[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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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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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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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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HUNTER (Alexander):

Men and Manners: Or, Concentrated Wisdom. The Third Edition, much enlarged.

York: Printed by Thomas Wilson & Son..., 1808. 12mo, pp. 238 [239 printer's imprint, 240 blank], contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; childish scribbles on rear end-papers, front joint cracked (but firm), corners worn.

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[JACOB (Giles)]:

Essays Relating to the Conduct of Life; On various Subjects. Inscrib'd To all Young Gentlemen and Ladies, who are desirous of having a true Knowledge of the World. To which are added, Essays on Musick, Painting and Poetry. And also Select Poems, Tales, Epigrams, Translatons, &c. The Third Edition.

London: Printed by J. Stephens for J. Hooke, at the Flower de Luce...., 1730. 12mo, 162 x 95 mms., pp. [vii], i -i iv [v blank], 172, 8, contemporary mottled sheepskin, spine ornately gilt in compartmenst (but faded and darkened), red leather label (also darkened); slight wear to extremities, but a very good copy. Giles Jacob (bap. 1686, d. 1744) made his reputation as a legal scholar, but he published a number of other works, but he also published a witty work parodying Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock; Jacob gave his parody the title The Rape of the Smock. This work is also of some lasting importance for law and legal history. writes, The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism (2010), Gary L. McDowell writes, "The most clearly Lockean work is a small work entitled Essays Relating to the Conduct of Life. In many ways, the Essays is an unremarkable work. But there are two reasons why it is of interest. First, teachings of Jacob seeks to instil through his essays very clearly take their bearings from the ideas one finds in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding and his various tracts on education. The second reasons Jacob's essays are of some interest is the light they shed on his possible motives in publishing his other works, especially his legal compilations and law dictionary." The first edition was published by Curll in 1717, with a total of [[12] + 84 pages, with 21 essays only. This edition adds essays 21-52, "Select poems, tales. .." (including Jacob's poem "Human happiness"), and "The advice of King Stanislaus given to his daughter the Queen of France," which has separate pagination. ESTC states that the title-page is a cancel, but I don't see any obvious stub in this for for a cancellans; copies located in BL; Library of Congress and Illinois. ESTC T67384 locates copies of the 1717 first edition in Brighton Central Library, BL, Cambridge; Folger, Kansas State, Illinois, University of Kansas, and Yale. The BL has a copy of the second edition of 1726, published by J. Cooke.

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PERCIVAL (Thomas):

A Father's Instructions; Consisting of Moral Tales, Fables, and Reflections; designed to promote the Love of Virtue, a Taste for Knowledge, and an early acquaintance with the Works of Nature. The Seventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged.

Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for J. Johnson...London, 1788. 8vo, 181 x 109 mms., pp. [7] 8 - 10, [xi] - xxiii [xxiv advert], [3] 4 - 368, including half-title. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: PERCIVAL (Thomas): Moral and Literary Dissertations; chiefly intended as the sequel to A Father's Instructions. The Second Edition, Revised and much Enlarged. Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for J. Johnson..., London, 1789. 8vo, 181 x 109 mms., pp. xviii [xix adverts, xx blank], [3], 4 - 334 [335 text, 336 blank, 337 - 386 Index], bound in contemporary polished calf, gilt rules on spine, red leather labels; some very slight wear to binding, front joint volume 2 slightly cracked, , but a very good and attractive set, with the autograph and date, "Harriet Comyn, 1791" on the recto of the front free end-paper, and also in her hand, "Given by J. D.," and her larger autograph on the title-page of each volume. Harriet Comyn is possibly the wife of Thomas Comyn (1746/7–1798), vicar of Tottenham and chaplain of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Harriet Charlotte née Stables. The physician Thomas Percival (1740 - 1804) attend the medical school at the University of Edinburgh, where he made the acquaintance of David Hume, among others of the Scottish illuminati. The first part of A Father's Instructions was published in 1775, which The Monthly Review for that year endorsed enthusiastically: "These moral tales (written by Dr. Percival of Manchester, for the use of his own children) are well adapted to answer the valuable ends which the Author proposes - inspiring the minds of children with virtuous sentiments, awakening their curiosity, leading them by easy and agreeable steps into the knowledge of nature, and giving them an early taste for propriety and elegance of language." The later work, Moral and Literary Dissertations, met with similar approval in its reviews, with The Critical Review concluding that "These Dissertations are distinguished, like the Author's former productions, by the the genuine marks of a liberal, inquisitive, and philosophical mind, accompanied with delicacy of sentiment, and an excellent taste."

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STANHOPE (Eugenia):

The Deportment of a Married Life; Laid down in a Series of Letters, written by the Honorable E------. S-------, a few years since, to a Young Lady, her relation then lately married. Dedicated to the Countess of Derby. Second Edition.

London: Printed for Mr. Hodges...and sold by C. Mason..., 1798. 8vo, 21 x 119, pp. [3], vi -xi [xii blank], 281 [282 blank], contemporary calf, rebacked with old gilt spine laid down, corners restored; title-page with library stamp and some staining of lower margins, lacks label, ex-library, with various stamps. The widow of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (?1729 - ?1783) shepherded his Letters through the press in 1774, mainly because her husband had left her nothing in his will. She published this work first in 1790, and this 1798 edition is partly revised from the two editions published in 1790, neither of which has the dedication leaves. It is dedicated to the Countess of Derby (1759 or 1762 - 1829), who in an earlier incarnation was the actress Elizabeth Farran [or Farren]. She became the mistress of Edward Smith Stanley, twelfth earl of Derby (1752–1834) in the 1780s, and upon the death of his wife, who had cuckolded him by having a prologned affair with the Duke of Dorset, on 14 March 1797. The dedication concludes, "may the faithful Historian, in contemplating the Purity of your Life, not omit to inform Posterity, that the Earl of Derby, in Soliciting your Acceptance of a Coronet, immortalized his Judgment of Female Excellence." Several sources give 1783 as the date of Eugenia Stanhope's death, so it would appear that this dedication is written from beyond the grave! It does not appear in either of the 1790 imprints. Otherwise, the publisher seems to have used the same leaves as for the 1790 editions.

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