[BRAMSTON (James)]:

The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry.

London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 47 [48 adverts for ten books], engraved frontispiece, engraved oval vignette of Homer on title-page, two rules above imprint, 19th century boards; gutter between frontispiece and title-page a little stained, spine worn and slightly defective. Foxon B386.

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Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry satire literature

BRAND. [Barbarina, Lady Dacre]:

Dramas Translations, and Occasional Poems. By Barbarina Lady Dacre. In Two Volumes.

London: John Murry Not Published [Printed by Thomas Davison] 1821. 2 volumes. 8vo, 210 x 130 mms., pp. [vii] viii - ix [x blank] [9] 10 - 249 [250 blank, 251 Errata slip, 252 printer's imprint]; [v] vi [9] 10 - 269 [270 blank, 271 Errata slip, 272 printer's imprint], including half-title in each volume. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: Translations from the Italian by Barbarina Lady Dacre], 8vo, [London, Charles Whittingham, 1836. 8vo, 210 x 130 mms., unpaginated [166, with errata slip and printer's imprint], 3 volumes, uniformly bound by Stephen Austin, Hertford, and printed on Japon paper, bound in full cream contemporary vellum, with gilt panels on each cover, spine gilt in compartments, red and black leather labels; slight occasional foxing and two leaves in volume 3 [Translations] slightly water-stained, a fine and attractive set, inscribed on the front free end-paper of volume 3, "To William Blake Esq/ from B. Dacre." The third volume was privately printed and limiited to 150 copies, of which this is no. 2. The poet and playwright Brand [née Ogle], Barbarina, Lady Dacre (1768–1854) was twice married: in 1789 she married Valentine Henry Wilmot (d. 1819) of Farnborough, Hampshire, an officer in the guards, with whom she had a daughter, Arabella (1796–1839). After his death, on 4 December 1819 she married Thomas Brand, twentieth Baron Dacre (1774–1851). The entry in the Oxford DNB records that, "Lady Dacre was one of the most accomplished women of her time, an excellent horsewoman, sculptor, and a French and an Italian scholar, as well as a writer of some note. In 1821 her poetical works were privately printed in two octavo volumes, under the title Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems. They include four dramas, the first of which, Gonzalvo of Cordova, was written in 1810 and was indebted to de Florian's Gonzalve de Cordone (1791). The next, Pedarias, a Tragic Drama, was written in 1811, its story being derived from Les Incas of Marmontel. Her third dramatic work was Ina, a tragedy in five acts, the plot of which was set in Saxon England. It was produced at Drury Lane on 22 April 1815, under the management of Sheridan, to whose second wife, the daughter of Dr Ogle, dean of Winchester, Lady Dacre was related. It was not sufficiently successful to induce its repetition. It was printed in 1815, as produced on the stage, but in Lady Dacre's collected works she restored 'the original catastrophe, and some other parts which had been cut out'. The fourth drama was entitled Xarifa. Lady Dacre's book also contains translations of several of the sonnets of Petrarch. Ugo Foscolo's Essays on Petrarch of 1823 are dedicated to Lady Dacre, and the last forty-five pages of the work are occupied by her translations from Petrarch. Her Translations from the Italian, principally from Petrarch, were privately printed at London in 1836. She also wrote several plays and comedies for amateur theatres which were successfully put on at Hatfield and The Hoo. Lady Dacre was a prolific letter-writer who shared a correspondence with other literary women such as Joanna Baillie, Mary Mitford, and Catherine Maria Fanshawe."

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BRAND (John):

On Illicit Love. Written among the Ruins of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford.

Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by T. Sain, or J. Wilkie..., 1775. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 282 x 220 mms., pp. [iv], 20, including half-title, engraved (by Ralph Beilby) vignette on title-page, stitched as issued; half-title very soiled, al edges soiled, some staining of text; an insalubrious copy. The subject matter is the "illicit" romance between Henry II and Rosamund Clifford (before 1150 – c. 1176), often called "The Fair Rosamund" or the "Rose of the World." His assignations with her took place within a maze at his park at Woodstock. The Monthly Review in 1775 commented, "This poem has a moral purpose, and contains many good lines; the apostrophes, in particular, to Love and Woman are very pretty and poetical; yet there are some defective passages, and some obscurities in the verses; which evince no want of genius, but a hand not long accustomed to composition." The Critical Review in December, 1775, was also enthusiastic, claiming that the Royal Affair produced "productions both of the amorous and elegiac kind, but never any in which the criminality of an unlawful passion is more forcibly exposed, or chastity recommended in a warmer strain of poetry, than what now lies before us. The author appears to be inspired by all the enthusiastic ardour which the scenes of memorable transactions [sic!] are apt to excite in the imagination. The sentiments are glowing and just, the imagery is animated, and the poem is in general beautiful, pathetic, and moral."

