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[Liverpool] Ramsay Robb 1910. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 165 x 125 mms., pp. [9], 10 - 71 [72 colophon], including half-title, photogravure portrait of author as frontispiece, original lime green cloth, blocked in gilt on front cover, reddish-brown dustwrapper (slightly tatty), with title and author on front cover; small tear to fore-margin of title-page neatly repaired, but a very good copy. Arnott (1870 - ?1910) was born in Glasgow but moved to London with his parents when he was about ten. He spent a year at the Royal College of Music under C.V. Stanford and Hubert Parry. Afterwards he studied under Frederick Corder. Graduated B. Mus. (1891) and D. Mus. (1901) at the University of Durham. Copac locates a copy at the BL, while OCLC locates several digital copies.

. 1) The Complaint: Or Night=Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality. Night the First. Humbly Inscribed To the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons. The Fifth Edition. London: Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall Mall. 1744. 4to, 263 x 190 mms., pp. 30 2) Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscribed o the Right Honourable The Early of Wilmington. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Heard in Pall-mall, and M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row. 1744. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 263 x 190 mms., pp. 40. 3) Night the Third. Narcissa. Humbling Inscrib'd to her Grace The Dutchess of P……. London: Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, and sold by Mr. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row… 1744. 4to, 263 x 190 mms., pp. 6, 9 – 32, 31 – 32. ESTC N51302 locates copies only in Harvard and University of California, Riverside. 4) The Complaint: Or, Night=Thoughts on Life,… Leer más

London: Printed for W. Flexney..., 1770. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, lxxx, 116; [ii], vii [viii blank], 192; [ii], 182, including half-title in volume 1, contemporary calf; spines rubbed and dried, covers detached. With the armorial "Mirehouse" bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume; possibly from the library of James Spedding (1808–1881), literary editor and biographer, born at Mirehouse in Cumberland. Thanks to the scholarship of H. F. Brooks, the poetry of Oldham (1653–1683) has enjoyed something of a rehabilitation since 1987 when Brooks and R. Selden published a critical edition of his poems. The editor of these volumes, Edward Thompson (1738?–1786) was a naval officer and author; his early publications, The Demi-Rep (1756) and The Meretriciad (1763), were well received, and in the same year that he published the above edition of Oldham, he re-published those two pieces along with some others in The Court of Cupid. Copies are fairly plentiful… Leer más

No place no publisher 1862. An unrecorded broadside, 224 x 180 mms., printed on recto only, on laid paper, dated 11 October 1862; a watermark design is partly visible, with geometrical and curvilinear lines, but no watermark year. Inner edge uneven, two small holes in top margin. The poem is about the statue of the inventor Samuel Crompton (1753 - 1827), inventor of the spinning mule, in Bolton, Lancashire, which was created by the Scottish sculptor William Calder Marshall (1813-1894). The statue was unveiled in September 1862. From the date printed in the lower left corner, it would seem this poem was either written or published or both just days after the unveiling of the statue, on October 11, 1862. The poem reads much as if it were written by the creator of the statue of Samuel Crompton in Nelson Square in Bolton. In other words, as if written by William Calder Marshall. It is a poem of pride -- and humility -- plus bitterness, bitterness apparently against a "grandchild" of… Leer más

London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker..., 1827. 8vo (in 4s), 172 x 98 mms., pp. [ii], 200 [201 notice from author, 202 Errata], contemporary hard grain morocco, title in gilt on spine; ex-library bookplate of County Borough of Warrington Municipal Library on front paste-down end-paper. The Unitarian minister and poet Jacob Brettell (1793–1862) published The Country Minister in 1821, with a revised edition in 1825. The European Magazine, and London Review of the 1821 first edition opened its review with these honeyed words: "It has not very recently been our good fortune to open a more assuming, yet highly gratifying work, than the little volume now before us; and we do commence, therefore, what critical etiquette usually reserves for it's [sic] bonne bouche at the close by warmly recommending it." Reviewing the second part in 1825, The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature commented, "The readers of Mr. Brettell's former poems will receive with… Leer más

London: John Murray..., 1819. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 173 x 98 mms., pp. [iv] [3] - 119 [120 colophon], including half-title, uncut, newly rebound in boards, paper label on spine. A very good copy, with a small circular cipher bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper. , Giovanni Battista Casti (1724 - 1803) published the poetical allegory Gli Animali Parlanti in 1802, having spent eight years i preparing it. The translation by Rose (1775 - 1843) is a free one with several additions by Rose. Rose also translated Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. "This work constitutes his chief claim to critical attention. The original poem is a burlesque telling of a parliament of talking animals who elect a lion as king but fall into dispute and civil war after his death. In Rose's version, each of the seven cantos is prefaced by an address to a dedicatee. These addresses, with their far-fetched rhymes and quirky rhythms, are in some ways the most engaging sections of the work"… Leer más

London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills..., 1708. 8vo, pp. 48, disbound. Foxon P 239.

