Les Fleurettes

Paris Chez Marcilly Rue St, Jacques No. 10, 1836 |64mo, 27 x 18 mms., pp. 63 [64 colophon], engraved throughout, with 8 engraved plates, bound in contemporary red morocco, gilt border on covefs, gilt flower ornament in centre of each cover, gilt spine, all edges gilt; hinges a little strained, but a good copy. D V. Welsh: Miniature Books, no. 2840. Copies located in British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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Book number: 9632

Catalogue: Miniature

Keywords: miniature poetry literature

ABBOTT (Lemuel):

Poems on Various Subjects. Whereto is prefixed A Short Essay on the Structure of English Verse.

Nottingham: Printed for the Author, by Samuel Cresswell, 1765. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 207 x 119 mms., pp. [xix], iii - v, 5 - 32, [4], iii- v [vi blank], [3] - 143 [144 blank], including list of subscribers, title-page in red and black, contemporary speckled calf, red leather label, paper label on cover, with the ownership inscription (in red ink) dated 22 April 1905 of Major C. E. Cresswell on the recto of the front free end-paper and the title-page, the oval armorial library stamp of Lt. Col. William Allen Potter, High Sheriff of Nottingham (1944) on the front paste-down end-paper. A very good to fine copy. This is only publication by Abbott (1730 - 1776), a Church of England Clergyman, that I have been able to trace. The subscribers include Isaac Hawkins Browne, Dr. [Erasmus] Darwin, and Charles Jennens (patron of the arts and librettist), to whom the volume is dedicated. The preface, on the aesthetics of poetry, is given over to a responsible discussion of accents and metre, while the topics of the poems include "The Song of Deborah and Barak," hymns, tributes to marriage, an ode to good humour, translations, Moses, and reprints Addison's "On Liberty." ESTC T42671 locates copies in Birmingham, BL, Cambridge, Bodleian, Nottinghamshire County Library, and Leeds in the UK; Cornell, Folger, Harvard, and McMaster in North America.

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Book number: 9344

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry literary criticism literature

ABERCOMBIE (John):

Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth. Second Edition.

Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes..., 1831. 8vo, 208 x 132 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 464, attractively bound in full contemporary panelled calf, with ornately gilt borders, spine gilt in compartments, black morocco labels, curious ownership stamp on rector of front free end-paper, but a very good to fine copy of an admittedly common book. The Edinburgh physician John Abercrombie (1780 - 1844) published this work in 1830, and in this this second edition he has "made various verbal corrections, and has added a considerable number of new facts and observations, which, he trust, may increase the interest of the work." The Quarterly Review took notice of the first edition and in a long review remarked, "Dr. Abercrombie brings to his subject a mind thoroughly versed in its details, and habituated to this species of abstract inquiry. His descriptions of the mental phenomena are clear and precise, and his reasonings perpsicuous and sound."

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Book number: 8845

Catalogue: Epistemology

Keywords: epistemology philosophy Scpttish Enlightenment prose

ABRAHALL (Chandos Hoskyns):

Rinaldo. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts.

London: J. S. Hodson & Son..., 1863. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 214 x 133 mms., pp. [viii], 87 [88 colophon, iv adverts for books by author], including half-title, address in Cheam crimped in blind on rear free end-paper, original embossed cloth, with title in gilt with gilt ornament on front cover. A fine copy. Abrahall (1829 - 1891) published several books, which attracted appreciative reviews, some of which are quoted in the last four pages of this volume. The story is quite different from that of Handel's Rinaldo (1711). Slightly uncommon in libraries, with copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, NLS; and Southern Methodist University.

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Book number: 8411

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Drama poetry literature

ADAIR (James):

Glimpses behind Edinburgh City Life. An Address. Delivered by request to a body of representative Church and published by certain of their number. For Private Circulation.

[Edinbugh]@ Printed in Great Britain by William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1934. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 183 x 120 mms., pp. [3] - 31 [32 blank], with pagination including paper wrappers. A little worn at corners but a very good copy. James Adair, O.B.E. (1886-1982) was the Procurator-Fiscal for Edinburgh from 1919 to 1937. He is very much a bête noire for the LGBT community, and Jeff Meek, in a blog entitled "Queer Scotland Scottish Queer History and Culture," describes him as "unwavering [in his] opposition to homosexual law reform." In this pamphlet, he describes the less salubrious side of life in Edinburgh: drinking habits, prostitution, "coffee-stalls," and directly warns against "men in our midst who have secrets in their breasts that they must keep, and who require courage and help if any of that type prepared to play on their knowledge get a grip of them." Adair was a member of the committee that formed the Wolfenden report, which recommended that "homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence"; Adair was the only one on the committe to oppose this proposition, Uncommon: the only copy that I have located is in the NLS.

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Book number: 8555

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: law Edinburgh prose

[ADAMS (Aaron Chester)]:

Mother.

