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			<description><![CDATA[SHARP, (Granville).the shark attack on the merchant Brook Watson that was immortalized by John Singleton Copley in his iconic Watson and the shark that now resides in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Sharp's interest in the Spanish plan of enfranchisement was part of his life-long campaign to gain legal rights for slaves. Earlier in 1772 Sharp's argument that as soon as a slave set foot on the British isles he became free established a precedent that later judges would refer to when considering the status of slaves who traveled to Britain. After the 1772 case Sharp focused his attention on the legal status of slaves in the West Indies and consequently the Spanish legal codes became of great interest.    Autograph letter, written from "Ledenhall Street London 22 September 1787" to Thomas Adams of Alnwick, Northumberland.    Large quarto, 1 1/3 pages with conjugate address panel. Two horizontal and two verticle creases from being folded, small hole to blank inner gutter, otherwise in excellent condition.Sharp begins by thanking Adams for sending a transcript of Spanish regulations to enfranchise slaves. Sharp notes that "tho' that acco(un)t was drawn up by myself many years ago and is printed in my tract on the limitation of slavery appendix no. 5. p. 55 ... yet I am not the less obliged to you". Sharp states that he received the information years ago from the merchant Brook Watson who was based in Havana and "lost his leg by the bite of a shark in the harbour; you most probably have seen the picture of that most tremendous escape from the horrible jaws of the monster which was returning to bite off his head, after having torn off and swallowed his leg, when he was struck by a boat hook". The picture that Sharp writes of is John Singleton Copley's Watson and the shark , an oil on canvas painting completed in 1778, that critics have described as "the first major English historical painting" (Masur, 427). Watson went on to a distinguished career as a merchant and public servant - he was elected to parliament and later acted as Lord Mayor of London.    Granville Sharp came from an old northern family with strong connections to the Anglican church - his father, Thomas Sharp (1693-1758) was archdeacon of Northumberland, his grandfather, John Sharp, was archbishop of York and two of his brothers became Anglican clergyman.    "From 1776 Sharp began to publish tracts on slavery and correspond energetically with many leading members, lay and clerical, of the political establishment ... Although Sharp was never a popular or even accessible writer, his work was of immense importance to the anti-slavery movement in Britain. It was partly through his efforts that it gained public attention and sympathy and that it transformed itself from a benign climate of opinion to a highly organized campaign. Thomas Clarkson regarded him as the founder of the movement; according to Francis Horner, he was one of those who started it" (ODNB). Personally engaging and c]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Autograph letter signed by the abolitionist Granville Sharp (1735-1813) to Thomas Adams of Northumberland thanking the latter for sending a transcript of the Spanish regulations for the enfranchisement of slaves and... (more)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(TENNYSON, (Alfred and Charles)).First Edition. 8vo. xii, 228pp. Early 20th-century blue morocco by Riviere and Son, the covers ruled in gilt, spine elaborately gilt, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.    London: for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, and J. and J. Jackson, Louth. (Colophon: Louth: by J. and J. Jackson).With the advertisement leaf after the title noting that "the following Poems were written from the ages of fifteen to eighteen, not conjointly, but individually, ..." dated March, 1827. A third anonymous Tennyson brother, Frederick, also contributed four poems.    Very light, even, browning, probably washed; a very handsome copy. Pencil inscription on the flyleaf "and given to me by M.K.P(earson) June 8 1954".]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Poems, by two brothers.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(Kent, ).24 wood-engraved plates.    Oblong 8vo. Original cloth (slightly stained).    Canterbury: H. J. Goulden, (c.No title or text, title on the front cover. All the plates "published by J. S. and Co.". from the library of John Piper.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA4274.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Twenty Four Views of Canterbury, and Neighbourhood.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ECHEVARRIA, (Berta Cano) and HIDALGO (Ana Saez), editors.Emblems and pamphlets from the English College at Valladolid / Emblemas y penfletos del Colegio des los Ingleses de Valladolid.    8vo. lxxiv, 664pp. 16 colour plates. Bound in green cloth lettered in gilt.    The Royal English College, Valladolid; distributed by Maggs Bros. Ltd.,Annals of the English College, Valladolid / Los Anales del Colegio de los Ingleses. Volume 2.    This volume is a collection of the surviving literary pieces and narrative accounts produced at the English College at Valladolid in its early years. They represent the artistic and intellectual legacy product of the very peculiar circumstances of the authors: religious exiles in a foreign land that was initially at war with their home country. The victory of Spain over England would have meant for these exiles their own victory and an occasion to return safely to their country, but during this period the English Catholic cause suffered more setbacks than triumphs. Despite this fact, the "fruits" of the English exiles are generally optimistic, they were composed in most cases to decorate celebrations or as commemorations of festive moments, and so, though the suffering and endurance of the collegians is at the background of much of this production, the general tone is one of optimism and pride over achievements.    