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STATE OF PARTIES.
The Country Well Governed; or,
plain questions on the perplexed state of parties in opposition.
[In answer to “The Country without a Government” by Loror,
plain questions on the perplexed state of parties in opposition.
[In answer to: The Country without a Government by Lord
Brougham].
Hatchard and Son,
1830. FIRST EDITION, pages
(4), 79, (1, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: inscribed on half-
title “From the Author: a very good copy.
An examination of the state of English politics and governance in a
year when the Commons had decided in principle on Parliamentary
reform - trade, taxation, the law, corn laws, slavery in the colonies,
religion are all covered in his overall view.
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RUSSELL (John), first Earl Russell.
A letter to Viscount
Althorp, on the resolutions of the late House of Commons
respecting bribery at elections.
James Ridgway,
1827. FIRST
EDITION, 16-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good
copy.
Russell’s proposed bill for the discovery and suppression of bribery at
elections was read a first and second time without a division in 1826,
but was abandoned owing to the government declaring that they would
oppose it.
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DUPANLOUP (F. A. P.), Bishop.
A Study of Freemasonry.
Burns and Oates,
1873. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 103-
pages, 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good-nice copy.
A penetrating study by the noted French educationalist. With a 17-page
preface by the anonymous translator.
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COBDEN (Richard).
Mr. Cobden and “The Times”.
Correspondence between Mr. Cobden, M. P., and Mr. Delane,
editor of “The Times”; with a supplementary correspondence
between Mr. Cobden, and the editor of the “Daily Telegraph”.
Manchester: Alex. Ireland and Co.,
1864. FIRST EDITION THUS,
pages vi, 35, (1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good copy.
“In December 1863 he became embroiled in an acrimonious dispute
with The Times … In November a Times editorial had accused Bright
of wanting to divide the land of the rich among the poor, and had called
on both Bright and Cobden to disavow any such schemes. Cobden leapt
to Bright’s defence, attacking J. T. Delane, the paper’s editor, for making
scandalous aspersions behind the screen of anonymous journalism. The
Times refused to publish Cobden’s reply to Delane, and a rather petty
correspondence ensued. ” – ODNB.
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SEDGWICK (Adam), FRS.
Remarks on the observations of
Dr. [Wm.] French; with an argument on the law of elections to
offices created by the Senate.
Cambridge: Printed by James Hodson,
Trinity Street,
1824. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 48, 8vo, recent
paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy, inscribed “From the
Author” - the recepient’s name shaved.
Privately published and uncommon. Sedgwick (1785-1873), one of the
founders of modern geology, proposed the Devonian period of the
geological timescale and later the Cambrian period. Though he had
guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology,
Sedgwick was an outspoken opponent of his theory of evolution by
means of natural selection.
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GRENFELL (Henry Riversdale).
Banking and Currency. A
letter to Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq., governor of the Bank of
England, with ten letters reprinted from the “Observer”.
Effingham Wilson,
1875. FIRST EDITION, 64-pp, 8vo, recent
wraps: very good-nice, inscribed “from the Author”.
Grenfell (1824-1902), banker and Liberal Party politician, a leading
member of the Bimetallic League and Governor of the Bank of
England (1881 and 1883).
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€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1307
.
[STANHOPE (Elizabeth Still), Countess of
Harrington].
1874
the binding spotted with loss of lettering to spine, but sound and
strong and otherwise a fine, unmarked and unopened copy.
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[TRAILL (Henry Frederick)].
Lays of Modern Oxford [: poems], by Adon …
Chapman and
Hall,
1874. FIRST EDITION, with frontispiece and 7 other
illustrations, pp viii, 127, 4to, original blue cloth, gilt: with a
very small puncture in the spine, otherwise a very good to nice
copy.
The illustrations are by Mary Ellen Edwards, Sir Frank Lockwood and
the author.
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LONGFELLOW (Henry W.).
The Courtship of Miles
Standish, and other poems.
W. Kent & Co.
1858. FIRST
EDITION, first issue, pages viii, 135, without the two
advertisement leaves sometimes found at end, large 12mo,
contemporary half morocco: ink stain on small portion of upper
outer fore-edge (not extending onto the leaf): otherwise a very
good-nice copy.
BAL 12121: precedes the US edition.
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[GREEN (Henry)].
A Manchester Book. The Cat in
Chancery; or, ‘The Song of the Cat’, a legend of law; not
contained in any of the records: in three fits. With notes and
annotations collected for the Rolls Office; edited by a Master
out of Chancery.
Simpkin, Marshall …Manchester: J. Heywood …
(1858). FIRST EDITION, 6 plates, 133-pp, large 12mo, original
red cloth, gilt, edges gilt, neatly rebacked, new endpapers,
retaining most of original backstrip: a good to very good copy.
Green (1801-73), Unitarian minister, conducted a large private school,
wrote several handbooks to Euclid, was closely involved in various
educational projects, including the Allostock chapel school, Cheshire, of
which he was the founder in 1847 and manager until 1858. He was a
close friend and colleague of the Revd William Gaskell and his wife, the
novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and was a very highly regarded and
conscientious pastor. His main interest was, however, in the history of
dissent and Unitarianism in northern England, Cheshire in
particular(DNB).
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[BUCHANAN (Robert W.)].
Saint Abe and His Seven
Wives. A tale [in verse] of Salt Lake City.
Strahan & Co.,
1872.
FIRST EDITION, pp ix, 169, 4 (ads), 8vo, original blue cloth,
gilt: a very good copy.
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STOCKTON (Frank R.).
What might have been expected.
Routledge
[1875]. FIRST UK EDN, 12 plates after Eytinge,
Sheppard, Hallock, Beard, & others, pp (2, blank), vi, (9) - 292,
(2, blank), complete thus, cr 8vo, orig green pictorial cloth, gilt:
very good.
First published New York 1874. This UK edition is not in NUC and
though mentioned in BAL is not described there. Stockton (1834-1902),
Philadelphia novelist, best known for his children’s stories.
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STOCKALL (Harriett).
Poems. Second Series.
Simpkin,
Marshall,
1886. FIRST COLLECTED EDN, pp viii, 184, (2),
(10, ads), 12mo, orig cloth: very good-nice
Mostly published originally in `All the Year Round’ and `Household
Words’. The first series appeared in 1879 as `Poems and Sonnets’, with
NUC locating two copies (MH and CtY). This second series is not
represented in the NUC.
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TENNYSON (Alfred), Lord.
Queen Mary A Drama 1875.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1308
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STANLEY (Edward G. G. S.), Earl of Derby.
Speech of
… E. G. Stanley. M. P., Chief Secretary for Ireland, in the
debate on the Disturbances (Ireland) Bill, in the House of
Commons, on Wednesday, the 27th of February, 1833.
Extracted from the Mirror of Parliament …
Printed for the
proprietors …,
1833
Pages 45, (1), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice
copy.
In 1833, when the young Charles Dickens was working as a
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