THE CATALOGUE (continued 5)
Reading edition
The twenty-five plates, coloured, are somewhat in the manner of Rowlandson.
DRAKE, Joseph Rodman.—The Culprit Fay and other poems. By Joseph Rodman Drake. New York: George Dearborn, . . . 1835. 8vo, blue levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition. Portrait, frontispiece-title, three inserted plates and two vignettes, proofs on India paper.
DRAKE and HALLECK.—The Croakers, by Joseph Rodman Drake and Fitz-Greene Halleck. First Complete Edition. New York MDCCCLX. Royal 8vo, blue morocco, back and sides in gilt tools and mosaic, gilt top, uncut edges, by Pawson and Nicholson.
Portraits of the authors, and (inserted) an autograph letter from Halleck and forty-one portraits and views of New York.
No. 2 of the Bradford Club publications, and No. 127 of one hundred and fifty subscriber's copies printed.
DRAKE and HALLECK.—The Croakers. 1860. Royal 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt fillets, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
No. 7 of one hundred Club copies printed, extra-illustrated by the insertion of sixty-six plates, including portraits and early views of New York, many in proof state.
DRAKE, Joseph Rodman.—See Halleck, Fitz-Greene.
DRAKE, Nathan.—Essays, biographical, critical, and historical, illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. By Nathan Drake, M.D. . . . London: printed by C. Whittingham, . . . for John Sharpe, . . . 1805. Post 8vo, three volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
Large paper copy, with three portraits in Volume I, by P. W. Tomkins, F. Bartolozzi, and N. Schiavonetti after H. Thomson, J. Richardson, and Kneller; and twelve portraits in Volume III after Kneller, Woolaston, Zinck and five others. In Volume II are two inserted views.
The portraits in the eight volumes of "The Spectator" (see British Classics) were designed to illustrate the present work, in which are pages of references.
DRAKE, Nathan.—Essays, biographical, critical, and historical, illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the various periodical papers which, In Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, have been published Between the Close of the eighth volume of the Spectator, and the commencement of the year 1809. By Nathan Drake, M.D. . . . Printed by J. Seeley, Buckingham, for W. Suttaby, . . . London. 1809. [-1810.] Post 8vo, two volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
Large paper copy, with a view and a portrait of Warton by N. Schiavonetti after Reynolds.
DRAKE, Nathan.—Evenings in Autumn; a Series of Essays, narrative and miscellaneous. By Nathan Drake . . . London: printed for Longman . . . 1822. Crown 8vo, two volumes, half citron levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
DRAKE, Nathan.—Noontide Leisure; or, Sketches in Summer, outlines from nature and imagination, and including a Tale of the Days of Shakespeare. By Nathan Drake . . . London: printed for T. Cadell . . . 1824. Crown 8vo, two volumes, half citron levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
DRAKE, Nathan.—Mornings in Spring; or retrospections, biographical, critical, and historical. By Nathan Drake . . . London: John Murray . . . MDCCCXXVIII. Crown 8vo, two volumes, half citron levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
DRAMATISTS.—English Comic Dramatists edited by Oswald Crawfurd London Kegan Paul Trench & Co., MDCCCLXXXIII. Crown 8vo, red levant morocco, blind-tooled back and side corners, gilt top, uncut edges, by Alfred Matthews.
No. 49 of fifty large paper copies printed, illustrated by the insertion of two sepia drawings and nine portraits, some proofs and some on India paper.
DRURY, Drew.—Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are exhibited Upwards of Two Hundred and Forty Figures of Exotic Insects, According to their different Genera; Very few of which have hitherto been figured by any Author, Being engraved and coloured from Nature, with the greatest Accuracy, and under the Author's own Inspection, On Fifty Copper-Plates. With a particular Description of each Insect: Interspersed with Remarks and Reflections on the Nature and Properties of many of them. By D. Drury. To which is added A Translation into French . . . London: Printed for the Author, And sold by B. White, . . . 1770-1773-1782. 4to, three volumes, half brown levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt top, uncut edges, by David.
The title, as above, refers chiefly to the first volume: the second volume contains 220 figures on 50 plates and the third, 200 figures on 50 plates; in all, 660 figures on 150 plates.
DU BOIS, Edward, translator.—The Wreath; composed of selections from Sappho, Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. Accompanied by a prose translation, with notes. To which are added Remarks on Shakespeare, &c and a comparison between Horace and Lucian. By Edward Du Bois . . . London: printed by T. Bensley . . . 1799. Royal 8vo, half green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
Large paper copy, with a frontispiece and thirty-two inserted plates, proofs on India paper and before letters, some in two states.
DU BOIS, Edward.—My Pocket Book; or, Hints for "A Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede" Tour, in quarto; To be called "The Stranger in Ireland", In 1805. By a Knight Errant. . . . A new edition. In which will be found, amongst other pleasant and satirical Novelties, An Introduction; A Description of the Plates; Illustrative Anecdotes from my "Tour through Holland" in 1806; an Appendix, containing three MSS. found in St. Patrick's Abbey; and An Essay in Defence of bad Spelling. London: printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, &c. . . . 1808. 12mo, Scotch plaid silk, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
Fourth edition, with five tinted plates.
DU BOIS, Henri Pène.—American Book bindings in the Library of Henry William Poor Described by Henri Pène du Bois Illustrated in Gold-leaf and Colors by Edward Bierstadt Printed at the Marion Press Jamaica . . . 1903. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
No. 15 of thirty-five copies printed on Imperial Japan paper.
DUEL.—The Duel; a Poem: Inscribed to the Right-Honourable W—— P——y Esq; . . . London: Printed for A. Moore, . . . and sold by A. Dodd, . . . E. Nutt, . . . and J. Joliffe, . . . [n.d.] Folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery. Bound with ten other works.
DUER, William A.—Reminiscences of an Old Yorker. By the late William A. Duer, LL.D., President of Columbia College, etc. New York: printed for W. L. Andrews, 1867. 4to, cloth, uncut edges.
No. 27 of thirty-five copies printed.
DUFF, Edward Gordon.—Early Printed Books by E. Gordon Duff, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., . . . MDCCCXCIII. 8vo, half vellum, uncut edges.
No. 15 of one hundred and fifty large paper copies printed: with woodcut title and eleven facsimile plates on Japan paper.
DUFF, PLOMER, and PROCTOR.—Handlists of English Printers 1501-1556. Part I. By E. Gordon Duff. [Part II. by E. Gordon Duff, H. R. Plomer and R. Proctor.] London: printed by Blades, East & Blades, for the Bibliographical Society, September, 1895. [-December, 1896.] 4to, two volumes, original paper covers, uncut edges.
Part I treats of Wynkyn de Worde, Julian Notary, R. & W. Faques, and John Skot; Part II, of R. Pynson, R. Copland, J. Rastell, P. Treveris, R. Bankes, L. Andrewe, W. Rastell, T. Godfray, and J. Byddell.
DUFF, Edward Gordon.—William Caxton by E. Gordon Duff, M. A. . . . Chicago The Caxton Club M C M V. 4to, half cloth, uncut edges.
One of two hundred and fifty-two copies printed on American hand-made paper, with twenty-five illustrations.
DUFIEF, Nicolas Gouïn.—. . . Nature Displayed in her mode of Teaching Language to Man; being a new and infallible Method of acquiring Languages with unparalleled rapidity; deduced from the analysis of the human mind, and consequently suited to every capacity: adapted to the French by N. G. Dufief . . . The ninth edition. London: printed for the author, . . . 1828. 8vo, two volumes, ivory levant, richly decorated on back and sides with flowers and leaf spray, and the arms of Charles X on both covers, wide inside borders with shield in corners, silk linings, gilt over uncut edges, by C. Lewis.
Special copy printed and bound for presentation to Charles X of France, with India proof portrait of the author engraved by Edwin inserted, the presentation inscription, and facsimiles on silk, etc.
DUFRESNOY, Charles Alphonse.—The Art of Painting of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy. Translated into English Verse by William Mason, M. A. With Annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds . . . York: Printed by A. Ward . . . M. DCC.LXXXIII. 4to, old green morocco, with the arms of Horace Walpole on each cover, gilt edges.
Horace Walpole's copy with notes in his handwriting. He has also added portraits of Dryden, Pope, Gray, Mason, and Reynolds, a view of Strawberry Hill, and his book-plate.
DUNLAP, William.—History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. By William Dunlap . . . New York: George P. Scott and Co. . . . 1834. 8vo, two volumes, boards, uncut edges.
DUNLAP, William.—Thirty Years Ago; or the Memoirs of a Water Drinker. By the Author of Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, &c. . . . New York: published by Bancroft & Holley, . . . 1836. Crown 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
DUNLOP, John.—The History of Fiction: being a critical account of the most celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the present age. By John Dunlop. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. . . . 1814. Crown 8vo, three volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Pratt.
First edition.
DUNLOP, John.—The History of Fiction: being a critical account of the most celebrated prose works of fiction, from the earliest Greek romances to the novels of the present age. By John Dunlop . . . Second edition. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, . . . 1816. Post 8vo, three volumes, half brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
DUNLOP, John.—History of Roman Literature from its earliest period to the Augustan Age . . . By John Dunlop . . . Second edition. London: printed for Longman . . . 1824. [-1828] 8vo, three volumes, half maroon levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
DUNTON, John.—The Life and Errors of John Dunton, citizen of London; with the lives and characters of more than a thousand contemporary divines, and other persons of literary eminence. To which are added, Dunton's conversation in Ireland; Selections from his other genuine works; and a faithful portrait of the author . . . Printed by and for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley . . . London 1818. 8vo, two volumes, half calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
DUNTON, John.—See Harley Pamphlets.
DUPPA, Richard.—The Life of Michel Angelo Buonarroti, with his Poetry and Letters. By R. Duppa, . . . Second Edition. London: printed for John Murray, &c. . . . M. DCCC. VII. Royal 4to, half red morocco, uncut edges.
Portrait by F. Bartolozzi, and forty-nine plates, six of them double and one folded.
DUPPA and de QUINCY.—. . . Michel Angelo, by R. Duppa, L.L.B. Raffaello, by Quatremere de Quincy . . . London: David Bogue, . . . MDCCCXLVI. 8vo, half cloth, uncut edges.
The second biography was translated by William Hazlitt. A medallion portrait of Michael Angelo is prefixed to the volume.
DURAND, John.—The Life and Times of A. B. Durand by John Durand With illustrations New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1894. 4to, buckram, gilt top, uncut edges.
Portrait of Taine, to whom the work is dedicated, and fifteen other illustrations.
