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BURNET (John), FRS.
Practical hints on colour in
painting. Illustrated by examples from the works of the
Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools. Fourth edition.
Printed
for the Proprietor, and sold by James Carpenter and Son,
1835
With 8 hand-coloured engraved plates, pages ix, (3), 64, (4,
adverts), 4to, original cloth-backed paper boards, uncut, with
printed paper label on the upper board (wanting that from the
spine): a very good copy in original state.
Largely illustrated from Venetian paintings and with many quotes from
Reynolds.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BURNET (John), FRS.
An essay
on the education of the eye with reference to painting.
Illustrated by copper plates and wood cuts. Second edition.
James Carpenter,
1837. With 8 plates and 34 text illustrations,
pages viii, (3), 73 and advert leaf, 4to, original cloth-backed
paper boards, uncut, with printed paper label on the upper board
(wanting that from the spine): a very good copy.
On the relationship between seeing and painting, with quotes from
Reynolds.
(2)
BURNET (John), FRS.
Practical hints on light and shade in
painting. Illustrated by examples from the Italian, Flemish, and
Dutch schools. Fifth edition.
James Carpenter,
1838. With 8
plates, pages vi, (2), 45, (1, blank) and advert leaf, 4to, original
cloth-backed paper boards, uncut, with printed paper label on
the upper board (wanting that from the spine): a very good copy
in original state.
The second of Burnet’s ‘Hints’ and the one which best illustrates his
ability as an engraver and etcher.
(3)
BURNET (John), FRS.
Practical hints on composition in
painting. Illustrated by examples from the great masters of the
Italian, Flemish, and Dutch schools. Fifth edition.
Printed for the
Proprietor, and sold by James Carpenter and Son,
1836. With 9
plates, 31-pages and tipped in advert leaf on slightly smaller
stock, 4to, original cloth-backed paper boards, uncut, with
printed paper label on the upper board (wanting that from the
spine): a very good copy in original state.
The first of Burnet’s ‘Hints’. As a writer on art Burnet achieved and
still maintains a deserved reputation. His thorough knowledge of his
profession both as an engraver and a painter, together with his sound
and sober judgment, give his writings considerable value and merit.
(4)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
620
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[BURRIDGE (Richard)].
Hell in an uproar: occasion’d by
a scuffle that happen’d between the lawyers and the physicians,
for superiority. A satyr.
[Dublin:] Printed in the Year
1725
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages 15, (1, blank), 12mo, recent
paper wrapper: light traces of wrinkling from damp, but still a
very good copy.
A Slanging-Match Foxon B586. First published at London in 1700. All
printings of this poem are very rare. Of the original edition, Wing
B5977A, ESTC locates three copies: L; CLU-C and ICU, along with
three copies of this Dublin printing: L; CtY & IU, and a single copy of
a London edition of 1750: DNLM. A very lively and amusing dream
vision in verse, in which the author describes a kind of slanging match
between various lawyers and doctors, all of whom are consigned to Hell.
Some of those who appear are named only by initials, but a number can
be identified, such as the physician Sir George Wakefield, who was
accused by Titus Oates in 1679 of having been offered a huge bribe to
poison Charles II; Wakefield was acquitted in a remarkable trial heard
by Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, who also appears here (as “S——s”) in
defence of the legal profession. Burridge was born in 1670, and in 1700
he first appeared on the literary scene with four folio poems, two of them
signed, on the King of Poland and the Duke of Gloucester, and two of
them, including this one, anonymous, in the manner of Ned Ward. In
subsequent years he issued a couple of other congratulatory poems,
along with a survey of London, and a pamphlet in which he describes
himself as a converted atheist. In 1712 he was tried, along with two
boon companions, a butcher and a peruque-maker, for drinking a toast
to the devil. What happened to him afterwards is not clear.
€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
621
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BURTON (Sir Richard F.).
Etruscan Bologna: a study.
Smith, Elder,
1876
FIRST EDITION, with a folding litho frontispiece and some
text illustrations, pp xii, 275, (1) and errata slip, 8vo, original
bluish grey cloth, gilt: a nice, fresh and attractive copy.
Penzer 92-3 While poorly reviewed in contemporary journals and not
one of his rarest titles, it is, nonetheless, refreshing to see it in such nice
state as here.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BURTON (Sir Richard F.).
Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration. Now
edited with an introduction and occasional notes by N. M.
Penzer.
A. M. Philpot,
1924. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION,
240-pp, 8vo, original cloth: spine very slightly worn and a little
crinkled, cancelled Linen Hall library label on front endpaper,
otherwise very good. (2)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
622
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BURY (Arthur).
The Constant Communicant, A Diatribe,
proving that constancy in receiving the Lords Supper is the
indispensible duty of every Christian.
Oxford, Printed by Leon
Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Stephen Bolton.
1681
FIRST EDITION, pages (48), 328, (20), including initial blank
leaf A1, leaves A3-4, the first two leave of the dedication to
William (Sancroft) Archbishop of Canterbury (one of but a few
to have been removed from that post for political reasons) have
at some time been neatly removed by blade and are loosely
tipped-in, 8vo, contemporary unlettered mottled calf, gilt
bordered sides, gilt spine, edges gilt: inscribed “To / The
Honorable / Hender Roberts Esqr / From / His humble Servt /
ye author / A. Bury”.
Wing B 6191. A signed, inscribed presentation copy from the author to
the Member of Parliament for Bodmin, the Honorable Hender Roberts
and also with the latter’s signature. A further inscription reads
“Gratiana Carew her book given / me by the Honbl Hender Roberts
Esq”. Bury (1623/4-1713) English college head and Anglican
theologian of controversial views. His 1690 work ‘The Naked Gospel’
was published anonymously and commanded to be burnt at Oxford for
its alleged Socinianism. At the time of publication of the ‘Constant
Communicant’ he was rector of Exeter College, Oxford, a position from
which he was later expelled. Hender Roberts (1635-88) an English
politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1688. The
son of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, he represented Bodmin in
both the Convention and Cavalier Parliaments until his death at the age
of 52. Gratiana Carew (1668?-1708?) daughter of Thomas Darrell of
Trewornan, Cornwall. In 1687 she married Sir Henry Carew with
whom she had five children. Lady Gratiana Carew involved herself in a
variety of religious controversies and has been identified as the
‘honourable lady’ correspondent of Dr. George Hickes in “A second
collection of controversial letters relating to the Church of England, and
the Church of Rome, as they passed between an honourable lady, and
Dr. George Hickes. To which is added a letter written by a gentlewoman
of quality to a Romish priest upon her Return from the Church of
Rome to the Church of England...... “ (1710). The ‘gentlewoman’ in the
above publication was Susanna Hopton.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
623
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[BURY (Lady Charlotte Susan Maria)].
“Alla Giornata”;
or, To the Day.
Saunders and Otley,
1826
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 348: (4), 300: (4), 310 and leaf of
advertisements, with (4)-pages of adverts tipped in at front of
vol one, complete with half-titles, 3 vols, 8vo, original boards,
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