George Kearsley the elder (British, 1739 – 1790) (Kearsley, Catharine and George – publishers)
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Title page: THE | ADVENTURES | OF | TELEMACHUS, | THE | SON OF ULYSSES. | FROM THE FRENCH OF | SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE–FENELON, | ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY. | BY THE LATE | JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL. D. | CORRECTED AND REVISED BY | G. GREGORY, D. D. | JOINT EVENING PREACHER AT THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, AND AUTHOR OF | ESSAYS, HISTORICAL AND MORAL, &C. | WITH | A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A COMPLETE INDEX, HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL. | EMBELLISHED WITH TWELVE ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [VOL. II] | — | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR C. AND G. KEARSLEY, FLEET-STREET. | 1795. || Vol. 1: collation: 2 blank leaves, π6, a-d4, B-Z4 Aa-Ff4, 2 blank leaves, 7 coloured engravings; pagination: [i-v] vi-xxxv [xxxvi], [1] 2-223 [224 blank]. Vol. 2: collation: 2 blank leaves, π4, Gg-Zz4, 3A-3K4 [a]4 b2, 2 blank leaves, 5 coloured engravings; pagination: [i-iii] iv-vii [viii], [225] 226-439, [440-452]. Exterior: 2-volume set, uniformly bound in full crimson linen morocco, key fret inside, gilt-ruled with a floral pattern between fillets to boards, flat spine decorated in gilt, with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, AEG, 4to, 28 x 22.5 cm; printed on wove paper with watermark “WS”. Blind stamp to ffl by previous owner: "B. J. WIJNVELDT". Engravings: 12 tinted stipple engravings à la poupée: one by James Neagle (British, 1760? – 1822), four by William Bromley (British, 1769 – 1842), four by William Skelton (British, 1763 – 1848), one by John Ogborne (British, 1755 – 1837), and two by James Parker (1750 – 1805) after Thomas Stothard (British, 1755 – 1834). Ref.: Lewine (1898), p. 183: "The 1795 edition, 2 vols., 4to., with 12 engravings after Stothard, has a nominal value." Not in Cohen De Ricci, 1912. Original: François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. See №№ LIB-2522-2020 and LIB-2683.2021 in this collection. John Hawkesworth (British, c. 1715 – 1773). George Gregory (British, 1754 – 1808).
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Hardcover volume in 8vo, 21.2 x 15.4 cm, tan cloth with black on gilt background circular publisher’s device "TFU" to front cover, gilt-stamped compartments and burgundy labels with gilt lettering to spine. Ink inscription to fep verso dated Jan 18, 1907. Publisher's device and serial device to h.t. Title-page: ❦❦❦ THE MEMOIRS AND | TRAVELS OF MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS COUNT DE | BENYOWSKY | IN SIBERIA, KAMCHATKA, JAPAN, THE LIUKIU ISLANDS AND FORMOSA | FROM THE TRANSLATION OF HIS | ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT (1741–1771), | BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, F.R.S., 1790 | EDITED BY CAPTAIN | PASFIELD OLIVER | ILLUSTRATED | LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, | PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXCIII ❦❦❦ ||. Collation/Pagination: [1]-258 plus 7 plates, incl. frontispiece and 1 map. [1, 2] – serial h.t. "The Adventure Series" / advert. THE ADVENTURE SERIES. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s. 17 titles, [3, 4] – t.p. / blank, [5] 6-9 contents, [10] blank, [11, 12] illustrations/blank, [13] 14-52 introduction, 53-399, [400] colophon: THE GRESHAM PRESS, | URWIN BROTHERS, | CHILWORTH AND LONDON. Contributors: Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin (London); Thomas Fisher Unwin (British, 1848 – 1935). Author: Maurice Auguste count de Benyowsky [Мориц Август Бенёвский] (Polish-Slovak-Hungarian, 1746 –1786). Editor: Samuel Pasfield Oliver (British, 1838 – 1907). Translator: William Nicholson (British, 1753 – 1815). Originally published in 1790, in London (I have not seen it anywhere) and in Dublin by P. Wogan [etc.], and in 1791 in French, in Paris by Buisson; see LIB-2742.2021. For another copy of the same edition, see LIB-3139.2023. For the 1904 edition, see LIB-2703.2021.