Contents:    Relation of the King of Spaines receiving in Valliodolid, and in the Inglish College of the same towne, in August last past of this yere. 1592. Facsimile of a printed book.    Relacion de un Sacerdote Ingles, escrita a Flandes a vn cavallero de su tierra, desterrado por ser Catolico: en la qual le da cuenta de la venida de su Magestad a Valladolid, y al Colegio de los Ingleses, y lo que alli se hizo en su recebimiento. 1592. Facsimile of a printed book.    Epigrammata serenissimo excellentissimoque Hispanianum principi Philippo 3o - Epigrams to the most excellent prince of Spain Philip III the best Maecenas of the English exiled because of their Catholic faith his English College at Valladolid with grateful hearts. (Prince Manuscript). Transcript.    Relacion de la venida de los Reyes Catolicos, al Collegio Ingles de Valladolid, en el mes de Agosto ano de 1600.. Facsimile of a printed book.    A Relation of the solemnit]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA14292.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Fruits of Exile / Los Frutos del Exilio.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EVANS, (Mark), editor.Facsimile and Commentary on the Manuscript in the Possession of the Earl of Scarbrough.    Folio. 168pp + colour facsimile and 80 comparative illustrations. Red buckram.    The Roxburghe Club,The Lumley Inventory and Pedigree is the most important surviving document of Elizabethan visual culture. The manuscript is owned by the Earls of Scarbrough and has long been on deposit at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was compiled around 1590 for John, Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), a pivotal figure between the Elizabethans with their enthusiasm for architecture and genealogy, and the Jacobeans with their love of books and artists. A Roman Catholic, Lord Lumley married the daughter of the 12th Earl of Arundel, and divided his time between his ancestral seat at Lumley Castle in County Durham and Nonsuch Palace in Surrey. Lacking an heir and excluded from a political role, Lumley directed his considerable energies into antiquarian pursuits, memorials, and the collecting activities that are spectacularly recorded in his Inventory.    As Sir Roy Strong writes in the Foreword, this publication fills 'a major lacuna in Elizabethan studies and one that could only satisfactorily be remedied by a team of scholars knowledgeable not only about painting but also genealogy, sculpture, furniture, interior decoration, heraldry, gardens and architecture'. Mark Evans, Senior Curator of Paintings at the V&A, heads a team of fifteen leading scholars who have examined all apsects of this fascinating manuscript.    The first part comprises an account of the contents of Lumley Castle, copies of verses and inscriptions displayed there, transcripts of deeds and other records related to the Lumleys, and four richly illuminated genealogical trees. It was Lord Lumley's fascination with pedigrees and portraits that elciited King James's famous quip, 'I didna ken Adam's ither name was Lumley'.    The second part includes a series of drawings in ink, wash and watercolour of fountains and other garden ornaments at Nonsuch, marble-topped tables, the funerary monuments of Lumley and his wives at the nearby parish church in Cheam, and views of Lumley Castle. The Inventiry takes its na]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Art Collecting and Lineage in the Elizabethan Age: The Lumley Inventory and Pedigree]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EVANS, (Mark), editor.Facsimile and Commentary on the Manuscript in the Possession of the Earl of Scarbrough.    Folio. 168pp + colour facsimile and 80 comparative illustrations. Red buckram.    The Roxburghe Club,The Lumley Inventory and Pedigree is the most important surviving document of Elizabethan visual culture. The manuscript is owned by the Earls of Scarbrough and has long been on deposit at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was compiled around 1590 for John, Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), a pivotal figure between the Elizabethans with their enthusiasm for architecture and genealogy, and the Jacobeans with their love of books and artists. A Roman Catholic, Lord Lumley married the daughter of the 12th Earl of Arundel, and divided his time between his ancestral seat at Lumley Castle in County Durham and Nonsuch Palace in Surrey. Lacking an heir and excluded from a political role, Lumley directed his considerable energies into antiquarian pursuits, memorials, and the collecting activities that are spectacularly recorded in his Inventory.    As Sir Roy Strong writes in the Foreword, this publication fills 'a major lacuna in Elizabethan studies and one that could only satisfactorily be remedied by a team of scholars knowledgeable not only about painting but also genealogy, sculpture, furniture, interior decoration, heraldry, gardens and architecture'. Mark Evans, Senior Curator of Paintings at the V&A, heads a team of fifteen leading scholars who have examined all apsects of this fascinating manuscript.    The first part comprises an account of the contents of Lumley Castle, copies of verses and inscriptions displayed there, transcripts of deeds and other records related to the Lumleys, and four richly illuminated genealogical trees. It was Lord Lumley's fascination with pedigrees and portraits that elciited King James's famous quip, 'I didna ken Adam's ither name was Lumley'.    The second part includes a series of drawings in ink, wash and watercolour of fountains and other garden ornaments at Nonsuch, marble-topped tables, the funerary monuments of Lumley and his wives at the nearby parish church in Cheam, and views of Lumley Castle. The Inventiry takes its na]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Art Collecting and Lineage in the Elizabethan Age: The Lumley Inventory and Pedigree]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Brydges, Sir EgertonGreatly Augmented, and Continued to the Present Time.    