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	ADDISON (JOSEPH): Poems on Several Occasions. With a Dissertation upon the Roman Poets. London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1719. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iii] - xvi, [3], 01 [sic, for 10} - 162 [163 - 164 contents], [iv], 53 [54 - 56 adverts], engraved portrait as frontispiece, 2 other engraved plates (one printed on M3 verso and included in pagination), slightly later 18th century calf, recently morocco label; front joint cracked, top and base of spine slightly chipped. The T. A. Hollick copy, with John Drinkwater's small gilt bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, Drinkwater's autograph with date of 1930 in pencil on upper margin of recto of front free end-paper, and the bookplate of Oliver Brett below that. Foxon, p. 4. Straus, pp. 251 - 252. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 241.5 US$ 363.88 \| JP¥ 31303] Book number: 5890 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	AKENSIDE (MARK): The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M. D. Collated with the Best Editions: by Thomas Park. London: Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham...For John Sharpe..., 1805. 2 volumes in 1. Small 8vo, pp. [iv], 171 [172 blank]; [iv], 140, engraved frontispiece (by P. W. Tompkins after Richard Westall) for each volume, 20th century binding in maroon library cloth. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 3302 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ARMSTRONG (JOHN): The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem. London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1754. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 99 [100 adverts]. BOUND WITH: [ARMSTRONG (John)]: The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Essay. A New Edition. London: Printed for M. Cooper..., 1753. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 43 [44 blank], including half-title. 2 volumes in 1, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt to a thistle design; binding rubbed and dried, joints cracked, lacks label. John Armstrong (1709 - 1779) published The Art of Preserving Health in a handsome quarto in 1744 and The Oeconomy of Love in 1736. Both were frequently reprinted throughout the 18th century and into the 19th century, though he did not include the latter work in his collected works published in 1770. Armstorng published toned-down version of The Oeconomy of Love in 1768, reducing its original 614 lines to 550.. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 5766 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[ARMSTRONG (JOHN)]: The Economy of Love. A Poetical Essay. Bristol [Printed at The Mercury Press], August 1813. 8vo, pp. xx, 43 [44 blank], including half-title, original boards, uncut; corner cut from blank leaf before half-title, spine defective with most of paper missing. Armstrong (1709 - 1779) published The Oeconomy of Love in 1736, and it was frequently reprinted thereafter, though he did not include it in his collected works. He revised and shortened the work for an edition published in 1768, in which he toned down some of the more lubricious passages. The text of the poem here is 617 lines long. The anonymous editor has supplied an introduction of some 15 pages, in which he makes much of the mention in the poem of Gaspar Tagliacozzi (1545 - 1599), who also has a place in Tristram Shandy, in a discourse about the surgical repair of noses. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 5611 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[ARMSTRONG (JOHN)]: The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Essay. The Third Edition. London: Printed for T. Cooper..., 1739. 8vo (in 4), pp. [ii], 43 [44 blank], disbound; lacks half-title, several leaves damp-stained, severely on pages 19, 31, and 43. First published in 1736, Armstrong's poem was one of the more interesting pieces of poetic erotica in the 18th century, though Armstrong (1708 - 1779) excluded it from his collected Miscellanies in 1772. In 1768, Armstrong published a "revised and corrected" edition, which was shorter and left out some of the more lubricious and amusing lines. This printing retains its classic exposition of a "wet dream": "The Boy may wrestle, when/ Night-working Fancy steals him to the Arms/ Of Nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the Rage/ Of the soft Tumult, every turgid Cell/ Spontaneous disembogues its lucid Store,/ Bland and of azure Tinct." Foxon A306. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 6196 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ASHBY (SAMUEL): Miscellaneous Poems. The Illustrious Friends; Address to Music and Poesy, &c. &c. London: Printed for W. Miller..., 1794. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 245 x 190 mms., pp. xiv [xv Contents, xvi blank], 158, including list of subscribers, recently rebound in quarter calf, raised bands between gilt rules, morocco label, marbled boards; text washed but remains of large stain (approximately one quarter of each leaf, lower left-hand corner) persist to about page 66. With the contemporary autograph of the M. P., Edward Monckton, one of the subscribers, on the title-page. Monckton also subscribed to Leigh Hunt's Juvenilia (1803). Ashby is unknown to ODND, but he was a native of Bungay, and many of the subscribers are from East Anglia. The poems include "Reply to the Goitre," "The Captive Fly," "The Anniversary of Belinda's Birth-Day," and concludes with "Address to Music and Poesy." One poem, "Event in Scotland," seems curiously mis-named, as it is a rape narrative, in which a Youth, who "glows with wild desire" pursues the daughter of Acasto, a Scottish laird (apparently), who, in repelling him, throws herself off a precipice to her death. Whether this alludes to an actual "event" (hence the title) or is intended to be an allegory in the manner of the next poems, "Bride-Cake; An Allegorical Vision" is unclear. ESTC T39429 locates copies in BL, Cambridge, Bodleian; American Philosophical Society, Princeton, Minnesota, Yale. OCLC adds Indiana and National Library of Australia. GBP 825.00 [Appr.: EURO 905.25 US$ 1364.55 \| JP¥ 117386] Book number: 6374 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX (NICOLAS); Les Œuvres de M. Boileau Despreaux, avec des Eclaircissemens Historiques. A Paris, Chez la Veue Alix..., 1740. 