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Book number: 9408

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry adultery literature

BREMER (Fredrika):

Christmas Eve, and Christmas Matins. A Scene in Swedish Peasant Life.

London: The Religious Tract Society..., [no date], [1850]. Small 12mo, 142 x 92 mms., pp. [7] - 35 [36 blank], steel-engraved frontispiece, original printed wrappers (slightly soiled). A good copy, with the contemporary autograph "S. C. Turner" on top margin of front cover. Uncommon. The only copy I can find of this religious tract was printed in New York, Published by Lane & Scott, for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1850; the copy is in Drew University Library.

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Book number: 8591

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: religion Methodism prose women

BREMER (Frederika):

The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life. Translated by Mary Howett. Third Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected by the Latest Swedish Edition.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans..., 1843. 2 volumes. Large 12mo, 189 x 103 mms., pp. [iv], 325 [326 blank]; [ii], 343 [344 blank], contemporary half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt spines, red morocco labels; no half-titles, but a very good and attractive set. The Swedish writer and feminist reformer Frederika Bremer (1801 - 1865) enjoyed great popularity in the UK and the USA, thanks to this English translation of Granname, first published in 1837 as The Neighbours. "By the time Bremer revealed her name to the public, her works were an acknowledged part of the cultural life in Sweden.[8] Translations made her still more popular abroad, where she was regarded as the "Swedish Miss [Jane]Austen".[26] Upon her arrival in New York, the New York Herald claimed she "probably... has more readers than any other female writer on the globe" and proclaimed her the author "of a new style of literature".[27][28] A literary celebrity, Bremer was never without a place to stay during her two years in America despite having known no one before her arrival.[14] She was praised by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman[29] and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women includes a scene of Mrs March reading from Bremer's works to her four daughters" (Wikipaedia). A long article on Bremer's novels appeared in The North American Review for 1843, with the reviewer commenting that this work is "admirably suited to herald forth a new literary name. It has passed at once into a popularity more general than it has often been the lot of such a story to secure, having interest not only for childhood and youth, but for a large class of maturer readers, who had long since laid fiction aside, and never expected to see an inducement to return to it again"

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Book number: 9524

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: fiction women literature

BRETTELL (Jacob):

The Country Minister, A Poem, in Seven Cantos: Containing The First and Second Parts of the Original Work, with Additional Poems and Notes. A Second Edition.

London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker..., 1827. 8vo (in 4s), 172 x 98 mms., pp. [ii], 200 [201 notice from author, 202 Errata], contemporary hard grain morocco, title in gilt on spine; ex-library bookplate of County Borough of Warrington Municipal Library on front paste-down end-paper. The Unitarian minister and poet Jacob Brettell (1793–1862) published The Country Minister in 1821, with a revised edition in 1825. The European Magazine, and London Review of the 1821 first edition opened its review with these honeyed words: "It has not very recently been our good fortune to open a more assuming, yet highly gratifying work, than the little volume now before us; and we do commence, therefore, what critical etiquette usually reserves for it's [sic] bonne bouche at the close by warmly recommending it." Reviewing the second part in 1825, The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature commented, "The readers of Mr. Brettell's former poems will receive with pleasure the announcement of the little volume before us. They will again be delighted with nature, simplicity, and all the melody of verse." Bmarried, on 29 December 1815, Martha, daughter of James Morris of Bolton, Lancashire, and had four sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Jacob Charles Cates Brettell, born 6 March 1817, was partly educated for the Unitarian ministry at York, became a Roman Catholic, and went to America, where he was successively classical tutor at New York, minister of a German church, and successful member of the American bar in Virginia and Texas; he died at Owensville, Texas, 17 January 1867.