London; Printed for F. C. and J. Rivingotn, Otridge and Son etc. 1812, 8vo.    Volume I, (xv) 574pp. Contains the Blood Royal, and part of the Dukes    Volume II, 619pp. Contains the rest of the Dukes, and all the Marquises    Volume III, 807pp. Contains the Earl's to the termination of the seventeenth Century    Volume IV, 552pp. Contains the Earl's from the commencement of the eighteenth century, to the death of George II.    Volume V, (iv) 732pp. Contains the Earl's from the accession of George III    Volumes VI, (iv) 764pp. Contains all the Viscounts; and those Barons, whose honours existed prior to the death of Queen Elizabeth.    Volume VII, (iv) 578pp. Contains the Barons form the accession of King James I, to the termination of the Coalition Ministry in 1783.    Volume VIII, (iv) 624pp. Contains the Barons from the commencement of Mr Pitt's Ministry 1784, to the termination of the eighteenth century.    Volume IX, (iv) 526pp (Index). Contains the Barons form the commencement of the nineteenth century and the Union of Ireland; and also a short Extinct Peerage from the accession of King Henry VII, with an account of Peerage claims.Bound in original full leather with stamped and gilt spines. A number of volumes have their black leather spine labels detached or partially detached (Volumes II, III and IX) however these can be found tucked into the flyleaf. Some joints have been repaired, others are rubbed, however all in good order. Some other bumps and scrapes, corners are bumped. Internally the text is mostly clean and clear, some volumes suffer from some degree of foxing or browning. Particualy where different types of paper has been used. For example in Volume I, from sheets B-D there is consideable browning, whereas the rest of the text is clean. Each volume bears the inscription of the former owner Isaac A Shapiro (University of Birmingham) in pencil. A good set.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical (9 Volumes)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[VERTUE, (George).; WALPOLE SOCIETY4to. Cloth-backed boards. As New. Due to the weight cost of postage will be advised separately.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Note-Books. Volumes I-VI (Walpole Society Vols. 18 (1929/30), 20 (1931/32), 22 (1933/34), 24 (1935/36), 26 (1937-38), 30 (1948/50). Facsimile Reprint Edition.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[MARKHAM, (Gervase).Shewing how it is most necessary in these times for this kingdome, both in peace and war, and how it may be done without charge to the country, trouble to the people, or hinderance to necessary occasions. Also the discipline, the postures, and whatsoever else is necessarie for the attayning to the art.     First edition. 8vo., (24), 112, 117-172 pp. With the initial woodcut. Light damp stain to lower gutter margin G1-I1 (not touching text), ink stain to centre of K7r and K8, and with a small rust spot to L3 and L7, otherwise a very clean copy rebound in early twentieth-century brown gilt ruled morocco, with six panel gilt tooled spine and gilt edges.    London: printed by B(ernard) A(lsop) and T(homas) F(awcett) for Ben Fisher (...),STC 17333 (+,+)     An early comprehensive archery manual by the prolific writer Gervase Markham.     Markham began his writing career in 1593 with his A discourse on horsmanshippe; over the next forty years he wrote countless other manuals and guides, sometimes re-using previous material, but in all producing around twenty-five different works on various subjects (STC attributes twenty-seven works to him).    In an early essay on Markham, Charles F. Mullett perhaps best summed up his achievement stating 'no great discovery, no revolutionary theory (...) will ever be attached to his name, yet his endless and diverse probing into many fields of knowledge prepared the way for more distinguished men' (Mullett, 'Gervase Markham: Scientific Amateur', 1944). Markham produced works on husbandry, angling, militaria and gardening amongst many others, Mullett sees this 'diversity of talent' as reflecting 'the prodigal vitality of those days' (106).    Like many manuals the Art of archerie begins with a history of the pursuit, tracing its first origins in the Bible, to its 'remarkeable' use at Agincourt, through to the 'bloody Civill Warre betwixt the two great houses of Yorke and Lancaster' (15-16).    Markham then sets out in twenty-two chapters the various equipment required (including bows, strings, shafts, arrow-heads etc), the five 'postures' or steps which must be taken in order to shoot correctly and finally the best way to 'ayme' and the art of 'streight shooting'. His instructions are delivered in a tone which suggests familiarity and experience with the subject (he had fought under Essex in Ireland) with various asides as to the type of arrow head or bow string Gervase himself prefers.    Markham is rightly celebrated for his detailed and 'indispensable guides to the practicalities of Renaissance life' (ODNB) - certainly the sheer scope of his work places him at the forefront of early practical writers who utilised the po]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Art of archerie.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(RALPH, James)To which is prefix'd, The Dimensions of St. peter's Church at Rome, and St. Paul's Cathedral at London.    First Edition. 8vo. (8), viii, 119, (1(blank))pp., half-title, folding letterpress table of dimensions at p. 1. Rebound in half calf, old style.    London: C. Ackers for J. Wilford and J. Clarke,Half-title soiled, some spotting on a few leaves,    First edition of this work dedicated to Lord Burlington, the great patron of Palladian architecture. The author, a poet and miscellaneous writer who died in 1762 (and who seems remarkably prescient), pens a short prefatory essay "On Taste": We are quite degenerating to Lilliputians; a race of Dapperwits;and there is not above a hair's breadth of difference, between us and our leaders".The work was reprinted in 1736 and again in 1783.    