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Reilly 287. Apparently, his only published work. Inscribed in pencil on
the front flyleaf “Corrected just before joining / Oct 24 1914 / Lewis
Longfield”. The printed extract from Psalm xl (“He brought me up also
out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay …”) bears L. L. ‘s pencil note
alongside “not until / the year / 1914 -” The final three stanzas (of 6)
of the “dedicatory” marked for deletion, the final stanza of “A Hymn”
marked for deletion with the note “written during a / long convalesence
/ my first / hymnal / prayer to / God -”, six lines deleted from “Look
unto Me”, all of “Contentment” marked for deletion, all of “The end of
the Century” marked for deletion, and some further markings, all
clearly written in light pencil.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GARNETT (Richard).
De
Flagello Myrteo. CCCLX thoughts and ancies on love … (and:
A preface to De Flagello Myrteo by “Neva” With forty-two
omitted “Thoughts” and some quotations from the author’s
letters).
Elkin Mathews,
1906. THIRD EDITION, REVISED,
pages xviii; 96, 12mo, original green cloth, gilt: a very good
copy, with Elkin Mathews’ 8-page 1908-09 catalogue loosely
inserted.
“The pseudonym disguises the identity of Violet Neale for whom the
fancies were written, and to whom the letters were addressed. The First
Edition contained only 252 “Thoughts” and the Second Edition 300.
The Third was again substantially revised and enlarged. “ - Colbeck.
(2)
STEVENSON (Robert L.).
The Master of Ballantrae. A
winter’s tale.
Cassell & Company,
1889. FIRST EDITION, pp viii,
332 and (4), (16) adverts dated ‘5 G. 7. 89’, 8vo, original red
cloth: binding a little dull but sound and strong, with the inside
hinges intact: a very good copy.
Precedes the American edition by one day. The issue with twelve
Stevenson titles listed in the panel facing the half-title.
(3)
FORD (Ford Madox).
The Heart of the Country. A survey
of a modern land. By Ford Madox Hueffer.
Alston Rivers, Ltd.,
1906. FIRST EDITION, pages xiii,218, (1, blank), (2, adverts),
(3, blank), 8vo, original cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: with just a little
wear at the corners, otherwise a very good copy.
(4)
HERBERT (Charles Witham).
Poems of the Seen and the
Unseen.
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell,
1905. FIRST EDITION, pp 109,
(1), 8vo, original parchment-backed boards, uncut: the boards
rubbed and the spine worn but the binding strong, otherwise a
very good to nice copy.
Inscribed “Sedley Taylor, / from the author. / Jan. 1906. “
(5)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1060
.
LONGFIELD (Mountifort).
Lectures on political
economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas terms, 1833.
Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company. Longman and Company,
London,
1834
FIRST EDITION, pages xii,267, bound without the half-title -
there no evidence that it was ever bound in, 8vo, original cloth-
backed paper boards, with printed paper spine label: the binding
stained and worn, lacking practically all of the paper from the
boards, the spine label rubbed but intact and legible, the binding
itself strong, internally in very good to nice state.
Longfield (1802–84), Cork-born jurist and economist. His former
position as the first incumbent of the first chair of political economy to
be founded in Ireland received little or no mention in his obituaries —
not surprisingly, for he had left the chair almost half a century earlier; it
was a forgotten interlude in a long and distinguished legal career.
Almost twenty years later, in 1903, the American economist E. R. A.
Seligman published two articles in the Economic Journal, ‘On some
neglected British economists’, which drew attention, among others, to
the work of Longfield as evidenced in the three volumes which he
published during his tenure of the Whately chair: Lectures on Political
Economy, Four Lectures on Poor Laws, and, Three Lectures on
Commerce and one on Absenteeism (1834–5). Since then it has come to
be recognized by economists throughout the world that in these lectures
Longfield produced work of outstanding originality, and his
posthumous reputation in economics eclipsed that which he had in his
own lifetime as a jurist (ODNB).
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1061
.
[LOUNGER, THE]
. The Lounger. A Periodical Paper,
Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1785 and 1786. Dublin
Printed for Colles, Burnet, Moncrieffe.
17873 vols. 12mo. 3rd
Edition. Contemporary full calf with labels. Very nice. (3)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1062
.
LOVAT’S GHOST.
Lovat’s Ghost: or, the courtier’s
warning-piece. A ballad. To the tune of William and Margaret.
Dublin: Printed by James Esdall
[1747]
FIRST IRISH EDITION, 8-pages, 12mo, recent paper wrapper:
a very good to nice copy
Foxon L 278. Of this first Irish printing ESTC locates copies at L, C,
RIA, Dt and Harvard. Two London editions were published in the
same year. A popular anonymous London ballad occasioned by the
public beheading of a notorious Jacobite intriguer, Simon Fraser, Lord
Lovat.
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
1063
.
LUCAN.
Pharsalia, cum notis Hugonis Grotii, et
Richardi Bentleii.
Strawberry-Hill,
1760
FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST STATE, with two engraved
vignettes after Grignion, pages (6),525, 4to, contemporary calf,
neatly and recently rebacked retaining all the original endpapers
and flyleaves: a large and very good copy with the bookplate of
Richard Clarke of Newport, Isle of Wight and the later one of
Thomas Sewell.
“The most distinguished piece of printing to come from the Press at
Strawberry Hill. “ - Hazen 7. Of the two states combined, some 500
copies were printed.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1064
.
LUCAS (Charles).
An appeal to the commons and
citizens of London. By Charles Lucas, the last free citizen of
Dublin.
London: Printed in the Year
1756
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 100, with pages 65 - 72
misnumbered 73 - 80, with the half-title, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
Higgs 1337. There was another London edition of the same year paged
(4), 75, (1), presumably in correction of the misnumbering error. Lucas
(1713–71), politician and physician, remembered as the first person
after Swift who dared to assert the rights of the common people of
Ireland against the domination of English rule.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[JEPHSON (Robert)].
An epistle
from Gorges Edmond Howard, Esq; to Alderman G. Faulkner,
with notes, &c. by the alderman and other authors. The fourth
edition.
Dublin: Printed for and sold by the booksellers
[1772]. 32-
pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
A verse satire, attacking the administration of George Viscount
Townshend, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the form of a mock
correspondence between Howard and Faulkner, the printer. First
published 1772. There was no London edition. ESTC locates just four
copies of this fourth edition: D / DFo, KU-S and CtY - none at all in
the UK.
(2)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1065
.
[LUCAS (Richard)].
Practical Christianity or an account
of the holiness which the Gospel enjoyns, with the motives to it,
and the remedies it proposes against temptations. With a prayer
concluding each distinct head. The second edition.
Orinted by B.
Griffin, for R. Pawlet,
1681
Pages (6), 307, (5, adverts for books sold by Pawlet), 8vo,
256