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BRATHWAIT (Richard): The English Gentlewoman, drawne out to the full Body: Expressing What Habilliments doe best attire her, What Ornaments doe best adorne her, What Complements doe best accomplish her.
London, Printed by B. Alsop and T. Favcet, for Mitchell Sparke..., 1631. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 192 x 132 mms., pp. [xlviii], 221 [for 229, 230 blank]; lacks engraved title-page and folding leaf, and errata. BOUND WITH: The English Gentleman: Containing sundry excellent Rules, or exquisite Observations, tending to Direction of every Gentleman, of selecter ranke and Qualitie; How to demeane or accommodate himself in the mage of publike or private affaires. The second Edition: revised, corrected and enlarged. By Richard Brathwait. London, Printed by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Robert Bostock..., 1633. 4o, 92 x 132 mms., pp. [xx], 456 [457 - 560 additional text]; lacks engraved title-page and explanatory leaf. Two volumes in 1, recently rebound in full antique-style panelled calf, morocco labels. With the 20th century autograph "H S Philpot" on recto of front free end-paper. "Recently.., Brathwaite has come to be most commonly associated with the lengthy conduct books he wrote in the 1630s: The English Gentleman (1630) and The English Gentlewoman (1631), both of which went through several editions and expansions in his lifetime. These books offer rules for social conduct and etiquette. The English gentleman, containing sundry excellent rules, or exquisite observations tending to the direction of every gentleman, of selecter ranke and quality, how to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires, which was dedicated to Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, looks at such topics as the dangers that attend on youth, and expounds on such themes as 'Disposition', 'Education', 'Vocation', 'Recreation', and 'Acquaintance'. The English gentlewoman, drawne out to the full body: expressing what habilliments doe best attire her, what ornaments doe best adorne her, what complements doe best accomplish her, as its title suggests, is rather more exercised about appearance and social obedience than its male counterpart. Sections here include 'Apparell', 'Behaviour', 'Complement', 'Decency', and 'Honour'. This text is dedicated to the earl of Pembroke's wife, Lady Anne Clifford. Both texts have become important documents for social historians and for those interested in cultural practice" (ODNB). (Book ref. 6997) £1250.00
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ADAM (Alexander): Roman Antiquities: Or, an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans' Respecting the Government, Magistracy, Laws, Judicial Proceedings, Religion, Games, Military and Naval Affairs, Dress, Exercises, Baths, Marriages, Divorces, Funerals, Weights and Measures, Coins, Method of Writing, Houses, Gardens, Agriculture, Carriages, Public Buildings, &c. &c. Designed chiefly to Illustrate the Latin Classics, by explaining words and phrases, from the rites and customs to which they refer. The Second Edition, Considerably Enlarged.
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1792. Large 8vo, 218 x 132 mms., pp. xv [xvi Errata], 608 [sic, for 616], contemporary polished lightly speckled calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; some very slight rubbing of spine and front joint, but a fine and attractive copy, with the contemporary autograph of Thomas Orde Powlett, first Baron Bolton (1746 - 1807), politician and artist. In 1778, he married Jean Mary Browne Powlett, the natural daughter of Charles Powlett, fifth Duke of Bolton; Bolton's estate and title passed to him in right of his wife when the sixth Duke died in 1794. He took the additional name of Powlett in 1795 Adam (1741 - 1809) made his early reputation as a schoolmaster, whose pupils included Walter Scott, Francis Jeffrey, and Henry Cockburn. The present work was first published in 1791 and was translated into several continental languages. (Book ref. 6998) £500.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksTRIMMER (Sarah): A Description of a Set of Prints of Ancient History; contained in A Set of Easy Lessons. In Two Parts. [AND] A Series of Prints of Ancient History, designed as Ornaments for those Apartments in which Children receive the first Rudiments of their Education.
