[BROME (Alexander), editor]:

Rump: Or an Exact Collection Of the Choycest Poems and Songs relating to the Late Times. By the most Eminent Wits, from Anno 1639 to Anno 1661.

London, Printed for Henry Brome...., and Henry Marsh..., 1662. 8vo, 165 x 95 mms., pp. [viii], 376, 72, 83-200, including vertical half-title leaf, engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, finely bound in 19th century dark green crushed morocco, panelled in gilt on covers, with second enclosed panel with triangular filigree designs in each corner, spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers. A fine and attractive copy. Alexander Brome (1620 - 1666) was a poet and lawyer, and the title of this collection derives from the so-called "Rump Parliament," which followed the purging of the Long Parliament in 1648. The collection began life as short collection (89 pages) of poems published as Ratts Rhymed to Death in 1660, and reprinted the same year. The present text is obviously much enlarged, with many new poems, including twenty by John Cleveland. The poems in the second part are distinguished, if that's the right word, by their scatological and lubricious content, with obvious jokes and puns around the title word, e. g., "Bum=Fodder or, Waste-Paper, proper to wipe the Nations RUMP with, or your Own." Most of the songs were designed to be sung, with a number giving a tune. "The four Legg'd Elder; or a Relation of a Horrible Dog and an Elders Maid" is to be sung "To the Tune of The Ladies fall; Or Gather your Rose Buds, and 50 other Tunes." How many of these tunes have survived? Samuel Pepys, in an entry for 23 April 1660, alludes to a Rump song: having listened to a composition by Matthew Locke, his host "fell to singing of a song made upon the Rump, with which he pleased himself well - to the tune of The Blacksmith." Wing B4851; Case 127 (c).

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Catalogue: Poems

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BROWN (George):

Arithmetica Infinita or The Accurate Accomptant's Best Companion Contriv'd and Calculated.

[Edinburgh] Printed for the Author, Deus nobis Haec Otia Fecit, Anno 1717/18. FIRST EDITION. Small oblong 8vo, 111 x 92, pp. [iv], engraved title page and letterpress recommendation by John Keill], 14 [engraved preliminaries], 126 [engraved table], 10 [ engraved tables of interest with separate title page], engraved portrait of the author before the title, bound in contemporary paneled calf, sometime neatly rebacked and recornered, spine with raised bands and olive label, slight browning, old stamps of the Patent Office Library, but well preserved and restored for this type of production, George Brown (1650-1730) was a Scottish arithmetician and minister, known for the invention of an arithmetical instrument, called Rotula Arithmetica—a device for simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Brown attended Aberdeen's Kings College, matriculating in 1664 and graduating in 1668. Then he worked as a teacher of mathematics in Edinburgh. Later on, he worked as a minister in Stranraer, schoolmaster in Fordyce, and from 1680 schoolmaster at Kilmaures. In 1690s, Brown invented Rotula Arithmetica and in 1698 he was given the sole privilege (something like patent) to frame, make and sell his instrument for the space of 14 years. Brown described his instrument in the book An Account of the Rotula Arithmetica, published in 1700 in Edinburgh. In the same year 1700 he published also another book, called A Specie Book, to be used in conjunction with the Rotula Arithmetica. The book contains currency tables, because many of the coins were not Scots-minted silver, but foreign currency, legal tender in Scotland, at values fixed by the Privy Council and Parliament.

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BROWN (John):

A Compendious View of Natural and Revealed Religion. In Seven Books.... The Second Edition, carefully revised and improved with the Author's Last Additions and Corrections.

Edinburgh: Printed by Murray & Cochrane, Sold by James Gillies and Andrew Macaulay..., 1796 8vo (in 4s), pp. xxii, 550, contemporary calf (worn, rubbed, dried); browned throughout' ex-library with library label of the "Circulating Library of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky" on the front paste-down end-paper, library stamp on black leaf before title-page and over imprint on title-page. With the contemporary autograph "W. Wallace" on the recto of the front free end-paper, with one annotation (on brute animals) in ink in what appears to be his hand. John Brown of Haddington (1722 - 1787) first published this work in 1782; he is best-known for his two biblical commentaries, The Self-Interpreting Bible (1778) and A Dictionary of the Holy Bible (1769). ESTC distinguishes between two issues of this second edition, as above, T165155 (E, AWn; MBAt, MH-AH, ViRUT); and T14407, without the names of Gillies and Macaulay in the imprint (L, ABu, C, Gu, O, SAN; IU, PPiPT).

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BROWN (John):

A Dissertation on the Rise, Union, and Power, The Progressions, Separations, and Corruptions, of Poetry and Music. To which is prefixed, The Cure of Saul. A Sacred Ode.