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Title: AN ESSAY | ON THE | PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION; | OR, | A VIEW OF ITS PAST AND PRESENT EFFECTS | ON | HUMAN HAPPINESS; | WITH | AN INQUIRY INTO OUR PROSPECTS RESPECTING THE FUTURE | REMOVAL OR MITIGATION OF THE EVILS WHICH | IT OCCASIONS | BY T. R. MALTHUS, A. M. | Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Professor of History and Political Economy in the East-India College, Hertfordshire. | IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [or II. or III.] | THE FIFTH EDITION, | WITH IMPORTANT ADDITIONS. | LONDON: | JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. | 1817. || Pagination and collation: Vol. 1: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii] iv-xvi, [1] 2-496, bfl; A-Z8 2A-2I8. Vol. 2: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii]-iv – contents, [1]-2-507 [508], bfl; [A]2 B-Z8 2A-2I8 2K6. Vol. 3: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii]-iv – contents, [1]-2-500, bfl; [A]2 B-Z8 2A-2I8 2K2. Binding: Three volumes printed on wove paper, uniformly bound in quarter brown polished calf, blind-ruled, black label, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine, green buckram boards; 22.2 x 13.5 cm. Edition: 5th edition, corrected with a new preface, an updated appendix of Malthus’ responses to his critics, and addition of several chapters to the whole: on France, England, and on the poor laws. Lifetime edition. Ref.: Einaudi 3670; Goldsmiths’ 21761; Kress B.6974; Mattioli 2210. Printed by W. Clowes: William Clowes Ltd. (London). Clowes, William (British, 1779 – 1847). Malthus, Thomas Robert (British, 1766 – 1834). Murray, John (British, 1737 – 1793) Murray, John II (British, 1778 – 1843) John Murray (publishing house)
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Title: OXFORD EDITION | POPULAR STORIES | COLLECTED BY | THE BROTHERS GRIMM | A REPRINT OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION | WITH TWENTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS | BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK | {publisher’s device} | HENRY FROWDE | LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW | NEW YORK AND TORONTO | 1905 || Pagination: [i, ii] – frontis., [iii-iv]– t.p. / imprint. [v] – preface, vi-xvii [xviii blank], [2] [1] 2-403 [404], plates included in pagination, pp. 379-403 – notes. Collation: a8 b2 B-Z8 Aa-Cc8 Dd2. Binding:1 9 x 13 cm, olive green cloth blind-stamped in art nouveau style and lettered in gilt to cover and spine: GRIMMS’ POPULAR STORIES. Aubergine pencil inscription to front pastedown: C. Grant Robertson | All Souls | 1905: Provenance: Sir Charles Grant Robertson CVO (British, 1869 – 1948) who was a British academic historian, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
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Title: AN INTRODUCTION TO | BIBLIOGRAPHY | FOR LITERARY STUDENTS | BY | RONALD B. McKERROW | OXFORD | AT THE CLARENDON PRESS | 1927 Pagination: [i-iv] v-xv [xvi blank], 1-358 [2]. Collation: [a]4 b4 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4. Exterior: 23 x 15 cm, publisher’s black cloth, gilt lettering and publisher’s device to spine. Bookseller's sticker to ffl: CHAS. E. LAURIAT CO., | IMPORTERS & BOOKSELLERS | 385 Wash’n St. Boston || – this is of Lauriat, Charles Emelius Jr. (American, 1874 – 1937).