London: Printed and Sold by John Marshal, No. 140, Fleet Street..., [c. 1820]. 2 volumes. 32mo, pp. 118, [2], 120; [ii], 64 engraved plates, original marbled wrappers, paper label on front covers; some engravings annotated at lower margin in pencil, spine defective, covers soiled. Mrs. Trimmer (1741 - 1810) first published these hortatory works in the late 1780s, and they continued to be reprinted well into the 19th century. The above volumes are undated, but they are both inscribed by one John Searle to John Hamilton, with the date 1820. They were possibly published somewhat earlier, but Marshall was at 140 Fleet Street from 1806 to 1828. Some of the engravings are dated 1788. (Book ref. 3685) £450.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksTOUSSAINT (Francois Vincent): Manners. Translated from the French. The Second Edition.
London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet..., 1752. 12mo (in 6s), 170 x 105 mms., pp. [xviii], vi, 251 [252 - 253, adverts, 254 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary calf, red leather label; slight worming around label, joints a little rubbed, but a very good copy. This translation was first published in 1749 and was frequently reprinted. Toussaint (1715 - 1772) published Les Moeurs originally in 1748; he was prosecuted immediately, and the book was burnt. He later disavowed the work, though parts of it were used in the Encyclopédie. (Book ref. 6335) £150.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksTOUSSAINT (Francois Vincent): Manners. Translated from the French. The Third Edition.
London: Printed for W. Owen..., W. Johnston..., and J. Payne..., 1752. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [xviii], vi, 251 [252 - 253, adverts, 254 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary calf; joints cracked, spine rubbed and dried. With the contemporary autograph and date "Robt. Twyford/ 1753" on the recto of the front paste-down end-paper, the Jolliffe armorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, and "Barbara und Johann/ March 27th 1940 - Bath" above the bookplate. Robert Twyford is possibly the young man who was infatuated with Mary Delaney (née Granville) in 1717. This translation was first published in 1749 and was frequently reprinted. Toussaint (1715 - 1772) published Les Moeurs originally in 1748; he was prosecuted immediately, and the book was burnt. He later disavowed the work, though parts of it were used in the Encyclopédie. (Book ref. 5609) £150.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksSTEWART (Dugald): Outlines of Moral Philosophy. For the Use of Students in the University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech..., 1793 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiv [xv - xvi blank], 302, including half-title, contemporary polished fair calf, gilt rules across spine, red morocco label; joints just a little bit rubbed, but a very good, near fine copy. This was Stewart's second publication, the first being volume one of his Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind in the previous year. Stewart began his university career in 1772, teaching mathematics at Edinburgh University, and he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh in 1785, upon the resignation of Adam Ferguson. The above work was republished many times during the next 80 - 100 years and was used as a text-book in many universities in Britain and America. (Book ref. 5949) £1250.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksSMETIUS (Henricus or Hendrik): Henrici Smetii Alostani Prosodia in Novam Forma Digesta: In qua voces plurimae de novo additae: pleraeque etiam ad similia remissiones, novis exemplis suppletae: Singularum vero syllabarum quantitas, in rudiorum gratiamnotulis productionem brevitatemque earum indicantibus, ad marginem notatur.
Amstelodami, Apud Jodocum Jansonium, 1648. 8vo, 160 x 105 mms., pp. [xvi], 526, engraved printer's device on title-page, contemporary vellum (very slightly worn). A very good copy. Smetius (1535 - 1614) published this very popular anthology of Latin quotations and their authors as a kind of students' dictionary of phrases that could be quickly traced to a classical author. (Book ref. 6863) £350.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksRICHARDSON (Samuel): Clarissa; Or the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And particularly shewing the Distresses that may attend the Misconduct both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage. A New Edition.