2 volumes. Large 4to, pp. [iv], lxx, 470; [x], viii, 567 [568 Privilege], including half-title in each volume, title-pages in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1, engraved head- and tail-pieces in each volume, 6 full-page engraved plates in volume 1, X2 in cancelled state in volume 1, contemporary tree calf, rebacked with old spines ornately gilt in compartments, morocco labels laid down, marbled end-papers; some wear to spines and joints. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 2470 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BOURNE (VINCENT): Miscellaneous Poems: Consisting of Originals and Translations. London, Printed for W. Ginger...And sold by J. Dodsley...and E. Johnson..., 1772. Large 4to, 252 x 198 mms., pp. xvi, 352, contemporary olive green morocco, ornately gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label, all edges gilt; bookplate crudely removed from front paste-down end-paper, corners a little worn, but a very good and attractive copy, with the autograph "Thos. Assheton Smith" (1776–1858), quarry owner and sportsman, on the upper margin of the recto of the front free end-paper. It is not clear why this edition of the poems of Bourne (1694 - 1747) should have attracted a list of just over 400 subscribers, though a Mr. and Mrs. Ginger (the work was printed for W. Ginger) are among the subscribers. I note that Governor Price, Uvedale Price, Robert Price, and William Price were among the subscribers. Pencil notes on the front free end-papers call this "First Edition" and "Best Edition"; the closest thing to a good scholarly edition of Bourne's poems is probably that by Mitford published in 1840, while the first collection of Bourne's work, Poematia, appeared in 1734. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 301.75 US$ 454.85 \| JP¥ 39129] Book number: 6167 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[BRAMSTON (JAMES)]: The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 47 [48 adverts for ten books], engraved frontispiece, engraved oval vignette of Homer on title-page, two rules above imprint, 19th century boards; gutter between frontispiece and title-page a little stained, spine worn and slightly defective. Foxon B386. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 4716 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[BRAMSTON (JAMES)]: The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 45 [46 blank], engraved ornament of smiling face beneath vertically-lined semi-circle beneath bunches of leaves on title-page, disbound; title-page slightly soiled and frayed at inner margin and holding by one thread. ?Foxon B383. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 71.5 US$ 107.51 \| JP¥ 9249] Book number: 5461 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[BRAMSTON (JAMES)]: The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 47 [48 adverts for ten books], engraved frontispiece, engraved oval vignette of Homer on title-page, two rules above imprint, 19th century boards; gutter between frontispiece and title-page a little stained, spine worn and slightly defective. Foxon B386. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 5665 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BROWN (JOHN): The History of the Rise and Progress of Poetry, Through it's [sic] several Species. Written by Dr. Brown. Newcastle: Printed for J. White and T. Saint..., 1764. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 266 [267 - 268 adverts], contemporary calf; front cover detached, rear joint cracked, binding worn. The Advertisement notes, "It is thought proper to inform the Purchasers of the 'Dissertation the Rise, Union, &c. of Poetry and Music,' that the Substance of this Volume is contained in That; which is now thrown into the present Form, for the Sake of such classical Readers as are not particularly conversant with Music." Brown's Dissertation was published in 1763 in London. Brown's book is a constructive and instructive attempt to fuse literary history and aesthetic theory, and while some of Brown's theorizing is apparently at odds with his facts, he nevertheless was trying to keep aesthetics firmly grounded in empirical data. Eddy 65. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 241.5 US$ 363.88 \| JP¥ 31303] Book number: 5528 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BROWNE (ISAAC HAWKINS): De Animi Immortalitate. Poema. Editio Quarta. Londini: Apud T. Cadell et G. Davies, 1811. Tall 8vo, pp. 48, original boards; spine defective, front joint cracked, rear hinge cracked. With the contemporary autograph "A Harrison/ Ch Ch" on the front paste-down end-paper. First published in 1754, Browne's De Animi Immortalitate was first translated into English by W. Hay, also in 1754, and subsequently by various other 18th century authors. