BROWNE (Peter), Lord Bishop of Cork and Rosse:

A Discourse of Drinking Healths. Wherein The great Evil of this Prevailing Custom is shewn; And the Obligation which lieth upon all good Christians to Suppress and Discountenance it to the utmost of their Power.

London: Printed for Henry Clements, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church -Yard. MDCCXVI. 1716. FIRST LONDON EDITION. Small 8vo, 167 x 98 mms., pp. viii, 9 - 217 [2178 - 223 Contents and adverts, 224 blank], recentlky rebound in half chocolate calf, marbled boards, dark olive morocco labels, gilt rules, gilt ornaments on spine, with date in gilt at base of spine. A very good copy, with the bookplate of Peter Stewart Young, Tillingham on the front paste-down end-.paper ,and inscribed on the rect of the second leaf, "The Dean of Ross/to/ The Dean of Devon/ 28 Feb. '28". Peter Browne (d. 1735) came from a well-established Irish family and progressed quickly to high offices in the Church. He established a reputation for intelligence in discourse and pithiness in argument, with the publication of a riposte, A Letter in Answer to a Book Entitled Christianity not Mysterious by John Toland. The present work is a further development of arguments by Browne in his A Discourse on Drinking, in Remembrance of the Dead, which attracted a reply from "A Country - Curate," entitled A Brief Examination of the Bishop of Cork's Discourse, of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead (Dublin, 1714). Both discourses attracted some attention, but I am partial to a comment made in 1841, in T. Croften Croker's volume, The Historical Songs of Ireland about Brown's 1714 volume, that, "His notion was that drinking to the dead was tantamount to praying for them, and not, as is truly the case, in approbation of certain conduct or principles. Neither whigs nor tories have been less copious in their libations in consequence; and the only effect Dr. Brown's books appear to have had, was the production of an addenda to the obnoxious toast, 'and a fig for the Bishop of Cork.'"

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[BROWNE (Peter)]:

Of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead. Being The Substance of a Discourse Deliver'd to the Clergy of the Diocese of Cork, on the Fourth of November, 1713, by the Bishop of that iocese. And Published at their unanimous Request.

Dublin: Re-printed and Sold by E. Waters in Essex-Street, MDCCXIII. 1713. Small 8vo, 159 x 86 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 47 [48 blank]; title-page soiled. BOUND WITH: A Second Part of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead. Wherein the most Material Objections made against the First Part are Answer'd. Bt Pet. Lord Bishop of Cork and Rosse. Dublin: Printed by Daniel Tomson in Cole's Alley, Caster-Street. 1714. Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], vii, 76 Two volumes bound in one, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, black leather labe; slight wear to binding but a good copy. The first item is ESTC 185657, with copies in Bolton Library University of Limerick, Dublin, National Library of Ireland (2), Royal Irish Academy, Lliverpool; and Yale in the United States.

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GIN. HOTELS.

The Publick-House-Keeper's Monitor: Being a Serious Admonition to the Masters and Mistresses of those, commonly called Publick-Houses, of what Kind or Denomination soever. The Third Edition.

London: Printed and Sold by J. Downing, in Batholomew-Close near West-Smithfield, 1730. 12mo, 142 x 85 mms., pp. x, 11 - 47 [48 adverts], original wrappers (a little worn), with a 29t century owner's name on the verso of the front wrappers, "Hermann Odessa/ London/ 1918." Preserved in a modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back boards. The author is not very enthusiastic about public houses in general: "[U]pon describing the proper Conduct and Behavior of those, who keep Public Houses, we shall have so much Cause to reflect upon the contrary Practices, so much Vice and and Impietry, must be expos'd, and with such a horrid Train of Abominations will appear, as must grieve the Heart of any pious Christian, and make him even dread the Judgements of God, as continually ready to fall upon a Nation, wherein such open and bare-fac'd Wickedness is dialy comitted with Impunity." Two editions of this work were published in 1725. For this third edition, ESTC locates copies in BL, Cambridge, and McMaster University.

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SHOREY (J. F.):

What Jesus is Doing for Drunkards. How Faith and Trust in Him can Overcome the Craving Appetite for Strong Drink. With Testimonies of Rescued and Converted Drunken Men and Women From London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and New York, U. S. A. Revised, Condensed, and Cheaped.

London Published for the Author by Alfred Holness...[and] R. L. Allen, Glasgown [no date] c. 1900] 8vo, 183 x 113 mms., pp. 136, portrait of author as frontispiece, four other portraits, original decorated cloth. A very good copy. Shorey describes himself on the title- page as "Convert and Helper of Moody and Sankey. Formerly Superintendent of the McAuley Water Street Mission, U. S. A." Shorey notes in his introduction of "three thousand copies" has now been modified in this second edition. The first edition was simply titled What Jesus is Doing. Shorey was born in 1826, and the first edition is located in two American libraries: Biola University Library and Moody Bible Institute Library. No copy of this second edition traced in any online library database.

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Book number: 10026

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