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4 volumes | 12mo | 160 x 100 mm ¶ Volume 2 dated 1812, all others 1807. First and only edition of Martin Smart's translation, excepting the large paper edition here reported by the publisher. ¶ Illustrated with 100 copper plates, including several library scenes, and many signed by Tomlinson or Warner (some misbound, but all present). Publisher's ad at end of v. 4 for a large paper edition of Gil Blas and a matching edition of Don Quixote. Includes a translator's preface and life of the author. ¶ Apparently an unrecorded variant of this Phillips edition, as records in OCLC and Copac offer no evidence for any volumes dated 1812, as found here with a cancelled v. 2 title page. --- CONDITION: Contemporary sprinkled brown calf; spines with black leather labels and gold tooling. ¶ Lacking final leaf of v. 4 (additional publisher's ad?); spines badly rubbed, the first two volumes lacking their labels; mild scattered foxing; light dampstaining to last two plates in v. 1; v. 2 frontispiece and… Leer más

HOSPITAL CHARITY HYMNAL IN DELUXE BINDING ¶ VIII, 526, [10] p. | 8vo | pi^4 A-2H^8 2I^8(2I7+[dagger]^8) 2K^4 | 181 x 106 mm ¶ Stated twelfth edition of this Hessen hymnal, published for the benefit of a hospital dedicated to serving invalids, soldiers, and orphans. Includes 733 hymns, here printed without music, and with an extensive index. --- PROVENANCE: Initials WK in gold on the front cover. --- CONDITION: Contemporary black straight-grain leather, the front board dated 1830 and bearing the initials WK in gold; boards with a gold border; spine partially gilt; gilt edges; highly polished blue paper endleaves. In a contemporary marbled slipcase. ¶ Leather just lightly rubbed, with a roughly square-inch spot on the bottom of the front board mildly disturbed by the removal of a sticker; gentle wear at the extremities. ¶ A well preserved example of a personalized devotional binding.

CHARITABLE ALMANAC FEATURING REVOLUTIONARY CULT --- 168; [1], 4-140; 35, [1]; viij, 40; civ, 120 p. | 12mo | A-G^12; A^12(-A12) B-E^12 F^10; A-C^6; a^4 A-C^6 D^2; *^12 b-d^12 e^4 A-E^12 | 152 x 86 mm --- The French Revolution brought with it a degree of religious chaos. At one end was simple suspicion of the long-established state-sanctioned Catholic order. At the other were extreme breaks from this tradition, evident most readily in the state-sponsored Cult of Reason and Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being. The former lasted a whole year, and the latter couldn't outlive Robespierre, executed in 1794. Yet some of those desires for a new religious order remained. Enter the Théophilantropes. "Trite and naïve though the pronouncements of the Théophilantropes may seem, the cult is extremely significant historically. Here we have an attempt to find common ground between all religions and sects" (McIntosh). This new religion took pains to espouse only those beliefs and values upon which… Leer más