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LIVERPOOL STEREOTYPE EDITION

1) BARBAULD, Mrs.. Hymns in prose for children. Liverpool. Stereotyped by M. Nicholson and Co., Founders of Embellishments from Engravings on Wood or Copper, 1817. First Liverpool edition.

12mo in 6s. 36pp. Stitched within original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Wrappers very slightly marked, else a fine copy. In later buckram folding box.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), English poet, essayist and writer of children's books. This title, first published in 1781 was composed, along with her Lessons for children (1778-9), for her adopted son Charles Rochemont Aikin.

This provincial edition, with what looks to be an advertising imprint, is rare; with COPAC locating a single copy at the BL.

£ 250

2) BASILE, Giambattista. The pentamerone, or the story of stories, fun for the little ones. London. David Bogue, 1850. Second edition. 8vo. xvi, 404pp. With an engraved hand-coloured frontispiece, additional engraved title, and four plates by George Cruikshank. Handsomely bound by Bayntun in green morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Original publisher's blue blind-tooled cloth, with gilt device and lettering, of both the boards and spine mounted and bound at rear. Slight rubbing to extremities, spine somewhat sunned. Ink numeral to final page after text, overall internally clean and crisp. The Pentamerone, a seventeenth century collection of 50 Italian fairy tales by Neapolitan poet and courtier Giambattista Basile (1566-1632), first saw posthumous publication in two volumes of 1634 and 1636 respectively. Many of the tales contained within are the earliest known variants in existence; they include the likes of Cinderella and Rapunzel. Although for some time neglected the anthology found new life through the adaptations of Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, the latter pair praising the work as the first national collection of fairy stories and acknowledging the influence had on their own writings. The Pentamerone first saw translation into German in 1846 by folklorist Felix Liebrecht (1812-1890), with 30 of the 50 then done into English in 1848 by founder of The Guardian newspaper John Edward Taylor (1791-1844) accompanied with engravings by famed illustrator and caricaturist George Cruikshank (1792-1878).

£ 250


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3) BEEDY, Mary E.. The joint education of young men and women in the American Schools and Colleges. Being a lecture delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society, On 27th of April, 1873. London. Published by the Sunday Lecture Society, 1873. First edition.

8vo. 31pp. Stitched, as issued. Title detached, vertical crease throughout

The Sunday Lecture Society was established by ‘Darwin's Bulldog, botanist and self-styled ‘scientific Calvinist’, T. H. Huxley in hopes of uplifting London's working classes through weekly educational addresses. John Tyndall, Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin would all serve the society as vice-presidents.

£ 100

4) BERQUIN, M. [Arnaud]. Pieces Choisies De L'Ami Des Enfans De M. Berquin. A L'Usage Des Ecoles. A Londres. Imprime Par W. Et C. Spilsbury. Pour A. Dulau, 1798. Seconde , Revue et Corrigee.

12mo. [2], iv, [2], 144, 157-240, 243-366pp. With a half-title and engraved frontispiece, and complete despite erratic pagination. Contemporary sheep, gilt ruling to spines. Rubbed with cracking and some loss to joints. Oval-shaped bookplate of Henry Birkbeck to FEP. Occasional light mark to text.

A scarce selection of stories from Arnaud Berquin's popular collection of everyday drama and prose for Children, L'Ami des Enfans (London, 1782-3). Purportedly a second edition, no previous edition of this selection intended for school-use is recorded by ESTC, which only records 3 copies of this present appearance (BL, McMaster and Philadelphia).

ESTC N37697.

£ 125

5) BONWICKE, Ambrose. A pattern for Young Students in the university, Set forth in the Life of Mr. Ambrose Bonwicke, Sometime Scholar of St. Johns's College in Cambridge. London. Printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, 1729. First edition.

12mo. [8], 172pp. With half-title. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked with contrasting red lettering-piece. Heavy wear to boards. Allegorical bookplate of Caroli E. Doble to FEP, foxing throughout.

Ambrose Bonwicke (1652-1722), educator and founder of Headley Private School, Surrey. His former student William Bowyer would, out of affection for his old master, go on to print A Pattern for Young Students. Bowyer's records show only 250 copies produced of this edition.

ESTC T70979.

£ 250


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INTERLINEAR CAMPE'S ROBINSON

6) CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. HAMILTON, James. Campe's robinson der jungere. Adapated to the hamiltonian system, by an interlineary and literal translation. Edinburgh. Printed for the author, By Duncan Stevenson, Printer to the University. Sold by Messrs. Boosey & Sons, 1827. First edition. 12mo in 6s. Two volumes. xii, 276, 267-328; xxiv, 331pp, [1]. Contemporary pink buckram, lettered to spine in manuscript (one volume inverted). Worn, with some fading to spines/boards, splitting to joints, gouge to lower edge of Vol I. Some browning. A rare Edinburgh edition of the popular eighteenth-century adaptation of Daniel Defoe's castaway tale by German writer Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818) with interlinear English translation by popular Dublin-born educator James Hamilton, who after initial success in America taught in English cities after 1823. These two volumes bear identical title pages despite different contents. The first contains the full text, in thirty-six 'abends' of Campe's Robinson der jungere in German, the second contains the original author's numerous prefaces and the first eleven 'evenings' of the text in interlinear German and English. Given their simultaneous publication and designation as two contiguous volumes by an early owner, they were evidently intended to be issued together. Rare, with neither COPAC nor OCLC locating a set of the two volumes. Copies of Vol II. only are found at McGill, NAL and Trinity College. The NLS locate a further (unidentified) single volume.

£ 350

7) CHOWN, William. Original miscellaneous poems, On Moral, Religious, and Entertaining subjects. Northampton. Printed by E. Cordeux, 1818. First edition.

12mo in 6s. xii, 98pp, [2]. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. A fine copy.

Amongst this collection of mostly devotional, patriotic and bucolic verse, seemingly the only published work of Midlands schoolmaster William Chown is a 'Sonnet on the prospect of the Abolition of the Slave Trade'. OCLC and COPAC locate a single copy, at BL.

Not in Jackson. Johnson 185.

£ 300

8) [CICERO]. M. Tullii Ciceronis De officiis ad marcum filium, libri tres. Item, Cato Major, Laelius, Paradoxa, de republica fragmenta duo, et somnium Scipionis. In usum scholarum. Londini [i.e. London]. Impensis Whittaker & Co., 1834. New edition.

12mo. [4], 212pp. Contemporary tooled calf. Slight rubbing to joints and board edges, ink spotting and some soiling. Contemporary ink inscription to FEP.

The minor philosophical works of Cicero, to which are subjoined two fragments of the treatise De Republica. The first being Cicero's theory of a perfect government, the second detailing causes and consequences of revolution.

This new edition of 1834 appears to be unrecorded, with no locations found in the usual databases.

£ 75


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COLERIDGE'S NEPHEW AT OXFORD

9) [COLERIDGE, John Taylor]. Authentic account of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to the University of Oxford, June 14, MDCCCXIV. Together with the address of the university to His Royal Highness... Oxford. Sold by J. Cooke and J. Parker, 1814. First edition.

8vo. 40pp. Recent paper wraps, titled at head of upper wrapper. Slight marking/offsetting to title, else a fine copy.

An uncommon collection of poems read at one of the most splendid State visits of the Regency, hosted by the Prince Regent at Oxford in the wake of allied victory in the latter stages of the Napoleonic wars and during which the King of Prussia and Emperor of Russia were awarded honorary degrees by the University. The poems are credited to William Crowe, William Dalby, Henry Bosanquet, Robert Ingham, John Hughes and 'William Taylor Coleridge, B.A. of Exeter College', the latter obviously a typographical error for John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), nephew of the Romantic poet and later editor of the Quarterly Review, which was corrected in a variant edition most likely issued second. Somewhat remarkably, OCLC locates only two copies in the British Isles (BL, Oxford), but fourteen elsewhere.

