RUSKIN, John (1819-1900)

Mornings in Florence: Being Simple Studies of Christian Art, for English Travellers. I. Santa Croce II. The Golden Gate III. Before the Soldan IV. The Vaulted Book V. The Strait Gate VI. The Shepherd's Tower. 1877

London, George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent [through 1881], 1875. Leatherette. First Editions (excepting Santa Croce, which is a second edition, with preface folios in Roman numerals), complete in six parts, of this great classic on Renaissance art. Crown 8vo (172 x 115mm): iv,23,[1]; [4],25-52; [4],57-95,[1]; [4],97-120; [4],121-151,[1]; [4],153-187,[1]pp. Original red leatherette covers, upper covers stamped in gilts, all edges gilt; burgundy ribbed cloth-covered slip case by Fitterer, paper label printed in black to spine. Excellent examples (covers occasionally rubbed), tigthly bound and clean throughout. Wise 204-205. Shepherd 105. Originally published in continuously paginated parts (as here), then subsequently issued, in November, 1885, in a collected edition, in both brown and green cloth-coverd boards. In December 1877, George Allen announced that Supplment I: The Visible Church would be issued shortly, with other parts in preparation, but none were ever published. An historical and artistic analysis written as a guide to Florence divided into five mornings spent walking around the city and observing treasures in churches and museums. Giotto's work is of particular interest to Ruskin, but also that of Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and their contemporaries. 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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Keywords: Architecture—Italy—Venice. Art—Italy—Venice. Architecture. Art. Buildings. XIX CENTURY

RUTLEDGE, Jean Jacques (1742-1794)

The Englishman's Fortnight in Paris; or, the Art of Ruining Himself There in a Few Days. By an Observer. Translated from the French

London, printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street, 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. First Edition, in English, of this novelized first-person account of a young English lord's debauched sojourn—prostitutes, gambling, horse-racing, drink—in the French capitol. Crown 8vo (206 x 121mm): [2],x,222pp. Contemporary leather spine in six compartments between raised bands, recent red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled sides and end papers. Joints skillfully reinforced, marbled sides heavily rubbed, top of title page (including word 'The') supplied in excellent facsimile. Internally, a Fine, bright copy, pages fresh and free of foxing, browning and stains. ESTC Citation No. N31079 (distinct from ESTC T131522, which Durham and Kearsly brought out the same year in duodecimo and which does not have the following note below the date on the title page present in our copy: "This work may be had of the above booksellers in French, printed from the Paris edition, which was suppressed in that country."). Translated by the author from his La quinzaine angloise à Paris, first published the previous year. Rutledge was the grandson of an Irish Jacobite who settled in France and son of Walter Rutledge, a banker and ship owner at Dunkirk, who assisted the Pretender in his expedition of 1715, and in consequence was named a baronet. "This sketch, which depicts the rapidity with which a ‘plunger' may be reduced to destitution by the harpies of Paris and purports to be a posthumous work by Sterne, to whose works it bears no sort of resemblance . The writer states that attempts had been made to suppress the work in Paris. A species of sequel, entitled ‘Le Second Voyage de milord ——,' appeared in 1779." (DNB) 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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SALMON, William (1644-1713)

Polygraphice: Or the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming. In Seven Books. Exemplified, in the Drawing of Men, Women, Landskips, Countreys, and Figures of Various Forms; the Way of Engraving, Etching and Limning,... The Depicting of the Most Eminent Pieces of Antiquities; the Paintings of the Antients;... The Whole Doctrine of Perfumes (Never Published Till Now,) Together with the Original, Advancement and Perfection of the Art of Painting: And a Discourse of Perspective, Chiromancy and Alchymy. To Which Also Is Added, I. The One Hundred and Twelve Chymical Arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a Most Learned and Eminent Physician, Translated out of Latin Into English. II. An Abstract of Choice Chymical Preparations, Fitted for Vulgar Use, for Curing Most Diseases Incident to Humane Bodies. The Fifth Edition :... Adorned with XXV. Copper Sculptures

London, printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, 1685. Early Printing. Full Calf. The most popular of Salmon's numerous books, here in the greatly expanded fifth edition. Thick crown 8vo (186 x 109mm): [64],767,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Salmon at age 27 and additional engraved pictorial title page (both by W. Sherwin) and 23 numbered leaves of plates. Contemporary brown calf boards beautifully rebacked to style, spine in six compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. Small old ink blot at lower right corner of plates (never entering image), plate xvi embrowned, else a handsome, tightly bound copy, generally clean throughout with only occasional light foxing and stains and toning to page edges. Wing S448. Lowndes III, 2180. Levis (Bib of Engraving), pp. 14-15. Originally published in 1672, this edition "enlarged with above a thousand considerable additions, in seven books," on drawing; etching, engraving, and limning; washing, colouring, dying, varnishing, and gilding; perfection of the art of painting; and the arts of beautifying, perfuming, alchemy, and chiromancy; 112 arcanums of Peter John Faber, physician, and a cabinet of choice medicines. Salmon, principally an itinerant apothecary and alchemist, explained "polygraphice" as a Greek compound intending to join in one "proper and comprehensive word Painting, Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Washing, Colouring and Dying." In addition, according to the DNB, "descriptions are given of the ways of representing the passions and emotions in portraiture [physiognomy]." In other words, this is an eminently practical manual of interest to all kinds of artists and craftsmen. The year following publication of this edition, there was at least one copy in America, when William Byrd of Virginia wrote to his London agent to order a copy for John Bannister, the naturalist and botanist. 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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Keywords: Art -- Early works to 1800. Portrait painting -- Early works to 1800. Alchemy -- Early works to 1800. Alchemy--Early works to 1800. Art metal-work. Art--Early works to 1800. Beauty, Personal. Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800. Cosmetics. Drawing--

SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967)

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with Important Bibliographic Significance]

London, Faber and Faber, 1930. First Impression. Hardcover. First Trade Edition of the second installment in Sassoon's lightly fictionalized autobiographical trilogy. 8vo: 334,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained pink, fore-edge rough-trimmed; pale yellow typographic dust jacket printed in blue and priced 7s/6d. Loosely laid in is a letter on Faber and Faber stationary, replying to a question asking why some copies of the first edition have uncut [rough-cut] page edges and others do not {Keynes describes the edges as "trimmed."]. "As a matter of fact, it was the author's wish that some part of the first edition should be produced with uncut edges and some 3,000 odd were published in this manner. However, as far as we are concerned there is no difference at all between the cut and uncut edges; both issues were printed simultaneously, the only difference being when the sheets reached the binder's cutting room." According to Keynes, 20,000 copies of the first trade edition were printed, of which (we now know from the testimony of the letter laid into this copy) only 3,000 copies were "uncut," making that issue by far the rarer of the two. An excellent example, with important bibliographic significance, Fine, square and tight (only lightly read, if at all); pages fresh, bright and unmarked; about Fine jacket, lightly dust-soiled, with several flecks of brown ink to back panel. First Impression of the third and final installment in the author's lightly fictionalized autobiography. A near fine copy. Some bumping to the spine tips and a couple of short nicks. A well preserved copy.Keynes A33a. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 3709. Falls, pp. 306-07. In the late 1920s, "Sassoon turned to the prose sequence that was to occupy him for nearly two decades: the well-received Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was followed by two sequels, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936), to form a trilogy published as The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (1937). In these books, the central 'Sherston' character is a semi-fictionalised version of the young Sassoon up to 1917, from which family life ('Sherston' has no mother or brothers), education, and poetic ambition are excised." (Literary Encyclopedia) 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/Fine-.

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SEYMOUR, Lord Webb (1777-1819); PLAYFAIR, Professor John (1748-1819)

[Geology] XI. An Account of Observations, Made by Lord Webb Seymour and Professor Playfair, Upon Some Geological Appearances in Glen Tilt, and the Adjacent Country [Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]

