[CANNING (George)]

Corrected Report of the Speech of the Right Hon. George Canning, in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, May 6th. on Mr. Lambton's motion for a censure on Mr. Canning's embassy to Lisbon.

London: John Murray, 1817. First edition, 8vo, [4], 112pp., with half-title, paper wrappers, uncut.

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Book number: 38309

Keywords: POLITICS PORTUGAL

[BURKE (John French)]

Cottage Economy and Cookery, from Essays Submitted to the Royal English Agricultural Society.

Grantham: Printed by S. Ridge. 1843. First Edition, small 8vo, 26pp., orig. printed wrappers. "The following Remarks have been submitted to the Royal English Agricultural Society, and have met the unanimous approbation of its members. They contain Hints to the Labourers, which have no other object but the improvement of their comfort and happiness. Since they were compiled, a reduction has taken place in some of the articles of domestic consumption, which it is hoped will render the adoption of the Hints more easy to the Labourers."—Preface. Oxford, English Cookery Books. p.174 (1844 London edition); Only the BL copy of this Grantham printed edition located.

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Book number: 27621

Keywords: AGRICULTURE COOKERY GASTRONOMY GRANTHAM LINCOLNSHIRE FOOD POOR SOCIAL CONDITIONS

[MORE (Hannah)]

The Cottage Cook; or, Mrs. Jones's Cheap Dishes; Shewing the Way to do much Good with little Money.

London: Sold by J. Evans & Son (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts); J. Hatchard; J. Binns, [c. 1805.] 8vo (175 x 115 mm), woodcut vignette to title, light staining and age toning throughout, blank fore-edge margin of title page with small chip, disbound, uncut. Rare Cheap Repository tract by Hannah More, aimed through the use of a moral tale at helping less educated and poor women run efficient, economical kitchens which could still provide nutritious food to their families. One of several editions published between 1795 and 1810, all of which are scarce. Maclean, p. 78.

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Book number: 38300

Keywords: GASTRONOMY COOKERY FOOD WINE DRINK POOR LADY'S WOMEN COOKS

[MIDDLETON (Thomas Fanshaw)]

The Country Spectator.

Gainsborough: Printed by Messers. Mozley and Co., 1793. First edition, 8vo (205 x 120 mm), [8], 266pp., the 8 preliminary pages were issued with the final number and are often missing, several neat circular library stamps, numbers in ink to verso of title page, endpapers brown from turn-ins, cont. half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached. A complete run of thirty-three weekly numbers, edited and largely written by Thomas Middleton, published October 1792 - May 1793, bound up with an additional half-title, general title, dedication leaf and table of contents. Middleton was Coleridge's protector and mentor at Christ's Hospital and later at Jesus College, Cambridge.

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Book number: 36581

Keywords: ENGLISH LITERATURE SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE LINCOLNSHIRE GAINSBOROUGH IMPRINT

[WELDON (Anthony)]

The Court and Character of King James, Written and Taken by Sir A. W. Being and Eye, and Eare Witness.

London: Reprinted by G. Smeeton, 1817. Small 4to (198 x 155 mm), iv, 61, [3]pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, disbound. Reprint of the original edition which was printed in 1650.

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Book number: 40702

Keywords: HISTORY FACSIMILE KING JAMES

[MARKHAM (Grevase)]

Covntrey Contentments, or The English Huswife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, oats, their excellent vses in a family, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the honour of the noble house of Exceter, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.

Printed at London by J[ohn] B[eale] for R. Jackson, 1623. Small to (184 x 128 mm), [8], 80, 79-174, 173-133 [i.e. 233], [1]pp., without final blank, fore-edge shaved effecting some margin notes, marbled endpapers, nineteenth-century full smooth calf, boards with floral gilt border, spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, a nice copy. An enlarged version of part 2 of his: Countrey contentments, in two bookes, 1615. Also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth, 1623. Poynter, 34.1; STC 17343; Cagle, 847; Rothamsted, p.97.

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Book number: 39425

Keywords: GASTRONOMY COOKERY FOOD WINE BREWING WOMEN

[DOUGLAS (Sir Howard)?]

The Crisis of Spain.

London: John Murray, 1823. Second Edition, [2], 81, [1] + 8pp., of adverts. at end, disbound.

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Book number: 38363

Keywords: SPAIN POLITICS

[NAVAL OFFICER].

A Cruise; or, Three Months on the Continent. By a Naval Officer.

London: Printed for Law and Whittaker, 1818. First edition, 8vo (220 x 135 mm), iv, 129, [1]pp., 4 hand-coloured engraved plates (frontispiece entitled View of the Ariel Mountains, commonly call'd French Mountains), title-page a little browned and spotted, cont. half calf, patterned paper boards. One of the earliest accounts and illustrations of a roller coaster in an English book. The author starts his continental tour during the Summer of 1817 at Ostend and continues to Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Delft, Lyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Paris, and places in between. Provenance: Ownership signature of Charles Wright; bookplate of John Evan Bedford. Abbey, Travel, 18.