Leeds. John Cross..., 1834. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 223 x 132 mms., pp. vi [vii Index, viii blank], 112, original cloth, paper label (faded), on spine; corners worn, spine snagged, but a good copy with the contemporary ownership inscription "J. Ward/ Surgeon" on the top margin of the title-page. Poor, and unable to obtain funds to complete his medical training, Wilson has, as he asserts in the Preface, "followed the example of the author of Rasselas, and written a book merely for the sake of obtaining a little gold." He alludes to "subscribers," whom he thanks, so the previous owner might have been one of the subscribers, as Wilson did succeed with his medical studies and was "a respectable medical practitioner in Leeds, and one of the surgeons to the House of Recovery in that area" (The poets of Yorkshire, commenced by W.C. Newsam, by William Cartwright Newsam, 1845).

London: Printed for J. Harris..., 1807. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, measuring 125 x 95 mms. pp. 66, including half-title, 6 blank leaves after last page of text, 32 woodcut headpieces (one for each "story"), original decorative boards, with paper label on front cover and iconic illustration on rear cover; spine defective and missing about three quarters of the paper cover, but a decent copy. It almost looks convincing, but this is probably the Leadenhall Press facsimile of 1900.

London: Printed for the Author by Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, Ludgate Hill, E. C. 1872. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 185 x 124 mms., pp viii [9] 10 - 162, including half-title, publisher's original green cloth, blocked in gilt on front cover; corner cut from half-title, but a very good copy. Copies in UCLA, Yale, North Carolina, BL, Aberdeen. Waterloo, York (Toronto).

Londini: Apud T. Cadell et G. Davies, 1811. Tall 8vo, pp. 48, original boards; spine defective, front joint cracked, rear hinge cracked. With the contemporary autograph "A Harrison/ Ch Ch" on the front paste-down end-paper. First published in 1754, Browne's De Animi Immortalitate was first translated into English by W. Hay, also in 1754, and subsequently by various other 18th century authors.

In Venetia, Presso Abbondio Menafogiio, Et Valentino Mortal. M.DC.LVI. 1666. 4 volumes i 1. 12mo, 132 x 70 mms., pp. [xxxii], 197 n[198 - 204 contents]; 150 [151 -154 contents]; [xvi, 161 [162 - 164 contents]; [xii], 308, with title-pages for parts 2, 3, and 4 dated 1665, fine engraved general frontispiece for the four parts, bound in contemporary vellum (somewhat soiled), ink title on spine. A very good copy. * The Itlalian poet Giuseppe Battista (1610 - 1665) is described as a marinist poet; and Wikipedia tells me that "marinism" is "Marinism (Italian: marinismo, or secentismo, "17th century") is the name now given to an ornate, witty style of poetry and verse drama written in imitation of Giambattista Marino (1569–1625), following in particular La Lira and L'Adone." His poetry is said to have enjoyed great popularity in its day, and there were several reprints of these particular volumes. His baroque, epigrammatic verse has clear overtones of deliberate… Leer más

Dublin: H. Fitzpatrick. 1818. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8 (in 4s), 183 x 103 mms., pp. [ii], 2 [2], [3] - 29 [30 - 34 blank], engraved frontispiece, additional engrave plates on the verso of blank leaves between page 14 and 15, 16 and 17, bound in contemporary diced calf, gilt border on covers, gilt rules across spine, with title in one panel and ornaments in five other panel; some loss of gilt to borders, spine very slightly faded, but a very good copy Sir Walter Scott had a copy in his library at Abbotsford. Writing to Matthew Weld Hartstone in 1818, Scott asked him to "Pray return my besst thanks to Mr. Fitzpatrick for his polite and flattering attention in sending me his prize poem with which I was much amused, but who should come in whilst I was busy with it but Lord Elgin [Thomas Bruce, seventh AEar of Elgin and eleveth Earl of Kincardine (1766 - 1841 the acquirer of the Elgin Marbles)] about some business about the Bruces tomb which has been discovered at Dunfermline for we are very… Leer más

London: Printed for James Leake..., 1744. 8vo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. [xii], 85 [86 adverts], including half-title, recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, morocco label; lacking the 11 leaves of adverts. ESTC T63116 describes this as "A reissue of the fifth edition, with a half-title, a different title-page and sig. F7 a cancel," but does not mention that this is the first appearance of the poem, "A True Tale," addressed to Mr. Leake, i. e., James Leake, the brother-in-law of the printer Samuel Richardson who printed editions two to seven. "A True Tale" appears here as a result of a proposal of marriage that Mrs. Chandler received in 1741 when she was 54. She refused him and turned the episode into a poem, noting "Fourscore long Miles, to buy a crooked Wife!/ Old too! I thought the oddest thing in Life...." ESTC locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Wales, TCD; Folger, Rice, Yale; National Library of Australia. Foxon, C112.