DÜRER, Albrecht.—The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ pourtrayed by Albert Durer. Edited by Henry Cole . . . London: Joseph Cundall . . . [printed by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press] 1844. Small 4to, brown morocco, back and sides covered with blind tooling adapted from a German binding of the XVth century, gilt edges, by Clarke and Bedford.
Thirty-seven illustrations in facsimile of Dürer's "Small Passion."
With the exception of two subjects, this work is taken from the thirty-seven original blocks drawn upon by Dürer for the engraver.
DÜRER, Albrecht.—The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1844. 8vo, red velvet, overlapped and doubled with silk, the sides decorated with brass ornaments, center showing the monogram of Dürer, clasp, gilt edges.
Printed entirely on vellum.
DUSIMITIER, Pierre Eugène.—Portraits of the Generals, Ministers, Magistrates, Members of Congress, and others, Who have rendered themselves Illustrious in the Revolution of the United States of North America. Drawn from the life, By M. Dusimitier, Painter, And Member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. and engraved by the most eminent artists in London. London: Published by R. Wilkinson, . . . and J. Debrett, . . . MDCCLXXXIII. 4to, half russia, gilt back.
Twelve portraits, brilliant original impressions, engraved by B. B. E., and the original cover on which the continuation of the series was announced.
DWIGHT, Timothy.—The Conquest of Canäan; a poem, in Eleven Books. By Timothy Dwight . . . Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock. M.DCC.LXXXV. 12mo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.
Portrait of the author by Leney after Trumbull.
DYCE, Alexander, editor.—Specimens of British Poetesses; selected and chronologically arranged, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. London: T. Rodd, . . . 1825. Crown 8vo, half brown morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
DYCE, Alexander.—Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's editions of Shakespeare. By the Rev. Alexander Dyce. . . . London: Edward Moxon, . . . M DCCC XLIV. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
DYCE, Alexander.—See Sonnets.
DYER, Charles George.—Biographical Sketches of the Lives and Characters of illustrious and eminent Men. By Charles George Dyer. Illustrated with whole length portraits. . . . London: published by C. G. Dyer, &c. . . . 1819. 8vo, boards, uncut edges.
Forty-eight plates by J. Romney and T. Priscott after Reynolds, Bartolozzi, Zoffany, Vandyke, Vertue, and others.
DYER, John.—The Fleece: a poem. In four books. By John Dyer, LL.B. [vignette] London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. M. DCC. LVII. 4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition.
EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock.—Materials for a History of Oil Painting. By Charles Lock Eastlake . . . London: printed for Longman, . . . 1847. [-1869] 8vo, two volumes, original cloth, uncut edges.
EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock.—A History of the Gothic Revival An attempt to show how the taste for mediæval architecture which lingered in England during the two last centuries has since been encouraged and developed by Charles L. Eastlake . . . London Longmans, Green, and Co. . . . 1872. 8vo, cloth, gilt top.
Thirty-six full-page woodcuts, and twelve illustrations in the text.
EASTLAKE, Sir Charles Lock.—See Kugler, Franz Theodor.
EASTLAKE, Lady, editor.—Life of John Gibson, R. A. Sculptor. Edited by Lady Eastlake. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1870. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
Portrait of Gibson engraved by Adlard.
EATON, Charlotte A.—Rome, in the nineteenth century; . . . By Charlotte A. Eaton. Fifth edition. To which is now first added a complete index, and thirty-four engraved illustrations. . . . London: Henry G. Bohn, . . . 1852. Post 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
EBSWORTH, J. W.—Cavalier Lyrics: 'for church and crown'. By J. W. Ebsworth, . . . London and Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons: now first imprinted, for private circulation. 1887. 8vo, paper, uncut edges.
No. 51 of one hundred and fifty copies printed; with woodcut frontispiece.
EDGEWORTH, Maria.—Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth. London: printed for Baldwin and Cradock: . . . 1832. Post 8vo, eighteen volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
Frontispieces and special engraved titles for each volume.
EDWARDS, Charles Lincoln.—Bahama Songs and Stories A contribution to folk-lore by Charles L. Edwards, . . . [4 illustrations] Boston and New York Published for The American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Company . . . 1895. 8vo, cloth, gilt top.
EDWARDS, Edward.—Memoirs of Libraries; Including a Hand Book of Library Economy. By Edward Edwards. London: Trübner & Co. 1859. 8vo, two volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by F. Bedford.
Large paper copy, with numerous illustrations.
EDWARDS, Edward.—Libraries and Founders of Libraries. By Edward Edwards. London: Trübner and Co. 1865. 8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by F. Bedford.
Large paper copy, thirty printed.
EDWARDS, Edward.—The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh based on contemporary documents preserved in the Rolls House, the Privy Council Office, Hatfield House, the British Museum, and other manuscript repositories, British and foreign. Together with his letters: now first collected. By Edward Edwards. . . . Macmillan and Co. 1868. . . . 8vo, two volumes, half green morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
Portrait by C. H. Jeens after Francis Zucchero, armorial bearings, genealogical table, and two facsimiles.
EFFIGIES POETICÆ.—See Proctor, B. W.
EGAN, Pierce.—Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. By Pierce Egan, . . . Dedicated to His most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth. [woodcut] Embellished with thirty-six [coloured] scenes from real life, designed and etched by I. R. & G. Cruikshank; And enriched also with numerous original Designs on Wood, by the same Artists. London: printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, . . . 1821. Royal 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, with the original covers bound in, by Rivière.
First edition.
EGLESFIELD, Francis.—Monarchy Revived; being the Personal History of Charles the Second, from his earliest years to his restoration to the throne. Reprinted from the edition of 1661. With fourteen portraits. London: printed for Charles Baldwyn . . . MDCCCXXII. Royal 8vo, red calf, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews.
Large paper copy. The portraits, engraved by R. Cooper, are proofs on India paper.
ELIOT, George.—Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot . . . William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLVIII. 8vo, two volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—Adam Bede by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLIX. Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MD CCC LX. Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—Silas Marner: the Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXI. 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—Romola by George Eliot London: Smith, Elder and Co. MDCCCLXIII. Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—Romola by George Eliot with illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton, . . . London. Smith, Elder, and Co., . . . 1880. Imperial 8vo, two volumes, buckram, uncut edges.
No. 752 of one thousand copies printed, with twenty-four plates and numerous vignettes on India paper.
ELIOT, George.—Felix Holt the Radical by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXVI. Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—The Spanish Gypsy, a Poem, by George Eliot. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXVIII. 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—Middlemarch; a Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXI-II. Crown 8vo, four volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—The Legend of Jubal and other Poems by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXIV. Post 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. A new edition . . . William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXVI. Crown 8vo, four volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
ELIOT, George.—Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXIX. Crown 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
ELIOT, George.—George Eliot's Life as related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and edited by her husband J. W. Cross William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXXV. Post 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition. Three portraits, proofs on India paper, and eight woodcut illustrations.
ELLIOTT, Grace Dalrymple.—Journal of my Life during the French Revolution. By Grace Dalrymple Elliott. London: Richard Bentley, . . . 1859. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
Three portraits after Cosway, Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc.
ELLIS, Edwin J.—Fate in Arcadia and other poems by Edwin J. Ellis with [33] illustrations by the Author London 1892. Ward & Downey. . . . Imperial 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
ELLIS, George.—History of the Late Revolution in the Dutch Republic London, printed for Edwards . . . 1789. 4to, red morocco, gilt back, silk linings, by H. Walther, with his ticket.
Large paper copy.
ELLIS, Henry.—Original Letters illustrative of English History; including numerous royal letters: from autographs in the British Museum, and one or two other collections. With notes and illustrations by Henry Ellis, . . . London printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard. MDCCCXXV. [-MDCCCXLVI.] Crown 8vo, eleven volumes, half brown morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
The three volumes of the First Series are dated 1825, "second edition;" the four volumes of the Second Series, "printed for Harding and Lepard," 1827; the four volumes of the Third Series, published by Richard Bentley, 1846. Six portraits by G. Thomson, T. A. Dean, B. Holl, J. Cooke, and S. Freeman after H. Corbould, Nicholas Hilliard, and T. Wageman.
ELMES, James.—The Arts and Artists, or Anecdotes and Relics of the Schools of Painting, Sculpture, & Architecture, by James Elmes [vignette] London: John Knight & Henry Lacy . . . MDCCCXXV. Post 8vo, three volumes, half blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Allô.
Engraved title-pages, fourteen portraits, and two plates of autographs in facsimile.
ELMES, James.—Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the Most distinguished Personages in the seventeenth century. By James Elmes . . . London:—Chapman & Hall, . . . MDCCCLII. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
Steel portrait of Wren.
ELTON, Charles Isaac, and Mary Augusta.—The Great Book-Collectors . . . London Kegan Paul, &c. . . . MDCCCXCIII. 8vo, half vellum, uncut edges.
Large paper copy, one hundred and fifty printed, with ten illustrations.
ELWOOD, Anne Katharine.—Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the commencement of the last century. By Mrs. Elwood . . . London: Henry Colburn . . . 1843. 12mo, two volumes, half citron levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
Two portraits.
ELZE, Karl.—Lord Byron a biography with a critical essay on his place in literature By Karl Elze translated with the author's sanction, and edited with notes With Portrait and Facsimile. London. John Murray, . . . 1872. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
EMBLEMS OF MORTALITY; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people; Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland: With an Apostrophe to each, tranſlated from the Latin and French. Intended as well for the Information of the Curious, as the Inſtruction and Entertainment of Youth. To which is prefixed A copious Preface, containing an hiſtorical Account of the above, and other Paintings on this Subject, now or lately exiſting in divers Parts of Europe. London: Printed for T. Hodgson, . . . M DCC LXXXIX. 12mo, blue straight-grain morocco, gilt back and side corners in the manner of Roger Payne, gilt edges, by Bedford.
First edition. Woodcut frontispiece and fifty-one cuts of Holbein's Dance of Death, modernized and engraved by Bewick. After the third edition, the blocks were destroyed by fire.
EMBLEMS, for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth: containing Hieroglyphical and Enigmatical Devices, relating to all Parts and Stations of Life; together with Explanations and Proverbs, in French, Spaniſh, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them, and Tranſlated into English: The Whole curiously Engrav'd on 62 Copper Plates. Sold by R. Ware . . . [n.d.] 8vo, old blue calf, gilt back, side borders, panels blind-tooled in diamonds.
Frontispiece, "Delectando Moneo," engraved title, and 62 plates, each in 15 compartments. Plates xli and xlviii are transposed, but not the text.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—Nature . . . Boston: James Munroe and Company. MDCCCXXXVI. 12mo, original cloth.
