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ENGLISH
POLITICS
ELIZABETH
Must Have Loved
His
Thinking
on MONARCHY
(“A”
is for “AUTHORITIE”). Crompton,
Richard, ed. L'authoritie et iurisdiction des courts
de la maieste de la Roygne: nouelment collect & compose, per R. Crompton del
milieu Temple esquire. Apprentice del ley. Londini: Caroli Yetsweirti, 1594. 4to.
[4], 232 ff.
Single-click any image where the hand appears on
Written in Law French with some Latin, and with extended passages entirely in English in the section on “forrest” law; printed in black letter.
Provenance: Contemporary inked signatures to fly-leaf of Henry Wynn/Wine (Middle Temple?).
• ESTC S109077; STC (2nd ed.) 6050; Lowndes, I, 558. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties. Pinhole or small worming throughout to top margins, touching a few letters in headings; light waterstaining to margins/corners of first/last leaves; one preliminary with just a very little bug-spotting. Paper flaws in margins of ff. 45, 164, and 172; last leaf a little tattered. Overall, very good. (21344)
This entry is repeated in the
An
Address to
the
“Livery”(Abolition).
To the livery of London. [London, 1791?]. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25").
24 pp. (lacking pp. 9–16).
• Not in ESTC. Marbled paper–covered boards, old style, front cover with printed paper label. Lacking pp. 9–16. Pages cockled and slightly browned; edges untrimmed.
REGICIDE
Pilloried — Sort
Of?
Anonymous.
Invisible John made visible: or, A grand pimp of tyranny portrayed,
in Barkstead’s arraignment at the barre, vvhere he stands impeached of
high treason, and other gross misdemeanours, as the late tyrant’s bum-bayliff
in his most arbitrary, oppressive and tyrannical invasions of the rights and
liberties of Engli sh-men, within the late cantonized county of Middlesex, the
City of London Tower, &c. Whereunto are added, five queries, to the Parliament,
Council of State, and Army.... London: no publisher/printer, 1659. Small 4to.
[1] ff., 6 pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. There exist at least four different editions of this work. In this edition, line 9 of the title begins “VVhere” and line 19 has “Parliament, Council of State, and Army.”
• Wing (rev. ed.) I289aA; ESTC R234704. Removed from a nonce volume and now in later wrappers. (21001)
Military ScienceAnonymous.
Suggestions with regard to the education of officers in the British Army. London:
William Clowes & Sons, 1857. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). 21, [1 (blank)] pp., [1
(blank)] f. 
Rare: We were able to trace only one U.S. copy of this work via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, or RLIN.
• NSTC 2ENG3884. Removed from a nonce volume. Light soiling and staining on title-page. Closely trimmed by binder, cutting off some sidenotes. Inked numeral in margin of title-page.
Very
PRETTILY
Serving the Interests
of CULTURE
Arnold, Matthew. Sweetness and light. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [ca. 1890]. 12mo. 45, [3 (blank)] pp.
Binding: Publisher's textured cream paper–covered boards in very good imitation of morocco, front cover framed in green-stamped fillet, gilt-stamped title surrounded by gilt- and green-stamped floral sprays.
• Binding as above, paper chipping at corners and spine, spots of light discoloration around edges. Front free endpaper with nicely inked Christmas gift inscription dated 1900. Some pages with mild foxing along inner margins, otherwise clean. 
A light and sweet production. (28455)
For
a Broader Church . . .Arnold, Thomas. Principles of Church reform. London: Pr. [by R. Clay] for B. Fellowes, 1833. 8vo (20 cm, 7.875"). v, [1 (blank)], 88 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2A16362. On Arnold, see: DNB, II, 113–17. Removed from a nonce volume. A few dog ears, some shallow chipping, and traces of soiling. A little underlining and sidelining in old ink.
“Translated
Asgill”
Strikes
Back[Asgill,
John]. Mr. Asgill’s defence upon his expulsion from the House of
Commons of Great Britain in 1707. With an introduction, and a postscript. London:
A. Baldwin, 1712. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.55"). 87, [1] pp.
his rapturous religious
tenets while affirming his belief in the Scriptures and denying
any wrongdoing—especially in the pesky land speculation matter. One might,
upon perusing Asgill’s arguments, agree with the assessment made by the
printer of the original treatise, who “fancy’d [Asgill] was a little
craz’d” (p. 40).
This example is apparently a variant state of the first edition of 1712 (ESTC does not distinguish between variants, grouping all entries under one listing), with p. 61, line 8 ending “of the Romish Persuasion.’
• ESTC T41498. On Asgill, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, II, 159–61. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with small numeric stamp, spots of discoloration. A few pages more notably browned than their neighbors; otherwise generally clean.
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