BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. NEW TESTAMENT

The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.

Oxford: Printed by the University-Printers, 1712. 8vo, 194 x 114 mms., unpaginated, but with the Psalms printed first, followed by the forms of prayer, collating [ii3], B4 Q - Z8 2A - 2B8. BOUND WITH: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated Out of the Original Greek, and With the former Translated diligently Compared and Revised.... London, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty. 1709. 8vo, 194 x 114 ms., unpaginated, collating A - 2G8, pp. 489, "Cum Privilegio" below imprint; both texts with title-pages and text ruled in red. 2 volumes in 1, bound in contemporary plum gilt-panelled morocco, spine ornately gilt in compartments, all edges gilt. A very good copy in an attractive binding. The BCP seems to correspond to ESTC T182599, but without plates. The New Testament corresponds to ESTC N471842 NLS only).

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Book number: 8006

Catalogue: Church of England

Keywords: Church of England New Testament prose

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

The Book of Common Prayer. And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.

Cambridge, Printed by John Archdeacon and John Bures, Printer to the University; And sol by C. Dilly, F. and C. Rivinton, And B. & J. White in London; and J. &j. Merrill, in Cambridge. 1794. 8vo, 202 x 126 mms., unpaginated, collating a-b8 c2 A-Aa8 A-P8, contemporary red sheepskin, spine ornately gilt in compartments, all edges gilt; marbled free end-papers removed, last leaf water-stained binding a bit worn, corners worn, joints creased, top and base of spine chipped, spine creased; a fair copy. For some years the works of the now-acclaimed eighteenth-century painter Francis Towne (1739-1816) lay mostly unknown. The work of his most accomplished pupil, John White Abbott (1763-1851), was also for many years largely unknown and unexplored. Today, the works of both artists stand in high regard in the history of British art. Very recently, the paintings and drawings of Francis Towne have been described comprehensively in a Catalogue Raisonné, by the art historian and curator Dr Richard Stephens, published online by the Paul Mellon Centre (), which provides also a biography and lists of lost and disputed works. The website gives a facsimile of Francis Towne's signature, which is a match to the writing in the two inscriptions in the present copy of The Book of Common Prayer (1794). The story that the two inscriptions in this copy appear to tell could hardly be more pertinent to Francis Towne and his circle. The first, being an ownership inscription and date, "Francis Towne / 1799", suggests that at the end of the eighteenth century Towne acquired this volume as his personal copy of The Book of Common Prayer. Then, seven years later, in his elegant hand, he inscribed and presented the volume to "Mrs Elizabeth Abbott", who was the wife of his patron and greatest pupil, John White Abbott (1763-1851). For more information on Francis Towne, John White Abbott, and their circle, see the website mentioned above plus the Oxford DNB and Grove Art online. See also the lengthy, heavily-illustrated interview with the art historian Dr Richard Stephens on the Christie's website (). The Towne-Abbott copy of The Book of Common Prayer (1794) is a very rare exemplar of ESTC T87346. For the British Isles and Ireland, the ESTC finds of course Cambridge, the place of printing, but then only BL and Norwich Cathedral. For North America, the ESTC finds only four copies: Saint Mark's Library at the General Theological Seminary, New York; the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard University; the Library of Virginia; and Oberlin College. The ESTC finds no other copies.

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Book number: 9705

BOONE (James Shergold):

Men and Things in 1823; A Poem in Three Epistles, with notes.

London: Printed [by A. Applegath] for Hatchard and Son..., 1823. Large 8vo, 198 x 134 mms., pp. vii [viii "General Argument"], 155 [156 colophon], contemporary quarter roan, green boards; 19th century ownership stamp at top of title-page, text browned, spine defective. A so-so copy. Boone (1798 - 1859) began his literary career when he was 22, with The Welcome of Isis, a tribute to the Duke of Wellington. The present poem, with high praise for George Canning, is an intelligent survey of contemporary European politics. Sound familiar? Boone's observations would not sound out-of-place in journalism obsessed with Brexit. The European Review for January, 1824, commented that "We are a trading nation, and treat freedom too much as a matter of mere calculation." The conclusion of this 17-page review suggests that the reviewer might have his tongue firmly in his cheek: "It is but just to add that he has accomplished all that he pretends to; that the syllables in each line are correctly counted, and the final ones have a very tolerable resemblance to each other. Some passages deserve higher praise [sic], and might be quoted as specimens of nervous versification."

