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CHAMBERLIN (Kate).
Brookdale. A story.
Griffith amd
Farran...,
1883. FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages (6), 154, 32
(adverts dated 5/82), 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: wanting the
end blank flyleaf, otherwise in very good state.
?Her only publication. Dedication to Miss Jane Marcus dated from
Crouch Hill. Not found in National Union Catalogue.
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AUSTEN (Jane): - Pollock (Walter Herries).
Jane Austen,
her contemporaries and herself. An essay in criticism.
Longmans,
Green, and Co.,
1899. FIRST EDITION, pages (8), 125, (3,
blank), 40(advertisements) and errata slip, cr 8vo, original white
and green cloth, gilt: a nice, fresh copy.
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AUSTIN (Alfred).
My Satire and its Censors [: verse].
George Manwaring,
1861. FIRST EDITION, pp (4),52, 8(ads),
8vo, original mauve cloth, gilt, with ticket of Harrison of Pall
Mall: light foxing and binding stained but sound and strong: a
very good copy.
A strong piece prompted by the meagre notice given by the Athenaeum
to his satire ‘The Seasons’ (1861) and against William Hepworth
Dixon, its editor, in particular. Austin later suppressed it and it was
never reprinted.
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1197
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POETICAL MISCELLANY.
The Christmas Treat: or
gay companion. Being a collection of epigrams, ancient and
modern. Panegyrical, satyrical, amorous, moral, humorous,
monumental. With an essay on that species of composition.
Dublin: Printed for Will. Whitestone, at Shakespeare’s Head in
Skinner-Row,
1767
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION THUS, pages xxxviii, 192, 12mo,
neatly bound in 19C mid-brown polished calf, with red label,
gilt: with a conspicious wormhole through about 40-pages
towards the end, affecting occasional letters which are obvious
from the content, otherwise a very good, crisp copy of this rare
Dublin printing.
The only printing of this adaptation of Richard Grave’s “The Festoon”
which had been first printed at London in 1766. Included are numerous
poems by and about Dryden, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, and many lesser
figures of the period, along with a 14-page essay “on the nature of the
epigram” by Graves. The preface claims some contributions as original.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1198
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POOLE or POLE (Matthew).
Synopsis criticorum
aliorumque S. Scripturae interpretum.
Londini, typis J. Flesher …
& T. Roycroft, prostat apud Cornelium Bee,
1669-71-73-76-74
FIRST EDITION, pp viii, cols 1248; pp (3), cols 579 (i. e. 580);
pp (48, II Kings in English), cols 709-864, pp (4, II Chronicles
29-39 in English), cols 877-1028: pp (2), cols 1422; pp (2), cols
1429-1592, pp (68, Proverbs 14, Ecclesiastices & Canticles in
English): pp (6), cols 1028; pp (2), cols 1033-2178: pp (6), cols
2022; 52; pp (2), cols 62: pages (6), 1630, all vols without their
initial leaf, possibly blank, 4 vols in 8 parts bound in 5, folio,
half calf, gilt spines, with labels, gilt: title to vol 2 cut round and
mounted (no text loss), some side notes touched with slight loss,
occasional inner margin worming, not serious, a few signatures
in vol four misbound but complete, a not unattractive, strongly
bound set.
Wing P 2853. “The merit of his work depends partly on its wide range,
as a compendium of contributions to textual interpretation, partly on
the rare skill wich condenses into brief, crisp notes the substance of much
laboured comment. Rabinical sources and Roman catholic
commentaries are not neglected. “ - DNB.
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€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
1199
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POOR LAW RELIEF IRELAND.
General order of the
Poor Law Commissioners for reguulating the administration of
out-door relief,2nd August, 1847. With instructional circulars,
&c. &c.
Dublin: Alex. Thom, printer and publisher, 87, Abbey-Street,
1850
52-pages, 12mo, original stiff green printed paper wrappers: a
very good copy.
Not found in COPAC. But D on-line has editions of 1847 (24-pages)
and 1849 (38-pages).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
NICHOLLS (Sir George).
Poor
Laws - Ireland. Three reports by George Nicholls, Esq., to Her
Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home
Department.
Printed by W. Clowes and Sons …, for H. M. S. O.,
1838. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with 2 folding tables,
pp viii 172, (1, imprint), 8vo, original cloth, gilt: upper board
lightly discoloured: a strongly bound and very good copy.
Goldsmiths 30579. The first edition of the three reports published
together. The third report considers provision for the poor in Holland
and Belgium and concludes that these provide no example for Ireland.
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€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1200
.
POPE (Alexander)].
An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr:
Arbuthnot.
London: Printed. And, Dublin re-printed by George
Faulkner, Bookseller, in Essex-street, opposite to the Bridge,
1736
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (4),20, 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: with some light browning but a very good copy.
Uncommon first Irish edition of what some argue is Pope’s greatest
poem. Faulkner altered the pagination for another issue the same year;
this one is given first in Foxon, at P804.
€150-€225 (£120-£180 approx.)
1201
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POPE (Alexander).
Memoirs of the extraordinary life,
works, and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus.
Dublin: Printed by
and for George Faulkner,
1741
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, pages (2), 12, 165, (1), (2,
blank), 12mo, contemporary calf, with label, gilt: a very good to
nice, unpressed copy, with the armorial bookplate of Thomas
Taylor, Bart and the later armorial bookplate of the Marquess of
Headfort.
Griffith 538. Teerink 984. Page 165 concludes “The end of the first
book”, but no more was published. This scarce and important book was
published at London, earlier in the same year, in volume two of Pope’s
prose ‘works”. This satirical manifesto of the Scriblerians, was
presumably the joint effort of Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot and perhaps Gay.
The Scriblerus Club was founded in 1714 by Pope and his fellow wits,
to dine, drink, talk, and write a collaborative biography of the
imaginary lunatic polymath, Martinus Scriblerus, in effect an elaborate
attempt to ridicule false learning. There was a revival of the club in
1716-18 and another in 1726-27 following visits by Swift. From the
earliest meetings also emerged the germ of ‘The Dunciad’ and
‘Gulliver’s Travels’. Pope inherited the Scriblerus papers after the death
or default of his collaborators, and saw them into print. The result is a
kind of farcical novel, beginning with the ‘birth and parentage of
Scriberus’.
€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx.)
1202
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POPE (Charles),
ed.
The Yearly Journal of Trade, 1845:
laws of customs and excise. Treaties and conventions … Tariffs
… Countervailing and inland duties. Duties of lights, buoys,
pilotage, &c. Stamp and Post Office laws and rates.
Proclamations. Orders in Council … Parliamentary speeches
and papers. Reports of law cases … Translations of foreign
documents. Dangers of the seas. Proceedings of scientific and
learned societies. Geographical sketches and recent discoveries.
Descriptions of articles of merchandise. Exchanges, moneys,
weights, and measures. Miscellaneous information, not to be
found in any work besides … Twenty-third edition.
James
Cochrane
(1845)
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