London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, et al.... J. Richardson... and Messrs. Constable & Co, Edinburgh. 1823. 8vo, xxviii, 418, [2], 106 pp, cont. half calf, marbled boards, flat spine with stained black bands and compartments in gilt, edges sprinkled red, a fine sound copy. London : For Sam. Crouch...1715. 8vo, 4 ff, 27, [1] pp, disbound. London : printed for Thomas Dring, at the White-Lyon, next Chancery-lane end in Fleet-street, 1673. Second Edition London : Printed for Walter Kettilby... 1680. Folio, 2ff, 56 pp, uncut, disbound. London : William Heinemann Ltd. [1929]. First Edition, limited to 1000 copies for sale in the United Kingdom. London : Geo. Routledge... 1940. Large 4to, 49pp, frontis. and 63 tipped-in photographure plates, original cloth, dust wrapper frayed, otherwise a good copy. London: Printed for Samuel Billingsley, in Chancery-Lane. 1746. Folio, [iv], 8 pp, disbound London : Printed and sold by E. Smith, in Cornhil. 1713 Price 6d. Sm. 8vo, [6], 30 pp (lacking 1/2-title), disbound. London: Printed for W. Dickenson in Witch-Street. 1733. First Edition [London] : Motor Racing Publications. [1972]. First Edition London : Sold by Fletcher Gyles, over against Gray’s-Inn, in Holborn: and by J. Roberts... 1732. 8vo, 53, [7] pp (ads), title-page and last leaf soiled, disbound. [London] : Printed in the Year 1689. Small 4to, [6], 26 pp, some page numbers cropped, disbound. Some authorities, including Wing, give this to Thomas Newsam. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates, in Fleet-street. n.d. [c.1713]. First Edition, second issue (p.18, line 3 reads ‘...the Heart...’) London : Printed for Henrie Hood. 1641. Small 4to, A4, B2, [2], 10 pp, browned throughout, disbound. Reference: Wing P2212 London : Printed in the Year 1702. 8vo, eng. port., lvi, 492 pp, cont. blindstamped panelled calf, spine gilt but worn, lacking label, joints cracked, otherwise a good copy. London : Printed for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop’s-Head in Saint Paul’s Church-yard. 1682. Small 4to, [-]2, B-E4, F2, first leaf blank, orig. stab-stitch holes in gutters, disbound from a volume. London : Printed for Henry Carpenter, in Fleet-street, 1746. Folio, 4 leaves, p.8 mis-numbered “7”, on the title-page is written in a contemporary hand “By this is understood Mr. William Pitt”, disbound, fine. London : Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in Cheapside... 1715. 8vo, 48 pp, disbound.
The Present State of England in Regard to Agriculture, Trade, and Finance; With a Comparison of the Prospects of England and France. Second Edition, with various additions and emendations.
A comprehensive enquiry into the state of England, with particular emphasis on the effects on the economy of the recent wars, that is the Napoleonic war and the American War of 1812.
Reference: Goldsmiths’ 23748 Kress C.1098
Small 4to, [-]2, B-H4, corners of 3 lls frayed without loss, some browning throughout, modern 1/4 red morocco, marbled bds.
An amusing and clever satire on the heroic drama and especially on Dryden's The Conquest of Granada.
Reference: ESTC R37484 Wing B5324
Reference: Wing R 1893
4to, [xiv], 84, [1] pp, text printed in red and black, 9 wood-engravings in the text, original publisher’s cloth, dust wrapper, inscription on front free endpaper “Cecil Bartlett Myers. February 17. 1931”, otherwise a fine copy.
The Shade of Alexander Pope on the Banks of the Thames. A Satirical Poem. With Notes. Occasioned chiefly, but not wholly, by the residence of Henry Grattan, Ex-Representative in Parliament for the City of Dublin, at Twickenham, in November, 1798. By the Author of The Pursuits of Literature. Second Edition.
The Sleeping Princess. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With text by Nadia Benois, Arnold Haskell and Constant Lambert.
William Boyd, 4th earl of Kilmarnock (1705-46), George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromarty (c.1703-1766) , and Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino (1688-1746) were all Jacobites involved in the Forty-Five Rebellion. They were captured and sent to London where they were found guilty of high treason and condemned to death. Kilmarnock and Balmerino were hung, drawn and quartered, the latter defiant and unrepentant ensuring his place among jacobite heros, but Cromarty, possibly though the influence of his father-in-law at court, was granted a last minute reprieve.
A satirical attack on Dr. Bernard Gardiner, Vice-Chancellor of All Souls College, Oxford.
The State Dunces. Inscribed to Mr. Pope.
Folio, [-]1, B-E2, F1, [ii], 18 pp, disbound.
Ascertained by Foxon (q.v.) to be the first of five editions dated 1733.
“Whitehead's first notable satire, The State Dunces (June 1733), in heroic couplets, was inscribed to Pope and indebted to The Dunciad (1728–9), but in so far as Whitehead raises his sights to take in bishops, politicians, and, above all, Walpole, he anticipates Pope's New Dunciad (1742). Robert Dodsley bought the copyright for 10 guineas, prompting Johnson, who had a low opinion of Whitehead, to insist on no less for his London (1738).” -- ODNB
Reference: Foxon W426
The Story of Triumph Sports Cars
4to, 189 pp, text illustrations throughout, original boards, dust wrapper, as new.
Phlegon of Tralles in Asia Minor was a Greek writer who flourished in 2nd century AD.
In November 1688 there was an uprising in York in support of William of Orange who landed at Torbay on 4th November.
Reference: Wing N1039
Small 4to, A-I4; [viii], 63, [1] pp, faint waterstain in first two gatherings, modern 1/4 red morocco, marbled bds.
The Prologue is of interest for its view of Shakespeare as an untutored genius - “In such an Age, Immortal Shakespear wrote, By no quaint Rules, nor hampering Criticks taught; With rough majestick Force he mov’d the Heart, And Strength, and Nature, made amends for Art...”
Reference: ESTC T55544
The Travels and Adventures of James Massey. Translated from the French [by Stephen Whatley]
“In the debate over ship money in December 1640 he (Pierrepont) denounced the judges who had denied parliament's right to make the tax illegal. He then chaired the committee for the impeachment of Sir Robert Berkeley, the judge who had defended ship money most vociferously. Pierrepont's major speech against ship money has survived (in the present pamphlet) and illustrates his political beliefs” - Oxford DNB.
The original work, of which this is the first English translation, was first circulated in manuscript and, in 1662, published, without the author’s consent and with various alterations and the addition of two important chapters, by Johan de Witt. It presents important economic arguments for industrial freedom.
Reference: Kress 2344 Goldsmiths’ 3864
The author was an ardent royalist, an antiquary and a bishop of the nonjuring Church of England.
Reference: Wing H1876
The Unembarassed Countenace(sic), A New Ballad. To the Tune of a Cobler there was, &c. &c.
This satire on William Pitt was included in Hanbury Williams’ A Collection of Poems. 1763 but Horace Walpole annotated his copy, now in the British Library, “Not by Sr C.W.”
Reference: ESTC T50399 Foxon U2
One of at least ten editions published the same year.
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