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.5 US$ 74.43 \| JP¥ 6403] Book number: 5011 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[?BUCKINGHAM (GEORGE VILLIERS, SECOND DUKE OF]: An Epitaph upon Thomas Late Lord Fairfax. Written by a Person of Honour. [London, but no place or printed], [1679 or 1680]. FIRST EDITION. Folio broadside, printed on both sides of the sheet; drop-head title, with a contemporary ms. note below, "The D. of Buckingham, His Son in Law." Buckingham married Mary Fairfax, the daughter and sole heir of the wealthy Lord Fairfax. Nevertheless, this verse epitaph gracefully compliments his father-in-law. The work probably circulated in manuscript long after Fairfax's death. Wing B 5311, accepting the attribution to Buckingham, which seems to be further confirmed by the ms. attribution here. GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 543.25 US$ 818.73 \| JP¥ 70432] Book number: 5969 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[BUCKINGHAM (GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF; OR POSSIBLY CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET]: An Exclamation against Julian, Secretary to the Muses; With the Character of a Libeller. By a Person of Quality. [London, but no place or printer], [1679]. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. 4, with the two leaves separated. Drop-head title only (as issued), with the "a" after "Character" in the title inked through and replaced in ms. in a contemporary hand with "Sr Carr Scroop"; margins a little frayed, small stain at top of leaves. As the contemporary annotator correctly observes, these verse are an attack on Sir Carr Scrope (1649 - 1680), the Restoration wit, man of fashion, and companion to Charles II. "Julian" is here attacked for writings too dangerous or libellous to print, viz., "Thou Common Shore of this Poetick Town,/ Where all our Excrements of Wit are thrown.../ Thou Julia.../ Dost from this Dung thy well-pick'd Guineys gather." The invective continues much in this vein, libellous, sarcastic, and dismissive. ESTC identifies Julian as Sir Roger L'Estrange. Wing E 3844. Macdonald, Dryden, 191; with a long note of the historical Julian, who was also much maligned by poets in his age. Macdonald notes that the poem is sometimes attributed to Dryden, but it was published in Buckingham's Works in 1705. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 603.5 US$ 909.7 \| JP¥ 78258] Book number: 5968 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BUTLER (SAMUEL): The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol..., 1854. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 258; [iii] - vi, 297 [298 blank], including half-title for first volume, contemporary polished calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label, marbled edges and end-papers; lacks half-title to volume 2, joints and edges very slightly rubbed, otherwise an attractive copy. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 3098 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BUTT (GEORGE): Poems. Kidderminster: Printed for the Author, by G. Gower, 1793. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 215 x 137 mms., pp. [ii], 3 [4 blank, 5 - 7 Contents, 8 blank], 230; [iv], 234, engraved portrait ( by T. Nugent after M. Kean) of author in volume 1, engraved landscape as frontispiece in volume 2, contemporary polished calf, gilt spines, morocco labels; frontispiece volume 1 foxed, paper library stickers at base of each spine, slight wear to joints, with volume 2 y cracked but firm and generally a very good and attractive set, with the armorial bookplates of Joannes Downall and John William Willis Bund on the front end-papers of each volume, and the inscription "From John Marten [sic] Butt Esqr. Oxford 1826" on the recto of the front free end-paper in volume 1. Butt (1741 - 1795), a Church of England clergyman, published his first poem, Isaiah Versified in 1784, and it enjoyed a certain amount of esteem. His poems are not otherwise remarkable, but they do reflect interestingly on some of the people he associated with, as in "A Dialogue between the Earl of Chesterfield and Mr. Garrick, in the Elysian Fields," and one on Edmund Burke. He had once submitted a play to Garrick, entitled Timoleon; Garrick could find no fault with it and thought it was ready for the stage, but it appears not to have been performed. He had three children, a son, John Marten Butt, and two daughters, all of whom published books, though Mary Martha Sherwood was the most successful of the three. John Marten Butt was a friend of Southey's at Westminster School and Oxford, and was the author of The Last Vision of Daniel (1808). ESTC T127825 locates 10 copies in UK libraries; and Harvard, Huntington, and Yale in the U. S. A. OCLC adds McMaster, Princeton, and Cornell. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 603.5 US$ 909.7 \| JP¥ 78258] Book number: 6616 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BYROM (JOHN): Miscellaneous Poems. Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [ii], vi, 352; [ii], vi, 351 [352 blank], 2 engraved vignette head-pieces, recently rebound in half calf, red and black morocco labels, new end-papers. Byrom's subjects are nothing if not eclectic, e. g., inoculation, John Brown's Estimate, a quarrel between Conyers Middleton and Warburton, the fall of man, a future state, though a larger number of the poems are either hymns or on religious themes. GBP 330.00 [Appr.: EURO 362.25 US$ 545.82 \| JP¥ 46955] Book number: 4064 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CAMPBELL (THOMAS): The Poetical Works. London: Henry Colburn..., 1828 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [vi], 238 [239 - 240 adverts]; viii, 237 [238 printer's imprint, 239 - 240 adverts], engraved portrait as frontispiece in volume1 (off-setting on title-page), original boards, uncut, paper labels; boards and edges soiled, spines chipped with slight loss. