Sales catalogue 101: Davis & Orioli

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/13

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Credit: Sales catalogue 101: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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in his preface (‘‘ never was there either heard, or read of a more equal & excelent form of govern- ment than that under wch we our selves have lived during the Reign of our most gratious Soveraignes Halcion daies’’) might get him into trouble. See his Diary, 21 Jan. halla’s Inmates, Described by Lewis the First, King of Bavaria; Together with a Short Description of Walhalla, and a Plan of the Interior Arrangements. Munich, George Franz, 1845 10s Tall 12mo. 217 pp. Quarter cloth. Frontispiece and folding plan. Legal Evidence, that the ecclesiastical Courts have no power to excommunicate any person whatsoever for not coming to his Parish Church. In a Dialogue between a doctor of both laws and a substantial Burgher of Taunton—Dean. London, 1680 4to. Unbound. 26 pp. 10s A PRESENTATION Copy. 146 Felltham (Owen) Resolves. The Eighth Impression, with New, and Severall other Additions both in Prose, and Verse. London, Printed for A. Seile, 1661 £4 4s Folio. 401+102 pp. Original calf, rebacked. Engraved title-page, leaf of verses before title-page and leaf of Errata at end. Seventeenth century books with author’s presentation inscription have a special air about them, as they are uncommon and bring us some- thing of that delightful period. The fly-leaf of the present copy bears the following in Felltham’s Meticulous hand: ‘‘ For the Noble Lady, the Lady Duncombe, from her Humble servant Felltham, these.” The volume also contains his poems. There is an elegy on Venetia Lady Digby, and verses to Mr. Dover on his Cotswold games. But we do rather unwillingly concede to Felltham that poem which he claims from Suckling, ‘‘ When, Dearest, I but think on thee,’ which has always seemed so native to Suckling. Genealogy, through Several Parts of Wales, of Letters to a Friend in Dublin; Inter- spersed with a Description of Stourhead and Stonehenge ; together with Various Anecdotes, and Curious Fragments from a Manuscript Collection Ascribed to Shake- speare. By a Barrister. London, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1811 SZ lest's 8vo. 338 pp. Recent boards. 8 plates (slightly stained). Name written on, title-page. A cross between an antiquarian tour and a picaresque novel. In the purchase at Carmarthen of correspondence between Shakespeare and Ann Hathaway there is an amusing echo of the Ireland forgeries. 148 [Fenton (Richard)| Memoirs of an Old Wig. London, Longman, Hurst, [etc.], 1815 12s 6d Sm. 8vo. 164 pp. Recent half calf. Probably lacks half-title. The wig becomes successively the property of William III, the Duke of Marlborough, Swift, Pope, Steele, Orator Henley, and has also less respectable adventures, all of which it recounts frankly. CABLE ADDRESS: on Retiring from London. London, J. Debrett, 1787 10s 6d 4to. 44 pp. Recent half calf. Dedicated to Mrs. Crespigny, of Camberwell. Some pages of this poem are devoted to the stage, with comments on contemporary performers. Florence, Printed for G. Cain, Printer to His Royal Highness, 1785 £8 10s 8vo. 224 pp. Calf. Mr. Thrale married Piozziin July, 1785. They spent the winter in Milan, and during the summer of 1785 were at Florence, where Mrs. Piozzi found the small coterie of English versifiers known as the Della Cruscans. She versified with them, and in the same year they published the Florence Mis- cellany, in which they clubbed their lays. Mrs. Piozzi contributed the prose preface, the rhymed 6-line Conclusion, and eight poems. The other contributors were Robert Merry (who was busy wooing the Countess Cowper as well as the Muse of Poetry); Bertie Greatheed; and William Parsons, who wrote the verse Dedication and rather more poems than his colleagues. This volume was satirised by William Gifford in the Baviad and Maeviad. Mrs. Piozzi also wrote at Florence her ‘‘ Anecdotes of Johnson,” and any Johnson collector must possess this book for Parsons’s ‘‘ Verses to Mrs. Piozzi, Placed under a Print of Dr. Johnson in her Dining Room” (3 pp.). This poem has a footnote: ‘‘ Mrs. Piozziis now employ’d in preparing for the press anecdotes of the last twenty years of the life of Dr. Johnson.”’ ON THE TITLE-PAGE IS A PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION IN Mrs. P10ZzI’s HANDWRITING: A PRESENT TO Mr. MoRGAN FROM Mrs. P102Z2Z1.”’ Discourse of the Plurality of Worlds. Written in French, by the Most Ingenious Author of the Dialogues of the Dead, and Translated into. English by..sir W..D. Knight. Dublin, William Norman, 1687 Sm. 8vo. 86 pp. Title-page written on. Apparently the first English translation, though John Glanvill’s translation, usually supposed to be the first, appeared in 1688. Who Sir W.D. was is puzzling, especially as this copy is bound contemporarily with the following : Dugdale (Sir William) The Ancient Usage in Bearing of Such Ensigns of Honour ‘as are Commonly Call’d Arms. Oxford, Printed at the Theater, for Dudley Davis, Bookseller in Dublin, 1682 £1 10s Sm. 8vo. 210 pp. Some margins cropped and probably lacks a leaf. 2 volsin 1. Calf. Heroic Ballad; with Notes Critical and Explanatory. London, C. Roworth, 1805 4to. 31 pp. Folding satirical plate. Bound with : The Second Part, or Sequel, of the Found- ling-Chapel Brawl...also, A Poetical Epistle from the Doctor to his Two Friends. Together with an Ode to Music for the Installation of the Doctor and his Ladyin their Gallery Pew. London, C. Roworth, 1805 Shs 4to. 32 pp. 3 plates. 2 vols in 1. Recent half calf. The villain of these poems is no less a great man than the admirable Dr. Robert Willan (here spelt Willain), the founder of English Dermatology, and author of a small medical classic, Reports on the

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