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Book number: 9159

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry politics literature

BOOTHBY (Brooke), Sir:

Fables and Satires. With a Preface on the Esopean Fable.

Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsey and Company, for Archibald Constable..., 1809. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, 184 x 112 mms., pp. [lxiii - lxiii [lxiv blank], 192; x, 241 [241 blank], bound in contemporary half plum calf, gilt spine; binding a little worn, but a good copy. The Quarterly Review noticed the work in 1810, beginning with this amusing observation: "Although the well-known division of authors into writers for fame - writers for bread - and writers for both is tolerably comprehensive on the whole; yet the classification, we conceive, may be conveniently extended, by adding to it the farther division, of writers from ennui.... The pupil of the School of Ennui is usually guiltless, in his outset, of any designs upon the attention of the public; but his little performances accumulate by degrees...; he induces a good-natured friend with a recital...and his good-natured friend can scarcely refuse to praise [the work]: thus encouraged, by a person of the most unequivocal and sincerity, the author deliberates no longer - he sends for a printer, rushes into the jaws of the press, and becomes a lamental victim...."

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Book number: 10070

Catalogue: Fables

Keywords: fables satire literature

[BOSWELL (Thomas Alexander)]:

Recollections of a Pedestrian. By the Author of "The Journal of an Exile."

London: Saunders and Otley, British and Foreign Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square. 1826. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 12mo, 202 x 125 mms., pp. [iv], 290; [iv], 307 [308 blank]; [ic], 353 [354 blank, 355 - 356 adverts], including half-title in each volume uncut, recently recased using old boards, new linen spines, paper labels, with old end-papers preserved; ex-library with library stamp on verso of each title-page and withdrawn stamp on verso of last leaf in each volume.

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Book number: 9756

[BOSWELL (George)]:

A Treatise on Watering Meadows: A Treatise on Watering Meadows: Wherein are shewn Some of the Many Advantages arising from That Mode of Practice, particularly on Coarse, Boggy, or Barren Lands; and the Method of performing the Work. Also Remarks on a late Pamphlet upon that Subject. Illustrated with Five Copper-Plates. Fourth Edition, With Many Additions.

London: Printed for J. Debrett..., 1801. 8vo, 227 x 143 mms., pp. [viii], 134 [ 135 - 136], six plans on five folding engraved leaves at pages 34, 42, 55, 79, and 125, original wrappers, uncut; spine somewhat perished, and the binding a bit knocked about, but a good copy of a book as originally issued. Boswell first publshed this work himself in 1779, with a second edition appearing in 1790, followed by a third in 1792. The Monthly Review noticed the work in 1780: "One circumstance, which may possibly have regarded its progress [of making meadows] has been the want of some intelligent guide to direct the process.... Whatever information may be necessary in this business, seems to be amply supplied in the work before us. The Author, Mr. George Boswell, seems to be a sensible understanding man, who writes...with what he is really acquainted with. Whoever has land capable of being converted into water-meadows, though it were but a single acre, will do well to read the present treatise." In a recent monograph, "George Boswell of Puddletown (1735–1815): progressive farmer and author," Joseph Betty asserts, "George Boswell deserves to be remembered, not just as the author of an informative account of the techniques of watering meadows, but as a remarkable example of a practical farmer eager to embrace the latest farming advances, and as the respected correspondent and informant of some of the leading agricultural innovators of the time. His contributions to the early publications of the Bath and West of England Society and his experiments with ploughs, drills, threshing machines, new crops and improved methods make him of national rather than purely local importance."

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Book number: 9711

Catalogue: Agriculture

Keywords: agriculture irrigation prose

[BOULAINVILLIERS (Henri), Comte de]:

The Life of Mahomet. Translated form the French Original, written by the Count of Boulainvilliers.

London: Printed for T. Longman, and C. Hitch..., 1752. 12mo, 166 x 100 mms., pp. iv, 294, contemporary lightly speckled calf, gilt borders on covers, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, dark red leather label; some slight rubbing of binding, but a good to very good copy. The French nobleman and writer Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658 - 1722) published works on history, medicine, physics, astrology among other topics, including a translation of Spinoza's Ethics. His Vie de Mahomed was published in 1730, and the first English translation, which is by William Hinchcliffe, in 1731. In the short preface, Hinchcliffe writes that it "can[not] be unreasonable in these our times, when luxury and corruption prevail, when rapine and oppression triumph, when sordid selfishness, and its eternal concomitant, hardness of heart, have swallow'd up all regard to the good of others, all generosity, all humanity, and even common justice; I say, in such times, it cannot be unreasonable to set before men's eyes some amiable examples of the contrary virtuees; nor ought it to be taken amiss if we desire such Christians to learn integrity, temperance, benevolence, and liberailty, even from Saracens, Turks, and Mahometans." Hmmmm. England must have been in a real pickle in 1731.

