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WAITHMAN (Robert).
War proved to be the real cause of
the present scarcity, and enormous high price of every article of
consumption, with the only radical remedies.
Printed by W.
Hughes, for J. S. Jordan,
1800
FIRST EDITION, pp viii, (9)-80, with half-title, 8vo, pleasant
recent quarter cloth: fine.
Kress B 4308. “War causes waste, inflated currency, heavy taxes, high
prices. Stop war, economize, help small farmers and cottagers, etc. “ -
William I. 245.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PUBLIC FINANCES.
Report
from the select committee, to whom it was referred to examine
and state the several accounts, and other papers, presented to the
House in this session of parliament, relating to the public income
and expediture: and also, to report to the House what may be
expected to be the annual amount of the said income and
expenditure in future. (March 21, 1786).
Printed for J. Debrett,
1786. FIRST EDITION, VARIANT ISSUE, pages (2), (5) - 95,
(1, adverts), complete thus, with many tables (5 of which are
folding), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Kress B. 1064. Goldsmiths’ 13225.
(2)
CHALMERS (George), FRS.
An estimate of the
comparative strength of Great-Britain, during the present and
four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every
war since the revolution. A new edition, corrected, and improved;
with a dedication to Dr. James Currie, the reputed author of
“Jasper Wilson’s Letter.
Printed for John Stockdale,
1794. With
folding table and half-title, pp (4), cxliv,289, (18), 8vo, recent
boards: very good.
Kress B. 2667. First published 1782. Acknowledged by Palgrave as
important.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1379
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WALKER (John).
Hints for improvement in the art of
reading.
Printed for the Author, and sold by T. Cadell … and T. Becket
…,
1783
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages viii, 86 and leaf of adverts,
complete with half-title, 8vo, original blue paper wrappers, uncut:
a very good to nice copy in original state: the half-title inscribed
“Wilson - 83 - “ in a neat contemporary hand.
Walker (1732-1807), elocutionist, orthoepist, lexicographer and actor,
took to the stage at an early age, came to Dublin in 1758 with Barry and
Woodward for the opening of the Crow Street theatre. On returning to
London some years later he gave up the stage and turned to to the
teaching of elocution as a profession which brought himm into friendship
with Samuel Johnson, Garrick, Edmund Burke and their circles.
Edmund Burke introduced him to an acquaintance as ‘Mr Walker, whom
not to know, by name at least, would argue want of knowledge of the
harmonies, cadences, and proprieties of our language’.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1380
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WALKER (Thomas), of Melbourne.
The Lyceum; or the
education of the children of liberals. A lecture … delivered in
Melbourne, January 1st, 1882.
Melbourne: Published by W. H. Terry,
Freethought and Spiritualistic Book Depot,
1882
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, 16-pages and upper coloured printed
paper wrapper (which bears the title and imprint as above), large
12mo, disbound, small Bristol University stamp on wrapper,
otherwise in very good state
COPAC locates only the Bristol copy and a microform copy at
Cambridge. WorldCat locates only microform copies. Apparently, not in
any Australian library.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BAYLEY (Edric).
The work of the
School Board for London, 1888-91. October 1891.
Printed by C.
Talbot
(1891). FIRST EDITION, pages 23, (1, blank), 8vo,
unbound as issued: small stamp in two places and the first and
final page a little dusty, but still a very good copy.
COPAC has the Bristol copy only. Bayley was a prominent member of
the board.
(2)
COLQUHOUN (John Campbell).
Remarks on Sir John
Pakington’s Education Bill. In a letter to the right hon. S. H.
Walpole, M. P.
Thomas Hatchard,
1855. FIRST EDITION, pages
22, (2, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Pakington’s education bill, which contained the germ of the present
system of school boards, met with little favour from his own party, and
Lord Robert Cecil declared that, ‘as far as religious instruction was
concerned, he looked upon the bill as the secular system in disguise’. In
February 1857 Pakington again introduced an education bill but later
withdrew it. Colquhoun (1803-70), chairman of the general committee of
the National Club, of the Church of England Education Society, and of
the Irish Church Mission to Roman Catholics.
(3)
ADULT EDUCATION.
Metropolitan Association for
Promoting the Education of Adults, in union with the Society of
Arts, 19, John-Street, Adelphi, W. C. Established November,
1862.
W. Trounce, printer
[1864]. Pages 48 and (4), 4 adverts, with
tipped in printed slip regarding the annual prize donated by the
Princess of Wales, 8vo, original printed paper wrappers: with a
small stamp on the title-page, otherwise a very good copy in
original state
Unaccountably scarce. Not in COPAC or BL and WorldCat has
microfiche copies only.
(4)
EDUCATION.
A letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
M. P., (First Lord of the Treasury) on educational legislation, by
a nonconformist M. P.
Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Manchester:
Johnson & Rawson.
1873. FIRST EDITION,27-pp, 8vo, unbound,
sewn as issued: small stamp on title, but very good
Neither COPAC (four copies) nor WorldCat (2 copies) suggests an author.
Asking that education be the first question of a liberal government and
for the appointment of a minister of education.
(5)
BEGGS (Thomas).
Three lectures on the moral elevation of
the people. Reprinted from the “National Temperance
Magazine”, by T. Cook,26, Granby-street, Leicester.
Published by
Brittain and by T. Cook, Midland Temperance Press, Leicester.
[1846?].
Pages (2), 82, sewn as issued and unbound: a little dog-eared and
first and last page evenly dusty, small stamp on title-page: a good
to very good copy.
Goldsmiths’ 34788, suggesting [1846?]. Beggs, secretary to the Health of
Towns Association, published “An inquiry into the extent and causes of
juvenile depravity” in 1849.
(6)
COLE (Christian F.).
Education: a lecture, delivered in Holy
Trinity Church Schoolroom, Kissey Road, Freetown, Sierra
Leone, West Africa.
Manchester; John Heywood,
1880. FIRST
EDITION, 32-pages, small 8vo, original printed paper wrapper:
library numbers on the upper wrapper, otherwise a very good
copy
(7)
JACKSON (John).
Upright versus sloping writing. Being an
inquiry into the respective merits of sloping and upright or
vertical writing. Third edition.
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle &
Rivington, circa
1889. With a folding plate, 8-pages, roy 8vo,
disbound, in clean and very good state
Title from upper original wrapper, here preserved, though in rather
chipped and frayed state.
(8)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
1381
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WALLACE (Arthur): -.
The Trial of Arthur Wallace,
assistant deputy post-master of Carlow, for stealing notes out of
the post bag, and for forgery.
Dublin: Printed by John Rea,57,
Exchequer-Street,
1800
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, 48-pages, 8vo, with a smal circular
stamp on the title-page, otherwise a very good to nice, uncut copy,
sewn into recent blue paper wrappers.
O’Higgins 4. 220. ESTC locates nine copies: L, C, Lhl, O, D, Dt / MH-
L / AuNCIS. Neatly written on the title-page in a contemporary hand is:
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