Not in Jackson. £ 200

VERSE DEDICATED TO BURNS AND HIS PATRON

10) COOPER, Henry Fox. Poems. Dedicated, By Permission, to Her Grace The Duchess of Manchester.! London. Printed for the Author, and Sold By Cadell and Davies, 1805. First edition.

8vo. viii, 104pp. Exquisitely bound in contemporary red morocco, richly gilt. A.E.G. Very slight rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy.

Little is known of Cooper, and this was his only work. Dedication to the Duchess of Marlborough (at that time Caroline Spencer) suggests that the author was known to her. Some familiarity with Scotland generally, and the Duchess of Gordon specifically is implied by the seven verse poem 'Scotland', inscribed to Jane Gordon, who was in turn the patron of Burns, to whose memory an 11 verse piece is entitled. This present volume was evidently bound as a gift, given the titling to spine of 'A Father's Gift' despite no piece of that title being contained within. OCLC and COPAC locate together copies at only three in the British Isles (BL, Durham, Oxford) and further copies at California.

Not in Jackson.

£ 400

GAINSBOROUGH CONJUGAL AFFECTION

11) COX, James. The Wanderings of Woe, or conjugal affection. A Tribute to the Memory of a beloved wife. With an Appendix containing The Wrongs of the Academical Clergy, &c. &c. London. Published by Mawman, and Cadell..., 1813. First edition.

8vo. 6, [2], 123pp, [1]. With half-title and frontispiece engraving of the author's wife. Uncut in original publisher's paper boards, paper lettering-piece to spine. Spine and lettering-piece chipped, else a crisp, unsophisticated copy

Largely dominated by a tribute to the author's late wife, this work by the Master of the Gainsborough School and D.D. of Wadham, Oxford, also includes a shorter piece on the academical clergy of which he was previously a member. Uncommon, with OCLC and COPAC locating only three copies in British libraries (BL, Durham and Oxford) and two elsewhere (Portland and Stanford).

Jackson p.375. Johnson 223.

£ 200


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12) [DARELL, William]. The gentleman instructed, in the conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life. In Three Parts. Written for the Instruction of a Young Nobleman. To which is added, A Word to the Ladies, By Way of supplement to the First Part. London. Printed by W. B. for E. Smith, 1720. Seventh edition.

8vo. [24], 584pp. With woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary panelled calf, recently rebacked, contrasting red lettering-piece. Rubbed at board edges. Loss to head of title - seemingly done deliberately to remove previous owner's manuscript inscription - avoiding text and border, very occasional ink annotation and underlining, some foxing.

Jesuit theologian William Darrell's (1651-1721) advice on the proper comportment for the well-born gentleman in matters of faith, duty, and relations with the opposite sex. Strong warning is given on the "Ladies of Hyde Park" and the dangers of atheism.

ESTC T136515.

£100

13) [DICTIONARY]. NEWBERY, John. A Spelling dictionary of the english language, on a new plan. For the Use of Young Gentlemen, Ladies and Foreigners. Published by the King's Authority...To which is prefixed, A Compendious English Grammar... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbury, jun., 1774. Thirteenth edition.

32mo. 336pp, with leaves D2-U8r unnumbered. Contemporary sheep. A heavily used copy; worn, with loss and ink marking to leather, which is almost detached from boards, some splitting to text block and loose stitching, several quires almost detached. Tears, without loss, to C4-5 and D5. Early pen trials to endpapers and blank fly-leaves.

John Newbery's Spelling dictionary was first published in 1745 (as An easy spelling-dictionary) and completed 11 editions in his lifetime. All editions are uncommon, with ESTC locating only two copies of this edition (BL and Oxford).

ESTC T134545. Roscoe J268(13).

£ 150


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WITH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S ESSAY

14) [ECONOMICS]. The economist of time; or golden rules for growing 'healthy, wealthy, and wise:' By economising and usefully employing that which, of all things, is the most valuable, and, at the same time, of all things, the least valued. London. Printed by and for William Cole, 1825. First edition.

24mo in 12s. [2], 50pp. With half-title, and frontispiece engraving of 'Youth taking time by the fore-lock'. Original roan-backed printed boards. Slightly rubbed, some marking. Pencilled ink inscription to FEP.

A fascinating conduct of life publication on the economics of work and time, designed primarily for the middle-class and artisan-class juvenile, including a terminal letter providing 'Advice to a young tradesman' from 'An Old Tradesman'. Although, quite typically, nineteenth-century morality on temperance and chastity exudes throughout, this scarce title also reprints, in a closing appendix, Benjamin Franklin's 1758 essay on money and career prospect, The Way to Wealth.

OCLC locates only two copies in the UK (BL and Oxford), and just four elsewhere (Chicago, Peabody, UCLC and Yale).

£ 250

15) EDGEWORTH, Maria and R.L.. Practical Education; In Three Volumes. London. Printed for J. Johnson, 1801. Second edition.

8vo. Three volumes. xiv, [2]. 412. [4], 386pp. [4], 387pp, [1]. With half-titles and three engraved plates (one folding, one double page). Untrimmed, in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Labels to spines. Worn and rubbed, with some loss, splitting to joints. From the Education collection of John and Monica Lawson, with John Lawson's bookplate to FEP of Vol I, and that of John Leith-Ross of Arnage and Bourtie to FEP of Vol III. 'Arnage' inscribed in ink to title of Vol I. Extensive pencilled highlighting to Vols I and II. Paper flaw to running title of H8, with some marginal worming to Vol II.

Maria Edgeworth and her father Robert Lovell Edgeworth collaborated in writing the most significant educational work of the eighteenth-century. Building upon Rousseau's Emile, the authors stress the importance of interesting, creative and enjoyable learning. Like Locke, the Edgeworths also emphasize the educational value of play.

£ 175

16) EDGEWORTH, Maria. Early lessons. Frank. Part I.[-IV]. London. Printed for J. Johnson, 1809.

112; 110; 91, [2]; [4], 96pp. With half-title to each part. [Bound with:] EDGEWORTH, Maria. Early lessons. The little dog trusty; the orange man; and the cherry orchard. London. Printed for J. Johnson, 1809. 109pp. With half-title 16mo. Five parts bound in one. Contemporary calf, gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lacking upper board and FFEP, lower board detached, some wear to spine. Some shaving, without loss of sense.

An early edition of five parts of the popular Early Lessons series of stories for children, which consisted of nine separate pieces, first published in 1801 by Irish novelist and educational writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) who was inspired to publish the more successful stories composed for her numerous younger siblings. As the half-titles to each part indicate, these were issued separately: 'Price six-pence'.

£ 175


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LANGUAGE AND A TRAVELLING LIBRARY

17) [EDUCATION]. Letters from a Nobleman to his son, during the period of his education at Eton and Oxford. In two volumes. London. Printed for Richard Phillips, 1810. First edition.

12mo. Two volumes. viii, 328; vii, [1], 359pp, [7]. Finely bound in contemporary polished calf, spines richly gilt with two contrasting morocco lettering-pieces to each volume. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, a little light marking to boards, else a fine copy. With the bookplates of Sir Edmund Antrobus to FEPs.

A nobleman's education by correspondence, the 'series of letters' format clearly modelled on the better known and similarly titled work of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. This rather more obscure work, of which this is the sole edition, provides a wide-ranging introduction to classical and modern history, government and politics, agriculture, the basics of science and mathematics, and conduct both moral and practical. More unusually, and perhaps most interestingly, at least from a bibliophile's point of view, is the inclusion of the lengthy 'Letter XXIII, Hints for a Travelling Library'.

