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FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, pp vi, (2), 248, 12mo,
contemporary calf: light browning, old rebacking, with label,
gilt, retaining original endpapers and flyleaves, inscribed “Anne
Neale’s Book / bought at Mr Byam’s / sale Dec 17 - 1780”: a
good, sound copy.
Temple Scott 197-8. “Poetry is an art, which no young lady can, or
ought to be wholly ignorant of. The pleasure which it gives, and indeed
the necessity of knowing enough of it to mix in modern conversation,
will evince the usefulness of my design; which is to supply the highest
and the most innocent entertainment at the smallest expence; as the
poems in this collection, if sold singly, would amount to ten times the
price of what I am able to afford [at] the present. “ (p. vi.)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
190
.
GOLDSMITH (Oliver).
Goldsmith’s History of Greece
abridged. A new edition in two volumes.
Leghorn, printed for Peter
Meucci,
1817
Pages 166, (2, blank): 163, 2 vols, small 8vo, original unlettered
stiff wraps, uncut, almost entirely unopened: slight wear to
spines, still a fine, attractive copy in original state.
Uncommon edition: not in D or Dt on-line and COPAC has Cambridge
only.
(2)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
191
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GOLDSMITH (Oliver).
The Good Natur’d Man: a
comedy … The fifth edition.
London: Printed for W. Griffin,
1768
Pages vi, (2), 74, (2), with the half-title, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
Prologue by Samuel Johnson. Pressfigure 3 on p. v and first word at
beginning of last line on p. (75) ‘the’. An issue that does not conform
with either of the two ‘fifth editions’ in the ESTC.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
COLMAN (George), the
younger.
The Mountaineers; a play, in three acts … first
performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on Saturday,
August 3, 1793.
London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-
House, Piccadilly,
1795. Pages (4), 90, bound without the
advertisement leaf at end, 8vo, some light soiling at beginning
and end but otherwise a sound and very good copy.
(2)
COLMAN (George), the elder & GARRICK (David).
The
Clandestine Marriage, a comedy … By George Colman and
David Garrick. The third edition.
London: Printed for T. Becket
and P. A. De Hondt …,
1766. Pages (8), 90, (4, epilogue) & leaf of
adverts, with half-title, 8vo, recent wraps: very good.
(3)
[CUMBERLAND (Richard) ].
The West Indian; a comedy
… A new edition.
London: Printed for C. Dilly,
1792. Pages (6), 77,
(2), (1, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
(4)
MACKLIN (Charles).
The Man of the World. A comedy …
London: Printed by John Bell …,
1793. Pages 86, (2, blank), 8vo,
recent paper wrapper: a very good copy. (5)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
192
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GORDON (John Campbell), 1st Marquess of Aberdeen
and Temair.
Archie Gordon. [An album of recollections of Ian
Archibald Gordon, compiled by his parents, the Marquess and
Marchioness of Aberdeen and Termain].
No publisher, printer,
place or date
(1910)
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, with 78 illustrations on 57 plates,
some coloured, some photo-gravures, some mounted as
drawings, leaves (2), 43, printed on one side of the leaf only,
large 4to, original blue cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a very good to nice
copy.
Privately published, presumably printed in a very limited number: this
copy has, tipped in, a memorial note signed by the Marquess and the
Marchioness. A memorial volume for Archie Gordon (1884-1909), who
died following an auto-mobile accident. Contributions by Robert Louis
Stevenson, Herbert Asquith and others are included. His father, John
Campbell Hamilton Gordon (1847-1934), viceroy of Ireland (1886,
1905-15), governor of Canada (1893-98), married Ishbel-Maria
Marjoribanks (1857-1939), daughter of the Lord Tweedmouth, in
1877.
€50-€70 (£40-£56 approx.)
193
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GRANDS PRIX DE ROME.
Les Grands Prix de Rome
d’architecture. Reproduction en phototypie des 1èrs, 2mes et
2mes seconds Grands Prix avec les programmes des concours.
Paris, Guérinet
(1901-4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
119 fine plates (some folding), in 7 vols, folio, original cloth-
backed printed paper boards, with ties, each volume with a leaf
of letterpress: in very good state with all the ties intact.
A useful
collection of seven vols from this most influential of all competition
series.
(7)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
194
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GRANT (Sir John Peter).
Some observations on the
constitution and forms of proceeding of the court of session in
Scotland; with remarks on the bill now depending in the House
of Lords for its reform.
Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, Portugal-
Street, Lincoln’s Inn,
1807
FIRST EDITION, pages vi, 135, with half-title, 8vo, recent
wrapper: a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
FREEMASONRY.
Duties of
officers, &c., intended for the guidance of new lodges, of the
Independent Order of Good Templars, with a few useful forms
used by the order.
Sunderland: - Printed by P. J. Campbell & Co.,
1871. Pages 20; 32 (“Good Templar Chimes”), 12mo, recent
wrapper: a very good copy.
Not found in WorldCat or COPAC.
(2)
GRAHAM (Sir James).
Corn and Currency; in an address
to the land owners. Third edition, with additions.
London: James
Ridgway,
1827. 119-pages, without the half-title, 8vo, recent
paper wrapper: a very good copy.
(3)
SCOTT (Wm.).
Extracts from the letter-book of William
Scott, father of the Lords Stowell and Eldon: with notes on the
family history of the writer and his contemp-oraries.
Newcastle-
upon-Tyne: M. A. Richardson, London: J. Russell Smith.
1848.
FIRST EDITION, with a double-page table, 52-pp, 8vo, recent
wrapper: very good copy.
Apparently the only edition. COPAC
locates copies at the BL and Newcastle upon Tyne only.
(4)
BATEMAN (Thomas Osborne).
Lichfield Cathedral
Restoration not to be classed amongst “Mediæval Mummeries.
“ Four letters originally published in the Derby newspapers...
With an introduction and an appendix containing letters by the
Rev. Prebendary Latham, etc.
London: Joseph Masters …,
1862.
FIRST EDITION, 40-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good to nice copy.
Apparently, the only edition. COPAC locates four
copies: L, O, E and Lambeth. WorldCat makes no additions.
(5)
SCOTT (Wm.), MD.
Pedigree of the family of Scott, of
Stokoe. Reprinted from the original edition 1783, with
introduction, continuation, &c [by Wm. R. Scott].
London: John
Gray Bell,
1852. FIRST EDITION THUS, pp 47, (1), large
12mo, recent wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
“Only 75 copies
printed”.
(6)
PUBLIC-HOUSEKEEPER’S MONITOR.
The Public-
Housekeeper’s Monitor; being a serious admonition to the
masters and mistresses of those commonly called public-houses,
of what kind or denomination soever. A new edition, corrected.
To which is prefixed, a letter from a minister to the public-
housekeepers of his parish, recommending this tract to their
serious perusal.
London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington …,
1818.
Pages 43, (1, blank), 12mo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to
nice copy.
A late printing of an oft-printed 18C tract, but one which is
not represented in COPAC.
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