London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington..., 1785. 8 volumes. 12mo, pp. xii, 328; 351 [352 blank]; 352; 383 [384 blank]; 358 [359 - 360 adverts]; 391 [392 blank]; 388; 395 [396 - 404 adverts], contemporary calf, gilt rules across spines, red morocco label; ex-library, with library bookplates on front paste-down end-papers, and library pockets at rear of each volume, front joint volume 1 cracked and wormed, rear joint volume 4 cracked, bases of spines with shelf marks in white, base of spine volume 8 chipped. With the armorial bookplate of The Right Honorable Charlotte Baroness de Ferrars, &c. on the front paste-down end-paper of volume 1. (Book ref. 4283) £200.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksPORNY (Marc Antoine) Modern Letters in French and English. Divided into Two Parts. Part I. contains Fifty Letters with their Answers, on a variety of familiar Subjects, equally entertaining and instructive. Part II. includes some Observations on commercial Stile, with models of Letters, Bills &c. relative to the mercantile Business. To which are added Accurate Directions With Regard to the Proper Form of writing to Superiors, Equals, and Inferiors. The Whole Designed for the Instructions and Improvement of such young Gentlemen and Ladies as are desirous of acquiring the true Style and exact Manner of French epistolary Correspondence.
London: Printed for J. Nourse, and S. Hooper..., 1769. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 307 - 308 - 312 index], engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin (worn); fore-margin of front free end-paper frayed, joints cracked, spine rubbed. With the armorial bookplate of Evan Charles Sutherland-Walker on the front paste-down end-paper. Porny, a pseudonym for Antoine Pyron du Martre was French Master at Eton. An ESTC search, using several parameters, disclosed no copies. There are copies in Aberdeen University and the BL, but I could not locate any copies in North America. (Book ref. 4282) £200.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksNEW FEMALE INSTRUCTOR (The). The New Female Instructor; or, Young Woman's Guide to Domestic Happiness: being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to from the female character, in every class of life: with Examples of Illustrious Women; to which are added, Advice to Servants; a Complete Art of Cookery, and Plain Directions for Carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous other interesting articles, forming A Complete Storehouse of Valuable Knowledge.
London. Printed [By W. Clowes] for Thomas Kelly..., n. d. 1817. 8vo, 218 x 138 mms., pp. vi [vii Directions for Placing the Plates, viii blank], 520, engraved title-page (by Thomas Crabb), engraved frontispiece, 6 other full-page engraved plates, contemporary tree sheepskin, gilt rules on spine, black leather label; slight water-stain to corner of one plate, but a very good copy. The engraved title-page omits the word "new," and gives Nov. 8, 1817, as the date of publication. The engraver and artist (?Thurston) are identified on the frontispiece, but the impression is almost too faint to be read. The first engraved plate, "Love and Courtship," is dated 9 May 1818, while "Lady and Butterfly" is dated 28 April 1818. The cookery section takes up the last part of the book, pages 382 - 520. Cagle 899 lists a work printed by Kelly, a "new edition" of 1824, noting that the work was originally published in London, by R. Edwards, in 1814, adding "This work is not the same as The Female Instructor, Liverpool, 1812 (items 681 and 682)." However, the two pictorial plates mentioned above are reprinted in the 1824 edition. Copac locates a copy (Liverpool) which it dates 1818, though the engraved title-page is dated 1824. (Book ref. 6454) £450.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksNELSON (Robert): An Address to Persons of Quality and Estate. To which is added, an Appendix Of some Original and Valuable Papers.
