Provincial Printing

6854 Aberystwyth Printing VAUGHAN, Herbert Millingchamp. CATALOGUE OF THE ANEURIN WILLIAMS COLLECTION OF BOOKPLATES. (With notes). Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1938. 500 copies, 8vo, (224x140mm), 142p. frontispiece. A good copy in original quarter linen. £10.00
Printed in Wrexham by Hughes and Son at the Principality Press.

18806 Alnwick Printing BURNS, Robert. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS; with his life. Ornamented with engravings on wood by Mr. Bewick, from original designs by Mr. Thurston. 2 Volumes, Alnwick: printed by William Davison. Sold by the booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland. 1808. 8vo (in 4s) (160x92mm), 6,(viii-)xlii,(43-)266; viii,(9-)270p. as concurs with Isaac. Frontispiece portrait, 14 full-page wood engravings by Thomas Bewick after Thurston, and 48 wood engraved vignettes by Bewick. Contemporary marbled calf, Volume 1 backstrip worn and the joints split, volume 2 rebacked. Catalogue label with added typescript of S. Roscoe & the bookplate of Thomas Baker of Old Trafford present in both volumes. (Isaac Davison's new specimen… 30; Tattersfield Thomas Bewick the complete illustrative work TB.2500B). £400.00
A completely different setting, with variant vignettes, from the Catnach & Davison edition of the same year and with the frontispiece portrait of Burns in volume 1 which, as Tattersfield notes, is not always present. The partnership between Davison and John Catnach had only lasted for a few months in 1807-8, it seems therefore that their edition of Burns enjoyed a healthy enough sale to warrant Davison issuing this new edition shortly after they parted. Or did Jemmy Catnach's papa run off to London with any unsold copies of the joint printing, necessitating another edition? One would not be surprised if that were the case.

18674 Alnwick Printing ALNWICK JOURNAL. THE ALNWICK JOURNAL AND NORTHERN LIGHTS. Vol 1, No. 1, [Alnwick: no imprint], July, 1871. 4to, (252x162mm), 16p. folded, unsewn, uncovered and entirely unopened in the head folded. Very lightly dust-soiled at the head of the first leaf, otherwise a very fine and undamaged copy. £40.00
Printed on two half-sheets this has merely been folded to size and left unopened and therefore is utterly as issued. We find it strange that there is no printer's imprint, office address or editorial matter to assist in identifying the editor, proprietor, or printer. Perhaps such sophistications would have been present on a sewn or tipped on wrapper, but none is present and there is certainly no evidence of any having ever been present. However, Manders Bibliography of British newspapers: Durham and Northumberland (1982) records a monthly under the title of Alnwick Journal and domestic monthly, edited we believe by John Lamb Luckley, which began a new series in July 1871 and although Manders notes no change in the sub-title, we must conclude that that is what this is. As well as local material, a considerable amount of space, and 3 illustrations, are devoted to the game of draughts.

14236 Alnwick Printing ALNWICK QUARTO. THE ALNWICK QUARTO, or occasional page of thoughts and contingences. Number II. Alnwick: Thomas Bell, [printer,] Bondgate Street, 11 June, 1827. Broadsheet, (318x250mm), sometime folded horizontally, slightly dust-soiled, particularly at the edges, and rather frayed in the side and tail margins. £60.00
A rare piece of Alnwick printing from the press of Thomas Bell, better known as a bookseller and stationer of Newcastle. Bell registered a press in Alnwick in 1827 but apparently printed nothing but title pages to his own collection of mss and ephemera; of which he was a rapacious collector. This sheet – given over to an account of `The improvement of Alnwick Moor – is printed in two columns and ceases almost halfway down on the reverse where the printer notes `Want of type prevents remarks on a note at page 127 of the 'Pleasures of Gratitude &c.'

13227 Alnwick Printing [DEFOE, Daniel.] THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL, ANCIENT AND MODERN. In two parts. Part I. Containing the state of the devil's circumstances… Part II. Containing his more private conduct… With a description of the devil's dwellings. Alnwick: Printed by J. Catnach, 1794. 12mo (170x95mm), viii,304p. Browned and somewhat finger-soiled throughout, the final leaf sometime 'repaired' with cellotape, this now removed and the inner margin repaired with Japanese tissue. Early owner's initials: W. F....r, on the title. Disbound and contained in a modern custom-made solander case. £300.00
All-in-all this is an unprepossessing copy but it is a marginally better copy than it sounds. However, it has the distinction of being one of the earliest pieces of Alnwick printing - and the first substantial book to be printed in the town as well as being perhaps the second book printed by Catnach. First published in 1726 under the title of The political history of the devil, Estc records only the British Library copy of this Alnwick edition.