OCLC locates only four copies in British libraries (BL, Cambridge, Leicester, Newcastle) and six elsewhere (Chicago, Columbia, Georgia, Heidelberg (OH), Newberry and Peabody).

£ 300

18) [EDUCATION]. GRAVE, Jean de. The path-way to the gate of tongues: Being, the first instruction for little children. With A short manner to conjugue the French Verbes. Indexed and made Latine, French and English by Jean de Grave, Professor of the French Tongue in the City of London. [Oxford]. Printed by William Turner, 1633. First edition.

8vo. 44pp. Without the two terminal blanks. [Bound behind:] [COMENIUS, Johann Amos]. [Porta linguarvm, trilinguis reserata et aperta. Sive Seminarium linguarum & scientiarum omnium. Hoc est, compendiaria Latinam, Anglicam, Gallicam...]. [London]. [Excudebat Tho. Cotes..., 1633]. [Second edition]. [30], 282pp, [4]. Without the first leaf, a Latin title, or the terminal blank. Some loss to five leaves, mostly marginal but occasionally touching text with some slight loss of sense. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep, neatly rebacked and recornered. With bookplate and several generations of ink inscriptions (some of which contemporary) of the Abbot family.

The only published work of Jean de Grave (fl. 1630s), French tutor resident in London (and member of the French church there) from the early seventeenth-century, is an introduction to John Achoran's English editions of the larger polyglot educational by Comenius and sometimes found, as here, bound up with it. Specifically designed, as the title notes, 'for little children', de Grave explains in his preface (which, as with the remainder of the text, appears in parallel Latin, English and French in three columns) that The path-way ignores several tenses of the indicative and subjunctive modes 'because the French Verbes, as well as the English, do want all these things'. The first ten leaves of this already slim work are dedicated to translating Christian catechisms, prayers and graces.

Rare, with ESTC locating copies at only four British libraries (BL, Cambridge, Oxford, Salisbury Cathedral) and four in North America (Folger, Illinois, Toronto and Yale).

Madan I, p.169. STC 12198.

£ 450


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19) [EDUCATION]. The parents' friend; or Extracts from the principal Works on education, from the time of Montaigne to the present day, methodized and arranged. With observations and notes by the editor.. London. Printed for J. Johnson...By T. Bensley, 1802. First edition.

8vo. In two volumes. xv, [5], 347pp, [1]. [6], 386pp, [52]. Leaves uncut. Contemporary tan paper-backed blue boards with paper lettering-pieces. Rubbed with some soiling and discolouration. Occasional marginal pencil annotation, B8 of volume one creased with small hole to margin.

A scarce educational work with chapters including; the duties of the female sex and the education of girls; public and private schools and the best manner of spending vacations; amusements and toys; and modesty and chastity.

£ 150

DUBLIN PRINTING

20) ERASMUS. CLARKE, John. Erasmi Colloquia Selecta: or, the Select Colloquies of Erasmus with an English Translation, As Literal as possible, design'd for the Use of Beginners in the Latin Tongue. Dublin. Printed by A. Reilly, for Edward Exshaw, 1742. Sixth edition, [i.e, First Irish edition].

12mo. v, [1], 232pp, [2]. With terminal advertisement leaf. Contemporary plain sheep. Slightly rubbed and marked, short crack to lower joint, some loss to upper board. Free endpapers removed, recent armorial bookplate of Denis Gibbs to FFEP. Marginal loss to final leaf, else a crisp copy.

A popular schoolbook edition of Erasmus' Colloquiorum by Hull schoolmaster John Clarke (d. 1656). First published (in Latin only) 1631, it proceeded through at least 15 seventeenth-century editions before provincial revival by publication of a parallel Latin and English version (Nottingham, 1720). This is the first Irish edition of either work, and is rare: ESTC locates only two copies, BL and NLI.

ESTC T138072.

£ 125

UNOPENED

21) [FAIRY TALE]. Miranda and the royal ram. Without illustrations. [London]. Puck & Co., 1844. First separate edition.

16mo. 8pp. A single sheet, folded and unopened. Some splitting to folds, slightly browned.

A separate and un-illustrated edition of the satirical fairy-tale poem that first appeared in George Cruikshank's Daddy Gander's Entertaining Fairy Tales (London, 1821).

£ 50


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ORIGINAL BOARDS

22) [FIELDING, Sarah]. The governess; Or, The Little female academy. Calculated for the Entertainment and Instruction of young ladies in their education. By the Author of David Simple. London. Printed for T. Cadell, 1781. Sixth edition. Revised and Corrected.

12mo. x, 146pp. In original publisher's canvass binding ('Price Bound Eighteen Pence'). Slightly rubbed to extremities, else a well preserved copy, inscribed from a mother to her daughter (S.C. Sutton), 1798 to FFEP.

Sarah Fielding (1710-68), novelist and sister of Henry Fielding. One of the most popular school-stories of the eighteenth-century, The Governess (London, 1749) was the first English novel written for juveniles. All early editions are uncommon institutionally; with ESTC locating six copies in the UK (Birmingham, BL, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, Oxford) and just three elsewhere (Columbia, Indiana and Toronto) of this present edition.

ESTC T65971.

£ 350

23) FLOWERDEW, A.[lice]. Poems on moral and religious subjects: to which are prefixed, introductory remarks on a course of

female education...Third Edition containing several additional poems. London. Printed by Whittingham and Rowland...for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1811. Third edition. 8vo. xii, 135pp, [1]. Finely bound in contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers and edges. Slightly rubbed, else a handsome copy. FFEP removed. Alice Flowerdew (1759-1830) opened an Islington boarding school for girls after her husband’s death and return from Jamaica in 1801, which, as the advert to the verso of the final leaf of this edition notes, was later moved to Bury St. Edmunds. This third (and final) edition of her sole publication which mingles refutations of ‘the inferiority of the female understanding’ with contemporarily traditional introductory remarks on female education that presumably reflect the teaching at her school; with descriptions of a standard female syllabus of French, dancing, needlework etc. All editions are scarce. OCLC and COPAC locate only four copies of this third edition, at BL, Emory, Indiana and Stanford. Jackson p.352. Jackson, Romantic poetry by women p.127.

£ 250

UNRECORDED TITLE PAGE

24) GARDINER, Richard. Richardi Gardiner Herefordensis, Aedis Christi. Oxon. haud ita pridem Canonici, Subdecani, specimen oratorium Recusum, & Declamationibus quorandam tunc temporis ibidem Art: Bac: Necnon Additamentis Studentium Heterogeniis adornatum. Oxoniae, [i.e. Oxford]. Excudebat H. Hall Academiae Typographus, Impensis Richardi Davis, 1661. Third edition.

8vo. [4], 251pp, [1]. Contemporary blind ruled sheep. Rubbed, with some loss to extremities, creasing/splitting to spine, Repaired tear without loss to title, small hole to H4 just touching text to verso. Contemporary Latin ink inscriptions of John Holmes to blank fly at front, further inscriptions to blank-fly at rear.

Richard Gardiner (1590/1-1670), Hereford born English clergyman, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and deputy orator of the University. The first edition of Gardiner's Specimen Oratorium, published in Oxford, 1653, collected just four of his Oxford orations. Included in that slim 21pp volume are speeches thanking King James I for his presentation to the Bodleian library, in 1620, of a copy of his Works, and a pro-Royalist oration on Edgehill given a week after the battle. The second edition of 1657 so drastically extended the scope of this work that it should rightfully be considered an entirely new publication, including new prose and verse orations, letters and conversational exercises. His works were reset and corrected, with additions for the third edition of 1662 including an English letter 'Upon a Church-yard that was partly turn'd into a Garden, by Mr Barradale...Vicar of the Parish Easton-Neston', and once again extended (with five new sections) for a fourth edition of 1668. All early editions are rare, but this present copy presents a bibliographical puzzle in that it features an unrecorded title page (dated 1661 and stating 'Editio tertia Auctior & Emendatior'), leaf A3 set in the same way as the standard 1662 third edition, within what is otherwise a standard copy of the expanded fourth edition of 1668. A2, the dedication to Hereford school, appears unchanged here, as in the third and fourth editions.

