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ARNOT (Hugo):
An Essay on Nothing. A Quaint Jeu d'Esprit attributed to Arnot.
Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid..., 1886. Large 8vo, 250 x 190 mms., pp. [iv], 51 [52 ornament], including half-title, text printed within borders, limitation notice on verso of title-page, "This Edition is limited to 50 Copies," contemporary quarter red sheepskin, marbled boards; spine defective, covers detached. Arnot (1749 - 1786) delivered this as a paper before the Edinburgh Speculative Society, and it was first printed in 1776.
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[CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA OF WALES]
Gulzara, Princess of Persia; or, the Virgin Queen. Collected from the Original Persian.
London: Printed for John Souter...by J. Adlard..., 1816. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Tall 8vo, 228 x 133 mms., pp,. xiii [xiv blank, xv "The Persian Dedication," xvi blank], 348, recently recased in blue boards, paper label on spine; text a little browned, but a good copy. This rather laboured satire on Princess Augusta of Wales (1796 - 1817), was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV), and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick. Had she outlived both her grandfather King George III and her father, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom; but she died at the age of 21, predeceasing them both. It was reviewed at some length in The Critical Review for 1816, but without ever once disclosing that the work was not a satire: "The author of Gulzara is not deficient in humour, and we are not and then reminded of the stile of the very best writer in this kind [possibly Byron], in any language: but no such pretensions are made: the work is instructive, entertaining, and now and then satirical, and that is all perhaps that the writer intended." The reviewer in The Monthly Review was a bit more forthcoming about the disguised Gulzara: "[A]nd the actions of the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses of Persia and Tartary, in some former indeterminate age, may be clearly identified with those of the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses of Great Britain and France in an age not very distant from the nineteenth century."
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[COLVILLE (Samuel)]:
Mock Poem or Whiggs Supplication. Part iid.
A manuscript volume of 35 leaves, the pages numbered 1 to 70, being a contemporary manuscript of the second part of Colville's popular seventeenth-century poem. The leaves measure 192 x 142 mms., with one blank leaf preceding the numbered leaves, which have manuscript text on both recto and verso. The hand is clear and legible, and the text has been bound in contemporary sheepskin, with gilt panels on both covers and gilt thistles within the panels, plus gilt thistles, projecting diagonally, at each of the eight corners of the two gilt panels on the front and back covers. The binding is in poor condition and has been crudely rebacked at some stage, with the latter part of the volume being difficult to open without cracking at the inner margin (gutter). A shelf mark, "B2.76," appears on the front paste-down endpaper, and loosely inserted is a folded, undated note in a 20th century hand citing several late seventeenth-century printed editions of Colville's poetry. A verse satire on the Presbyterians, Samuel Colville's poem originally appeared in print anonymously in London under the title Mock Poem, or, Whiggs Supplication (1681). Later, in Edinburgh, it was published as Whiggs Supplication. A Mock-Poem in Two Parts. By S.C. (1687). Still later, a version appeared under the title The Scotch Hudibras: or, A Mock Poem the First Part. Corrected and Amended, with Additions and Alterations (London: Printed by T. B. and are to be sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers Hall, 1692). The poet's surname is sometimes spelled Colvil or Colvill. Colville's poetry was indeed modelled on Samuel Butler's Hudibras, which was first published in three parts in 1663 and 1664. Very popular for about fifty years, Colville's poem was produced both as printed text and as manuscript text. For those who value early Scottish manuscript culture, particularly manuscript poetry dating to the seventeenth century, the present manuscript could hardly be more relevant or more interesting. Samuel Colville, a mysterious seventeenth-century figure in literature for centuries, is understood now to have been the son of the early Scottish woman poet Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (fl. 1599-1631). S. M. Dunnigan in the Oxford DNB says that Lady Culross "had three sons", including "Samuel Colville, who sustained the literary preoccupations of the Melville family -- he was the author of The Scots Hudibras, or, The Whig's Supplication". The long Wikipedia article on Lady Culross regrets that information "about Elizabeth's children is far from plentiful", but adds that in "a letter of 1631 to John Livingstone, Elizabeth had commented that 'Samuell is going to the colledge in Sant Andrews, to a worthy maister thair, bot I feare him deadly', which indicates that her youngest child's behaviour had long been unpredictable … . In 1681 Samuel published the first-known of numerous editions of his Mock Poem, or The Whiggs Supplication, which is sometimes described as the Scottish Hudibras. … It is not known when he died." Wikipedia further says that Lady Culross "really began to register with contemporary scholarship only with Germaine Greer's inclusion and discussion of her work in the