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SIDNEY (Sir Philip): The Works of The Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. In Prose and Verse. Containing, I. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. II. The Defense of Poesy. III. Astrophel and Stella. IV. The Remedy of Love; Sonnets, &c. V. The Lady of May. A Masque. VI. The Life of the Author. The Fourteenth Edition.
London: Printed for E. Taylor, A. Bettesworth, E. Curll, W. Mears, and R. Gosling, 1725. 3 volumes. 8vo, 201 x 118 mms., pp. [xii], 419 [420 blank]; [2], [401] - 881 [882 blank]; [8], [5] - 64, 184 [185 - 187 Postscript, 188 blank, 189 - 192 contents], engraved portrait of Sidney as frontispiece in volume 1, engraved plate in volume 2, engraved plate in volume 3, handsomely bound in later 18th century lightly mottled calf, gilt border on covers, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red and green morocco label; slight scoring of front cover of volume 2, joints a little rubbed, but a fine and attractive set. The collective title-page and edition statement appear in volume 1 only, which is dated 1725, while volumes 2 and 3 are dated 1724. The third volume contains "A Sixth Book to the Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia," written by Richard Belling. This edition of Sidney's work is the only one in which Curll was involved, though Straus does not record it. (Book ref. 7002) £850.00
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PESCATORE (Giovanni Battista): La Morte di Rvggiero continvata alla Materia de l'Ariosto, con ogni riunscimento di tutte l'impresse generose da lui proposte, e non forite.Aggiontovi Molti Bellissimi successi, che a l'alto apparecchio di quel diuino Poeta seguir debbono. Con le Allegorie ad Ogni canot, chose possono leuara l'intelletto a comprender gli effeti de la virtu,e de vitio. Per Giovambattista pescatore da Rauenna nouamente composta. Con Privilegis.
In Venetia, A San Luca al Segno de la Cognitioe [ad istanza di P. Gherardo, per Comin da Trino], M. D. LI. 1551. 4to, 210 x 153 mms., 210 leaves, including engraved title-page and imprimatur leaf at end, one blank leaf (soiled and slightly defective) before title-page and another blank leaf at end, 40 woodcut head-piece vignettes and 41 woodcut initial letters, fine contemporary limp vellum, complete with ties; title-page a little soiled with very slight fraying of fore-margin, with the autograph of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, within a cherubic border, and an earlier, contemporary inscription on the top margin of the title-page. Fletcher has made several annotations to the text. Giovambattista Pescatore da Revanna published this work, a "continuation" of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso in 1548, and its then popularity led to this second edition in 1551. The work is in 40 cantos and takes up the story after Ruggiero has slain Rodomonte. The Scottish patriot, political theorist, and book collector Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (?1653 - 1716) began collecting books in the late 1660s, and when he was in Paris in the 1670s, he, along with the book dealer James Fall, ransacked the bookshops for bargains and bibliophilic treasures. He amassed a library of some 6000 books, which was not dispersed until the 1960s. P. J. M. Willems: Bibliotheca Fletcheriana, or, The Extraordinary Library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (Wassenaar, 1999). (Book ref. 7000) £3000.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksAYTOUN (William Edmonstoune): Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems. With Illustrations by Joseph Noel Paton, R. S. A. and Waller H. Paton.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. 4to, 240 x 176 mms., pp. [xii], 268, 59 woodcut engravings of various sizes, attractively bound in full hard grain red morocco, covers with fine gilt borders, both rolls and scrolls, olive morocco crown-shape with gilt thistle in centre of each cover, all edges gilt; earlier reback, with old gilt spine in compartments to a thistle motif preserved,, rear cover with long scratch marring what is otherwise a fine and attractive binding. Aytoun (1813 - 1865) was appointed Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University in 1845, where he managed to increase the number of students studying English literature by a significant percentage in just a few years. (Book ref. 7012) £200.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksNEO-LATIN POETRY. [FLAMINIO (Marcantonio)]: Carmina Qvinqve Illvstrivm Poetarvm; Quorum nomina in sequenti pagina continentur. Additis Nonnvllis M. Antonii Flaminii libellus nunquam antea impressis.