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 1186 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CARTWRIGHT (EDMUND): Armine and Elvira, A Legendary Tale. In Two Parts. The Sixth Edition. London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1777. 4to, pp. 40, including half-title, engraved vignette (by Isaac Taylor) on frontispiece, recently rebound rather heavily in half calf, marbled boards, morocco label. Cartwright published three editions of this work in 1771, and, according to W. Zachs in his biography of John Murray, "two thousand copies of the poem were printed, making it one of Murray's better selling publications." Zachs, The First John Murray, no. 147. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 2166 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CHURCHILL (CHARLES): Poems... The Third Edition. London: Printed for John Churchill...and W. Flexney..., 1766. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], 369 [370 blank]; [iv], 330, signed on p. 330 by John Churchill, contemporary calf (a little worn); first gathering volume 2 sprung. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 4536 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	COLERIDGE (HARTLEY): Poems. With a Memoir of his Life by His Brother [Derwent Coleridge]. London: Edward Moxon..., 1851. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. ccxv [ccxvi blank], 168; xii, 387 [388 printer's imprint], 7 page list [p. 8 is printer's imprint] dated July, 1851 of Moxon imprints inserted in volume 1 before front free end-paper, including half-titles, engraved portrait as frontispiece in volume 1, embossed cloth in light green to a border design with scroll inset; adverts leaves with several pinholes in top margins, corners a bit worn, upper rear joint volume 1 snagged. With a virtually illegible inscription (possibly "---- Dickens [or Dickins] with/ Edwin's & [?] Lewis's love"), undated, on the recto of the front free end-paper, and a later inscription, "Louisa Holder/ from Julia Wilson/ Christmas 1900" on the half-title of each volume. Julia Wilson is possibly the sister of Emilie Isabel Barrington (nee Wilson, 1841 - 1933). GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 5105 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CONGREVE (WILLIAM): Poems on Several Occasions. Glasgow: Printed and Sold by R. and A. Foulis, 1752. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 189 [190 - 191 contents, 192 blank], page 39 misnumbered 93, contemporary sheepskin; binding dried, lacks label, top and base of spine chipped, joints cracked. Gaskell 224. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 5126 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[COOPER (ELIZABETH), EDITOR]: The Muses Library; Or, A Series of English Poetry, Containing, the Lives and Characters of all the known Writers; the Names of their Patrons; Complete Episodes, by way of Specimen of the larger Pieces, very near the intire Works of some, and large Quotat London: Printed for James Hodges..., 1741. 8vo, pp. [vii], viii - xvi, 400, attractively bound in later (probably early 19th century) full calf, with borders in blind and gilt on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, black morocco labels. A fine copy. Elizabeth Cooper (née Price, c. 1698 - 1761) made the acquaintance of literary men in her husband's auction rooms, and she had William Oldys as her collaborator for this volume, which was first published in 1737. Yvonne Noble in Oxford DNB notes, "The Muses Library is competent in every respect and remains well worth reading. It has been credited by reputable modern scholars as the model for Samuel Johnson's format in his Lives of the Poets and as the chief inspiration for Thomas Chatterton's antique style." David Baker, in his Companion to the Playhouse (1764) said, "we must rank [her] among the Female Geniuses of this Kingdom." This is a reissue of the 1737, with a cancel title-page, but lacking the leaf of adverts before the title-page found in some copies. The final leaf has been reset. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 6135 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	COSENS (JOHN): The Economy of Beauty; In a Series of Fables: Addressed to the Ladies. London: printed for J. Walter, at Homer's Head..., 1777. 2 books in one volume, 4to, 267 x 201 mms., pp. viii, viii, 104;[ii], vi, 114, engraved frontispiece and 22 engraved vignettes, recently rebound in half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label; very occasional foxing, but a very good copy, with the contemporary autograph "Robert Bowery" on the upper margin of the title-page. Cosens (1736 - 1791) first published this work in 1772. The work is dedicated to the Princess Royal, Charlotte Augusta, and in the "Advertisement" Cosens likens his work to Daniel Bellamy's Ethic Amusements, first published in 1768. Cosens asserts that personal beauty is dependent on sentiment and manners, adding, "In polished Life, the Influence of the Ladies, on the Happiness and Morals of Society has been universally felt and acknowledged." Most of the poems take the form of fables, and Cosens doesn't much seem to like high heels: "Behold the Nymph by Nature tall, From French Heels tottering to her Fall...." GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 543.25 US$ 818.73 \| JP¥ 70432] Book number: 6784 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.