14238 Alnwick printing BELL, Thomas. THOUGHTS ON THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A DIETY. Alnwick: Thomas H. Bell, printer, November, 1826. Single leaf (187x220mm), printed in two columns. Slightly soiled and a little frayed at the edges. £50.00
A rare piece of Alnwick printing from the press of Thomas Bell, better known as a bookseller and stationer of Newcastle. Bell registered a press in Alnwick in 1827 but apparently printed nothing but title pages to his own collection of ms. and ephemera; of which he was a rapacious collector. This sheet was presumably printed before he registered his press in accordance with the reuqirements of the Seditious Societies Act of 1799.

14230 Alnwick printing DAVISON, William Printer &c. LETTERPRESS BILLHEAD OF WILLIAM DAVISON apothecary, chemist, and druggist, copper-plate and letterpress printer. Alnwick: William Davison, Bondgate Street, 12 December, 1840. Single leaf, (102x168mm), sometime folded, a small hole slightly (due to `spiking') in the centre, with some slight loss from the printed area. £12.00
An invoice from Davison to John Proctor a Hartlepool printer and bookseller, listing memoranda books, almanacks and ink. It is interesting that Davison, by the date of this invoice well-established as one of the foremost and energetic printers in the North of England, still styles himself primarily as a chemist. A further point of interest, to historians of the economics of the book trade, is that at the head Davison notes that `all running accounts to be settled at Christmas and Midsummer' while at the tail that `Newspaper accounts to be settled every three months, as the London agents will not continue the newspapers to those who allow them to remain longer unsettled.'

14232 Alnwick printing DAVISON, William Printer &c. LETTERPRESS BILLHEAD OF WILLIAM DAVISON apothecary, chemist, and druggist, copper-plate and letterpress printer. Alnwick: William Davison, Bondgate Street, 29 March, 1841. Single leaf, (138x170mm), sometime folded, a small piece torn from the head marghin with part loss of the date, a fragment torn from the other head corner and a small hole slightly (due to `spiking') in the centre, with some slight loss from the handwritten area. £15.00
An invoice from Davison to John Proctor a Hartlepool printer and bookseller, listing polishing paste `Tom Thumbs' (100 at 9s.6d.) and `Markham's Spelling' (25 at 15s.). It is interesting that Davison, by the date of this invoice well-established as one of the foremost and energetic printers in the North of England, still styles himself primarily as a chemist. A further point of interest, to historians of the economics of the book trade, is that at the head Davison notes that `all running accounts to be settled at Christmas and Midsummer' while at the tail that `Newspaper accounts to be settled every three months, as the London agents will not continue the newspapers to those who allow them to remain longer unsettled.'

14233 Alnwick printing DAVISON, William Printer &c. LETTERPRESS BILLHEAD OF WILLIAM DAVISON apothecary, chemist, and druggist, copper-plate and letterpress printer. Alnwick: William Davison, Bondgate Street, 14 June, [1841.] Single leaf, (140x168mm), sometime folded, a small piece torn from the head marghin with part loss of the year, and a small hole slightly (due to `spiking') in the centre. £15.00
An invoice from Davison to John Proctor a Hartlepool printer and bookseller, listing inks. It is interesting that Davison, by the date of this invoice well-established as one of the foremost and energetic printers in the North of England, still styles himself primarily as a chemist. A further point of interest, to historians of the economics of the book trade, is that at the head Davison notes that `all running accounts to be settled at Christmas and Midsummer' while at the tail that `Newspaper accounts to be settled every three months, as the London agents will not continue the newspapers to those who allow them to remain longer unsettled.'

