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ENGLISH
POLITICS
ENGLISH History EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by
a Factor of Ten
Bayley, John. The history and antiquities of the Tower of London, with memoirs of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from records, state-papers, and manuscripts, and from other original and authentic sources. London: T. Cadell, 1825. 4to (31.7 cm, 12.5"). 2 vols. in 3. I: [2], xiv, [2], 272 pp.; 100 plts. (1 fold., 4 double-page, 1 aquatint). II: [2], vi, [2], [273]–344, 345a, 346–352a/b, 353–564 pp.; 104 plts. (1 double-page). III: [4], 565–671, [1] pp., [7 (ms.)] ff., cxxviii, [18 (index)] pp.; 97 plts. (1 aquatint, 1 hand-col.).
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original 27 engravings have been supplemented with another 274 steel-engraved, wood-engraved, mezzotint, aquatint, and monochrome plates from a wide variety of sources and hands, for a total of 301 plates. As an extra atop these extras, bound in between the close of the history and the beginning of the appendix are
seven manuscript leaves — contracts from 1692 and 1693 for masonry and other work done on the Tower, an early 18th-century record of repairs to the ditch, and a 1743 missive from the Office of Ordnance recording the issue
of beds, bolsters, blankets, etc. to the barracks in the Tower garrison. 
signed by Tout. Top edge gilt. 
A spectacular set of a splendid work. (24412)
Scots
Law Reform,
1808Bentham,
Jeremy. Scotch reform; considered, with reference to the plan,
proposed in the late Parliament, for the regulation of the courts, and the administration
of justice, in Scotland: With illustrations from English non-reform.... London:
J. Ridgway (pr. by Richard Taylor & Co.), 1808. 8vo [4], 100 pp.; 2 oversized
folding tables.
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the image for an enlargement.• NSTC B1664; Goldsmiths'-Kress 19755. Recent dark blue morocco framed in double gilt fillets, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped floral decorative motifs. Title-page with a few small spots, others clean. Tables tipped in at the back of the volume. Neat and nice.
“Our Critics . . . Have
No Right to Sneer at This Suggestion as Visionary”Beresford Hope, Alexander James B. Public offices, and metropolitan improvements ... third edition. With an appendix on the expense of the government and of Mr. Beresford Hope’s plan of public offices compared. London: James Ridgway, 1857. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). 42, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 1 col. fold. map.
The work opens with a hand-colored map of the area in question.
• NSTC 2H29711. Recent moiré cloth-covered boards. Front free endpaper with outer edge chipped; title-page with small inked numerals in upper outer corner. A very clean, fresh copy.
Nonconformist DebateBritish Anti-State-Church Association. Proceedings of the first Anti-State-Church Conference, held in London, April 30, May 1 & 2, MDCCCXLIV. London: Pr. for the British Anti-State-Church Assocation, 1844. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). xi, [1], 142
pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • NSTC 2LON952. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. First two leaves with small nicks to outer edges; pages clean.
Political/Jurisprudential/
Theatrical SATIRE
[Broome, Ralph]. Letters from Simpkin the second to his dear brother in Wales, containing an humble description of the trial of William Hastings, Esq. with Simon's answer. Dublin: P. Byrne & J. Moore, 1788. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). 46 pp. (lacking half-title). 
• ESTC N2497. Recent marbled-paper wrappers, front wrapper with paper title label. Lacking half-title. Title-page with lower corner neatly off, otherwise in excellent, clean condition.
Corruption Trial & Ultimate Vindication Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of. Letters of Albanicus to the people of England, on the partiality and injustice of the charges brought against Warren Hastings, Esq., late Governor General of Bengal. London: Pr. for J. Debrett,, 1786. 8vo (19.5 cm; 7.5"). [1] f., vii, [1 (blank)], 97, [1 (blank)] pp.
Attributed to the Earl of Buchan by Halkett & Laing (vol. 9 [1962 ed.]).
• Goldsmiths’-Kress 13204; ESTC T143537. Recent full brown speckled calf, covers gilt-tooled in the Cambridge style. Raised bands on spine accented with gilt beading on bands and defined by gilt rules above and below each band. Title-page printed aslant or trimmed somewhat askew, and with a few small old inkspots; pamphlet otherwise clean, with occasional light instances of foxing. (21735)
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