First edition, with autograph letter of the author inserted.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—(I.) Essays: by R. W. Emerson. Boston: James Munroe and Company. MDCCCXLI. (II.) Essays: second series. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: James Munroe and Company. MDCCCXLIV. 12mo and 16mo, two volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over untrimmed edges, by David.
First edition of both series.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—Poems. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: James Munroe and Company. 1847. 16mo, green levant morocco, back and sides covered with trefoil and star ornaments, gilt over uncut edges, by the Doves Bindery. 1894.
First edition.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson. London: Chapman, Brothers, . . . M.DCCC.XLVII. 12mo, citron levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt top, uncut edges, by Alfred Matthews.
English copyright edition.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—Representative Men: seven lectures. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, . . . 1850. 12mo, maroon morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman.
First edition.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—Miscellanies; embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company. M.DCCC.LVI. 12mo, red morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman.
First edition.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—English Traits. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company. 1856. 12mo, green morocco, gilt back and side panels, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman.
First edition.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—The Conduct of Life. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. M DCCC LX. 12mo, original cloth.
First edition.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1870. 12mo, original cloth.
First edition.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—Letters and Social Aims. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, . . . 1876. 12mo, original cloth.
First edition.
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.—See Carlyle and Emerson.
ENGINEERS.—Personal Recollections of English Engineers, and of the introduction of the railway system into the United Kingdom. By a Civil Engineer, author of the "Trinity of Italy." London: Hodder and Stoughton, . . . M DCCCLXVIII. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
ENGLISH DRAMA.—The New English Drama, [113 Comedies, Tragedies, Operas, Farces, and Melodramas] with prefatory remarks, biographical sketches, and notes, Critical and Explanatory; Being the only Edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business and stage directions, As Performed At the Theatres Royal. Edited By W. Oxberry, Comedian. . . . London. Published for the Proprietors by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, . . . C. Chapple, . . . and sold by W. and J. Lowndes, . . . 1818. [-1824] 12mo, twenty-two volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Pratt.
Large paper copy, with portraits of celebrated players.
ENGLISH LYRICS London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., . . . MDCCCLXXXIII. Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
Large paper copy, fifty printed.
ENGLISH ODES selected by Edmund W. Gosse London C. Kegan Paul & Co., . . . MDCCCLXXXI. Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with a frontispiece on India paper.
ENGLISH POETS.—Passages from Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club. Forty-seven etchings. [by Tenniel, Whistler, Millais, &c.] London: published by Day & Son, . . . [1862] 4to, cloth, gilt edges.
ENGRAVINGS.—India Proofs from the Annuals. Literary Souvenir, &c. Seventy five plates after Corbould, Westall, Smirke, Stephanoff, Leslie, &c. London 1827. Folio, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by R. W. Smith.
EPICTETUS.—The Works of Epictetus. Consisting of his Discourses, in four books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. A translation from the Greek based on that of Elizabeth Carter, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. [University Press] 1866. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
One of seventy-five large paper copies printed.
EPICTETUS [Reprinted from the translation of George Long] London Arthur L. Humphreys 1897. 4to, two volumes, original paper wrappers, uncut edges.
ERASMUS, Desiderius.—Proverbs, chiefly taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with explanations; and further illustrated by corresponding examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages. By Robert Bland . . . London: printed for T. Egerton . . . 1814. Crown 8vo, two volumes in one, blue morocco, back and sides richly gilded, embossed gilt edges, by J. Wright.
ESTCOURT, Richard.—The Fair Example: or the Modiſh Citizens. a Comedy. As it was Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. By Mr. Estcourt. [One line in Latin, four in English] London, Printed for Bernard Lintott . . . 1706. Price 1s. 6d. 4to, blue calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf.
First edition. A-K in fours, title on A1, A2 misprinted H2. Dedicated to Christopher Rich, Chief Patentee, Governor and Manager of the Theatre Royal.
EVANS, Abel.—Vertumnus. an Epistle to Mr. Jacob Bobart, Botany Profeſſor to the Univerſity of Oxford, and Keeper of the Phyſick-Garden. By the Author of The Apparition. [Two lines from Virgil] Oxford: Printed by L. L. for Stephen Fletcher Book-ſeller: . . . 1713. 8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Engraved frontispiece of a triumphal arch erected to King Charles and the Earl of Danby, celebrated in the poem (page 21) as the generous patron who planted while Bobart tilled.
Title and A-D in fours.
EVANS, John.—The Progress of Human Life: Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man; illustrated by a series of extracts in prose and poetry. . . . By John Evans, . . . Second Edition. [cut] Chiswick: Printed by Charles Whittingham; . . . 1823. Crown 8vo, half cloth, uncut edges.
EVELYN, Alexander John.—English Alice, a poem in five cantos, by Alexander John Evelyn, Esq. London: William Pickering. 1852. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
EVERETT, Edward.—The Life of George Washington. By Edward Everett. New York: Sheldon and Company . . . 1860. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
Large paper copy.
[EYTON, Joseph Walter King.]—Catalogue of the Library of Joseph Walter King Eyton . . . London 1848. 4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by Rivière.
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with coloured frontispiece and seven book-plates of the owner, a facsimile of one of Roger Payne's remarkable bills for binding, and India proof impressions of portraits of Bishop Andrews, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, and Thomas Sharpe.
FACETIÆ: being a general Collection of the Jeux d'Esprits which have been illustrated by Robert Cruikshank . . . containing nearly sixty engravings. London: William King . . . M.DCCC.XXXI. 12mo, two volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rousselle.
Some of the thirteen separate titles bear the date 1830. The series includes "The Devil's Walk," by Coleridge and Southey; "The Real Devil's Walk"; "The High-Mettled Racer," by Charles Dibdin; and "Monsieur Tonson," by John Taylor.
FACTION.—An Essay on Faction . . . London, Printed for J. Peele . . . MDCCXXXII. Folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery. Bound with ten other works.
FAGAN, Louis.—The Life of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K. C. B., late Principal Librarian of the British Museum, Senator of Italy, &. &c. by Louis Fagan, . . . With an Etching and other Illustrations by the Author. . . . London: Remington & Co., . . . 1880. . . . 8vo, two volumes, half green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Zaehnsdorf.
FAGAN, Louis.— . . . The Art of Michel' Angelo Buonarroti as Illustrated by the various Collections in the British Museum. By Louis Fagan. . . . With [18] illustrations and a frontispiece [portrait] by the author. London: Dulau & Co., . . . M. DCCC. LXXXIII. Royal 8vo, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
FAGAN, Louis.—Collectors' Marks by Louis Fagan . . . With Frontispiece [etched portrait of Thomas Earl of Arundel] by the Author. London: Field & Tuer . . . 1883. Square 8vo, vellum, uncut edges.
Twenty-eight plates of "Collectors' Marks."
FAGAN, Louis.—A Descriptive Catalogue of the Engraved Works of William Faithorne, by Louis Fagan, . . . 1888. Bernard Quaritch [Gutenberg Presse] . . . London. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
FAIRHOLT, Frederick W.—An Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of the collection of Antique Silver Plate formed by Albert, Lord Londesborough; now the property of Lord Londesborough. By Frederick W. Fairholt, . . . Printed for private reference, by T. Richards, . . . M.DCCCLX. 4to, cloth.
Twenty steel plates and several woodcut illustrations.
FAIRHOLT, Frederick W.—See Irving and Fairholt.
FAIR SUICIDE.—The Fair Suicide: being an Epistle from a Young Lady to the Person who was the Cause of her Death. London, Printed for Richard Wellington . . . MDCCXXXIII. Folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery. Bound with ten other works.
FAIRY FEAST.—The Fairy Feast, Written by the Author of A Tale of a Tub, and the Mully of Mountown. London: Printed in the year, 1704. Folio, cloth, by The Club Bindery.
These two poems are not found among Swift's Poetical Works, 1833, although written "by the Author of A Tale of a Tub."
FALCONER, William.—The Shipwreck, a poem by William Falconer a Sailor: . . . The text illustrated by additional notes, and corrected from the first and second editions, with a life of the author, by James Stanier Clarke, . . . London. Printed for William Miller, . . . By T. Bensley, . . . 1804. 8vo, boards, uncut edges.
FALCONER, William.—The Shipwreck, a poem, by William Falconer, a Sailor: . . . the text illustrated by additional notes, and corrected from the first and second editions; with a Life of the Author, by J. S. Clarke, . . . London: printed for William Miller, . . . 1811. 8vo, Etruscan calf, gilt back, gilt edges, with painting of a landscape under the gilding.
Four full-page plates and six vignettes by James Fittler after Nicholas Pocock.
FALCONER, William.—The Poetical Works of William Falconer [with a Memoir by the Rev. John Mitford.] London. William Pickering 1836. Foolscap 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
FALK, VON MÜLLER, and others.—Characteristics of Goethe, From the German of Falk, von Müller, &c. With notes, original and translated, illustrative of German literature, by Sarah Austin. . . . London: published by Effingham Wilson, . . . 1833. Crown 8vo, three volumes, half brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Allô.
Portrait on India paper, and two other frontispieces.
FANE, Julian.—Poems by the Hon. Julian Fane London William Pickering 1852. Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
FANSHAWE, Catherine Maria.—Memorials of Miss Catherine Maria Fanshawe. [Edited by W. Harness.] Privately Printed. [London, 1865] Royal 4to, half brown morocco, gilt top.
FARMER and HENLEY, editors.—Slang and its Analogues Past and Present. A Dictionary, Historical and Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of all Classes of Society for more than Three Hundred Years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc. Compiled and edited by John S. Farmer, . . . [and W. E. Henley] [London] Printed for subscribers only. M DCCC XC. [-XCVI] 4to, seven volumes, half red calf, uncut edges.
No. 509 of seven hundred and fifty copies printed. Volume II is dated 1891, III, 1893, IV, 1896 (the last two edited by Farmer and W. E. Henley), V, 1902, VI, 1903, VII, 1904.
FARMER, John S., editor.—National Ballad and Song Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year A. D. 1800 edited by John S. Farmer . . . Privately printed for subscribers only M D CCC XCVII. 4to, five volumes, boards, uncut edges.
FARRAGO. [By "Pilgrim Plowden"] Printed for the author. Price 2s. 6d. ſtitcht. To be ſold only by Lawton Gilliver . . . London. 1733. 8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt and blind-tooled back and side borders, gilt edges.
FAU, J.—The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man, intended for the use of Artists, Painters and Sculptors. By Doctor J. Fau. Atlas Containing Twenty-Eight [coloured] Drawings from Nature; . . . Edited with Additions by Robert Knox, M. D. . . . London: Hippolyte Bailliere, . . . 1849. 4to, half cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
FAUGERES, Margaretta V.—See Bleecker and Faugeres.