14220 Alnwick printing DAVISON, William. HISTORY OF NORTHUMBERLAND. [A QUESTIONNAIRE AND PROSPECTUS] Alnwick: W. Davison, 1 January, 1820. 8vo (180x110mm), 8p. trimmed closely at the head, tail and fore margins, but without any textual loss. Disbound. £50.00
An extremely rare and unusal item that provides a possibly unique insight into the accumulation of information for a proposed book. Peter Isaac, in the introduction to William Davison's new specimen of cast-metal ornaments and wood types (London, 1990), wrutes that `Davison produced short histories f Alnwick and guides to the town and castle. The substantial History (2nd ed., 1822) is a notable effort and worthy to take its place alongside Tate's well-known history. It seems to have been almost all that came of Davison's projected history of Northumberland . In January 1820 he put out an eight-page advertisement about this stating that for the previous four years he had been engaged in collecting and arranging materials. To extend his information he included a five-page questionary containing seventy questions relating to antiquities, biography, natural history, agriculture, trade, population, etc.'

18654 Alnwick printing ROYAL WEDDING 1863. [POSTER] BOROUGH OF ALNWICK. CELEBRATION OF THE MARRIAGE HIS HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. We the Chamberlains of the Borough of Alnwick... Alnwick: printed by M. Smith, 16 February, 1863. Single sheet, (253x317mm), 18 lines including imprint, slightly dust-soiled and sometime folded. £35.00
Calling for a public meeting 'to take into consideration the best means of testifying their loyalty and attachment to Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family, on the approach of an occurrence so deeply interesting to all Englishmen as the celebration of the Marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.'

18655 Alnwick printing ROYAL WEDDING 1863. [POSTER] BOROUGH OF ALNWICK. CELEBRATION OF THE MARRIAGE HIS HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. We the Chamberlains of the Borough of Alnwick... Alnwick: printed by M. Smith, 16 February, 1863. Single sheet, (253x317mm), 18 lines including imprint, somewhat dust-soiled and sometime folded, very small fragments town from the tail margin but with no loss from the imprint. £30.00
Calling for a public meeting 'to take into consideration the best means of testifying their loyalty and attachment to Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family, on the approach of an occurrence so deeply interesting to all Englishmen as the celebration of the Marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.'

12721 Alnwick printing SERVICE, James. METRICAL LEGENDS OF NORTHUMBERLAND: containing the traditions of Dunstanborough Castle, and other poetical romances. With notes and illustrations. Alnwick: printed and sold by W. Davison, 1834. 12mo is 6s, (182x110mm), [2],(vii-)viii[2],(13-)160p. (as is correct) + 4p. publisher's adverts, wood engraved title vignette and 11 tailpieces by Thomas Bewick or members of his workshop, some slight browning. Original quarter calico-grain cloth, worn at the head & tail of the backstrip, printed back-label worn with some loss. (Isaac checklist in Davison's New Specimen 100; Hugo Bewick collector 489) £95.00
Includes M.G. [Monk] Lewis, Sir Guy the seeker.

14219 Alnwick printing TYNEMOUTH PRIORY. A BI-FOLIUM SHEET OF EMBELLISHED LETTER PAPER: TYNEMOUTH PRIORY. Alnwick: published by W. Davison, [1840s?] 2 conjugate leaves folded to 235x189mm, carrying a small wood-engraved view of Tynemouth Priory, Northumberland above the publisher's imprint at the head of the first leaf. Entirely unused although slightly dust-soiled. £15.00
A fine example of what may be regarded as the precursor of the picture postcard. Davison listed this style of illustrated letter paper on an undated broadside advertisement (reproduced in Isaac, William Davison of Alnwick pharmacist and printer, Oxford 1968) where he referred to them as `Letter Paper, embellished with beautiful engravings by Bewick and other artists.'

14239 Alnwick printing [BELL, Thomas.] THOUGHTS ON THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A DIETY. [Alnwick: Thomas H. Bell, printer, 1826.] Single leaf (187x220mm), printed in two columns. Slightly soiled. £50.00
A rare piece of Alnwick printing from the press of Thomas Bell, we have seen another issue of this broadside with Bell's imprint. The two variants show slightly different settings and a howling typo in the first word on this issue lead us to suppose this could be the earlier state. Bell is better known as a bookseller and stationer of Newcastle. Bell registered a press in Alnwick in 1827 but apparently printed nothing but title pages to his own collection of mss and ephemera; of which he was a rapacious collector. This sheet was presumably printed before he registered his press in accordance with the reuqirements of the Seditious Societies Act of 1799.

