[CHANDLER (Edward)]:

A Defence of Christianity from the Prophecies of the Old Testament: Wherein are considered All the objections against this kind of proof, Advanced in a Late discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian Religion. By the Right Reverend Father in God Edward, Ld. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. The Second Edition, with a Summary View of the whole Argument and an Index of the Texts explain'd

London: Pri nted for James andJohn Knapton... MDCCXXV 1725 8vo, 191 x119 mms., pp. [xii], xx, 1 - 366 [367 - 368 index, 369 -372 adverts, contemporary presentation inscription on top margin of title-page, 18th century panelled calf; front joint cracked.

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Book number: 10428

CHANDLER (Mary):

The Description of Bath. A Poem. Humbly Inscribed To Her Royal Highness the Princes Amelia. With several other Poems. The Sixth Edition. To which is added, A True Tale, by the same Author.

London: Printed for James Leake..., 1744 8vo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. [xii], 85 [86 adverts], including half-title, recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, morocco label; lacking the 11 leaves of adverts. ESTC T63116 describes this as "A reissue of the fifth edition, with a half-title, a different title-page and sig. F7 a cancel," but does not mention that this is the first appearance of the poem, "A True Tale," addressed to Mr. Leake, i. e., James Leake, the brother-in-law of the printer Samuel Richardson who printed editions two to seven. "A True Tale" appears here as a result of a proposal of marriage that Mrs. Chandler received in 1741 when she was 54. She refused him and turned the episode into a poem, noting "Fourscore long Miles, to buy a crooked Wife!/ Old too! I thought the oddest thing in Life...." ESTC locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Wales, TCD; Folger, Rice, Yale; National Library of Australia. Foxon, C112.

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Book number: 8115

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry women literature

CHARLETON (Walter):

Matrona Ephesia. Sive Lusus Serius de Amore, à Gualt. Charletono, M.D. ante decennium Anglicè conscriptus, Et nunc demum Latinitate donatus à Barth. Harrisio, A.M [sic] ejusdémq[ue] impensis excusus.

Londini, Anno Domini, 1665. 12mo, 133 x 80 mms., pp. [xii], 82, engraved frontispiece, later sheepskin, probably early 19th century, borders in blind on cover, compartments on spine in blind, green morocco label; small piece missing from upper corner of A3 just affecting one letter, joints slightly cracked, corners a little worn but a good copy. Walter Charleton (1620–1707) possibly studied under John Wilkins (1614–1672), at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. He studied medicine and upon attaining his degree was, in 1643, appointed physician-in-ordinary to Charles I. He began publishing works on medicine and religion some time after that and in 1659 ventured into prose romance with The Ephesian Matron: Based on the Tale in the "Satyricon" of Petronius. "Charleton's version of this famous and often retold tale is an attack on the fashionable cult of Platonic love of his day, in which he insists that physical love and lust are both manifestations of 'an appetite to procreation'. Charleton sees his lascivious heroine as an Epicurean who lives by 'the simple dictates of mother-Nature'" (ODNB). This Latin translation is by Bartholomew Harris. ESTC notes two different states of the title-page: as above, R15293 (BL, Cambridge, Trinity Cambridge, Bodleian, Oxford: Exeter and Queens, National Trust; Folger, Harvard, Clark, Illinois. The imprint for the other state is "Londini: Impensis Authoris, 1665," R215215 (BL, Cambridge, Cambridge: Magdalen and Trinity, Oxford Worcester, Royal College of Physicians; Huntington, Stanford, Illinois, Yale; Bibliotheque Nationale. Wing C 3683.

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Book number: 6687

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CHARLETON, Walter, M.D.

Two Discourses, The first, Concerning the Different Wits of men. The Second, a Brief Discourse concerning the various sicknesses of Wines, and their respective remedies; at this day commonly used: Delivered to the Royal Society.

London, Printed for Will. Whitwood at the Angel and Bible in Little Britain Book 1692. 12mo, 133 x 78 mms., pp. [vi], 183 [184 blank. 185 - 194 Contents, 195 - 196, recent full speckled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; title-page slightly dusty, the Vintner part has damp stains leaving tide marks (see attached images), a few edges slightly ragged, pale age-browning throughout, a few leaves tightly bound in first part. The second discourse is devoted to wine, in particular methods for preventing their putrefaction, together with "Some Observations on the Ordering of Wines" by Christopher Merret. Merret was the first person to document that the addition of sugar to wine caused a secondary fermentation that turned it into a sparkling wine. James Gabler, Wine into Words, page 57, and Andre Simon, Bibliotheca Vinaria, page 86.