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Title: THE | BIOGRAPHY AND | TYPOGRAPHY | OF | WILLIAM CAXTON, | ENGLAND'S FIRST PRINTER. | BY | WILLIAM BLADES. | LONDON : | TRÜBNER & CO, 57 & 59 LUDGATE HILL. | STRASSBURG : | KARL I. TRÜBNER. | 1877. || Pagination: ffl, [2] blank, [i, ii] - t.p., imprint, [iii], iv, v - preface, [vi] - cul-de-lampe, [vii], viii - contents; [1], 2-383 [384] - imprint, 2] - blanks, bfl.; 18 plates: op. p. 8, 22, 54 (3), 60, 126 (4), 283, [311], 336, 358 (5). Collation: 8vo; [A]4 B-Z8 AA8 BB7. Exterior: 22.6 x 14.8 cm, printed on watermarked Zanders laid paper, original brown decorated paper boards, spine with decoration and lettering, marbled end-papers, water stain to bottom of upper cover, slightly rubbed, upper margin marbled, other untrimmed, binder's mark to back pastedown: "Bound by Simpson & Renshaw". Bookplates to front pastedown: upper: F. Marcham | Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. | Hornsey | 1907"; lower: (2) "From the library of | H. Harvey Frost". Caxton, William (British, c. 1422 – 1491). Blades, William (British, 1824-1890) Frank Marcham (1883 – 1934), motto: "Times are changed, we also are changed with them". This book is based on the author's The Life and Typography of William Caxton, London: J. Lilly, 1861-63, – "A new 'Life' in a more handy form".
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POLEMIC AGAINST PRINTING | by | FILIPPO DE STRATA | Translated by SHELAGH GRIER | Edited and | Introduced by MARTIN LOWRY | University of Warwick | The Hayloft Press | 1986 || Publisher’s mustard wrappers w/ lettering, 18.5 x 12.5 cm, 20 unnumbered pages of parallel Latin text and English translation with English introduction; limited edition of 350 copies, 100 for private circulation and 250 numbered copies for sale of which this is №3, with ink inscription to the last page: To Beryl | on her birthday, 1986 | with love from | David ||
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2 volume set, ¾ burgundy morocco over peacock marbled boards, ruled gilt, raised bands, gilt-ruled in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers and all margins, binding by W. S. Hiltz, NY. Vol. 1. Title: Typographia, | OR THE | Printers' Instructor: | INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT | of the | ORIGIN OF PRINTING, | with | Biographical Notices of the Printers of | England, from Caxton to the close | of the Sixteenth Century : | A Series of | Ancient and Modern Alphabets, | and | DOMESDAY CHARACTERS: | Together with | An Elucidation of every Subject con- | nected with the Art. | By J. JOHNSON, Printer. |{stanza}| Vol. I. | In frame: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, | Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Pater- | noster Row, London | Under the frame: 1824. || Pagination: Blank leaf, [2] – blank / engraved frontispiece (portrait of William Caxton by W. Hughes) w/guard, [2] – engraved t.p. by Thompson (upper margin almost none, tall lower margin, unframed) / blank, letterpress t.p. w/guard / blank, [2] – dedication to Earl Spenser and Roxburghe Club members / list of members, [2] – engraved Roxburgh Club plate by W. Hughes / blank, [4] – the pedigree of Earl Spenser, [i] ii-xii preface, [1] 2-610, [10] – index, blank leaf; printed on wove paper, text within double rule border. Vol. 2. Title: Typographia, | OR THE | Printers' Instructor: | INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT | of the | ORIGIN OF PRINTING, | with | Biographical Notices of the Printers of | England, from Caxton to the close | of the Sixteenth Century : | A Series of | Ancient and Modern Alphabets, | and | DOMESDAY CHARACTERS: | Together with | An Elucidation of every Subject con- | nected with the Art. | By J. JOHNSON, Printer. |{stanza}| Vol. II. | In frame: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, | Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Pater- | noster Row, London | Under the frame: 1824. || Pagination: Blank leaf, [2] – blank / engraved frontispiece (portrait of John Johnson ÆTATIS XLVI by William Harvey), w/o guard, [2] – engraved t.p. by G. W. Bonner (framed) / blank, letterpress t.p. w/o guard / blank, [2] – advert. / explanation of engraved title, [i]-iv contents, [1, 2] 3-663 [664], [14] – index, [2] – cantata, blank leaf; printed on wove paper, text within double rule border. Note: This is the book that served as a source of plagiarism for Adams's Typographia: a brief sketch of the origin, rise, and progress of the typographic art published in Philadelphia by himself in 1837.
