CRABBE, Rev. G. (George, 1754-1832)

The Borough : A Poem, in Twenty-Four Letters [Peter Grimes]

London, Printed for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190, Opposite Albany, Piccadilly, 1810. Full Calf. First Edition of Crabbe's best known work, dedicated to the Duke of Rutland, a series of twenty-four verse letters, including Peter Grimes, the poem that Benjamin Britten used in 1945 as basis for his masterly opera. Demy 8vo (217 x 130mm): Xli,[1],344,[4]pp, including half title and four pages of advertisements listing 52 title available from Hatchard. Contemporary full tree calf, sympathetically rebacked with plain tan calf, spine in six compartments divided by double gilt rules, maroon leather lettering piece gilt. Armorial book plate to front paste-down of industrialist [Thomas] Starling Benson (1775-1858). Faintly visible contemporary signature to title page of Sophia Baillie (1771-1843), daughter of naval surgeon Thomas Denman. Bareham & Gatrell A15. An exceptional, tall copy, very clean (excepting advertisements at end) and bright. Hayward 196. Five further editions followed in six years. Written in heroic couplets, the poems are arranged as a series of 24 letters, covering various social strata, trades, and places, and detailing the lives of rural characters. The best known letter (XXII) is that of Peter Grimes, which inspired Britten's opera. "To talk about Crabbe is to talk about England," E. M. Forster declared in a radio broadcast in May 1941. It was hearing Forster's talk while living in California that gave Britten the idea for his first opera and inspired his return to England and Aldeburgh, the unnamed borough of Crabbe's poems. "There are marvellous passages in ‘Peter Grimes', in which the fisherman, cast out by society on suspicion of murdering his boy apprentices, hides out in the foetid estuary of the Alde, companioned only by the melancholy and ‘tuneless cry' of the marsh birds. Paddling through these backwaters, Grimes sees the ghosts of his brutal father and two ‘thin pale' boys rising from the brackish depths calling out to him to join them. It is a nice irony that when Britten and Peter Pears founded the Aldeburgh festival in 1948 they did so amid the kind of sniping and stuffy local resistance that Crabbe would have recognised." (The Spectator, 25 June 2022) Crabbe's literary influence and legacy initially spread far and wide. Jane Austen's Mansfield Park was heavily inspired by Crabbe's works, as was to a lesser extent Persuasion. So the later drowning of Crabbe's voice would have surprised his admirers, including Byron, who called him "nature's sternest painter, yet the best." It would also have shocked Forster, who praised Crabbe for "his tartness, his acid humour, his honesty, his feeling for certain English types and certain kinds of English scenery." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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ORKIN, Ruth; Mary Engel [introduces]; Ninalee Allen Craig and Shaun Considine [contribute]

[Exhibition Catalog] American Girl in Italy : The Making of a Classic

New York, Published by Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2005. Stiff Wrappers. First Printing of a catalogue for an exhibition, "Jinx Allen in Florence," September 16 to October 22, 2005, at Howard Greenberg Gallery, in New York, devoted entirely to images Orkin made over the course of a day, one of which was the famous "American Girl in Italy." Slim royal 8vo (255 x 204mm): 32 unnumbered pages, chiefly photographs, with essays by Mary Engel, Ninalee Allen Craig, and Shaun Considine. Original photo-ilustrated wraparound card wrappers. Ninalee Allen Craig (1927-2018). called "Jinx," was the subject of Orkin's "American Girl in Italy." This exhibition catalogue includes 17 other Orkin photographs of Jinx as well as reproductions of the original contact sheet and pages from Orkin's diary. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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CRÈVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St Jean de (1735-1813)

[Letters from an American Farmer] Lettres D'Un Cultivateur Américain, écrites a W.S. Ecuyer, Depuis L'Année 1770, Jusqu'a 1781. Traduites de L'Anglois Par ***

