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[WIGGINS (John) ].
A letter to the absentee landlords of
the South of Ireland; on the means of tranquillising their
tenantry, and improving their estates.
Printed for J. Hatchard and
Son,
1822
FIRST EDITION, 62-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good to nice copy.
COPAC has O and L only: not on-line in D[but we do know for a fact
that they do have one!] or Dt. The author, an English agent with some
thirty years’ experience managing estates in the south and north of
Ireland, recommends improvements in dwellings, roads, planting, land
drainage, manufactures, fisheries, education, availability of books,
warns against over reliance on the potato, etc., etc.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
492
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WILLIAMS (John).
Richmond Wells: or, good luck at
last. A comedy, acted at Mr. Penkethman’s Theatre in
Richmond. By His Majesty’s Servants..
London: Printed for T.
Butler, at the King’s Head in Fleet-street,
1723
FIRST (ONLY?) EDITION, the title-page in red and black,
pages vi, (2), 70, (1), (1, blank), the preliminary leaves with
vertical chain lines, 12mo, recent wrapper: a very good copy.
ESTC locates four copies: L, O, Ol: DFo. WorldCat adds only
Edinburgh.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[HURDIS (James) ].
The Village
Curate. A poem. The second edition corrected.
London: Printed
for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard,
1790. Pages (4), 44,
with the half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Hurdis (1763-1801), Church of England clergyman and poet. “A poem
in blank verse published anonymously in 1788 and very favourably
noticed in the Monthly Review. As well as a blissful evocation of the
wealden landscape, this conveys the simple pleasures of Hurdis’s ‘little
Paradise’. These included reading and music (he played several
instruments and had built an organ while at school). The poem also
records and celebrates the duties that come with ordination, denouncing
the indolence of ‘pampered Priests’. In the same year Hurdis published
an edition of Michael Drayton’s English Heroic Epistles, with
elementary notes probably based on his didactic experience with his
sisters. ” - ODNB.
(2)
[FIELDING (Henry) ].
The Tragedy of Tragedies; or the
life and death of Tom Thumb the Great. As it is acted at the
Theatre in the Hay-Market. With the annotations of H.
Scriblerus Secundus. The fourth edition.
London: Printed by and
for J. Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln’s-Inn-
Fields,
1751. With engraved frontispiece after Hogarth, 56-pp,
8vo, recent wrapper: a very good copy.
One of the best of literary burlesques, attacking both the follies of the
dramatists and the follies of the critics. Originally in one act, and in
1731 enlarged to three. The extensive scholarly notes are also by
Fielding. This edition was also issued as part of ’The dramatic works of
Henry Fielding, Esq. ’, London, 1755.
(3)
CIBBER (Colley).
The tragical history of King Richard III.
Altered from Shakespear.
Printed for J. and R. Tonson,
1766. With
engraved frontispiece (just touched at fore-edge), 72-pages,
12mo, recent wrapper: running headline on ten pages touched
(but not seriously so): a very good copy
Stratman 1011. ESTC locates copies at L, BMp, three copies in USA
and one in Australia.
(4)
SHAKESPEARE (Wm.).
The Comedy of Errors. With
alterations from Shakspeare. Adapted for theatrical
representation. By Thomas Hull … A new edition.
London:
Printed by Jjohn Bell …,
1793. Pages 51, (1, blank), 8vo, recent
wapper: title lightly soiled, otherwise very good.
Hull’s version first appeared at Covent Garden in 1762 as The Twins,
and from 1779 simply as The Comedy of Errors. Kemble made only
minor alterations to Hull’s text for his productions in the 1790s and
1800s.
(5)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
493
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WILLIAMS (Wm. Peere).
Reports of cases argued and
determined in the high court of chancery … with notes and
references … by his son … The fourth edition, with additional
references … by Samuel Compton Cox …
Printed by his majesty’s
law printers for E. Brooke …,
1787
Unnumbered pages, 3 vols, roy 8vo, contemporary calf, with red
and green labels, gilt: a very good copy.
“Of unusual value by reason of the accuracy and perspicacity with
which not only the decisions but the material facts & arguments of
counsel are recorded. “ - D. N. B.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
PECKWELL later BLOSSET (Sir
Robert Henry).
Cases of controverted elections, in the second
parliament of the United Kingdom: begun and holden August
31, 1802 [… dissolved 24 Oct. 1806]
Printed by A. Strahan …,
1805-06. FIRST EDITION, pp (4), lxiii, (1, errata), 528: xiv, (1,
blank), (1, errata), 489, with the additional errata leaf in volume
two (leaf R2), 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary half calf, gilt, gilt ruled
and lettered spines: some light preliminary foxing but still a
very good to nice copy. (4)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
494
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WINDOW TAX.
A scheme or proposal for taking off the
several taxes on land, soap, starch, candles, leather, plate, pots,
&c. and replacing the said duties by another tax, which will
bring in more money … offered to the consideration of the
parliament … To which is added, some considerations on the
several duties upon tea, coffee, chocolat, and salt …
Printed: and
sold by C. King …T. Green … and E. Cooke,
1733
Pages 29, (1, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a nice copy.
Kress 4138. Hanson 4388. Goldsmiths’ 7145. A proposal for a window
tax, first outlined in ‘The Occasional Monitor: containing a scheme or
proposal for taking off the several taxes … “, a 10-pp 4to pamphlet
published during the previous year.
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
495
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WINTER (G. K.).
The Block System on Single Lines.
Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press, circa
1860
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, 7-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper, the original upper yellow glazed printer paper wraper
preserved: a nice copy.
Not in Ottley, COPAC or BL. Describing a device designed specially to
meet the requirements of a single railway line, as so many of those in
India are, though it is also applicable to double lines. The device is
illustrated on the upper wrapper.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WINTER (G. K.).
Electrical
Inter-Communication in Trains.
No printer, place or date, ?Madras,
circa
1879. FIRST EDITION (?), with 7 numbered illustrations
on 3 folding plates, pp 8, (2, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper, with
original green upper glazed printed paper wrapper preserved:
nice.
Not in Ottley, COPAC or BL. Winter was Madras Railway’s Telegraph
Engineer.
(2)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
496
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[WRAXALL (Sir Nathaniel Wm.) ].
A short review of
the political state of Great-Britain at the commencement of the
year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. Sixth
edition.
London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House,
Piccadilly.
1787
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