Not in Wing (c/f G234, G235) or Madan (c/f 2595, 2800).

£ 650


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HINDU LEARNING REVIVED

25) GRANT, Charles. A Poem on the Restoration of Learning in the East; Which Obtained Mr. Buchanan's Prize. Cambridge. Printed by R. Watts, at the University Press; and sold by Deighton..., 1805. First edition.

Quarto. [6], 29pp, [1]. With half-title. Disbound, with several blank leaves at end. Some damp-staining to final five leaves.

Charles Grant, fellow of Magdalen College Cambridge. The winner of Claudius Buchanan' prize for the best poem on the ‘Restoration of learning in the East’, this poem in three parts outlines the history of Hindu literature, and specifically the revival of a culture of learning on the banks of the Ganges under British guidance.

Jackson p.289.

£ 75

WOODCUT VIGNETTES BY BEWICK?

26) HODGSON, John. Poems, Written at Lanchester. London. Printed for the Author, and Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807. First edition.

12mo in 4s. [4], iv, 133pp, [1]. Small woodcut vignettes to text. Recent tan calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Ink inscription of Mr. Disney to head of title, which along with G1 also bears faint library stamp of Mercantile Library, Philadelphia.

John Hodgson (1779-1845), clergyman, schoolmaster and antiquary. The work is dominated by two long poems: 'The Woodlands' and 'Longovicum', a Roman fort of Britannia Inferior, modern day County-Durham, built circa 150 AD. The Bewick Collector (No.244) attributes the small woodcuts of antiquities to Thomas Bewick, though this is not in Tattersfield.

Jackson p313. Johnson 443.

£ 175

CHANCE AND SECRETS FOR JUVENILES

27) HUTTON, Dr.. Select amusements in philosophy and mathematics; proper For agreeably exercising the Minds of Youth. Translated from the French of M.L. Despiau, Formerly Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, at Paris: With several corrections and additions, particularly a large table of the chances or odds at plat. The whole recommended as an useful Book for Schools... London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1801. First edition.

12mo. xix, [1], 397pp, [3]. With terminal advertisement leaf. Uncut in original publisher's paper boards, with early re-covering of cloth-backed blue paper, manuscript lettering-piece to spine. With the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates to FEP and ink inscription of Harriet Grace to head of title. Slightly rubbed to extremities, chipped to head and foot of spine, else a crisp and fine copy. Integral closed tear, without loss, to P9.

The first English edition, translated by English mathematician Charles Hutton (1737-1823) from Despieu's Choix dâ amusements physiques et mathematiques (Paris, 1799), of this curious collection of mathematical and scientific 'amusements' designed for a juvenile audience, including chapters devoted to chance and probability, magic squares, chemicals and 'amusing secrets'.

£ 600


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LATIN BASILIKON DORON

28) JAMES I. Jacobi Primi Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regis, Fidei Defensoris, &c. [Greek title]. Sive regia institutio ad Henricum Principem primogenitum Filium suum, & haeredem proximum. Londini, [i.e. London]. Excudebat Johannes Norton, Serenissimae Regiae Majestati in Latinis, Graecis, & Hebraicis Typographus, 1604. First Latin edition.

8vo. [34], 139pp, [3]. With terminal blank. Finely bound in twentieth-century calf-backed boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Title slightly dusty, else fine. Single Latin note in manuscript to verso of terminal blank.

A fine copy of the first Latin edition of King James VI and I’s treatise on kingship and government, composed for the benefit of his eldest son, and heir, Henry Duke of Rothesay. Published in the wake of the immensely popular English edition (London, 1603), this translation into the language of contemporary European scholarship, presumably intended for a continental audience, almost certainly appeared in far smaller numbers. ESTC records copies in eight libraries in the British Isles, and nine elsewhere.

STC 14355.

£ 750

29) JANEWAY, James. A token for children: being An exact Account of the Conversion, holy and exemplary Lives, and joyful Deaths, of several young Children. In two parts. London. Printed for T. Field...Bookseller to the Society for promoting religious Knowledge among the Poor, 1785.

12mo. viii, 34, [6], 44pp. With continuous register throughout, despite separate title pages. Contemporary blind-decorated sheep. Rubbed, with loss to spine and joints (but with boards holding strong). Internally clean and crisp.

The Puritan minister James Janeway's (1636-1674) popular study of the lives, and in some cases deaths, of especially pious children was first printed 1673-4. Reprinted throughout the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries in Britain and the Americas (with a New England specific appendix composed by Cotton Mather), it was first published by T. Field in 1763. This present edition is the first recorded by ESTC to bear the name of the 'Society for promoting religious knowledge' in the imprint, and is recorded in a single library worldwide (BL).

ESTC T61172.

£ 200

30) [JAPAN]. Report on the teaching of mathematics in Japan. Prepared by the Japanese Sub-commission of the international commission on the teaching of mathematics. Tokio, [i.e. Tokyo]. [s.n.], 1912.

8vo. 15 parts in one. [12], vii, [5], 3; [1], 61; [5], 2; 69; [6], 48; [10], 7; [8], 34; [6], 38; [7], 32; [6], 45; [4], 2; 44; 2; 25; [4], 42; [6], 48; [6], 13; [7], 30pp, [2]. Contemporary, perhaps original, grey cloth, lettered in gilt. Rebacked and re-cornered in black morocco, gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Rubbed. Ink stamps of the Board of Education Library to first title with ink shelf numbers.

Numerous reports on the teaching of mathematics in Japanese elementary, middle, and higher schools; girls schools; the faculty of technology at Tokio Imperial University; and schools under both the army and navy departments.

£ 150


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CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY FOR CHILDREN?

31) JOHNSON, W.R.. A Poetical Pantheon; Or, Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods and Illustrious Heroes. With notes. London. Printed for C. Chapple, 1809. First edition.

12mo in 6s. viii, [2], 194, 2pp, [2]. With half title, eleven engraved plates, terminal errata and advertisement leaves. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, with a little loss to head and foot of spine, else a fine copy.

A rare collection of classical mythology 'Rendered into easy verse' by W.R. Johnson. This work was presumably intended for use by children, in a similar vein to Johnson's renderings of histories of England, Rome, Greece and Goldsmith's Geographical Grammar. OCLC and COPAC locate only a single copy, at BL.


32) [JONES, Stephen]. The natural history of beasts, compiled from the best authorities and illustrated by a great variety of copper plates, comprising near one hundred and twenty figures, Accurately drawn from Nature, and beautifully engraved. London. Printed for E. Newbery, 1793. First edition.

12mo in 6s. xii, 204pp. With 40 engraved plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary tree-calf, gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Very slightly rubbed, tiny chip to head of spine. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ink inscriptions to front endpapers. Some tearing to plates, with loss to top corner of plate one (without loss to image). Top corner of G3 torn away with loss of several words of text, but without loss of sense.

The rare first edition of this popular study of quadrupeds, published by Elizabeth Newbery and attributed to Stephen Jones (1763-1827), primarily designed for a juvenile audience. ESTC locates copies at only three British libraries (Birmingham, BL and Oxford), and a single copy elsewhere, at Toronto.

ESTC T118446. Roscoe J192(1).