16058 Alnwick printing [LE CLERC, G.L.] A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE: from M. de Buffon, Goldsmith, and others. Volume 1 [of 2], Alnwick: printed at the Apollo Press, by and for W. Davison, 1810. 12mo, (190x110mm), viii, [13-]278p. (as is correct), engraved frontispiece and 34 full-page engraved plates, each carrying up to 4 images, and with a Bewick vignette as a tailpiece at the end of the preface, browned. Untrimmed in original blue paper boards, lacking the spine and rear board, soiled. (Hugo Bewick collector 5408; Isaac 'Checklist' in William Davison's new specimen... 66) £30.00

5704 Ambleside printing [HOUGH, Charles Henry.] A WESTMORLAND ROCK GARDEN. First edition. Ambleside: George Middleton, Printer, 1929. Cr.8vo, (178x115mm) [6],41p. 13 plates. Original quarter cloth, backstrip slightly spotted, dustjacket worn. £10.00
An account of the remarkable rock garden at White Craggs, Clappersgate, near Ambleside currently undergoing restoration.

1799 Appleby printing APPLEBY. BYE-LAWS. Made by the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses, of the said Borough, acting by the Council with respect to new streets and buildings and the alteration of buildings Appleby: Whitehead & Sons, Printers, 1902 8vo, (213x137mm) [2],10p. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled. £10.00

18193 Appleby printing BOWSTEAD, J. POEMS. Appleby: printed at the office of J. Whitehead, 1881. 8vo, (184x120mm), xii,87,[1]p. Original green sand-grain cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, corner tips slips very slightly worn. £25.00
The subscribers' list show as healthy support for this collection of poems on devotion, nature and other topics by the onetime Vicar of Soulby in Westmorland, 250 persons took up 327 copies, yet despite the book's, admittedly rather localized, circulation Copac locates only the British Library and Bodleian copies. Furthermore, this is the first book known to have come from the press of Whitehead who had bought the printing business of another Appleby printer a few years earlier.

12370 Ambleside printing FLETCHER, Charlotte Maria. ECHOES OF EASEDALE. Ambleside: printed by George Middleton, the St. Oswald Press, 1926. Cr.8vo [4],66p. Original quarter cloth. £12.00
Verse, probably best forgotten, but redeemed by a 4 page essay on the life of Charlotte Maria Fletcher, the originator of the Grasmere dialect plays.

16826 Appleby printing KAYE, William. WESTMORLAND TO WIT. A LIST OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE IN THE ELECTION OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE, for the county of Westmorland. Appleby: G. Atkinson, printer. 1832. 8vo, (222x137mm), [2],(3-)84,66,24,108p. The title-page printed in portrait format, the text pages in landscape format, the title a little dust-soiled with some occasional and slight dust-soiling to several text leaves, stab-sewn and with the rather degraded brown paper spine, all that survives of the earlier (?original) wrappers, partly opened at the head, signature of D. Blaymire at the head of the title, preserved in a modern custom-made card folder and slipcase. £360.00
Exceedingly rare, we can only locate one other copy of this book and that is in a private collection. We believe this to be the eighth book to be printed in Appleby and certainly the earliest to have appeared from the press of George Atkinson (fl. 1832-44), indeed only one other book, a small religious pamphlet, is known that also bears his imprint. The text is arranged under the county's four electoral wards (each paginated separately): East, West, Kendal, and Lonsdale; with the voters arranged under the various townships within each ward. The details given include the name of the voter, their place of abode, the nature of their qualification to vote, and the place and type of the property owned with, where appropriate, the name of the resident tenant. There is one manuscript addition to the printed text, this we have checked against the other known copy of this work, and find that it appears, in the same hand, in both copies; an example therefore of an authorised manuscript addition to the printed text.

16177 Bala printing CHARLES, Thomas. HYFFORDDWR YN EGWYDDORION Y GREFYDD GRISTIONOGAL. Bala: argraffedig gan R. Sanderson, 1819. 8vo, (132x80mm), 80p. soiled. Contemporary sheep, head and tail of the backstrip and corner tips worn. £15.00
A Welsh-language Calvinistic-Methodist catechism, printed by Robert Sanderson who had taken over the publishing business of the author's wife in Bala at some time after 1809.

16525 Bala printing ELIAS, John. TEYRNGED I GOFFADWRIAETH BRENIN RHINWEDDOL. Sylwedd pregeth, a bregethwyd ar yr achlysur o farwolaeth Ei Fawrhydi ein grasusaf frenin George y Trydd;... Bala, Argraffedig gan R. Saunderson, ar werth gan.. Seeley, Llundain; Poole & Harding, A.J. Patty, Caerlleon; J.Painter, Gwrecsam; T. Gee Dinbych... 1820. 8vo, (178x108mm), 36p. slightly spotted. Disbound. £20.00
A Welsh sermon on the death of King George III.

