REYNOLDS (Sir Joshua). HILLES (Frederick Whiley):

The Literary Career of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Archon Press, 1967. 8vo, pp. xx, 318, original cloth, worn dust-wrapper. A reprint of the 1936 first edition.

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Book number: 3264

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RICCI (Michele):

Di Michele Riccio Napolitano De Re di Francia Librii. De Re d'Ispagnia. Libri III. De Re di Gierusalem Lib I. De Re di Napoli, & di Sicilia. Lib IIII. De Re di Vngaria. Libri II. Dal Latino, tradotti in questa nostra lingare da M. Giovanni Tatti Florentino. Con Priuilegio dell'Illustrissimo Veneto, per anni dieci.

In Vinegia. Appresso Vincenzo Vaugris al segno d'Erasmo 1543. FIRST EDITION of this translation. 8vo, 156 x 102 mms., foliated, 90, [6], with contemporary name on title-page , printer's ornament on title-page and repeated on verso of last leaf but two, contemporary or slightly later calf, with panels in blind on each cover, with initials "W S" within panels, green morocco label with spine and label neatly restored and laid down; no front paste-down end-paper,some slight soiling of title-page and next leaf, but a very good to fine copy. Michele Riccio (1445 - 1515) was a historian, jurist, and an ambassador, a disciple of Pietro Pietro Summonte. The text of his lives of various European kings and rulers is preceded by a preface written by the translator, Marco Antonio Giustiniano. It is possible that the volume belonged to William Seymour (1588 - 1660). The same initial appear on a copy of Musica Transalpina (1588) at the Folger Shakespeare Library, but on a more elaborate binding. In his book-length study Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance (1981), the scholar David C. Price [no relation] suggests that "the initials 'W. S.' stamped on the Folger copy of Musica transalpina [might imply] that it belonged to the William Seymour who married Lady Arabella Stuart, a ward of the Talbots, in 1610." The William Seymour to whom David Price refers was the son of Lord Beauchamp, and was later the 2nd Duke of Somerset. The Wikipedia entry on Seymour asserts that he was a scholar. If in fact Seymour owned this volume, he appears here to have been reading up on the lives of kings; and he was suspected, at one point, especially by his own king, of coveting just that job. He was in fact imprisoned in the Tower of London on the basis of, or partly on the basis of, the king's suspicion along these lines. Both Seymour and his first wife, Lady Arabella Stuart secretly married, were potential heirs to the throne, being "respectively fourth and sixth in line." Copies located in BL; NYPL, UC Berkeley, Newberry, Kansas, Cleveland; Biblioteca Casantense, Biblioteca Centerale di Roma.

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Book number: 8263

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RICHARDSON (Joseph):

Literary Relics of the late Joseph Richardson... consisting of The Comedy of The Fugitive, and a Few Short Poems; With A Sketch of the life of the Author by an Intimate Friend; in which those numbers of the Rolliads and Probationary Odes written by Mr. Richardson are particularized. The whole Collected and Prepared for the Press by Mrs. Richardson, His Widow.

London: Printed for J. Ridgway..., 1807. FIRST EDITION. Large 4to, pp. xiv [xv - xvi "List of Additional Subscribers," xvii "Advertisement," xviii blank, xix drop-title, xx blank], 176, fine engraved portrait (by Newton after Shee) of Richardson as frontispiece, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, black leather labels, marbled boards (rubbed); corners worn, spine slightly rubbed and dried.

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Book number: 2870

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ROBINSON (Mary):

Memoires de Mistriss Robinson, célèbre actrice de Londres, contenant des détails curieux sur sa carrière dramatique et littéraire, ses amours avec le prince de Galles; son voyage en France, et ses relations avec le duc d'Orlenas et plusieurs personages celebres; écrits par elle-même; traduit de l'anglais sur la dernière édition.

Paris, de l'Imprimerie d'Egron, 1802. 8vo, 198 x 116 mms. pp. [iv], 316, contemporary, tree sheepskin, gilt spine, morocco label, contemporary bookseller's label on front paste-down end-paper; lacks portrait, half-title, and two leaves adverts at end. A translation of Mary Robinson's memoirs published in London in 1801.