£ 350

33) LANGBEINE, G. Ethices Compendium, A viro cl. G. Langbaenio (ut fertur) Adornatum: Et nunc demum Recognitum & Emendatum; interpolationibus hinc inde sublatis, & locis quamplurimis integritati suae restitutis. Accedit methodus Argumentandi Aristotelica... Oxoniae, [i.e. Oxford]. Impensis R. Sare, Bibliopolae Londinensis, 1714. First edition.

12mo. [4], 74, 29pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-rolled sheep. Rubbed, with some loss to spine, extremities. Later manuscript paper lettering-piece to spine, chipped. Free endpapers removed. Eighteenth-century ink inscriptions of 'Jacobi Dick, Perth 1794' and 'James Robertson, Kinross, 1799' to FEP.

A scarce printing of an introductory compendium of ethics by Gerrard Langbaine (1608/9-1658) scholar and Provost of Queens College, Oxford. First published as Philosophiae moralis compendium (Oxford, 1698), this reset and newly titled edition includes a section on Aristotelian method for the first time.

ESTC locates nine copies at British libraries (five of which in Oxford), and none elsewhere.

ESTC T120657.

£ 350


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34) LOCKE, John. Some thoughts concerning Education. London. Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1693. Second edition. 8vo. [8], 262pp, [2]. Early nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, rebacked with original spine laid down (some darkening). Slightly marked, some rubbing to boards. Internally clean and crisp, but for occasional marginal staining to signatures A-B. In recent buckram slipcase. With armorial bookplate, somewhat foxed, of John Thomas Mayne (of Teffont Evias, Wiltshire) to FEP. Composed in the wake of Locke's three contributions to the Toleration debate and largely based upon a series of letters advising his second cousin Sir Edward Clarke on the upbringing of his son, the first edition of Locke's anonymous treatise on education, now considered a foundation text in the field of child development, was quickly followed by a second. Although not identified as such, and frequently referred to as merely a separate issue, this second edition is distinguishable by no fewer than 21 corrections to (or variations from) the original text, the most well known being the emendation of 'Patronnge' to the intended 'Patronage' on A3v line 19. As Yolton points out, the presence of mixed first and second edition gatherings in the author's own copy of this book suggests the second edition was almost certainly commissioned before the Churchill's had sold out of the first. Her suggestion that the perfectionist Locke was so unhappy with the errors in the first edition that he insisted on a corrected printing does helpfully explain the absence of an edition statement here, and is supported by his presentation of copies of the second to Walter Yonge and William Molyneux. Were more presentation copies known and found to be the same, it would certainly further substantiate her theory that the first edition was suppressed. Wing L2762. Yolton 166.

£ 1,250

LOCKE'S ELEMENTS AT WHITEHAVEN

35) LOCKE, John. Elements of natural philosophy...To which is added, some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman, by the same author. Whitehaven. Printed and sold by W. Sheperd, 1754. Pirate edition?

8vo in 4s. vii, [1], 72pp. Contemporary sheep, spine ruled in gilt. Worn, with loss to spine and leather of boards. Some creasing and spotting to text. Early monogram bookplate 'JEN' to FEP.

A scarce provincial, likely pirated, edition of John Locke's short introduction to natural sciences. Included is the short introduction by Maizeaux describing the Elements as 'composed, or rather dictated for the use of a young gentleman...which Mr Locke did afterwards explain more at large to that young gentleman'. As with this introduction and the notes on reading and study also included here, the text had originally appeared in A collection of several pieces of Mr. John Locke (London, 1720), and was not separately printed until around 1750. As Yolton suggests, the proximity of Whitehaven to the Scottish border may have encouraged the publisher, of whom little is known, to publish without concern about national copyright laws. Rare, with ESTC locating copies at only five British libraries (BL, Cambridge, NLS, Oxford, Radcliffe Science Library) and six elsewhere (Huntington, John Hopkins, Michigan, NY Academy of Medicine and NY Historical Society).

ESTC T147286. Yolton 324.

£ 450


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SCOTTISH OWNERSHIP

36) LOS-RIOS, Mademoisselle de. Magasin des petits enfans, ou, recueil d'amusemens a la portee de leur age, Suivi de deux Traites instructifs & edifians. A La Haye, [i.e. The Hague]. Chez Pierre Fre'de'ric Goss, se Vend chez La Socie'te' Typographique, 1774. Third edition.

12mo. 144pp. Contemporary polished calf, gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Very slightly rubbed, mostly to lettering-piece, else a fine copy. Contemporary ink inscription (dated 1779) 'Catherine Farquharson' of Invercauld Castle to foot of title, occasional pencilled markings.

A book for juveniles containing exemplars of worthy traits, useful maxims, and a 'Porte-feuille de Milord Kint, traduit de l'Anglois en Francois' by Angelique de Los-Rios, who dedicates the work to the students of her pension to whom she claims to have read the manuscripts. First published in Anvers, 1770, it was translated into German as Das buch fur Kinder (Dresden, 1773). This edition appears to have been the first intended for an English-speaking audience, with mention of a London booksellers to the imprint and indeed contemporary Scottish provenance.

All editions are rare, and of this export edition OCLC locates a single copy, at Linkoping, Sweden. Interestingly, the BL contains an identically paginated copy published at Vilna (apparently with the involvement of John Newbery) in 1777.

£ 200

37) [MALCOLM, David]. The Sorrows of Love, A Poem, In Three Books. Edinburgh. Printed by Mundell & Son, 1801. First edition.

12mo. [8], 135pp, [1]. With half-title. Uncut in original marbled paper boards, buff spine. Rubbed, with some loss to spine and a little marking to boards.

The first work by Scottish academic, minister and schoolteacher Rev. David Malcolm (1763-1833). A student of the classical languages of Greek, Hebrew and Latin, Malcolm's failed application to the chair of Oriental Languages at Oxford in the 1790s appears to have provoked his return to preach and teach, initially with his father but later under his own account, at Madderty in Perthshire. His only work, republished in 1814 with additional matter, this poem achieved little critical or commercial success, and is now uncommon. OCLC and COPAC locate six copies in the British Isles (BL, Edinburgh, Glasgow, NLI, NLS, St. Andrews) and seven elsewhere (BNF, Harvard, Illinois, Kansas, Melbourne, North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and Stanford).

Jackson p.258. £ 325

38) MAVOR, William. The New Speaker, Or English Class-Book: Consisting of...VII. Select Poetical Varieties. To Which are Prefixed, A Short System of Rhetoric... London. Printed, for J. Wallis...by H.L. Galabin, 1801. First edition.

12mo in 6s. xl, 423pp, [1]. With engraved frontispiece of a declaiming Demosthenes. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A trifle rubbed to extremities. Ink inscription of 'Whitfield Hall, 1877' to head of title. Light soiling to frontispiece, title and margin of first quarter of the work.! William Forydce Mavor (1758-1837), prolific educational author. Published in the same year as his popular and much reprinted English Spelling Book, which featured woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, this present work was promoted as an updated version of William Enfield's elocution guide The Speaker (London, 1774). The final section includes a popular collection of eighteenth-century poems, including, amongst others, Goldsmith's 'Traveller', Thomson's 'Seasons', Pope's 'Messiah', Burns' 'To a Mountain Daisy' and three of Mavor's own pieces.



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UNRECORDED SECOND EDITION

39) MENDENHALL, W.. The Classification of Words; or, the english youth's first step in the Study of Language: but more particularly in the grammar of his own...Designed as an Introduction to Murray's Grammar. London. Published and sold by Henry Harris, 1817. Second edition.

12mo in 6s. [6], [9]-46pp. With large folding engraved table 'consisting of a systematical combination of all the parsing lessons contained in this work'. Contemporary specked sheep. Rubbed, with slight loss to spine. Some damp-staining. 1830s ink inscription and several pencil trials to front endpapers.

