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Windsor: W.F. Taylor, Library, 1880. 12mo, pp. 33, [1] + 1 frontispiece and 7 plates. Original pale blue paper wrappers printed in black. Somewhat foxed and toned, some offsetting from plates, small dampmark to upper margin. Spine somewhat nibbled. Pencil gravestone transcriptions to inside wrappers. A scarce, undated printing of a guide to Windsor Castle. L.V. Harcourt’s ‘An Eton Bibliography’ dates an example of this title (with different pagination) to 1875, but it seems likely that copies were produced with slight variations throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

Edinburgi [Edinburgh]: Apud Hamilton, Balfour, et Neill, 1758. 8vo, pp. ix, [iv], xii-xxv, [i], 252. One prelimary leaf - containing the character list for ‘Andria’ - not bound in to this copy. Contemporary French red morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt rule, spine divided by raised bands, green morocco label, other compartments with central gilt flower tools, corner sprays, and patterns of dots, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Lightly toned throughout, some offsetting from turn-ins to first and last few leaves. The merest touch of wear to foot of spine and hints of rubbing at extremities. Twentieth-century bookplate of Charles Moncorgé to front pastedown. A beautiful example of an edition called ‘immaculate’, produced (successfully) for a prize offered by the Select Society of Edinburgh, obtaining a silver medal. The undoubtedly French binding indicates on the morocco label that this is ‘Terent / Edinbur’. ESTC T137485;… Read More

Londini [London]: Typis T. Wood; Impensis Benj. Motte, 1792. 8vo, pp. [vi], cxxxviii, 288, [80]. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary calf, spine divided by raised bands, one compartment lettered in gilt on a black ground. Some soiling and spotting, title-page creased, one gathering slightly proud. Leather a bit scratched and marked, flyleaves excised. Various inscriptions and pen trials to title-page and pastedowns, modern bookplate. A scarce reprinting of the Delphin edition of Terence for the UK market. ESTC lists three copies in the UK (BL, Cambridge, National Trust) plus one in Berlin and two each in separate institutions in Illinois and Toronto. ESTC N19369.

Londini [London]: Impensis B. Law et filius, T. Longman [et al], 1792. 8vo, pp. [vi], cxxxviii, 288, [80]. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary sheep, unlettered spine divided by raised bands, edges sprinkled red. Two gatherings slightly proud. Binding rubbed, worn at extremities, some surface loss to leather at lower joint, small portion of flyleaf torn away. Ownership inscription of G.H. Wheler to flyleaf. A scarce reprinting of the Delphin edition of Terence for the UK market. ESTC lists just two copies in the UK (Nottinghamshire County and the National Trust) plus five locations in the USA. ESTC N19372.

Londini [London]: Sumtibus Rodwell et Martin; [et al.], 1819. 12mo, pp. [iv], 284. Contemporary vellum, boards framed with double gilt rules, spine divided by double gilt rules, black morocco labels, other compartments with central decorative lozenge tools gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. A few minor spots. Binding just slightly soiled.

Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1772. 12mo, pp. [ii], 307, [1]. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine divided by gilt rolls, red morocco label, other compartments with central gilt sunburst tools. A little light toning and spotting. Extremities and spine gilt a bit rubbed, joints cracking but sound. Armorial bookplate of the Right Hon Sir John Trollope, Bart, MP, to pastedown. Gaskell 47.

Glasgow: Printed by Khull, Blackie, & Co., 1822. 12mo, pp. [iv], 220, 104. Contemporary sheep, spine divided by double gilt rules, red morocco label. A little soiled and spotted. Somewhat rubbed, front joint starting, a little wear to extremities. A scarce printing of William Hamilton’s abridged retelling of Blind Harry’s Wallace, first published in 1722. This version was read by Robert Burns, who adopted for the closing stanza of his ‘Scots Wha’ hae wi’ Wallace Bled’ two lines from Hamilton (’A false usurper sinks in every foe / And Liberty returns with every blow’) which he called ‘a couplet worthy of Homer’ (letter to Thomson quoted in Bibliotheca Wallasiana p. 11). It is joined, as in many editions, by John Harvey’s Bruce, an heroic poem first published in 1729. Library Hub records just 2 copies, at NLS and Glasgow, Worldcat adds the University of Western Ontario and… Read More