Edinburgh and London, Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Cadell and Davies, 1815. Wrappers. Original article disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preceding title refer to order of sequence as published in the Transactions. Demy 4to (273 x 210mm): 303-375pp, complete with five folding plates and folding map showing Glen Tilt. Recently bound by Fitterer in stiff marbled wrappers. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout. The river Tilt is a principal branch of the Tay, which rises on the borders of Aberdeenshire and runs towards the southwest, through the northeastern part of the county of Perth. A portion of the valley along its course, for about ten miles above Blair of Atholl, is called Glen Tilt, which Seymour and Playfair visited to study the geology of the rugged, mountainous terrain. In 1785, Hutton had examined outcrops in Glen Tilt, noting "contact relationships between Precambrian metasedimentary rocks and Paleozoic granite bodies, although he had no knowledge of their true ages." These breccias "were very influential, because they sparked a long, and at times acrimonious, debate about the origins of igneous rocks and especially granite." (Kerr, "Long Walks, Lost Documents and the Birthplace of Igneous Petrology: Exploring Glen Tilt, Perthshire, Scotland," July 2020, Geoscience Canada) 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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SHERIDAN, Thomas (1719-1788)

Lectures on the Art of Reading; First Part: Containing the Art of Reading Prose. By Thomas Sheridan, A.M. Author of Lectures on Elocution, British Education, &C

London, printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, 1775. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition. 8vo; xii, 392pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer to period style in full speckled calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, original olive-green lettering piece gilt. An excellent example, the pages clean, bright, and free of foxing. Lowndes 2380. Sheridan was an Irish stage actor, educator (and, incidentally, godson of Jonathan Swift and father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan), as well as a major proponent of the elocution movement. In Western classical rhetoric, elocution (the art of delivering speeches) was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, emerging as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. Sheridan's lectures on the subject, collected in Lectures on Elocution (1762) and Lectures on Reading (1775), provided directions for marking and reading aloud passages from literature. 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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SHERIDAN, Thomas (1719-1788)

Lectures on the Art of Reading [Parts I & II]

London, printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, 1775. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Edition, in two parts (volumes): Part I. The art of reading prose. Part II. The art of reading verse. 8vo: xii,392; [4, including Errata],411,[1, publisher's advertisement]pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in marbled paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines. A superb set, clean, bright, and free of foxing. Lowndes 2380. Sheridan was an Irish stage actor, educator (and, incidentally, godson of Jonathan Swift and father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan), as well as a major proponent of the elocution movement. In Western classical rhetoric, elocution (the art of delivering speeches) was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, emerging as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. Sheridan's lectures on the subject, collected in Lectures on Elocution (1762) and Lectures on Reading (1775), provided directions for marking and reading aloud passages from literature. 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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SMITH, Ellen Galusha (1849-1922)

[Needlecraft] How to Shade Embroidered Flowers and Leaves: So As to Produce Natural and Artistic Effects. Also Studies in Conventional Designs As Adapted to Needle-Work

Chicago, Art Embroidery Publishing Company, 1889. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First (and only) Printing, with 1889 on front cover but 1888 on title page. Demy 8vo (225 x 170): 127,[1]pp, with eight full-page tissue-guarded colored lithographs and many engraved patterns, printed on heavy stock. Publisher's black linen spine over grey beige pictorial boards (autumn leaves) lettered in black. Slight color loss to cloth spine, boards lightly toned and rubbed, but an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Not in Bennett or Reese. Ellen Galusha Smith and her husband, William, lived in one of Peoria's most historic houses, with gardens designed by Orson Galusha, Ellen's father (Orson Galusha was one of the first nursery men to bring to Illinois the scientific knowledge of nursery culture, which deeply influenced Ellen's art; see Illinois Women Artists Project online.) 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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SMITH, George

A Treatise of Comets, Containing I. An Explication of All the Various Appearances of the Late Comet,... Illustrated with a Plan of the Earth's and Comet's Orbits. II. The History of Comets from the Earliest Account of Those Kinds of Planets,... III. The Distance, Velocity, Size, Solidity, and Other Properties of Those Bodies Consider'd;... Illustrated Also by a Copper-Plate

London, printed for Jacob Robinson in Ludgate-Street, 1744. First Edition. First Edition of this tract on the nature and historical perceptions of comets. 8vo: [2],46pp, with two copper-engraved folding plates, one showing the comet's path and one demonstrating the origins of the comet's tails. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in handmade marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece gilt to upper cover, end papers renewed. Few pencil marginalia to bottom margins of several pages, else a Fine copy and very scarce in commerce thus (no copy recorded in ABPC or RBH). ESTC T98926. Allibone 2136. Bibliotheca Britannica II 862. Written following the appearance of De Chéseaux's comet, which appeared from December 1743 through March 1744. Also called Klinkenberg's Comet and The Daylight Comet, De Chéseaux's Comet was particularly spectacular, leading it to be classified among the "Great Comets." Smith recounts the comet's behavior and speculates on causes of its distinct appearance, at a time of great interest in comets, with scientists eagerly awaiting verification of Halley's theory that the comet now bearing his name would reappear in 1758. 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.). .