Venetiis Presb. Hieronymus Liljus. & socii excudebant, 1558. Small 8vo, 145 x 90 mms., ff. 183 [1], ornamental woodcut on title-page, bound in 18th century maroon goatskin, with elaborate ornamental gilt borders on cover, spine ornately gilt, all edges gilt; small piece torn from upper corner of front free end-paper, but a fine copy. Although Marcus Antonius Flaminius (Marcantonio Flaminio, 1497/98 - 1550) is the perhaps the most notable of the poets in this volume (hence his name on the title-page), his poetic colleagues are probably just as distinguished: Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Bembo, Andrea Navagero, and Giovanni Cotta. Flaminius' poems take up about two-thirds of the book, from folio 47 verso to the end. Maddison, Carol: Marcantonio Flaminio, Poet, Humanist and Reformer. London, Routledge, 1965.. (Book ref. 6982) £2100.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksMARRIOTT (John): A Short Account of John Marriott, Including Extracts from some of his letters. To which are added, some of his Poetical Productions.
Doncaster: Printed and Sold by D. Boys. And sold in London by W. Phillips..., 1803. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo (in 4s), 164 x 102 mms., pp. [viii], [3], 4 - 194 [195 - 196 errata], including half-title, contemporary boards, cloth spine (soiled and snagged), uncut and many leaves unopened. John Marriott (1762 - 1797), a Quaker businessman and poet, was born in Edgend, a small village near Colne. He had a classical education, which is slightly reflected in the poems which are mostly on rural and bucolic themes; there is also a rather fulsome tribute to James Beattie, the Aberdonian philosopher and poet. Johnson: Provincial Poetry, 585. (Book ref. 6984) £200.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWEBB (Daniel): Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry.
London, Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1762. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 178 x 110 mms., pp. [iv], 123 [124 blank] including half-title, with slightly later ownership "Mary Fane 1790" contemporary speckled calf, spine ornately gilt, red morocco label; front joint slightly cracked, but a very good copy. Daniel Webb (c.1719–1798) published several works on aesthetics; this was preceded by his first work, An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting (1760), and he made judicious use of the term "beauties," a criterion popular from about 1780 to 1830 when it seems to have fallen out of use. (Book ref. 6973) £300.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWORDSWORTH (William): The Poems of William Wordsworth. A New Edition.
London: Edward Moxon..., 1849. Large 8vo (240 x 165 mms.), pp. xxiv, 619 [620 printer's imprint], engraved portrait of Wordsworth as frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, contemporary hard-grain morocco, with the gilt arms of Queens' College on each cover, spine gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, with tls from Librarian of Queens' College, L. J. Potts, dated 19 March 1956 explaining that the present volume does not belong to the College but was a prize copy; slight rubbing of front joint, but a very good copy. (Book ref. 3923) £100.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian Books[WOLCOT (John)]: Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat; Alias The Progress of Curiosity; Alias a Birth-day Ode; Alias Mr. Whitbread's Brewhouse. By Peter Pindar. The Third Edition.
London. Printed for G. Kearsley..., 1787. 4to, pp. iv, 42, disbound; soiled, last two leaves detached, some tears in margins, lacks adverts leaf; an insalubrious copy. (Book ref. 5819) £35.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian Books[?WILLIAMS (Sir Charles Hanbury)]: S---ys's budget open'd; Or, Drink and be D-----'d A New Ballad, To the Tune of A Begging we will go.
London: Printed for W. Webb..., 1743. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Folio, 312 x 195 mms., pp. VIII, disbound; no half-title. This satire on the repeal of the gin act is tentatively attributed to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams 1708–1759). As Foxon points out the canon of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams presents many difficulties. The collections of 1763, 1768, and 1822 contained many poems not by him. Foxon states that any poems not vouched for by Horace Walpole in his annotated copy of the 1763 collection should be treated sceptically. The present poem was not in the earlier collections and was not attributed to him until the edition of 1822. Foxon concludes "the authorship is perhaps questionable." Williams had been elected to Parliament in 1735 and supported Walpole until his resignation in 1742, just before the riots of 1743 against the increase in tax on gin that had been put in place in 1729. Pelham's government, in response to the riots, proposed to reduce penalties and duties. Still, in the 1740s, the British managed to drink about eight million gallons of gin each year. Foxon W480. The press variant in which page VI is misnumbered V. Simon Biblotheca Gastronomica 637 (probably this copy). From the John Lyle collection of books on food and drink. When Andre Simon died in 1970 John Lyle was involved in the dispersal and many Simon books were transferred to his collection. I have not been able to see the Ph. D. dissertation, The Works of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1988) by T. D. S. Urstand, which examines Williams' canon. ESTC T109560 locates copies in the BL (2), Cambridge, Bodleian, Oxford All Souls, Manchester, and Brotherton Leeds; Harvard, Lilly Indiana, Clark, North Carolina, Yale Walpole, and Yale Beinecke. (Book ref. 6164) £500.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWILLIAMS (Charles Hanbury): The Odes of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Knight of the Bath. The Second Edition.