London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers..., 1763. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 264 x 208 mms., pp. 248 [249 - 250 adverts], title-page in red and black, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (worn). Brown's argument is an elegant example of cultural primitivism: the simplicity and power to move of music has been corrupted by modern refinement and impositions: "The Poet's and Musician's Office cannot probably be again united in their full and general Power. For in their present refined State, either of their Arts separately considered, is of such Extent, that although they may incidentally meet in one Person, they cannot often be found together." Jaime Croy Cassler, in the entry on John Brown in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, claims that Brown's Dissertation "is remarkable for being one of the earliest systematic, self-contained treatises in English on the general history of music. In it Brown isolated 36 stages in musical history, from the early united of melody, dance and song and its perfection in Greek society to the separation and degeneration of those arts in the 18th century." Eddy 76.

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Catalogue: Aesthetics

Keywords: aesthetics music prose

BROWN (John):

A Dissertation on the Rise, Union, and Power, The Progressions, Separations, and Corruptions, of Poetry and Music. To which is prefixed, The Cure of Saul. A Sacred Ode.

London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers..., 1763. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 263 x 188 mms., pp. 248 [249 - 250 adverts], title-page in red and black, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked with old red label preserved. Brown's argument is an elegant example of cultural primitivism: the simplicity and power to move of music has been corrupted by modern refinement and impositions: "The Poet's and Musician's Office cannot probably be again united in their full and general Power. For in their present refined State, either of their Arts separately considered, is of such Extent, that although they may incidentally meet in one Person, they cannot often be found together." Jaime Croy Cassler, in the entry on John Brown in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, claims that Brown's Dissertation "is remarkable for being one of the earliest systematic, self-contained treatises in English on the general history of music. In it Brown isolated 36 stages in musical history, from the early united of melody, dance and song and its perfection in Greek society to the separation and degeneration of those arts in the 18th century." Eddy 76.

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Keywords: aesthetics music prose

[BROWN (John)]:

An Historical and Architectural Description of Corfe Castle. By a Near Resident.

Poole: Printed and Published by J. Lankester; Sold by Butler, Corfe; and Longman and Co, London. 1829. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 217 x 132 mms., pp. [ii], ii, 75 [76 blank], engraved (lithographed) frontispiece and four other lithographed plates, original wrappers, with paper label on front cover; fore-edges a bit frayed and soiled, frontispiece repaired and separating from text at base, with corresponding defect on verso of front cover and first preliminary leaf, covers soiled. "Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. The first phase was one of the earliest castles in England to be built at least partly using stone when the majority were built with earth and timber. Corfe Castle underwent major structural changes in the 12th and 13th centuries.... The castle remained a royal fortress until sold by Elizabeth I in 1572 to her Lord Chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton. Ralph Treswell, Hatton's steward, drafted a series of plans of the castle; the documents are the oldest surviving survey of the castle. Lady Mary Bankes defended the castle during two sieges in the English Civil War. The castle was bought by Sir John Bankes, Attorney General to Charles I, in 1635.[25] The English Civil War broke out in 1642, and by 1643 most of Dorset was under Parliamentarian control. While Bankes was in Oxford with the king, his men held Corfe Castle in the royal cause..." (Wikipedia), Although the work was reprinted later, this first edition is located by OCLC in the following libraries: BL, Bodleian, Bristol, Victoria and Albert in the UK; Folger and Columbia only in North America

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Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: architecture History prose

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.

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Book number: 5528

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry aesthetics prose

BROWN (John):

Letters upon the Poetry and Music of the Italian Opera. Addressed to a Friend.

Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute..., 1789. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. xx, 141 [142 blank, 143 Errata, 144 blank], later boards (20th century), paper label; title-page a little browned, but a good copy. The Scottish artist John Brown (1752 - 1787) spent ten years in Italy studying painting and wrote a series of letters about Italian opera to his friend and quasi-patron, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, who arranged for the publication of some of the letters as this book. The work was published for the benefit of Brown's widow, and Monboddo supplied a life of Brown in Latin for the work; in the second edition, the life was translated into English. Brown was appealing to Monboddo's interest in language by finding analogies between spoken language and vocal music in these letters.

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Book number: 4311

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music poetry prose Scottish Enlightenment

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.

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Keywords: poetry poetry literature

BROWNE (John):

A Defence of the Bishop of London's Second Pastoral Letter, Against Exceptions advanc'd in a late Piece, Entituled, A Plea for the Sufficiency of Human Reason in Matters of Religion.

London: Printed for W. Innys..., 1730. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 62 [63 - 64 adverts], disbound. The author of the "Plea" was John Jackson, who had argued that reason was a sufficient guide in matters of religion and that revelation was unnecessary.

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Book number: 3914

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: religion reason prose

BROWNE (Peter), Lord Bishop of Cork and Rosse:

A Discourse of Drinking Healths. Wherein The great Evil of this Prevailing Custom is shewn; And the Obligation which lieth upon all good Christians to Suppress and Discountenance it to the utmost of their Power.