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Title: THE | THIRD REPUBLIC | OF FRANCE | THE FIRST PHASE 1871–1894 | BY | GUY CHAPMAN | Sometime Professor of Modern History in the University of Leeds | LONDON | MACMILLAN & CO LTD | NEW YORK • ST. MARTIN’S PRESS | 1962 Pagination: [i-iv] v-xxii, [1] 2-433 [434 imprint]. Collation: 8vo; [A]8 B-Z8 2A-2D8 2E2 2E210. Binding: blue buckram, bronze lettering to spine, pictorial DJ. Publishing year 1963 according to worldcat. Author: Chapman, Guy Patterson (British, 1889 – 1972)
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Title: This Solemn | Mockery | THE ART OF LITERARY FORGERY | John Whitehead, A.L.A. | Arlington Books {device} London Pagination: [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / imprint, [2] –contents / acknowledgement, 1-177 [178 blank]; 4 leaves of plates (total 96 leaves). Binding: 22.2 x 14.2 cm; hardcover, aubergine cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. ISBN-10: 0851402127
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THE | ADVENTURES | OF | TELEMACHUS, | THE SON OF ULYSSES. | Translated from the French of | Messire François Salignac de la Mothe–Fenelon, | Archbishop of Cambray. | BY | JOHN HAWKESWORTH, L. L. D. | — | LONDON: | Printed for the AUTHOR, by W. and W. Strahan, | M DCC LXVIII. || Binding: half polished brown calf over marbled boards, wave ruled blind, gilt fillet ruled compartments, black label with gilt lettering to spine; 29.5 x 24.5 cm; marbled endpapers. Pagination: 2 blank leaves (wove paper), [I, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv – dedication, [v] vi-xv – subscribers, [xvi] blank, [xvii] xviii-xix – preface, [xx] xxi-xxxv – contents, [xxxvi] – errata, subscribers omitted, [1] 2-462, printed on laid paper, 2 blank leaves (wove paper). Collation: 4to; A4, a-c4 d2, B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Mmm4 Nnn3; 24 head- and 24 tailpieces engraved by Charles Grignion the Elder (British, 1721 – 1810) after Samuel Waly (British, 1720 – 1786). Original: François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. See № LIB-2522-2020 in this collection. Not in Lewine, 1898; Not in Cohen De Ricci, 1912.
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Japanese binding, 2 leaves of pictorial wrappers, [10] 11-63, 10 b/w plates, 63 colour plates within pagination; in a green cloth folder with gilt lettering to front and spine.
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Pictorial cloth boards, spiral-bound, pp.: 3 leaves: h.t., frontis., t.p., 1-326; 123 black & white plates within the pagination.