Glasgow: excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1751. 4to, pp. [iv], 348, [8]. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A little faint spotting. Somewhat rubbed and scratched, some surface loss from label, spine gilt partly rubbed away. Armorial bookpate of John Wilson, Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge, covering an earlier bookplate (possibly of the same owner). The quarto issue - a 3-volume duodecimo was printed the same year - of the letters of Pliny the Younger, printed by the Foulis Press. This is almost certainly a Foulis binding, with the distinctive cross spine pattern which Gaskell found on ‘a surprisingly wide range of Foulis books, and... nowhere else’ (‘Early Work’, The Library Fifth Series VII p. 87.), though he could not rule out this being another binder who happened to handle a huge number of Foulis volumes. It also matches exactly the decoration on another copy of the same edition we have previously… Read More

[s.l.]: [s.n.], 1802. Broadside (250 x 330mm) printed on 1 side in 2 columns. Sometime folded in 3, old creases from prior folds, 5mm split to one crease, blank verso a little soiled. An anonymous letter commending the probity and social standing of the organisers of the newly-formed Society for the Suppression of Vice. The writer defends the society against allegations in the Times of December 4th 1802 that the Society did ‘pay a profligate and needy wretch to suborn to crimes in order to prosecute’, and highlighting their success in prosecuting a man ‘grown grey in his infamous and detestable trade... and had for years exhibited his abominable trash against the wall of Privy Garden, Whitehall’. The Society for the Suppression of Vice was formed in 1802 against ‘profanation of the Lord's Day and profane swearing; publication of blasphemous, licentious and obscene books and prints; selling by false weights and measures; keeping of disorderly… Read More

[Edinburgh]: n. pr., 1818. Small broadside playbill (215 x 275mm). Slightly marked and chipped around the edges, one or two fox-spots, but very well-preserved. A broadside advertisement for the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, then on Princes Street. The primary advertisement is for Otway’s Venice Preserv’d, starring the Irish actress Elizabeth O’Neill, with the farce Raising the Wind appended. Below it are listed upcoming performances, the last-mentioned being Romeo and Juliet with O’Neill as Juliet. Shakespeare plays made frequent appearances at the Theatre Royal, with the open space around the theatre being known as Shakespeare Square. O’Neill had first performed in Edinburgh in 1815, causing much uproar as residents vied for seats; evidently the demand was still high by the time of this visit, with a substantial note at the top of this sheet requesting ‘Gentlemen quitting the theatre previous to the termination of the Performances, and… Read More

[Edinburgh]: [s.n.], 1818. Small broadside playbill (212 x 280mm). Sometime repaired to top corners, repair section touching one letter with no loss of sense, lightly toned, edges a little nicked. A theatrical playbill advertising the Edinburgh debut of the celebrated actress Elizabeth Brunton, later Yates (1799-1860), reprising the role of Letitia Hardy in Hannah Cowley’s 1780 comedy ‘The Belle’s Stratagem’ which she had performed the previous year at Covent Garden and in various provincial theatres in the years following her debut on her father’s King’s Lynn stage in 1815. Also appearing as Sir George Touchwood was a Mr Yates - that is, Frederick Henry Yates (1797-1842), who followed Brunton back to Covent Garden where he made his London debut opposite Brunton in a production of Othello in November 1818, they married in 1823. Rounding out the bill is a revival of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, again featuring Brunton and Yates,… Read More

London: Printed for E. Curll, 1713. [ii], iv, 60, 105, [3], [4, ads] + frontispiece. Bound without the portrait of Creech found in some copies. Contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, red morocco label. Lightly toned, some soiling. Extremities rubbed, a few scrapes, joints cracking at head of spine. The first edition of Creech’s translation of Theocritus by the famously unscrupulous publisher Edmund Curll, following its 1684 Oxford first appearance. Curll’s edition was reissued in 1721 with a cancel title-page, suggesting that it did not sell as well as Curll may have hoped. The BL copy has two engraved portraits, one of Creech and one of Theocritus, but the copies in Leeds and Oxford appear to have only one, so it may have been issued thus. ESTC T138189.

[Oxford?]: [n. pr.], 1760. 4to, pp. [8] (numbered [1], 91-94, 94, 93, 42). Stitched as issued, sometime folded horizontally. Toned in places (final page browned), some spots and light soiling, edges a little creased. ‘Thick’ in a small contemporary hand to top corner of first page. An unrecorded specimen for an unspecified edition of Theocritus, but probably Warton’s highly regarded version issued in 1770 by the Clarendon Press. The cover title reads simply ‘Specimens of Theocritus’ but no other quarto edition of the author was published in Great Britain in the 18th century. The arrangement is unusual: the first page is the section title. The second prints the introduction and first ten lines of Idyll VI, while the third page begins Idyll VI again but prints the first twelve lines, this time without accents. The fourth page follows on from the text on the second, now with a Latin translation at the foot in a single column. The fifth page starts Idyll… Read More

Glasguae [Glasgow]: In aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1746. Foolscap 8vo, pp. [xii], 186, [58]. Contemporary brown calf, boards bordered with a double gilt rule, spine divided by raised bands, compartments with central decorative crosses and circular cornerpieces all gilt, marbled endpapers, edges red. Lightly toned, some spotting. Extremities a touch rubbed, joint ends just slightly cracking, a few marks, label lost from spine. Early MS shelfmark label to front pastedown, modern bookplate to flyleaf. Reprinting the edition of Daniel Heinsius, originally published in 1603, including Greek scholia. This is Gaskell’s larger foolscap 8vo issue with the Pro Patria watermark. Gaskell 78; ESTC T138185.