A rare early educational volume by William Mendenhall (1778-1853), first published in Bath in 1813, reprinted in Philadelphia in 1814, and appearing under a London imprint for the first time in this edition. The author explains that his basic system of grammar, which consists of the addition of adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs and propositions to a basic noun or article has two main objects: 'to remove some of those obstacles which impede the progress of youth in their first entry on the study of language in general' and 'to initiate the English scholar in the first principles of parsing in the shortest time possible'.

COPAC and OCLC locate a single copy of the first provincial edition (at Glasgow); this second British edition is entirely unrecorded.

£ 200

A HELP TO YOUNG COMMUNICANTS

40) PATRICK, Symon. A book for beginners Or, a Help to Young Communicants that They may be fitted for the Holy Communion, and receive it with profit. London. Printed for John Norton, 1681. Third edition.

12mo. [6], 180p, [4]. With engraved frontispiece (not included in pagination) tipped to gutter margin of title, without terminal leaf H12, likely either a terminal blank or (if the second edition is any guide) an advertisement leaf. Contemporary blind-ruled calf over wooden boards, neatly rebacked to style. Some damp-staining, marginal chipping and dog-earing throughout, with occasional tears/paper flaws without loss. Ink inscriptions to verso of frontispiece and occasional pen trials to text.

One of the lesser known works of Symon Patrick (1626-1707), Lord Bishop of Ely, A book for beginners is a practical and moral guide for beginner communicants. Completed in 1680 it was intended, according to Patrick's autobiography, 'for children and servants', and includes as chapters XI and XII their respective duties, as well as sections on the use of books and 'Directions for such as cannot read'.

This third edition is unrecorded in the usual databases, and indeed all early editions are rare; ESTC locates copies at only three locations each of the respective first (Huntington, Oxford, St. Davids) and second (Brown, UCLA and Union Theological Seminary) editions.

Not in Wing.

£ 650


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PROVINCIAL LANGUAGE GUIDE

41) PORQUET, Monsieur Louis Fenwick de. Le tresor de l'ecolier francais; or, the art of translating english into french, by means of an english and french index at the end of the book, Of all the Words contained in the Tresor; being a compendium of the most useful words used in conversation; In Order to acquire both a theoretical & practical or colloquial Knowledge of that Language. On a new system, unknown to modern teachers. A work intended only for those who have learned the first rudiments of that language. Chelmsford. Printed for the author, by Meggy & Chalk. Sold by Baldwin, Craddock, & Joy, 1825. First edition.

12mo. [10], 150pp. Stab-stitched within contemporary (original?) roan-backed paper boards, gilt. Slightly rubbed, contents a trifle shaken. Contemporary ink and pencilled inscriptions/notes to endpapers and blank fly-leaves, occasional pencilled markings to text, else a remarkably crisp copy.

The first edition of what was to become a popular and successful 'all-in-one' guide to the French language for school children, the English text designed to be translated into French using word lists. The list of subscribers is largely drawn from provincial schools, but does feature 'Pike, W. Esq. Van Dieman's Land', who had ordered five copies. Publication was transferred to London for the 2nd and subsequent editions, and few copies of this provincial debut are recorded in institutional libraries. OCLC and COPAC together locate copies at BL, Cambridge, NLS and Oxford only.

£ 150

42) [ROBIN HOOD]. The pindar of wakefield; or, the history and exploits of George A Green, fellow champion and competitor with Robin Hood. London. Printed by T. Maiden...for J. Roe...And Ann Lemoine, [1810].

12mo in 6s. 36pp. With engraved frontispiece, and a single woodcut vignette to text. Later paper wraps. Occasional marginal loss, some spotting, offsetting to title.

A scarce early nineteenth-century chap-book edition of the English metrical romance of George a Green, the pinner/pindar or 'pound keeper' of Wakefield, who by popular repute resisted Robin Hood and his merry men in Yorkshire.

OCLC locates only two copies in British libraries (Birmingham, Oxford) and two elsewhere (Columbia and Otago).

£ 75

BELFAST ASTRONOMER'S JUVENILIA

43) ROBINSON, Thomas Romney. Juvenile Poems By Thomas Romney Robinson; To Which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Author, By A Member of the Belfast Literary Society. Belfast. Printed By J. Smyth & D. Lyons, 1806. First edition.

8vo. xxxii, [2], vi, ix-xxx, [2], 106pp, [2]. With half-title, portrait frontispiece and terminal advertisement leaf. Contemporary diced calf, neatly rebacked with contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed to extremities, else fine. Ink inscription (slightly shaved) of R. Edgeworth to head of title.

The juvenile poems of the precocious Thomas Romney Robinson (1792-1883), astronomer and physicist, Irish-born son of the English portraitist Thomas Robinson. Published in the author's thirteenth year to almost 1500 subscribers, it includes a poem addressed to William Hayley (on his 'Triumph of Music') and 'Verses on the Antrim Yeomanry'.

Jackson p.298. Johnson 771. £ 175


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44) ROSCOE, William. The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. London. Printed for J. Harris, 1807. First edition.

16mo. [15]ff, [1.] Consisting of engraved frontispiece, engraved title and 13 further engraved leaves, all hand-coloured, and a single terminal blank. Stitched within original publisher's buff printed wraps. Preserved in a recent cloth folding-box. Rubbed, with some loss to spine, staining, tearing and creasing to wrappers. Some browning and marking to text, dog-earing, with occasional marginal tear. Inked price to upper wrap, contemporary ink inscription to verso of upper wrap.

A rare survival in the original wraps of writer and abolitionist William Roscoe's (1753-1831) most commercial poem, and one of the earliest examples of a popular children's book designed to both educate and invigorate the imagination of its readership. Composed for his large family, and particularly his son Robert, early appearances, several of which unauthorised, appeared set to music (May 1806), in the Lady's Monthly Museum and shortly after, but in the same month, the Gentleman's Magazine (both November, 1806). John Harris produced this small format edition, with large hand-coloured engravings of various animal characters progressing to the eponymous butterfly's ball and was met with immediate success and spawned a number of imitations. Several variants of the first edition exist; but none of the 6 recorded in Marjorie Moon's John Harris' Books for youth (London, 1992) match this copy - with a terminal blank featuring the watermark 18[??] and the terminal engraving the watermark [18]07.

Jackson p.307. Moon 725; unknown variant.

£ 750

ROSCOE BOUND WITH HIS IMITATORS

45) ROSCOE, William. The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. London. Printed for J. Harris, 1807.

[15ff] engraved, printed on one side only, incorporating frontispiece, title and 13 plates by Mulready. Paper watermarked 1806.

[Bound with:] SMITH, Mr. The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. By Mr. Roscoe. To which is added, an original poem, entitled A Winter's Day. By Mr. Smith, of Stand. London. Printed for J. Harris..., 1808. First edition? 6, 11-16pp, [lacking pp7-10] with engraved frontispiece and two further plates. Neat paper repairs to margins of slightly dogearred frontispiece.

[And:] [DORSET, Catherine Anne]. The Peacock "At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball. Written by a Lady, and illustrated with elegant engravings. London. Printed for J. Harris…, 1807. 16pp. With frontispiece and five engraved plates by Mulready.


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[And:] [DORSET, Catherine Anne]. The Lion's Masquerade. A Sequel to the Peacock at Home. Written by a Lady. Illustrated with Elegant Engravings. London. Printed for J. Harris..., 1807. First edition. 16pp. With frontispiece and 3 engraved plates (only, of 5). Corner of one plate torn away.

