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TOLLEMACHE (Beatrix Lucia Catherine, Hon.).
The
Early Bird, and other drawing-room plays.
Remington and
Company,
1894. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 100, (2), 101-123,
(3, blank), 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth, gilt: some light
foxing but still a nice copy with the attractive binding in nice
state.
Includes, on pages 101-123, translations from the Spanish of Rueda
and the German of Körner. Tollemache (1840-1926), also published
volumes of verse and translations from French and Russian literature.
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CRYER (James Wilfred).
Lyrical Longings (second
edition) and Songs for the People. By James Wilfred Cryer.
No
place [Bolton?], publisher or printer
(1912). With a portrait, 85-
pages (last two being adverts), large 12mo, original cloth: very
good.
No edition traced in COPAC, BL on-line, etc. OCLC has photocopies
only.
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OBBARD nee WRIGHT (Constance Mary).
Burley Bells
[: verse].
Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.,
1885. FIRST EDITION,
pages (2), vi, 121, (1), (2, blank), l2mo, original dark olive
green cloth, gilt: a nice, fresh copy.
Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, 357. Apparently, the sole edition of her
only published volume of verse. COPAC finds copies at L, O, C and E:
WorldCat adds Davis California, only.
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LOWELL (James Russell).
Poems.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed,
and Fields,
1849. Pages 4 (adverts dated December 1849),
xii,251: vii,254, (2 blank),2 vols, small 8vo, original brown
cloth: a little wear at headbands, but still a very good to nice
copy.
BAL 13073, binding variant D (priority not established). Includes
some poems which are here in their earliest located book publication or
are here first published.
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€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
735
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DICAS (John and Mary).
Directions for using the patent
saccharometer, for brewing ale and beer, at all times to the
same strength, also shewing the comparative value of malt, &c.
Invented by the late John Dicas, and for upwards of sixteen
years, made only by his daughter and successor, Mary Arstall,
late Mary Dicas, mathematical instrument maker, Liverpool:
the only proprietor of the patent, who, for some time previoous
to the decease of her father, assisted in making the above
instruments. The manufactory of the patent saccharometers,
hydrometers, and lacto-meters, was for some time caried on by
M. Arstall, under the firm of Dicas & Co.
Liverpool, printed by
M. Galway & Co.,
1814
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages 12, (1, list of instruments
with prices), (3, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good
copy.
Unrecorded: not traced in COPAC or WorldCat. A printed thirteen-
line “Caution” on verso of the title-page warns against instruments on
sale in London and Dublin stamped “Dicas” which are not of of her
manufacture.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
RAWLINSON (J.), of Derby.
A
new method of brewing malt liquor, in small quantities, for
domestic use. The second edition.
Printed for J. Johnston, St.
Paul’s Churchyard; by Wood and Innes …,
1807. 32-pages,
wanting half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a little dusty but a
very good copy.
Apparently unchaged on the first edition of the previous year. COPAC
locates only a single copy each of both editions: C and L, respectively.
WorldCat does not add any further copies.
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€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
736
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DICKENS (Charles): - [Mahony (Francis Sylvester)].
Facts & Figures from Italy. By Don Jeremy Savonarola,
Benedictine monk, addressed during the last two winters to
Charles Dickens, Esq. Being an appendix to his “Pictures“.
Richard Bentley,
1847
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 18, (3), 18(bis) - 309, (1), (4,
adverts), (2, blank, this last leaf unopened), 8vo, original
yellow cloth, gilt, uncut, by Leighton, Son and Hodge, with
their ticket: the binding lightly faded and lightly marked, but
otherwise a very good to nice copy with no cracking of the
inner hinges.
Dickens commissioned the work and provides a very brief preface. The
upper board stamped in blind “COLOUR SEE PAGE 157”, referring
to the white and orange arms of the Ferretti family.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
737. DICKENS (Charles). Oliver Twist; or the parish boy’s
progress. By “Boz”. In three volumes.
London: Richard
Bentley, New Burlington Street,
1838
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the 24 plates by
George Cruikshank only very slightly spotted, including the
“Fireside” plate, with the half-titles in vols 1 and 2 and the
initial advert leaf in vol 3, pages (4), 331, (1, blank), (4,
adverts): (4), 307 (1, blank): (4), 315, (1, blank), 3 vols, 8vo,
in an original binding variant of horizontally ribbed pale
mauve cloth, with an arabesque design in blind on boards,
edges uncut, without the publisher’s name at foot of spines:
a very good to nice, completely unsophisticated copy with no
cracks in the inside joints and without any wear at the
headbands, with the attractive trade plates (5 x 6 cms) of the
Dublin bookseller Milliken on the first front endpaper and
the neat inscription “Graham Markham / 1838” on each
title-page.
Smith 4. One of the great novels of the 19C. In later issues a leaf
containing a list of the illustrations was added to volume one and
the publisher’s name was added to the spines.
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€4,000-€6,000 (£3,200-£4,800 approx.)
738
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DICKSON (Wm. Steel).
A narrative of the confinement
and exile of William Steel Dickson, D. D., formerly minister of
the Presbyterian congregations of Ballyhalbert and Portaferry
in the county of Down, and now of Keady, in the county of
Armagh. To which is annexed, an account of an assault
committed on the author, September 9th. 1811, on his return
from the Catholic Meeting in the city of Armagh; with a sketch
of proceedings consequent thereon (with five appendices and a
further appendix of three sermons on scripture politics).
Dublin: Printed for the Author: by J. Stockdale,
1812
FIRST EDITION, pp (2), 371, (1, blank); 118 and errata leaf,
8vo, contemporary half calf, with label, gilt: binding little worn
at corners, but sound and strong, otherwise very good.
Dickson (1744-1824), the personification of 18C Presbyterian
radicalism: he denounced England’s treatment of the American
colonies, 1776, was an enthusiastic Volunteer, eloquent advocate of
political reform and Catholic emancipation and, apparently, a key
figure in the military plans of the Co Down United Irishmen. Arrested
just before the insurrection of 1798, he spent almost four years in
prison without being charged (OCIH). His ‘Narrative’ is a very scarce
book and is the main source for his life.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
739
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DIGBY (George),2nd Earl of Bristol.
Two letters of
note. The one from the Lord Digby to the Queene: the other of
a late overthrow which the English gave the rebels in Ireland.
London: Printed in the Yeare,
1642
FIRST EDITION, 7-pp, 4to, recent morocco-backed marbled
boards, gilt: a nice copy.
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