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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    220 ya | 222 223 224 Za 226 2at 228 SEWEL (William) The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers . . . Written originally in Low-Dutch . . . and by himself translated into English. Printed and Sold by the Assigns of F. Sowle, 1722. £18 Folio, qtr. calf, old marbled sides; title rather soiled. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, now no longer easy to find; the Dutch was of 1717. There are of course many American references. SHAKESPEARE (William) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. A Tragedy . . . Collated with the best Editions. Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson. . . 1750. £6 10s 12mo, unbound; pp. 102, 1 leaf (adverts.) Passages “‘generally left out in the Repre- sentation” (i.e. by Davenant, Dryden, and others) are included but specially marked. SHAKESPEARE. The Roses; Or, King Henry the Sixth; An Historical Tragedy. Represented at Reading School, October . . . 1795. Compiled principally from Shakespeare. Published, as it was performed, for the benefit of the Cheap Repository .. . Reading: n.d. [1795]. £4 10s 8vo, unbound; 4 1l., pp. 46, 11. The Epilogue is by Pye, then Laureate. An attempt ata simplified (and suitably purified) presentation of the Wars of the Roses, mainly from Henry VI Part III, but with passages from Parts I & II and from Richard II, with occasional interpolations of an improving religious or patriotic nature. [?SHAW (Peter)] The Reflector: Representing Human Affairs, As they are; and may be improved. Printed for T. Longman, 1750. £10 10s 8vo, contemporary marbled sides, new sheep back. Some waterstaining, but a good copy. Section I is Of Literature and Education; II, Intercourse and Business; III, Government, Laws, with a sub-section Of meliorating Universities; IV, Religion, etc. CBEL queries the authorship, and the DNB does not list the work as Shaw’s. SHORT Reply (A) to the Speech intended to be Spoken by the Right, Hon. Charles James Fox, in favour of the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Printed for fohn Stockdale, 1790. £3 10s 8vo, unbound; uncut; pp. 34, and 16 pp. of Stockdale’s booklist. No one now opposes religious toleration, except in ‘‘those countries where liberal science has not yet penetrated’’; yet only Church of England members should be eligible for office under Government. SLAVE TRADE. NEwTON (John) Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade. The Second Edition. Printed for #. Buckland... and }. fohnson, 1778. £4 4s 8vo, unbound; 1 1., pp. 41. ““Temperate, restrained, but ghastly recital’? (DNB) from his own youthful experiences in the trade—“‘a business at which my heart now shudders”. He now writes in general support of Wilberforce’s Parliamentary campaign. SMITH (John, Gaelic scholar) The Life of St. Columba . . . Patron Saint of the Ancient Scots and Picts . . . called Colum-Kille, the Apostle of the Highlands... Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell & Son... 1798. £4 10s 8vo, unbound; pp. ix, [3], 168. The Appendix gives Columba’s hymns in translation, his foundations, disciples, contemporaries, and successors. SMOLLETT (Tobias) Plays and Poems Written by T. SMOLLETT, M.D. With Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Author. Printed for T. Evans, and R. Baldwin, 1777. £10 10s 8vo, calf rebacked. Vignette portrait on title-page. FIRST EDITION. SOLITARY Soul (The) Seeking Immortality, Finds the Foundation of Felicity in Meditation and Prayer. Done by a Serious Divine in Solitude . . . Printed by f. Bagnall .. . near Fleet-Street [ ? c.1709]. | 4 10s 12mo, unbound, pp. 26. On the last leaf Bagnall the publisher and printer praises the intense piety and devotion of the solitary author, and announces that many similar meditations may follow, at twenty pence per dozen, which religious ladies and gentle- men may distribute among poor and easily seduced countryfolk and tenants, the better to uphold morality and combat atheists and Arians. Plomer knows of only a single piece from Bagnall’s London press—not this one. Later he printed in Ipswich.
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