shakspeare's mortgage. Ancient and modern commendatory verses on Shakspeare. Editions of Shakspeare's plays. Editions of his Poems. Dramatick pieces on which plays were formed by Shakspeare. List of plays altered from Shakspeare. Detached pieces of criticism on Shakspeare, his editors, \u0026amp;c. Entries [of Shakspeare's plays and poems] in the Stationer's registers, extracted by Steevens. Essay on the order of time in which the plays were written. Shakspeare, Ford and Jonson.--v. 1, pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. v. 2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. A midsummer night's dream.--v. 3. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Pericles, prince of Tyre.--v. 4. Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John.--v. 5. Richard II. Henry IV, part first and second. Henry V.--v. 6. Henry VI, part first, second, and third. A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. Richard III.--v. 7. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus. Julius Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra.--v. 8. Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.--v. 9. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello.--v. 10. Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Passionate pilgrim. Lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix. Glossarial index. Condition: NEAR FINE. Collated complete. Bindings tight, secure and square, all hinges perfectly intact. Covers very well-preserved with minor rubbing and abrasions. Interiors largely fresh and clean. Without previous ownership markings. An exquisite set and scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: The first edition of Malone’s Shakespeare appeared in 1790 - regarded as very important and an incredibly scarce text in the original complete form. After the publication of this edition Malone died leaving much unfinished material. James Boswell the younger gathered this and, after almost a decade of preparation, published in 1821 a 21-volume landmark edition which is known as the third variorum edition, and which became a staple of the Shakespeare reprint trade. Edmond Malone (1741-1812) is regarded as the greatest eighteenth-century Shakespearean editor and commentator. He used the ten-volume edition by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens as his base text but went far beyond Johnson and Steevens in establishing an authoritative text, consulting early folios and quartos more thoroughly than any previous scholar had done. Moreover, using archives from London, Stratford and country houses, he both expanded biographical knowledge of Shakespeare and corrected errors which had been perpetuated from Rowe’s “Life of Shakespeare” onwards. He arranged the plays in their supposed order of composition, and he included the poems as a standard part of an edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"William Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41511418593451,"sku":"SHAKESPEARE1790","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_3289.jpg?v=1644537430"},{"product_id":"the-works-of-geoffrey-chaucer-1721-john-urry-folio-edition","title":"THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1721 JOHN URRY FOLIO EDITION","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eURRY'S SPLENDID 1721 ILLUSTRATED FOLIO EDITION OF CHAUCER, WITH THREE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED TALES, IN CONTEMPORARY CALF BINDING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[CHAUCER, GEOFFREY]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Works, Compared With the Former Editions, and Many Valuable Mss. Out of which, Three Tales are Added Which Were Never Before Printed; by John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon. Deceased: March, 17, 1714\/9. Together With a Glossary, by a Student of the Same College. Jim Thomas. To the Whole is Prefixed the Author’s Life, Newly Written, and a Preface, Giving an Account of This Edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed for Bernard Lintot, between the Temple Gates, MDCCXXI. [1721].\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst Urry edition. Leather-bound. Folio, 2⁰ (400 x 250 x 50 mm.). Pp. [52], 626, 81,[1]., plates: ill.,ports. English text in Roman type, printed in double columns. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt with six raised bands. Initial and terminal blanks present. Portrait frontispiece of John Urry, engraved portrait of Chaucer, title-page vignette showing Chaucer's tomb, 26 copper engraved illustrations to decorate each of the Canterbury Tales, and then the one extra for Sir Thopaz, decorated capital initials, chapter head- and tail-pieces, footnotes, glossary at rear. Contents: Portrait of John Urry as frontispiece, title page with vignette of Chaucer's Tomb, portrait of Chaucer by George Virtue 1717, Life of Chaucer - 21 pages, Testimonies - 11 pages, The Preface - 13 pages, Contents - 2 pages with cut of The Rhime of Sir Thopaz, Eight Godely Questions with their Answeres - 2 pages, Dedication to Queen Anne dated 1714, The Works of Jeffrey Chaucer: Prologue; Knight's Tale; Miller's Tale; Reve's Tale; Coke's Tale; Coke's Tale of Gamelyn; Man of Lawe's Tale; Squier's Tale; Marchaunt's Tale; Wife of Bath's Tale; Frere's Tale; Sompnour's Tale; Clerke of Oxenford's Tale; Frankelein's Tale; Second Nonne's Tale; Chanon's Yeman's Tale; Doctour of Physike's Tale; Pardoner's Tale; Shipmann's Tale; Prioresse's Tale; Chaucer's Tale of Melibeus; Monke's Tale; Priest's Tale; Manciple's Tale; Plowman's Tale; Parson's Tale; Romaunt of the Rose; Troilus and Creseide; The Legende of good Women; Legende of Cleopatra, Thisbe, Dido Quene of Carthage, Hipsipyle and Medea, Lucrece, Ariadne, Philomela, Hypermnestra Boke of Boethius - 5 bokes, Dreme of Chaucer, Assemble of Foules, Floure of Courtesie made by John Lidgate, La Belle Dame sans mercy, Quene Annelida and false Arcite, Assemble of Ladies, Conclusions of the Astrolabie, Complaint of the blacke Knight, A Praise of Women, The House of Fame, The Floure and the Leafe written by Geffery Chaucer, The Testament of Love, The Lamentacion of Marie Magdaleine, The Remedie of Love, The Complaint of Mars and Venus, The Letter of Cupide, A Ballade in Commendacion of our Ladie, A Ballade to King Henry IV, Of the Cuckow and the Nightingale, Scogan unto the Lordes and Gentilmen of the Kinge's house, Certaine Ballades, The Court of Love, Chaucer's Dreame or The booke of the Duchesse or the Death of Blanch, Duchess of Lancaster, Jacke Upland, The Prologue or the mery adventure of the Pardonere and Tapstere at the Inn at Canterbury (not printed before as part of the Canterbury Tales, but Urry believes it be Chaucer's work), Merchant's Second Tale or the History of Beryn, Glossary - 81 pages, Errata - 1 page.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: FAIR to GOOD. Collated complete. Hinges somewhat cracked but holding well by the strings. Covers rubbed with some abrasions. Interior near immaculate and without previous ownership markings. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition of Urry's folio edition of Chaucer's works, the first collected Chaucer in the easier-to-read Roman typeface, with three previously unpublished tales, beautifully illustrated with fine copper-engraved portraits, one of Chaucer by Vertue and one of Urry by Pigue, as well as a handsome title page vignette and numerous in-text copper engravings of the various Canterbury pilgrims. A handsome copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Except for Shakespeare, Chaucer is foremost among writers in the English language\" (Bloom, The Western Canon, 105). While this edition is commonly referred to as Urry's, he died before he could complete the work. His successor Thomas Ainsworth also died before the work was ready for the press, and it was revised by Timothy and William Thomas. \"This was the first collected edition of Chaucer to be printed in roman type. The life of Chaucer prefixed to the volume was the work of the Reverend John Dart, corrected and revised by Timothy Thomas. The glossary appended was also mainly compiled by Thomas. The text of Urry's edition has often been criticized by subsequent editors for its frequent conjectural emendations, mainly to make it conform to his sense of Chaucer's meter. The justice of such criticisms should not obscure his achievement. His is the first edition of Chaucer for nearly 150 years to consult any manuscripts and is the first since that of William Thynne in 1534 to seek systematically to assemble a substantial number of manuscripts to establish his text… Urry was a friend of Thomas Hearne, who styles him a 'thorough pac'd scholar' and a 'truly worthy and virtuous, as well as ingenious, gentleman.' A portrait of Urry, engraved by N. Pigné, is prefixed to the work\" (ODNB). This edition contains three previously unpublished tales: \"The Coke's Tale of Gamelyn,\" \"The Merchant's Second Tale\" and \"The Adventure of the Pardoner and Tapster at the Inn at Canterbury.\" This edition also includes a glossary of Middle English terms. With errata on last page. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. One thousand copies were printed on regular paper, as here, along with 250 large-paper copies. Alston, III. 35. Maslen \u0026amp; Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 779, Hammond, 128-30. Lowndes, 426. 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