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[SMOLLETT, Tobias George, 1721-1771]

The History and Adventures of an Atom. In Two Volumes [First Issue]

London, Printed for Robinson and Roberts, No. 25, in Pater-noster Row, 1769. First Edition. Full Calf. First Issue (with title page mis-dated 1749) of this satire of English politics during the Seven Years' War. 12mo: [iii]-viii,227,[1]; [2 ],190pp. Half title in volume II only. A variant, with title page correctly dated [MDCCLXIX], is generally presumed (by Rothschild, for one) to be a later state. Newly bound by Fitterer in period-style speckled calf, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in gilt, green morocco letter piece gilt, top edge gilt, end papers renewed. A nearly pristine copy, the pages very lightly and evenly toned. Rothschild 1923. NCBEL II, p. 963. ESTC Citation No. T55310. Generally accepted to have been written by Smollett, but without conclusive proof of his authorship. "There is no reference to it in his letters or those of his correspondents, but it was attributed to him in the London Chronicle (8-11 April 1769). With echoes of the humour of Rabelais, it is a rumbustious, at times scatological, satire on British political life, transposed to Japan. [The 'atom' is the supposed narrator, a witness to the events and somehow able to communicate them to modern listeners. ] It may be that Smollett, sensing that his remaining days were few, revived his vituperative energies to target enemies, including Pitt, Cumberland, Mansfield, and Wilkes. If his, it was a pungent valediction. He took his leave of Hume in an affectionate letter of 31 August 1768 before going into ‘a perpetual exile' (Letters, 136)." (ODNB) A Key to the pseudonyms is given by Thomas Seccombe in the bibliographical introduction to vol. XII of Smollett's Works. 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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SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE [BRUTON, Henry William, 1843-1920]

[Auction Catalogues] the W.H. Bruton Collections. Catalogue of the Very Choice Collections of Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Book Illustrations, Also Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson : The Property of the Late Henry William Bruton, Esq. , Bewick House, Gloucester... Including One of the Finest Known Copies of the Pickwick Papers... Very Fine Unpublished Drawings... By Thomas Rowlandson... Books Illustrated by George Cruikshank... ; [with] Frontispiece to Roland's Comic Songs by Cruikshank; [and with] the Chignon, Etching by Cruikshank

London, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1921. Limited Edition. Half-Morocco. Large Paper copies, each number 3 of 125 sets of which 60 were for sale, with printed prices and buyer's names. Complete in two volumes (Printed Books and Old Engravings). Royal 8vo (277 x 182mm): [2],iv,62,[2],vii,[1], with portrait frontispiece and twelve tissue-guarded leaves of plates; [2],iv,3-39,[1],iv, with portrait frontispiece and eight tissue-guarded leaves of plates. Bound in half crushed morocco by Riviere, original bluish-green wrappers printed in black bound in, top edges gilt, note on the extra illustrations bound in following the preface to Printed Books. Loosely inserted (and not called for) are the frontispiece to Roland's Comic Songs by Cruikshank (see book catalogue item 387, where this engraving is described as "excessively scarce") and The Chignon, colored etching by Cruikshank. Apart from these two laid-in illustrations, a number of plates were specially printed from Cruikshank's original copper plates and bound into this large paper edition. An absolutely Fine set, virtually pristine, with very fine impressions of the plates. OCLC 61499597. In 1862, Bruton's father formed the estate agents and auctioneers Bruton, Knowles & Co. in partnership with William Knowles. Henry Jr. joined the firm in 1864 and became partner in 1870. He had a special interest in Thackeray and Dickens, and he also was vice president of the Dickens Fellowship. Included in this sale, in London, from June 7th through the 10th, 1921, was a long series of novels, in parts, and rare pamphlets by Dickens; unpublished drawings by Rowlandson for The dance of death and The seven ages of man; caricatures, original drawings, and an extensive collection of books illustrated by George Cruikshank; publications by Thomas Bewick; the Kelmscott Chaucer, and the fourth folio edition of Shakespeare's Works. All were said to be "mostly in immaculate condition, many presentation copies, and many extra-illustrated with fine drawings, important autograph letters, and rare engravings." 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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[John Upton] SPENSER, Edmund (1552?-1599)