A Paris, Chez Cuchet, Libraire, rue & hôtel Serpente, 1784. Quarter-Calf. First Edition in French, First Issue (with errata, not found in second issue) of the author's free translation (adding a second volume) of his Letters from an American Farmer, "as literature, unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century." (Howes) Complete in two octavo volumes: xxiv,iv,422,[2]; [4],iv,400,[2]pp, with head and tail pieces. Half title in second volume. Contemporary tan quarter calf, smooth spines in six compartments divided by wide gilt rolls, citron and blue goat skin labels gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled edges, vellum tips. A remarkably attractive set, securely bound, spine gilt bright, pages fresh and free of foxing with ample margins. Howes C 883. Sabin 17494. Monaghan 502. DAB IV, pp. 542-44. Clark I, 218(4). First published in London, in English, in 1782. Crèvecoeur served in the French and Indian War as a surveyor in the French colonial militia. Following the British defeat of the French in 1759, he became a naturalized citizenship of New York, adopted the name John Hector St. John, and began farming in Orange County, meanwhile observing the emergence of an American society. This French edition is a substantial rewrite of the English version, and more pro-American and anti-British in tone. Crèvecoeur's essays (including those on Nantucket and on Martha's Vineyard and the whale fishery), describing the scenery, customs, and manners of the colonies just then slipping into the chaos of revolution, as well as the New World's natural history and the ethnography of its native populations, were enormously popular in both England and France, where they were reprinted many times, and in Holland and Germany, playing a major role in attracting Europeans to settle in America. Letter IX, containing his description of a caged slave up in a tree, dying while tortured by insects and birds of prey, is a riveting indictment of slavery. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Trefwoorden: United States—Social life and customs—1775-1783. United States—Social life and customs—To 1775. United States—Description and travel. United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783— Anecdotes. Nantucket Is XIX CENTURY

CUMBERLAND, Richard (1732-1811); Christian Samuel Kalthoeber (binder)

[Armorial Binding] an Accurate and Descriptive Catalogue of the Several Paintings in the King of Spain's Palace at Madrid; with Some Account of the Pictures in the Buen-Retiro. By Richard Cumberland, Author of the Anecdotes of Eminent Painters in Spain

London, printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and J. Walter, Charing-Cross, 1787. Full Calf. First (and only) edition of this brief survey of the Spanish royal collections, in Madrid. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 91mm): iv,131,[1]pp. Contemporary full tree calf binding by C. [Christian Samuel] Kalthoeber, London (orange ticket to front fly-leaf verso), binder to George III and Catherine the Great, with beautifully tooled coat of arms in gilt to both covers; covers framed in gilt with Greek key role, spine in six compartments between gilt-decorated raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, all edges gilt, red silk page marker laid in. Provenance: Several lines of evidence convincingly point to the book having been bound for William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844), the novelist and art collector. The coat of arms in gilt to both covers is that of the order of the garter ("honi soit qui mal y pense"), founded by Edward III. Beckford claimed descent from Edward and appropriated the arms and symbols of Edward as founder of the Order of the Garter. Finally, Kalthoeber bound books for Beckford, and a note since removed from the front paste-down identified this as the Beckford copy. A superb example in handsome contemporary binding, tightly bound and clean throughout. By 1800, English art collectors and dealers were looking toward Spain as a new source of supply, and the dramatist and diplomat Richard Cumberland had had paved the way: "I frequently visited the superb collection of paintings in the palace at Madrid [which included masterpieces by Rubens, Titian, and Velazquez]; the king was so good as to give orders for any picture to be taken down and placed upon the easel, which I might wish to have a nearer view of; he also gave directions for a catalogue to be made out at my request, which I have published . the first that had been made ." (Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, pp. 254, 298-99) In 1980, the Prado annexed the Casón del Buen Retiro. In his day, the binder Christian Samuel Kalthoeber was considered one of the finest in the world. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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[DEFOE, Daniel, 1660-1731]

A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed Before. Being a Voyage Undertaken by Some Merchants, Who Afterwards Proposed the Setting Up an East-India Company in Flanders. Illustrated with Copper Plates

London, printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row ; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, 1724. Full Calf. First Edition, in two parts, of "perhaps Defoe's best travel book," an imaginary voyage of circumnavigation, intending to discover uncharted lands in the South Pacific. (Earle) Crown 8vo (201 x 115mm): [2],208; 205,[1]pp, with frontispiece map of the globe by J. Clark and three full-page views of life ashore. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in full speckled calf to period style, spine in six compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, covers paneled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, matching end papers renewed. Scarce in commerce. A superlative copy in a fine binding, clean throughout with good margins. Moore 469. Sabin 19291. Furbank and Owens, pp. xviii-xx. Lowndes II 620. Howgego D11. Gove, pp. 241-42. Hill 462. Goldsmiths', 6348. Landis V 724/49. Earle (The World of Defoe), pp. 54-57. Published anonymously six years after Robinson Crusoe (and thus testifying to Defoe's abiding interest in voyaging to the South Pacific), but attributed to Defoe some fifty years after his death. One of Defoe's lesser-known works but deserving of classic status, A New Voyage broke new ground, heralding a fresh approach to fantasy fiction of the eighteenth century. According to Howgego, Defoe based his work on a wide variety of sources, including Dampier, Frézier, Narborough, and other accounts of the great buccaneering voyages of his day. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Trefwoorden: XIX CENTURY

[DEFOE, Daniel (1660-1731); George Cruikshank (Illustrates)

[Original Cloth] the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, or York Mariner. With Introductory Verses by Bernard Barton, and Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from Drawings by George Cruikshank Expressly Designed for This Edition

London, printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831. First Edition thus. Original Cloth. First Edition with Cruikshank's illustrations and introductory verses by Bernard Barton, complete in two volumes. 8vo (173 x 105mm): [8],xvi,434,[2]; [4],406,[2]pp, with engraved steel frontispiece depicting Friday kneeling to Crusoe in each volume and 38 woodcut vignettes throughout. Original green pebbled cloth, paper labels printed in black to spines. An excellent set of this scarce edition (one label with tiny abrasion affecting Major's name, small snag to cloth covering one board), tightly bound in contemporary cloth, fresh and bright (virtually pristine) with rich impressions of the plates. Cohn 229. Widener, p. 112. Lowndes II, 614. Jerrold, p. 131. Ullrich 51. Lovett 301. Patten I, pp. 335-36. Another edition of this classic from another publisher but using the same plates appeared in 1836. Cruikshank was a favorite of publishers of illustrated fiction, and they vied especially to secure his services for their editions of Robinson Crusoe. The novel was a particular favorite of Cruikshank; he had begun designing wood blocks for it as early as 1819, when he etched a frontispiece for an edition published by T. Hughes, as well as five more plates for a rival edition brought out by J. Fairburn. (These were the first substantial illustrations since 1790, when Stockdale published an edition with engravings after Stothard.) Since then, abridged versions of the novel abounded, but, in 1831, "Major intended to restore the full text and produce an edition that deserved 'a place in the library of every scholar and man of taste.' He wanted Cruikshank's plates to stand comparison with 'the celebrated Series by the admirable Stothard.'" (Patten). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Trefwoorden: XIX CENTURY

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)

American Notes for General Circulation

New York, D. Appleton, 1868. First Edition thus. Pictorial Wrappers. Scarce printing of "one of the most famous and important examples of travel-writing in the nineteenth century, documenting simultaneously a particular moment in the development of the United States and what was surely a major turning-point in Dickens's career." (Literary Encyclopedia) Crown 8vo (188 x 122mm): 104,[4]pp, text printed in double columns. Publisher's peach pictorial wrappers printed in brown, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, publisher's advertisement for the works of Louisa Mühlbach printed on deep pink stock and tipped to title page. A tad worn and slightly soiled, occasional light creasing and foxing, but securely bound and generally clean throughout. A collectible copy of this fragile production. This edition not in Gimbel, Eckel, or Smith, but see Howes D-316, Sabin 19996, and Wilkins, pp. 22-24 for other American printings. Dickens sailed from Liverpool on January 3, 1842, and visited numerous cities in North America, including Boston, Philadelphia, Richmond, St. Louis, Montreal, and Quebec, before returning to England from New York City on June 7. American Notes, first published in London, in 1842, is largely based on his letters to John Forster, Daniel Maclise, and others. Notable for its chapter on slavery, which influenced Longfellow's many poems on the topic. "Along with Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Dickens's American Notes represents one of the most significant contributions to a trend, during the 1820s, 30s and 40s, for books about the USA by prominent European visitors; these included works by Frances Trollope, Harriet Martineau, Frederick Marryat, James Silk Buckingham and Basil Hall. Dickens made his visit to America precisely to see for himself this new 'laboratory' in which democratic government was being tested. his visit brought home to him the gulf between [his radical] ideals and their realisation, and thus represents a pivotal moment in the development of the darker, more cynical world-view of his later novels." (Literary Encyclopedia) According to Wilkins, the first American edition of American Notes was pirated and published by Wilson & Company, in New York, as a double number of the newspaper "Brother John" late in 1842. An authorized edition was brought out by Harper & Brothers soon after. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Trefwoorden: XIX CENTURY