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Book number: 36852

Keywords: TRAVEL CONTINENTAL TOUR ROLLER COASTER

[LORRAIN DE VALLEMONT (Pierre)]

Curiosities of Nature and Art in Husbandry and Gardening. Containing several new experiments in the Improvement of Land, Trees, Fruits, &c. And also nice and useful Observations relating to the Vegetation and Propagation of Plants; with choice Secrets to make Plants, Flowers and Fruits larger, more beautiful, and to ripen earlier than usual. With several copper cuts.

London: Printed for D. Brown, 1707. First English edition, 8vo, [16], 352pp., engraved frontispiece, [16], 352pp., 12 engraved plates, text browned and spotted throughout, light stain to fore-edge, nineteenth-century red half morocco, rear cover crudely reattached, upper cover detached. A translation of 'Curiositez de la nature' 1705, by P. Le Lorrain de Vallement. Henrey, British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 588.

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Book number: 40146

Keywords: AGRICULTURE BOTANY HUSBANDRY HORTICULTURE GARDENING

[JONES (Griffith)]

Cyfarwyddwr ffyddlon at Orseddfaingc y Grâs: sef, Ffurf o Weddiau i'w Harfer mewn teuluoedd foreu a hwyr. Gan weinidog annheilwng o Eglwys Loegr.

Llundain: Argraphwyd gan J. a W. Olfir, ym Martholomew-Clôs, yn agos i West-Smithfield, 1774. Yr ail argraphiad, 12mo (175 x 105 mm), [4], 5-129, [1] pp., contemporary sheep, hinges partly cracked, small piece missing from tail of spine, a good copy. Gweinidog annheilwng o Eglwys Loegr = Griffith Jones.

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Book number: 37178

Keywords: WELSH LANGUAGE WALES

[MADAN (Falconer)]

The Daniel Press. Memorials of C.H.O. Daniel with a Bibliography of the Press, 1845-1919.

Dawsons of Pall Mall. (Reprint of the 1921 Edition) 1974. 15 Plates, orig. cloth. The bibliography is in two parts, one listing those books printed at Frome 1845-63, the other those printed at Oxford 1863-1919.

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Book number: 20160

[MORE (Hannah)]

The Death of Christ; or, Tract for Good Friday.

London: Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts), No. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield : And J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly ; By S. Hazard : And by all Booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country. [c. 1801]. 12mo, 15, [1]pp., woodcut to title page, disbound. A Cheap Repository Tract.

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Book number: 40035

Keywords: CHAPBOOKS CHEAP REPOSITORY TRACT GOOD FRIDAY RELIGIOUS TRACT EDUCATION HAWKERS NEWSMEN

[ELISON (Thomas)]

Decorations for Parks and Gardens. Designed for Gates, Garden Seats, Alcoves, Temples, Baths, Entrance Gates, Lodges, Facades, Prospects for Towers, Cattle Sheds, Ruins, Bridges, Greenhouses, &c. &c. also a Hot House & Hot Wall: with Plans & Scales on 55 plates.

London: Published by J. Taylor, [c. 1801]. First edition, royal 8vo (236 x 141 mm), engraved title page followed by 55 engraved plates, occasional light spotting but generally and nice clean copy, nineteenth-century quarter morocco, spine rubbed with head a little chipped. A rare pattern book which contains a wide selection of designs for park and garden structures in a variety of styles shown in elevation and plan. This work was traditionally attributed to Charles Middleton, but is now known to be by a Thomas Elison, whose name appears on the title page of a early nineteenth-century Leipzig reprint. It has been variously dated between 1800 and 1805. Provenance: Contemporary neat ink signature to head of title page 'James Masterton'. Archer, 68.1; RIBA, 970.

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Book number: 40300

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE APPLIED ARTS GARDEN DESIGN

[BURGOYNE (Montagu)] [PROSPECTUS].

Dedicated by Permission to His Most Gracious Majesty. This day is published, Select Portions of the Psalms, with a Collection of Metrical Versions, by the most approved authors, and adapted to Music arranged and harmonized for one, two, or three voices, by Mr J. Macdonald Harris. The Profits of the Publication will be exclusively applied to the Support of the Infant School, and a School of Industry. Subscriptions received... where the Work may be seen...

Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Thomas and James Hodgson, [c. 1826.] 4to (400 x 248 mm), single sheet folded as a letter addressed to 'Mr, Charnley, Bookseller, Bigg Market, Newcastle.', seal broken, with a printed list of some of the subscribers so far, inscription on first leaf "Sir I enclose some bills which I request you to circulate adding the names of any new subscribers. Your obed Sir, M Burgoyne, Durham, 16 Nov." slightly creased and dusty at edges. The paper is watermarked "A Cowan & Son Walley Field 1826." The work mentioned was published to two volumes in 1827 with the extra imput of Richard Hebber.

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Book number: 40084

Keywords: PROSPECTUS MUSIC NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BOOKSELLER CHARNLEY

[WILSON (Daniel)]

A Defence of the Church Missionary Society against the Objections of the Rev. Josiah Thomas, M.A. Archdeacon of Bath. By a Clergyman.

London: Printed by Ellerton and Henderson, 1818. Second edition, 8vo, 40pp., disbound pamphlet.

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Book number: 37897

Keywords: THEOLOGY PAMPHLETS