London: Printed by J. James, for R. S. and sold by Charles Rivington..., 1715. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxxi [xxxii blank], 267 [268], 55 [56 - 59 text, 60 - 62 adverts, recent quarter calf, morocco label, marbled boards; no portrait. Nelson is best-known for his active membership in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (founded 1698) and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (1701), and generally for his religious writings. However, this book, published in the year of his death, illustrates the practical application of his Christian beliefs, with schemes for the relief of the poor, for education, for the formation of libraries, for the erection of charity schools, and for other social welfare projects, many of which were subsequently brought into being. (Book ref. 2846) £100.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksMILL (John Stuart): Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews Feb. 1st 1867. People's Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, [1867]. 8vo, pp. 48, 12 pages adverts, original cloth; spine slightly faded. (Book ref. 3839) £35.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksMAIDEN HOSPITAL. The Rules and Constitutions For Governing and Managing the Maiden Hospital, Founded by The Company of Merchants, and Mary Erskine, in Anno 1695. Allowed and Confirmed by an Act of Parliament of Her Majesty Queen Anne, dated the 25th Mach 1707, Amended and Approven in a General Meeting of the Contributers, upon the 9th February 1708. Ratified by the Lord Provost, Baillies and Town Council, upon 9th March the said Year, except in so far as the same have been altered by an Act of the Contributers, dated 10th February 1718.
Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Fleming and Company, 1731. Small 8vo, 152 x 98 mms., pp. xi [x blank, xi - xvi Act of Parliament], 46, contemporary marbled wrappers, stitched as issued. (Book ref. 6430) £100.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian Books[LOCKMAN (John): A New History of England, by Question and Answer. Extracted from the Most Celebrated English Historians, Particularly M. de Rapin Thoyras. The Third Edition, Corrected, and very much Improv'd by the Author.
London: Printed for Tho. Astley..., 1736. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [viii], 231 [232 - 236 adverts, D3 signed D6, contemporary calf (worn); no free end-papers, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, later autograph "Alex Mitchell" on top margin of title-page. A poor copy. Lockman (1698 - 1771) published this also in a French and English version, viz. A New History of England, in English and French by Question and Answer. Extracted from the most Celebrated English Historians (1729; this seems to be the first edition). Also this present copy of the English only version is styled "The Third Edition" and was published in 1736, there is also a "Fourth Edition" published in 1732. Both versions of the work were popular throughout the 18th century. ESTC T155111 locates copies in BL and Bodleian; Library Company of Philadelphia and Chicago. A "Third Edition" of the French and English version was published by P. Vaillant in the same year. (Book ref. 6681) £200.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksLOCKE (John): De l'Education des Enfans, Traduit de l'Anglois de M. Locke. Par M. Coste. Septieme Edition. Sur l'Edition Angloise publiee apres la mort de l'Auteur, qui l'avoit revue, corrigee, & augmentee de plus d'un tiers.
A Amsterdam, Chez la Veuve Merkus..., 1776. 12mo, pp. [ii], xx [xxi - xxii contents], 477 [478 blank, 479 - 480 further contents], including half-title, contemporary mottled sheepskin, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; front joint cracked (but firm). The work also includes the "Traite du bonehur" (pp. 401 - 477). This is a reprint of the French 1737 edition, which was itself based on the 5th English edition. Yolton 208. Attig 593. (Book ref. 34) £150.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksLETTER-WRITER, THE COMPLETE: The Complete Letter-Writer, containing Familiar Letters on the Most common Occasions in Life. Also, A Variety of elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, on Business, Duty, Amusement, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friendship, and other Subjects, To which is prefixed a Plain and Compendious Grammar Of the English Language, With Directions for writing Letters, and the proper Forms of Address. At the End are given Forms of Message-Cards, and a copious English Spelling Dictionary.
London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1798. 12mo (in 6s), pp. viii, [13] - 232 [233 - 278 "English Spelling Dictionary"], engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin (worn); covers detached. Despite the apparent absence of 2 leaves after the Contents, the text appears complete; p. [13] is the first page in gathering B. The leaf after the title-page is signed A3, but the verso is paginated "iv," and the work may lack a half-title or initial blank, as the frontispiece is tipped onto the title-page. Other copies of this work have a four-page Preface following the Contents. The earliest edition that I can locate with this exact title in ESTC is one printed in 1773 in Edinburgh; the latest is 1797, a year before the imprint in this case, printed in Salem, Massachusetts. The latest British imprint found in ESTC is in 1796, in Edinburgh (T. Ross for G. Peattie, Leith; and another for J. Fairbairn), with another in London ( A. Millar, W. Law; and R. Cater; And for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York); the latter has a plate, the former does not. All these imprints have a specific publisher or publishers, and it is only this apparently unrecorded 1798 issue that is "Printed for the Booksellers." (Book ref. 3493) £250.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksLE MAITRE DE CLAVILLE Charles Francois Nicholas): Traite du vrai Merite de l'Homme, Considere dans Tous les Ages & dans toutes les conditions: avec des Principes d'Education propres a former les jeunes gens a la Vertu.
