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The Banquet of Euphrosyne: A Collection of the most Esteemed Songs, Scottish and English
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Hawick : Printed and Sold by R. Armstrong..., 1811. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 178 x 92 mms., pp. [ii], 276, engraved portrait of Allan Ramsay as frontispiece, newly recased in boards, with paper label on spine; first five leaves slightly wormed at upper right margin, text a little browned. Euphrosyne is the goddess of good cheer,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pleasing Reflections on Life and Manners with Essays, Characters & Poems Moral & Entertaining; Principally selected from Fugitive Publications. A new Edition enlarged
by WRIGHT (George), editor:
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London, Printed for S Hooper..., 1788. 12mo, 160 x 90 mms., pp. vii [misnumbered vi, viii blank], 310 [311 - 312 adverts], engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, contemporary calf, rebacked in lighter calf, gilt title on spine; slight wear to extremities, but a good copy. George Wright published several collections of this sort; this is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Consilia: Or, Thoughts on Several Subjects; Affectionately submitted to the Consideration of a Young Friend. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged
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London: Printed for T. Cadell...; and I Sewell, ..., 1786. Small 8vo (in 4s), 160 x 92 mms., pp. [iv], 184, contemporary lightly mottled calf, spine richly gilt (but rubbed), red morocco label; slight wear to joints, but a very good copy. The first edition of 1785, of which I have not been able to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Letters of Wit, Politicks and Morality. Written Originally in Italian, by the famous Cardinal Bentivoglio; in Spanish by Signior Don Guevara; in Latin by St. Jerome, Cato Uticensts, Aurelian the Emperor, and Queen Zenobia; and in French by Father Rapin, &c. Also select letters of Gallantry out of the Greek, of Aristænetus; the Spanish of Don Quevedo; the Latin of Petronius; and the French of Count Bussy Rabutin, Madam Maintenon, Mr. Fontenelle, &c. Done into English, by the Honourable H- H- Esq; Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Savage. Mr. Boyer, &c. To which is added a large collection of original letters of love and friendship. Written, by several gentlemen and ladies, particuly, the Honourable Mr. Granville, Tho. Cheek, Esq; Capt. Ayloffe; Dr. G- Mr. B-y; Mr. O-n, Mr. B-r, Mr. G-, Mr. F-r, Mrs. C--l, under the name of Astra; Mrs. W-n under the name of Daphne, &c
by BOYER (Abel), editor:
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London, Printed for J. Hartley, next door to the King's-head Tavern in Holborn: W. Turner in Lincolns-Inn-Fields: and Tho. Hodgson over against Grays-Inn-Gate, in Holborn 1701. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 183 x 112 mms., pp. [xviii], 40, ,[2],41-437[i.e.427] 428 adverts], title-page very slightly scored, contemporary panelled calf; front joint slightly cracked but front hinge reinforced, top and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Oxford Sausage: Or, Select Poetical Pieces, Written by the most Celebrated Wits of the University of Oxford. Adorned with cuts, engraved in a new taste, and designed by the best masters
by WARTON (Thomas):
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London, Printed for J. Fletcher and Co...., 1764. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 157 x 94 mms., pp. [ii] iii - viii, 9 -203 [204 blank], full-page woodcut on page [17], 21 woodcut head- and tail-pieces, bound in 19th century half red sheepskin, marbled boards, gilt spine; some slight wear to spine, but a good to very good… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thoughts, Essays, and Maxims, Chiefly Religious and Political
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London: Printed for T. Lewis...and sold by S. Bladon..., 1768. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 153 x 91 mms., pp. [iv] 3] 4 - 143 [144 blank], contemporary calf, red leather label; top margin of title-page with two small holes, joints slightly cracked, rear joint slightly wormed, but a good copy. Charles Howard, the tenth Duke of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Choice Spirit's Chaplet; Or, A Poesy from Parnassus. Being a Select Collection of Songs, from The most approved Authors; Many of them Written and the Whole compiled by George Alexander Stevens, Esq
by STEVENS (George Alexander):
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Whitehaven: Printed by and for John Dunn; and Sold by Messrs. Hawes, Clarke, and Collins, in Pater-noster-rOW, lONDON. 1771. FIRST EDITION. 12MO, 148 X 83 MMS.,, PP. [III] - X, 360 [361 Errata, 362 blank], contemporary sheepskin, leather label, lacks prelims and thus either blank leaf or half-title before title-page, text fingered and soiled, but a goodish copy… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Beauties of the Poets. Or, A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry. From the Most Eminent Authors
