[MAITLAND, John, Duke of Lauderdale]
4pp. Single bifolium. Creased, browned and spotted, margins chipped and torn, very small hole touching text, without loss of sense. An excoriating pamphlet levelling charges of corruption and mismanagement of government at John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale (1616-1682). Following his implication in the Popish Plot and his vicious persecution of conventicles and maltreatment of nobles, Lauderdale's position as a leading figure in the rule of Scotland was compromised, with many in the English Commons calling for his dismissal. This pamphlet, issued as a part of the campaign by Lauderdale's adversaries in parliament, emphasises his popish tendencies and contempt of Commons. Ultimately, Lauderdale was demoted from his office as the most senior Scottish minister, though he retained some influence in the court of Charles II. ESTC R231, Wing S4502A. Size: Folio
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[POLITICAL SLIP SONGS]
Single sheet, printed on one side only. Woodcut vignette to head. Two old horizontal folds, a trifle creased. [Together with:] [Drop-head title:] Huzza for reform and the Garland of Green! A new song. Tune - Sprig of Shillelah. [Edinburgh?] [s.n.], [s.d., 1832]. Dimensions 100 x 370 mm. Single sheet, printed on one side only. Woodcut vignettes to head and foot. Single old horizontal fold, a trifle creased. Two political broadside ballads, irreverent and satirical in tone, each decrying the Whigs whilst championing the efforts of manufacturer, Chartist, and Radical Party member James Aytoun of Kirkcaldy (1797-1881) in the first election to the reformed House of Commons in 1832. Aytoun's electoral efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. COPAC records three copies of the first mentioned item (BL, Glasgow Caledonian, and NLS); OCLC adds no further. OCLC records a single copy of the second mentioned item (NLS); COPAC adds no further. Size: Dimensions 80 x 360 mm
HUME, David
iii, [1], 259pp, [1]. Modern gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Scattered spotting. The first revised edition of what would become better known as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding when reprinted in 1758. First published in 1748, largely a re-statement of parts of the commercially and critically unsuccessful Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Hume made numerous emendations and revisions for this second edition; for example, the title of Section XI was altered from 'Of the practical consequences of natural religion' to 'Of a particular providence and a future state', and a new paragraph (beginning 'The Indian Prince.') is introduced to the notorious essay 'On Miracles' that asserts that miracles are a violation of the law of nature. Size: 12mo Second edition. With Additions and Corrections.
[SCOTTISH MILITARY AND NAVAL ACADEMY]
[4], 16pp. With a folding frontispiece. [Bound with:] Report by the directors of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy, to the subscribers; occasioned by a printed letter addressed to them by major downes. Edinburgh. [s.n.], 1832. 36pp. With a folding table. 8vo. Modern red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, marbled edges. A trifle marked. Stab-stitch holes to gutters, inked ownership inscription of Sir John L. (?)Forbes to title of second mentioned work. A rare survival of two early reports of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy, founded at Edinburgh in 1825 for the education of cadets in pursuit of a career in the British Army, Royal Navy, or in the service of the East India Company. OCLC records copies of the first mentioned work at just three locations (Edinburgh, Glasgow, and NLS). OCLC records copies of the second mentioned work at just two locations (Edinburgh and Glasgow); COPAC adds no further.