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Vol. 1. Title: THE | LIFE AND ADVENTURES | OF | George Augustus Sala | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF | In Two Volumes | VOL. I. | (WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR) | CASSEL AND COMPANY, Limited | LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE | 1895 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED || Pagination: frontispiece portrait of Sala by Boussod, Valadon & Cie. w/guard tissue, [i, ii] – t.p./blank, [iii, iv] – dedication/blank, [v]-x – preface, [xi]-xvi – content, [1] 2-442, [16] advert. Collation: A-Z8 AA-BB8 CC5 [Advert.]8. Vol. 2. Title: THE | LIFE AND ADVENTURES | OF | George Augustus Sala | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF | In Two Volumes | VOL. II. | (WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHORS MOTHER) | CASSEL AND COMPANY, Limited | LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE | 1895 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED || Pagination: frontispiece portrait of Sal’s mother w/guard tissue, [i, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv-viii – content, [1] 2-457-[460], [16] advert. Collation: A-Z8 aa-cc8 dd6 [Advert.]8. Binding: two volumes in uniform green publisher’s pebbled buckram, gilt lettering to spine, contemporary newspaper clippings to front and back pastedowns, vol. 2 uncut. Note: George Augustus Sala's mother was an actress Henrietta Simon Sala, known as Madame Sala, (Guyanese, British, 1789 – 1860). Here she is depicted by an engraver Thomas Alfred Woolnoth (British, 1785 – 1857) after a portrait painted by Rose Emma Drummond (British, fl. 1820 – 1840).
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Title: FLATLAND | A Romance of Many Dimensions | With Illustrations | by the Author, A SQUARE | “fie, fie, how franticly I square may talk!” | NEW AND REVISED EDITION | LONDON | SEELEY & Co., 46, 47 & 48, ESSEX STREET, STRAND | (Late of 54 Fleet Street) | 1884 || Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / imprint., [2] – dedication / blank, [ix] x-xvi, [1, 2] f.t. / blank, [3] 4-102, 2 blank leaves; in-text woodcuts. Collation: [A]8 B-H8. Binding: original wrappers in pictorial parchment jacket, printed on laid paper, lower and lateral margins untrimmed. Note: This is the 2nd edition published the same year as the 1st, revised, as stated. I did not compare the two, neither I am planning to acquire the first 1st edition in a foreseeable future. This is a lifetime edition, handled by the Author himself, and that's enough for me to be quite happy.
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Title: MEMOIRS OF M. THIERS | 1870—1873 | Translated by | F. M. ATKINSON | {publisher’s device} | LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. | RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. Pagination: [6] 7-384. Collation: 8vo; [1]-248. Size: 23 x 15 cm Binding: Blue cloth, top and bottom ruled in blind, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Original: Adolphe Thiers. Notes et souvenirs de M. Thiers, 1870-1873: voyage diplomatique, proposition d'un armistice, préliminaires de la paix, présidence de la République. — Paris : [s.n.], 1901. — 465 p. The preface and editing signed "F. D." [Félicie Dosne]. Félicie Dosne (French, 1823 – 1906) was Thiers's sister-in-law.
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2 volume set. Vol. 1. Title: Typographia, | OR THE | Printers' Instructor : | INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT | of the | ORIGIN OF PRINTING, | with | Biographical Notices of the Printers of | England, from Caxton to the close | of the Sixteenth Century : | A Series of | Ancient and Modern Alphabets, | and | DOMESDAY CHARACTERS : | Together with | An Elucidation of every Subject con- | nected with the Art. | By J. JOHNSON, Printer. |{stanza}| Vol. I. | In frame: Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, | Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Pater- | noster Row, London | Under the frame: 1824. || Typographical frame with the names of distinguished printers; on the cornerstone: William Caxton, 1474. Pagination: ffl / blank, blank / engraved frontis., engraved t.p. / blank, engraved dedication / list of club members, engraved arms vignette / blank, [4] pedigree, [i] ii-xii – preface, [1] 2-610, [10] – index, bfl. Text printed in the frame. To ffl : previous owner’s inscription: Herbert Heath | from | William Blades. | Xmas 1886; Frontispiece: Portrait of John Johnson at age 46, engraved on wood by W. Hughes; t.p.: TYPOGRAPHIA, | OR THE | PRINTERS INSTRUCTOR | BY | J.JOHNSON | PRINTER. VOL. 2. | 1824 | frame with lettering, top: GUTTnbg – FAUST – ELZEVIR – ALDUS, bottom: MENTZ – STRASbg –HARLAEM | below: BIBLIOTHECA • BODLEIANA. | below the frame: G.W.BONNER SC ||; Dedication to Earl Spenser, K. G., and the members of The Roxburghe Club, dated 1824, engraved on wood by W. Hughes; Arms vignette: Roxburghe Club | Instituted | June XVII | M D CCCXII || engraved on wood by William Harvey. Provenance: Admiral Sir Herbert Leopold Heath, KCB MVO (1861 – 1954); William Blades (1824 – 1890) – English printer and bibliographies. Inscription to ffl in both vols:D. Bateman. Vol. 2. Pagination: ffl, t.p. (similar lettering, but Vol. II.) / blank, [2] advert., [i] ii-iv contents, [1, 2] 3-663 [664] [16]. Points: Vol. 1.: Frontispiece portrait of Caxton replaced by a portrait of J. Johnson from Vol. 2, engraved t.p. of Vol. 1. replaced by t.p. of Vol. 2; Vol. 2 without engraved t.p., and without frontispiece. Edition: First Edition. Size: 16mo. 12.5 x 8.5 cm Binding: Mid-nineteenth century polished calf, the covers with a border of a gilt double fillet and blind roll. Spine divided into six panels with raised bands flanked with gilt fillets, lettered on new red goatskin labels, marbled endleaves and edges. Seller's description:
John Johnson (1777-1848) operated Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges's Lee Priory Press before a falling-out. Typographia was printed at his Apollo Press, in Brook Street, Holborn, with the financial support of Edward Walmsley, and came out in four sizes. "Of the few standard works on the art of printing in the English language, this is perhaps the most familiar. [The first volume contains] a table of the introduction of the art into the different countries, after which comes the "introduction and art in Great Britain", with a list of the productions of the first printers up to 1599. The second volume may be described as practical, in contradistinction to the first, which is historical. It gives a description of types, directions for composing, for press, and warehouse work, &c. It is particularly rich in foreign alphabets, a feature which has gained of it great estimation. It has long since become, and deservedly, a printer's classic" - Bigmore & Wyman, I, pp.371-2.
Note: This is the book that served as a source of plagiarism for Adams's Typographia: a brief sketch of the origin, rise, and progress of the typographic art published in Philadelphia by himself in 1837. The copy returned to the seller for the reason stated in section Points above and replaced with the unaltered copy LIB-2693.2021. -
Vol. 1: THE | POEMS | OF | OSSIAN. | TRANSLATED | By JAMES MACPHERSON, Esq; | IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. | A NEW EDITION. | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN ; AND T. CADELL, | IN THE STRAND. | M DCC XC.|| Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. / blank, [v] vi-xiv, [2] - contents / cont., [1, 2] 3-404, one blank leaf. Collation: 8vo; π1 A-Z8 Aa-Cc8 Dd2 Vol. 2: THE | POEMS | OF | OSSIAN. | TRANSLATED | By JAMES MACPHERSON, Esq; | VOL. II. | A NEW EDITION. | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN ; AND T. CADELL, | IN THE STRAND. |M DCC XC.|| Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. / blank, [2] - contents / blank, [1, 2] 3-436, [2] advert. / advert., two blank leaves. Collation: 8vo; π4 B-Z8 Aa-Ee8 Ff2 A1. Two volumes, 21.5 x 14 cm; hardcover; full tree calf gilt-tooled with stylized meander ruled boards inside and outside, flat spite tooled in gilt with meander and pineapples in compartments, two crimson lettered labels. margins speckled blue; peacock marbled endpapers, owner's karks to front pastedown: Owen J. Williams sticker and H. A. Lonis armorial bookplate with an earl's crown, hand-written inscription H. A. and H. C. Williams Wynn and ink stamp of Arthur J. Frank. James Macpherson (British, 1736–1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of epic poems. Publishing Year: 1790 Publisher: W. Strahan and T. Cadell