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KELLER, Helen

Out of the dark

Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1913
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x, 284pp. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Boards rubbed and marked, some wear/loss to cloth at top edge, some water-staining to endpapers and text block. The first edition of Hellen Keller's (1880-1968) eighth published work, a series of essays on socialism. A prolific author, activist, advocate, Keller is best remembered for being deafblind, and with the efforts of her governess and tutor Anne Sullivan, going on to graduate Radcliffe College. Keller had a prolific career across several disciplines including being a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, a suffragist, pacifist, radical socialist, and eugenicist. Size: 8vo
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A series of letters between mrs. elizabeth carter and miss catherine talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, letters from mrs. elizabeth carter to mrs. vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787; published from the original manuscripts in the possession of the rev. montagu pennington.

In four volumes. xxvi, [2], 374; vi, [2], 395, [1]; vi, [2], 386; v, [3], 373pp, [17]. Attractively bound in contemporary marbled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting navy morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed, slight surface loss to upper board of Vol. III. Scattered spotting, printing flaw to lower corner of p. 85 of Vol. I, with slight loss of sense. The first octavo edition, initially published in a two-volume quarto edition the previous year, of the selected correspondence of three prominent members of the Bluestocking circle. The primary epistolist is poet and writer Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), chiefly known for her immensely critically and commercially successful translation of the complete works of Epictetus, the first into English. Her letters oscillate effortlessly between lofty discourse on philosophical theory, Christian devotion, and weighty remarks on cultural matters, to remarkably witty, frequently ironic observations on society, and wry remarks on the latest gossip. Her foremost correspondent represented in these volumes is prolific author and editor Catherine Talbot (1721-1770) who notably assisted Carter with her Epictetus. The second correspondent is the more elusive Elizabeth Vesey (c.1715-1791), an author with few extant publications who nevertheless proved influential to Bluestocking philosophy. The editor, Montagu Pennington (1762-1849), was Carter's nephew, executor, and biographer, to whom she bequeathed all her papers. Size: 8vo
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Advices to a young man of fortune and rank, Upon his Coming to the university

[OXFORD UNIVERSITY]. [BENTHAM, Edward] 32, 16pp. ESTC T167852. [Bound before:] BENTHAM, Edward. Reflexions upon the study of divinity. To which are subjoined Heads of a Course of Lectures. Oxford. Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1774. Second edition. [4], 68pp. [And:] RAWLINS, John. The Scripture Prophecies consider'd - and compar'd with the Oracles of the Heathens. A sermon Preached before the University of Oxford, At St. Mary's, On Sunday, Aug. 2. 1761. Oxford. Printed at the Theatre for James Fletcher, [1761]. First edition. [2], 35pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. ESTC T70227. [And:] [JONES, William]. A letter to the common people, In Answer to some Popular Arguments against the Trinity. Being an appendix to the third edition of the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity. London. Printed for Robinson and Roberts, 1767. First edition. 42pp, [2]. ESTC T181627. [And:] TOTTIE, John. Two charges Delivered to the clergy of the diocese of worcester, In the Years 1763 and 1766; Being designed as preservatives Against the Sophistical Arts of the Papists, and The Delusions of the Methodists. Oxford. Printed at the Theatre, 1766. First octavo edition. 28, [2], 27pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. ESTC N40310. [And:] MARKHAM, William. A sermon Preached In Lambeth-chapel, at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in god James Lord Bishop of Gloucester, On Sunday, Dec. 10. 1752. Oxford. Printed at the Theatre for James Fletcher, 1753. First octavo edition. 27pp, [2]. ESTC T47854. [And:] [WINCHESTER, Thomas]. [A] Dissertation on the XVIIth article, of the Church of England. Oxford. Printed by W. Jackson and J. Lister, 1773. [4], 106pp. ESTC T131073. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper board held by cords only, lower joint split. Manuscript list of contents to FEP, very occasional early inked annotations/underlining to first mentioned work, occasional loss to corners of third mentioned work, title of seventh mentioned work trimmed at head (seemingly to remove manuscript inscription), worm-track to lower margins of same. A sammelband of predominantly devotional eighteenth-century publications, that is with the exception of a lesser known anti-Jacobite work by theologian and fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Edward Bentham (1707-1776), Advices to a young man of fortune and rank, upon his coming to the University. In this slim but intense pamphlet, Bentham recalled members of the university to abide by their oaths of allegiance and abjuration following the Jacobite rising and public disturbances in the city during 1748.
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