FEA, Allan.—The Flight of the King Being A Full True and Particular Account of the Miraculous Escape of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester By Allan Fea With Numerous Sketches & Photographs by the Author & 16 Portraits in Photogravure John Lane, . . . London & New York m:d·ccc·xcvii. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
FELISSA; or, the Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment. . . . [12 coloured plates] London: printed for J. Harris, . . . 1811. 12mo, silk, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
FELLOWES, W. D.—A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, in 1817: with Notes taken during a tour through le Perchie, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the environs of Paris. By W. D. Fellowes, Esq. Illustrated with numerous coloured engravings, from drawings made on the spot. London: printed for William Stockdale, . . . 1818. 8vo, figured brown silk, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
Twelve coloured plates, one etching, one outline plate, and one vignette on India paper.
FELLTHAM, Owen.—Resolves, Divine Moral and Political by Owen Felltham Esq. London, Pickering 1840. Post 8vo, citron morocco, back and side panels, gilt top, uncut edges.
Title-page within a border and rubricated.
FEMALE FACTION.—The Female Faction: or, the Gay Subſcribers. A poem. . . . London: Printed for J. Roberts, . . . M. dcc. xxix. . . . Folio, cloth, by The Club Bindery.
FENELON, François de Salignac de La Mothe.—The Lives And most remarkable Maxims Of the Antient Philosophers London: Printed for B. Barker . . . and R. Francklin . . . 1726. 12mo, sprinkled calf, gilt back, gilt over uncut edges, by Bedford.
FENN, George Manville.—Benjamin Franklin Stevens By G. Manville Fenn London printed at the Chiswick Press for private distribution 1903. Crown 8vo, buckram, uncut edges.
Seven illustrations.
FENTON, Elijah.—Poems on Several Occaſions. [large printer's ornament] London: Printed for Bernard Lintot . . . 1717. 8vo, blue straight-grain morocco, gilt back, side corners, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Engraved frontispiece by E. Kirkall, and arms of the Earl of Orrery, to whom the work is dedicated.
FERGUSON, James.—(I-II.) The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture: being a concise and popular account of the different styles of architecture prevailing in all ages and countries. By James Ferguson, . . . with 850 illustrations on wood. London: John Murray, . . . 1855. (III.) History of the Modern Styles of Architecture: being a sequel to the Handbook of Architecture . . . with 312 illustrations. London: John Murray, . . . 1862. 8vo, three volumes, russia, gilt back, gilt edges, by Bedford.
First edition of both series.
FERGUSSON, James.—The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture: being a concise and popular account of the different styles of architecture prevailing in All Ages and all Countries. By James Fergusson, . . . Second Edition, with nearly 900 illustrative engravings. London: John Murray, . . . 1859. 8vo, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
FERGUSSON, James.—(I.-II.) A History of Architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day. By James Fergusson . . . second edition. [1015 illustrations] London: John Murray, . . . 1874 (III.) History of Indian and Eastern Architecture; by James Fergusson, . . . [394 illustrations] London: John Murray, . . . 1876 (IV.) History of the Modern Styles of Architecture: being a sequel to the Handbook of Architecture. By James Fergusson . . . with 312 illustrations. London: John Murray, . . . 1862. 8vo, four volumes, half morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
FERRIAR, John.—Illustrations of Sterne: with other essays and verses. By John Ferriar, M.D. Second edition London: printed for Cadell and Davis . . . 1812. Small 8vo, two volumes, sprinkled calf, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
FIDDES, Richard.—A Prefatory Epistle Concerning ſome Remarks To be publiſhed on Homer's Iliad: Occaſioned by The Proposals of Mr. Pope towards a new Engliſh Verſion of that Poem. To the Reverend Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's. By Richard Fiddes, B.D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford. [Line in Greek] London: Printed for John Wyat, . . . and Henry Clements, . . . 1714. 12mo, half brown morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
FIELDING, Henry.—(I.) Love in Several Masques. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Fielding. . . . London: Printed for John Watts, . . . 1728.
(II.) The Temple Beau. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Goodman's-Fields. Written by Mr. Fielding. . . . London: Printed for J. Watts, . . . M DCC XXX.
(III.) The Coffee-Houſe Politician; or, the Justice Caught in his own Trap. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Fielding. London: Printed for J. Watts, . . . M DCC XXX. . . .
(IV.) The Grub-Street Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Scriblerus Secundus. . . . To which is added, The Masquerade, a poem. Printed in Mdcc xxviii. London, Printed, and ſold by J. Roberts, . . . M DCC XXX I. . . .
(V.) The Universal Gallant: or, the Different Husbands. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants. By Henry Fielding, Eſq; . . . London: Printed for John Watts, . . . M DCCXXXV. . . .
(VI.) Miss Lucy in Town. A Sequel to The Virgin Unmaſqued. A Farce; With Songs. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal In Drury-lane, By His Majesty's Servants. London: Printed for A. Millar, . . . 1742. . . .
(VII.) Tumble-down Dick: or, Phaeton in the Suds. A Dramatick Entertainment of Walking, in Serious and Fooliſh Characters: Interlarded with Burleſque, Groteſque, Comick Interludes, call'd Harlequin a Pick-Pocket. As it is Perform'd at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. Being ('tis hop'd) the laſt Entertainment that will ever be exhibited on any Stage. Invented by the Ingenious Monsieur Sans Esprit: The Muſick compos'd by the Harmonious Signior Warblerini. And the Scenes painted by the Prodigious Mynheer van Bottom-flat. . . . London: Printed for J. Watts . . . M DCC XLIV. . . .
(VIII.) The Intriguing Chambermaid. A Comedy of two acts. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, By His Majesty's Servants. Taken from the French of Regnard, By Henry Fielding, Eſq; . . . London: Printed for J. Watts . . . M DCCL. . . .
(IX.) The Letter-writers: Or, a New Way to Keep a Wife at Home. A farce, In three acts. As it is Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written by Henry Fielding, Eſq; . . . London: Printed for J. Watts . . . M DCCL. 8vo, nine works in one volume, brown morocco, gilt back, gilt edges.
First editions. The running head-line of "The Coffee-House Politician" is "Rape upon Rape."
FIELDING, Henry.—The Dramatic Works of Henry Fielding, Eſq. . . . London, Printed for A. Millar, . . . M DCC LV. Post 8vo, three volumes, Spanish calf, gilt back, citron edges.
First collected edition.
The sub-titles have different dates, and the plays contained in each volume are not those indicated on the general titles.
I. 1. The Covent Garden Tragedy, 1754. 2. Historical Register for 1736, 1741. 3. The Mock Doctor, 1761. 4. The Lottery, 5th ed., 1761. 5. Tumble-down Dick, 1744. 6. The Intriguing Chambermaid, 1761. 7. Miss Lucy in Town, 2nd ed., 1756. 8. The Debauchees, 3rd ed., 1750. 9. The Universal Gallant, 1735.
II. 1. Pasquin, 3rd ed., 1754. 2. The Miser, 4th ed., 1761. 3. Grub-Street Opera, 1731. 4. The Masquerade, 1728. 5. The Letter-writers, or a New Way to Keep a Wife Home, 1750. 6. Life and Death of Tom Thumb, 4th ed., 1751. 7. Author's Farce, 3rd ed., 1750.
III. 1. Don Quixote in England, 1754. 2. The Modern Husband, 2nd ed., 1732. 3. An Old Man taught Wisdom, or the Virgin Unmasked, 4th ed., 1749. 4. Love in Several Masques, 1728. 5. The Coffee-House Politician, or the Justice Caught in his own Trap (the running-title is Rape upon Rape; or, the Justice caught in his own Trap), 1730. 6. The Temple Beau, 1730.
Volume II contains a plate by Van der Gucht after Hogarth.
FIELDING, Henry.—The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, And of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in Imitation of The Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote. London: Printed for A. Millar . . . M.DCC.XLII. 12mo, two volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
FIELDING, Henry.—The Adventures of Joseph Andrews. By Henry Fielding, Esq. with [4] illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: James Cochrane and Co., . . . 1832. Post 8vo, half maroon levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by V. Krafft.
FIELDING, Henry.—Miscellanies, by Henry Fielding: . . . London: Printed for the Author: And sold by A. Millar . . . MDCCXLIII. 8vo, three volumes, brown levant morocco, centre ornaments on the sides, gilt edges, by Rivière.
Large paper copy of the first edition.
FIELDING, Henry.—The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling . . . By Henry Fielding. London: Printed for A. Millar . . . MDCCXLIX. 12mo, six volumes, old calf.
First edition.
FIELDING, Henry.—The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. By Henry Fielding, Esq; . . . Paris: Printed by Fr. Amb. Didot the eldest . . . M.DCC.LXXX. 8vo, four volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by David.
Holland paper copy from the collection of A. A. Renouard, with his autograph in the third volume.
Illustrated by the addition of six portraits of Fielding and over one hundred plates, proofs on India paper and before letters, etc., by Moreau le jeune, Borel, Unwins, Stothard, Clennell, Johannot, Corbould, etc., many in two and three states.
FIELDING, Henry.—The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. By Henry Fielding, Esq. with a Memoir of the Author by Thomas Roscoe Esq. and Illustrations by George Cruikshank London: James Cochrane and Co. . . . 1831. Post 8vo, two volumes, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Chambolle-Duru.
Portrait, eight plates by Cruikshank, also (inserted) the illustrations by Moreau (coloured) and Johannot, proofs on India paper.
FIELDING, Henry.—An Enquiry Into the Causes of the late Increaſe of Robbers, &c. with some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil. In which The Preſent Reigning Vices are impartially expoſed; and the Laws that relate to the Proviſion for the Poor, and to the Puniſhment of Felons are largely and freely examined. . . . By Henry Fielding, Eſq; Barriſter at Law, and One of His Majeſty's Juſtices of the Peace for the County of Middleſex, and for the City and Liberty of Weſtminſter. London: Printed for A. Millar, . . . M. DCC. LI. [Price 2s. 6d.] 8vo, red levant morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Dedicated to Philip Lord Hardwick, Lord High Chancellor.
FIELDING, Henry.—Amelia. By Henry Fielding, Esq; . . . London: Printed for A. Millar, . . . M.DCC.LII. 12mo, four volumes, old calf, gilt back.
First edition.
FIELDING, Henry.—The History of Amelia. By Henry Fielding, Esq. With [8] illustrations by George Cruikshank. . . . London: James Cochrane and Co., . . . 1832. Post 8vo, two volumes, half maroon levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by V. Krafft.