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Book number: 9927

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography Islam prose literature

BOURDILLON (Francis W.):

A Lost God. With Illustrations by H. J. Ford.

London: Elkin Mathews..., 1891. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, pp. 58 [59 Notes, 60 printer's imprint], three full-page illustrations, all edges uncut, quarter contemporary vellum, publisher's cloth; free end-papers foxed, contemporary name on half-title, corners very slightly crushed. One of 500 copies. Inscribed "With the Publisher's Compliments." on the recto of the front free end-paper.

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Book number: 3121

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Drama poetry literature

[BOUREAU - DELANDES (Andre Francois)]:

Pigmalion ou La Statue Animée.

Berlin [no publisher] 1753 Small 8vo, 145 x 78 mms., pp. vi, [7] - 69 [70 blanks], engraved title-page with vignette of flowers in a basket, with 8 blank leaves before title-page and 9 blank leaves after last leaf of text, contemporary lightly mottled calf, gilt border on covers, gilt spine, red morocco label, marbled end-papers, with large contemporary engraved ex-libris (Claud Joyant) to verso of free endpaper, showing a rural scene with lake, flowers, etc.; and a smaller engraving of Pigmalion et Galathee pasted to facing recto; title-page and following leaf browned The French philosopher André-François Boureau-Deslandes (1689–1757) was one of the precursors of the group whose efforts resulted in the Encyclopedie. The work was first published in 1742 and in the same year was condemned to be burnt by the Parlement de Dijon (some sources give 1741 for the first edition). The work tells the now familiar story of a statue which, when kissed, comes to life, acquires feelings and a soul. No copies traced in Copac; WorldCat locates copies at North Carolina Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins. See Marc André Bernier, "Mécanique des sensations et conception du mariage dans Pigmalion ou La Statue Animée" in Sexualité, mariage et famille au XVIIIe siècle (1998).

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Book number: 7995

Catalogue: Fables

Keywords: fables illustration literature

BOURNE (Thomas):

The Maid of Skiddaw. Songs of Palestine, and other Poems.

Turnham Green, Printed for the Author by G. J. Baynes, 1830. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 184 x 127 mms, pp. [iv], iv, ii, [7] - 206, with an extra printed leaf laid in as dedication, "To A Christian Lady, Mrs. Edward Parker, My very dear and valued friend. These Poems are Inscribed with sentiments of gratitude, affection, and esteem," bound in contemporary olive calf, gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments (but faded), red leather label (chipped), all edges gilt. A very good copy. The work was mentioned in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 49 (1837), in the context of a "conversazione" between a rector and a doctor, the former of whom remarks, "Ah, Horace again! -- 'The Maid of Skiddaw, and other Poems; with Translations from Horace. By Thomas Bourne.' I have no taste for 'Maids of Skiddaw, ' however graceful their sorrows; but I never see a fragment of Horace without feeling something like a veteran treading over the fields where once he 'militavit non sine gloria.' This is pretty, polished, and tender -- Twenty-sixth Ode, Book I."

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Book number: 9417

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry translation literature

BOURSAULT (Edme):

Theatre de Feu. Nouvelle Edition, Revué, corrigeée & augmentée de plusieurs Piéces, qui n'ont point paru dans les précedentes.

A Paris, Chez Francois Le Breton..., 1725. 3 volumes. 12mo, 165 x 100 mms., pp. [xxxviii], 324; [ii], 50, [16], 75 [76 Privilege], [x], 70, [8], 91 [92 Privilege], [6], 64, 4, 385 - 391[ 392 blank]; [ii], 86, [6], 99 - 138, [20], 100, [12], 99 [100 blank], finely bound in contemporary French mottled calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; very slight loss of gilt on spines, corners slightly worn, but an attractive set. Boursault (1638 - 1701) seems to have had more success with his two tragedies, Germanicus and Marie Stuart than with his other works. The latter work may be an instance of the so-called "auld alliance" between France and Scotland. Mary Stewart (1542 - 1587), Queen of Scots, spent 14 years in France, and her attempt to gain the throne of England, with all its permutations and her eventual execution, generated a vast quantity of literary and other artistic representations. Boursault's play was first performed in 1684, but it is unlikely to have been the first dramatic representation in French of Mary. It was certainly preceded by La Reina María Estuarda by the Spanish author Juan Bautista Diamante.