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Book number: 3763

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ROSMINI (Antonio). LOCKHART (William) and LOCKART (William Henry):

An Outline of the Life of Antonio Rosmini, Founder of the Institute of Charity. With a Short Sketch of His Philosophical System, by Monsignor Gastaldi, Archbishop of Turin, Edited by Father Lockhart. Second Edition.

London: Burns and Oates..., 1880. 12mo, 160 x 100 mms., pp. [9- 10 - 132, attractively bound in red cloth, front cover blocked in gilt within border. A very good to fine copy, but with circular library stamp on title-page A work with a similar title was first published in 1856, and this appears to be a slightly altered reprint. Rosmini (1797 - 1855). In the early 1820s, Rosmini "was encouraged by Pius VII to undertake the reform of philosophy" (). By the late 1820s, Rosmini had written "his fundamental philosophical work, A New Essay concerning the Origin of Ideas (1830). As the title suggests, this was intended to supersede Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding." A collected edition of his works in 17 volumes was issued at Milan (1842–44), supplemented by Opere postume in 5 volumes (Turin, 1859–74. William Henry Lockart (1819 - 1892) converted to Roman Catholicism in 1843, the first of the so-called Tractarians to go over to Rome, and in 1886 he published the second volume of a Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, the first volume of which, by G. S. MacWalter, had appeared in 1883. Copies of this second edition located in Saint Joseph's Seminary, Emory University Pitts Theology, Biblioteca Civica de Rovereto. No copy traced in any UK library.

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Book number: 9049

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Keywords: biography Catholicism prose

ROSSINI. [STENDHAL. Marie-Henri Beyle]:

Memoirs of Rossini. By the Author of The Lives of Haydn and Mozart.

London: Printed for T. Hookham..., 1824. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 208 x 130 mms., pp. xlii, 287 [288 Errata], including half-title, engraved portrait of Rossini as frontispiece, contemporary half calf, marbled boards; lacks label, top and base of spine chipped, joints a little rubbed. Marie-Henri Beyle apparently used over one hundred pseudonyms, but he is best-know as Stendhal, even though that pseudonym doesn't appear on the title-page. The French original was published in 1823, and the translator of this English edition is unknown. Rossini was, of course, still alive when the work was published, having been born in 1792 and living to the age of 76.

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Book number: 6763

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SAINT PAUL. ADDINGTON (Stephen):

The Life of Paul the Apostle. With Critical and Practical Remarks on his Discourses and Writings.

London: Printed by R. Hett, for the Authors; and sold by him at Grove-House, Mile-End..., 1784. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large 8vo, 225 x 140 mms., pp. xxix [xxx Errata], 428, including 17 pages of subscribers, original boards, uncut, many leaves unopened; boards detached, edges a bit soiled, ex-library. The Independent minister Stephen Addington (1729 - 1796) was a prolific author, writing textbooks on arithmetic, geography, and Greek grammar, not to mention a number of works on religious and moral themes. Addington notes that most of what is known about Paul's life derives from the Book of Acts. Before Addington's work, the earliest modern biography of Paul appears to be that Antoine Godeau (1605 - 1672), translated into English in 1653. James Macknight (1721 - 1800) published his History of the Life of the Apostle Paul in 1795. ESTC T89161 locates copies in Aberdeen, BL, Congregational Library, and Southampton in these islands; John Hopkins, Library of Congress, and Yale in North America.

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Book number: 7291

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography religion prose

SHAKESPEARE. WALTER (James):

Shakespeare's True life. Illustrated by Gerald E. Moira.

London: For Strictly Private Circulation, James Walter..., 1890. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 385 x 275 mms., pp., [viii], iv, 395 [396 printer's imprint], illustrated title-page, numerous illustrations in text, uncut, some leaves unopened, original decorated buckram covers; front hinge cracked, somewhat shaken in casing.

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Book number: 2499

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography literature

SIDDONS. CAMPBELL (Thomas):

Life of Mrs. Siddons.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. ix [x adverts], 299 [300 printer's imprint]; [ii], vii [viii blank], 394, contemporary half calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels; numbering label on volume 2 chipped, covers detached on volume 1.