No place, No publisher, [c. 1893]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 147 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 26 [28 - 32 blank], stitched within cream cardboard covers, with gilt lettering, "H. S. A. / 1813-1892." on front cover. The author is given as simply "Father" at the foot of p. 25, then as "A. C. A." at the foot of the last page of text, p. 26. A clue to the topic of the book is found, however, on p. 24, where the subject of the memoir is said to have been buried "on the southern slope of Wethersfield cemetery". From the context, it is clear that Wethersfield in Connecticut is meant. A consultation of the records of this cemetery, which are available online, show only one possible match at http//wethersfieldhistory.org/services/burying_ground/map: that being Harriet Sargent Adams (1813-1892, who married to a man who bore the initials A. C. A. This is the Congregational minister and writer Aaron Chester Adams (1815-1905). They are buried in the same plot. Aaron Chester Adams is perhaps best known today for his Historic Sketch of the First Church of Christ in Wethersfield (1877). WorldCat attributes a half-dozen publications to him in total. This book, Mother, is Aaron Chester Adam's biography of his wife, Harriet Sargent Adams. At the foot of p. 25, he notes that he wrote his account from "Wethersfield, Conn." in "February, 1893". The book is not merely personal, however, as the reader gets a vivid picture of historical life in nineteenth-century Connecticut, with some earlier scenes set in Maine and Massachusetts. Not in WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, British Library, or Library of Congress.

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Book number: 9140

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography Americana literature

[ADAMS (William Brydges)]:

A Tale of Tucuman; With Digressions, English and American. By Junius Redivius.

London: Effingham Wilson..., 1831. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 155 x 84 mms., pp. 201 [202 Errata], contemporary half green pebbled morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards; name erased from top margin of title-page, leaving small hole, binding rubbed, but a good copy. William Bridges Adams (1797 - 1872) "was an English author, inventor and locomotive engineer. He is best known for his patented Adams axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and the railway fishplate. His writings, including English Pleasure Carriages (1837) and Roads and Rails (1862) covered all forms of land transport. Later he became a noted writer on political reform, under the pen name Junius Redivivus (Junius reborn); a reference to a political letter writer of the previous century" (Wikipedia). In the dedication to an anonymous lady, Adams writes that "This collection of Rhymes, intentionally written for the gratification, and it may be, instruction of the female sex, cannot possibly find a more appropirate patroness than yourself...." he Preface opens with an assertion that the "object of this Poem is to convey, in as agreeable a form as may be, a knowledge of the manners and customs of the Southern Americans...." Tucuman is presumably what is now known as San Miguel de Tucuman in Argentina. OCLC locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Glasgow, St. Andrews. No copies located in any North American library.

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Book number: 9665

Catalogue: Verse

Keywords: verse education prose

ADDISON (Joseph), et al:

The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians. Corrected and Digested under Alphabetical Heads. A New Edition Corrected.

Dublin: Printed by James Williams, 1778. 2 volumes. 12mo, 166 x 93 mms., pp. [iv]334; [iv], 336, contemporary speckled calf, gilt spines, red morocco titling labels, green numbering labels, all edges gilt; some very slight wear to binding, but generally a very good to fine set, with the bookplate "Castleknock," and the autograph, written vertically on the blank end-paper before the title-page of each volume, "Wm. Filgate, May 29th, 1794". This work was first published in 1753, and there were a total of ten printings in the 18th century. A Dublin edition was first published in 1757, and this is the last edition to appear with a Dublin imprint in the 18th century. All the Dublin imprints of this title are rare: ESTC T163762 locates 5 copies: L, D, Di, Dp; ZWTU (lacking volume 2). No copies of this edition in North American libraries, and only 2 copies of any Dublin printing: 1757 (PPL) and 1767 (MiEM)

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Book number: 7478

Catalogue: Essays

Keywords: essays anthology literature

ADDISON (Joseph):

The Evidences of the Christian Religion..., To which are added, Several Discourses against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation, occasionally published by Him and Others: And now collected into one Body, and digested under their proper Heads. With a Preface, containing the Sentiments of Mr. Boyle, Mr. Lock, and Sir Isaac Newton, concerning the Gospel-Revelation.

London: Printed for J. Tonson..., 1730. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xxvi [xxvii - xxviii Contents], 330, contemporary sheepskin, morocco label; joints cracked (but firm), spine slightly creased, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn.

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Book number: 4645

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: religion Christianity prose

ADDISON (Joseph). [TYERS (Thomas)]:

An Historical Essay on Mr. Addison.

