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First Edition. Worn binding copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Physical description; xvi, 478 p., 5 plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes; See detail records for Notes relating to this item. Subjects; Campbell, Thomas (1733-1795) Correspondence Early works to 1800. Watkinson, John M.D. Correspondence Early works to 1800. Campbell, Thomas (1733-1795). Ireland Description and travel 18th century Early works to 1800. Dublin (Ireland) Description. Ireland Description and travel Early works to 1800. Ireland Early works to 1800. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition, presentation inscription from the author on half-title, vii, [1], 48 pp., modern marbled wrappers. This pamphlet on the medicinal water of Walton, extols it's curative power in scrofula, and remarks on the uses of the lymphatic glands. Blake, p.236.

12mo, pp. vi, [vi], 311; a very good copy in contemporary sheep, spine gilt, red morocco label (spine rubbed, scratches on back cover, tiny chip in the label). First edition: the major lifetime collection of the author's poetry. A similar collection had been published in 1729, as Tales, Epistles, Odes, Fables, &c.; this new volume has significant additions, including a number of poems written in the intervening years. The poetry is arranged in four parts, the first containing two verse essays and three tales, and the second a selection of epistles, odes, fables, satires, love elegies, and prologues and epilogues; a third part is devoted entirely to 'The Battel of the Poets', and the fourth consists of translations from Latin and Greek, including seven poems by Catullus. The essay on improving the English language consists of very specific and relatively modest suggestions on such topics as forming the past tense of verbs and the plurals of nouns, and the use of relative pronouns. Provenance: early inscriptions on pastedown and title of George Mackay. Foxon p. 143. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good Plus. First Edition. Octavo, 8.8 in. x 5.2 in., pp. xxviii, 556. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving. Contemporary brown, light brown diced russia. Blind and dyed pointillé tooling, and gilt roll, and gilt to all edges of leather boards, as well. Hand-tooled inner dentelles in slanted bar pattern, each with its own pointillé tooling. Elaborate gilt designs to spine, each (non-raised) hub separated by a gilt bar which echoes the stamped border to front and rear boards. Very basic "clouds and speckling" marbling to all edges. Engraved Frontispiece. Front hinge cracking, but holding by cords. Rubbing to extremities with corners just showing. Black on decorative frame is well rubbed. Head and tail of spine worn. Marbled edges and endpapers.Light spotting to preliminary pages. Solid textblock with tight spine. Spine appears to have been repaired; book may have been rebacked. Rubbing and scuffing to extremities and boards, corners showing. Lovely Stormont marbling to endpapers in salmon-pink and midnight blue. Previous owner's ("Charles Walmesley Westwood") armorial bookplate to front pastedown and his name, in manuscript, near top of title page. The introduction (i.e., in this work entitled "Advertisement"), the translator Mr. Hurst cites two previous translations of Bede's History -- the first by Rev. Thos. Stapleton in 1565 which he says contains numerous obsolete and now (1814) "almost unintelligible". The second, by Mr. John Stevens in 1723, he writes is "so literal, as to appear, in many places, both very obscure and defective in the style." All in all, Mr. Hurst claims, ".this interesting and edifying history of the conversion of our own country to Christianity, lies concealed from the knowledge of most people; who, therefore, are ignorant of the true nature of that religion which our ancestors professed." Beda Venerabilis lived from 673 to 736, and wrote this history several years before his death.…