17743 Banbury Printing JOHNSON, Samuel. RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. Printed with patent types, in a manner never before attempted. Banbury: printed for P. Rusher and sold by [three named London booksellers]; and J. Rusher, Reading. 1804. 8vo (in 4s), (202x130mm), [2],135,[1]p. the final page carrying Dr. Johnson's 'To a friend.' A small hole in the fore-margin of the first four leaves, just touching the letterpress, though without loss on the final damaged page, the stitching strained. Contemporary (?original) buff paper covered limp boards, the joints and edges rubbed and worn at the head and tail of the rear joint, the covers somewhat age-soiled, but not disagreeably so; the signature of V. Cheney of Park Rd, Banbury in pencil on the front fly-leaf. (Bigmore & Wyman Bibliography of printing II.280) £400.00
The head of the title-page reading 'New mode of printing.' Printed in Banbury by John Cheney I, the first printer in the town. As well as being a provincially-printed edition of Johnson's novel, a most significant point of interest regarding this book is that it is printed in the unusual typeface patented by Rusher in 1802 which, amidst other typographic crimes, dispenses with all descenders replacing them with a sort of compressed capital. Cut by Caslons, who really should have known better, there is an imbalance in the weight of some of the individual letters that makes the page somewhat unseemly to the eye. This was the first, but - alas - not the last book to use the type and was memorably described by Bigmore & Wyman as 'about as ugly a specimen of typography as can be conceived.' It was to be another half century before another member of the Cheney family saw fit to visit this typeface upon the public; there, thankfully, its use ended.

18373 Barnsley printing BALLAD (Coal Mining Trade Union) LINES ON UNION. Barnsley: John Elliott, printer. [1840s]. Single sheet (254x172mm), the verses printed double column within an ornamental border, an ornamental device (with internal text) at the head, and a wood-engraved cut of a church and churchyard at the tail of the second column; several small tears repaired, some early paste streaks on the reverse but without staining through onto the front. £120.00
Elliott registered his press (under the Seditious Societies Act) in 1840 and was still active in the 1860s although only a handful of items from his press are recorded. This ballad, calling for the establishment of a union for local miners, links their cause for better conditions and remuneration to a firm faith in the 'Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.' Vicinus (Broadsides of the industrial North) illustrates another ballad printed by Elliott which also links miners and God and is likewise printed within an ornamental frame.

16832 Bath printing HAMILTON, Elizabeth. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF AGRIPPINA, the wife of Germanicus. 3 volumes, Bath: printed by R. Cruttwell, for G. and J. Robinson,... London, 1804. 8vo, (190x117mm), xxxviii,319; vi,340; (iii-)viii,352p. printed on a thin, fine, handmade paper, a slight stain to K1 of vol. 1, a small piece torn (without text loss) from the fore-margin of Y8 of vol. 2, and some faint spotting of the final few leaves of vols 1 & 3. Later 19th century half calf, backstrips faded and the corner tips rubbed, Spanish pattern marbled paper sides. £385.00
Perhaps better known as a writer of influential works on education, Hamilton's biography of Agrippina the Elder has been called 'an important attempt to deal seriously with the life of an admirable Roman woman' and one which displays a fine understanding of Roman laws and customs.

17359 Bath printing STONHOUSE, James. RELIGIOUS TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, now collected into one volume. A new edition, revised and carefully corrected by T. Stonehouse-Vigour. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,... and Binns and Robinson, Bath, 1822. 12mo, (193x112mm), [4],[548]p. Original buff paper covered boards, head of the spine repaired., letterpress printed back-label carrying the price at '5s.6d. bds.' Bookplate and conditions of the Essex Institute, dated 1861, on the front pastedown. £125.00
Printed in Bath by Binns and Robinson, a collection of 14 of Stonhouse's tracts including Friendly advice to a patient and Admonitions against swearing, Sabbath-breaking, and drunkenness (so no fun to be had there), each with a separated title-page, pagination and register.