[DRYDEN, John, 1631-1700]

[Political Tract] the Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. By the Authour of Absalom and Achitophel

London, printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge's Head in Chancery-lane, near Fleet-street, 1682. First Edition. Marbled Wrappers. Presumed second issue (two lines of Latin verse on final page) of this satirical poem lampooning the Earl of Shaftesbury. Small 4to: [12],20pp. There are at least two issues: the first (Macdonald 13.a.i) lacks the Latin lines at the end. Recent hand-marbled stiff paper wrappers, paper title label printed in black to front cover. An excellent example, beautifully rebound and generally clean throughout. Macdonald 13.a.ii. Wing D2311. ESTC R17608. Pforzheimer 331. Ashley Library II, pp. 84-85. Dryden's unsparing invective against the Whigs, prefaced by a vigorous and plainspoken prose "Epistle to the Whigs." In 1681, the Whigs had a medal struck in Poland (the Earl of Shaftesbury's head in profile on the obverse, the sun rising over the Tower of London on the reverse) to commemorate the release of one of their most prominent leaders, who had been held in the Tower on charges of treason for opposing the succession of the Catholic James to the throne. It was the perfect prompt for Dryden's mock-heroic satire: "Of all our Antick Sights, and Pageantry / Which English Ideots run in crowds to see / The Polish Medall bears the prize alone: " In fact, most of "Dryden's masterpieces were written in the 1680s after the Titus Oates Plot had driven the nation into hysteria against the Catholic minority, with the result that thousands were imprisoned and a number, including Dryden's cousin Lord Howard, were executed. From the start Dryden ridiculed the Plot (fomented by the radical Whigs) with all the civilized disdain he was capable of in The Spanish Fryar (1680), Absalom and Achitophel (1681) and The Medall (1682)." (Literary Encyclopedia) As a result, he became the butt of personal attacks, in word and deed: an ambush in Rose Alley nearly killed him. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Trefwoorden: Political tracts. History and chronicles. XIX CENTURY

DUCHAMP, Marcel (1887-1968); Richard Hamilton (interprets); George Heard Hamilton (translates)

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box, Translated by George Heard Hamilton; [Together with] the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even Again: A Reconstruction by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass

London, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co, 1963. First British Edition. Hardcover / Pictorial Wrappers. On offer are two complementary works: the artist Richard Hamilton's typographic interpretation of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box (1963) and the scarce documentation of Hamilton's yearlong reconstruction of Duchamp's "The Large Glass" (1966). First Printing of the first work, a typographic analog of one of the "most complex as well as one of the most rewarding artistic experiences of modern times" (from the appendices). Demy 8vo (229 x 150mm): unpaginated (including one leaf folding and another printed on frosted glassine), with profusion of photographic plates, full-page drawings, diagrams, various typographic formats, annotations, vignettes, and musical notation, all relating to Duchamp's groundbreaking magnum opus, "The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even" (known familiarly as "The Large Glass"), a composition in oil paint, lead wire, and lead foil on two glass panels. Printed in red and black. Original lime green paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover lettered in black-and-white stippled type; original glassine dust jacket. Book and glassine jacket in excellent, unmarked condition (small corner tear to glassine). First Printing of the second work, documenting Hamilton's reconstruction of The Large Glass, Illustrated in black and white throughout. Royal 8vo (302 x 202mm): [2]pp, with 32 full-page plates and two lime-green tissue guards. Publisher's original pictorial card covers, about Fine (very light crease to bottom right pages). Hamilton's typographic interpretation of Duchamp's Green Box (`La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même (Boîte verte), a collection of 94 documents explaining the development and function of "The Large Glass," assembled between 1915 and 1923. During the 1930s, Duchamp oversaw the first printed edition of the Green Box, with each of the 94 original notes meticulously reproduced in collotype in exact facsimile (including torn edges, blots, erasures, and the occasional illegibility) and issued loose in a green box, in an edition of 300 with twenty deluxe versions. By 1956, the British artist Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) had worked through the notes to develop a diagram of the areas in the glass to which he believed the subject of each notes relates. Then in 1960, Hamilton and George Heard Hamilton, professor of art history at Yale, produced this English translation of the Green Box, using typography, layout, and graphic design to communicate the intent of the original documents in a new (bound) format, the Green Book. Hamilton's reconstruction of the actual The Large Glass ("Even Again") was exhibited in 1966 at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle Upon Tyne before traveling to London for the Duchamp retrospective, The Almost Complete Work of Marcel Duchamp, which Hamilton curated at the Tate Gallery. "N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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CORYMBAEUS [Brathwait[e], Richard, 1588?-1673]

Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England. In Latin and English Metre. Wittily and Merrily (Tho' an Hundred Years Ago) Compos'd; Found Among Some Old Musty Books That Had Lain a Long Time by in a Corner, and Now at Last Made Publick. Together with Bessy Bell

London, printed for S. Illidge, under Serle's Gate Lincolns-Inn New-Square, 1723. Quarter-Calf. The Third Edition, "illustrated with several new copper cuts," of Brathwait's most famous work, a mischievous doggerel featuring perhaps "the world's most celebrated pub crawl." (Bowes). Foolscap 8vo (149 x 89mm): [20],175,[11]pp, with frontispiece (reproducing the original engraved title page), five further copper-engraved plates (four, by J. Clark, are new to this edition, one placed at the beginning of each part), and decorative head- and tail-pieces. Text printed in parallel Latin and English on facing pages. Recent brown polished quarter-calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments divided by gilt-ruled raised bands, red leather lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout, with bright plates. Wither to Prior 79. Originally published in Latin and pseudonymously as Barnabae itinerarium, or, Barnabee's Journal, by Corymbaeus, in 1638; first printed under this title in 1716. Brathwait was only identified as author in the edition of 1818. Most of the verses omitted in the second edition are here restored; the plate in the second edition representing Barnaby's departure from the inn has been altered and here serves as frontispiece to Bessy Bell. "This didactic and satirical text describes four journeys between Kendal (Brathwaite's home) and London. The route taken is different in each instance. It is a remarkable example of the trend for topographical writings in the 1630s, but in its rollicking style it also prefigures some of the picaresque novels of the eighteenth century." (ODNB) Brathwait's highly improper doggerel attracted little attention in its own day, but became wildly popular in the eighteenth century (Southey described Barnabee's Journal as "the best piece of rhymed Latin in modern literature."). Bessy Bell is a genteel ballad of courtship between two rustics. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[EMERSON, William, 1701-1782]

The Elements of Geometry. In Which, the Principal Propositions of Euclid, Archimedes, and Others, Are Demonstrated After the Most Easy Manner. To Which Is Added, a Collection of Useful Geometrical Problems. [Bound with] the Doctrine of Proportion, Arithmetical and Geometrical. Together with a General Method of Arguing by Proportional Quantities

London, Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller in Ordinary to his Majesty, 1763. First Edition. Full Leather. First Edition. 8vo: viii,183, [1]; iv,32 pp, with 296 geometrical figures and perspective designs on 14 folding engraved plates. Prefaces to both titles signed: W. Emerson. Contemporary full leather, spine ribbed and divided into six compartments, red morocco lettering piece gilt to second. A Very Good or better copy, front hinge skillfully (almost invisibly) reinforced, pages and plates free of stains and foxing, save for first 10 leaves, which have been professionally restored on the top inner edge (with no loss of text). Both first editions of elementary works on geometry and perspective, the first divided into eight books; both start with definitions, axioms, and postulates, followed by numerous problems (keyed into the 296 figures, in the case of the first book) and their solutions. ESTC Citation Nos. T77181 and T77180. Like his fellow County Durham savant John Bird, the astronomer and instrument designer, Emerson makes a fictional appearance in Thomas Pynchon's ‘Mason and Dixon.' He was the very archetype of the English eccentric: According to an Age of Enlightenment account, Emerson dressed in old clothes and his manners were uncouth. He wore his shirt back to front and his legs wrapped in sacking so as not to scorch them as he sat over the fire. He complained about the expense of all the candles he had used during a lifetime studying mathematics, mechanics (he apparently never advanced a proposition he had not tested, nor published an invention without first proving its effects by a model), and music, including the theory of sounds and the ancient and modern scales. He died on 20 May 1782 at his small estate in Weardale, where his gravestone bears epitaphs in Latin and Hebrew. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Very Good + .

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EMERSON, R[alph] W[aldo], 1803-1882

[Stonehenge] English Traits

Boston, Phillips, Sampson, 1856. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing, with "(1)" on half-title, "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry" on title page verso, battered type at the bottom of page 230, and type of last line on p. 304 not battered. 8vo: 312pp. Publisher's dark brown ribbed T cloth, covers paneled in blind with florets in each boxed corner, spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind with rules and boxes with florets within, pale yellow end papers.Toe of spine bumped, else a superlative example, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. BAL 5226. Cooke, p. 111. Myerson A24.1.a. During a second trip to England, in 1847-1848, Emerson lectured in the industrial cities, which yielded material for this popular book (including a chapter on a visit to Stonehenge with Thomas Carlyle) and afforded him renewed contact with Europe's intellectual elite (among them, Dickens, Tennyson, and de Tocqueville). On an earlier trip, in 1832, he visited John Stuart Mill, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle, the last of whom became a lifelong friend, correspondent, and intellectual goad. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine- .

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Trefwoorden: National characteristics, English. Manners and customs. England—Description and travel. England—Social life and customs.

ENGELGRAVE, Henricum (1610-1670)

[Emblem Book] Lucis Evangeliae, Sub Velum Sacrorum Emblematum, Reconditiæ, Pars Tertia. Hoc Est CæLeste Pantheon Sive CæLum Novum in Festa Et Gesta Sanctorum Totius Anni, Selecta Historia, & Morali Doctrina Varie Illustratum : Pars Posterior

Antverpiae [Antwerp], apud viduam & haeredes Joannis Cnobbari, sub signo S. Petri, 1658. Vellum. Rare Antwerp impression of Engelgrave's best known work, two parts (with separate title pages) in one volume. 4to (228 x 176mm): [4],352[334 misprinted 234],[44, indices]; [4],492[but 494: pp. 153-160 misprinted as 1-8], p. 295 as 195, pp. 340-341 as 342-343, p. 348 as 349, pp. 377-378 repeated in number only],[40, indices]pp, with title-page vignettes, 55 emblems within ornamental scroll borders engraved by Jacob van Meurs (1619-1680), and numerous woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with yapped edges, later green silk ties. Exceptionally clean and bright throughout, the engravings in rich, deep impressions. Provenance: van de Catholijke Kerk te Zierikzee (book label on rear paste-down). De Backer & Sommervogel III, p. 395. Not in Landwehr or Praz, but see Landwehr (Dutch) 65 and (Low Countries) 222 and Praz, p. 327, for other Antwerp editions. First printed in Cologne, in 1657. Engelgrave was a Belgian Jesuit. His illustrated guide to the liturgical year presents themes for sermons on religious holidays and saints days, summed up in emblems with mottoes borrowed from classical poets, the religious meaning made explicit by biblical quotations. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Boeknummer: BB0569

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L'ESTRANGE, Hamon (1605-1660)

The Reign of King Charles : An History Faithfully and Impartially Delivered and Disposed Into Annals