epoch-making Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of 17th-Century Women's Verse (1988)." When a monument to Lady Culross was unveiled in Edinburgh by Greer in 2014, the BBC remarked that a "memorial to one of Scotland's first female literary greats has been unveiled in Edinburgh", asserting that the poet "Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross, became the first Scots woman to see her work in print in 1603" (). Similarly, scholarship on Lady Culross's son the poet Samuel Colville has taken its time to ripen. In volume two of Lives of Scottish Poets, published in 1822, it was said of Samuel Colville that "Of Colvil's personal history nothing is known" (p. 102). Forty years later, David Irving, in his History of Scottish Poetry (Edinburgh, 1861), was confident in stating Samuel Colville to be one "of Lady Culross's younger sons", and to be "likewise a poet of considerable reputation" (p. 483). Irving added that Samuel Colville's "popularity as a poet seems at least to have equalled his merit. His 'Whiggs Supplication' was circulated before it appeared in print, and manuscript copies of it are still to be found; it was published in the year 1681, and has passed through several editions. … The language of his poem was apparently intended for English, but is interspersed with many Scotish [sic] words and idioms" (p. 483). If Irving was right, it may then be that the item on offer is a manuscript version that pre-dates any printed version of the verses presented here. It could be, on the one hand, an authorial fair copy of the poem or, on the other hand, a manuscript publication of the poem, with the copy being created by a professional scribe. Whichever happens to be the case, the hand of this manuscript has marked similarity to the hand of a MS of the poem owned by the Clark Library of UCLA, whose curators have had the MS digitized in full and uploaded to their Calisphere website: . It should be noted that the Clark cataloguer wonders whether their MS is in the author's hand: "It is unclear if this copy was actually made by Colvil, but it is written in a neat decorative hand throughout" (). The present MS is similarly in a highly legible and calligraphic hand, with several touches (long drawn-out limbs to some capital letters, as well as intricate lattice-like flourishes) being shared characteristics. A comparison of the Clark MS and the MS on offer also shows, however, some interesting textual variants even on the first page of text, with our MS furnishing at least one word missing from the Clark version. What follows are a few selected variants, visible on the first page of text. On line 1, the Clark MS reads "chipp" where the present MS reads "Chipp". On line 3, the Clark reads "toasted" where the present MS reads "rosted". On line 4, the Clark reads "ride" where the present MS reads "rid". On line 6, the Clark reads "Geese" where the present MS reads "Gees". On line 7, the Clark reads, "Where poor folkes wer fil'd with Nettles", whereas the present MS provides an additional word, "potts", reading, "When poor folks potts wer fil'd with Nettles". On line 8, the Clark reads, "When Fish did dominere in Kettles", where the present MS has three of the six words exhibiting variance, "When fish did dominneir in Ketles". Historically, there is much to indicate that the second part of Colville's poem was sometimes issued separately in a bound manuscript volume, as an act of manuscript circulation, scribal publication, no doubt due to the sensitive political nature of the satirical elements of the verse. In addition to the Clark MS, and the MS on offer, there is, for instance, a bound MS volume of "Part Second" which survives in the Special Collections Library at the University of Leeds, which cataloguers date, interestingly, to "ca. 1680" (). The two universities in the world most famous for their collections of manuscript poetry in English from the early modern period are Oxford and Yale, with the two publications treating the poetry therein being Margaret Crum's First-line Index of English Poetry, 1500-1800, in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, Oxford (1969) and Stephen Parks's First-line Index of English Poetry, 1500-1800, in Manuscripts of the James M. and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University (2005). Taking up the opening line of the present manuscript, "When bushes budded and trees did Chipp", we see that in Crum there are no hits for that opening, and that in Parks there is but one hit for one manuscript: the poem is found in Osborn MS b. 223 at the Beinecke. Whatever the total count of surviving manuscripts of Colville's verse, there is a notable lack of concerted study of the known contemporary manuscripts dispersed across the world. Such a study is no doubt sorely needed, not only for the literary importance of the endeavour (and for the biographical proximity to the pioneering Lady Culross), but also for the texts' lexical and orthographical riches, since Colville's poetry, as pointed out by Irving over a century ago, is "interspersed with many Scotish [sic] words and idioms" (p. 483). The OED takes several of its representative examples of the usage of rare Scottish words specifically from Colville's poetry, including his take on such staples as "heart", "ace", and "fool". Last but not least, I submit that even on the opening page of the text of the present MS there is likely a unique instance of English usage, a unique orthographical configuration: Has anyone ever encountered, in any other seventeenth-century manuscript, or in any printed book, the spelling "dominneir"? Google does not find a single instance -- from any time period.
