Politics from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Printed for the Booksellers [no date] [1886]. 8vo, 210 x 140, pp. [16], pamphlet as issued. Mr. Eyeglass has addressed his work to his grandchilden.

[No Place] Printed in the Year 1756. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 192 x 120 mms., pp. 15, [1], later plain grey wrappers; title spotted, tear on verso of last leaf neatly repaired. This copy, with a manuscript letter from the chief figure behind the book, explains the fuller context of this well-recorded… Read more about this item

London: Hatchard and Son..., 1831. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 194 x 119 mms., pp. [v] - viii, 104, original binder's cloth, paper label on spine (faded), uncut and largely unopened with top margin of pp vi-vii carelessly opened, and small circular armorial bookplate (?Elton) on front paste-down end-paper The volume is inscribed by… Read more about this item

London [no printer or publisher], 1642. 4to, 218 x 157 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 28, later (probably 20th century) buckram; a very good copy in a utilitarian binding. Written in 1622, this tract laments the presence and influence of Roman Catholics at the King James's court and his failure to intervene in the Thirty Years'… Read more about this item

A Cologne [sic, for Rotterdam] Chez Pierre Mateau [probably printed in Rotterdam by Fritsch and Böhm], 1711. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Slim 8vo, 180 x 112 mms., pp. [ii], 69 [70 blank], title-page in red and black, later speckled boards; front hinge cracked at title-page, spine a bit worn. This is a translation of A Letter to… Read more about this item

London: Printed for W. Sandby..., 1760. 8vo, 197 x 116 mms., pp. xii, 320 [321 Errata, 322 blank], many leaves foxed or slightly soiled, bound in revolting 19th century plum calf, hard morocco boards, with spine worn and wormed, but happily with the autograph of the painter Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) on the top margin… Read more about this item

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1754. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 240 x 195 mms., pp 7 [8 blank], 19th century marbled wrappers; leaves very closely trimmed with lost of upper portion of "The" in top margin of title-page, as well as second line of imprint in lower margin. The fable of… Read more about this item

[London] [?1718]. SOLE EDITION. 8vo, 180 x 110 mms., drop-head title only, stitched as issued, blue covers; fore-margin closely trimmed and frayed with some loss of letters. ESTC T169026 notes that "Mr. S-----y C------y" is "Mr. Secretary Craggs," i. e., James Craggs the younger (1686–1721), diplomatist and politician, secretary of state for war. The… Read more about this item

London: Printed for T. Cadell..,m 1779. 8vo (in 4s), pp. vi, 58, including half-title, disbound. Adams, 79-69f.

Londini, Typis Excudebant W. Browne & J. Warren..., 1788. 8vo, pp. [ii], viii, cxxxvii [cxxxviii Errata slip], contemporary calf, gilt spine, black morocco label; no portraits, binding a little worn, but a very good copy.

London: Printed for A. Moore..., 1730. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 51 [52 blank], disbound. Another edition of 32 pages was published in the same year, but it is not clear which has precedence. Bolingbroke suspected that the French were rebuilding the harbour of Dunkirk and re-fortifying it, in contravention of the Treaty of Utrecht: "The… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Wright..., 1798. 8vo, pp. 92, disbound; Scotch tape over spine in four places, affecting title-page and last page of text about a half inch each time.

London: Printed for J. Wilford..., 1734. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 27 [28 blank], including half-title, uncut, stitched as issued; half-title slightly soiled, edges a little frayed.

[N. p., n. p.], 1792. 8vo, pp. 15 [16 blank], disbound; some leaves detached. Combe (1742 - 1823) wrote this work when he was a part of Pitt's ministry, charged with the task of writing favourable commentaries on government activities. There were several editions of this work in 1792, and this one, without place of… Read more about this item

London: Printed, and Sold by James Roberts..., 1727. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 112, disbound; title-page a bit soiled. Sabin 32280. Goldsmiths' 6501.

London: Printed for H. Goreham..., 1739. 8vo (in 4s), pp 63 [64 blank], tilte-page and last blank page soiled, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy.

London: Printed for J. Roberts..., 1730. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 5 - 53 [54 blank]. BOUND WITH: The Natural Probability of a Lasting Peace in Europe; Shewn from the Circumstances of the Great Powers, as they are now situated; compared with the State of Affairs when the Treaties of… Read more about this item

London: Printed by W. Strahan, Jun. for T. Becket and Co. and T. Cadell..., 1772. 4to, pp. [viii], 540 [541 - 542 additional index], 22, 56, 57 [58 blank], 65 [66 blank], 32, 33 [34 blank], with the liberty icon at the foot of the last page of text, contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red… Read more about this item

London: Printed by W. Wilkins, and Sold by J. Roberts..., 1715. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 37 [38 - 39 "Tracts Written by the Same Author," 40 blank], including half-title (soiled and dusty), disbound; verso of last leaf soiled and almost detached.

London: Printed for J. Baker..., 1714. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, xviii, 82, disbound. The book alluded to on the title-page is George Harbin's Jacobite tract The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England Asserted, published in the previous year.