Goldsmith's 7249. ESTC lists multiple copies.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA12072.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Critical Review of the Publick Buildings, Statues and Ornaments in, and about London and Westminster.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CHANEY, (Edward).2 vols. 8vo. Bound in purple cloth, slipcase.    London: Roxburghe Club,The modest, vellum-bound notebook now known as the 'Roman Sketchbook' and catalogued at Chatsworth House as 'Album 6' was probably acquired early in the New Year of 1614, within days Inigo Jones's of arrival in Rome with the Earl of Arundel. Begun as a self-improving notebook in Rome on 21 January 1614, Jones soon seems to have put the Sketchbook aside while he explored Rome with his patron. A month later Jones began paraphrasing Palladio's 'Antichita di Roma' but then seems to have abandoned his notebook and was not to return to it for at least two decades. Then, in his sixties, he decided to fill in many of the pages he had left blank with more pen and ink notes and drawings. Both were derived from books or prints with varying degrees of literalness; the Italian prose being translated and paraphrased or abridged; the visual material being inevitably filtered through his own artistic experience but usually repeated in more or less directly derivative form. Both notes and drawings were inserted in the manner of one compiling a visual commonplace-book in which the drawings are related to many similar but scattered drawings done in the same period. Now, more than his own education, he seems to have had that of his own pupil, John Webb in mind and through and beyond him, his own immortality.    Published previously only in a rare lithographic facsimile in 1831 this is the first scholarly publication of the Roman Sketchbook. The text has been fully reproduced in photographic facsimile and accurately transcribed by Professor Chaney for the first time. The sources of Jones's designs, mostly Italian prints of the sixteenth century have been identified, with supporting illustrations, and in a lengthy introduction Professor Chaney explores the place the Sketchbook fills in both Jones's life and his legacy.    Issued in two volumes: 1: Facsimile. 2: Introduction, transcription and textual commentary.    Due to the weight you will be contacted separately about]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA11172.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Inigo Jones's 'Roman Sketchbook'.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ROGERS, (Samuel).8vo., 187 pp. Old signature erased from the title-page, fore-edges of the first few leaves browned and with a number of neat annotations on pp 84-5, otherwise a decent copy in handsome red morocco with a single guilt fillet and guilt edges (headcaps a little rubbed and corners slightly bumped).    London: Thomas Bensley (...) for T. Cadell, Jun. And W. Davies (...), The two-part poem, written in elegant but relaxed heroic couplets, begins with a nostalgic tour around the village of Rogers's childhood, and moves through various scenes to explore and illustrate the 'associating principle', of the faculty of memory. It concludes with a poignant invocation to Rogers's dead brother Thomas (ODNB).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA13913.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Pleasures of memory, with other poems. By Samuel Rogers, Esq. A new edition.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dugdale, (Henry GeastThe Principal Compiler of The Liturgy of the Church of England, Established at the time of the Reformation, and now in use amongst us as the only English Church in service, legally established in this Kingdom; The First Protestant Bishop of Rochester, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, by appointment of and Almoner to Queen Elizabeth.    London; William Pickering, 1839, (vii) 211pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a large foldout pedigree chart.Bound in original black cloth, tight and clan, with paper label to the spine, which is very faded. There is a section of about 1 inch in length missing from the top of the spine. Corners and edges are bumped. Title page and some of the preliminaries are foxed, otherwise mostly clean. There is a large split in the spine at page 66, but still holding. Good condition overall. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA12770.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Life and Character of Edmund Geste, S.T.P.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[TAYLOR, (Ann) and TAYLOR (Jane)12mo., 36 pp. Missing the tenth plate. Slightly foxed in places. Bound in calf and marbled boards (boards a little faded).    London: G. and W.B. Whittaker (...),A tragic children's verse narrative.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA13912.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Linnet's Life. Twelve poems with a copper plate engraving to each.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SMITH, (Robert). First edition. 8vo., v,(1),iv-vii,(1),218p. With six engraved plates (4 folding). Small piece missing from the corner of C3 and the fore-edge of L3, minor rust spot in the blank margin of H3-4, and with some light transfer of ink from the plates onto facing pages (B5r, E4v, I1r, I2v, I3v, N3v), otherwise a good clean copy in contemporary calf with a red morocco spine label (calf chipped, corners a little bumped and spine cracked).    London: printed for the author,ESTC (+,+)     A comprehensive guide to vermin control by the 'rat-catcher to Princess Amelia'.     Smith concedes in his introduction that his subject is 'low and humble' (B1v), yet reminds the reader of how 'detrimental and destructive' (B1r) vermin can be. Not only does Smith devote chapters to three different types of rat and six types of mouse he also deals with cats, dogs, hawks, owls and bats. The plates illustrate various types of traps including a 'steel trap' for catching foxes - 'the king of the vermin in this island' (B4v).    