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| [HUNTER (JOSEPH), REV.]: Who Wrote Cavendish's Life of Wolsey? London: Printed for Richard Rees..., 1814. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [iv], 56, title-page in red and black, uncut, original boards, with printed label on front cover, hand-written paper label on spine; slightly soiled, spine repaired at early stage. Inscribed on recto of front free end-paper by the author, "T. Broadhurst /1816 / from the Rev. J. Hunter,/ the Author". With Library bookplate of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on front paste-down end-paper. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 | JP¥ 16142] Book number: 3885 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books. | ||
| TIRABOSCHI (GIROLAMO): Histoire de la Littérature d'Italie, Tirée de l'Italien de Mr. Tiraboschi, et abrégée par Antoine Landi, Conseiller & Poëte de cour de Prusse, & Académicien Florentin. Berne: [n. p.], 1784. 5 volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, 373 [374 blank]; 365 [366 blank]; 428; 536; 351 [352 blank], including half-title in each volume, original wrappers, uncut, spine worn, three wrappers detached, but a good example of a set as issued. Tiraboschi (1731 - 1794) produced 13 volumes of his Storia della letterature italiana, covering the origin and development of literature and the sciences from Etruscan times to 1700, between 1772 and 1782; an erudite and learned scholar, he was a bit long-winded, and Landi's abridgment has much to recommend it. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 | JP¥ 24213] Book number: 2898 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books. | ||
| [TRUBLET (NICOLAS-CHARLES-JOSEPH), ABBÉ: Essays Moral and Critical. Particularly Upon the Manner of Writing in Single Thoughts. Of Conversation. Of the different Talents of Writing and Speaking. Of the Qualities necessary for Society. Of Criticism upon Works of Wit. Of the Effects of Habit. Of London: Printed for R. Dodsley..., 1747. 8vo, 203 x 134 mms., pp. [iv], 426, 8 pages adverts for Dodsley's imprints, contemporary calf, red leather label; joints slightly cracked (but firm), a good copy with the following inscriptions on the recto of the front free end-paper: "Mark Huish/ No. 22"; "Anne Nicholson/ June 25 1813"; and "George Gubbins/ 1842." Huish's autograph looks 18th century, and might be the father of Robert Huish (1777–1850), the apiculturist and writer; or the father of Mark Huish (1808–1867), the railway manager. Anne Nicholson is possibly the wife of Henry Thomas Ellacombe (1790 - 1885), the campanologist and Church of England clergyman. As for Mr. Gubbins, I fear nothing plausible suggests itself. Trublet (1697 - 1770) published Essais sur Divers Sujets de Littérature et de Morale in 1735, and there were several subsequent French editions. An English translation, with R. Dodsley's name in the imprint along with that of Hitch, Millar, Robinson, and Chapelle, appeared as a 12mo, in 1744. The same translation, but a different setting in octavo, was published by J. Osborne in the same year. The 1744 edition (ESTC N47074; Library Company of Philadelphia only) has pagination of v, [3], 268. Osborne's imprint (ESTC T183354; BL, Newcastle; Essex Institute, Library Company of Philadelphia, McMaster, Newberry, Princeton, Rice), an octavo, has a pagination similar to the present copy: [4], 426, [2], the last leaf being adverts for Osborne's imprints. Osborne re-issued this with a cancel title-page in 1745, with a slightly different title, but the same pagination, Essays upon Several Subjects of Literature and Morality (ESTC N69993; Chetham's Library Manchester and California Irvine). Just to make matters more interesting, in 1746, there was a "third edition," Printed for T. Osborne; J. Hildyard [sic] at York; and M. Bryson, at Newcastle, and now with the pagination v, [3], 268, as a 12mo. This 12mo edition was re-issued by Hitch in [?1760], with cancel title-page (ESTC T183355; NLS only). There is no listing in ESTC for this imprint by Dodsley, and the only copies I have been able to trace are in St. Andrews University Library and Keio University, Japan. Dodsley's imprint is also the only one not to mention Trublet's name on the title-page. Not in Straus or Tierney. GBP 825.00 [Appr.: EURO 915 US$ 1370.33 | JP¥ 121063] Book number: 6658 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books. |
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