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Book number: 10028

Catalogue: Wine

Keywords: wine intelligence

[CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA OF WALES]

Gulzara, Princess of Persia; or, the Virgin Queen. Collected from the Original Persian.

London: Printed for John Souter...by J. Adlard..., 1816. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Tall 8vo, 228 x 133 mms., pp,. xiii [xiv blank, xv "The Persian Dedication," xvi blank], 348, recently recased in blue boards, paper label on spine; text a little browned, but a good copy. This rather laboured satire on Princess Augusta of Wales (1796 - 1817), was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV), and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick. Had she outlived both her grandfather King George III and her father, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom; but she died at the age of 21, predeceasing them both. It was reviewed at some length in The Critical Review for 1816, but without ever once disclosing that the work was not a satire: "The author of Gulzara is not deficient in humour, and we are not and then reminded of the stile of the very best writer in this kind [possibly Byron], in any language: but no such pretensions are made: the work is instructive, entertaining, and now and then satirical, and that is all perhaps that the writer intended." The reviewer in The Monthly Review was a bit more forthcoming about the disguised Gulzara: "[A]nd the actions of the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses of Persia and Tartary, in some former indeterminate age, may be clearly identified with those of the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses of Great Britain and France in an age not very distant from the nineteenth century."

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Book number: 9513

Catalogue: Satire

Keywords: satire royalty prose

CHASTITY.

An Exhortation to Chastity. A New Edition.

London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, Booksellers to The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge..., 1787. 12mo, 150 x 90 mms., pp. 24, modern wrappers. The work appears to have been first published in 1750, with a further eight reprints in the 18th century; below the imprint is the price; "Price One Penny, or 6s. a Hundred." Despite the numerous copies that must have been printed, the work doesn't figure prominently in ESTC, with this printing, N66431, being found only in Edinburgh University Library; and Kansas.

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Book number: 7873

Catalogue: Chastity

Keywords: chastity sermon prose

[CHATEAUNEUF (Francois Castagnere, Abbé de)]:

Dialogue sur la Musique des Anciens. A Monsieur de ***.

A Paris, Chés [sic] Noel Pissot..., 1725. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, signed in 8s and 4s, pp. [viii], 126 [127 - 130 Approbation and Privilege, 131 Errata, 132 blank], 7 engraved plates, opposite pp. 30, 32, 40, 49 (2 plates, one folding), 52, 62, contemporary sheepskin, spine ornately gilt inc. compartments; lacks label, top and base of spine chipped, spine a bit rubbed, front joint cracked (but firm), corners worn. With ms. notes in a contemporary hand on the front free end-papers. The abbé Chateauneuf, who died in 1708, was a member of a prosperous and influential family, and he is perhaps remembered by posterity more for having been one of the lovers of Ninon d'Enclos and a godfather to Voltaire than for his contributions to musicology. Ninon d'Enclos appears in the "dialogue" as de Leontium. The work celebrates the invention of a dulcimer by Pantaleon Hebenstreit. The work was prepared for publication by Jacques Morabin.and was reprinted in 1735.

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Book number: 4903

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music theory prose French

CHATTERTON (Thomas):

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse; by Thomas Chatterton, the supposed Author of the Poems published under the Names of Rowley, Canning, &c.

