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COLERIDGE, Hartley [1796-1849].
Essays And Marginalia.
London: Edward Moxon, 1851..
2 Volumes. small 8vo. pp. xii, 376; iv, 359, [1]. with half-title in Vol. I. Vol. I with 8pp. of ads bound in at front & ads mounted on front paste-down. lithographed frontis. portrait. original blind-stamped cloth rebacked with spines mounted, endleaves preserved (light foxing at beginning of Vol. I). with ex-libris of author, artist, and social reformer John Ruskin [1819-1900]. First Edition. Edited by Derwent Coleridge, Hartley's brother, who also edited a two-volume collection of Hartley's poetical works published the same year. "As a critic.[Hartley] is delicate and suggestive; as an essayist.he is quaintly humorous, with a strong resemblance to Charles Lamb. His pure style is admirable for its elegance and perfect adaptation to the matter in hand. His marginalia are as discursive as his father's [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], and sometimes almost as acute, but have little of the latter's weight and pregnancy." (DNB) NCBEL III 372.
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COLERIDGE, S[amuel] T[aylor] [1772-1834].
The Poetical Works.
London: William Pickering, 1836..
3 Volumes. small 8vo. pp. xiv, 288; vi, 338; 2 p.l., 331, [1]. with half-titles. contemporary half calf (joints & extremities rubbed, upper rear joint of Vol. I cracked). Keynes p. 60.
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[COLLIER, Jane].
An Essay On The Art of ingeniously Tormenting; With Proper Rules For The Exercise of that Pleasant Art. Humbly addressed, In the First Part, To the Master, Husband, &c. In the Second Part, to the Wife, Friend, &c. With some General Instructions for Plagui
London: Printed for A.Millar, 1757..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., iii, 234. engraved frontis. woodcut ornaments & initial. contemporary calf, unlettered (front joint cracked, head & foot of spine chipped, some marginal browning to outer leaves). Second Edition, Corrected (first published in 1753). Collier, a novelist and close friend of Samuel Richardson, expounds the principles of teasing and tormenting: "Remember always to do unto every one, what you would least wish to have done unto yourself." She notes obliquely, however, that it is "from suffering, and not from inflicting torments, that the true idea of them is gained." Heltzel, A Check List Of Courtesy Books In The Newberry Library, 391.
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COWLEY, Abraham [1618-1687].
The Works.Consisting Of Those Which were formerly Printed, And Those which he Design'd for the Press. Now first Published out of the Author's Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-Street.
London: Printed by J[ohn] M[aycocke] For Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by Charles Harper and Abel Swall, 1684; Printe.
2 Parts bound in 1 Volume with separate titles & varying imprints. folio. pp. 1 p.l., xl, 41, 80, [2 leaves], 1-58, 61-70, 154, 23, 148; 3 p.l., 161, [1]. 2 engraved frontis. (incl. portrait of Cowley by W.Faithorne.) 1 engraved & several woodcut vignettes. contemporary calf, rebacked with spine mounted, corners renewed (covers scuffed, some foxing & browning, ). Eighth Edition, Second Issue, of the First Part; Fifth Edition of the Second Part. Cowley's Works includes his poetry, prose, and the Discourse By way of Vision, Concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell. Wing C6657 & C6664A. Perkin B12 & B13.
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COWPER, William [1731-1800].
Poems.
London: Printed for J.Johnson, 1788..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 367; 4 p.l., 359, [1]. contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt backs (bit rubbed). armorial bookplate of William Sanscay. Fourth Edition. NCBEL II 596. Rothschild I 683.
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CRABBE, George [1754-1832].
Poems.
London: Printed For J.Hatchard, 1808..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xxvii, 258. the inserted leaf, Advert to the Reader, bound after title-page. with half-title. Uncut in original bds. (spine chipped, front hinge taped). Second Edition. Bareham & Gatrell A8 (noting most copies with terminal leaf of ads, not present here). NCBEL II 610.
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CRABBE, George [1754-1832].
Poems.
London: Printed For J.Hatchard, 1812..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxix, [1 leaf], 262. half-title & ads wanting. Seventh Edition. Bound with 3 other works in 4 Vols as follows. (2) The Borough: A Poem.Second Edition, Revised. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xiv, [1 leaf], 347. half-title & ads wanting. London: Printed For J.Hatchard, 1810. (3) Tales. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxii, [1 leaf], 398. half-title & ads wanting. London: Printed For J.Hatchard, 1812. First Edition. (4) Tales Of The Hall. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxiv, 326; 1 p.l., [v]-viii, 353, [1]. half-titles & ads wanting. London: John Murray, 1819. First Edition. Bareham & Gatrell A13; A16; A22; A31. NCBEL II 610-11.
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CRABBE, George [1754-1832].
Tales Of The Hall.
London: John Murray, 1819..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 326; viii, 353, [1], [2]ads. complete with half-titles. Uncut in original bds. (brown covers, pink spines) with printed paper spine labels (recased with new endpapers, spinal extremities chipped, some light foxing). First Edition. Vol. I; P6 a cancel, headline on P8r The Old Bachelor; imprint on Y3v. Bareham & Gatrell A31. NCBEL II 611. Tinker 789 (with four leaves of inserted ads in Vol. I, not present here).