London: Printed for Henry Clements, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church -Yard. MDCCXVI. 1716. FIRST LONDON EDITION. Small 8vo, 167 x 98 mms., pp. viii, 9 - 217 [2178 - 223 Contents and adverts, 224 blank], recentlky rebound in half chocolate calf, marbled boards, dark olive morocco labels, gilt rules, gilt ornaments on spine, with date in gilt at base of spine. A very good copy, with the bookplate of Peter Stewart Young, Tillingham on the front paste-down end-.paper ,and inscribed on the rect of the second leaf, "The Dean of Ross/to/ The Dean of Devon/ 28 Feb. '28". Peter Browne (d. 1735) came from a well-established Irish family and progressed quickly to high offices in the Church. He established a reputation for intelligence in discourse and pithiness in argument, with the publication of a riposte, A Letter in Answer to a Book Entitled Christianity not Mysterious by John Toland. The present work is a further development of arguments by Browne in his A Discourse on Drinking, in Remembrance of the Dead, which attracted a reply from "A Country - Curate," entitled A Brief Examination of the Bishop of Cork's Discourse, of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead (Dublin, 1714). Both discourses attracted some attention, but I am partial to a comment made in 1841, in T. Croften Croker's volume, The Historical Songs of Ireland about Brown's 1714 volume, that, "His notion was that drinking to the dead was tantamount to praying for them, and not, as is truly the case, in approbation of certain conduct or principles. Neither whigs nor tories have been less copious in their libations in consequence; and the only effect Dr. Brown's books appear to have had, was the production of an addenda to the obnoxious toast, 'and a fig for the Bishop of Cork.'"

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[BROWNE (Peter)]:

Of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead. Being The Substance of a Discourse Deliver'd to the Clergy of the Diocese of Cork, on the Fourth of November, 1713, by the Bishop of that iocese. And Published at their unanimous Request.

Dublin: Re-printed and Sold by E. Waters in Essex-Street, MDCCXIII. 1713. Small 8vo, 159 x 86 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 47 [48 blank]; title-page soiled. BOUND WITH: A Second Part of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead. Wherein the most Material Objections made against the First Part are Answer'd. Bt Pet. Lord Bishop of Cork and Rosse. Dublin: Printed by Daniel Tomson in Cole's Alley, Caster-Street. 1714. Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], vii, 76 Two volumes bound in one, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, black leather labe; slight wear to binding but a good copy. The first item is ESTC 185657, with copies in Bolton Library University of Limerick, Dublin, National Library of Ireland (2), Royal Irish Academy, Lliverpool; and Yale in the United States.

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Book number: 10299

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BROWNE (John):

A Letter to the Author of the Plea for Human Reason, Occasion'd by the Defence of it which he has lately made.

London: Printed for William Innys..., 1731. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 64, disbound.

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Book number: 3915

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[BRUNEL (Antoine de)]:

A Journey into Spain.

London, Printed for Henry Herrignman..., 1670. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 163 x 105 mms., pp. [viii], 247 [248 blank], notes in pencil on recto of rear free end-paper, later wrappers; front hinge exposed, but a good to very good copy. This abridged translation of Voyage d'Espagne curieux, historique, et politique (1665) by Antoine de Brunel is also attributed to François van Aerssen, 1572-1641, and to his grandson François van Aerssen, 1630-1658. "Dutch diplomat Antoine de Brunel's Voyage d'Espagne (A Journey into Spain, 1665) tends to burden the reader with intricacies of court politics, but he also inserts here and there superb portraits of political figures - under lining the pettiness of the Spanish nobility - as well as poignant descriptions of a mostly desolate land, its miserable lodgings, its precarious buildings, and other evidence to Spain's low quality of life" (Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González, César Domínguez, editors: A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula 2010). Brunel's volume was the first mention of bullfighting in Spain in English and had wide literary repercussions, being a source, for example, of Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (1932). Brunel discusses the bullfights over several pages (77 - 83).

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BRUNTON (Mary):

Discipline: A Novel. To which is prefixed, A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Author, including Extracts from her Correspondence.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley..., 1832. 12mo, 163 x 97 mms., pp. [ii], [3] 4 - 476, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, black leather label, marbled boards; lacking engraved title-page, binding a bit worn, but a good copy. The Orkney-born novelist Mary Brunton [née Balfour] (1778–1818) published her first novel, Self Control, in 1811; Discipline was published in 1814, and within two years had achieved three editions. In a rather gushing tribute to Brunton shortly after her death, The Scots Magazine devoted several pages to both Self-Conrol and Discipline. While it concluded that the latter was inferior to the former, the author, E. E., asserts, "Neither of them shews much originality either of plot or incident; but the interweaving of engaging narrative, with a display of the effects of religious principle, will make them long regarded as among the best books of amusement which can safely be put into the hands of the young."

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Book number: 9444

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: fiction women literature