London: Printed By T. Coslett...for S. Vandenbergh..., 1780. Small 8vo, pp. [iv], 132 [133 Addenda, 134 blank], contemporary calf; lacks label, joints cracked. Williams (1708 - 1759) published most of his verse as separate poems or ballads, and the first "collected" of the poems was in 1763 and of the odes in 1768. The first "second" edition was published in 1779 (ESTC N60622l Oq only), and the second "second" edition as above in 1780, probably with a cancel title-page. A third "second" edition appeared in 1784, with different pagination and collation. (Book ref. 4459) £100.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWILKES (Thomas): The Golden Farmer A Poem. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Wlliam [sic] Lord Craven.
London: Printed for T. Payne..., 1723. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Folio, 353 x 235 mms., pp. [iv], 8, including half-title, engraved head- and tail-piece, recent wrappers; half-title and page 8 slightly soiled. With an inscription on the half-title crossed out and another added, "To The Right Honble Lord Noel Somerset, the Gift of the Author." Wilkes has also made two authorial corrections and added a couplet on page 6. Thomas Wilkes (1677/8 - 1745) was a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and rector of Hempsteed, near Gloucester. The poem describes a rich farmer of Sparsholt in the White-Horse Vale, "The Galen of the Neighbourhood" famous for the medicinal qualities of his herbs and flowers. One wonders if Wilkes had heard of the thief John Bennet [Bennett], alias William Freeman or Hill, also called the Golden Farmer (d. 1690), for whom the subject of his poem would probably not have had much sympathy. Foxon W 460. ESTC T75076 locates copies in BL (2, one being the author's presentation copy with MS. corrections, including the "i" in William on the title page, and ms. additions), Leeds; Harvard, Huntington, Newbery, Princeton, Clark, Chicago, Texas, and Yale. There is also a copy in the Bodleian. (Book ref. 6157) £750.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian Books[WHITEHEAD (William)]: Variety. A Tale for Married People.
Variety. A Tale for Married People., 1776. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 24, disbound. (Book ref. 2505) £75.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWESTON (Stephen): Moral Aphorisms in Arabic, and a Persian commentary in verse, translated from the originals. With specimens of Persian poetry. Likewise additions to the author's conformity of the Arabic and Persian with the English language.
London: Printed by S. Rousseau..., 1805. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, xxix [xxx - xxxii blank], 126 [127 Index, 128 advert], 20th century green binder's cloth; text occasionally soiled, ex-library. Weston (1747 - 1830) translated a number of oriental works and published over 50 works of antiquarian, linguistic, and, occasionally, theological interest in his lifetime. (Book ref. 3391) £250.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWESLEY (Samuel): The History of The New Testament, Representing the Actions and Miracles of our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles, Attempted in Verse: And adorn'd with CLII Sculptures. The Cuts done by J. Sturt. The Third Edition
London: Printed by R. R. for Thomas Ward..., 1717. 8vo, pp. [xii], 305 [306 blank, 307 - 315 contents, 316 - 3 20 adverts], engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, printed title-page in red and black, rather gaudily rebound in bright red sheepskin, gilt spine, red end-papers, all edges gilt; top of spine slightly defective. Not a binding showing much sympathy for the text. Samuel Wesley (1662 - 1735), father of John and Charles, was also the brother-in-law of John Dunton, who helped him to publish a somewhat less serious volume of verses in 1685, Maggots: or, Poems on Several Subjects Never Before Handled, but he seems more comfortable with these verses on the history of the New Testament; he wrote a similar volume for the Old Testament. Unlike later Methodists, he seems in the verse untroubled by Christ's first miracle at Cana (John II, 7-10), turning wine into water: "Our Saviour thus his Miracles began,/ Which show'd his Pow'r, and spake him more than Man:/ Confirm'd the Faith of those with him remain'd,/ Wide spread his Glory round, and new Disciples gain'd." The ambiguity of the last line was probably unintentional. Foxon W 326. (Book ref. 6271) £200.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWEEKS (Della Jerman): Legends of the War.