Provenance: P Williams, early signature in the upper margin of title page.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA13593.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin, in a method hitherto unattempted (...)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DRYDEN, (John).First octavo edition. The first edition, in folio, appeared in 1700. 8vo., (48), 550, (2) With an engraved frontispiece depicting literary inspiration at work. Some light dampstaining to the blank lower right corner throughout but overall a clean crisp copy bound in contemporary panelled calf, gilt spine (spine worn, lacking label, head of spine lightly chipped).    London: for Jacob Tonson ...,In his preface, Dryden outlines the genesis of the present work and discusses how it was the product of his various translation projects. After translating the first book of Homer's Iliad he "proceeded to the translation of the twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ... having done with Ovid for this time, it came into my mind, that our old English poet Chaucer in many things resembled him ... I soon resolved to to put their merits to the trial, by turning some of the Canterbury Tales into our language, as it is now refin'd ... and resemblance of genius, in Chaucer and Boccace, I resolv'd to join them in my present work; to which I have added some original papers of my own" (a1-a2).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA12892.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CLARKE, (E. Arthur S.) Only edition. 8vo., xxi, (1), 348. With 35 plates most of which are portraits of the club members. Copy two of a limited edition of 25. A very clean and crisp copy especially bound for club member Oliver G. Jennings in contemporary brown sheep, covers with single gilt rule and spine gilt (joints lightly rubbed, edges and corners lightly chipped, spine lightly sunned, small stain to lower right front cover).    Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press,The Metropolitan Club, founded in 1891 by J.P. Morgan, is arguably America's most prestigious private members club. This work, a compilation of the minutes and records of the Bridge Dinner Club formed in 1906 by members of the Metropolitan Club, provides a fascinating glimpse of American club life in the Jazz Age. The work describes each meeting of the Dining Club and provides menus for each occasion. The work is full of wonderful anecdotes of a vibrant and prosperous era. For example, page 54 provides a song that was enthusiastically sung by all the members present: 'I want Booze! / When I choose! / I don't want those lemon-drops you hand me, / I don't want any Huyler's sweet candy, / I want Booze! - when I choose! / I don't want any ice cream sodas, / I want Booze!'    Not recorded by OCLC. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Metropolitan Club. Bridge Dinner Club. Minutes and records 1906-1931.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(KIMBER, (Edward)). First edition. 12mo., iv, (4), 220 pp. Edges of E6 soiled, tear to E6 and E7 repaired, corner of F6 torn away with loss of catchword and one or two letters of text, piece torn from upper right corner of F7 with loss of one or two words at the end of 9 lines but overall a decent copy bound in contemporary calf (rebacked, corners bumped and chipped).    London: printed for J. Wren, Very rare. ESTC records the British Library only in the U.K.and Huntington and Yale only in North America and there is a copy at the University of Cork in Ireland.     First edition of a very rare account of the adventures of an itinerant Irishman on the high seas.     While written under the pseudonym of "Neville Frowde" and as an autobiography, Kimber's Life ... of Capt. Neville Frowde is in fact a highly readable work of fiction that relates the wanderings of Frowde after he is sold by his uncle into the service of a ship's captain in an attempt to gain his sizeable inheritance. After a sojourn in Ireland, where he receives his education and meets his future wife, Frowde travells in the Mediterranean where he experiences a number of adventures such as fighting off an attack by pirates from one of the Barbary states, before embarking for the South Seas with his friend, patron and fellow Irishman, Capt. McNamara, via Jamaica but the journey is not so straighforward as that - when stopping off in South America, he is taken captive by natives only to be rescued by a Portuguese captain in whose family Frowde's long-lost mother resides.    Testifying to the popularity of the work, The Life, extraordinary adventures ... of Capt. Neville Frowde appeared in three further editions before the close of the eighteenth century - all of which are of similar rarity.    In September of 1742, Kimber left Britain for the American colonies where he spent two years travelling. He recorded his observations and experiences, many of which appeared in this and his other novels. He returned to Britian in 1744 and devoted himself to a variety of literary projects. He was appointed editor of the London Magazine in 1755 and most of his travel writing appeared in that publication. "Kimber's seven novels, all anonymously published, enjoyed considerable success in the eighteenth century. Almost all of them went through two editions ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA11827.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Life, extraordinary adventures, voyages, and surprizing escapes of Capt. Neville Frowde, of Cork. In four parts. Written by himself, and now first published from his own manuscript.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(Scotland, ).; Richardson (T.).by T. Richardson, Geographer and Surveyor. To which is added, a succinct detail of a Trip to the Falls of Clyde, and Extensive Cotton Mills of David Dale Esq. With a concise description of all the Towns, Villages, Gentleman's Seats, &c. situated near the roads thereto.    7 folding maps, 6 folding engraved plates (of 70.    "Second Edition with Improvements". 