[COMBE (William)]:

Letters of the Late Lord Lyttelton. Fourth Edition.

London: Printed for J. Bew..., 1781. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], vii [viii blank], 222, contemporary calf, red leather label; top of spine chipped with small portion of panel missing. Combe apparently claimed credit for the work later in his life, though the letters are sometimes thought to be genuine ones by Thomas Lyttelton, the second Lord Lyttelton.

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Mots-clés: letters forgery prose

HERVEY (James):

A Collection of Letters, by the late Reverend James Hervey.

Glasgow: Printed by J. and M. Robertson, 1792. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 604, with pp. 279 - 302 misnumbered as 179 - 202, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine, red morocco label; upper front joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, binding a little dried and rubbed. The anonymous editor observes in the Preface, that Hervey "seemed to make it almost an invariable rule, not to write a letter on any occasion, without at least some pious sentence in it..."; the pious sentences are balance by the more ordinary aspirations of writers, e. g., is a projected book likely to be published. ESTC on-line locates three copies of this edition: E; FMU and MBAt.

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HERVEY (James):

A Collection of the Letters of the late Reverend James Hervey, A. M. To which is prefixed, An Account of his Life and Death. In Two Volumes. [AND]: Eleven Letters from the late Rev. Mr. Hervey, to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley; Containing An Answer to that Gentleman's Remarks on Theron and Aspasio. Published form the Author's Manuscript, Left in the Possession of his Brother W. Hervey. With A Preface, Shewing the Reason of their now being published.

London Printed by Charles Rivington, For John Rivington..., 1760, 1765. FIRST EDITIONS. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. xcix [xcx Errata], 326; viii, 439 [440 Errata, 441 - 444 adverts]; xxxviii, 297 [298 blank], O1 in volume 2 in cancelled state, contemporary calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels; lacking the engraved portrait of Hervey found in some issues of volume 1, slight wear to front joint volume 1, one label slightly chipped, tops and bases of spines a little worn, but generally a very good set. James Hervey (1714 - 1758) produced some of the most popular devotional writings of the 18th century: his Meditations and Contemplations (1746 - 1747) was probably reprinted more often in the second half of the 18th century than even Thomson's Seasons. Hervey's Calvinistic, evangelical sympathies did, however, provoke some attacks, which he seems to have been indifferent to. His answer to Wesley's criticism of his popular Theron and Aspasio (1755) was first published without his or his brother's authority in 1764. Although the letters are filled with devotional topics, there are frequent comments on political topics and literary productions of the day, viz., "Thanks for Mr. Mason's Odes. Polished Performances' but not equal, in my Judgement, to his Isis, or his Monody on Pope."

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HERVEY (James):

A Collection of Letters.

Glasgow, Printed by J. and M. Robertson, 1792. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 604, contemporary calf, morocco label; lacks all before title-page, horizontal tear in title-page from inner margin but not reaching fore margin, rear cover detached, top and base of spine chipped, top and base of front joint cracked. For this edition, there is a new preface as well as a two-page assessment of his writings at the end, but perhaps the most interesting part of the book is the booksellers' label almost filling the front paste-down end-paper, advertising a large collection of books at the "Reader's General Repository of Literature, Cranbrook..." ESTC N27473 locates 4 copies: E, L; FMU, MBAt.

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HOUSMAN (A. E.):

Fifteen Letters to Walter Ashburner. [Edited by Alan Bell.]

Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1976. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 24 [25 - 26 blank, 27 limitation notice, 28 blank], including half-title, original blue printed wrappers. A fine copy. Handset and printed by hand by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press. Edition limited to 125 copes "of which 100 are for sale". "This is one of 25 copies printed for the editor." Ashburner (1864 - 1936), an American educated in England, met Housman at Oxford; they shared an interest in books and dining.

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HUME (David):

