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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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FIRST EDITION 1755 2 volumes complete. Small 8vo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, engraved hand coloured frontispiece, plus 1 black and white plate and 2 small woodcuts of musical notations, pages: xvi, [2], 1-264, [4]; [2], 1-306, [6], bound in full contemporary calf, gilt lettered labels to spine. Binding rubbed and in poor condition with amateur leather strip repairs to reattach all covers, small repairs to blank side of frontispiece, no loss to image, pale age toning throughout both volumes, small pale brown stain affecting pages 146-49 in Volume 2, all text legible, mostly affecting margins just encroaching on text, occasional small chip to margins, not affecting text, inner paper hinges cracked, covers holding firmly. A fair copy. Early novel accepted to contain the earliest known surviving mention of BASE-BALL (though it actually meant the English game rounders, a precursor of modern American baseball). A quote from Volume 1 page 9: "the younger Part of the Family, retired to an interrupted Party at Base-Ball, (an infant Game, which as it advances in its Teens, improved into Fives, and in its State of Manhood, is called Tennis". (See attached image of the text). David Block (author of Baseball Before We Knew It) identifies this as the earliest surviving use of term "Base-ball" though it had apparently appeared in 'A Little Pretty Pocket-Book' in 1744, see S. Roscoe, John Newbery and his Successors, page 173, stating no copy prior to that of the10th edition(1760) has come to light so far, and no copies of the first edition are reckoned to have survived, so it is only known to us from later editions. ESTC T68566. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

4to, pp. 16; title a little dusty; disbound. First and only authorised edition of this self-justifying pamphlet by the cleric John Kidgell (1722-80). Kidgell had been closely involved in the government's procuring a copy of John Wilkes's obscene poem An Essay on Woman, so that the author's political career could be spiked. Kidgell, who probably acted for money rather than principle, found himself blamed by the Wilkes party on the one hand, and disowned by his friends on the other. In this work he attempts to paint himself as an unwilling participant, horrified at the 'most horrid Impiety and Profaneness that had ever yet disgraced our Religion, our Language, or our Laws'; yet he gives such a detailed account of the printed work (which hardly anyone had seen) that it seems more like an advertisement than a denunciation: 'The Frontispiece, engraven curiously on Copper, contains the Title of the Poem. A Motto, very suitable to a Work, which is calculated to depreciate the Sex; a most obscene Print, by Way of Decoration. Beneath that Inscription; something too scandalous and defamatory of private Character, to endure a Repetition' (pp. 9-10). We know this edition to be authorised by Kidgell because this is one of the copies he signed on the title page possibly to differentiate it from the 13pp edition issued the same year, with no imprint (and spelling 'succint' on the title page).…

London/ Brussels, the author/ A. Collaer and J. van Doren, 1772, 2 volumes, titles and text in French and English, titles with engraved devices, 94 engravings in the text, 2 engraved coats of arms, 2 engraved tail-pieces in volume one, contemporary uniform calf, spine gilt with 2 contrasting morocco title-shields, all edges dyed red, small octavo (16,6 x 10,3 cm.). = Osborne Coll. II, p.568; cf. The Children's World of Learning 3142 (1st ed., 1763); Lowndes, III, 1269. Not in Landwehr, ONE OF THE EARLIEST COLOURING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. The 94 fables appear in both French and English (with the French printed on the left hand side and the English on the opposite right), each accompanied by an outline illustration, which are believed to provide the earliest example of outline illustrations for children to colour, although the quality of the prose, not to mention the sophistication of some of the satire, may have been beyond the full appreciation of younger readers. The illustration to each of the ninety-four fables is a firm and able outline etching, perhaps inspired by fifteenth-century editions of Aesop and their outline woodcuts. The etchings are small, and some with human figures seem almost too detailed for colouring, but the outline of animals is simple and bold. When Kidgell, in exile for his debts, reissued the original sheets in Brussels in 1772 with new preliminaries, the new title-page points explicitly to this feature. No child has, however, spruced up (or defaced if you like) this fine set. Kidgell intended to publish the book in 1763, but - according to rumour - George III was so offended by the text that he bought up the entirety of the first edition to prevent its circulation. Kidgell was not deterred however, and simply reissued his book privately in 1764. Shortly afterwards, Kidgell was forced to flee England as a result of the crucial role he played in the Wilkes affair of November 1763. It was he who secured the sheets of Wilkes' Essay on Woman from his private press printer and supplied them to the Earl of Sandwich, an action which brought him disfavour from all sides in the dispute. In exile and poverty, Kidgell reissued his Fables once again in Brussels in 1772 with a new title-page reading "Original Fables. adorned with copper plates very proper for to colour". Our copy being this reissue, with different title-pages and preliminary leaves of the 1763 edition. Published anonymously, by John Kidgell. Pages 272-77 are misnumbered. Fine copy.…