London [n. p.], 1783. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 92, recently recased in quarter calf, buckram boards, new endpapers; lacks pp. i - ii (half-title), lower inner margin of last two leaves of text repaired with slight loss of text, some soiling of text, particularly the last two leaves. With the eighteenth-century armorial (lion rampant on shield) bookplate of "Geo. Morgan Esq" (probably Franks 21063, whose owner is not identified by Howe); and, on the recto of the front paste-down endpaper, the twentieth-century ownership inscription of Cecil Price, Emeritus Professor and sometime head of the Department of English at the University of Swansea, the editor of the correspondence of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Thomas Tyers (1725-1787) was a "[m]iscellaneous writer", the "co-founder of Vauxhall Gardens", and a "longtime friend of Johnson, who depicted him as Tom Restless in The Idler, No. 48. Boswell described Tyers as having 'a handsome fortune, vivacity of temper, and eccentricity of mind … He therefore ran about the world with a pleasant carelessness, amusing every body by his desultory conversation … ' " (Lyle Larsen, ed., James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him [2008], p. 231). The ESTC records three issues of this work, all rare. This is ESTC T2814. For the British Isles and Ireland, ESTC finds only the BL, Cambridge (two copies, but one imperfect), and a copy in a library managed by the National Trust. Beyond the British Isles and Ireland, ESTC finds five copies, all in the United States, only one of which is in an Ivy League library: Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale.

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Book number: 2573

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography

ADDISON (Mr.):

Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays and Poetical Fragments, tening to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality.

London: Printed for the Author, 1797. 13 volumes of 16. 8vo (in 4s), 2150 x 120 mms., uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards (worn), red morocco titling labels, small circular black numbering labels (but several missing), a bit of general wear, but in reasonably good condition, with all covers firmly attached, and the armorial bookplate of Viscount Hood on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. Hood is almost certainly the famous naval commander Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Baron Hood (1724 - 1816), whose peerage was created in 1776. Over the decades I have had quite a few odd volumes of this irritating (no one has yet discovered who "Mr. Addison" was, or even if the name covered a multitude of authors) pass through my hands, but this is the closest I've yet come to a complete set of 16 volumes. It's a very useful resource for literary scholars; for example, Arthur Pike Conant, in his The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century (2013) remarks that the set "contains a great variety of oriental and unoriental tales taken, usually without naming the author, from the Rambler, the Adventurer, and other sources."

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Book number: 9311

Catalogue: Anecdotes

Keywords: anecdotes essays prose

ADDISON (Joseph). SMITHERS (Peter):

The Life of Joseph Addison.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1954. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 491 [492 printer's imprint], frontispiece and 3 other illustrations, original cloth, dust-wrapper; ex-library.

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Book number: 3646

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography literature

ADDISON (Joseph):

Poems on Several Occasions.

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis..., 1770. 12mo (in 6s), 123 x 69 mms., pp. [iv], 199 [200 blank], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; upper and lower joints very slightly cracked, some rubbing of spine, but a very good copy. Gaskell 499,

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Book number: 9666

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry printing literature

AESOP.

Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books.

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1761. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], iv, lxiii [lxxiv blank], 130, [3], 133 - 175, 177 - 204, [28] pp. index, engraved frontispiece, 15 full-page engraved plates usually with 12 small engravings on each leaf, but with two leaves having fewer, 3 engraved vignettes, 3 engraved tail-pieces, 19th century marbled boards, leather label; upper corner of fore-margin of frontispiece (very slightly browned) repaired, P5 creased with fore-margin very slightly frayed. A modest copy. This edition of Aesop was edited and partially written by Robert Dodsley; published on 23 February 1761, it was an instant success. James E. Tierney, in his edition of Dodsley's correspondences notes that the Monthly Review called it "ingenious...elegant...and very useful...a classical performance." The Critical Review praised Dodsley as the "best prose-writer of apologues of this or any country." There are fables by Aesop, as well as more recent writers, not to mention ones by Dodsley and his friends, and Dodsley covered himself in glory with this publication. It was also printed by Baskerville in a larger and more elegant format (Gaskell 14). The work was reprinted several times in the 18th century. ESTC N21210 locates copies in O; CaOHM, CLU-S/C, CLU-C, GEU, MH-H, NcD; OOxM. There is also a copy in the Spencer Library, Kansas. Copies of the Baskerville printing are more common.

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Book number: 5676

Catalogue: Fables

Keywords: fables allegory literature

AGUR.

Illustration of Agur's Prayer. Prov. xxx. 8, 9.

Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ritchie, for the Society for Publishing Religious Tracts, 1797. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo (in 6s) 165 X 100 mms., pp. 24, disbound; corner torn from title-page. On the verso of the title-page: "The following Discourse was found among the papers on an amiable Christian lately deceased. It does not seem to have been intended by the author for publicaiton. But as it relates to a subject of great importance, and is written with much Christian simplicity, it is hoped its cirulations will not be unseasonsable." ESTC T154487 locates copies in NLS and John Rylands in UK libraries; McMaster and Pittsburgh Theological in North Americ

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Book number: 9395

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: religion