Spenser's Faerie Queene. A New Edition with a Glossary, and Notes Explanatory and Critical by John Upton... In Two Volumes [Extra-Illustrated]

London, printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Annotated Edition, illustrated (grangerized) with the full suite of 32 double-page plates by William Kent for the 1751 edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene, published by Stephen Wright and John Brindley (ESTC T35152). 4to: xlii,(68, including glossary),673,[1]; 673pp, Illustrated with 32 double-page tab-mounted copperplate engravings by William Kent. Engraved armorial bookplates of John Moore Paget (1791-1866) on front paste-downs. Laid in are various manuscipt leaves, one on stationary of the Old Vicarage, Cuckfield, now a Grade II listed building, originally built in the early 17th century, rebuilt, in Georgian style, in 1780s, and finally altered in the nineteenth century. A magnificent set, printed on heavy paper and bound in contemporary full stained calf (joints very skillfully rebuilt), spine in six compartments between raised bands (four very richly gilt, two with red and black morocco lettering pieces gilt); decorative gilt rolls on thick board edges, page edges speckled red. A superb, perhaps unique, example, pages and plates pristine, crisp, fresh, and bright. Lowndes V, 2477 and III, 2477. Alston, III,101. Spenser Encyclopedia, pp. 389 (for Kent) and 706 (for Upton). . Upton's edition was the first attempt at an original-spelling and an annotated text. "The extensive notes, tracing sources and identifying historical personages, are still valuable; all later annotators are indebted to Upton's erudition." (Radcliffe, Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry 1579-1830) William Kent was a skilled designer and decorator but a poor painter and draughtsman, and despite their energy and directness, his designs for The Faerie Queene are not wholly successful (they were severely criticised by Horace Walpole, in his Anecdotes of Painting in England). But the subjects represented contain many interesting reflections of Kent's involvement with picturesque gothic architecture and garden design, including such romantic structures as the Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, a thatched, mock-gothic building housing a library for Queen Caroline at Richmond. John Moore Paget, of Cranmore Hall, Somerset, inherited from his father a "library of curious and valuable books [and] a decided taste for bibliology. A book-hunter from his youth, his constant delight in after life was to search old book-stalls, and add from time to time some scarce or quaint old work or rare engraving to his increasing collection." (Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 221, 1866). 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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STEEL, David

[Maritime] the Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship. Illustrated with Engravings. In Two Volumes

London, Printed For David Steel, Union-Road, Little Tower Hill, 1794. Full Calf. Rare First Edition of Steel's exhaustive treatise on shipbuilding (complete in two continuously paginated volumes bound as one), a massive work addressing all things maritime in the age of sail. Demy 4to (262 x 204mm): xv,[3],185,185*,186-240; [4],245*-260*,244-425,[5],147,[1]pp, with 95 inserted copper-engraved plates (some folding and double-page), depicting shipbuilding, masts, ropes, sails, and the like; two volvelles (one defective), and numerous full-page tables. (Pagination is continuous but highly irregular, per ESTC.) Contemporary full tree calf covers with old reback, flat spine gilt in six compartments, red leather lettering piece gilt, marbled end papers, separate title pages. Book plate of conservationist Frederick E. Ellis (1916-2010), of Shaw Island, Washington. A superb example in period binding, tightly bound and clean throughout, with excellent impressions of the plates; compass volvelle absent movable pointers. Bibliotheca Nautica 1339 ("One of the outstanding works on the subject"). Adams & Waters 3275. RCIN 1059213. According to the Preface, "The germe of this work was a small and incomplete treatise on sail making, which some years ago came into the possession of the publisher. In the course of rendering that fit for general use, the reciprocal dependence of the naval arts was discerned; and it was instantly resolved to collect them all together. " By the late eighteenth century, Britain was the pre-eminent naval power, but faced challenges from French militarisation following the Revolution of 1789, "forcing the Royal Navy to construct hundreds of new ships over a short period. The Elements & Practice of Rigging & Seamanship provides extensive instructions on how to prepare a ship for sail and the basics of seamanship and naval tactics. It is heavily illustrated with engraved plates and moveable diagrams and covers everything from mast- and sail-making to rigging and rope-making. There are also illustrated comparisons between various British ships to other European ships as well as to Chinese and Polynesian sailing vessels." (Royal Collection Trust) 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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[STERNE, Laurence, 1713-1768]

