Sales catalogue 110: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/18
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 110: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Poetry. London, G. G. & J. Robinson, (1794 £4 4s Tall 12mo. Calf. First Edition of this famous novel which influenced, for better or for worse, so many experimenters of the English novel of the period. ; 173 {Morgan (Lady)]| St. Clair; or, The Heiress of Desmond. By S(ydney) O(wenson). London, E. Harding, 1803 £1 15s Tall 12mo. Contemporary calf. A scarce book. Lady Morgan’s first novel. It was written in imi- tation of the ‘* Sorrows of Werther.”? She published ** The Wild Irish Girl,’’ by which she became famous, in 1806. 174 [Nares (Edward)] Think’s-I-to-Myself : a Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico Tale, written by Think’s-I-to-Myself Who? London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1811 15s 12mo. 2 vols. Calf. First Edition of a novel which reached its Eighth in 1812. The author has an attractive biography. Westminster ; Christ Church (where he had a Studentship) ; librarian at Blenheim, where he took part in private theatricals & is said to have eloped with a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough ; Vicar of St. Peter in the East, Oxford (1792); rector of Biddenden, Kent (1798); & delivered the Bampton Lectures, 1805. He wrote also ‘‘ Heraldic Ano- malies,’’ and ‘*‘ Discourses on the Three Creeds.” 175 [Anon]. — Ponsonby. London, John Richardson, 1817 12s 6d Sm. 8vo. 2 vols. Half calf. 176 [Hook (James)] Pen Owen. Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1822. 8vo. 3. vols. Half calf. 12s 6d 8vo. 3vols. Half calf. The author was the brother of Theodore Hook, & concluded a successful career as a clergyman in the deanery of Worcester. At Westminster School he edited “‘ The Trifler.”’ His two anonymous novels (the other one is ‘‘ Percy Mallory ”’) are said to show a family likeness to his brother’s. ‘“‘ Pen Owen ”’ contains in the character of Tom Sparkle a portrait of the younger Sheridan. ; 2 177 Knowles (James Sheridan) Fortescue. A Novel. London, Printed for Private Circu- lation only, 1846 15s 4to. 178 pp. Cloth. 178 [Lytton (Lord)] “My Novel,’> by Pisi- stratus Caxton; or, Varieties in English Life. Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1853 : 12s 6d 8vo. 4 vols. Half calf gilt. First EpDITION. 179 Le Fanu (J. Sheridan) All in the Dark. London, Richard Bentley, 1866 £1 Is 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. Original cloth. (Recased). 180 [Education]. — [Walker (Obadiah)] Of Education. Especially of young gentlemen. In Two Parts. Oxon, At the Theatre, 1673 £1 10s Sm. 8vo. 291 pp. Old calf. No blank Al before title. Last leaf mounted & soiled. A little stained. The First Edition, and not common. The book ran to 6 editions. No copy of the First in B.M. ENGLISH BOOKS PRINTED ABROAD. 181 Ponet (John, Bishop of Winchester) An Apologie fully answeringe by Scriptures and aunceant Doctors a blasphemose Book 17 Chauncelar, D. Smyth of Oxford, Pighius, and other Papists, as by ther books ap- peareth, and of late set furth under the Name of Thomas Martin . . . against the Godly Mariadge of Priests. Wherin dyvers other Matters which the Papists defend be so confuted that in Martins overthrow they may see there own impudency and con- fusion. [No place, no name of printer] {Zurich, Christopher Froschauer], 1556 £15 Sm. 8vo. 181 pp. Blue morocco gilt, by Roger Payne, g.e. Last blank leaf wanting. S.1.G. 201 75a- The second edition of this rare book. Ponet was a strong Reformer. Appointed to the See of Rochester in 1550 he was the first bishop to be consecrated under the new ordinal, & he himself was one of the Bishops who assisted in the consecration of John Hooper, the martyr, as Bishop of Gloucester. Later appointed to Winchester, Ponet fled to the Continent on Mary’s accession, & wrote the present book in exile. He had had experience of marriage, as he appears to have divorced his first wife. _ This copy has a good provenance. First it bears the bookplate of the Duke of Sussex, & secondly that of the Reverend William Maskell, the learned liturgio- logist & book collector, who was the examining chaplain in the Gorham case. He disputed the authority of the Privy Council. He has added his autograph twice to this book. 182 Knox (John, Minister of Gods Worde in Scotland) An Answer to a Great Nomber of Blasphemous Cavillations written by an Anabaptist, and Adversarie to Gods Eternal Predestination [Geneva], Printed by John Crespin, 1560 £7 108 Sm. 8vo. 455 pp. (including the leaf of Rautes Escaped). Purple morocco, tooled gilt back and border, g.e. S.T.C. 15060. : at A fine copy, difficult to get in good condition, of the First Edition of what Dr. Aeneas Mackay terms the only one of Knox’s works on which a claim can ‘be made for him to be called a theologian. In this treatise Knox accepts the necessitarian hypothesis, which substitutes the will of God for law, & em- bodies the doctrine of Predestination. 183 [Whittingham (William)] A Brieff Dis- cours off the Troubles begonne at Franckford in Germany Anno Domini 1554. Abowte the Booke off Common Prayer and Cere- monies and Continued by the Englische men theyre to thende off Q. Maries Raigne in the which Discours the Gentle Reader shall see the very Originall and Beginninge off all the Contention that hathe byn and what was the Cause off the same. [No place, no name of printer] [? Zurich, ?C. Fro- schauer], 1575 £10 10s Sm. 4to. 215 pp., 1 leaf (blank, with some MS- notes on verso). Modern vellum. Some water- stains, but a sound tall copy. : S.T.C. 25443. Whittingham was at Frankfort at the period of its being a centre for Protestant exiles, when a -con- troversy arose whether the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI should be adhered to, or a Calvinistic revision should be made. He played an important part on the Calvinistic side, & when Knox was ex- pelled, ittingham followed him to Geneva. He had a large share in the translation of the Bible usually known as the Breeches Bible. Returning to England he was in 1563 appointed to the deanery of
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