Paris, Chez Saugrain..., 1736. 12mo, pp. [vi], 542, contemporary sheepskin, morocco label; worn rubbed and dried, with leather missing from top and base of spine. (Book ref. 1617) £75.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksKNIPE (Rest): A Course of Lectures: Containing Remarks upon the Government and Education of Children. Thoughts upon the Government and Education of Children, Thoughts upon the present Plan of Education, and An Essay upon Elocution. As read lately in many parts of England and Scotland. To which is added, A Sermon.
Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, 1783. 8vo, 202 x 128 mms., pp. 338, including half-title, contemporary calf, recently rebacked with old gilt spine and red morocco label laid down, facsimiles of pp. 19 - 22 inserted before defective leaves of those pages in text, and last leaf of subscribers in facsimile; text a little fingered and soiled, but a good copy. Who was Rest Knipe? He must have been known to dozens of people in Edinburgh and Aberdeen, because there are 32 pages of subscribers in the two editions of this book; but he seems to have escaped the attention of scholars. Perhaps the most obvious feature of his treatise is the almost completely secular character of the education he prescribes for children and his opposition to a classical education for most boys: "after a boy has been puzzling his poor brains, and been tortured with Latin for several years, it is ten to one, that, comparative speaking, he knows nothing; i. e nothing radical and to the bottom; nothing, in short, but what one year's apprenticeship will entirely efface." Walter Scott, presumably the father of the novelist and poet, was one of the subscribers. ESTC T121650 locates copies in BL, Cambridge, NLS; Harvard, McMaster, National Institute of Education, and Pennsylvania. The Aberdeen printing is a different setting, with pagination [6], 11-304, and probably takes precedence over the Edinburgh edition. (Book ref. 6966) £500.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksKAMES (Henry Home), Lord: Loose Hints upon Education, Chiefly Concerning the Culture of the Heart. Second Edition, Enlarged.
Edinburgh: Printed for John Bell..., Geo Robinson..., and John Murray, London, 1782. 8vo, pp. xi [xii blank], 419 [420 blank], contemporary calf, rebacked in light calf with title blocked in gilt on spine; end-papers and title-page a little soiled, corners a bit worn, but a decent copy. James Boswell records in his diary (22 July 1781) that he had read some of the book and referred to it "slightingly" to Adam Smith, whose assessment he noted: "Every man fails soonest in his weak part. Lord Kames's weak part is writing. Some write above their parts, some under them. Lord Kames writes much worse than one should expect from his conversation." One of Kames's 20th-century biographers was more enthusiastic about the work: William Lehmann in 1971 described it as a "most fascinating piece," adding "it is interesting for its insight into child psychology and advanced educational method...and even more, for what it reveals of Kames the man. Perhaps nothing he ever wrote reveals more of his personality, his understanding of human nature, his religious feelings, his concern for education." Zachs, The First John Murray (1998), 309. (Book ref. 6611) £300.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksHULLAH (John): Wilhem's Method of Teaching Singing, Adapted to English Use, under the superintendence of the Committee of Council on Education. Revised and Reconstructed in 1829. Part The First.
London: John W. Park and Son..., 1852. Tall 8vo, pp. vi [vii - viii Contents], 154, 10 pp. adverts, music illustrations in text, original cloth; ex-library (Book ref. 5346) £75.00
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