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Book number: 9164

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry religion literature

BREWER (Thomas):

The Life and Death of the Merry Deuill of Edmonton. With the Pleasant Pranks of Smug the Smith, Sir John, and Mine Host of the George, about the Stealing of Venison. By T. B.

London: Printed in the Black Letter, by T. P., for Francis Faulkner Dwelling over Against St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, 1631. Reprinyed for W. R., by J. Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street. 1819 Tall 8vo, 216 x 130 mms., pp. iv, 52, vignette on title-page, later binding in blue boards, paper label on spine, which is slightly faded. Little is known about Thomas Brewer (fl. 1605 - 1640), and as ODNB notes, this was the "first of his literary works, a prose tract entitled The life and death of the merry devill of Edmonton, with the pleasant prancks of Smug the smith, Sir John and mine host of the George about the stealing of venison, appeared in 1631. This piece was written and probably printed at a much earlier date for on 5 April 1608 'a booke called the lyfe and deathe of the Merry Devill of Edmonton, &c., by T. B.' was entered in the Stationers' register. Brewer's text, reprinted in 1657, related 'the many excellent jeasts' (Brewer, sig. [A4] ll. 2–3) of Peter Fabell and the trickery orchestrated by Smug the Smith and was doubtless influenced by the popular anonymous drama The Merry Devill of Edmonton, which was reissued five times between 1608 and 1631 and was acted at the court, the Globe, and the Cockpit." I say, chaps, what merry japes.

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Book number: 9594

Catalogue: Humour

Keywords: humour jests literature

BRIAN (Fred):

A Very Small Book of Etiquette by Fred Brian and Others

No Place No Publisher [c. 1970] Small folio, 268 x 168 mms., unbound (loose stiff wrappers enclosing two bifolia of extremely thick high-quality art paper, the first bifolium bearing the title-page on its first recto; the second bifolium bearing the main text on its first recto and first verso, and its second recto bearing a rather elaborate colophon, with variant title at the head of the first page of text, "Conduct in an Artist's Studio." Colophon on p. [3]: "Rives BFK paper / Garamond type / a Washington hand press; / all handled by Fred Brian of the / Pilot Rock Press --- / add up to: // A Very Small Book of Etiquette." The writer, artist, and printer Fred Brian (1924 - ) manages the Pilot Rock Press, which is among the more celebrated private presses of the United States. The textsconsists of suggestions on how to conduct oneself when visiting an artist's studio. The narrative is featured on the WEN (Wood Engravers Network) website (accessible here, ), but in a wholly different version, one illustrated with woodcuts, whilst ours -- presumably earlier -- is simply text finely-printed. Brian was born in Normal, Illinois in 1924; his interest in printing started just after World War II, and he studied printing at the University of Iowa. I have not located any other copy of this ephemeral and slightly satirical guide to visiting an artist's studio. Uncommon.

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Book number: 9055

Catalogue: Printing

Keywords: printing etiquette prose

BRINE (John):

A Treatise on Various Subjects: Viz. On the Original Purity of Human Nature. On its present Depravity. Of the Defects which attended the Doctrine of Morality of Morality , as taught by Philosophers and Poets. Of Regeneration, Conversion, and Sanctification. On the Difference between real Conversion, and the Semblance of it. On the Assurance of Faith. On the Life of Faith. On the Growth of Grace. Of Declension in the Power of Religion; its Causes, and the Ways and Means of a happy Revival under Decays of Grace. On the Temptations of the present Age; and Cautions against them. Of Communion with God, in the Course of that Obedience, which we are required to yield unto Him. Wherein various difficult Cases of Conscience are answered, as they occur, on the several Subjects treated of. The Second Edition.

London: Printed for John Ward...; And Sold by George Keith...and John AEynon..., 1756. 8vo, 194 x 118 mms., pp. vii [viii "Books written by John Brine," 400, contemporary calf; lacks prelims, fore-margins of a few leaves wormed, various ink scribbles on early leaves and last two leaves, ink-stain on front cover which also slightly affects upper fore-edge, rear cover with remains of paper label. The Baptist minister John Brine (1703–1765) was the author of some 30 books. He was regarded in his lifetime as a Calvinist and a supralapsarian, as well as an antinomian, but he identified as a Baptist minister. The present work was first published in 1750. ESTC T96830 locates 4 copies of this second edition: BL, Bodleian (2); Union Theological Seminary. It was reprinted in 1766 with a cancel title-page. See "John Brine And The Glory of God," Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies 2021.