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Book number: 7225

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Drama theatre literature

[BOUTET (Claude)]:

Traite de Mignature, Pour Apprendre aisement a Peindre sans Maistre, Avec le Secret de fair les plus belles Couleurs, l'Or bruny, & Or en Coquelle. Quatrieme Edition. Reveue, corrigee & augmentee par l'Auteur.

A Paris, Chez Christope Ballard..., 1697. 12mo (in 6s), 157 x 90 mms., pp. [xiv], 166 [167 - 1766 contents], woodcut of pantograph on page 8, contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; lacks leaves before title-page and after end of text, some minor marginal worming, joints cracked, top and base of spine worn, corners worn. A fair copy. First published in 1673 or 1674, Traite de Mignature proved to be very popular with aspiring artists, because of its detailed instructions on preparing paints and pigments. The first English translation appeared in 1729, The Art of Painting in Miniature. A diagram of a colour wheel was added to the edition published in 1708, making the work even more successful and useful. The attribution of the work to "Claude Boutet" was made by Joseph-Marie Quérard (1797-1865) in his his bibliographic dictionary, La France Litteraire (1826-1842), deriving from a pencil annotation of an edition of the work published in 1711. Otherwise, nothing seems to be known whatsoever about M. Boutet.

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Book number: 7650

Catalogue: Painting

Keywords: painting technology prose

[BOWDLER (Thomas)]:

Letters written in Holland in the Months of September October, 1787. To which is added A Collection of letters, and Other Papers relating to the Journey of the Princess of Orange, on the 28th of June, 1787.

London: Printed for the Benefit of A Charitable Institution at Bath, and sold by J. Robson and W. Clarke..., 1788. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 205 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], 192, [3], 4 - 100, 2 folding engraved maps, contemporary lightly speckled calf, red leather label; binding very slightly dried but a very good to near fine copy. This work by Thomas Bowlder (1754 - 1825) was one of his earliest publications, written to chronicle the Prussian army's campaign against the Dutch. Commenting on the work in 1788, The Monthly Review was a bit sniffy: "These Letters appear to have been hastily written , and without any great prospect of awakening attention....," concluding, however, on a slightly less grudging note: "he is nevertheless a sensible and intelligent man, as may be gathered from several observations in his book; and has, undoubtedly, the merit of having given us an authentic detail of facts, which may prove highly useful to the historian...."

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Book number: 8276

Catalogue: History

Keywords: history war prose

BOWDLER (John):

Select Pieces in Verse and Prose. Fourth Edition.

London: Printed by Davidson..., and Sold by Cadell and Davies..., 1820. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, 340; [iv], 389 [390 blank, 391 - 392 adverts], engraved portrait of Bowdler as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary diced calf (rubbed and dried); lacks labels. Bowdler (1746 - 1823) was the brother of Thomas Bowdler (1754 - 1825), the editor of The Family Shakespeare. John Bowdler's collected works contains a defence of his brother's editorial decisions, as well as a long review of Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind.

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Book number: 3233

BOWLES (W. L.):

The Grave of the Last Saxon; or, The Legend of the Curfew. A Poem.

London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co.; and Archibald Constable and Co. Edinbugh. 1822. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 219 x 123 mms., pp. xi [xii Errata], 111 [112 colophon], sturdily rebound in quarter maroon morocco, linen boards, with library stamp in blind on front cover, and, and bookplate of Nottingham Reference Library on front paste-down end-paper. A good copy, with an emendation in pencil on page 37. The Church of England clergyman and poet Willilam Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) published his first volume of verse in 1789, Fourteen Sonnets Written Chiefly on Picturesque Spots during a Journey, which attracted the favourable attention of Coleridge, then seventeen years old. One of his best known works, an edition of Pope in 1806, which Byron attacked rather severely, led to an acrimonious dispute to which Bowles alludes in the preface to the above poem. The Eclectic Review in 1823 observed, "We have that respect for Mr. Bowles as an old acquaintance, that would lead us to speak as favourably as we can of his present production; but the truth is, that he has attempted something above his reach. This, in a young writer, would bespeak a commendable ambition: in a veteran, it indicates a mistaken estimate of his powers."

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Book number: 9346

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry History literature