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[EVELYN (Mary)]:
The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, And her Toilette Spread, Together, With a Fop-Dictionary, and a Rare and Incomparable Receipt to make Pig, or Puppidog Water for the Face.
London: Printed for Joseph Wild, at the Elephant at Charing Cross... 1700. Small 4to, 173 x 138 mms., pp. [viii], 23 [24 blank], ex-library to judge from the binding, which is probably from the 195s, title-page soiled, , a few leaves shaved at head with loss to headlines or pagination, occasional ink staining, more extensively to C4 with some words obscured and some resultant holing, quarter brown morocco, binder's cloth, title blocked in gilt on front cover This work by Mary Evelyn, 1665-1685 was first published by R Bentley in 1690, with a preface by the authors' father, John Evelyn. Joan K. Perkins in her entry in ODNB of Mary's mother Mary Evelyn [née Browne], said of her that " the sixth of eight children born to John and Mary Evelyn, is credited with authorship of Mundus muliebris, a brief satire in tetrameter couplets on fashionable women's clothing, accoutrements, and behaviour, first published in 1690. Sole attribution of the piece to her is questionable: de Beer points out that the one reference to the work in her father's diary may suggest that she contributed to rather than wrote it (see Evelyn, Diary, 4.423; Nevinson, 5–12; Greer and others, 324). Other writings in Mary Evelyn's hand survive; these are primarily religious meditations and rules for her own conduct. She was dutiful and devout, playful and pious, and her death at the age of nineteen grieved her family deeply. She spent most of her short life at the family home at Sayes Court, Deptford. She studied French and Italian, history and literature, music and dancing. After her death her father eulogized her in his diary: 'The justnesse of her stature, person, comelinesse of her Countenance and gracefullnesse of motion, naturall, & unaffected (though more than ordinaryly beautifull), was … of the least, compar'd with the Ornaments of her mind' (Evelyn, Diary, 4.421)." The work has attract a great deal of scholarly and critical commentary in the last fifty years. ESTC R40185 notes that this is a "Reissue of the second edition (Wing E3523 [R31459]), with a new title page and without C3 the separate dated title page: The fop-dictionary." This was the last edition to be published in the 17th century, and I have not found any reprints in the 18th century. The only location given in ESTC is the BL. See the M. A. thesis by Deborah Faith Ramkhelawan, "This Elegant Science": Satire and Sociability in Mary Evelyn's Mundus Muliebris, or the Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd (1690).
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[GENARD (Francois)]:
The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, A Key to the Satyrical Characters Interspersed in this Work.
London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, pp. xvi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; lacks all prelims, hole in inner margin of title-page with loss of "S" from "Satyrical," front joint wormed, upper front joints slightly cracked.
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[GENARD (Francois)]:
The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, A Key to the Satyrical Characters Interspersed in this Work. The Second Edition
London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. Small 8vo, pp. xxi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], including leaf of adverts (corner torn with slight loss) preceding title-page, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label. A very good copy.
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[HAYLEY (William)]:
Essai Satirique et Amusant sur les Vielles Filles. Traduit de l'Anglois par M. Sibille.
A Paris, Chez Le Tellier..., 1788. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 2 parts in 1. 12mo, pp. xvi, 172; [4], 224 [225 - 226 contents, 227 - 228 Approbation], contemporary French tree sheepskin; gilt spine missing about half its leather, joints cracked and tender. Hayley's Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids was first published in three volumes in 1785. This is translation of volume 1, and of chapter 1 of volume 2, only. The translator argues in his introduction that a translation of all three volumes would be much too long for most readers. The only copies I could locate in U. S. libraries were those of Harvard and UCLA.
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HERRENSCHMID (Jacobus):
Peripatheticus Orgiorum Ethnico-Pontificius Iuste castigatus, iustius profligatus, iustissime condemnatus. Hoc est, Brevis Dissertatiuncula, De Bacchanaliorum Nomine, Origine, Progressu, Placentis, Larvis, excusationibus, exemplis, poenis, ludis, choreis, Symposiis, ludibriis &c.