[And:] W.B.. The Elephant's Ball, and Grand Fete Champetre. Intended as a Companion to those much admired Pieces, The Butterfly's Ball, and The Peacock "At Home.". Illustrated with elegant engravings. London. Printed for J. Harris..., 1808. 6, 11-16pp [lacking pp.7-10]. With frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Some tearing/pencil trials.

[And:] [ARNOLD, Samuel James]. The Tyger's Theatre. London. Printed for E. Tabart..., [1807]. 31pp, [1]. With folding engraved frontispiece and five further engraved plates. Some creasing to frontispiece.

[And:] The Lioness's Ball; Being A Companion to the Lion's Masquerade. London. Printed for C. Chapple...., [1808]. 16pp. With hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and five further hand-coloured plates. 16mo. Finely bound in recent antique-style half-calf over marbled boards, gilt.

The Butterfly's Ball recounts a party attended by personified insects and other animals, and was composed by the author for the children of his own family. Proving the most successful and enduring of all the poetry of William Roscoe (1753-1831), immense contemporary demand necessitated frequent reprints and encouraged a plethora of imitators. This volume contains a total six items, mostly printed for John Harris, of which two are defective in text and one in illustration. The final item, The Lioness' Ball, includes beautiful illustrations apparently by William Mulready and is rare: copies of the first (London, 1807) and this slightly later edition are found at BL, California, Florida, Indiana, Philadelphia Free, Princeton and Toronto.

Jackson p.307; Not in Jackson; Jackson p.311, Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p.106; Jackson p.310, Jackson Romantic Poetry by Women, p.105; Not in Jackson; Not in Jackson; Not in Jackson.

£ 450


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46) [ROSCOE, William - Imitations]. The quadrupeds' pic-nic. London. William Pickering, 1840. First edition.

Square 16mo?. 32pp. Contemporary (original?) publisher's limp green cloth. Text block detached, slight fraying to extremities of cloth.

Although unsigned to the title, and generally attributed to Mrs Sherwood, this imitation of Roscoe’s Butterfly Ball and Mrs. Dorset's Peacock at Home series of animal-based juvenile stories includes an author's note signed F.B.C.

Rare, with OCLC locating only three copies in British libraries (BL, Cambridge, NAL) and four elsewhere (Auckland, Baker/Taylor, Philadelphia and UCLA).

£ 150

47) RUSSELL, William. Sir William Russell's advice to his son. Written in the year 1689. Dedicated to the father of every family. Now first published. London. Printed for J. Mawman, 1815. First edition.

8vo. [6], 52pp, [2] ads. Rebacked contemporary calf with recent contrasting red lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing to boards. Armorial bookplate of J.W. Middleton Berry, Ballynegall to FEP.

A collection of advice by Sir William Russell (1643-1705), politician, published for posterity and the use of his great grandson, John Russell. Despite the dedication to the father of every family the rules given are applicable only to the son of a man of station and fortune, and are not calculated for persons from a more ordinary walk of life. The advice, though often practical and concerned in the main with good moral standing, has a tone that one suspects was dated even in 1815. A rare work with COPAC locating only three copies in British libraries (Aberdeen, BL and Edinburgh).

£ 200


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48) SANDERSON, Thomas. Original Poems. Carlisle. Printed by F. Jollie; and Sold by W. Clarke..., 1800. First edition.

12mo in 6s. xxiii, [1], 238pp. Recent buckram-backed paper boards, paper lettering-piece. Fading to boards. Original stab-stitching holes to gutter margin, blind-stamp of the Wigan Free Library to margin of title, with faint withdrawn stamp to verso, occasional light marking.

Thomas Sanderson (1759-1829), Carlisle schoolmaster. Subscribers to this relatively successful provincial publication included Dibdin, Ogilvie, Southey and Thomas Bewick, who presented his copy to his daughter Jane. Very much a fixture of the Cumberland and wider dialect literary scene, Sanderson wrote a memoir of Joseph Relph, was a friend of Robert Anderson, and includes an 'Elegy to the memory of Robert Burns the Scottish Poet' in this, his only published collection of verse.

ESTC T43439. Jackson p.244. Johnson 795.

£ 175

49) [SANDHAM, Elizabeth]. Providential Care: a tale, founded on facts. London. Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1825.

12mo. v, [2], 2-155pp, [1]. Contemporary red calf backed marbled boards, gilt. Rubbing to extremities with loss to board corners and head of spine. Extensive loss to blank FFEP with ink inscription 'E. Clutterbuck' to recto, light foxing throughout, short tear to margin of I - just touching text.

A tale of the interposition of Providence regarding two orphan children raised in a parish workhouse, based upon a true account.

£ 50

HALIFAX TALES

50) SCHMID, Christopher von. One hundred new pretty tales translated from the German of Christopher von Schmid... Halifax. Milner and Sowerby, 1862.

16mo in 8s. viii, 125pp, [3]. With extra-engraved title and frontispiece, half-title and terminal advertisement leaf. Original publisher's red cloth, decorated and titled in blind and gilt. A.E.G. A fine copy.

Christoph von Schmid (1768-1854), pioneering German juvenile writer and educator, best known for his Das Blumenkorbchen (Landshutt, 1823). A rare and handsomely produced provincial selection of tales first published in Halifax in 1857. OCLC locates only two copies (Oxford and Birmingham) of that edition, and a further copy of an edition of 1864 (Melbourne), but not this edition.

£ 175


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EARLY LITHOGRAPHY FOR CHILDREN?

51) [STANDISH, Hugh]. The winter's night; or, the admiral, the farmer, and the old marine, a tale, in rhyme. For children. Embellished with Five Copper-Plate Etchings. Taunton. Printed and Published by J.W. Marriott, 1815. First edition.

30pp, [2]. With engraved frontispiece and four further plates, one of which apparently lithographed, and a terminal blank. Plate captions slightly shaved.

[Bound with]. VAUX, F.B. The Dew-Drop; or, the summer morning's walk. London. Printed for Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1816. First edition. 29pp, [3]. With engraved frontispiece and four further plates.

16mo. Contemporary calf, gilt. Slightest of rubbing to joints, else a fine copy. Contemporary ink inscriptions to FFEP.

A remarkably well-preserved pair of rare, finely illustrated books of verse for children. The winter’s night, provincially published in Somerset, is reputed to house four engraved and one lithographed plate which, if correct, would make this title one of the earlier examples of lithography for children. The Dew-Drop is one of the more uncommon works of juvenile writer Frances Bowyer Vaux (1785-1854).

COPAC and OCLC together locate six copies of the first work (BL, Cambridge and V&A in the UK, NAL, Pierpoint Morgan and UCLA elsewhere), and just three of the second work (BL, Oxford and UCLA)

Neither work in Jackson or Johnson.

£ 1,250


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52) TOWNSEND, George. Poems; by George Townsend, of Trinity College, Cambridge. London. Printed by A.J. Valpy...for Deighton, Cambridge; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810. First edition.

8vo. xxv, [3], 148pp, [2]. Later red buckram, gilt. Slightly trimmed to fore-edge, shaving a single character to the final leaf (additional subscribers) only. Closed tear to F1, without loss.

A collection of 10 poems by a Cambridge student, later clergyman, who secured a extraordinary number of subscriptions from other students, a large number of which at his own Trinity College. Amongst those elsewhere are the book collector Richard Heber and his half-brother Reginald. The longest piece of the volume, in two parts, is 'Ramsgate; or the visitors of a Watering-place'.

Jackson p.343.

