FORDYCE (James)
[Second Edition], a reissue of the first edition, [4], 101, [1] pp., with advertisements on the final verso, ownership inscription of Earl Barnes (1894) on title that is lightly toned, very small hole touching one letter of B2, front endpaper slightly torn, later quarter morocco, title in gilt on spine. "The swarms of foolish and worthless novels, incessantly spawned by dull and dissolute scribblers, and without unwearied industry disseminated from our Circulating Libraries, were alone sufficient to swallow up among the young and gay, all sober reflection, every rational study, with ever virtuous principle; and to introduce in their room impure ideas, and notions of happiness alike fantastic and false By the influence of those productions on unguarded readers the whole system of life seems converted into romance; Juvenile Fancy, through a fairy land of astonishment and rapture. Have you never heard such censures from fops and fribbles, a race of creatures not to be surpassed in conceit by the silliest girl that ever issued from a foolish boarding-school?" - taken from Part. II.
DAVENPORT (Cyril)
First edition, 4to, vii, [i], 451, [1]pp., frontis., stamp removed from title, heraldic illustrations and figures throughout, orig. publishers red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. An invaluable book which, though the only one on the subject, is replete with heraldic and biographical mistakes.
LINTON (W. J.)
First edition, folio, xvii, 229pp., including index, no. 464 of 500 numbered copies signed by the author, signs of a label having been removed from verso of title, hand-coloured frontis., (the St. Christopher of 1423), 230 wood engravings (some being proofs on India paper), later half red calf, rubbed, uncut Linton's crowning achievement and the most sumptuous book on wood-engraving in the English language. There is historical coverage of knife work and graver work from the fifteenth century onwards. As well as writing the text Linton also cut several of the blocks for page plates and other illustrations.
PERRY (Amos)
First edition, tall 8vo, 108pp., engraved portrait, facsimiles of letters from Ojibway Indians at end, original cloth, gilt lettering on spine, a nice copy. Allen, was a noted scientist, inventor, author and reformer.
THOMASON (George)
2 Vols., large 8vo, xxv, [iii], 895, [i]; [ii], 767, [i]pp., orig. cloth, spines lettered in gilt, a nice set. Sheehy AA 811: "A very rich collection for this period, arranged chronologically with author, anonymous title, and subject index". Provenance: Robert S. Piries copy with his bookplate.
[RAHIR (Édouard)]
First edition, folio, viii, 328pp., 136 of 350 numbered copies, 42 chromolithographic plates, slight sign of label having been removed from front endpapers, orig. boards, leather spine label, joints worn, uncut.
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