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Credit: Sales catalogue 115: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and Motives of Literary Forgeries: Being the Chancellor’s English Essay for 1891. Oxford, B. H. Blackwell, 1891 15s 8vo. 37 pp. Original wrappers. No. 19 of 25 copies on large paper. Scarce. 157 (Chap Book).—The English Hermit ; or, “The Adventures of Philip Quarll, who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol Merchant, upon an _ uninhabited Island. Adorned with Cuts, and a Map of the Island. London, Printed and Sold at No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard in Bow Lane, N.D. (circa 1790) £3 3s 12mo. 106 pp. Original flowered paper boards. Frontispiece of Quarll & his monkey, map of the island, & 24 woodcuts. This copy is in such good condition that here, as rarely, can be seen one of, these popular books as they first met the eye. The publishers were John Marshall & Co., whose list of Children’s books appears inside the back cover. 158 (Chap Books).—The Famous History of Tom Thumb, wherein is declared, His Marvellous Acts of Manhood. Full of Wonder and Merriment. London, Printed for the Booksellers, N.D. (circa 1790) £2 2s 3 parts. 24 pp. each, in original printed 12mo. r Many woodcuts. Preserved in a cloth wrappers. This delightful set is in perfect condition. At the end of the first part a clue is given to the origin of these little books: “‘ In Irongate, in Derby Town, where are sold fine Histories many, And pleasant tales as e’er was told, For purchase of one Penny.” 159 (Chap Books). — Crookenden (Isaac) Fatal Secrets; or Etherlinda de Salmoni: a Sicilian Story. London, J. Lee, 1806. 36 pp., frontispiece (roughly tinted).—The Treacherous Danish Knight ; or, The Border Lords, and the White Plume. London, Stevens and Co. 32 pp., frontispiece (tinted).—Dreadful Catastrophe of the Royal George, at Spithead, August 19, 1782... bishop of Canterbury)] The Subjects Sorrow : or, Lamentations upon the Death of Britains Josiah, King Charls, Most unjustly and cruelly put to Death by His owne People, before His Royall Palace White-Hall, January the 30, 1648. Expressed in a Sermon upon Lam. 4. 20. London, Printed in the year, 1649 £1 Is Sm. 4to. 32 pp. Unbound. With the frontispiece and the leaf ‘‘ The Frontispiece opened.”’ reece to Juxon, who attended the King on the Hellish Treason, Heathenish Condemnation and Damnable Murder, Committed, and executed by the Jewes, against the Anointed of the Lord, Christ their King ... as it was delivered in a Sermon on the 4 Feb., 1648. London, Printed in the Year, 1648 f4eiis 42 pp. Unbound. i.—Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae The Workes of that Great Monarch and Glorious Martyr, King Charles the Ist, both Civil and Sacred. With a short view of the Life and Reign of that most blessed Prince, from. his Birth to his Buriall. Hague, Printed by Sam: Browne, N.D. (circa 1655 ?) £1 10s 8vo. 96, 355, 374,119 pp., 4leaves. Calf. Portrait of Charles I. by William Marshall, and of Charles II. as a boy. (Walter, M.D.) Epicurus’s Morals, Collected Partly out of his own Greek Text (in) Diogenes Laertius, and Partly out of the Rhapsodies (of) Marcus Plutarch, Cicero, & Seneca. And faithfully Englished. London, H. Herringman, 1670 18s 8vo. 201 pp. Old sheep. Portrait of Epicurus. Old inscription on title-page, & a piece torn from outer margin of title, to the loss of 2 words indicated in brackets above. Sm. 4to. 165 Cheeke (William) Anagrammata, et Chron- Anagrammata Regia, nunc primum in hac forma in lucem emissa. ‘“Londini, Guiliel- ‘also, The Singular Adventures and Daring Piracies of Capt. Howel Davis. London, Thomas Tegg. 28 pp.—The Princess Mon- pensier, or, The Beautiful Princess: an mus Stansby, 1613 21s Historical Novel. Translated from the Sm. 8vo. A-E8. Old half calf. Title-page soiled and B.M. duplicate stamp (1769).on back. Several Prench. London, D. Cox, 1805 Bound with : Sm Gi5l0g 1. The Bouquet, or, Blossoms of Fancy ; No. 1. Anagrams in Latin and Greek, with some woodcut : ] : heraldic decorations. Be eto oe eee ee | Wee. Ghedertiol) | bia p em cher: chahhere! inner & outer margins roughly repaired. Penitentiary ; with Lists of its Officers and Subscribers. London, Printed for the Charity. 23 pp. 358 Tall 12mo. The6in1 vol. Broken half calf. 160 Chapman’s Homer. — Homer, Prince of Poets : Translated according to the Greeke, in twelve Bookes of his Iliads, by Geo. Chapman. London, Printed for Samuel Macham [1610?] £35 Sm. folio. A-Ff2 (last blank). Contemporary calf, preserved in a linen case. Engraved frontispiece by William Hole. S. 1c. 13633, ; The blank corners of the engraved title-page have been repaired ; two or three small holes in the text also repaired, to the loss of a few letters ; otherwise a generally good copy of this famous book, so difficult to obtain in anything like good state. ... to his Son . « .« to- gether with several other pieces on various subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stan- hope. The second edition. London, J. Dodsley, 1774 £3 38 8vo. 4 vols. Contemporary calf, morocco label on back. Portrait (bottom inside corner of margin slightly water-stained). . consisting of Letters to His Friends, never before printed and various other articles. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life, tending to illustrate the Civil, Literary and Political History of his Time, by M. Maty, M.D. The second edition, with an appendix containing sixteen cha- racters of great Personages and Letters](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33159191_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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