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![and four times Master of the Scriveners’ Company. Dr. Johnson was his friend and admirer, and used to dine with him once a week. 268 Marriage; A Satire: with Two Satires on Love and Old Age. London, }. Roberts, 1728 12s 6d 8vo. 47 pp. Recent half calf. mee 269 Marvellous Adventures, comprising ~ Gulliver’s Travels in Lilliput and Brob- dingag, the Travels of Baron Munchausen, the Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins. Illustrated by Phiz. London, George Vickers, 1862 15s 4to. 35, 31, 109 pp. Original decorated boards (back skilfully repaired). Coloured plates. En- closed in a cloth case. A fascinating mid-Victorian children’s book, which it would delight anyone to re-find who knew it in earlier days. A clean copy, with the Phiz illustrations in colour. 270 [Mathias (Thomas James)] The Shade of Alexander Pope on the Banks of the Thames: A Satirical Poem, with Notes, occasioned chiefly, but not wholly, by the Residence of Henry Grattan... at Twick- enham, in November, 1798. Dublin, J. Milliken, 1799 15s 8vo. 86 pp., leaf of advertisements. Recent half-calf. Half-title soiled. The prose notes contain an attack on Godwin and Mary Woolstonecraft (stc). A Collec- 271 Matrimonial Precepter (The) : tion of Examples and Precepts Relating to the Married State, from the Most Celebrated Writers, Ancient and Modern. Being the Third Edition, adorn’d with a beautiful Frontispiece not in the Former. London, Printed (by Assignment from Thomas Hope for T. Lownds [etc.]), (1765) 15s Halli 2mo, —309 spp... lueleat, (Sheep i(jeints cracked). Fine frontispiece and engraved title- page (both very slightly wormed in -bottom blank margin). 272 Melville (Herman) Some Personal Letters of, and a Bibliography, by Meade Minni- gerode. New York, The Brick Row Book SHop, Inc., 1922 7s 6d 8vo. 195 pp. Original quarter cloth. Portrait. 273 Meredith (George) Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads. London, Chapman and Hall, 1862 £1 5s 8vo. 216 pp. Original cloth. Uncut. Good copy. First EpIrTion. 274 (Meredith). Barrie (Sir James M.) George Meredith, 1909. London, Constable and ©o,, LAG:, N.D:,(1909) 10s 12mo. 15 pp. Original cloth. Scarce. 275 Merry Andrew’s Epistle to his Old Master, Benjamin, a Mountebank at Bangor-Bridge on the River Dee, near Wales. London, E. Smith, 1719 15s 8vo. 32 pp. Recent half calf. This pamphlet, although written in medical parlance, with talk of the College of Physicians, evidently has to do with Bishop Hoadly and the Bangorian Controversy. ge 276 Middleton (Conyers, D.D., Principal Librarian of the University of Cambridge) A Letter from Rome. Shewing an Exact Conformity between Popery and Paganism; or, The Religion of the Present Romans to be Derived Entirely from that of their Heathen Ancestors. London, W. Innys, 1729 £2 10s 4to. 70 pp. Recent half calf. First Epirion, of which the British Museum does not possess a copy. The book made a considerable stir, and went into a Second Edition in the same year. The B.M. has 10 editions, and it is one of those much reprinted books that make the First a matter of some sentiment. 277 Milton (John) The Secrets of Government and Misteries of State, Plainly Laid Open, in all the Several Forms of Government in the Christian World. Published by John Milton, Esq. Printed;.in, the year 1697 £1 10s Sm. 8vo. 238 pp., 1 leaf. Calf, rebacked. This issue has a cancel title-page. 278 Mirabeau§ (Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de) Considerations on the Order of Cincinnatus ; to which are Added, as well as Several Original Papers Relative to that Institution, as also A Letter from the late M. Turgot, Comptroller of the Finances in France, to Dr. Price, On the Constitutions of \America,;... and..An. Abstract. of Th, Price’s Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution. Translated from the French, London; |.-ohnson, 1785 £3 3s 8vo. 284 pp. Original boards. Uncut. Name written on title-page. Good copy of this rare English edition. The Cincinnati was a society formed by officers in the American army. 279 Miscellaneous Observations on Some Points of the Controversy between the Materialists and their Opponents. London, T. Payne, 1780 15s Svo. 96 pp. Calf, rebacked. _ Not in Halkett and Laing or Stonehill and Block. An interesting criticism of Hume, Hartley and the contemporary philosophers. The writer has evidently a special concern with physiology, for he uses Haller and Whytt in his argument. 280 Mitford (Mary Russell) Christina, The Maid of the South Seas ; a Poem. London, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811 £2 2s 8vo. 332 pp. Original boards (back repaired). Uncut. Miss Mitford’s second book. The poem, which is accompanied by interesting prose notes, tells the story of the Mutiny of the Bounty, mingled with the necessary love-interest of Christina, Miss Mitford herself had evidently “«”. . Tead with horror pale, The suffering Bligh’s heart-thrilling tale.” 281 Modest Proposal (A) for the Prohibition of Speech, Humbly Offered to the Con- sideration of Parliament. Dublin, Peter Wilson, 1743 £2 10s Svo. 16 pp. Recent half calf. This amusing pamphlet, in which the writer with much sense and wit comes to the conclusion that talking should be altogether stopped, is apparently notin the B.M.; andis notin Halkett and Laing, Stonehill and Block, or Cushing’s Anonyms. The author had certainly been reading Swift to advantage.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33159312_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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