SIMES, Thomas
[32], 286pp, [2]. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates (on 17 leaves), a list of subscribers, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, chipping to spine. Partially excised armorial bookplate to FEP, early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. The second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of an authoritative British Army drill manual, containing useful advice on the daily duties of military officers, from maintaining discipline, to practical guidance on bookkeeping and signalling. The author states in his secondary dedication 'To the Officers of the Army': 'From the rebellious conduct of the Americans it appears to me that there is a great necessity of publishing something of this kind, for the instruction of the young and unexperienced [sic] officer'. ESTC N4486. Size: 8vo
[26], 102, 133-362, [2], 125pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, modern black calf lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed and marked, joints split, insect damage to foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of the Earls of Hopetoun and later book- label of Mr. William Macmath to FEP, paper repair to head of FFEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title, slight loss to lower corner of L4. Gilbert Burnet, (1643-1715), Scottish theologian, Bishop of Salisbury and acclaimed historian. His literary reputation was founded upon the much-lauded History of the Reformation of the Church of England (1679-1714). The Vindication outlines the benefits of the moderate Church policy pursued in Scotland by the Lauderdale administration, whilst at the same time upholding the claim of Royal supremacy over Church matters. It proved to be a mere eulogy to past freedoms, as 1673 saw Lauderdale abandon his moderate policy in favour of repression of Scottish dissent. William Macmath (1844-1922), scholar and collector of Scottish ballad text, and collaborator on Francis Child's definitive publication, English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898). Size: 8vo
[4], 68pp. With a lithographed title page and dedication leaf, and two further leaves, a mounted lithographed plate after De Bry's Historia Brasiliana (1590) on India paper, and a mounted explication of the plate, also on India paper. Handsomely bound by Neil of Glasgow in contemporary dark green morocco, tolled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Decorated endpapers, title page and dedication leaf, else internally clean and crisp. The sole edition of a paper on the history of the cultivation and medicinal use of tobacco delivered by Henry Wilson Cleland (d. 1844), a lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the Glasgow School of Medicine, submitted as a part of his candidature for admission to the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. Size: Quarto
xvi, 296pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and one further engraved plate depicting Flora Macdonald. Later half-calf, buff paper boards, tolled in blind, lettered in gilt, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, scorched, upper joint split. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title, partially erased, resulting in small marginal hole, closed vertical tear to leaf Gg1, plate shaved at fore-edge. The first edition in English of a heavily romanticised account of the early life of Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), 'the Young Pretender', translated from the Italian of Michele Vezzosi, former secretary to the 'Old Pretender' and the young Stuart's valet de chambre following his defeat at Culloden and the failure of the Jacobite Rising. ESTC T125466. Size: 8vo
24pp. Six bifolia pinned together. Inked inscription 'Gaisford' to head of marked title, scattered spotting, final four leaves heavily stained, loss to gutter of terminal leaf - touching text without loss of sense. The second located copy of the first edition of an anonymous satire, presented in the form of a stage play, on the ineffectiveness of Paisley Town Council, published in the midst of the devastating 1841-1843 economic crisis, during which 67 and the town's 112 manufacturers were made bankrupt, and the Council itself forced to declare insolvency. In his The Dramatic Writers of Scotland (1868), Ralston Inglis attributes the work to Edward Polin (1816-1843), sometime sub-editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle. A second, equally scarce edition appeared later the same year. OCLC records a single copy (NLS); COPAC adds no further. Size: 8vo
[8], 296pp. With a (misbound) photographic frontispiece. Extra-illustrated with 40 engraved plates (two coloured). Bound by Bayntun in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards, T.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to FEP, scattered spotting. A handsomely bound, profusely extra-illustrated copy of the first edition of Compton Mackenzie's (1883-1972) account of the female influences on the life of Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), 'the Young Pretender'. The extra illustrations are predominantly portraits of notably historical figures including, author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri, and Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald. William Alfred Westropp Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, co-founder of the eponymous bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Following his purchase of the former medieval monastery of Beeleigh Abbey in 1943, Foyle built an extensive personal library. In July 2000, following the death of his daughter and successor Christina, the library was dispersed at Christie's over three days, at the time being the most valuable English private library ever to be offered in Britain or on the Continent. Those books that remained with the family were sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in 2023 following the death of Foyle's grandson Christopher. Size: 8vo
xii, 102pp, 18. With eighteen pages of reviews for Henley's previous works bound into rear. Original publisher's green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Internally a little toned with the page block starting, inscribed in ink to FFEP: 'To K. de M. . W. E. H. 17/4/92' then annotated pencil in 'Katherine de Mattos', and 'p50 originally "Katherine" not "Geraldine" I think.' Further annotations appear throughout the text in both hands. Manuscript author compliments slip loosely inserted. William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) was an English poet, critic, likely inspiration for Long John Silver, and the father of Margaret Henley (1888 - 1894), inspiration for Wendy in Peter Pan. A close friend of both Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie from around 1873, Henley maintained a strong relationship with both Stevenson and his paternal cousin, the writer Katherine de Mattos (1851-1939), until the cousins fell out in 1888 when Henley accused Stevenson's wife Fanny of plagiarism, after he noticed significant similarities between her and Katherine's work. The page referred to in notes to FFEP is a romantic, affectionate verse. Size: 8vo
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