£ 100

53) TURNER, Reverend R[ichard].. The Young Geometrician's Companion; Being A New and Comprehensive Course of Practical Geometry; Containing I. An easy Introduction to Decimal Arithmetic, with the Extractions of the Square, Cube, Biquadrate, and other Roots. II. Such Definitions, Axioms, Problems, Theorems, and Characters, as necessarily lead to the Knowledge of this Science. III. Planometry...IV. Stereometry...V. The Sections of a Cone....VI. The Platonic Bodies...To which is added A Collection of curious and interesting Problems...Calculated for the Use of Schools and Academies, And is necessary to be gone through by the Scholar before he proceeds to the higher and more abstruse Branches of the Mathematics, indivisibles, Infinites, Algebra, and Fluxions.. London. Printed for S. Crowder, 1787. First edition.

12mo. xi, [1], 240pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcut diagrams. Contemporary sheep, gilt. A trifle rubbed, chipping to head and foot of spine, joints cracked but boards strongly bound and firmly attached. Bookplate of Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner to FEP.

Richard Turner (bap.1720-d.1791), Anglican clergyman and educational writer on mathematical and scientific subjects. Turner Matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford and later received an honorary doctorate from Glasgow University (1785). His various introductory guides to book-keeping (1761), gauging (1761), geography and natural phenomena (1763), astronomy and trigonometry (both 1765) reference his clerical position as Vicar at Elmley, in Worcestershire, but also describe him as a teacher of 'geometry, geography and philosophy at Worcester'. This present work is an extensively illustrated introduction to geometry for young scholars, and is remarkably rare. ESTC locates only three copies in British libraries (BL, Glasgow, NLS) and three elsewhere (Boston O'Neill, Free Library of Philadelphia and Michigan.

ESTC T112951.

£ 450


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54) VIDA, Marco Girolamo. Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis, De Arte Poetica, Libri Tres, adjiciuntur selecta quaedam ex Macrobio. In usum scholae Wintoniensis. Winton, [i.e. Winchester]. Impensis J. Burdon, 1772. First .

12mo in 6s. [4], 107pp, [1]. With half-title. Contemporary polished calf, gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Slightly rubbed to extremities, small crack at head of upper joint, upper board a trifle faded, some browning to text, else a fine copy.

A rare Winchester printing of the three books of the Horatian-influenced didactic poem De Arte Poetica by Marco Girolamo Vida (1485-1566), Italian humanist and cleric. ESTC locates a single copy worldwide, at Bowdoin.

ESTC N68115. £ 400

NORWICH POETRY OF AN OXFORD MAN

55) WALKER, John. Poems, by the Late Rev. John Walker, A.B. Formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, Gospeller of the Cathedral Church, and Minister of St. Peter's Per Mounter Gate and St. John's Timberhill, Norwich; Vicar of Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, and of Bawdsey.... Norwich. Printed and Sold By Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson.., 1809. First edition.

8vo. [22], 135pp, [1]. With half-title. Uncut in original publisher's two tone paper boards, paper lettering-piece to spine. Slight loss to spine, else a fine copy. Ink inscription of Edward Mugridge to half-title, and a short manuscript note in his hand to blank-fly at rear, mentioning a poem composed in the memory of Walker that is 'to be found in my common-place book for 1809 - page 87'.

A remarkable survival in fresh unsophisticated condition of a posthumous collection of poems by Rev. John Walker (1754-1807), Vicar of Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk. Following a mostly local but occasionally academic subscribers' list is an advertisement leaf explaining that whilst several of the poems were previously printed under the title 'Academic trifles', other sonnets and a verse translation of Hesiod's Georgics are new to the press. It is in all likelihood, then, that the anonymously published Academic Trifles. A Collection of poetical pieces. By a gentleman of Oxford (Oxford 1778), were written by a young Walker, student Magdalen College. Whilst these two works seem to have been the limit of his own output, he was also involved in the local promotion of poetry, sponsoring a subscription for the publication of the 24 year old Elizabeth Bentley's Genuine Poetical Compositions, on Various Subjects (Norwich, 1791). COPAC locates only two copies, at Oxford and BL. OCLC adds three further locations, at British Columbia, California and Stanford.

Not in Jackson. Johnson 932.

£ 400

56) [WATERLAND, Daniel]. Advice to a Young Student. With a method of study for the Four First Years. London. Printed for John Crownfield, 1730. First edition.

8vo in 4s. [8], 32pp. With half-title. Recent cloth with gilt title to spine. FFEP showing slightly soiled and creased with contemporary ink annotation to recto, armorial bookplate of Denis Gibbs to FEP, very slight marginal loss to final leaf.

Daniel Waterland (1683-1740) English theologian, fervent controversialist on behalf of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity, and Master at Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1714. His Advice to a Young Student provides direction for the study of classics, divinity and philosophy with a book-list promoting suggested reading material provided for each.

ESTC T21056.

£ 150


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57) [WESTMINSTER COLLEGE]. Lusus Westmonasterienses, sive Epigrammatum et Poematum minorum Delectus; Quibus adjicitur, nunc primum edits, solitudo regia. Londini [i.e. London]. Apud Johannem Nourse, 1740. Fourth edition.

12mo. viii, 292pp. With ornate woodcut initials and head- and tail- pieces. Contemporary calf, five raised bands, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints cracked. Slight tears to FFEPs with ink inscription 'Griffith Pemb. Cob. 1750'. Very small hole to A4, overall an internally clean and crisp copy.

A selection of Latin poetry studied at Westminster College, with a poem in English on Queen Carolina.

ESTC T65272.

£ 150

WITH SUNDAY SCHOOL INSCRIPTION

58) WHITCHURCH, Samuel. The sunday school; a poem. London. Published by W. Kent, 1816. First edition.

8vo. 79pp, [1]. With engraved frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's pink paper boards, rebacked to style. Some marking and a little rubbing to boards. Near contemporary ink inscription (fittingly, mentioning a Sunday school) to head of FFEP. Leaves occasionally roughly opened, with tear through text to D6, without loss.

A rare work on the state of Sunday school education by Samuel Whitchurch (fl.1785-1816), Bath preacher and seaman in the eighteenth-century navy.

Outside of local Westcountry libraries, OCLC locates copies at UC Davies and Stanford only. COPAC adds no further.

Jackson p.413. £ 200

ETON GRAMMAR

59) WILLYMOT, William. Shorter Examples to lily's grammar-rules, for Childrens Latin Exercises; with an explanation to each rule...For the Use of Eton School. London. Printed for W. Innys, and J. Richardson...and J. & T. Pote, at Eton, 1756. Sixth edition.

144pp. [Bound with:] [Drophead-title: The English Proprieties In Dr. Willymot's Shorter Examples]. [London?]. [Printed for C. Bathurst, and J. Richardson, 1756?]. 77pp, [1]. 12mo. Contemporary blind-rolled sheep. Worn, with loss to spine, slight cracking to joints, some wear to boards, some dog-earring and occasional marginal loss. Without free endpapers, some ink inscriptions and pen trials to fixed endpapers and text.

The sixth (and final) eighteenth-century edition of William Willymot's (d.1737) grammatical examples, drawn from fifteenth-century educator William Lily's widely used Eton grammar. As ESTC notes, this was likely issued with the supplement present here (but recorded separately as ESTC T94648)

Rare, with ESTC locating only two copies worldwide (BL and Illinois).

ESTC T94649. £ 150


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60) WOOD, Anthony a. Modius Salium. A collection of such pieces of humour (Not to be found in others of this Kind). As prevail'd at oxford in the Time of Mr. Anthony a Wood. Collected by himself, and publish'd from his Original Manuscript. Oxford. Printed for R. Clements; and sold by R. Baldwin, 1751. First edition.

12mo in 6s. 36pp. Finely bound in blue half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, internally fine and crisp.

A slim and relatively uncommon collection of seventeenth-century Oxford witticisms arranged by Anthony Wood (1632-1695), English antiquary best known for his magisterial history of Oxford alumni Athenae Oxonienses (London, 1691-2).

ESTC T128579.

£ 250

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