[DUFF (E. Gordon)]

The Chichester Cathedral Prayer Book. Written and Illuminated in England by a Lancastian Scribe and Artist during the Episcopate of Reginald Pecock (1450-1457).

[London: J. Pearson & Co. Ltd., Chiswick Press, 1909.] Small 4to, 23, [1]pp., one of 50 copies, printed in red and black, 5 plates, cont. quarter morocco, some light staining, covers warped, upper joint split.

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Book number: 40794

Keywords: ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS PALAEOGRAPHY CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL PRAYER BOOK

[CHILCOTT (J.)]

Chilcott's New Guide to Bristol, Clifton and the Hotwells; With a Description of the Neighbouring Seats, Villages, &c. Illustrated with a Plan of Bristol, and a Map of the Country Eleven Miles Round.

Bristol: Printed and Published by J. Chilcott, 1826. First edition, 12mo (155 x 95 mm), ix, [1], [3]-241, [1]pp., frontis., 2 folding engraved maps, text illustrs., orig. publisher's printed boards, upper joint split but holding firm, uncut, a very nice copy.

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Book number: 37109

Keywords: ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY SOMERSET GLOUCESTERSHIRE AVON BRISTOL CLIFTON HOTWELLS

[MARTYN (Thomas)]

A Chronological Series of Engravers from the Invention of the Art to the Beginning of the Present Century.

Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1770. First edition, 12mo, [4], xii, 128, [16]pp., LACKING the 3 folding plates of engravers' marks and monograms, cont. calf, rubbed, re-backed with inner hinges strengthened. A preface of 12 pages which is a brief history of engraving is followed by 128 pages of names arranged in two series, the first being numbers 1 (Martin Schoen) to 639 (J. Dieu de S. Jean), foreign engravers, the second being numbers 640 (Thomas Geminie or Geminus) to 805 (James Green), English engravers. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.135; Levis, p.51-2.

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Book number: 40181

Keywords: ENGRAVING ENGRAVERS

[HILL (Sir Richard)]

The Church of England Vindicated from the Rigid Notions of Calvinism; Or, Some observations on a letter from the author of Pietas Oxoniensis to the Reverend Doctor Adams of Shewsbury. To which is added, a letter to the Reverend Mr. Romaine, in answer to his letter to Dr. Adams.

London: Printed for B. White and T. Cadell, 1770. First edition, [4], 124pp., with half-title, disbound.

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Book number: 33278

Keywords: THEOLOGY CHURCH OF ENGLANG PAMPHLETS

[LANDOR (Walter Savage)]

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare. Euseby Treen Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough clerk before the worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy knight touching deer-stealing on the 9th day of September in the year of Grace 1582. Now first published from original papers. To which is added A Conference of Master Edmund Spenser a gentleman of note with the Earl of Essex touching the state of Ireland A.D. 1595.

London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. First edition, 8vo, xi, [1], 284pp., without half-title, cont. cloth, spine lettered in gilt.

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Book number: 39219

Keywords: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

[COBDEN (Richard)]

Cobden-Delane Controversy. Opinions of the Liberal Press on the Correspondence between Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Delane, the Editor of the "Times."

Manchester: Alexander Ireland and Co., 1864. First edition, 54pp., disbound.

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Book number: 33288

Keywords: POLITICS PAMPHLETS Political history Newspapers Political leaders Liberalism

[GORDON (George)]

Collectanea for a Flora of Moray; or, A List of the Phaenogamous Plants and Ferns Hitherto Found within the Province.

Elgin: [Privately] Printed by Alex. Russell, 1839. First edition, viii, 40pp., orig. wrappers. Freeman, 1359; Simpson, p. 349; Not in Hall & Rickard.

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Book number: 30623

Keywords: BOTANY ANTIQUARIAN FERNS BOTANICAL BOOKS ELGIN FERNS MORAY SCOTLAND PRIVATELY PRINTED NATURAL HISTORY

[WHITWORTH (Sir Charles)]

A Collection of the Supplies, and Ways and Means, from the Revolution to the Present Time. By a Member of Parliament.

London: Printed for R. Davies; J. Newbery; L. Davis and C. Reymers; and Sold by W. Nicoll, 1763. First Edition, 8vo (170 x 100 mm), [4], 183, [1] pp., "From the Editor" written in ink on fly-leaf, folding table, turn-ins offset, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, spine rubbed, label. Provenance: Frank Herbert Muir, CBE was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, with his signature in pencil on front paste-down. Kress, 6148; Goldsmith, 9909; Higgs, 2966; Roscoe, A624 (1).