8vo. Original boards, uncut (worn, spine defective, lower joint repaired with tape).    Glasgow: John Murdoch,Lacks the plate of Chatelherault. Light browning. Without the final advertisement leaf found in the BL copy but not in the others listed by ESTC. The industrialist and philanthropist David Dale founded the town of New Lanark for the employees of his cotton mills; this edition is printed in the year that he sold the company and his son-in-law Robert Owen took over as manager. From the library of John Piper.x]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA4324.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Guide to Loch Lomond, Loch Long, Loch Fine, and Inverary,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BLACKFAN, (Father John, S.J.).; HARRIS (Peter E.B.), editor8vo. xliv, 266pp., 17 colour illustrations. Bound in green cloth, lettered in gilt.    The Royal English College, Valladolid; distributed by Maggs Bros. Ltd., London,Annals of the English College, Valladolid / Los Anales del Colegio de los Ingleses, Valladolid. Volume I.    Father John Blackfan, S.J. (1560-1641) was one of the first three students assigned to the recently founded English College of St. Alban at Valladolid, arriving in 1589. Between 1596 and 1604 he was the college's minister and he took his final vows a s Jesuit in 1602. In 1605 he was at St Omer and returned to valladolid in November 1608. In 1611 he joined the English Mission but he was captured in August 1612, imprisoned and then exiled in September 1613. He returned to Valladolid, where he was briefly rector. He returned to England in late 1621 or early 1622 and died in Lincoln on 15/24 January 1641. The Annals, written in Latin, provide an account of his first twenty-five years and a history of the early years of the college.    The Latin text of the original manuscript was published by J.H. Pollen in Annales Collegii S. Albani in Oppido Valesoleti (Roehampton, 1899) but this is the first editon with translations intp English and Spanish.    This first volume of this annual series. Planned initially for publication over ten years, the purpose of the series is to make available documents from the College Archives that will further the study of Catholic history in the U.K. and Spain. All volumes will be published bilingually with Spanish and English texts. One hundred and fifty copies will be printed, of which no more than 100 are for sale. The volumes will be designed and seen through the press by Dame Catherine Wybourne of the Veil Press at Holy Trinity Monastery, East Hendred, Oxfordshire. The General Editor of the Series is Fr Peter Harris (Honorary Archivist, English College, Valladolid).    Future volumes commissioned to date are:    2009 Vol. 2: The Fruits of Exile: Emblems and pamphlets from the English College, Valladolid, edited by Ana Sainz and Berta Cano.    2010 Vol. 3: Papers of the Spanish Elizabethans: Baldwin,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA13313.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Blackfan Annals / Los Anales de Blackfan. Latin - English - Spanish.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SWIFT, (Jonathan).Containing, I. The Author's Miscellanies in Prose. II. His Poetical Writings. III. The Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver. IV. His Papers relating to Ireland, consisting of several Treatises; among which are, The Drapier's Letters to the People of Ireland against receiving Wood's half-pence: Also, two Original Drapier's Letters, never before published. In this Edition are great Alterations and Additions; and likewise many Pieces in each Volume, never before Published.    Engraved portrait by Vertue in Vol. 1; engraved frontispiece in Vol. 2 with a portrait medallion of Swift being crowned by a ? Muse with a laurel wreath and with a figure of Hibernia, an angel and putti; Vol. 3 with a frontispiece portrait of Gulliver, five engraved maps and an engraved plate of the Liliputian language machine; Vol. 4 with an emblematical portrait of Swift in an armchair.    First Collected Edition. 8vo. 4 vols. (xxiv), 345; (viii), 480; (4), viii, (8), 404; (10), (ii), 388pp. Contemporary calf (rebacked in a lighter colour calf; edges and corners worn).    Dublin: by and for George Faulkner,Teerink-Scouten, Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift, no. 41. Rothschild 2151. Ordinary paper copy. Occasional light spotting.    The "first authoritative edition of Swift's works by themselves" (Teerink, p. 24) as corrected by Swift himself at the press including corrections to the text of Gulliver's Travels: "In this Impression several Errors in the London and Dublin Editions are corrected". Vol. 2 contains 52 poems published here for the first time and Vol. IV contains two extra Drapier's Letters and an account of the execution of Wood, also printed for the first time.    Subsequent editions were extended with additional works to 6 volumes in 1738, a 7th of letters was added in 1741 and an 8th in 1746, with additional volumes, mainly of correspondence, being added until a full set finally reached reached 20 volumes in 1769.    Vol. 1 contains a 15-page subscribers' list. With the usual cancels in Vol.2; Vol. 4, leaf I8 is in the first state signed "*I"; Vol. 4, p.65 has the rare headpiece depicting Swift receiving a cup from a woman on the left and with Britannia on the right ; Vol. 4, sheet N is in the third state (of 3) is the variant with a headpiece of an angler    Provenance: A large bookplate on the pastedown of vols. 1-3 has been damaged (vol. 1), messily removed (vols. 2-3) and covered with the early 19th-century armorial bookplates of William Clarke.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA12576.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Works of J.S, D.D, D.S.P.D. in Four Volumes.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SKINNER, (David), introduction.Folio. Quarter leather bound, wood boards; 190 colour plates (50% of original size); 310 x 410mm. London: Privately printed for the Duke of Norfolk for presentation to the Roxburgh Club,Due to the size postage and packing will be charged at cost.    