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick, [Bound with] Yorick's Sentimental Journey, Continued; [and with] a Political Romance

London, [n.p.], 1769. Quarter-bound Leather. Three titles bound in one, all issued (no printer or publisher given) in 1769, complete in five volumes, continuously paginated in Arabic and Roman numerals. 12mo: 150,[3],cliv-clxvi,[1],168-306pp. "Yorick's sentimental journey, continued . By Eugenius" (i.e. John Hall-Stevenson) comprises vols. III (which also includes "Some account of the life and writings of Mr. Sterne by Eugenius") and IV; vol. V is "A political romance, addressed to - - Esq. of York, Sterne's satire on ecclesiastical disputes at York, originally published in 1759 but suppressed. Each volume with separate title page. Nicely rebound in quarter calf, spine in six compartments stamped in blind and numbered in gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, end papers renewed. Contents lightly foxed and browned, some light page-creasing throughout. ESTC Citation No. T14751. For first edition, see: Rothschild 1971. Tinker Library 1978. Cross (Sterne), p. 603-04. Grolier English 100, 54. Sterling 808. Lowndes 2509. Pine-Coffin R788 (noting: "a mostly imaginative work, is unfinished and contains little reference to Italy. Eugenis is also unconnected with Italy."). Scarce early edition, appearing one year after the first. "The real journey immortalized in the story was made in October, 1765; in December, 1767, two volumes were completed, and on February 27, the work was published . On the eighteenth of March, Sterne died," at age 54 of tuberculosis. Sterne had used the pseudonym Yorick twice before (in Tristram Shandy and in Sermons by Mr. Yorick), "so the authorship of this book was probably never in doubt." (Grolier English 100) "Sterne's wry and poignant farewell to the world. Having produced a ribald and parodic account of the increasingly popular Grand Tour narrative as volume VII of Tristram Shandy, Sterne now conceived of a different kind of travel book, 'something new, quite out of the beaten track,' as he wrote to his daughter .' Contemporaries reviewed A Sentimental Journey as a travel narrative, rather than a novel, and admired the games which Sterne played with the conventions of the genre." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Very Good + .

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STODDART, John (1773-1856)

[Scottish Topography] [Grangerised] [Hand-Colored] Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland During the Years 1799 and 1800

London, William Miller, Old Bond Street, 1801. First Edition. Half-Morocco. An extra-illustrated copy of this uncommon treatise on the manners, customs, and scenery of Scotland. Complete in two royal octavo volumes: xxiv,310; viii,341,[3]pp, with engraved title-page vignettes by W. Poole, double-page map of Scotland colored in outline, 32 hand-colored aquatints of castles, cathedrals, and landmarks by Merigot after various artists; extra-illustrated with 12 full-page copperplate engravings, mounted and inserted at appropriate places in the text. Slightly later half green morocco over marbled boards, spines in five compartments divided by wide gilt-decorated raised bands, titled direct in gilt, marbled end papers and edges. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and generally clean throughout (finger smudges to some plate margins and very occasional light spotting to pages of volume one). Abbey (Scenery) 483. In the autumn of 1800, on his return from Scotland, Stoddart lodged in the Lake District with Wordsworth, who drew upon passages from Stoddart's book for his magnum opus, The Prelude. (Stoddart reviewed Lyrical Ballads in the British Critic, in 1801.) From 1810 to 1816, Stoddart wrote for The Times, then left to started his own newspaper, The New Times. In 1826, he quit journalism to serve as chief justice of the vice-admiralty court in Malta. He was knighted that same year. 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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