Sales catalogue 96: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/10
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 96: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Relating to the History of old Father Christmas Setting Forth what Hos- pitality has Been, and What is Now. Very Proper to be Read in all Families. Adorn’d with many Curious Cuts. The Second Edition. London, J. Roberts (circa 1730) Rages 8vo. 48 pp., 2 leaves. New half calf. Half-title mended. Uncut copy. Very scarce. It is difficult to abate one’s enthusiasm for this charming pamphlet and its homely woodcuts ; and surely many people will remember with pleasure that Washington Irving quotes it in his account of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall, There are two Christmas poems, and one or two snatches of quotation. ‘‘ Tea-Witches,” the author says, “have no foundation for their Fortune- telling.”’ 286 Sure Guide to Hell (A). In Seven Sections. Containing Directions I. To Parents in the Education of their Children. II. To Youth. III. To those whose Minds are Possessed with Envy, Malice, etc. IV. To the K... V. To First Ministers of State. VI. Tothe Clergy. VII. To Young Ladies. By Belzebub. The Third Edition. London, Printed for Peter Imp, near St. Pauls (c. 1787) 10s 8vo. 96 pp. Modern half calf. By Benjamin Brown, Bookseller. An exercise in mock-seriousness which affords many sidelights on the manners and practices of the period. 287 Tavern Anecdotes, and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee-Houses, streets; City Companies, Wards, etc. Intended as a Lounge-Book for Londoners and their Country Cousins. By One of the Old School. London, William Cole (1825) 10s 6d. Sm. 8vo. 296 pp. Half calf. Portrait of Mr. Christopher Brown. By William West, Bookseller. 288 [Thomas (Elizabeth) ] The Metamorphosis of the Town; or, A View of the Present Fashions. A Tale: After the Manner of La Fontaine. London, J. Wilford, 1730 £1 10s 8vo. 28 pp. New halfcalf. First Epition. The B.M. possesses only the Fourth Edition, 1743. Nor is the First in the Bodleian. An amusing London poem. It was Mrs. Thomas who in 1726 sold 25 of Hees s letters, to Curll, who astutely published them. To the Second Edition, published in ‘the same year, was added Swift’s “66 Journal of a Modern Lady.” 289 Tom K.... gS: or, The Paphian Grove. With the Various Humours of Covent Garden, the Theatre, the Gaming- Table, etc. A Mock-Heroic Poem, in Three Cantos, The Second Edition, Lon- don, John Torbuck [and others], 1738 10s 6d 8vo. 64 pp. Haifroan. 2 plates (lacks frontis- piece), Leaves slightly soiled. (ad fa! Sih a hig ah we as Sea lt ' i VAG aaa TARY at iu yh 1G iad = ha Se ‘ bea { p a True Caution to Both Sexes, in Tow: and Country. Reflection ‘on the Town S777 ae Humours, Customs, and Tricks of Play-House. Jil: Theta Procurers and Procuresses, Bawds, Whor and Jjilts, with a Description of a Baw House. IV. The Character of a Bully . V. The Characters. of Gamesters . Droppers . . . VII. The Tricks of Cocke Cock Matches, and the Cheats of Tenni Courts... VIII. The Cheats of Digi Kidnappers, Mock Auctioneers, Fortu Tellers, etc. The Sixteenth Edition. don, Sabine & Son, N.D. (circa 1800 ?) | Tall12mo. 60 pp. New cloth, uncut. (Edward) The History of t London Clubs, or The Citizen’s Pastime Club, The Thieves’ Club, The Begga Club, Thé Broken Shop-Keepers’ Club, Th Basket Women’s Club. London, Prin bya): Dutten, near Fleet Street, a7 (Reprint) * 8vo. 31 pp. Boards. A reprint. Edition limited to 500 copies. The Merry Observator. Consisting of th Following Familiar Poems, viz., I.* The: Compleat Vintner. II. The Merry Trave 1-- lers. III. The Return from Bromley. | The Southwark Election. V. The Pale Guttlers. VI. The Garden House Intrig VII. The Dancing Devils. Being Sixth Volume of Miscellanies by Edwar 8vo. Separate pagination and title-page. Cal rebacked. Frontispiece. Top margins of a fe leaves wormed, name written and scored thro on title-page. Each of Ward’s volumes of , Miscellanie complete in itself. tected, or The Arts of a Designing Won Laid Open. Treating I. Of their Allu ments ... II. A Pleasant and Profita Discourse in Defence of Married Men . Tit. Ax True*-Charactet. of “aveV ae Woman, or Wife Indeed. With a Poeti Description of a Maid, Wife, and Wid By E.W., Author of the London Spy, a: Trip to Jamaica. To which is added, Th Batchelor’s Estimate of the Expences 0 Married Life. London, R. Ware [a others], 1761 10s 12mo. 155 pp. Calf, rebacked. Title-page t mm and mounted, margins cropped. ters : or Sketches from Real Life) Peter Paul Pallet. Second Edition. W many Additions, amongst which ar Poetical Pump-Room Conversation ; — New Preface: and an Appendix, Contai
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