The Letters of David Hume. Edited by J. Y. T. Greig. AND: New Letters of David Hume. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and Ernest C. Mossner.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932, 1954. FIRST EDITIONS. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 532; [vi], 498, 8vo, pp. xxxii, 532; [vi], 498, portrait frontispiece in each volume, original cloth. A very good set, with the autograph of A. M. Kinghorn, Scottish literary scholar and editor, in volumes 1 and 2, and the following inscription in volume 3 (New Letters), "Alexandro Kinghorn/ Scoto/ Scotorum rerum/ docto acutissimoque indefatori/ d. d. d./ Raymundus Klibansky/ Ad Montem Regium - Mense Februario A. D., MDCLVII." A. M. Kinghorn is the Scottish literary scholar and editor Alexander Manson Kinghorn, who published widely on Scottish poetry, ancient and modern, as well as on drama and Shakespeare. The acclaimed German-Canadian historian of philosophy Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005) studied at Hamburg and Heidelberg before becoming a lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford. "He became a British citizen in 1938, and during the Second World War was attached to the Political Warfare Executive, based at Woburn Abbey. He worked at first on Germany, then on preparation for the allied invasion of Italy, and after the war on the denazification programme in Germany." After the war, in 1946, Klibansky became "the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University", also lecturing at the Université de Montréal. From "1966 to 1969 he was President of the International Institute of Philosophy, and subsequently its honorary president", and between 1981 to 1995 he was Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford. "In 1999 he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2000 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition for being 'one of the greatest intellectuals of our time' " (Wikipedia). The online Canadian Encyclopedia singles out Klibansky's book "Saturn and Melancholy (1989), written in collaboration with E. Panofsky and F. Saxl" as "a masterpiece in the history of ideas."

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N° du livre: 5806

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[LANGHORNE (John):

Letters Supposed to have passed between M. De St. Evremond and Mr. Waller. Now first Collected and Published. Carefully Corrected.

London: Printed in the Year 1770. Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 199 [200 blank], including half-title, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; front joint cracked and tender, rear joint rubbed, top and base of spine chipped. With the contemporary inscription "Thomas Browns/ Book" on the title-page and the armorial bookplate of Chas. Laudos [?] Pole on the front paste-down end-paper. John Langhorne (1735 - 1779) is probably better-known as the translator of Plutarch than the author of these suppositous letters, which he translated with his elder brother William and which appeared the same year.

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McCANN (Timothy J.), ed.:

The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724 - 1750. Sussex Record Society Volume 73.

Lewes: Sussex Records Society, 1984. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xxxix [xl blank], 326, 4 illustrations on 2 leaves, original cloth, fine copy in very good dust-wrapper.

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POMPADOUR. [Barbé-Marbois (François, Marquis de)]:

Letters of the Marchioness of Pompadour: From MDCCXLVI to MDCCLII inclusive.

London: Sold by T. Cadell..., 1771 - 1772 3 volumes. 12mo, 158 x 97 mms., pp. xii, 176; [[ii], 151 [152 blank, 153 - 167, 168 blank]; [xii], 176, attractively bound in red morocco, with gilt roll borders surround a panel with gilt ornaments at each corners, spines ornately gilt to a lyre motif, black leather labels; joints and extremities a little rubbed, but a very good set, with the bookplate of William Thomson in each volume, and his autograph on the recto of the front free paper in each volume. The authenticity of the letters provoked doubts by the English reviewers, with The Monthly Review asserting that "We have our suspicions" but could not prove the letters to be forgeries, but "We grant, however, if these letters are forged, they are wrought by the hand of an artist; that the workmanship is rare; and that if it be not the manufacture of the person whose name is stamped upon it, it may, perchance, be something better."

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WILKES (John):

The Correspondence of the late John Wilkes, with his Friends, printed from the Original Manuscripts, in which are introduced Memoirs of his Life, by John Almon.

London: Printed for Richard Phillips..., 1805. 5 volumes. 12mo, pp. xx, 271 [272 blank]; [iv], 235 [236 blank], iv, 300; [iv], 344; iv, 286 [287 - 288 adverts], engraved portrait of Wilkes as frontispiece in volume 1, engraved facsimile in volume 3, engraved folding facsimile at end of volume 4 and at end of volume 5, contemporary half calf, marbled boards; front cover volume one detached, spine volume 1 defective, joints on other volumes cracked and holding on for dear life. In 1804, Longman had published 4 volumes of Wilkes's letters to his daughter, with an anonymous memoir of his life. Both sets were reviewed in the January, 1805 (X, 477 - 489) issue of The Edinburgh Review: "Of the two performances now before us, it would not perhaps be very easy to say which is the most insignificant. If Mr Almon's contains somewhat more of serious discussion, and of political recollections, it is only, we are afraid, because he has borrowed more freely from former publications than his anonymous competitor, ho, if he be uniformly trifling, is at least entirely original, and is also considerably less voluminous that the editor of the authentic manuscripts." Writing to Charles O'Hara, Edmund Burke commented in 1773, that Wilkes "was as imprudent as his Enemies of all sorts could wish; But with his success, I do not know what part of his Conduct, after all, one can venture to call by the name of imprudence. It may perhaps be rather some unusual and eccentric kind of Wisdom."

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