FIELDING, Henry.—(I.) A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning, Who hath ſworn that ſhe was robbed and almoſt ſtarved to Death by a Gang of Gipſies and other Villains in January laſt, for which one Mary Squires now lies under Sentence of Death. [Three lines from Cicero. Parad.] By Henry Fielding, Eſq; London: Printed for A. Millar . . . M. DCC. LIII. (Price One Shilling.) (II.) A clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning, . . . [same text as above] The second edition. London: Printed for A. Millar . . . M. DCC. LIII. (Price One Shilling.) 8vo, three works in one volume, brown morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges. Bound with these two editions is Dr. Hill's "Story of Elizabeth Canning considered."
Etched portrait by Worlidge inserted.
FIELDING, Henry.—The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, By the late Henry Fielding, Esq; London: Printed for A. Millar, . . . MDCCLV. 12mo, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
FIELDING, Henry.—The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding with introduction and notes by Austin Dobson. London printed and issued by Charles Whittingham & Co . . . MDCCCXCII. 12mo, half vellum, uncut edges.
One of twenty-five copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, with a portrait of Fielding.
FIELDING, Henry.—The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq; with The Life of the Author [by Arthur Murphy]. A New Edition, in ten volumes. To which is now added, The Fathers; or, The Good-natured Man. London: Printed for W. Strahan &c. MDCCLXXXIV. 8vo, ten volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Bedford.
Portrait, by Basire after Hogarth, and twelve plates by Collyer after Rooker's designs.
FIELDING, Henry.—The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq. with an Essay on his life and genius, by Arthur Murphy, . . . A new edition, . . . London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, &c. . . . 1821. 8vo, ten volumes, original boards, uncut edges.
Portrait after Hogarth. Printed from the quarto edition of 1762.
FIELDING, Henry.—The Fathers: or, The Good-Natur'd Man. A comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane. By the late Henry Fielding, Esq. author of Tom Jones, etc. London: Printed for T. Cadell, . . . M DCC LXXVIII. (Price One Shilling and Six Pence.) 8vo, sprinkled calf, gilt back, some edges uncut.
First edition. A-P in fours, title on A1. Written many years before Fielding's death, and mentioned by him in the preface to his Miscellanies, 1743, as "The Good Natured Man." Dedication by John Fielding to the Duke of Northumberland, Prologue and Epilogue by Garrick.
FIELDING, Sir John.—See Jest-Books.
FIELDING, Sarah.—The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia. By The Author of David Simple. London: Printed for the Author, And Sold by Andrew Millar, . . . R. and J. Dodsley, . . . and J. Leake, . . . M. DCC. LVII. 4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back, side borders, gilt edges.
FIELDING, Theodore Henry Adolphus.—The Theory and Practice of Painting in Oil and Water Colours, for landscape and portraits; including the preparation of colours, vehicles, varnishes, etc., method of painting in wax, or encaustic; remarks on the chemical properties and permanency of colours, etc.; and a Manual of Lithography. Illustrated with [18] plain and coloured plates. By T.H. Fielding, . . . Fifth edition. London: David Bogue, . . . M DCCC LII. Royal 8vo, half green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
FIELDS, James Thomas.—Poems by James T. Fields. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company. MDCCC XLIX. 12mo, original cloth, uncut edges.
First edition.
FILSON, John.—The Discovery, Settlement And present state of Kentucke: and An Essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important Country. To which is added, An Appendix, Containing, I. The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon, one of the first Settlers, comprehending every important Occurrence in the political History of that Province. II. The Minutes of the Piankashaw Council, held at Post St. Vincents, April 15, 1784. III An Account of the Indian Nations inhabiting within the Limits of the Thirteen United States, their Manners and Customs, and Reflections on their Origin. IV. The Stages and Distances between Philadelphia and the Falls of the Ohio, from Pittsburg to Pensacola, and several other Places.—The Whole illustrated by a new and accurate Map of Kentucke and the Country adjoining, drawn from actual Surveys. By John Filson. Wilmington: Printed by James Adams. 1784. 8vo and 4to, green levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges; the book by Bradstreet's, the map by Joly.
The excessively rare Map, for many years believed to be a mistaken promise of the title-page, is found with this copy, though bound separately. Manuscript by Daniel Boone and portrait inserted.
FIRDUSI (FIRDAUSI: ABUL KASIM MANSUR).—The Epic of Kings Stories retold from Firdusi by Helen Zimmern with two etchings by L. Alma Tadema,—and a prefatory poem by Edmund W. Gosse London T. Fisher Unwin M DCCC LXXXII. 4to, decorated cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
Large paper copy.
FISHER, Joseph.—Eighty-four Etched Fac-similes, on a reduced scale, after the Original Studies by Michael Angelo and Raffaelle in the University Galleries, Oxford. Etched and published by Joseph Fisher . . . Second Series. Oxford, M DCCC LXII. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
FISHER, Richard.—Catalogue of a Collection of Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts. [with sixty-five illustrations] 1879. [Printed by John C. Wilkins.] Royal 8vo, half maroon morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
FISHER, Richard.—Introduction to a Catalogue of the Early Italian Prints in the British Museum by Richard Fisher—London printed at the Chiswick Press 1886. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
FISHER'S GARLAND.—A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers. Newcastle: printed for Emerson Charnley MDCCCXXXVI. 8vo, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
Woodcuts by Bewick.
These "Garlands" begin with the "Tyne Fisher's Farewell to his Favourite Stream," 1824, followed by the Fisher's Garland from 1821 to 1832, and end with "The Angler's Progress; a Poem" [by Herman Boaz], each with a separate title and woodcut, the dates from 1820 to 1832.
Robert Roxby and Thomas Doubleday wrote the Fisher's Garland for 1821-3-4-5-6-'30, and '32, William Gill Thompson, 1822, '31 (and the "Tyne Fisher's Farewell"), William Green in 1827, Thomas Doubleday, 1828 and '29.
FISHER'S GARLAND.—A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers. Edited by Joseph Crawhall and continued to this present year Newcastle-on-Tyne: George Rutland . . . 1864. 8vo, half Roxburghe morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
Woodcuts by Bewick, etc.
The authors were Herman Boaz, Robert Roxby, Thomas Doubleday, William Gill Thompson, William Green, Robert Nichol, and William Andrew Chatto.
FISHING.—The Whole Art of Fishing. Being A Collection and Improvement of all that has been written upon this Subject: with many New Experiments. Shewing The Different Ways of Angling, and the beſt Methods of taking Freſh-water Fish. To which is added, The Laws of Angling. [Twelve lines from Pope] London, Printed for E. Curll, . . . 1714. Price 2s. or 2s. 6d. Small 8vo, panelled calf, gilt back.
Frontispiece by H. Halsbergh.
FITZGERALD, Edward.—Euphranor a dialogue on youth London William Pickering 1851. 16mo, cloth.
First edition.
FITZGERALD, Edward.—See Omar Khayyám.
FITZGERALD, Percy.—The Life of David Garrick; from original family papers, and numerous published and unpublished sources. By Percy Fitzgerald . . . [two portraits] London: Tinsley Brothers . . . 1868. 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
FITZGERALD, Percy.—The Romance of the English Stage. By Percy Fitzgerald . . . London: Richard Bentley & Son . . . 1874. 8vo, two volumes, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
FLAUBERT, Gustave.—Bouvard and Pécuchet authorised edition translated from the French with an introduction by D. F. Hannigan, . . . illustrated with nine original designs after S. Gorski London H. S. Nichols . . . 1896 . . . 8vo, decorated green satin, gilt top, uncut edges.
One hundred copies printed upon Japan paper, with illustrations in two states, blue and bistre.
FLAXMAN, John.—Compositions from the Tragedies of Æschylus designed by Iohn Flaxman engraved by Thomas Piroli London Published for I. Flaxman Junr. Jan. 12. 1795, by J. Matthews . . . Oblong 4to, boards, uncut edges.
Engraved title and thirty other outline plates.
FLAXMAN, John.—Lectures on Sculpture. By John Flaxman . . . with a brief memoir of the author. London: John Murray . . . MDCCCXXIX. Royal 8vo, red morocco, gilt and blind-tooled, gilt edges.
Portrait of Flaxman on India paper and fifty-one plates. The plates are numbered from one to fifty-two, but plate eighteen was cancelled.
From the library of Sir Thomas Lawrence, with his autograph.
FLAXMAN, John.—Lectures on Sculpture. 1829. . . . Royal 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
Another copy.
FLAXMAN, John.—See Homer.
FLETCHER, William Younger.—English Book-bindings in the British Museum illustrations of sixty-three examples selected on account of their beauty or historial interest with introduction and descriptions by William Younger Fletcher . . . The plates printed in facsimile by W. Griggs . . . London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, . . . 1895. 4to, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
No. 137 of five hundred copies printed.
Sixty-six plates in colour.
FLETCHER, William Younger.—Foreign Book-bindings in the British Museum illustrations of sixty-three examples selected on account of their beauty or historical interest with introduction and descriptions by William Younger Fletcher . . . The plates printed in facsimile by W. Griggs . . . London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, . . . 1896. 4to, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
No. 71 of five hundred copies printed. Sixty-five coloured plates.
FLETCHER, William Younger.—English Book Collectors by William Younger Fletcher . . . London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, . . . 1902. 4to, vellum boards, gilt top, uncut edges.
No. 40 of fifty copies printed on Japanese paper. Woodcut title-page and forty-six illustrations.
FLORA. Songs in the Opera of Flora, with the Humorous Scenes of Hob, design'd by ye Celebrated Mr Gravelot, & engrav'd by G. Bickham junr. The Music proper for ye Violin, German, & Common Flute, Harpsichord or Spinet with a New Base, & thoro' Base to each Song. London. Sold by T. Cooper . . . 1737. 8vo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Bedford.
Twenty-eight engraved pages, twenty-five with illustrations by Gravelot.
FLOWERS OF FABLE, from Northcote, Æsop, Croxall, Gellert, Dodsley, Gay, La Fontaine, Lessing, Krasicki, Herder, Merrick, Cowper, etc. With numerous engravings. New York: Harper & Brothers, . . . 1847. 16mo, original silk binding, gilt edges.
FOOTE, Samuel.—The Maid of Bath; a comedy in three acts: as performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Haymarket [1771]: written by the late Samuel Foote, Eſq. and published by Mr. Colman. London: Printed for W. Lowndes, and S. Bladon. 1795. 8vo, Scotch plaid silk.
Prologue by Garrick, Epilogue by Cumberland. Title and B-E4 in eights.
FOOTE, Samuel.—The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote, Esq. to which is prefixed a Life of the Author . . . London: printed for A. Millar . . . M,DCC,XCVII. 12mo, two volumes, sprinkled calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
FOOTE, Samuel.—The Works of Samuel Foote, Esq. with Remarks on each Play, and an Essay on the Life and Writings of the Author, By John Bee Esq. . . . London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper . . . 1830. 12mo, three volumes, sprinkled calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
Portrait of Foote after Reynolds.