14360 Berwick printing OWEN, John. THE NATURE, POWER, DECEIT, AND PREVALENCY OF INDWELLING-SIN IN BELIEVERS: together with the ways of its working, and means of prevention, opened, evinced, and applied. With a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto appertaining. Berwick: printed by H. Richardson, Church-Street, 1814. 12mo, (172x100mm), 300p. Contemporary (perhaps original) marbled sheep, rather worn at the corner tips and the front and rear joints split. £50.00
An uncommon provincially printed edition of a book first published in London in 1668 and which saw 18th-century editions printed in London, Glasgow and Paisley, and 19th-century editions in London, Glasgow, and Philadelphia, as well as this borders printing - of which COPAC records only the British Library and National Library of Scotland copies.

16418 Beverley printing MANNIX [ie MANNEX Patrick J.] and WHELLEN [William]. HISTORY, GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY OF CUMBERLAND; comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the diocese of Carlisle; with separate historical, statistical, & topographical descriptions of all the boroughs, towns, parishes, chapelries, townships, and villages, wards, baronies, manors, &c. And presenting a descriptive and geological view of the lakes... [Whitehaven:] Printed for the authors, by W.B. Johnson, Market-Place, Beverley, 1847. 8vo, (218x135mm), xvi,(9-)630,[1]p. Original brown sand-grain cloth, faded, blind-blocked, rebacked preserving the original backstrip. (Norton Guide to... directories 159) £55.00
The preface dated Whitehaven 21 December 1847. It is generally accepted that the spelling of Mannex's surname on the title is a typographical error.

11119 Birmingham printing MONOTYPE RECORDER 39.3 THE MONOTYPE RECORDER Vol.39 No.3. Technical number with an illustrated survey of post-war improvements. London: Monotype Corporation, Spring, 1951 4to, (278x223mm), 16p. illustrations. Original wrappers, soiled and with a couple of small rubber stamps on the front wrapper.. £15.00
Printed in Birmingham by James Upton.

14963 Birmingham printing SHAKESPEARE,William. HAMLET BY WILLIAM SHAKE-SPEARE, 1603; HAMLET BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 1604. Being exact reprints of the first and second editions of Shakespeare's great drama, from the very rare originals in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire; with the two text printed on opposite pages, and so arranged that the parallel passages face each other. And a bibliographical preface by Samuel Timmins. [Birmingham printed] London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1860. 8vo, (228x145mm), xxii,200p. original title pages reproduced. Original cloth, somewhat spotted, rebacked. £35.00
Printed in Birmingham by Josiah Allen, and an exceedingly accurate type facsimile of the original texts where 'the most scrupulous care has been exercised in the production of this volume; that the old-fashioned and mis-spellings, printers' blunders (which might, perhaps, be wrongly attributed to the present edition) the punctuation, &c., of the Originals have been minutely copied throughout.'

9711 Birmingham printing SOMERVILE, William. THE CHASE, A POEM: to which is added Hobbinol or the rural games. Birmingham: printed by Robert Martin, and sold by A. Donaldson at his shop, near Norfolk Street in the Strand, London, 1767. 8vo, (236x155mm), 199p. some occasional spotting and a paper fault (without textual loss) in E1, previous owner's initials (dated 1774) slightly shaved at the head of the title and three other later owner's signatures on the front free endleaves. Near contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint split at the head of the front cover and a small hole near the tail of the rear, backstrip with raised bands and red leather lettering piece, edges rubbed, however, a distinctly better copy than it sounds. Bookplate (Gaskell Baskerville Add.3) £120.00
Printed by Baskerville's onetime apprentice and later foreman. '… even though the books Robert Martin printed under his own name are, on the whole, badly printed (by Baskerville standards) at least one of them would not have disgraced the master, This is The Chase, A Poem… by William Somerville, published in 1767. The inking is not as good as the best of Baskerville's books, but the design could have been, and possibly was, done by Baskerville himself – certainly no other book printed by Martin has anything of this quality.' (Pardoe John Baskerville, 1975, 99).

