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Credit: Sales catalogue 96: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![-oi ats “Persecutors.. ' London, G. Ikins and J. Robinson, 1808 12s 6d \ vas 132 pp. Whole contemporary morocco gilt. Way of the Town (The), or The Sham fess. A Burlesque, Poem. Being a tyr on the Ladies of Pleasure and the aux’s of the Town. With the Fable of Lady’s Silver Piss-Pot. London, J. rphew and A. Dodd, 1717 £1 10s 12mo. 40 pp., 2 leaves advertisements. New half calf. Frontispiece (defective and repaired). _. Asmight be expected, rathersoiled by much use. Notin Reade, ‘‘ Registrum Librorum Eroticorum.”’ Not in Halkett and Laing. Whole Art and Mystery of Modern ming (The), Fully Expos’d and De- ted ; Containing an Historical Account all the Secret Abuses Practis’d in the I. Tables Calculated Betwixt the and Setter . fearad, an Unequal .Game. Il. The xpences of Hazard Fairly Stated. III. he Nature, Use, and Importance of fair Dices and Boxes ...IV. The me Done with Reference to Games at mien. V. The .Description of a aro-Bank . . . VI. To whichis added, A ENGLISH LITERATURE HUNT, AND THEIR 8vo. 2 vols. Half calf. [Balzac (Honoré de)] The Art of Tying he Cravat: Demonstrated in Sixteen ssons, Including Thirty-Two Different yles, Forming a Pocket Manual; and emplifying the Advantage Arising from rt of the Costume; Preceded by a His- tory of the Cravat, from its Origin to the esent Time; and Remarks on _ its fluence on Society in General. By H. Le ane; Esq. Third Edition. London; ffingham Wilson, 1828 £2 10s - 12mo. 72 pp. Original pink boards, with decorated label on front cover. Portrait of H..le lanc, 4 folding plates. Uncut. Enclosed in a loth case. 4 _ This jeu d’esprit is attributed to Balzac, and would therefore be his first appearance in English. The format of this, the first English edition, is a delght,'and the present immaculate copy might alike pass hastily into the collection of any over of Balzac or of the Dandies. For full data ee Hanotaux et Vicaire. ‘‘Les Impressions aites par Balzac.’’—Appendix IX. Meu einen) Seize Lecons +2...) pat on Emile de L’Empesé. Septiéme liards. Roberts and T. Cox, 1726 £2 2s 4to. 111 pp.: Calf, rebacked, gilt. 297 Wild (Jonathan) Jonathan Wild’s Advice to his Successor. Printed from a Manu- script, Said to be Written by Jonathan Wild while under Condemnation in New- gate. Containing Several Useful Hints and Instructions, whereby the whole Art of Thief-Taking is Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity. To this Pamphlet is annexed, A Plan and Proposal, for an Hospital, or, Public Asylum, for Decay’d and Infirm Thief-Takers. London, J. Scott, 1758 £1 Is 8vo. 43 pp. New half calf, uncut. 298 Woman of Taste (The), Occasion’d by a late Poem, Entitled The Man of Taste. Bya Friend of the Author’s. In Two Epistles, from Clelia in Town to Sapho in the Country. ‘ The Third Edition. London Printed, and Dublin Reprinted, by James Hoey, 1733 6s 12mo. 24 pp. New boards. This edition is not in B.M. The poem first appearedin folio. The author used the pseudonym of Clelia and wrote in answer to a poem by James Bramston. Loudon), J- OF THE EARLY NINE- CONTEMPORARIES édition. Bruxelles, chez Périchon Ainé, 1827 10s 6d 12mo. 80 pp. Original wrappers. Portrait of Mr. Emile. 4 folding plates. Uncut. Fine copy, but alittle discoloured. Enclosedin a clothcase. 302 [Beckferd (William)]- Biographical Me- moirs of Extraordinary Painters. London, J. Robson, 1780 £2 2s Sm. 8vo. 158 pp., with the Errata leaf. New half calf. Title-page slightly soiled, portion torn from bottom corner of sign. G3 (pp. 45-46), affecting catchword on p. 45 and one word on p. 46. 303 Beckford (W.) Recollections of an Excur- sion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha. London, Bentley, 1835 12s 6d 8vo. Half calf. Portrait of Beckford. First EDITION. 304 Betham (Matilda) The Lay of Marie: A Poem. London, Rowland Hunter, 8vo. 276 pp. and leaf of Errata. Boards, paper label, back repaired, uncut. Charles Lamb helped Miss Betham with the proofs of this book. On Sept. 30, 1815, he writes to revision of Marie. The blunders I have already overlooked have weighed upon me almost insufferably. I have sent the Printer your copy text)... The rest which’I am not in any power to work over, being wretchedly ill, I send you back.”’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33159142_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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