London: Printed for Fielding and Walker..., 1778. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 212 x 127 mms., pp. [iv] v - xxxii, 245 [246 blank], including half-title, engraved plate of "Saxon Atchievements" at page 134 and engraved plate of Alderman Beckford's Statue opposite page 142, bound in 19th century quarter binder's cloth and marbled boards; lacks adverts leaf; with the inscription "Charles Hile [? Stile]/ 19/2/75" on the front paste-down end-paper. A good copy, though the binding is a bit unympathetic. "The archetypal nature of the myth of Chatterton's suicide is almost impossible to deny, and certainly impossible after over two centuries to disentangle from the circumstances of his life, but accidental poisoning remains the most plausible analysis of the scene. Stories abound: that Chatterton fell into a grave shortly before he died, that he ate oysters voraciously with Cross but proudly refused dinner with Mrs Angell, that he was refused a loaf on credit, and the coroner simply reported that he had 'swallowed arsenick in water, on the 24th of August, 1770; and died, in consequence thereof, the next day' (Meyerstein, 435). He had bought it from Cross to treat 'the Foul Disease', and it has since been forensically established (from a stain on his copybook; see Taylor, Chatterton's suicide) that he had access to laudanum—and Barrett said that the opium was picked out from between his teeth (Meyerstein, 441). The historical record has, however, been adulterated (for example by John Dix, who fabricated Chatterton's suicidal 'Last Verses' and a false inquest report; Meyerstein, 446–8), and profoundly embroidered by elegists, eulogists, poets, artists, and sculptors for more than two centuries" (Nick Groom in ONDB). Professor Groom's various works on Chatterton are exemplary, but they will probably not put to rest the enduring image of Chatterton as a romantic and gloomy nihilst. Donald S. Taylor, "The Authenticity of Chatterton's 'Miscellanies in Prose and Verse'" in Publications of the Bibliographical Society of Amereica, 1961.

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Book number: 9750

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry hoax literaure

CHATTERTON (Thomas):

Poems, Supposed to have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century.

Cambridge: Prined by B. Flower, For the Editor; and Sold by the Printer..., 1794. 8vo, 226 x 139 mms., pp. xxi [xx blank, xxi - xxii text], 329 [330 blank], additional engraved title before printed title page, contemporary half calf; very worn, front cover detached. A reading copy only. The preface is signed "L. S." for Lancelot Sharpe. The work was first published in 1770, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt. Of that edition, the Critical Review asserted, "A more curious and entertaining publication than this, is very rarely offered to the public. We had long ago heard of the poems discovered at Bristol, and ardently wished for a perusal of them; but without hope of ever seeing them ushered into the world with so many advantages as they derive from the experience and judgment of their present editor."

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Book number: 9751

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry hoax literature

CHATTERTON (Thomas):

Poems Supposed to have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. The Third Edition. To which is added An Appendix, containing some observations upon the language of those poems; tending to prove, that they were written, not by an Ancient Author, but entirely by Thomas Chatterton.

London, Printed for T. Payne and Son..., 1778/ 8vo, 278 x 113 mms., pp. xxvii [xxviii blank], 333 [334 blank], engraved plate facing page 288 uncut, original boards; edges and boards soiled, front cover detached, generally a shabby copy. A reissue of the second edition, with a new title page and the addition of a half-title and appendix; edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt

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Book number: 9752

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry hoax iterature

CHEDWORTH (John), Lord:

Notes upon some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays; with Remarks upon the Explanations and Amendments of the Commentators in the Editions of 1785, 1790, 1793.

London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co...., 1805. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 230 x 142 mms., pp. [iv], 375 [376 blank], uncut, original pink boards, paper label on spine; spine very slightly defective, but generally a very good copy. John Howe (1754 - 1804), fourth lord Chedworth, lived in a house owned by the surgeon Thomas Penrice, one of Chedworth's legatees, and who published this book after his death in order to prove his friend's sanity. He was certainly an eccentric, but a devotee of the theatre who left much of his estate to thespians of one kind or another.

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Book number: 7853

Catalogue: Shakespeare

Keywords: Shakespeare scholarship literature

CHESTERFIELD (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of):

Lord Chesterfield's Advice to his Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education, In which the Principles of Politeness, The Art of acquiring a Knowledge of the World With every Instruction necessary to form a Man of Honour, Virtue, Taste, and Fashion, are laid down in A Plain, Easy, Familiar Manner, adapted to every station and capacity. The whole arranged on A Plan Entirely New. [AND]: The Polite Philosopher; or, An Essay on the Art which makes a man Happy in himself and agreeable to others. A New Edition.

London: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater..., 1792. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 180, continuous collation and pagination for both works, with divisional title-page for "Polite Philosopher" following p. 118, contemporary sheepskin; no end-papers, rubbed and worn, joints holding on for dear life, most of spine missing with cords exposed. Provenance: "John Burdett's and Burdett's [sic] Book March 17th 1804 Saxmundham Suffolk" on front paste-down end-paper. The first edition with this title was published in Edinburgh in 1775, and ESTC locates another 34 others, though the first to include The Polite Philosopher was in 1782. ESTC distinguishes between two editions with this date and imprint: as above, T222935 (BL only), and T214375 (ZDU), with different pagination (18mo: [2], vii, [1], 184p) and The Polite Philosopher on the primary title-page.