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Book number: 9934

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Philosophy religion prose

BRISBANE (General Sir T. M. [Thomas Makdougall]):

Observations Magnetical and Meteorological made at Makerstoun in Scotland. In the Observatory of General Sir T. M. Brisbane, Bart. Under the Direction of John A. Broun. 1841 and 1842

Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, 1845. 4to, 286 x 219mms., pp. liii [liv blank], 165 [166 blank], engraved plate before text, contemporary quarter cloth, boards, paper labels on spine; ex-library with various library stamps. Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCH, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), was a British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer. He had an observatory built at his home in Scotland in 1808 and he made a number of contributions to navigation in the succeeding years. Brisbane was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828 and was elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1833. He was made a baronet in 1836 and attained the rank of general in 1841. He was the governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825, and what is now the city of Brisbane is named after him, though it was a penal colony at the time. The present volume is an extract from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 17.

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Book number: 9192

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: science mathematics prose

BRITISH SHORE.

The Brighthelmstone Directory or Sketches in Miniature of the British Shore.

London, Printed for T. Durham..., 1770. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 175 110 mms. pp. [iv], viii, 76, recent marbled wrappers. The Critical Review produced a review with a comment much shorter than the quoted text: "These Sketches are formed upon the mode of the New Bath Guide, and wrote in the hendecasyllable measure. The author informs us that they were attended only for the amusement of a friend, for which we very readily give him credit, and join with him in opinion where he says, 'That the only reputation I expect to acquire by this publication, is, that of a faithful historian; and yet I am afraid it will be lost in a few years. Some of the facts I relate will, perhaps, appear to our virtuous grand-daughters, so void of probability, that my whole correspondence runs a risk of being deemed fictitious....'" The Monthly Review was terse and trenchant: "In proportion as we applaud the very agreeable and entertaining Bath guide, we cannot but commiserate his unhappy mistaken imitator, the Author of the new Brighthelmstone Directory." The verse form that the first reviewer refers to was known in the 18th century as "Anstey Measure" or "Bath Guide measure." And compare the comment in The Monthly Review when The New Bath Guide was published in 1766: "There are a thousand strains of humour in these high-wrought Epistles." The work has been attributed to Edward Johnson. See Martin S. Day, "Anstey and Anapestic Satire in the Late Eighteenth Century," ELH (1948) ESTC T59226 locates copies in BL, Brighton Central, Cambridge, Bodleian (2); Yale, Huntington, Newberry (2); McMaster

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Book number: 9651

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Keywords: poetry

[BRITISH MILITARY FORCES].

Considerations on the Present State of Affairs in Europe, And particularly with Regard to the Number of Forces in the Pay of Great-Britain.

London: Printed for J. Roberts..., 1730. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 5 - 53 [54 blank]. BOUND WITH: The Natural Probability of a Lasting Peace in Europe; Shewn from the Circumstances of the Great Powers, as they are now situated; compared with the State of Affairs when the Treaties of Ryswick and Utrecht were severally concluded. London: Printed for J. Peele..., 1732. 8vo (in 4s), pp. xviii, 22, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy.

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Book number: 2301

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics pamphlet prose

BRODBELT (Rev. George Campbell):

Original Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects in Religion.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Mathews...; M. Priestly...; Calcott, Oxford; Marlin, Aylesbury; Stratton, Risborough; and Eades, High Wycombe, 1796. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xvi, 119 [120], adverts, including half-title and list of subscribers, disbound. Brodbelt (fl. 1796 - 1800) published some sermons and seems to have been active in the Missionary Society. The rhetoric of these sermons is certainly cast in the missionary mould. He notes in the Preface that he has been in the ministry thirteen years, and pointedly concludes by saying "The book was not intended to be embellished with quotations from the works of other men, therefore few such occur. The Essays are, in general, what the title-page declares them to be, Original." Approximately 400 people subscribed for the work. ESTC on-line locates three copies: L, Lmh; KU-S.

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Book number: 4251

Catalogue: Essays

Keywords: essays sermons prose

[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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Book number: 8727

Catalogue: Poems

Keywords: poems politics literature

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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Book number: 9450

Catalogue: Arithmetic

Keywords: arithmetic accountancy prose