London, printed by E[llen]. C[otes]. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane, and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1655. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition of this rare history of the reign of Charles I to May 1641. Crown folio (267 x 178mm): [8],266,[6]pp, with woodcut device on title page and additional engraved title page ("The history of King Charles by H: L: Esqr."), signed G. Faithorne. Contemporary speckled calf, covers elaborately paneled and decorated in blind, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt. Title page stub-mounted with neat name in manuscript to top (John Bournes?). An excellent example in handsome period binding, securely bound and generally clean throughout. Wing L1189. Lowndes III, 1346 ("A book of considerable merit, written in a bad style."). A second enlarged and revised edition, in which L'Estrange answered the criticisms of Peter Heylyn, who had excoriated L'Estrange's history for its hasty composition and consequent omissions, misunderstandings, and errors, was published in 1656. L'Estrange was an English writer on history, theology, and liturgy. On the outbreak of the civil wars, he threw in his lot with the king, and was embroiled in the attempt to deliver the market town of King's Lynn, which supported the Parliamentarians, to Royalist forces. "In 1655 L'Estrange published The Reign of Charles I, a history of the reign to May 1641. Fuller described it as 'an handsome history likely to prove as acceptable to posterity as it hath done to the present age' (DNB). This has been claimed as one of the earliest attempts at impartiality in accounting for the tensions which led to the civil war in England. Certainly L'Estrange himself believed that he was setting the record straight by offering 'a modest vindication of this King in some particulars, not reflecting upon the fatall proceedings against him' (preface)." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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Boeknummer: BB1684

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Trefwoorden: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Great Britain—History—Charles I, 1625-1649. XIX CENTURY

EVELYN, John (1620-1707)

Silva : Or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions : As It Was Delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th Day of October, 1662, Upon Occasion of Certain Quaeries Propounded to That Illustrious Assembly, by the Honourable the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy. Together with an Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. By John Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. With Notes by A. Hunter, M.D. F.R. S.

York, Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; T. Cadell, in the Strand; J. Robson, New-Bond-Street; and T. Durham, Charing-Cross, London. W. Creech and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1776. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Hunter Edition (sixth overall, first published in 1664), virtually doubling the original text. 4to (298 x 230mm): [56],649,[11]pp, with engraved portrait frontispiece of Evelyn by F. Bartolozzi, 40 full-page copper-engraved plates of foliage, flowers, and fruits by Johann Sebastian Muller (including one folding, "A Winter View of the Canthorpe Oak," drawn by William Burgh and engraved by Muller), and folding table. ("The Chestnut Tree," meant to face p. 153, bound facing p. 159.) With list of subscribers and index. Period full tree calf, skillfully recornered and rebacked retaining original spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, black leather lettering piece gilt, covers framed with gilt role, marbled end papers. Occasional light spotting, slight browning and offsetting from plates, but a fresh, wide-margined copy, securely bound and generally clean throughout, the plates in deep, rich impressions. Henrey 137. Keynes 47. Gibson's Library, p. 122. Nissen BBI 615. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 2057. In 1652, Evelyn set about creating the garden at Sayes Court (the 200-acre Deptford estate his father-in-law held from the crown), signaling the start of a serious interest in landscape design. This led to his writing the Elysium Britannicum, an encyclopedic history of gardens and gardening practices that occupied him for most of his life. Silva, his pioneering work on tree cultivation, as well as his book on soils (A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, 1676) were both outgrowths of Elysium Britannicum. Although primarily intended to encourage tree planting after the devastation of the civil war, Silva was also a learned account of the growth and uses of native trees interpolated by an edited collection of materials contributed by fellows of the Royal Society from different parts of the country (Silva was the first book to carry the Society's imprimatur). By its fourth edition it also included "An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves." This handsome reissue, with additional plates and with "learned and extensive" (Keynes) annotations, practical instructions, and references to the best eighteenth century authorities by Alexander Hunter, gave S renewed popularity. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Boeknummer: BB2772

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Trefwoorden: Forests and forestry—Early works to 1800. Soils. XIX CENTURY