London: Printed for W. Griffin..., 1775. 4to, pp. [iii] - vii [viii blank], 23 [24 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, cased in modern Japanese decorative wrappers; lacks half-title, dedication misbound between pp. 12 and 13.

London, Printed: And Sold by John Nutt..., 1706. 8vo, 191 x 123 mms., pp. [xxx], 120, engraved frontispiece, with annotations in a contemporary hand throughout, and a separate leaf with identifications in the same hand at the end of the text, bound in recent full antique-style calf. A fine copy. Garth published The Dispensary in 1699, and as the website for The Royal College of Physicians notes, " his satirical poem in six cantos, mocking some of the key protagonists in the dispute. The poem begins with a description of the newly constructed college building on Warwick Lane, with its striking 'Dome, Majestick to the Sight…' But within its walls the fellows and members are disunited and the God Sloth has taken up residence. He is awakened from his slumbers by the sound of the construction of the dispensary, so sends his servant Phantom to summon the Goddess Envy. Phantom finds Envy, who assumes the shape of Colon, an apothecary. Colon in turn visits a fellow apothecary,… Leer más

London: Printed for the Author, by Thomas Davison..., 1815. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 196 x 125 mms., pp. [vi], 72, including half-title, printed on fine paper, uncut, original boards; spine defective, with loss of paper, boards still attached but loose. Inscribed on half-title, "John Hope Esqr/ From the Author." There are several John Hopes who might have received this from Newbery, but in this case, I don't think it is the military officer, Sir John Hope (1765 - 1836). I am, however, happy to be proved wrong. The publisher Francis Newbery (1743 - 1818) started his life selling patent medicines, but turned to publishing on the death of his father, John Newbery (1713 - 1767). He was a gifted musician, keen on the violin and amateur theatricals, and his ambitions there were not helped by Samuel Johnson's remark "telling him that he had better give his fiddle to the first beggar-man he met, on the grounds that the time required for practice interfered with professional… Leer más

London: John Murry Not Published [Printed by Thomas Davison] 1821. 2 volumes. 8vo, 210 x 130 mms., pp. [vii] viii - ix [x blank] [9] 10 - 249 [250 blank, 251 Errata slip, 252 printer's imprint]; [v] vi [9] 10 - 269 [270 blank, 271 Errata slip, 272 printer's imprint], including half-title in each volume. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: Translations from the Italian by Barbarina Lady Dacre], 8vo, [London, Charles Whittingham, 1836. 8vo, 210 x 130 mms., unpaginated [166, with errata slip and printer's imprint], 3 volumes, uniformly bound by Stephen Austin, Hertford, and printed on Japon paper, bound in full cream contemporary vellum, with gilt panels on each cover, spine gilt in compartments, red and black leather labels; slight occasional foxing and two leaves in volume 3 [Translations] slightly water-stained, a fine and attractive set, inscribed on the front free end-paper of volume 3, "To William Blake Esq/ from B. Dacre." The third volume was privately printed and limiited to… Leer más

Lewes: Printed by W. and A. Lee 1803. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large 8vo, 223 x 128 mms., pp. [xvi]. 295 [296 blank], including list of subscribers, entirely uncut, cased in recent marbled wrappers. A very good copy, with the faint autograph "[?W H] Gage" on the top margin of the title-page. Captain Gage and Lady Gage appear in the list of subscribers. The work is dedicated to Lady Mary Pelham, who is probably the Lady Pelham who appears in the list of subscribers. A Captain Gage and a Lady Gage appear in the list of subscribers as well. No doubt this copy belonged to Sir William Hall Gage (1777-1864), who was Captain by 1796, and was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1821. There is a record of Gage's uncle and namesake, William Hall Gage, 2nd Viscount Gage (1717/18-1791), being at the house of Frances Burney with John Delap on the same day, and having a "Great Dinner" at night, on June 20, 1779; the viscount was, like Delap, a resident of Lewes in Sussex, which is also the… Leer más

Oxford: Printed by T. Combe...; Sold by J. G. and J. Rivington...[inter alia], 1840. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 205 x 133 mms., pp. 144, contemporary boards, later reback; binding slightly worn, but a very good copy, with the bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox on the front paste-down end-paper, and an ink inscription on the recto of the front free end-paper, "Ex libris/ P. H. Bossier/ Coll: Exon:/ Oct 19th/ 1843." Hawker (1803 - 1875) was an Anglican priest, noted for his determination to give Christian burials to seaman who died in shipwrecks. He had two interesting marriages: at the age of 19, he married Charlotte Eliza I'ans, who was 41. She died in 1863, and in the following year he married Pauline Kuczynski, aged 20, by whom he had three daughters, Morwenna Pauline Hawker, Rosalind Hawker and Juliot Hawker. Ecclesia was noticed in The Churchman's Monthly Review for 1841: "This very handsome volume is merely a specimen, and that perhaps a favourable one, of the… Leer más