[Heidelberg]: Ex Bibliopolio Commeliniano, 1604. 4to, pp. [xxviii], 432. Near-contemporary vellum boards, boards bordered in blind with a small centrepiece and cornerpieces of the same tool in blind, spine lettered in ink, front board lettered ‘MCG / 1614’ in gilt, edges blue. Lightly browned, some spotting. Vellum somewhat soiled and showing some creasing on spine and a few scratches to boards, hinge strained at title-page. Old stamp of a German school library to title-page, first 20 leaves of text with underlining in red ink and several annotations in black ink (most of them on the first page of text), a binder’s blank at the end also filled with notes in the same hand. The second Heinsius edition of Theocritus, which followed an octavo of 1603 that Heinsius reportedly tried to suppress. The second ‘is preferable, and is, in fact, a very excellent edition.... Heinsius’s readings are learned, sagacious, and ingenious’ (Dibdin). VD17… Read More

Oxonii [Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1770. 2 vols., 4to, pp. [iv], lx, [ii], 134, [5], 135-236, [80]; [iv], 388, [4], 389-412, [4]. [Bound with:] Curae Posteriores, sive Appendicula notarum atque emendationum in Theocritum Oxonii nuperrime publicatum. Londini [London]: Apud Johannem Nourse, 1772. 4to, pp. [iii]-vii, [i], 45, [3]. Slightly later diced Russia by J. Bohn, boards bordered with a gilt rule, spines divided by raised bands between gilt rules, second, third and fourth compartments gilt-lettered direct, marbled edges and endpapers. Occasional toning and spotting, a handful of leaves with a marginal stain from before binding. A little rubbing and scratches, spine ends just a touch worn and vol. 1 joints cracking. Binder’s ticket to front pastedown, pencil note (signed ‘TLM’) to binder’s blank, about a dozen marginal corrections and annotations in an early hand in vol. 2; from the library of the Gaisford family though without mark of ownership.… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for James Reid, Bookseller in Leith, 1751. 8vo, pp. xx, 32. Modern blue sugar-paper wrappers. Title-page soiled, a few minor spots elsewhere. Scarce - ESTC locates copies in 8 locations in the UK and just one outside, the Library Company of Philadelphia. The translation was first published in 1714. ESTC T84020.

Glasguae [Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis excudebat Andreas Foulis, 1785. 8vo, pp. 132. Contemporary vellum, spine decorated in gilt around vertical green morocco label. Some minor spotting. Vellum just slightly soiled. Small ownership inscription dated 1939 to flyleaf. An attractively bound copy of the foolscap octavo issue with a Britannia watermark. Quite scarce: ESTC locates 4 copies, BL, Edinburgh, Mitchell Library, and Oxford Taylorian. Gaskell 679, ESTC T85890.

Aberdeen: Printed by D. Chalmers and Co. for A. Brown [et al], 1813. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], 286 + frontispiece. Untrimmed in original plain boards, printed paper label to spine. Some light spotting, title-page and frontispiece offset to each other. Boards a little marked, spine creased and worn at ends. A few marginal calculations in pencil. Walter Thom (1770-1824) was born in Kincardineshire and moved to Aberdeen where he wrote a history of the city and this celebration of the fad of long-distance walking, with particular attention to Captain Robert Barclay Allardice. The volume is ‘an extraordinary survey of records of matches and athletes, and the application of enlightenment thinking to the documentation of sport. Thom’s intention was to celebrate the achievements of Captain Barclay, but in order to give Barclay’s achievements greater meaning he discussed the athlete’s predecessors with a diligence that provides a model for today’s sports… Read More

Edinburgh: For the Author, Oliver & Boyd, 1960. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 64. Original quarter canvas, patterned paper boards, printed label to front board, tissue dustjacket. Dustjacket a little chipped at edges. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf for one of the book’s printers ‘For Ian Wilson, with the author’s warm gratitude for a magnificent job, David Cleghorn Thomson, January 1961’.