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Book number: 35522

Keywords: ECONOMICS FINANCE COMMERCE ENGLISH HISTORY

[HATSELL (John)]

A Collection of Cases of Privilege of Parliament, from the Earliest Records to the Year 1628. [Bound with:] Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons, under Separate Titles, with Observations. [Bound with:] Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons, under Separate Titles, with Observations. Volume III. Relating to Lords, and Supply.

London: Printed by H. Hughs, for J. Dodsley, 1776-1781-1785. First edition, 3 vols., in one, 4to, viii, [4], 211, [17]; xi, [3], 247, 33pp., without half-title; x, [2], 361, [29]pp., without half-title, some light water-staining but generally a very clean and useable copy, cont. calf, rubbed, upper board detached.

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Book number: 37647

Keywords: LAW

[WESLEY (John)]

Collection of Psalms and Hymns. Charles-Town, Printed by Lewis Timothy. 1737. With a Preface by the Rev. G. Osborn, D.D.

London: T. Woolmer, [1882]. Small 8vo, [2], vi, 74, 36pp., some leaves loose, margins brown, cont. calf, rubbed and worn rebacked, a working copy.

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Book number: 39221

[WAGSTAFFE (William)]

A Comment upon the History of Tom Thumb. Tom Thumb.

London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1711. First edition, 24pp., disbound, a very good copy. A brilliant parody ridiculing the two numbers in Addison's 'Spectator' which praise 'Chevy Chase'. The poem on which Wagstaffe focuses critical attention is the old ballad of 'Tom Thumb, his Life and Death' ("in Arthur's Court Tom Thumb did live" - STC 24115, Wing T1789A-1790B), a work "proper to adorn the shelves of Bodley or the Vatican". This powerful essay, full of mock learning ("I have consulted Monsieur Le Clerk and my Friend Dr. B---ly"), textual criticism (having collated "all the Manuscripts.... also an Arabick Copy.... I find it an Interpolation"), Virgilian parallels and critical acclaim for the ballad's supposed "Poetical Genius" and emotions "that may move the Mind of the most polite Reader, with the inward Meltings of Humanity". Suggestions that this piece may have sufficient literary merit to suppose that Swift must have had a hand in it may be discounted Wagstaffe was a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whether he was also an original satirist influenced by Swift is open to question, but he certainly must have met him quite frequently at the house of his father-in-law, Charles Bernard. Teerink-Scouten, 484 ("doubtful").

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Book number: 30804

Keywords: Satire Switiana ANTIQUARIAN JONATHAN SWIFT PAMPHLETS

[HUTCHINSON (John Hely)]

The Commercial Restraints of Ireland considered in a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord. Containing an Historical Account of the Affairs of that Kingdom, so far as they relate to this Subject.

Dublin: Printed by William Hallhead, 1779. First edition, xxii, 240pp., library stamp on title and places in the text, early ownership signature on upper blank margin of leaf following the title, 3 folding tables at end (last defective), old water-staining of the tables and last 2 leaves, first and last few leaves chipped at margins, disbound. One of the significant works of it's era advocating free trade for Ireland, written in the form of a sequence of letters to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Buckinghamshire. However, "its doctrines being regarded as seditious it was ordered to be burnt by the common hangman." - DNB. Bradshaw, 2109; Wagner, 348; Kress, B203; Goldsmith, 11826.

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Book number: 37778

Keywords: ECONOMICS IRELAND IRISH TRADE COMMERCE BURNT BOOKS

[RICHARDSON (Joseph)]

A complete investigation of Mr. Eden's Treaty, as it may affect the commerce, the revenue, or the general policy of Great Britain.

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1787. First edition, half-title, [4],176 [i.e.167], [3]pp., last page misnumbered, with final errata leaf, disbound.

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Book number: 33875

Keywords: Economics COMMERCE Pamphlet

[RICHARDSON (Joseph)]

A complete investigation of Mr. Eden's Treaty, as it may affect the commerce, the revenue, or the general policy of Great Britain.

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1787. First Edition, half-title, last page misnumbered, final errata leaf, [4],176 [i.e.167], [3]pp., disbound.

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Book number: 34483

Keywords: Economics COMMERCE Pamphlet

[RICHARDSON (Joseph)]

A complete investigation of Mr. Eden's Treaty, as it may affect the commerce, the revenue, or the general policy of Great Britain.

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1787. First Edition, half-title, last page misnumbered, final errata leaf, [4],176 [i.e.167], [3]pp., disbound.

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Book number: 35494

Keywords: POLITICS Economics