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	ADDISON (JOSEPH): Poems on Several Occasions. With a Dissertation upon the Roman Poets. London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1719. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iii] - xvi, [3], 01 [sic, for 10} - 162 [163 - 164 contents], [iv], 53 [54 - 56 adverts], engraved portrait as frontispiece, 2 other engraved plates (one printed on M3 verso and included in pagination), slightly later 18th century calf, recently morocco label; front joint cracked, top and base of spine slightly chipped. The T. A. Hollick copy, with John Drinkwater's small gilt bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, Drinkwater's autograph with date of 1930 in pencil on upper margin of recto of front free end-paper, and the bookplate of Oliver Brett below that. Foxon, p. 4. Straus, pp. 251 - 252. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 241.5 US$ 363.88 \| JP¥ 31303] Book number: 5890 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	AKENSIDE (MARK): The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M. D. Collated with the Best Editions: by Thomas Park. London: Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham...For John Sharpe..., 1805. 2 volumes in 1. Small 8vo, pp. [iv], 171 [172 blank]; [iv], 140, engraved frontispiece (by P. W. Tompkins after Richard Westall) for each volume, 20th century binding in maroon library cloth. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 3302 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ARMSTRONG (JOHN): The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem. London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1754. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 99 [100 adverts]. BOUND WITH: [ARMSTRONG (John)]: The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Essay. A New Edition. London: Printed for M. Cooper..., 1753. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 43 [44 blank], including half-title. 2 volumes in 1, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt to a thistle design; binding rubbed and dried, joints cracked, lacks label. John Armstrong (1709 - 1779) published The Art of Preserving Health in a handsome quarto in 1744 and The Oeconomy of Love in 1736. Both were frequently reprinted throughout the 18th century and into the 19th century, though he did not include the latter work in his collected works published in 1770. Armstorng published toned-down version of The Oeconomy of Love in 1768, reducing its original 614 lines to 550.. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 5766 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[ARMSTRONG (JOHN)]: The Economy of Love. A Poetical Essay. Bristol [Printed at The Mercury Press], August 1813. 8vo, pp. xx, 43 [44 blank], including half-title, original boards, uncut; corner cut from blank leaf before half-title, spine defective with most of paper missing. Armstrong (1709 - 1779) published The Oeconomy of Love in 1736, and it was frequently reprinted thereafter, though he did not include it in his collected works. He revised and shortened the work for an edition published in 1768, in which he toned down some of the more lubricious passages. The text of the poem here is 617 lines long. The anonymous editor has supplied an introduction of some 15 pages, in which he makes much of the mention in the poem of Gaspar Tagliacozzi (1545 - 1599), who also has a place in Tristram Shandy, in a discourse about the surgical repair of noses. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 5611 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[ARMSTRONG (JOHN)]: The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Essay. The Third Edition. London: Printed for T. Cooper..., 1739. 8vo (in 4), pp. [ii], 43 [44 blank], disbound; lacks half-title, several leaves damp-stained, severely on pages 19, 31, and 43. First published in 1736, Armstrong's poem was one of the more interesting pieces of poetic erotica in the 18th century, though Armstrong (1708 - 1779) excluded it from his collected Miscellanies in 1772. In 1768, Armstrong published a "revised and corrected" edition, which was shorter and left out some of the more lubricious and amusing lines. This printing retains its classic exposition of a "wet dream": "The Boy may wrestle, when/ Night-working Fancy steals him to the Arms/ Of Nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the Rage/ Of the soft Tumult, every turgid Cell/ Spontaneous disembogues its lucid Store,/ Bland and of azure Tinct." Foxon A306. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 6196 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ASHBY (SAMUEL): Miscellaneous Poems. The Illustrious Friends; Address to Music and Poesy, &c. &c. London: Printed for W. Miller..., 1794. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 245 x 190 mms., pp. xiv [xv Contents, xvi blank], 158, including list of subscribers, recently rebound in quarter calf, raised bands between gilt rules, morocco label, marbled boards; text washed but remains of large stain (approximately one quarter of each leaf, lower left-hand corner) persist to about page 66. With the contemporary autograph of the M. P., Edward Monckton, one of the subscribers, on the title-page. Monckton also subscribed to Leigh Hunt's Juvenilia (1803). Ashby is unknown to ODND, but he was a native of Bungay, and many of the subscribers are from East Anglia. The poems include "Reply to the Goitre," "The Captive Fly," "The Anniversary of Belinda's Birth-Day," and concludes with "Address to Music and Poesy." One poem, "Event in Scotland," seems curiously mis-named, as it is a rape narrative, in which a Youth, who "glows with wild desire" pursues the daughter of Acasto, a Scottish laird (apparently), who, in repelling him, throws herself off a precipice to her death. Whether this alludes to an actual "event" (hence the title) or is intended to be an allegory in the manner of the next poems, "Bride-Cake; An Allegorical Vision" is unclear. ESTC T39429 locates copies in BL, Cambridge, Bodleian; American Philosophical Society, Princeton, Minnesota, Yale. OCLC adds Indiana and National Library of Australia. GBP 825.00 [Appr.: EURO 905.25 US$ 1364.55 \| JP¥ 117386] Book number: 6374 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX (NICOLAS); Les Œuvres de M. Boileau Despreaux, avec des Eclaircissemens Historiques. A Paris, Chez la Veue Alix..., 1740. 