Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:
Spring 1967
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/3
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 EVANS (James Harington) The Old Man and his Grand-Daughter at E——. Printed for the Author, 1817. £4 4s 12mo, contemporary calf. Frontispiece. Presentation copy “from the Author’’, A work of grim piety. FABER (George Stanley) The Difficulties of Infidelity. Printed for C. and fF. Rivington, 1824. £4 4s 8vo, original boards uncut, top of spine defective. Faber was a voluminous con- troversialist and wrote on the origins of pagan religions. [? FIELDING (Henry)] An Apology for the Life of Mr. T-------- C------ Comedian. Being a Proper Sequel to the Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian. With an Historical View of the Stage to the Present Year. Supposed to be written by Himself. In the Stile . . . of the Poet Laureat. Printed for F. Mechell ... 1740. 8vo, unbound; pp. viii (including title and dedication), 144. FirsT EDITION. Ridiculing Colley Cibber’s Apology. Cross, Fielding, III, 337 (“uncertain or doubtful’). Lowe, Eng. Theat. Lit., 53. ‘‘IF A MAN WERE PERMITTED TO MAKE ALL THE BALLADS, HE NEED NOT CARE WHO SHOULD MAKE THE LAWS...” FLETCHER (Andrew, of Saltoun) An Account of a Conversation concerning a right Regulation of Governments ... In a letter to the Marquis of Montrose and others from London the Ist of December, 1703. Edinburgh; 1704. £4 10s Sm. 8vo, unbound; worming in lower margin, slight tear in inner top margins. Appeared in London and in Edinburgh with the same date. The famous sentence here occurs on p. 10. [FORESTER (Thomas)] A Review and Consideration of Two late Pamphlets. The First Entituled, Queries to the Presbyterians . . . The Second, a Querie turn’d into an Argument in favours of Episcopacy. Exposing the... . Popish Tincture... of both (etc.). Edinburgh, Printed by the Heirs... of Andrew Anderson, 1706. £5 10s Ato, contemporary reversed calf. Title; 2 Il. of dedication to the Provost, Sir Patrick Johnston, and Council; pp. iii-xxxiii, 1-419. FOVARGUE (Stephen, Fellow of St. fohn’s College, Cambridge) A New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors. Cambridge, Printed for the Author: Sold by Fletcher & Hodson in Cambridge, etc., 1767. £5 5s 8vo, new half calf. With the errata slip, and with Hailstone bookplate. A pleasant and witty Preface of 6 pages, followed by a 2-page note pointing out that Sir Thomas Browne himself probably never heard the Cry, or Boom, of the Bittern. Fovargue had. Keynes, Vulgar Errors Imitators, 497. FOX (Charles James) A History of the Early Part of the Reign of JAMEs the SECOND; with an Introductory Chapter. To which is added an Appendix. Printed for William Miller, 1808. £5 5s Ato, half calf. Portrait of Fox. FRANCIS OF SALES, St., The Life of . . . Written in French by Mons. [Jacques] Marsollier .. . Done into English... By W...C... Printed for Thomas Meighan, 1737. £10 10s 3 vols., 12mo, later 18th-century calf gilt. Scarce. ? FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. DNB and Lowndes record a translation of Marsollier’s book by W. H. Coombes, published at (of all places) Shepton Mallet, 1812, which we have seen. But we do not recall the present book, or any reference to it. (““W.C.” is nothing to do with Coombes, who was born in 1767.) FRIEND (William, D.D.) A Sermon Preached before the . . . House of Commons at St. Margaret’s Westminster . . . January 30, 1775... the Day of Martyrdom of King Charles I. Printed for John and fames Rivington, 1755. £3 10s Ato, unbound; 2 ll., pp. 20. A fine large paper copy.
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