Noribegae [Nürnberg], Sumptibus Simonis Halbmayer Bibliopole [no date] 1626. 12mo, 125 x 74 mms., pp. 132, later gray wrappers, but lacks front wrapper, most of spine destroyed, title-page soiled and fragile at margins. The Lutheran theologian Jacobus Herrenschmidt (1578 - 1641) first published this satire with the Elzevirs in 1621 as an investigation, so to speak, of the justly punished, more justly defeated, and most justly condemned name and origin of the Bacchanalia. My Latin is about as good as my Chamicuro (spoken by eight people in Peru), but I think there is a pun in the title and some jokey, specious references in the footnotes.
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HONOUR.
The Man of Honour.
London [i. e., Edinburgh]: Printed in the Year MDCCXXXVII 1737. 8vo (in 4s), 193 x 127 mms., pp. 12, disbound; title-page with vertical soil mark and hole in imprint removing "on" of London, with contemporary annotations identifying names indicated by initial(s) only. The imprint is false, and this satire on the Whig ministry was printed in Edinburgh. Foxon M66. ESTC T62251: BL (2), NLS (3); Boston Athenaeum, Louisiana State University, Illinois, Texas (2).
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JUVENAL and PERSIUS
D. Ivnii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyre Cum Annotationibus Thomae Farnabii.
Amstelodami, Apud Ioannem Lanssonium 1638 Small 12mo, 128 x 68 mms., pp. 189 [190 blank], engraved title-page, bound in later, 18th century calf, spine blind in compartments, with authors and title in gilt; front joint slightly rubbed, margins very closely trimmed, but a good copy with several provenances. The English scholar and grammarian Thomas Farnaby (1574/5–1647) fled to Spain at the age of 15, where he converted to Roman Catholocism. He returned to England in 1595 and made a reputation as a school teacher. ODNB records that "Farnaby's reputation thrived. According to J. T. Cliffe, he was '[p]erhaps the most celebrated private schoolmaster in England'. He was incorporated at Oxford in 1616 as 'M.A. Cambridge', and he was a minor canon at St Paul's in London from 1626 to 1629. Wood claimed that 'more Churchmen and Statesmen issued thence, than from any School taught by one man in England' (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 2.106). Other than Bramston, its pupils included the diplomat Sir Richard Fanshawe, courtier Thomas Henshawe, and the clergyman Henry Killigrew. The success of his establishment allowed Farnaby to devote himself to a long-held obsession: the systemization of the grammatical principles of classical Latin and Greek in print. Commencing with the satires of Juvenal and Persius (1612), he annotated many of the classical authors—Seneca, Martial, Lucan, Ovid, Virgil, and Terence—in a manner intended to render their works intelligible to schoolboys." OCLC finds only one copy of this imprint of 1638, in Lyon.
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JUVENAL (Decimus Junius):
Juvenal tradotto di Latino in volgar lingua per Georgio Summaripa Veronese, Novamente Impresso.
P. Alex. Pag Benacenses F. Bena. .V. .V. [Aexander and Paganinus de Paganinis: Toscolano] [?1517 - 1525]. Small 8vo, 150 x 88 mms., unpaginated, a-q8, contemporary vellum, faded red morocco label; binding a bit soiled, but a very good copy. The first edition of this translation by Georgio Summaripa (1435 - 1496) of Juvenal's satires was first published in 1480 (Tarvisii : M. Manzolinus). The earliest edition of Juvenal seems to be that published in 1469 by Ulrich Hand in Rome (see Curt F. Bühler, "The Earliest Editions of Juvenal," Studies in the Renaissance [1955]). The text is printed in italics, first used by Aldus in 1501, and Summaripa's was the first translation into Italian. Book historians now think that the publishers Paganino and Alessandro Paganini, particularly the latter, were the first to create an editorial series, i. e., books that shared the same editorial characteristics, presentation, and size. The printer's mark used here, P.ALEX.PAG./ BENACENSES./ .F./ BENA./ .V..V., appears on an edition of Dante, first published by them in 1515; the truncated Latin apparently means "Paganino and his son Alessandro from the Benaco region made this book in Toscolano." WorldCat copies located in BL, Bodleian, Manchester, Bibliotheque Nationale, and Bibliothèque interuniversitaire Sainte-Geneviève. WorldCat doesn't give any North American locations, but there are copies at Harvard and Yale
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JUVENAL.
The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Translated into English Verse. By William Gifford, Esq. With Notes and Illustrations. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and CO...., 1806. 8vo, pp. [viii], lxxviii, 473 [474 blank, 475 - 480 Index], contemporary lightly mottled calf, spine ornately gilt, black leather label (very slightly chipped); spine slightly rubbed and dried. Gifford's translation was first published in 1802; a third edition followed in 1817.
