Satire from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Printed for Joseph Wild, at the Elephant at Charing Cross... 1700. Small 4to, 173 x 138 mms., pp. [viii], 23 [24 blank], ex-library to judge from the binding, which is probably from the 195s, title-page soiled, , a few leaves shaved at head with loss to headlines or pagination, occasional ink staining, more extensively to C4 with some… Read more about this item

London. Printed for C. Moran, in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden. MDCCLXII 1772. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION 4to, 245 x 190 mms., pp. [ii], 22, disbound, with title-page and other leaves detached or loose at innter margin title-page and last page of text soiled, short tear in fore-margin of E1, top margin closely trimmed, inner margin of title-page… Read more about this item

. A manuscript volume of 35 leaves, the pages numbered 1 to 70, being a contemporary manuscript of the second part of Colville's popular seventeenth-century poem. The leaves measure 192 x 142 mms., with one blank leaf preceding the numbered leaves, which have manuscript text on both recto and verso. The hand is clear and legible,… Read more about this item

Amstelodami, Apud Ioannem Lanssonium 1638. Small 12mo, 128 x 68 mms., pp. 189 [190 blank], engraved title-page, bound in later, 18th century calf, spine blind in compartments, with authors and title in gilt; front joint slightly rubbed, margins very closely trimmed, but a good copy with several provenances. The English scholar and grammarian Thomas Farnaby (1574/5–1647) fled… Read more about this item

Dublin Printed, London Reprinted: And Sold by R. Griffiths, Bookseller at the Dunciad in Ludgate-Street, 1748. 8vo (in 4s), 198 x 124 mms., pp. [5] 6 - 23 [24 blank], xxii, incljuding half-title, disbound; stain at top of half-title and title-page, ex-library (Mercantile Library), with two library stamps in red. First published in Latin as… Read more about this item

London: Printed for John Souter...by J. Adlard..., 1816. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Tall 8vo, 228 x 133 mms., pp,. xiii [xiv blank, xv "The Persian Dedication," xvi blank], 348, recently recased in blue boards, paper label on spine; text a little browned, but a good copy. This rather laboured satire on Princess Augusta of Wales… Read more about this item

Milano Nelle Stampe dell'Agnelli Scultore, & Stampatore, 1680. FIRST AND ONLY ITALIAN TRANSLATION. 12mo, 133 x 74 mms., pp. [x], 251 [252 blank], including engraved title-page, half-title, 5 full-page engraved plates, contemporary vellum, light olive morocco label. A very good copy The French author and playwright Jean Puget de la Serre (1594 - 1665)… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Roberts...and W. Bickerton..., 1744. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 193 x 123 mms., pp. xxxiv [xxxv erratum, xxxvi advert], xxxii, 75 [76 blank], 19th century quarter grain plum morocco, publishers boards, gilt spine; title-page slightly soiled at fore-edge and starting to detach at inner margin, binding a little rubbed, but a… Read more about this item

Noribegae [Nürnberg], Sumptibus Simonis Halbmayer Bibliopole [no date] 1626. 12mo, 125 x 74 mms., pp. 132, later gray wrappers, but lacks front wrapper, most of spine destroyed, title-page soiled and fragile at margins. The Lutheran theologian Jacobus Herrenschmidt (1578 - 1641) first published this satire with the Elzevirs in 1621 as an investigation, so to speak,… Read more about this item

P. Alex. Pag Benacenses F. Bena. .V. .V. [Aexander and Paganinus de Paganinis: Toscolano] [?1517 - 1525]. Small 8vo, 150 x 88 mms., unpaginated, a-q8, contemporary vellum, faded red morocco label; binding a bit soiled, but a very good copy. The first edition of this translation by Georgio Summaripa (1435 - 1496) of Juvenal's satires was… Read more about this item

London [i. e., Edinburgh]: Printed in the Year MDCCXXXVII 1737. 8vo (in 4s), 193 x 127 mms., pp. 12, disbound; title-page with vertical soil mark and hole in imprint removing "on" of London, with contemporary annotations identifying names indicated by initial(s) only. The imprint is false, and this satire on the Whig ministry was printed… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid..., 1886. Large 8vo, 250 x 190 mms., pp. [iv], 51 [52 ornament], including half-title, text printed within borders, limitation notice on verso of title-page, "This Edition is limited to 50 Copies," contemporary quarter red sheepskin, marbled boards; spine defective, covers detached. Arnot (1749 - 1786) delivered this as a paper… Read more about this item

A Paris, Chez Le Tellier..., 1788. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 2 parts in 1. 12mo, pp. xvi, 172; [4], 224 [225 - 226 contents, 227 - 228 Approbation], contemporary French tree sheepskin; gilt spine missing about half its leather, joints cracked and tender. Hayley's Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids was first… Read more about this item

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and CO...., 1806. 8vo, pp. [viii], lxxviii, 473 [474 blank, 475 - 480 Index], contemporary lightly mottled calf, spine ornately gilt, black leather label (very slightly chipped); spine slightly rubbed and dried. Gifford's translation was first published in 1802; a third edition followed in 1817.

London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. Small 8vo, pp. xxi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], including leaf of adverts (corner torn with slight loss) preceding title-page, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label. A very good copy.

London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, pp. xvi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; lacks all prelims, hole in inner margin of title-page with loss of "S" from "Satyrical," front joint wormed, upper front joints slightly cracked.