FOOTE and HOOK.—Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook edited by Walter Jerrold with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley London: Published by J. M. Dent and Company . . . MDCCCXCIV. Foolscap 8vo, buckram, uncut edges.
No. 77 of one hundred large paper copies printed, with portraits of Foote and Hook.
FORD, Richard.—Twelve Etchings, after drawings and engravings by Parmigianino, and Andrea Meldolla: in the collection of Richard Ford. London 1822. 4to, original boards.
The twelve etchings by Ford are in two, three, and four states, and eight additional etchings, also by Ford, show various stages of progress. The issue was limited and privately printed. This copy contains the autograph of Ford and his presentation inscription to Henry Wellesley.
FORSTER, Henry Rumsey.—See Boaden, Forster, and others.
FORSTER, John.—The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. A biography: in four books [portrait] By John Forster, . . . London: Bradbury & Evans, . . . and Chapman & Hall, . . . 1848. Crown 8vo, original cloth, gilt edges.
First edition. Numerous woodcuts.
FORSTER, John.—The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. By John Forster . . . second edition. London: Bradbury and Evans . . . 1854. 8vo, two volumes in four, green levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by William Matthews.
Illustrated by the insertion of two hundred and five portraits, including many fine proofs and plates in two states.
FORSTER, John.—The Life of Charles Dickens. By John Forster . . . London: Chapman and Hall . . . 1872 [1873-'74]. 8vo, three volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
Six portraits, and numerous other illustrations.
FORSYTH, William.—Hortensius: or, the Advocate, an historical essay. By William Forsyth . . . London: John Murray . . . 1849. 12mo, cloth, uncut edges.
FORSYTH, William.—History of Trial by Jury. By William Forsyth . . . London: John W. Parker and Son . . . M.DCCC.LII. 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
FORSYTH, William.—History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena; from the letters and journals of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, and official documents not before made public. By William Forsyth, . . . With Portrait and Map. [and two other illustrations] London: John Murray, . . . 1853. . . . 8vo, three volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
FORTNUM, C. Drury E.—A descriptive Catalogue of Maiolica Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian wares, in the South Kensington Museum. With Hiſtorical Notices, Marks, & Monograms. By C. Drury E. Fortnum, . . . London: printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, . . . 1873. Royal 8vo, half brown morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
Twelve coloured plates and numerous woodcuts.
FORTNUM, C. Drury E.—Maiolica a historical treatise on the glazed and enamelled earthenwares of Italy, with marks and monograms also some notice of the Persian Damascus, Rhodian, and Hispano-Moresque Wares by C. Drury E. Fortnum with illustrations [21 plates, including coloured frontispiece] Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1896. Royal 4to, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
FOSS, Henry.—See Payne and Foss.
FOSTER and TAYLOR.—Birket Foster's [30] Pictures of English Landscape. (Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel) with Pictures in Words by Tom Taylor. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. . . . MDCCC LXIII. 4to, green levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges.
FOSTER, John.—An Essay of the Evils of Popular Ignorance: and a discourse on the communication of Christianity to the people of Hindoostan. By John Foster. Third edition. London: Holdsworth and Ball . . . 1834. 8vo, half green morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
FOSTER and ATKINSON, editors.—An illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Plate exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum May 1895 by J. E. Foster, . . . and T. D. Atkinson Cambridge Deighton Bell & Co and Macmillan & Bowes for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 1896. Royal 4to, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
No. 156 of two hundred and sixty copies printed. Sixteen plates and fifteen illustrations in the text.
FOUCHÉ, Joseph.—The Memoirs of Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Minister of the General Police of France. With a portrait. [engraved by Vincent from the rare print suppressed by the French Police] Translated from the French. . . . London: printed for Charles Knight, . . . M DCCC XXV. 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt back, gilt edges.
First edition.
FOUQUÉ, Lamotte.—Peter Schlemihl: from the German of Lamotte Fouqué. With [8] plates by George Cruikshank. London: G. and W. B. Whittaker . . . 1824. 12mo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition. Though attributed to Fouqué, the real author was Adalbert von Chamisso. Fouqué, however, suggested the plot.
FOUQUÉ, La Motte.—See Woltmann and Fouqué.
FRANCIS, John W.—Old New York: or, Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years. By John W. Francis, . . . with a memoir of the author, by Henry T. Tuckerman. New York: W. J. Widdleton, . . . M DCCC LXV. Royal 8vo, unbound.
Large paper copy. Two portraits and a view.
FRANCKLIN, Thomas.—Matilda: a tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By the Author of the Earl of Warwick. London: Printed for T. Cadell, . . . 1775. . . . 8vo, morocco, by The Club Bindery.
First edition.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—An Account Of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Places: wherein Their Construction and Manner of Operation is particularly explained; Their Advantages above every other Method of Warming Rooms demonstrated; And all Objections that have been raised against the Use of Them, answered and obviated. With Directions for putting them up, and for Using them to the best Advantage. And a Copper-Plate, in which the several Parts of the Machine are exactly laid down, from a Scale of equal Parts. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin. 1744. 8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt back and sides, by The Club Bindery.
Includes the folded plate as well as the original covers.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—Poor Richard improved: being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon; the true Places and Aspects of the Planets; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; and the Riſing, Setting and Southing of the Moon, for the Year of our Lord 1757: [1758:] Being the Firſt [Second] after Leap-Year. . . . By Richard Saunders, Philom. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall. 12mo, two volumes, light brown levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, in a brown straight-grain morocco case, by Bedford.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—The Way to Wealth or Poor Richard Improved by Benjamin Franklin. Paris. Printed for Ant. Aug. Renouard . . . M.DCC.XCV. 8vo, blue morocco, back richly tooled, panelled sides, silk linings, gilt over uncut edges, by Bozerian.
Large and thick paper copy: six printed, with proof impression of the portrait by Tardieu after Duplessis. The greater part of this book is accompanied by a French translation. Following the well-known Epitaph are twenty-eight pages preceded by the sub-title, "Observations sur les Sauvages du Nord de l'Amérique, par Franklin," with a separate pagination and not included in the Table.
Charles Nodier's copy.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—The Way to Wealth. 1795. 12mo, citron levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by David.
Another copy printed upon large paper, with proof impression of the portrait of Franklin by Tardieu after Duplessis.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—The Way to Wealth or Poor Richard Improved by Benj. Franklin. Paris, Printed for Ant. Aug. Renouard, [by P. Causse at Dijon] . . . M.DCC.XCV. 12mo, red levant morocco, gilt back, side corners after the manner of Roger Payne, uncut edges, by Rivière.
Large paper copy, with two impressions of the exquisite portrait of Franklin by Alex. Tardieu after Duplessis, one a proof before the name on the tablet.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—[Poor Richard. Bowles's Moral Pictures; Being Lessons for the Young and the Old, on Industry, Temperance, Frugality, &c. or Poor Richard Illustrated. By the late Dr. Benj. Franklin.] 4to, half green morocco, gilt edges.
A portfolio containing the twenty-four original water-colour drawings by Dighton, with the engravings published by Bowles; also original water-colour drawings of Franklin and his press, and two engraved portraits.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—The Private Life of the late Benjamin Franklin, LL. D. late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to France, &c. &c. &c. Originally written by Himſelf, and now translated from the French. To which are added, some account of his public life, a variety of anecdotes concerning him, by M. M. Brissot, Condorcet, Rochefoucault, Le Roy, &c. &c. and the eulogium of M. Fauchet, . . . London: printed for J. Parsons, . . . 1793. 8vo, half maroon levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.—The Works of Benjamin Franklin; containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition, and many letters official and private not hitherto published; with notes and a life of the author. By Jared Sparks. . . . Boston: Hilliard Gray, and Company. 1840. Royal 8vo, ten volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews.
Large paper copy.
Twenty-two plates, including five portraits.
FRANKS, David.—See New York Directory.
FRANKUM, Richard.—The Bee and the Wasp. A Fable.—In Verse. With [4] designs and etchings, by G. Cruikshank. . . . London: Charles Tilt, . . . 1832. Small 8vo, half blue calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, with the original yellow paper covers bound in.
First edition.
FRANKUM, Richard.—The Bee and the Wasp a fable in verse with [4] illustrations designed and etched by George Cruikshank London Basil Montagu Pickering . . . 1861. Small 4to, original boards, uncut edges.
Second edition. The preface is signed R. F.
FREER, Martha Walker.—The Life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre, Duchesse d'Alencon and de Berry, sister of Francis I., King of France. From numerous unpublished sources, including MS. documents in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, and the Archives du Royaume de France, and also the private correspondence of Queen Marguerite with Francis I., &c. . . . By Martha Walker Freer. . . . [Mrs. John Robinson] London: Hurst and Blackett, . . . 1854. Post 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition, with three steel plates.
FREER, Martha Walker.—The Life of Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre. . . . By Martha Walker Freer, . . . London: Hurst and Blackett, . . . 1855. Post 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition, with two steel plates.
FREER, Martha Walker.—Elizabeth de Valois, Queen of Spain, and the Court of Philip II. From numerous unpublished sources, in the Archives of France, Italy, and Spain. By Martha Walker Freer. London: Hurst and Blackett . . . 1857. Post 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Portraits of Elizabeth de Valois and Catherine de Medici, engraved by A. T. Heath.
FREER, Martha Walker.—Henry III. King of France and Poland: his Court and Times. From numerous unpublished sources, including MS. Documents in the Bibliotheque Impériale, and the Archives of France and Italy, etc. By Martha Walker Freer. London: Hurst and Blackett . . . 1858. Post 8vo, three volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Three portraits engraved by Baker.
FREER, Martha Walker.—History of the Reign of Henry IV. King of France and Navarre . . . Part I. Henry IV and the League. By Martha Walker Freer. . . . London: Hurst and Blackett, . . . 1860. Post 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition, with two steel plates.
FREER, Martha Walker.—Henry IV. and Marie de Medici. Part II. of the History of the Reign of Henry IV. King of France and Navarre . . . By Martha Walker Freer . . . London: Hurst and Blackett . . . 1861. Post 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition: with portraits of Marguerite de Valois and Marie de Medici.
FREER, Martha Walker.—The Last Decade of a Glorious Reign. Part III. of the History of the Reign of Henry IV. King of France and Navarre . . . By Martha Walker Freer . . . London: Hurst and Blackett . . . 1863. Post 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Portraits of the Marquise de Verneuil and the Princesse de Condé and her children.
