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FIRST EDITION, with the engraved plate of Chatterton’s
handwriting, pages vi, 263, (1, advertisements), 8vo, pleasantly
bound in recent boards, with label: a very good copy.
Although an accomplished forger, Chatterton was highly regarded by
Shelley, Byron, Scott, Campbell, Southey, Wordsworth and Walpole. He
died by his own hand in his seventeenth year. His life, work, and tragic
death had a powerful effect on the Romantic imagination. Gregory
(1754-1808), son of an Irish clergyman, edited ‘Biographia Britannica’,
1795, and ‘New Annual Register’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ASHTON (John).
Chap-Books of
the Eighteenth Century. With facsimiles, notes, and introduction.
Chatto and Windus,
1882. FIRST EDITION, with a frontispiece
and many full-page and other illustrations, pages xvi, 486, (1), cr
8vo, original brown cloth, gilt: a fine, bright, fresh copy.
(2)
STEELE (Sir Richard).
The Conscious Lovers, a comedy.
With alterations, as performed at the theatres.
Printed for J.
Whitworth
[1770?]. 68-pages, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: light
browning, but a very good copy.
ESTC90 suggests a date of [1770?] and notes two copies: L (imperfect)
and TxHR.
(3)
PHILIPPS (Jenkin T.).
The life of Ernestus the Pious, first
Duke of Sax-Gotha. The great grandfather of the present
Princess of Wales. First publish’d in English by Mr. Philipps …
with large additions and genealogical tables. But now republish’d
by itself, for the use of piety among all christians, but especially
among the great.
Printed for Francis Bishop,
1750. FIRST
EDITION THUS, pages (6), 49, (1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper:
a nice copy.
(4)
MASON (Wm.).
Elfrida: a dramatic poem. Written on the
model of the ancient Greek tragedy. The seventh edition.
Printed
and sold by R. Horsfield, T. Cadell … and W. Tesseyman in York,
1773. Pages (8), 70, with half-title, 8vo, recent wraps: some light
fingering, but very good copy. (5)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
660
.
[CHETWODE (Anna) ?].
Blue-Stocking Hall. In three
volumes.
Henry Colburn,
1827
FIRST EDITION, pages iv, 320: (4), 328: (4), 258, (1, errata), (1,
blank), (4, adverts), with the half-titles in vols 2 and 3 (none
called for in volume one), 3 vols, large 12mo, original brown
cloth, with printed paper spine labels: with some light spotting
and browning and very slight wear to spines but bindings strong,
with no cracked joints: a very good copy.
Wolff 6202. Garside 1827: 60. Attributed by all the usual sources to
William Pitt Scargill but J. Windele, writing only ywo years after
publication of this novel, in his ‘Historical and Descriptive Notices of the
City of Cork’, cites Miss Chetwode as the author. This seems likely, not
only because Windele is a contemporary source, but also because in the
‘Preface’ the author speaks of making a ‘début’ with this novel, and
Scargill had already had works published in 1827. The BL lists his
‘Essays on Various Subjects’ of 1815, and ‘Moral Discourses’ of 1816,
as well as ‘Truth a Novel. By the Author of Nothing’ (1826), which is
attributed to Scargill. Miss Chetwode was the daughter of the Rev John
Chetwode of Glanmire, near Cork, and as a young woman travelled to
Russia, where she lived in Moscow with the Russian Princess Daschkaw,
a highly educated woman who became Director of the Academy of Arts
and Sciences in St Petersburg and first President of the Russian
Academy. It is not known whether Miss Chetwode’s interest in the
learning of women predated her excursion, but it was undoubtedly
fostered by her friendship with the princess. ‘Blue-Stocking Hall’ is
mostly set in Co Kerry, and partly in England and on the continent, and
strongly advocates the education of women through a series of letters
written by the mnain protagonists. As well as the main theme of the
importance of learning in women, the novel deals with the education of
the lower classes in Ireland. Marriage is also a topic of discussion and is
presented as an intellectual partnership. Marriage for money or social
aggrandizement is seen as abhorrent, and remaining single is a preferred
alternative. Contemporary literature, such as Maria Edgeworth’s
‘Absentee’ is discussed, as well as religion and politics. Edgeworth herself
wrote of ‘Blue-Stocking Hall’ that ‘notwithstanding its horrid title … I
thought there was a great deal of good, and of good sense in it. ‘ - F. A.