2 volumes. Large 4to, pp. [iv], lxx, 470; [x], viii, 567 [568 Privilege], including half-title in each volume, title-pages in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1, engraved head- and tail-pieces in each volume, 6 full-page engraved plates in volume 1, X2 in cancelled state in volume 1, contemporary tree calf, rebacked with old spines ornately gilt in compartments, morocco labels laid down, marbled end-papers; some wear to spines and joints. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 2470 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BOURNE (VINCENT): Miscellaneous Poems: Consisting of Originals and Translations. London, Printed for W. Ginger...And sold by J. Dodsley...and E. Johnson..., 1772. Large 4to, 252 x 198 mms., pp. xvi, 352, contemporary olive green morocco, ornately gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label, all edges gilt; bookplate crudely removed from front paste-down end-paper, corners a little worn, but a very good and attractive copy, with the autograph "Thos. Assheton Smith" (1776–1858), quarry owner and sportsman, on the upper margin of the recto of the front free end-paper. It is not clear why this edition of the poems of Bourne (1694 - 1747) should have attracted a list of just over 400 subscribers, though a Mr. and Mrs. Ginger (the work was printed for W. Ginger) are among the subscribers. I note that Governor Price, Uvedale Price, Robert Price, and William Price were among the subscribers. Pencil notes on the front free end-papers call this "First Edition" and "Best Edition"; the closest thing to a good scholarly edition of Bourne's poems is probably that by Mitford published in 1840, while the first collection of Bourne's work, Poematia, appeared in 1734. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 301.75 US$ 454.85 \| JP¥ 39129] Book number: 6167 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[BRAMSTON (JAMES)]: The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 47 [48 adverts for ten books], engraved frontispiece, engraved oval vignette of Homer on title-page, two rules above imprint, 19th century boards; gutter between frontispiece and title-page a little stained, spine worn and slightly defective. Foxon B386. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 4716 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[BRAMSTON (JAMES)]: The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 45 [46 blank], engraved ornament of smiling face beneath vertically-lined semi-circle beneath bunches of leaves on title-page, disbound; title-page slightly soiled and frayed at inner margin and holding by one thread. ?Foxon B383. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 71.5 US$ 107.51 \| JP¥ 9249] Book number: 5461 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[BRAMSTON (JAMES)]: The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 47 [48 adverts for ten books], engraved frontispiece, engraved oval vignette of Homer on title-page, two rules above imprint, 19th century boards; gutter between frontispiece and title-page a little stained, spine worn and slightly defective. Foxon B386. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 5665 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BROWN (JOHN): The History of the Rise and Progress of Poetry, Through it's [sic] several Species. Written by Dr. Brown. Newcastle: Printed for J. White and T. Saint..., 1764. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 266 [267 - 268 adverts], contemporary calf; front cover detached, rear joint cracked, binding worn. The Advertisement notes, "It is thought proper to inform the Purchasers of the 'Dissertation the Rise, Union, &c. of Poetry and Music,' that the Substance of this Volume is contained in That; which is now thrown into the present Form, for the Sake of such classical Readers as are not particularly conversant with Music." Brown's Dissertation was published in 1763 in London. Brown's book is a constructive and instructive attempt to fuse literary history and aesthetic theory, and while some of Brown's theorizing is apparently at odds with his facts, he nevertheless was trying to keep aesthetics firmly grounded in empirical data. Eddy 65. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 241.5 US$ 363.88 \| JP¥ 31303] Book number: 5528 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BROWNE (ISAAC HAWKINS): De Animi Immortalitate. Poema. Editio Quarta. Londini: Apud T. Cadell et G. Davies, 1811. Tall 8vo, pp. 48, original boards; spine defective, front joint cracked, rear hinge cracked. With the contemporary autograph "A Harrison/ Ch Ch" on the front paste-down end-paper. First published in 1754, Browne's De Animi Immortalitate was first translated into English by W. Hay, also in 1754, and subsequently by various other 18th century authors. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.5 US$ 74.43 \| JP¥ 6403] Book number: 5011 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[?BUCKINGHAM (GEORGE VILLIERS, SECOND DUKE OF]: An Epitaph upon Thomas Late Lord Fairfax. Written by a Person of Honour. [London, but no place or printed], [1679 or 1680]. FIRST EDITION. Folio broadside, printed on both sides of the sheet; drop-head title, with a contemporary ms. note below, "The D. of Buckingham, His Son in Law." Buckingham married Mary Fairfax, the daughter and sole heir of the wealthy Lord Fairfax. Nevertheless, this verse epitaph gracefully compliments his father-in-law. The work probably circulated in manuscript long after Fairfax's death. Wing B 5311, accepting the attribution to Buckingham, which seems to be further confirmed by the ms. attribution here. GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 543.25 US$ 818.73 \| JP¥ 70432] Book number: 5969 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[BUCKINGHAM (GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF; OR POSSIBLY CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET]: An Exclamation against Julian, Secretary to the Muses; With the Character of a Libeller. By a Person of Quality. [London, but no place or printer], [1679]. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. 4, with the two leaves separated. Drop-head title only (as issued), with the "a" after "Character" in the title inked through and replaced in ms. in a contemporary hand with "Sr Carr Scroop"; margins a little frayed, small stain at top of leaves. As the contemporary annotator correctly observes, these verse are an attack on Sir Carr Scrope (1649 - 1680), the Restoration wit, man of fashion, and companion to Charles II. "Julian" is here attacked for writings too dangerous or libellous to print, viz., "Thou Common Shore of this Poetick Town,/ Where all our Excrements of Wit are thrown.../ Thou Julia.../ Dost from this Dung thy well-pick'd Guineys gather." The invective continues much in this vein, libellous, sarcastic, and dismissive. ESTC identifies Julian as Sir Roger L'Estrange. Wing E 3844. Macdonald, Dryden, 191; with a long note of the historical Julian, who was also much maligned by poets in his age. Macdonald notes that the poem is sometimes attributed to Dryden, but it was published in Buckingham's Works in 1705. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 603.5 US$ 909.7 \| JP¥ 78258] Book number: 5968 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BUTLER (SAMUEL): The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol..., 1854. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 258; [iii] - vi, 297 [298 blank], including half-title for first volume, contemporary polished calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label, marbled edges and end-papers; lacks half-title to volume 2, joints and edges very slightly rubbed, otherwise an attractive copy. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 3098 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BUTT (GEORGE): Poems. Kidderminster: Printed for the Author, by G. Gower, 1793. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 215 x 137 mms., pp. [ii], 3 [4 blank, 5 - 7 Contents, 8 blank], 230; [iv], 234, engraved portrait ( by T. Nugent after M. Kean) of author in volume 1, engraved landscape as frontispiece in volume 2, contemporary polished calf, gilt spines, morocco labels; frontispiece volume 1 foxed, paper library stickers at base of each spine, slight wear to joints, with volume 2 y cracked but firm and generally a very good and attractive set, with the armorial bookplates of Joannes Downall and John William Willis Bund on the front end-papers of each volume, and the inscription "From John Marten [sic] Butt Esqr. Oxford 1826" on the recto of the front free end-paper in volume 1. Butt (1741 - 1795), a Church of England clergyman, published his first poem, Isaiah Versified in 1784, and it enjoyed a certain amount of esteem. His poems are not otherwise remarkable, but they do reflect interestingly on some of the people he associated with, as in "A Dialogue between the Earl of Chesterfield and Mr. Garrick, in the Elysian Fields," and one on Edmund Burke. He had once submitted a play to Garrick, entitled Timoleon; Garrick could find no fault with it and thought it was ready for the stage, but it appears not to have been performed. He had three children, a son, John Marten Butt, and two daughters, all of whom published books, though Mary Martha Sherwood was the most successful of the three. John Marten Butt was a friend of Southey's at Westminster School and Oxford, and was the author of The Last Vision of Daniel (1808). ESTC T127825 locates 10 copies in UK libraries; and Harvard, Huntington, and Yale in the U. S. A. OCLC adds McMaster, Princeton, and Cornell. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 603.5 US$ 909.7 \| JP¥ 78258] Book number: 6616 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	BYROM (JOHN): Miscellaneous Poems. Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [ii], vi, 352; [ii], vi, 351 [352 blank], 2 engraved vignette head-pieces, recently rebound in half calf, red and black morocco labels, new end-papers. Byrom's subjects are nothing if not eclectic, e. g., inoculation, John Brown's Estimate, a quarrel between Conyers Middleton and Warburton, the fall of man, a future state, though a larger number of the poems are either hymns or on religious themes. GBP 330.00 [Appr.: EURO 362.25 US$ 545.82 \| JP¥ 46955] Book number: 4064 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CAMPBELL (THOMAS): The Poetical Works. London: Henry Colburn..., 1828 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [vi], 238 [239 - 240 adverts]; viii, 237 [238 printer's imprint, 239 - 240 adverts], engraved portrait as frontispiece in volume1 (off-setting on title-page), original boards, uncut, paper labels; boards and edges soiled, spines chipped with slight loss. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 1186 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CARTWRIGHT (EDMUND): Armine and Elvira, A Legendary Tale. In Two Parts. The Sixth Edition. London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1777. 4to, pp. 40, including half-title, engraved vignette (by Isaac Taylor) on frontispiece, recently rebound rather heavily in half calf, marbled boards, morocco label. Cartwright published three editions of this work in 1771, and, according to W. Zachs in his biography of John Murray, "two thousand copies of the poem were printed, making it one of Murray's better selling publications." Zachs, The First John Murray, no. 147. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 2166 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CHURCHILL (CHARLES): Poems... The Third Edition. London: Printed for John Churchill...and W. Flexney..., 1766. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], 369 [370 blank]; [iv], 330, signed on p. 330 by John Churchill, contemporary calf (a little worn); first gathering volume 2 sprung. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 4536 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	COLERIDGE (HARTLEY): Poems. With a Memoir of his Life by His Brother [Derwent Coleridge]. London: Edward Moxon..., 1851. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. ccxv [ccxvi blank], 168; xii, 387 [388 printer's imprint], 7 page list [p. 8 is printer's imprint] dated July, 1851 of Moxon imprints inserted in volume 1 before front free end-paper, including half-titles, engraved portrait as frontispiece in volume 1, embossed cloth in light green to a border design with scroll inset; adverts leaves with several pinholes in top margins, corners a bit worn, upper rear joint volume 1 snagged. With a virtually illegible inscription (possibly "---- Dickens [or Dickins] with/ Edwin's & [?] Lewis's love"), undated, on the recto of the front free end-paper, and a later inscription, "Louisa Holder/ from Julia Wilson/ Christmas 1900" on the half-title of each volume. Julia Wilson is possibly the sister of Emilie Isabel Barrington (nee Wilson, 1841 - 1933). GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 5105 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CONGREVE (WILLIAM): Poems on Several Occasions. Glasgow: Printed and Sold by R. and A. Foulis, 1752. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 189 [190 - 191 contents, 192 blank], page 39 misnumbered 93, contemporary sheepskin; binding dried, lacks label, top and base of spine chipped, joints cracked. Gaskell 224. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 5126 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[COOPER (ELIZABETH), EDITOR]: The Muses Library; Or, A Series of English Poetry, Containing, the Lives and Characters of all the known Writers; the Names of their Patrons; Complete Episodes, by way of Specimen of the larger Pieces, very near the intire Works of some, and large Quotat London: Printed for James Hodges..., 1741. 8vo, pp. [vii], viii - xvi, 400, attractively bound in later (probably early 19th century) full calf, with borders in blind and gilt on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, black morocco labels. A fine copy. Elizabeth Cooper (née Price, c. 1698 - 1761) made the acquaintance of literary men in her husband's auction rooms, and she had William Oldys as her collaborator for this volume, which was first published in 1737. Yvonne Noble in Oxford DNB notes, "The Muses Library is competent in every respect and remains well worth reading. It has been credited by reputable modern scholars as the model for Samuel Johnson's format in his Lives of the Poets and as the chief inspiration for Thomas Chatterton's antique style." David Baker, in his Companion to the Playhouse (1764) said, "we must rank [her] among the Female Geniuses of this Kingdom." This is a reissue of the 1737, with a cancel title-page, but lacking the leaf of adverts before the title-page found in some copies. The final leaf has been reset. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 6135 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	COSENS (JOHN): The Economy of Beauty; In a Series of Fables: Addressed to the Ladies. London: printed for J. Walter, at Homer's Head..., 1777. 2 books in one volume, 4to, 267 x 201 mms., pp. viii, viii, 104;[ii], vi, 114, engraved frontispiece and 22 engraved vignettes, recently rebound in half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label; very occasional foxing, but a very good copy, with the contemporary autograph "Robert Bowery" on the upper margin of the title-page. Cosens (1736 - 1791) first published this work in 1772. The work is dedicated to the Princess Royal, Charlotte Augusta, and in the "Advertisement" Cosens likens his work to Daniel Bellamy's Ethic Amusements, first published in 1768. Cosens asserts that personal beauty is dependent on sentiment and manners, adding, "In polished Life, the Influence of the Ladies, on the Happiness and Morals of Society has been universally felt and acknowledged." Most of the poems take the form of fables, and Cosens doesn't much seem to like high heels: "Behold the Nymph by Nature tall, From French Heels tottering to her Fall...." GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 543.25 US$ 818.73 \| JP¥ 70432] Book number: 6784 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.