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London: Printed by J. Fry..., And Sold by T. Evans, Fielding and Walker, and G. Robinson, : Wilson and Nichol, and S. Evans; J. Phillips, and W. Davenhill; J. Gough, and G. Street, London; W. Pine, and T. Mills, in Bristol; D. Prince, in Oxford, Fletcher and Hodson, in Cambridge, 1777. 12mo (in 6s), 173 x 103 mms.,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Beauties of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Carefully Selected from his Works. Containing his Admirable System of Early Education - Thought on Religion - Atheism and Infidelity - The Immortality of the Soul, &c. To which are prefixed some of his Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion
by TILLOTSON (John):
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Dublin: Printed for T. Stewart, by T. M. Bates, 1794. 8vo, 210 x 12o mms., pp. [iii] iv - ix [x blank, xi Contents] xii - xviii, 316, including half-title, early 19th century half plum sheepskin, marbled boards, gilt spine; collating [pi]2 b8 B-U8x6, but lacking two unsigned leaves with three pages of subscribers, binding a little worn, but… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Index to Mankind: Or Maxims Selected from The Wits of all Nations, For the Benefit of the Present Age, and of Posterity: Intermix'd with some Curious Reflections, with a Preface by the late Mr. Pope. [The Student's Companion: Being a Collection of Historical Quotations From the best Ancient and Modern Author, on All Sorts of Subjects, Alphabetically Digested, page 85]
by [SMART (Christopher)]
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Dublin: Printed by and for James Hoey..., 1754. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION. 12mo, 168 x 96 mms., pp. [x] 9 - 176, with additional sectional title at page 85, as above, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, with red leather label; annotations in pencil on verso of leaf before title-page, names on front paste-down end-paper and title-page marked out, short… Read more about this item Item Price
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Gems of British Poesy, on Various Subjects, intended to Enforce the Practice of Virtue
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London: Printed for the Author, By W. Day, 17, Goswell Streeet; Sold by G. Ford..., 1826,. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo,, 160 x 96 mms., pp. [v] vi - xi [xii blank], [9] 10 - 188, including half-title, engraved portrait (by J. Shurry after J. Palmen) as frontispiece, last two leaves printed as doubleton, contemporary half… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thesaurus Secretorum Curiosorum in quo Curiosa non Solum ad Omnes Corporis Humani cùm internos, tùm externos Morbos curandos, sed etiam ad Cutis, Faciei, aliarumque Partium ornatum, formam, nitorem, & elegantiam conciliandos continentur Secreta. Quibus Insuper Quamplurima Varii Generis non minus Curiosa, quam utilia addita sunt Secreta. Cume Indice Partium, Capitum, & Materiarum qua in toto Opere continentur
by [?CRAMER (John or Gabriel)]:
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Coloniae Allobrogum Sumptibus Societatis. 1709. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 212 x 127 mms., pp.[xvi], 552, 653 - 668, title-page in red and black with"E. Libris Rd. Hamilton" on the top margin, recently rebound in half dark brown calf, morocco label, marbled boards; title-page a bit soiled, but a good copy. The attribution of authorship to Gabriel or… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Muse's Mirrour: Being a Collection of Poems, Written by the following Authors: Mr. Pope Swift Churchill Gray Colman Wilkes Lloyd Thornton Garrick Ansty Jernyngham C. Denis Sheridan Cumberland Cunningham Edmund Waller Julius Mickle Schomberg J. Philips Law. Sterne Newell-Puddicombe T. Vaughan Mr. Soam Jenyns H. Kelly Fowkes Woty Aaron Hill Bryant Edwards McMillan Cha. Crawford Wm. Whitehead Paul Whitehead Evelyn Meadows Dr. Parnell Young Goldsmith Berkley Landhorne S. Johnson Sheridan Burton Rev. Mr. Mason Caswal P. Stockdale Rev. Mr. Ogilvie Nath. Lloyd Lord Carlisle Lyttelton Palmerston Sir Tho. H. Williams Alex Schomberg Hon. C. Townshend Mr. Fitzpatrick C. Fox Mr. Erskine Capt. Thompson Rice Lady M. W. Montague Mrs. Montague Lady Craven Mrs. Vaughan Lennox Greville Miss Sally Carter H. Moore Aikin. Second Edition
by POETRY. ANTHOLOGY
