18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Touting
“New
Literary Connexions
in
AMERICA”
(English
Literary Periodical). The monthly magazine, and British register,
part I. 1798. From January to June, inclusive. Vol. V. London: R. Phillips,
1798. 8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). Frontis., [8], 552 (i.e., 554; lacking 499–504,
120 used twice in pagination, 521–28 numbered 321–28) pp.
This volume’s oversized, folding frontispiece shows the front facade
of the “new East India House now building in Leadenhall Street”;
there is also one in-text engraving of Lethington House in East Lothian, residence
of the Maitland family.
Provenance:
Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin,
a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware,
in 1787.
• Disbound with front cover, front free endpaper, and frontispiece separated; back cover lost, and signature sewing exposed/going, with many leaves loose. Now contained in a simple, acid-free phase box. Edges untrimmed. Minor offsetting and a few stray marks; mostly clean.
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Venus
— Candle-Snuffers?(English Political Satire PLUS). Venus attiring the graces. London: J. Dodsley, 1777. 4to
(24.8 cm, 9.75"). 11, [1 (blank)] pp. [with]
[Mason, William?] [Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck,
upon his newly invented patent candle-snuffers. London: J. Almon, 1776]. [5]–11,
[1 (adv.)] pp.
Boston’s
angry Soil . . .” The first work is here in its first edition, while the
second is likely an early printing.
• Venus: ESTC T73277; Ode: ESTC T41985 (first ed.). Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Second work lacking half-title and title-page. Inner margins of two leaves reinforced; last line of advertising page shaved. Title-page and last few leaves with moderate foxing; one page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, with some offsetting to opposing page.
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From an Earl's Library — Elegant Greek Typography Euripides. Euripidis quae extant omnia. Oxonii: E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1778. 3 vols. (of 4). 4to (11.8", 30 cm). I: [2] ff., iv, [18], 54, 53*/54*, 55–126, 125*/126*, 127–202, 201*/202*, 203–262, 261*/262*, 263–420, 485–510 pp. II: [2] ff., 240, 239*/240*, 241–423, [1] pp. III: [2] ff., 507, 334–356, 531–558, 557–607, [15] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Binding: Vellum over paste boards; covers ruled in deep blue and stamped with gilt coat of arms of the Earl of Aylesford (motto: “Aperto vivere voto”), spines with gracefully gilt-stamped blue leather title-labels. Marbled endpapers. Blue silk placemarkers.
• Brunet, II, 1097; Dibdin, I, 532–33; Graesse, II, 519; Schweiger, I, 115. Bindings as above, moderate soiling to vellum, joints unobtrusively strengthened with cloth from the inside. Signs of card pockets once present and shadows of pencilled numerals on title-pages; Aylesford bookplates as above; three volumes only, of four (see above), with Greek portion complete. 
An attractive, even luxurious example of “Clarendon Press Greek.”
(23262)
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BETWIXT
the
Devil & a
Doctor —
Oxford Controversy
Evans, Abel. The apparition. A poem. Or, a dialogue betwixt the devil and a doctor, concerning the rights of the Christian church. The second edition. [Oxford?], 1710. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). A–C4; 23, [1 (blank)] pp.
an
early reader has left marginalia identifying many of the people and places
to whom the author refers, and in the last two pages the initials revert to
their proper order.
• ESTC T22250; Foxon E519; NCBEL, II, 547. Recent marbled-paper wrappers, front wrapper with paper label. One page stamped by a now-defunct institution. Some early inked marginalia, one page with first few letters of each line hand-supplied where the printer erred. First and last pages with extremely light foxing.
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With
the
Very
Striking Folding Plate
Evelyn, John. Sculptura; Or, the history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: With an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new method of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by his highness
Prince Rupert...the second edition. London: Pr. for J. Murray, 1769. 8vo. (chainlines running horizontally). [4], xxxvi, 140 pp.; 3 plts. (one oversized folding).
• Wing E3513 (first ed.) On Evelyn, see: Dictionary of National Biography, XVIII, 79–83. Contemporary speckled sheep with red gilt-stamped morocco spine label; some little chipping to edges, with joints and spine lightly abraded and cracking (not disastrously). Early inscription reads "Evelyns Sculptura compiled originally the elder Faithorne." Pages unspotted for the most part, and plates in good condition save for slight offsetting to frontispiece. A pleasing book!
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