[BOLTON (Robert)]:

Letters and Tracts on the Choice of Company and Other Subjects.

London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White..., 1761. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 220 x 132 mms., pp. xxxii, 304, contemporary marbled boards (slightly soiled), with later quart calf spine and vellum fore-edges, uncut, with the obituary presentation engraved bookplates of Thomas Llewelyn on the front paste-down end-paper, and an inscription on the title-page attributing the work to "Blackborn." Robert Bolton (1697–1763), was dean of Carlisle. In addition to several letters (86 pages) on the "choice of company," Bolton addresses himself to the following other subjects: "On Intemperance in Eating," "On Intemperance in Drinking," "On Pleasure," "On Public Worship," and concludes with a "Letter to a Young Nobleman" and an Appendix about a continuation of Clarendon's History. The Monthly Review for 1761 appreciated Bolton's argument: "There is a plainness and perspicuity in the Doctor's style, and a force and dignity in his sentiments: the excellent advice he offers to young persons is always founded on the principles of right reason; and in the most material points, he takes care to shew, what support they have from the authority of those excellent Writers, whose wisdom, their own and all succeeding times have concurred to applaud."

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Book number: 9898

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DARRELL (William):

Il Gentiluomo Istruito nessa Condotta d'Una Virtuosa, e Felice Vita. In Tre Parti Scritto dal Signor Dorell Gentiluomo Inglese Catolico pell'istruzion d'un Giovane Cavaliere Inglese. A cui è aggiunto un Avvertimento alle Dame. Tradotto dall' Original Inglese nell' Idioma Italiano da D. Francesco Giuseppe Morelli Sacerdote Fiorentino. Terza Edizione, accrescinta di alcune Annotazioni.

In Padova Nell Stamperia de Seminaro, Appresso Giovanni Manfrè Con Licenza de Superiori, e Privilego, 1746. 4to, 235 x 180 mms., pp. [xxxii], 502, title-page in red and black, engraved head- and tail-pieces, contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine; ex library with stamp on verso of title-page and last page of text, some very minor defects to four leaves, ot affecting text, binding slightly soiled, but a very good copy. The Jesuit William Darrell (1651–1721) was born in Buckinghamshire and became a Jesuit priest in 1671 and had a distinguished career as scholar and teacher both in England and in France. The work was first published as The Gentleman Instructed in the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life, in 1704 and the Italian translation in 1728. The work was very popular in Britain and was frequently reprinted. "It was published with a supplement, 'A word to the ladies', in 1708 and was in its tenth edition by 1731. According to Dodd it was 'much admired and often reprinted' (Dodd's Church History, 3.494). It was translated into French by P. de Mareuil SJ in 1728 and also into Hungarian and Italian" (ODNB). Library Hub doesn't record or list any copy of the Italian translation in its subscribing libraries. OCLC records only one copy of the Italian transation, at Bibliotheque Cantonale et Universitair in Switzerland. The BL, however, has two copies, one the first edition of 1728 and the second edition of 1732.

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Book number: 9876

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GISBORNE (Thomas):

An Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain, resulting from their respective stations, professions, and employments. The Fifth Edition, Corrected.

London: Printed by A. Strahan...for J. White...and Cadell and Davies..., 1800. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xv [xvi blank], 461 [462 blank, 463 adverts, 464 blank]; xii, 546, including half-title in each volume, contemporary half calf, morocco labels, marbled boars; lacks numbering pieces, label on volume 1 defective, some of marbled paper missing from edges of boards, slight evidence of damp on end-papers. Gisborne's enquiry is wide-ranging, taking in the duties of the Sovereign, of Englishmen in general, members of the government, the military, the legal profession, the clerical profession, physicians, and businessmen. A commentary on David Hume's essay on miracles creeps into this discussion of the duties of physicians, and he judiciously cites Adam Smith when writing about the duties of persons engaged in trade and business.

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Book number: 2770

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GISBORNE (Thomas):

An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex. The Fourth Edition, corrected.

London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies..., 1799. 8vo, pp. viii, 448, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine (rubbed, with most of the gilt gone from the spine), black morocco label; joints cracked.

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Book number: 2772

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