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Book number: 4726

Catalogue: Education

Keywords: Education manners

CHEYNE (George):

Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: Containing the Elements of Natural Philosophy, And the Proofs for Natural Religion, Arising from them.

London: Printed for George Strahan..., 1705. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. [xxxii], 118 [119 -120 blank], 282, 68, contemporary calf; joints, corners, and spine restored; no leaves before title-page, text stained and fingered, lacks final leaf of errata, a rather modest copy. Cheyne uses the principles of Newton to argue for the existence of a non-mechanistic deity. He maintains that since gravity cannot be explained by any hypothesis or physical principle, it must not be innate and depends on a deity for its existence. The work attracted little notice, but Cheyne published revised and expanded versions in 1715, 1724, and 1736. In recent years, he seems to have attracted more interest from scholars and historians of ideas than he enjoyed in his lifetime

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Book number: 7148

Catalogue: Natural religion

Keywords: natural religion philosophy prose

CHILDREY (Joshua):

Britannia Baconica: Or, The Natural Rarities of England, Scotland, & Wales. According as they are to be found in every Shire. Historically related, according to the Precepts of the Lord Bacon; Methodically digested ; and the Causes of many of them Philosophically attempted,M With observations upon them, and Deductions from them, whereby divers Secrets in Nature are discovered, and some things hitherto reckoned Prodigies, are fain to confess the cause whence they proceed. Usefull for all ingenious men of what Profession or Quality soever

London, Printed for the Author,, and are to be sold H. E. at the sign of the Greyhound in St. Pauls Church-yard , 1661. Small 8vo, 162 x 102, pp. [xxxii], 184, including initial blank, contemporary sheepskin, gilt rules across spine, black leather label; spine slightly dried, top and base of spine chipped, corners slightly worn, but a good to very good copy, with a number of notes in pencil on the front end-papers.. In his early life, the antiquary and astrologer Joshua Childrey (1625–1670) maintained himself by keeping a school, but he was also later appointed by Henry Somerset, later marquess of Worcester, as one of his chaplains, and was later Archdeacon of Sarum. "In Britannia Baconia, or, The Natural Rarities of England, Scotland and Wales (1660), also published in French in Paris in 1662 and 1667, Childrey relied mainly on descriptions of curiosities taken from other writers, but there are occasional references to his own observations. In it he alludes at least twice to what he had seen in his native Kent, and mentions visits to Wiltshire, Witney, and Gloucester Cathedral. He also restates his belief that astrology's reform, as Bacon had suggested, 'will not only try the truth of old Principles, but adde new ones: such (it is very likely) as the sons of [the] Art do not yet dream of' (Childrey, B5v–6v). However, it is significant that, after a decade of such efforts on his part, he was still relying principally on a rhetorical call to arms. None the less, the work was undoubtedly popular, and allegedly inspired Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxfordshire (1677)" (ODNB). ESTC distinguishes among three issues of this work, dated 1660, 1661, and 1662, but all with the same register. This one, ESTC R25345, seems to be the most common, and is, according to ESTC, an "imprint variant of the edition dated 1662."

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Book number: 9787

Catalogue: Natural history

Keywords: natural history astrology prose

CHOPIN (Frederick). NIECKES (Frederick):

Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician.

London and New York, Novello, Ewer & Co., 1888. FIRST LONDON EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 220 x 140 mms., pp. xii, 340; viii, 375 [376 blank], including half-title in volume 2, engraved portrait of Chopin as frontispiece, facsimile folding engraved plate at end of volume, original cloth, blocked in gilt, with gilt and red textured end-papers. A very good to fine set. Frecerick Nieckes (1845 - 1924) was born in Germany but spent most of his life in Scotland, settling there in 1868. Shortly after the publication of this book he was appointed Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. This was the first biography of Chopin, and it was reprinted several times, being both lauded and criticized. This biography "was [in 1888] unprecedented in format, information sources, detail, etching, volume, multinational distribution, and four rapid editions including the German translation. - It must have boosted Chopin's reputation.... Frederick Niecks' sections on 1841-1849 and the posthumous years are flawed with half-truths, hearsay, misinformation, omissions, hints and puns" (Icons of Europe). "His whole professional life has been one long big accident [including] the manner in which he first came to be regarded as the greatest living authority on Chopin" (The Monthly Musical Record, 1915).

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Book number: 8617

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music biography prose