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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    printed): And, An Essay on the State of the Soul between Death and Resurrection (the Third Edition)... And, A Lecture on Taste. With an Appendix containing various Illustrations, particularly ‘“The Deserted Village School”, a Poem; And a Postscript, containing Notices of a Large MS Volume... ‘“Traditions.and Recollec- tions, Domestic, Clerical and Literary”. Printed for ¥. Nichols ...1823. £10 10s 12mo, original boards, uncut; PRESENTATION COPY inscribed ‘“‘Miss Laura Sophia Temple, from (an admirer of her poems) The Author”, on verso of half-title, which reads ““T'wo Essays” etc. The Lecture on Taste had been read in 1820 in Truro Town Hall; also included is a sermon, on parochial schools, delivered in 1822. This collection is not mentioned in the DNB article nor in CBEL. WITH A LIFE OF POPE 205 206 207 208 The Dying Christian to his Soul... Translated into PROSE, after the Manner of the Rev. Mr. Hervey, Author of the Meditations amongst the Tombs, by T. ROBERT, A.M. To which is prefixed THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. Sold by R. Thompson [ca. 1750] £15 12mo, sheep rebacked; pp. 66-+118. A scarce and little-known prose version and Life, which begins with an un-Johnsonian “Our hero was descended from a good family in Oxfordshire’’. Hervey’s Meditations appeared in 1745-6; R. Thompson is known to Plomer only by a publication of 1738. POPEIANA. CIBBER (Colley) The Egotist: Or, Colley upon Cibber. Being His own Picture retouch’d, to so plain a Likeness, that no One, now, would have the Face to own it, But Himself. Printed: And Sold by W. Lewis . . . 1743. £45 8vo, unbound; pp. 78 (including title, etc.) and final blank leaf (K4). FIRST EDITION. Rare. In dialogue form between ‘‘Frankly” and ‘“Author’’; in effect, Cibber addressing himself. The digs at Pope are obvious—‘‘the little Gentleman, that has sported so many Licks at the Laureate” (Cibber became Laureate in 1730); “‘every Line in our English Horace, that had a Flirt at me, has been enjoy’d by a whole Table of Laughers” etc. But more pointed is the hint at Pope’s devious methods of getting his letters published; thus ‘“‘Frankly”, speaking of some early work that *‘Author” hesitates to publish, advises ““Why don’t you get them fairly printed without your Consent ?... it is easy as Lying... get a third Person, who may sell them to Buckle the Bookseller without your Knowledge . . . with a Flim-Flam story of an Accident that dropt them into his Hands”’ and so on. Pope’s ruses clearly did not deceive everyone. CBEL (Pope) II, p. 303. Lowe (for the references to Cibber’s theatrical career) p. 50. Rothschild 634. POST OFFICE. A List of Post-Towns and Principal Places; with the Postage of a Single Letter to or from London, According to the Actual Routes of the Post. Foseph Hartnell... For His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1830. £4 10s 8vo, half calf, rebacked. PRINTING. SERNA, SANTANDER (C. M. de la) An Historical Essay on the Origin of Printing, Translated from the French [by Thos. Hodgson]. Newcastle: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, 1819. £15 Lge. 8vo, later green cloth; FINE Copy. Undertaken for, and dedicated to, the Newcastle-on-Tyne Typographical Society; signed ‘““Thos. Hodgson” in ink on page giving details of the edition, which states that in all ONLY 214 COPIES WERE PRINTED, INCLUDING ONLY 38 ON LARGE PAPER, OF WHICH THIS IS ONE. There were 30 on royal 8vo, 6 imperial, 1 medium, 1 crown 4to; by its size this could well be the single medium 8vo copy. Bigmore & Wyman, II, 352. [PROCTER (Bryan Waller, “Barry Cornwall’’)] Effigies Poeticae: Or the Portraits of the British Poets illustrated by Notes Biographical, Critical, and Poetical. James Carpenter, 1824. £5 5s 8vo, boards, backstrip defective. FIRST EDITION.
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