A handsome monograph on this spectacular manuscript of medieval church music commissioned by Edward Higgons, Master of Arundel College in Sussex.    Three English choirbooks have survived intact from the early Tudour Period: the Eton Choirbook, and the now so-called "Caius" and "Lambeth" Choirbooks (now housed at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Lambeth Palace Library, respectively). While Eton is known to have originated from the great college of that name the provenance of Caius and Lambeth has, untill now, been a complete mystery.    The man responsible for their production has long been held to be Edward Higgons, a prominent Tudor Lawyer and multiple plurist who was a canon of St Stephen's Westminster, where Nicholas Ludford, a principle composer in both manuscripts, was employed from the early 1520s. On the last page of the Caius Choirbook is written the insciption, "Ex dono et opere Edwardi Higons cuius ecclesie canonicis," Which may be translated as, "By the gift and work of Edward Higgons, canon of this church." The "ecclesia" is now believed to be St. Stephen's, although the origins of the Lambeth Choirbook have been much less well understood. It has, however, been generally accepted that it too was produced for one of the ecclesiastical institutions with which Higgons was associated.    In this Roxburghe Club volume, Dr David Skinner (Magdalen College, Oxford) casts new light on the hitherto unknown origins of Edward Higgons, who, after a sucessful legal career in Shropshire and Westminster, retired in 1520 to the mastership of Arundel College in Sussex. In addition, a manuscript roll containing Ludford's music (discovered in the archives of Arundel Castle in 1982) has been found to have been copied by the person who produced Lambeth and Caius , leading to the strong presumption that both books originated from Arundel: Caius as a presentation copy from Higgons, as mas]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA10075.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Arundel Choirbook. London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1. A Facsimile and Introduction.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ROXBURGHE CLUB; MORTLOCK (D. P.).56 colour illustrations, many full page. Pp. xvi, 140. One of 200 ordinary copies. Small folio, original full green buckram. blocked in gilt on upper cover and spine. Presented to the Roxburghe Club by Lord Leicester.A detailed description and history of one of the world's finest private libraries, much of which was acquired on the Grand Tour of France and Italy by Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) who built Holkham Hall in Norfolk. The family has added to it and sustained it ever since.    The core of the collection concentrates on Renaissance Italy, however a wide variety of interests are represented, for instance there are Sir Edward Coke's 14th century English manuscripts, a remarkable collection of Civil War and Commonwealth pamphlets, some early broadsides of the Virginia Company, and many other varied treasures.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA13696.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Holkham Library: A History and Description.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ROXBURGHE CLUB; MORTLOCK (D. P.).56 colour illustrations, many full page. Pp. xvi, 140. One of 100 special copies, 39 of which are for sale. Small folio, original quarter green morocco with library buckram sides blocked in gilt on spine and upper cover, t.e.g. Presented to the Roxburghe Club by Lord Leicester.A detailed description and history of one of the world's finest private libraries, much of which was acquired on the Grand Tour of France and Italy by Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) who built Holkham Hall in Norfolk. The family has added to it and sustained it ever since.    The core of the collection concentrates on Renaissance Italy, however a wide variety of interests are represented, for instance there are Sir Edward Coke's 14th century English manuscripts, a remarkable collection of Civil War and Commonwealth pamphlets, some early broadsides of the Virginia Company, and many other varied treasures.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA11637.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Holkham Library: A History and Description.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[COOKE, (Robert).quae sub nominibus sanctorum and veterum Auctorum, a Pontificiis (in questionibus potissimum hodie controversis) citari solent.    Second Edition. Small 4to. (8), 247, (1)pp. Contemporary calf (later label missing, slightly rubbed, headcaps chipped).    London: Excudebat Richardus Field, Impensis Guilielmi Barret,STC 5470 (+;+), listed under "Cocus or Cooke". Title and a few leaves in the text dusty, lightly dampstained in places throughout. Robert Cooke (1550-1615), was Vicar of Leeds. A work of assiduous scholarship, first published in 1614, in which Cooke lists those texts of the Church Fathers and other early Christian apologists that have been cited by recent Catholic writers. Dedicated to William James, Bishop of Durham (1542-1617).    Printer's waste at beginning and end of Sir Richard Barckley's Discourse of the Felicite of Man (1631) - the first editin of 1598 had been printed by Field.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA8415.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Censura Quorundam Scriptorum,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(CUNNINGHAM, (John William)).First American Edition. 12mo. (iv), 259pp Modern calf.     Philadelphia: Published by Edward Earle. William Fry printer.Reprint of the London, 18145, edition in 2 vols. Paper evenly browned due to poor quality; outer margin of the final leaf frayed.     "This is a little novel of a far superior cast to the common circulating medium of the kingdom. The principal character in the history, Pneumanee, becomes the female Memotor of a clergyman's family in Devonshire, whom she watches over with the tenderest care, and instructs with more than parental anxiety. The adventures of the family form the foundation of the tale, and are told in a very pleasing and interesting manner. From the general style of writing, we should strongly suspect this to be the production of a female hand; particularly as the portrait of the female character so far exceed those of the male. ... Upon the whole, we can heartily recommend thse little volumes to the attention of all our female readers at least. ..." - The British Critic (1814).     This novel of the supernatural seems to have escaped modern critical notice.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA13626.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pneumanee; or, the Fairy of the nineteenth century.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GETTY, (Sir Paul, K.B.E.).; FLETCHER (H. George), editorCatalogue by H. George Fletcher, Robert J. D. Harding, Bryan D. Maggs, William M. Voelkle, and Roger S. Wieck. Edited by H. George Fletcher.     Published for the Wormsley Library by Maggs Bros. Ltd. London in co-operation with The Morgan Library and Museum New YorkCatalogue of an exhibition of important books from the library of Sir Paul Getty held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York in 1999, comprising fine printing, binding, calligraphy and illumination from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. This new edition contains a supplement of nine items acquired beween 1999 and Sir Paul Getty's death in 2004, including a First Folio edition of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies (1623), Italian Renaissance manuscripts from the Holkham Hall Library and 20th-century calligraphic manuscripts commissioned by C. H. St.John Hornby.     Bound in card wrappers, 303 pages, fully illustrated in colour.     ISBN 13 - 978-0-901953-13-1.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA12293.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Wormsley Library: a Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E. Second Edition, with a supplement of subsequent acquisitions.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BALDWIN, (William).or, food for thought.     8vo, original red cloth with gilt titles and impressed decoration, (lightly worn headbands, lightly sunned spine otherwise fine.)     London, Privately PrintedText clean. Reprint of a mid-sixteenth-century text, often reprinted as A Treatise of Morall Philosophy. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA9820.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Sayings of the wise,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SHIRLEY, (James).now first collected; with notes by the late William Gifford, Edq. and additional notes, and some account of Shirley and his writings, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce.     Engraved portrait (foex). First Collected Edition. 6 vol.s 8vo. Good set in contemporary tree calf by Clarke and Bedford, gilt spines (all volumes neatly rebacked preserving the original spines, some corners repaired, spines a little rubbed). London: John Murray,Some light foxing/browning.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA13541.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Dramatic Works and Poems,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CRAFTON, (William Bell). First edition. 12mo., 23, (1) pp. Title-page and the blank verso of the final leaf lightly soiled but otherwise an excellent copy in original condition with a number of deckle edges and stitched as issued.      London: (n.p.)ESTC records 13 copies in the UK and 8 in North America.      A short sketch of the evidence ..., written by the Quaker Crafton, reviews and summarizes the main points found in the An Abstract of Evidence delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, in the Years 1790, and 1791 which was a publication sponsored by the London Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade that distilled 1,700 pages of testimony given in the House of Commons in addition to 850 pages from Privy Council hearings.     Crafton's work was heavily promoted by the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. "At the meeting on 24 January, Joseph Woods and another member recommended publishing and distributing 5,000 copies of A Short Sketch ... Crafton and the members of the London Abolition Committee were seeking to expand public participation in the discussion of the question of abolition" (Jennings, Judi. The Business of abolishing the British slave trade, 1783-1807. New York: Routledge, 1997. pp. 67-8). Apparently the public responded - four editions appeared in the UK as well as one in America.     At the time of Crafton's work, abolitionists debated the method and manner of communicting to the public the realities of the slave trade. Literary and poetic accounts that depicted the harsh realities of the slave trade were popular but increasingly abolitionists sought to transmit to the reader the naked truth unadorned, or as some would argue, untainted by sentimentalism. "The aversion to 'romance' raised particular questions about the epistemological reliability of poetry. In his summary of the London Abolition Committee's evidence offered to parliament against the slave trade, William Bell Crafton concluded that some readers simply relished 'the perusal of pathetic poetry' for all 'its tales of human woe.' Citing the fame of poets like Cowper and Day, Crafton lamented that prosaic, factual accounts like his did not wield the same r]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Early British Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/EA13312.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[A short sketch of the evidence, for the abolition of the slave trade, delivered before a committee of the House of Commons. To which is added, a recommendation of the subject to the serious attention of people in general.]]></title>
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