FREER, Martha Walker.—The Married Life of Anne of Austria, Queen of France, Mother of Louis XIV. and Don Sebastian, King of Portugal. Historical Studies. From numerous unpublished sources, . . . By Martha Walker Freer, . . . London: Tinsley Brothers, . . . 1864. 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition, with steel portrait of the Queen.
FREER, Martha Walker.—The Regency of Anne of Austria, Queen Regent of France, Mother of Louis XIV. from numerous unpublished sources, . . . By Martha Walker Freer, . . . London: Tinsley Brothers, . . . 1866. 8vo, two volumes, blue morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition, with steel portrait.
FRENEAU, Philip.—Poems Written between the Years 1768 & 1794, by Philip Freneau, of New Jersey: A New Edition, Revised and Corrected by the Author; Including a conſiderable number of Pieces never before published. . . . Monmouth [N. J.] printed At the Preſs of the Author, at Mount-Pleasant, near Middletown-Point; M, DCC, XCV: and, of—American Independence—XIX. 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Matthews.
FRENEAU, Philip.—Poems written and published during the American Revolutionary War, and now republished from the original manuscripts; interspersed with translations from the ancients, and other pieces not heretofore in print. By Philip Freneau. . . . The third edition, in two volumes. . . . Philadelphia: from the press of Lydia R. Bailey, . . . 1809. 12mo, two volumes, brown levant morocco, doubled with dark green russia, tooled in gilt, russia guards, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf.
Two frontispieces, King Tammany and Captain Paul Jones's Victory, engraved by Joh. Eckstein.
According to Freneau's declaration in a letter to Jefferson, May 27, 1809, this is the first edition of his poems that received his personal attention, "the other two having been published, while I was wandering over gloomy Seas, until embargoed by the necessity of the times." Later he wrote to Madison, "That Edition [1809] was published by Subscription merely for the benefit of, and to assist Mrs. Bailey, an unfortunate but deserving widowed female, niece to General Steele, and this consideration alone induced me to pay some attention to that third Edition."
FRENEAU, Philip.—A Bibliography of the separate and collected works of Philip Freneau together with an account of his newspapers By Victor Hugo Paltsits . . . New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1903. 12mo, original gray paper covers.
FRERE, John Hookham.—The Works of the Right Honourable John Hookham Frere in verse and prose . . . Memoir by the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere Second Edition Revised with Additions London Basil Montagu Pickering . . . 1874. 8vo, three volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
Portrait. Large paper copy.
FRITH, William.—John Leech His Life and Work by William Powell Frith, R.A. With portrait and numerous illustrations . . . London Richard Bentley and Son . . . 1891. 8vo, two volumes, vellum cloth, uncut edges.
First edition. Presentation copy from the author, with inscription.
FROUDE, James Anthony.—History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. By James Anthony Froude, . . . London: John W. Parker and Son, . . . 1856. [-1870] 8vo, twelve volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
Volumes I-II are dated 1856; III-IV, 1858; V-VI, 1860; VII-VIII, 1866, "fourth edition" with portrait of Queen Elizabeth engraved by C. H. Jeens; XI-XII, 1870, "a new edition."
FROUDE, James Anthony.—Short Studies on Great Subjects. By James Anthony Froude, . . . London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1868. [-1871, 1877, 1883.] 8vo, four volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
FROUDE, James Anthony.—The Cat's Pilgrimage by James Anthony Froude, . . . [vignette] With six illustrations by J. B. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. 1870. 4to, original boards.
Reprinted from "Short Studies of Great Subjects."
FULCHER, George Williams.—Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R. A. By the late George Williams Fulcher, edited by his son. London: Longman . . . Foolscap 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
Frontispiece, title, and birthplace of Gainsborough engraved on steel.
FULLER, Margaret.—Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company. MDCCCLII. 12mo, two volumes, cloth.
The chapters on Concord and Boston were written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
FULTON, Robert.—A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation; exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals. And boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen. With a description of the Machinery of facilitating Conveyance by Water through the moſt Mountainous Countries, independent of Locks and Aqueducts: including Obſervations on the great Importance of Water Communications, with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood. Illustrated with seventeen plates. By R. Fulton, Civil Engineer. London. Publiſhed by I. and J. Taylor . . . 1796. 4to, brown levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition: with forty figures on seventeen plates, and two final leaves of advertisement.
Inserted are two portraits, one after the original painting by Chappel, the other by W. S. Leney after Benjamin West.
FULTON, Robert.—Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions. By Robert Fulton, . . . New York: printed by William Elliot, . . . 1810. Oblong 4to, brown levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Eight figures on five plates. Presentation copy from the Author to Dr. Thornton, with inscription on the fly leaf.
FUSELI, Henry.—See Pilkington, Matthew.
GAINE, Hugh.—The Journals of Hugh Gaine Printer edited by Paul Leicester Ford . . . New York Published by Dodd, Mead & Company . . . MCMII. Royal 8vo, two volumes, half vellum, uncut edges.
One of thirty copies printed on Imperial Japan paper: with portrait and thirty-six other illustrations.
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas.—A Collection of Prints illustrative of English Scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R. A. in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas; Viscount Palmerston; George Hibbert, Esq.; Dr. Monro and several other gentlemen London: engraved by W. F. Wells and J. Laporte; and published by John and Josiah Boydell, . . . [n. d.] Folio, old red straight-grain morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges.
Sixty plates, for the most part coloured.
GALE, Norman.—Marsh Marigolds, by the author of Primulas and Pansies, etc. Rugby: George E. Over . . . 1888. Royal 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
One of sixty copies printed.
GALE, Norman.—Anemones, a collection of simple songs from Unleavened Bread, Primulas and Pansies, Marsh Marigolds, with Fresh Flowers from the Author's Garden Rugby: George E. Over . . . 1889. Royal 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
One of sixty copies printed.
GALE, Norman.—Meadowsweet. By the author of Marsh Marigolds. Rugby: printed by George E. Over, at the Rugby Press. [1889] 12mo, original covers, uncut edges.
No. 30 of fifty copies printed in red, black, and gold.
GALE, Norman.—Thistledown Essays whereof the tale is Six penned in the Studies of Rusticus & one who is a Friend of his. Rugby: George E. Over 1890. Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
One of twenty-two large paper copies printed, with title printed in gold and colour.
GALE, Norman.—Cricket Songs and other trifling verses penned by one of the Authors of "Thistledown." . . . Rugby: George E. Over. 1890. Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
One of twenty large paper copies printed, in gold and green.
GALE, Norman.—Cricket Songs by Norman Gale. Methuen and Co., . . . London 1894. 8vo, half vellum, uncut edges.
No. 13 of fifteen copies printed on Japanese vellum paper.
GALE, Norman.—Here be Blue and White Violets from the garden wherein grew Meadowsweet. Rugby: printed by George E. Over. [1891] Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
One of twenty-five large paper copies printed, with etched frontispiece in two states, black and green; by Herbert Dicksee.
GALE, Norman.—Prince Redcheek. Printed by G. E. Over, at The Rugby Press. [1891] Post 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
Fifty copies printed.
GALE, Norman.—Gorillas Rugby Printed by George E. Over, The Rugby Press. [1891] Post 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
Sixty copies printed.
GALE, Norman.—A June Romance. Norman Gale. Rugby printed and published by George E. Over. [1892] 12mo, original covers, uncut edges.
One of twenty-three large paper copies printed.
GALE, Norman.—A Country Muse by Norman R. Gale. London David Nutt . . . [Rugby Press] 1892. 16mo, cloth, uncut edges.
Five hundred copies printed.
GALE, Norman.—A Country Muse. New Series by Norman R. Gale . . . London David Nutt . . . 1893. 8vo, half vellum, uncut edges.
One of seventy-five large paper copies printed.
GALE, Norman.—A Cotswold Village by Norman Gale Fifteen copies privately printed at the Rugby Press June 1893. 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
Presentation copy from the author, with autograph inscription.
GALE, HAYES, and LE GALLIENNE.—A Fellowship in Song Alfred Hayes [From Midland Meadows] Richard Le Gallienne [Nightingales] Norman Gale [A Verdant County] Rugby George E. Over . . . 1893. Post 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
Large paper copy.
GALE, Norman.—Orchard Songs by Norman Gale. London. Elkin Mathews & John Lane . . . 1893. Post 8vo, vellum, uncut edges.
Special edition on hand-made paper, one hundred and fifty printed.
GALT, John.—The Autobiography of John Galt . . . London: Cochrane and M'Crone . . . 1833. 8vo, two volumes, half blue morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges.
Portrait of Galt by Graves after Irvine.
GAMBADO, Geoffrey.—See Bunbury, H.
GAMMER GURTON'S GARLAND: or, the Nursery Parnassus. A choice collection of pretty songs and verses, for the amusement of all little good children who can neither read nor run. London: printed for R. Triphook, . . . By Harding and Wright, . . . 1810. 8vo, tree calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.
On the verso of the title is a note: "Parts I. and II. were first collected and printed by a literary gentleman deceased; who supposed he had preserved each piece according to its original idiom: an opinion not easily refuted, if worth supporting. Parts. III. and IV. are now first added."
GAMMER GURTON'S GARLAND.—See Ritson, Joseph.
GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA.—See Vega, Garcilasso de la.
GARDEN, Alexander.—Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War in America, with Sketches of Character of Persons the most distinguished, in the Southern States, for Civil and Military Services. By Alexander Garden. Charleston: Printed for the Author 1822. 8vo, brown calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
GARDEN, Alexander.—Anecdotes of the American Revolution, illustrative of the Talents and Virtues of the Heroes and Patriots, who Acted the Most Conspicuous Parts therein. By Alexander Garden. Second Series. Charleston . . . A. E. Miller . . . 1828. 12mo, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Allô.
GARNETT, Richard, translator.—Iphigenia in Delphi a dramatic poem With Homer's "Shield of Achilles" and other Translations from the Greek by Richard Garnett . . . T. Fisher Unwin . . . London . . . MDCCCXC. 12mo, vellum, uncut edges.
No. 19 of thirty copies printed on Japan paper, with frontispiece.
GARNETT, Richard, editor.—Three hundred Notable Books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899 Printed by T. and A. Constable for the Editors and Subscribers March M DCCC XCIX. Royal 8vo, half red morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.
Portrait and woodcuts.
GARRICK, David.—The Lying Valet; In Two Acts. As it is performed gratis, At The Theatre in Goodman's-Fields. By D. Garrick. London: Printed for and Sold by Paul Vaillant,. . . ; and J. Roberts, . . . 1742. (Price One Shilling.) 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition. Acted later at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. An alteration of "All without Money," the second of Motteux's five plays "The Novelty. Every Act a Play," 1697.
Half-title, title, and "Dramatis Personæ," three leaves, and B-H1 in fours.