Edgeworth, ‘A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth’, 1867, III. 31.
(3)
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
661. CHETWODE (Knightley). Advice to a young lady. By
Knightley Chetwode, Esq.
No printer, publisher, place or date
[Dublin?]
[circa 1700-20]
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, drop-title, 4-pages, a folded 4to
sheet, uncut in the fore and lower edges: the page numbers
centred and the drop-head title below a single row of printer’s
ornament: with some very minor spotting but otherwise in fine
condition, preserved in purpose-made boards slip-case.
Not in Wing, Foxon, or ESTC on-line. A poetical letter by Swift’s
friend and correspondent Knightley Chetwode - the only known
printed text by him - apparently hitherto unrecorded. Knightley
Chetwode was descended from a well-known Buckinghamshire family
who had come over to Ireland, like Swift’s family, at the Restoration.
His grandfather had rebuilt the family fortunes with the help of the
first Duke of Ormonde. The grandson was the only surviving heir
and married in 1700, the heir of a Devonshire family that had also
emigrated to Ireland. Irvin Ehrenpreis devotes several pages to
Chetwode and his friendship with Swift remarking that it was “a
pathetic mark of Swift’s solitude” that he let a man so graceless into
any intimacy. Chetwode, whom he describes as “a noisy, abrasive
squire”, was morbidly sensitive to imagined slights: “Clinging but
prickly, he was a bur in Swift’s life for over seventeen years. “ Swift
nicknamed him Ventoso; laterly their relationship was absurdly one-
sided, with Swift resorting to any ruse available to excuse himself the
nuisance of a visit. In New and interesting letters, 1899, George
Birkbeck Hill edited some fifty or so letters from Swift to Chetwode
which had recently come to light. Knightley Chetwode has been
confused with Knightley Chetwode or Chetwood (1650-1720), Dean
of Gloucester and friend of John Dryden. The index to Ehrenpreise’s
Swift mistakenly gives the Irish Chetwode’s dates as (1650-1720)
which are in fact the dates of the Dean of Gloucester. As Ehrenpreis
points out in the text of his book the Irish gentleman was much
younger than Swift (Swift was born in 1667). The Dean of
Gloucester was a poet and published an Ode in 1680 (see Wing
C3799A). From internal evidence, however, it is clear that the present
poem is not by him but by the Irishman of the same name.
Counselling the young lady he advises: “Shun our ill nature’d IRISH
wit, / Where grieving, others gives the greatest Joy, / She little
knows what’s just or fit, / Who to please some foolish Guest, / Will
lose a Friend, to gaine a Jest. “ If these lines were written after 1714,
when Chetwode met Swift, it may be possible that they glance at him.
Less than a a year after they met, Swift had to assure Chetwode that
he had not (as somebody declared) made malicious remarks against
him and had to write a long letter exculpating himself.
€1,200-€1,500 (£960-£1,200 approx.)
662
.
CHILDERS (Erskine).
In the Ranks of the C. I. V. [City
Imperial Volunteers]. A narrative and diary of personal
experiences with the C. I. V. Battery (Honourable Artillery
Company) in South Africa.
Smith, Elder & Co.,
1900
FIRST EDITION, with a frontispiece, pages (8), 301, (10,
adverts), 8vo, original red cloth: the spine lightly and evenly
toned: a very good to nice copy.
His first book. “A narrative based on a campaign diary (Feb/Oct, 1900).
The Battery was chiefly employed in column work and garrison duty
along lines of communication in the Orange River Colony and central
Transvaal. “ - Hackett.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
TENNENT (Sir James Emerson),
153