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CUMBERLAND, Richard [1732-1811].
The Jew: A Comedy, Performed At The Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane.
London: Printed For C.Dilly, 1794..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 75, [1]. disbound. Second Edition (published the same year as the first). Cumberland's was the first English play to feature a Jewish moneylender hero, a characterization that ran counter to centuries of anti-Semitic portraits, the most famous being Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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[DEFOE, Daniel] [1659?-1731].
Jure Divino: A Satyr. In Twelve Books. By the Author of The True-Born-Englishman.
London: 1706..
folio. pp. 2 p.l., xxviii, [4], vii, 26, 32, 28 [i.e. 24], 30, 32, 20, 28, 34, 24, 26, 32, 23. without the engraved frontis. portrait, often wanting. woodcut title vignette. late 18th century bds. (covers detached, spine wanting, title loose, browned & chipped at edges with cellotape repairs in gutter, some soiling & foxing to outer leaves, small hole in title & following leaf touching 1 letter in title, last leaf backed). ownership entry on title of English philanthropist and anti-slavery advocate Granville Sharp [1735-1813]. First Edition. Foxon D128. Moore 115.
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DICKENS, Charles [1812-1870].
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury And Evans, 1853..
8vo. pp.xvi, 624. with half-title. 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne (incl. frontis. & additional title & 10 'dark' plates. contemporary binder's cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (plates offset & plate margins browned). First Edition, bound from the original parts. Podeschi A131. Smith I 10. Sadleir I 682. NCBEL III 800.
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DICKENS, Charles [1812-1870].
Dombey And Son.
London: Bradbury And Evans, October 1846-April, 1848..
2 Parts bound in 19. 8vo. with half-title. 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne (incl. frontis. & additional title). partly unopened in original printed wrs. with pictorial designs by Browne (significant foxing to plates, 6 plates severely browned & the remainder with severe browning to outer margins, corners of first 2 plates chipped & leaves dog-eared, first front wr. defective, some wrs. detached, some spines & wrs. chipped, last part stitching broken, some wrs. & ads missing - details below). modern drop-back box. First Edition, in the original parts. Parts 11 and 14 the earliest issue with incorrect reading 'Capatin' in last line on p. 324 (11) and 'if' omitted at the beginning of line 9 on page 426 (14). All ads and slips present except for the following: Part I lacking all ads; Part III lacking rear wr. and all ads; Part VI lacking all ads; Part VII lacking wrs. and all ads; Part VIII lacking wrs. and all ads; Part IX lacking rear wr. and all ads; Part X lacking Gilbert's Dictionary (pp.8); Part XI lacking rear advert slip; Part XV lacking rear wr. and all ads and slip; Part XVI lacking rear ads; Part XVIII lacking 2 pages of ads; Parts XIX-XX lacking rear wr. and errata. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 225-250.
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DICKENS, Charles [1812-1870].
Dombey And Son.
London: Bradbury And Evans, 1848..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [vii]-xvi, 624. lacking half-title & [pp. xvii-xviii]. 12-line errata slip. 40 etched plates (incl. frontis. & additional title) by Hablot Knight Browne. contemporary half calf, rebacked with faded gilt spine mounted (binding quite rubbed, corners worn, browning to plate margins). First Edition in Book Form. In this copy 'if' is not printed on p. 426, the page-number is missing from p. [431] and the text on p. 324 is corrected. Dombey and Son contains the first published example (p. 547) of a 'dark' plate, created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. Podeschi A103. Smith I 8. Sadleir 687. NCBL III 798.
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DICKENS, Charles [1812-1870].
Master Humphrey's Clock.
London: Chapman And Hall, 1840-41.
3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., iv, 306; 1 p.l., [v]-vi, 306; 1 p.l., [v]-vi, 426. 3 frontis., 168 text illus., & 24 figure initials, engraved on wood by E.Landells, C.Gray, Vasey, & S.Williams, after designs by George Cattermole & Hablot Knight Browne. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spine ends worn & frayed, rear joint of Vol. III repaired, foxing to endpapers & outer leaves in Vols. I-II). First Edition in Book Form. "This odd mélange which includes The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, and an elaborate surrounding apparatus, is the pinnacle of Dickensian Gothic. Appropriately enough, it is illustrated with wood engravings in the text rather than full-page etchings, as in Dickens's earlier novels. Phiz, who is in excellent form, predominates, but there are also fifteen engravings after George Cattermole, whose wonderful clutter of antiquarian and architectural details is well suited to Dickens's chosen subjects." (Ray) Smith I 6. NCBEL III 794. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 60.
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DICKENS, Charles [1812-1870].
Our Mutual Friend.
London: Chapman And Hall, 1865..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xi, 320; 1 p.l., [v]-vi, [1], 309, [1]. lacking half-titles & slip 'To the Reader' found in some copies. 40 wood-engraved plates after designs by Marcus Stone (incl. frontis.). contemporary half calf, gilt backs (extremities worn, joints chafed & with short splits, occasional light foxing). First Edition in Book Form, bound from the parts. Podeschi A150. NCBEL III 806. Smith I 15. Sadlier I 697.
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