London : Printed for John Newton, at the Three Pigeons, over-against the Inner-Temple-Gate, in Fleet Street, 1694. First Edition London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge’s Head near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1695. First Edition, folio, [A] - D2, text in French and English on facing pages, the French beginning on the verso of the title-page, title a little foxed in the lower margin, disbound.
Account of the Isle of Jersey, The Greatest of those Islands that are now the only Remainder of the English Dominions in France, With A New and Accurate Map of that Island
8vo, [-]6-1. B-P8, Q4, 1 folding map, cont. sprinkled calf, moroccon label on spine, edges sprinkled red, hinges a littleworn, small loss at foot of spine, otherwise sound, engraved armorial bookplate of “James Leigh Esq. Adlestrop” (an ancestor of Jane Austen’s mother) on front pastedown and his signature on front fly.
Falle's Account of Jersey, 1694, which included discussion of the island's institutions and natural history, was the first and for a long time the standard work on Jersey, reprinted as late as 1837. The present copy once belonged to an ancestor of Jane Austen’s mother, Cassandra.
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![An English Ballad: In Answer to Mr. Despreaux’s Pindarique Ode On the Taking of Namure. by [PRIOR, Matthew (1664-1721)]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/27/HMF1714-fullsizeoutput_610f---800.jpeg?v=1727436615)
An English Ballad: In Answer to Mr. Despreaux’s Pindarique Ode On the Taking of Namure.
Prior, as well as being a poet, was a well respected diplomat in the service of King William III. His knowledge of French was recognised by his being sent to Paris in 1698 in attendance on the English Ambassador. He was undoubtedly well equipped to satirise Boileau’s poem.
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