GARRICK, David.—Lethe. A dramatic satire. By David Garrick. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, By His Majesty's Servants. London: Printed for and Sold by Paul Vaillant, . . . M DCC XLIX. 8vo, brown morocco, gilt edges, lower ones uncut, by The Club Bindery.
First edition.
Half-title and title, and B-G2 in fours.
GARRICK, David.—The Gamesters: a comedy. Alter'd from Shirley. As it is Perform'd, By His Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, . . . M DCC LVIII. . . . 8vo, morocco, by The Club Bindery.
First edition.
GARRICK, David.—The Farmer's Return from London. An Interlude. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Printed by Dryden Leach, For J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand. MDCCLXII. 4to, brown levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf.
First edition: frontispiece by James Basire after Hogarth. Written for Mrs. Pritchard's benefit. Garrick took the part of the Farmer.
Half-title, A1, title, A2, and B-D in twos.
GARRICK, David.—The Poetical Works of David Garrick, Esq. now first collected . . . with Explanatory Notes. London: Printed for George Kearsley, at Johnson's Head, Fleet-street, MDCCLXXXV. Small 8vo, two volumes, citron levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Joly.
GARRICK, David.—The Dramatic Works of David Garrick, Esq. To which is prefixed a Life of the Author . . . London: Printed for A. Millar . . . MDCCXCVIII. 12mo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
Portrait of Garrick by W. Sharp, inserted, artist's proof.
GARRICK, David.—See Colman and Garrick.
GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson.—The Life of Charlotte Bronte . . . By E. C. Gaskell . . . London: Smith, Elder & Co., . . . 1857. Crown 8vo, two volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Champs.
First edition, with portrait by Armytage. Certain passages were afterwards suppressed because of statements challenged by persons concerned.
GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson.—Cranford [Knutsford] by Mrs. Gaskell with a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson London Macmillan and Co. . . . 1891. Royal 8vo, buckram, uncut edges.
Large paper copy.
GAY, John.—The Present State of Wit, in a Letter to a Friend in the Country. London Printed in the Year, M DCC XI. (Price 3d.) Small 8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt fillets, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. The Letter is signed J. G. and dated Westminster, May 3, 1711. Contains half-title and Postscript, C4.
GAY, John.—The Wife of Bath. A comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's Servants. By Mr. Gay . . . London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, . . . MDCCXIII. 4to, half brown levant morocco.
First edition. A-I in fours, half-title on A1, title on A2.
GAY, John.—The Shepherd's Week. In six Pastorals. By Mr J. Gay . . . London, Printed: And Sold by Ferd. Burleigh . . . MDCCXIV. 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt fillets, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Seven plates by Lud. Du Guernier.
GAY, John.—The Shepherd's Week. 1714. 8vo, citron levant morocco, gilt back, side panels, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Large paper copy.
GAY, John.—Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London. By Mr. Gay . . . [device of crossed keys] London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, . . . [n. d.] 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Bedford.
First edition: large and thick paper copy.
Three head-piece vignettes by Gribelin, and the device of the publisher on the title-page. In the second edition, also n. d., the head-piece on the first page, the view of a London street, is substituted for the title device.
GAY, John.—Trivia. [n. d.] 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
Another issue of the first edition, and probably later, as the plates of the tail-pieces appear to be worn. For the three engraved vignettes by Gribelin on pages 1, 21, and 53—view of a London street, musical instruments, and Pegasus rising into the clouds—woodcut headbands are substituted, the first containing an eagle, the second two cherubs supporting a basket of flowers, the third flowers and foliage.
The title and letter-press of the two issues are identical, and the three errata on A2 verso are uncorrected.
GAY, John.—(I.) Two Epistles; One, to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington; The Other, to a Lady. By Mr. Gay. London, Printed for Bernard Lintot, . . . Price 6d. [n. d.] (II.) An Epistle to a Lady, Occaſion'd by the Arrival of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The Fifth Edition. London, Printed for Bernard Lintot, . . . [n. d.] 8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt fillets, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
A2-D2 in eights, and two leaves of advertisement, D3 and D4, title on A2.
GAY, John.—Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. John Gay. . . . London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, . . . and Bernard Lintot, . . . M D CC XX. 4to, two volumes in one, red morocco, gilt fillets on the side, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition, with frontispiece by W. Kent, and two other plates. The pagination is continuous.
GAY, John.—Poems on several occasions. By Mr. John Gay . . . London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, . . . MDCCLXVII. 12mo, two volumes, red levant morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
Large paper copy. Nine plates engraved by Fourdrinier and Isaac Taylor after the designs of Du Guernier.
GAY, John.—(I.) Fables. By Mr. Gay [mask vignette by P. F.] London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts. MDCCXXVII. (II.) Fables. By the late Mr. Gay. Volume the Second. [vignette portrait] London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, in Ludgate-Street; and T. Cox, under the Royal-Exchange. MDCCXXXVIII. 4to, two volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, side panels, gilt edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
Volume I contains a mask vignette on the title-page by Fourdrinier, an introductory vignette and vignettes to each Fable (50) by Fourdrinier, Van der Gucht, and others, from the designs of Kent and Wootton; Volume II has a frontispiece by Scotin, the monument of Gay, a vignette of Gay on the title-page by Scotin, and the illustrations (16) are full-page, by the same engraver after the designs of Gravelot.
GAY, John.—Fables by the late Mr. Gay. In one volume complete. London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, &c. . . . MDCCLXVII. Crown 8vo, two parts in one volume, red levant morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
Dedicated to William Duke of Cumberland. Frontispiece and sixty-seven other plates.
GAY, John.—Fables by John Gay. With a Life of the Author, and embellished with seventy plates. London: Printed for John Stockdale . . . 1793. Imperial 8vo, two volumes bound in one, green levant morocco, back and sides richly ornamented in gold and mosaic, gilt edges, by Rivière.
Twelve of the illustrations are by William Blake.
GAY, John.—Fables. 1793. Imperial 8vo, two volumes, citron levant morocco, gilt back and side panels, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
Another copy, 10-15/16 inches tall.
GAY, John.—Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, And embellished with a Plate to each Fable. [vignette] London Printed by Darton & Harvey, for F. & C. Rivington, . . . M DCC XCIII. 8vo, red morocco, gilt back, narrow side borders, gilt edges, by C. Lewis.
Large paper copy, with frontispiece by G. Neagle, title-vignette and thirty-four other plates, each with two illustrations, all proofs.
GAY and MOORE.—Fables by John Gay, in two parts; to which are added Fables by Edward Moore Paris, printed by P. Didot, the elder . . . [1800] 16mo, green vellum, uncut edges.
One of two copies printed on vellum: from the collection of Junot, Duc d'Abrantes.
GAY, John.—Fables by Mr. John Gay with a Memoir by Austin Dobson. London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., . . . MDCCCLXXXII. Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges.
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with a portrait.
GAY, John.—The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay . . . To which is Added, The Musick Engrav'd on Copper-Plates. London: Printed for John Watts, . . . MDCCXXVIII. [Price 1s. 6d.] 8vo, light brown levant morocco, gilt edges.
First authorized edition. Two leaves, B-D in eights, E, four leaves, F, one leaf, G and H, four leaves each.
GAY, John.—The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay . . . The Third Edition: With the Overture in Score, The Songs, and the Basses, (The Ouverture and Basses Compos'd by Dr. Pepusch) Curiously Engrav'd on Copper Plates. London: Printed for John Watts, . . . MDCCXXIX. 4to, light brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.
Text: A-I2 in fours, Musical score, A-E4 in fours, F, two leaves, and G, one leaf. Title printed in red and black on A1.
GAY, John.—Polly: an Opera. Being the second part of the Beggar's Opera. Written by Mr. Gay . . . London: Printed for the Author. MDCCXXIX. 4to, light brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
Title printed in red and black and A-K in fours. Musical score, A-D in fours.
GAY, John.—Achilles. an Opera. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. [Two lines from Ovid, one from Horace] Written by the late Mr. Gay. With the Musick prefix'd to each Song. London: Printed for J. Watts . . . M DCC XXX III. Price One Shilling and Six Pence. 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt fillets, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Half-title, A1; title, A2; text, A3-A4 and B-F2 in fours, advertisements, F3-F4.
GAY, John.—Achilles in Petticoats. an opera. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. . . . Written by Mr. Gay, with alterations. The Music entirely new by Dr. Arne. London, Printed for W. Strahan, T. Lowndes, T. Caslon, T. Becket, W. Nicoll, and R. Snagg. M DCC LXXIV. 8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt fillets, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
An alteration by George Colman of Gay's "Achilles," 1733. A-F3 in fours, F4 blank, half-title on A1, title on A2.
GAY, John.—The Diſtreſs'd Wife. A Comedy. By the late Mr. Gay, author of the Beggar's Opera. London: Printed for Thomas Astley, . . . 1743. 8vo, red morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. A-L in fours, half-title on A1.
GAY, John.
Plays written by Mr. John Gay, viz. The Captives, a Tragedy. The Beggar's Opera. Polly, or, the Second Part of the Beggar's Opera. Achilles, an Opera. The Distress'd Wife, a Comedy. The Rehearsal at Goatham, a Farce.
To which is added, An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author.
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, . . . M DCC LX. Crown 8vo, red levant morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition: with portrait.
GAY, John.—Plays written by Mr John Gay, viz. The Captives, a tragedy. The Beggar's Opera. Polly, or the Second Part of the Beggar's Opera. Achilles, an opera. The Distress'd Wife, a comedy. The Rehearsal at Gotham, a farce. To which is prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. London: Printed for W. Strahan . . . MDCCLXXII. 12mo, calf, gilt back.
Second edition. Portrait, with quotation from Martial beneath it.
GAY, John.—The Miscellaneous Works of Mr John Gay. London. Printed for John Bell . . . MDCCLXXIII. 12mo, six volumes, sprinkled calf, gilt back, yellow edges, by Bedford.
Frontispiece engraved by Fourdrinier, portrait, etc. Sub-titles as follows:
Vol. I. Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. John Gay, Lintot and Tonson, 1753.
II. The same, 1752.
IV. Plays written by Mr. John Gay. Life and a portrait. W. Strahan &c., 1772.
VI. Fables by the late Mr. Gay: 56 illustrations, W. Strahan, 1772.
GAY, John.—Gay's Chair. Poems, never before printed, written by John Gay, author of the Beggar's Opera, Fables, &c. with a sketch of his life, from the MSS. of the Rev. Joseph Baller his nephew. Edited by Henry Lee, author of Poetic Impressions, Caleb Quotem, &c. To which are added Two New Tales, the World, and Gossip, by the editor. London: Longman, . . . 1820. Small 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.