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WORDSWORTH (William) Yarrow Revisited and other poems

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:29:29 +0000

WORDSWORTH (William) Yarrow Revisited and other poems. Printed for Longman [etc.] and Edward Moxon, 1835. Publisher’s cloth-backed boards, backstrip faded, snagged and defective at head for a little over 1/2″ otherwise a nice copy. The backstrip is in plain green cloth, publisher’s paper label present slightly frayed at edges and darkened but substantially complete, errata slip following page xvi present. 4pp publisher’s catalogue at end.
First edition. Wise 23. Cornell 86. Tinker 2350.
£425.00

PRIESTLEY (Joseph) A Harmony of the Evangelists in Greek

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:26:42 +0000

PRIESTLEY (Joseph) A Harmony of the Evangelists in Greek to which are prefixed critical dissertations in English. Printed for J. Johnson, 1777. [and] PRIESTLEY (Joseph) A Harmony of the Evangelists in English; with critical dissertations, an occasional paraphrase, and notes for the use of the unlearned. Printed for J. Johnson, 1780. 4to 2 vols in one. Cont. tree calf, double red and green morocco lettering-pieces: a very good copy.
This form of binding seems typical of those offered in varying formats for bound editions of Priestley advertised by Johnson around 1790. Some copies have a folding map of the Holy Land but there is some question as to whether it was originally so issued. Priestley wrote to Joseph Johnson about the map, requesting that the Sea of Galilee ‘be made a little longer’ on 23 July 1783 which, if the date can be trusted – the letter only survives in a later transcript – is conclusive. The hypothesis of a later issue is certainly borne out by the high number of copies in contemporary bindings lacking the map.
The note above by John Stephens (owner of Waterfield’s until 2006) gives an indication of the scope of his Bibliography of Joseph Priestley which he left almost ready for publication and which will be published at some stage.
£375.00

OTTONELLI (Giulio) Discorso…

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:20:59 +0000

OTTONELLI (Giulio) Discorso… sopra l’abuso del dire sua santita’, sua maiesta, sua altezza, senza nominare il Papa, l’Imperatore, il Principe. Con le disese della Gierusalemme Liberata del Signor Torq. Tasso dall’ opositioni degli Academici della Crusca. In Ferrara: ad instanza di Giulio Vassalini (per Vittorio Baldini), 1586. Cont. vellum, creased and marked, loose in case but sewing sound; 1587 ownership signature of Giulio Pallamano on front free endpaper; on the whole a very nice copy.
Not in Adams
£425.00

MARTYN (Thomas) Thirty-Eight Plates

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:17:47 +0000

MARTYN (Thomas) Thirty-Eight Plates, with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus’s System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany. Printed for B. White and Son, 1788. Cont. mottled calf, worn at extremities, joints cracked but sound; green morocco lettering-piece (’Martyn’s Plates to Rousseau’); some spotting but a nice copy. 38 hand-coloured plates by F.P. Nodder; 2pp publisher’s adverts. Armorial bookplate of William Holbech.
£250.00

GUARINI (Giovanni Battista) Il Pastor Fido

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:15:27 +0000

(GUARINI (Giovanni Battista)) Il Pastor Fido. The Faithfull Shepheard [translated] (by Richard Fanshawe) with an addition of divers other poems, concluding with a short discourse of the long civill warres of Rome. Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648. 4to. 19th Cent. half calf worn and roughly repaired, front joint breaking; title-page stained, contents embrowned and cut down at fore-edge affecting initial letters of lines in first half, small wormhole through centre of text affecting a few letters. Frontispiece portrait opposite title-page to 1647 edition of Fanshawe’s translation, one other plate.
An unattractive copy of the second edition of Fanshawe’s translation. Wing G 2175
£75.00

GODWIN (William) Inquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness…

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:11:11 +0000

GODWIN (William) Inquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness… the second edition corrected. Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1796. 2 vols. Modern quarter calf, vellum tips. Library stamps on title-pages, some minor marginal paper repairs towards the end of Volume 2.
The much revised second edition.
£425.00