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[MORRIS (Corbyn)]:
An Essay Towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule. To which is Added, an Analysis Of the Characters of An Humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger De Coverly, and Don Quixote. Inscribed to the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Orford. By the Author of a Letter from a By-Stander.
London: Printed for J. Roberts...and W. Bickerton..., 1744. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 193 x 123 mms., pp. xxxiv [xxxv erratum, xxxvi advert], xxxii, 75 [76 blank], 19th century quarter grain plum morocco, publishers boards, gilt spine; title-page slightly soiled at fore-edge and starting to detach at inner margin, binding a little rubbed, but a good copy, with the ownership inscription on the verso of the leaf facing the title-page, "Balcarres/ Eton, March 1890." This is possibly Lindsay, David Alexander Edward, twenty-seventh earl of Crawford and tenth earl of Balcarres (1871–1940), the second book of the book collector, the ninth earl, and who was at Eton College from 1886 to 1890. The long dedication (32 pages) to Robert, Earl of Orford, would seem to validate the a comment that David Hume made abut the author. Writing in March, 1763, to Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, Hume remarked that "I am become much of my friend Corbyn Morrice's Mind, who says, that he writes all his Books for the sake of the Dedications." Horace Walpole included it in a packet of "the only new books at all worth reading" sent to Horace Mann, but the fulsome dedication to the elder Walpole undoubtedly had something to do with this recommendation. It attracted a favourable comment in The Daily Advertiser for 31 May 1744; the author described the distinction between wit and humour as "new and excellent."
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MOUNTENEY (Richard):
Baron Mountenay's celebrated Dedication of the Select Orations of Demosthenes, to the late Sir Robert Walpole, Bart. Of Ministerial Memory. Done into Plain English, and illustrated with Notes and Comments, and dedicated to Trinity-College, Dublin. By AEschines the Third.
Dublin Printed, London Reprinted: And Sold by R. Griffiths, Bookseller at the Dunciad in Ludgate-Street, 1748. 8vo (in 4s), 198 x 124 mms., pp. [5] 6 - 23 [24 blank], xxii, incljuding half-title, disbound; stain at top of half-title and title-page, ex-library (Mercantile Library), with two library stamps in red. First published in Latin as Demosthenis selectæ Orationes by Cambridge in 1731, reprinted and translated into English in 1748, this weak satire on Walpole nevertheless achieved several reprints in the 18th century, as well as many in the 19th century. Mounteney (1707 - 1768) was at university with Sir Edward Walpole, the younger son of Sir Robert Walpole.
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PSEUDO MEDICINE.
The Quack Doctors. A Satire. In Hudibrastic Stile.
London. Printed for C. Moran, in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden. MDCCLXII 1772. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION 4to, 245 x 190 mms., pp. [ii], 22, disbound, with title-page and other leaves detached or loose at innter margin title-page and last page of text soiled, short tear in fore-margin of E1, top margin closely trimmed, inner margin of title-page frayed. The work was reviewed in both The Monthly Review The Critical Review for 1762, with the latter remarking, "We fancy that this author writes as Pistol ate the leek - in token of revenge. Facit inginatio Versus - for he seems to have no other muse -indeed, if he had been a favourite of the Nine, Apollo would probably have twitched his ear, and exhorted him to chuse other subjects than R---ck, F---ks, and the rest of that empirical fraternity, which are by no means worth power. We would, in the mean time, advise our bard to study the elements of English grammar that he may for the future avoid...solecisms." The Monthly Review was succicnt to the point of rudeness: "The vilest Poem on the vilest Subject." Doctors were frequentely regared in the 18th century as Johnson defined them in his Dictionary: "1. A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. 2. A vain boastful pretender to physic, one who proclaims his own Medical abilities in public places. 3. An artful, tricking practitioner in Physic." Robert Campbell in The London Tradesman (1747) observed that, "To acquire this Art of Physic, requires only being acquainted with a few Books, to become Master of a few Aphorisms and Commonplace Observations, to purchase a Latin Diploma from some Mercenary College, to step into a neat Chariot and put on a grave Face, a Sword and a long wig; then MD is flourished to the Name, the pert Coxcomb is dubbed a Doctor, and has a License to kill as many as trust him with their Health." ESTCC locates only five copies: BL, Cambridge, and Rylands in UK; and Yale and University of Washington in the United States.
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