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London: Printed for T. Longman, and G. Robinson..., 1783. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 211 x 121 mms., pp. [ii], 360, contemporary calf, red leather label; "BOND" in purple capitals on front free end-paper, lacks half-title, front joint amateurishly repaired. Andrews (?1736 - 1809) published a number of now forgotten works in his lifetime and enjoyed a mixed reputation, with the Gentleman's Magazine commenting on his death in 1809 that the "Nation is deprived of an able historian, a profound scholar and politician, and a man ever ready to take up his pen in his Country's cause"; while the journal Beau Monde described him as as "middling writer" (ODNB). The Monthly Review for 1783 was lukewarm: "In this performance Dr. Andrews entertains his readers with descriptive detains and observations, on a subject which will forever engage a considerable share of attention. The female character is so inspiring a theme, that it would be almost impossible for a writer of… Leer más

London, Printed for J. Whiton, and B. White..., 1755. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 2015 x 125 mms., pp. [iv[, 324, contemporary calf, faded morocco label; joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped, binding a bit dried, with an the Oxford Bookplate of John Williams, 1783, on the front paste-down end-paper. with a note in his hand at the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper indicating that he purchased the book in London for 10/6 in 1783; below that is the autograph of another Williams, dated 1823. John Jortin (1698 - 1770) was a gifted mathematician and musician, translator, classicist, essayist, and fine stylist, who seems never to have attracted the scholarly attention that he should have. The entry in ODNB by B. W. Young gives a short but an exemplary account of his literary career, recording in conclusion that his "writings enjoyed a considerable afterlife in the closing decades of the eighteenth century before falling into undeserved obscurity in the mid-nineteenth… Leer más

[]?Taunton] Pprinted in the Year MDCCXCVII 1798. 8vo, 203 x 122 mms., pp. [iii] iv - xii, [iii] iv - v [vi blank] [7] 8 - 25 [26 blank], ii [3] 46 [47 - 48]; [iii] iv [5] 6 - 76; [iv blank], [3] 4 - 39 [40 blank], 27 [28 blank]; [3] 4 - 20; [3] 4 - 21 [22 - 24 blank]; [iii] iv - v [vi blank], [7] 8 - 18 [19 -20 blank]; 7 [8 blank, [9] - 13 [14 blank]; [5] 6 - 116], bound in recent quarter calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label, plain gray boards. A very good copy. The first item has two appendixes, and is followed by the following tracts, essays, and one in verse: "A Physical Enquiry into the Powers and Properties of Spirit," and a "Postscript," "My final Fare-well to this interesting Subject," "A Revision of the Postscript to the Physical Enquiry"; then "Cursory Remarks on Infancy and Education"; "Thoughts on the Rise and Decline of the Polite Arts" "A Translation of the Fifth Canto of Dante's… Leer más

London: Bell & Daldy..., 1869. 8vo, pp. [vi], 467 [468 blank, 469 - 470 advert], including half-title, with a separate half-title and title-page for the Second Series, contemporary half olive morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards (slightly rubbed); spine faded and rubbed. Keynes 60.

Stockton: Printed by R. Christopher: And sold at London by W. Goldsmith...[inter alia], 1780. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 202 x 128 mms., pp. [iii] - xvi, 359 [350 Errata], 19th century calf, rebacked, with spine gilt in compartments, a very good copy, with the distinctive armorial bookplate of John Sheepshanks, dated 1852, on the front paste-down end-paper. The collector John Sheepshanks (1787 - 1763) built a collection of fine books, prints, and pictures. The author, politician, and nephew of John Hope, Second Earl of Hopetoun, John Hope (1739 - 1785) began writing in 1769. The Monthly Review in 1763 remarked, "This eccentric writer, whose thoughts seem to be expressed with the same undisguised freedom that they presented themselves to his own mind, has blended with his singularity a considerable portion of good sense. Though many of the pieces in this volume will no doubt be thought trivial and uninteresting, yet there are scarcely any in which the reader will not meet with… Leer más

London: Printed for T. Cadell..., 1790. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 4 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], lxvi, 224; [iv], 304; [iv], 299 [300 blank]; [iv], 290, engraved portrait of Jenyns as frontispiece in volume 1, volumes not uniformly bound, with volume 1 bound in early 19th century half sheepskin, marbled boards, morocco label, with volumes 2, 3, and 4 very handsomely bound in contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt, red and green morocco labels, and with the bookplate of the Earl of Camden in volumes 2 - 4. A made-up set. Jenyns (1704 - 1787) has never recovered from Johnson's dismissive, but inaccurate, review of his Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757). This edition reprints all his major works and most of his minor ones as well.

Dublin: Printed for J. Williams..., 1775. 8vo, pp. vii [viii blank], 564, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt, red morocco label; front joint cracked and tender. The first Dublin edition was in 1774 in two volumes. Johnson memorably said of him, "That man sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him."