Boston: Mudge and Sons, Printers, 1863. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo, pp. 63 [64 blank], including half-title, engraved portrait of author as frontispiece, with "Author's Editon" and "Printed for private circulation" on the verso of the title-page, original cloth, title and author in gilt on front cover. With a faint inscription in pencil on the recto of the second leaf reading, "Bought of Miss/ Della J Weeks/ Nov. 11 1864./ 50 Cents, all for/ her brother, a wounded/ Soldier in a [?western]/ Hospital." Another note at the top of the page is about the portrait - "Engraved by Samuel Sartain." (Book ref. 5835) £250.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWATTS (Isaac): The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts. In Seven Volumes. With the Life of the Author.
Edinburgh [sic]: At the Apollo Press, by the Martins, 1782. 7 volumes. Small 12mo (in 6s), pp. 251 [252 blank], 245 [246 blank]; 192; 204; 173 [174 blank]; 164; 198, engraved and printed title-page in each volume, engraved portrait of Watts in volume 1, attractively bound in full red morocco, gilt spines, all edges gilt; some slight rubbing of joints and front board volume 1 chipped at top, but a pretty set. This formed part of Bell's series The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill; this is borne out in the binding with the numbers 58 - 65 at the bases of the spines. (Book ref. 5199) £350.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWATTS (Isaac): Horæ Lyricæ. Poems, chiefly of the Lyric Kind, In Three Books. Sacred to Devotion and Piety.... A New Edition. To which are added, A Supplement, containing translations of all the Latin Poems, with Notes, by Thomas Gibbons.
London: Printed for G. Ogilvie..., 1805. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xxix [xxx - xxxiii Contents, xxxiv blank], 297 [298 printer's imprint], engraved portrait of Watts as frontispiece, contemporary calf, black leather label (chipped); covers detached, spine worn. (Book ref. 3678) £50.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWATTS (Alaric Alexander): Poetical Sketches: The Profession; The Broken Heart, Etc. with Stanzas for Music, and Other Poems.
London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson and Co..., 1823. Small 8vo, pp. xi [xii blank], 148, contemporary full plum morocco, ornately gilt borders on covers, with diced central panel, spine ornately gilt in compartments, gilt title; with "3d" stamped in various places in text, but a fine and attractive copy. Watts (1797–1864) published the first edition of this work in 1822. A journalist, poet, teacher, and clerk in his early career, he became a regular contributor to literary periodicals in the 19th century and is remembered as the editor of two annuals, the Literary Souvenir (1824–35) and its successor, the Cabinet of Modern Art (1836–7). Donald Hawes in the Oxford DNB notes, "An extravagant man, he filled his places of residence with books, pictures, and objets d'art, many of which he had not fully paid for." (Book ref. 6149) £150.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksWARTON (Thomas): The Poems on Various Subjects, of Thomas Warton, B. D. Now First Collected.
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson..., 1791. 8vo (in 4s), pp. xi [xii blank], 292, contemporary calf, gilt spine, morocco label (chipped); no portrait or adverts leaf, covers detached from earlier rebacking with old spine laid down. Despite the claims of the title-page Thomas Warton (1728 - 1790) published a collection of his poems first in 1777. A further, much expanded "Second Edition" was also published in 1791. (Book ref. 4241) £200.00
Offered for sale by John Price Antiquarian BooksVOLTAIRE (Francoise Marie Arouet de): Henriade. An Epick Poem. In Ten Canto's. Translated from the French into English Blank Verse. To which are now added, The Argument to each canto and Large Notes Historical and Critical.
London, Printed for D. Davis..., 1732. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 212 x 135 mms., pp. vi, [20], 311 [312 note], title-page in red and black, engraved frontispiece, uncut, late 18th century calf, sympathetically rebacked, morocco label; a very good copy with the inscription "Jas. Bonar/ 1791" on the top margin of the title-page, and the 20th century bookplate of Ray Livingstone Murphy on the front paste-down end-paper. Voltaire dedicated this long poem on the life of the French King, Henri IV to Queen Caroline, and it was published in French in 1728. It was translated into English by John Lockman (1698 - 1771), and this apparently earned him the sobriquet "l'illustre Lockman" in France, a fact that Dr. Johnson, according to Boswell, found irritating and ridiculous. The translation, in blank verse, is accompanied by a large number of notes, almost all of an anti-Catholic hue. Foxon L 215. (Book ref. 6292) £400.00
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