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Book number: 3911

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography theatre prose women

SIDNEY (Sir Philip):

The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt. With a life of the author and illustrative notes By William Gray.

Oxford, Printed and Published by D. A. Talboys, 1829. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 185 x 117 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 329 [330 blank], contemporary calf; half-title detached from inner margin, some damp staining, front hinge cracked, corners worn, lacks label.

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Book number: 6905

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography History literature

SMITH (Adam). MOSSNER (Ernest Campbell):

Adam Smith: The Biographical Approach. Being the thirtieth Lecture on the David Murray Foundation in the University of Glasgow delivered on 3rd March 1969.

University of Glasgow, 1969. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 26, original stiff paper boards.

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Book number: 3054

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Keywords: biography prose Scottish Enlightenment

SMITH (John Thomas):

Nollekens and his Times: Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor: and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake.

London: Henry Colburn..., 1828. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. x, 424; vi, 488, engraved portrait as frontispiece, contemporary hard grain plum morocco in two tones, gilt spines (slightly worn); ex-library, with the bookplate of the Royal Artillery Regimental Library, Woolwich, in each volume and library stamp on blank end-paper. Smith was keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. At the end of volume 2, there is a short section on Blake, with some curious anecdotes and details of the Blake material in the collection of Richard Thomson.

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Book number: 3879

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SULLY (Maximilien de Béthune), Duc de:

Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great. Containing The History of the Life and Reign of that Monarch, And his own Administration under Him. Translated [by Charlotte Lennox] from the French. To which is added, The Tryal of Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great.

London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1756. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 4to, pp. [vi], xxxii, 540; [iv], viii, 555 [556 blank]; vii [viii blank], 407 [408 blank, 409 - 530 Index], including half-titles in volumes 1 and 2, contemporary calf, gilt spines, morocco labels; no cancel leaves or blanks at end of volume 3, joints cracked, spines rubbed, tops and bases of spines chipped, labels slightly chipped, ex-library, with library label on front paste-down end-papers. Allen Hazen in his Samuel Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications (1937) attributed the dedication to Samuel Johnson, though R. W. Chapman in his Johnsonian Bibliography: A Supplement to Courtney (1939) disputed the attribution. Johnson also had the pleasure of reviewing the translation in The Literary Magazine in 1756. Fleeman accepts the attribution Fleeman 56.11LS/1

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Book number: 2890

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Keywords: biography women prose

TAYLOR (Isaac):

Beginnings of European Biography. The Early Ages. From the Decline of the Roman Empire to the Reign of Charlemagne. Illustrated with twenty-four engravings.

London: John Harris..., [n. d.] [1827]. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xvii [xviii Errata], 150, 24 engraved illustrations on 12 leaves, original printed boards with illustration on front cover, red roan spine (worn); binding a little soiled and worn.

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Book number: 4858

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Keywords: biography History prose

TILLOTSON (John), Archbishop. BIRCH (Thomas):

The Life Of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Compiled chiefly form His Original Papers and letters.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper... [et al], 1752. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], iii - vii [viii "Additions and Corrections"], 489 [490 - 504 Index], contemporary calf, red morocco label; slight wear to joints, but a very good copy. Thomas Birch (1705 - 1766) was one of the 18th century's most assiduous biographers, though his biographies are often compilations rather than narratives. In 1732, he worked on General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, an English, an expanded version of an earlier translation of Bayle's famous Dictionnaire. Birch's biography is one of the most important sources for information about Tillotson's life. A second edition was published in 1753. George Smith, commenting on the work in his Remarks upon The Life of the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson (1753), observed, "It had been expected for half a century that some one who had a Regard for the Memory of Archbishop Tillotson, a Man so famous in his Generation upon many Accounts, would have oblig'd the World with an exact and impartial History of his Life. At length an ingenious and industrious Gentleman has endeavour'd to perform this Service to the Publick: And I can't but be of Opinion he would have done it better, had he not made too great Use of Bishop Burnet's Flourishes and Hyperboles."

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Book number: 6830

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Keywords: biography History prose