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London: Sold by J. Debrett..., and Richardson and Urquhart..., 1783. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, 175 x 110 mms., pp. [ii], viii, 263 [264 blank]; [ii], 278 [279 Errata, 280 blank, contemporary or slightly later plum sheepskin, gilt border on covers, gilt rules across spine, red leather label; B3 and B4 signed E3 and E4 in… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Golden Treasury. Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes. Revised and Enlarged
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London: Mamilllan and Co..., 1922. Small 8vo, 149 x 96 mms., pp. [xii], 387 [388 colophon], vignette on title-page, finely bound in full soft-grain red morocco, gilt lozenge on front cover, gilt spine, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. A fine copy, with this inscription on the recto of the front free end-paper, "To D. E. Nicholson/ With… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alcuni Opusculetti de le Cose Morali del Divino Plutarco. In questa lingua nuovamente tradotti, Nuovamente ristampati, & corretti; Con la gionta di una tabola delle sentenze piu notibili, che in quelli si contengono
by PLUTARCH
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In Venetia Appresso P. Gironimo Giglio, e compagni 1559. Small 8vo, 151 x 100 mms., foliated [1] 2 - 163 [5 verso colophone with triangular emblem with lillies], with engraved vignette on title-page, with Giglio's "gigli" (lillies) enclosed in an oval with three lilies above a pyramid figure, final blank leaf with contemporary note on recto, contemporary vellum(worn… Read more about this item Item Price
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Beauties in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Most Celebrated Authors, Antient and Modern, viz. Blair, Goldsmith, Sterne, Percival, Aikin, Brooke, Gessner, Drummond, Pliny, Robertson, Cicero, Jenyns, Fordyce, Johnson, Harris, Collins, Carter, Moore, Cunningham, Shenstone, Merrick, Cotton, Greville, Addison, Parnell, Melmoth, Gray, etc. With some Original Pieces. The Whole Calculated to Exhibit the most striking Pictures of Virtue and Vice to the Minds of Youth
by BEAUTIES
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Stockton: Printed and Sold by R. Christopher. 1783. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 175 x 98 mms., pp. xii, [13] - 300, including half-title, later full calf, spine blocked in gilt; ex-library, Winchester Public Library, "Withdrawn," two library labels before half-title, library stamp on verso of title-page, and small circular library stamp on top margin of page [13]. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Prose on Several Occasions; Accompanied by Some Pieces in Verse
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London: Printed for T. A. Cadel..., 1787. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 3 volumes. 12mo, 181 x 107 mms., pp. [ix], vi - xvi [xvii - xxiii Contents, xxiv blank], 266; [viii], 318; [xiii], iv - xx [xxiii - xxiv txt], 290, including half-title in each volume, engraved portrait (by J. Hall after Gainsborough) in volume 1, contemporary… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Primo Volume] Della Scielta di Stanze Di diuersi Autori Toscani, Raccolte, & nuouamente poste in luce da M. Agostino Ferentilli., Et da lui con diligenza riuste al Signor Francesco Gentile. Con licenza, & priuileglo.
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Venetia, ad instantia de' Giunti di Firenza, 1571. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 132 x 64 mms., pp. [xxxiv], 548 [549 - 551 errat, 552 blank], printed throughout in italics, woodcut and library stamp on title-page, later red morocco (probably early 18th century), gilt borders, black morocco label; first two words of title removed with paper replacement, some… Read more about this item Item Price
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Beauties of Mackenzie Consisting of Selections from his Prose and Poetry
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London: Printed by T. Davison, For Thomas Tegg..., [no date], [c. 1840]. 12mo, 130 x 82 mms., pp. [ii], 212, engraved portrait by Charles Heath of Mackenzie as frontispiece, contemporary half green sheepskin, binder's cloth,, red morocco label; portrait a little foxed and off-setting on title-page, but a good copy. Howard compiled many of these… Read more about this item Item Price
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Beauties of Paley, Consisting of Selections from his Theological, Moral, and Political Works
by PALEY (William). HOWARD (Alfred):
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London: Printed by T. Davison, For Thomas Tegg..., [no date], [c. 1840]. 12mo, 130 x 82 mms., pp. [ii], 212, engraved portrait by Charles Heath of Paley as frontispiece, contemporary half green sheepskin, binder's cloth,, red morocco label; portrait a little foxed and off-setting on title-page, but a good copy. Howard compiled many of these… Read more about this item Item Price
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