18638 Birmingham printing [R, L.N.] THE BORDER LAND. Birmingham: J. Groom; and Bazaar, Soho Square, London. [1850?] Single leaf, (195x118mm), printed on pale green paper on both sides of the leaf and set within a two-line frame, slightly dust-soiled and frayed in the tail margin, numbered 122 in the imprint line. £15.00
A poem in nine verses with an explanation at the head of the first verse: 'These lines were sent by a lady to a friend who wrote frequently to know where she had been for several months, that she had not written to her. She had been to the gates of the grave, in a long and severe illness.' This minor piece is worthy of particular note as being sold at the Bazaar, an establishment in the manner of a closed market opened in Soho Square by John Trotter in 1816 to encourage 'Female and Domestic Industry' as he was anxious to stop the the country from pouring 'its happy and innocent virgins into the common sink of London. (Survey of London,1966)

13406 Bradford printing KAYE, Walter J. THE LEADING POETS OF SCOTLAND from early times. [Bradford Printed] London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1891. 8vo (223x140mm), 314,[4]p. +1p. advert., 5 plates; very occasional slight spotting. Original cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt. hinges strained. £45.00
An anthology of Scottish verse with biographical sketches on the poets by a variety of authorities. Printed in Bradford by Thornton and Pearson, the subscribers' list shows most copies were taken up in Scotland and in the Northern counties of England. A list of agents facing the title shows a distribution network throughout the North of England, Scotland and Ireland, We suspect that this is a provincial publication and the London `publisher's' name on the imprint is solely that of a wholesaler.

16666 Brentford printing HAWKE, M. & R. VINCENT. THE RANGER, A collection of periodical essays, inscribed to the Rev. Thomas Atwood. Volume 1 only (of 2). Brentford: Printed for the authors by P, Norbury and sold by Parsons... Martin and Bain... Debrett... [London] Knight, Windsor; and Fletcher, Oxford. [1795.] 12mo, (174x110mm), [4],iv,264,[1]p. early owner's signature at the head of the title. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides with vellum corner tips, covers soiled and loose, modern bookplate. £95.00
Numbers 1 to 20 of this weekly collection of moral essays, the collation is rather bizarre viz: [*]2,b2,A4,B-M6,N-P7,R-S8,T1,U7,X10.

16049 Bridgenorth printing BELLETT, G. THE ANTIQUITIES OF BRIDGENORTH; with some historical notices of the town and castle. Bridgenorth: W.J. Rowley,... London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. 8vo, (177x112mm), xiv,255p. engraved frontispiece, 13 wood-engraved text illustration (1 full page) and a large folding map. Original morocco-grain cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt, binder's ticket of Bone & Son, London. Armorial bookplate of Hugh Ker Colville. £60.00
Printed in Bridgenorth by W.J. Rowley.

18177 Brighton printing (ODD FELLOWS) LAWS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BRIGHTON DISTRICT BRANCH OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, Manchester Unity Friendly Society. Brighton: printed by Curtis and Son, Gazette Office, 1860. 12mo, (170x104mm), 27p. +1 folding table. Sometime stab-sewn in original printed wrappers, spine worn. £30.00

18179 Brighton printing (ODD FELLOWS) LAWS FOR THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS FUND OF THE BRIGHTON DISTRICT OF ODD FELLOWS, Manchester Unity Friendly Society. Brighton: printed by John Tucknott 1862. 12mo, (170x104mm), 27p. +1 folding table. Original printed wrappers. £30.00

17529 Brighton printing NORTH, James Sharp. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ART AND CRAFT OF BOOKBINDING. Brighton: Central Bookbinding Works. [1900.] 8vo, (210x137mm), 16p +6p binder's adverts. 3 plates. The title very lightly browned, otherwise a good copy in original cloth, bookplate of Lawrence Wallis. £35.00
A rare, if very brief, 'history' of bookbinding which in reality serves as an advertising booklet for the services offered by a provincial binding house which had been established in 1837. Dating of this title is taken from the British Library on-line catalogue.

7688 Bristol imprint JEFFERIES, C.T. (Bookseller of Bristol) [CATALOGUE OF BOOKS OFFERED FOR SALE] Miscellaneous, Theology & Sermons. [Together with another similar] 2 catalogues. Bristol: C.T. Jefferies & Sons, 97, Redcliff-street, [1880s.] 8vo, (214x142mm), 28; 28p. 815 & 783 items. Slightly soiled, side-sewn, sometime disbound and presumably lacking the original wrappers. £15.00

16588 Bristol printing FREAME, John. SCRIPTURE - INSTRUCTION; digested into several sections, by way of question and answer: in order to promote piety and virtue, and discourage vice and immorality. With a preface relating to education. Third edition, Bristol: Printed by S. Farley, [1769.] 12mo, (165x100mm), xxii,[2],154p. Some occasional slight browning internally, but generally a nice copy in contemporary (?original) sprinkled sheep, rear joint split but holding. £275.00
The first provincial edition of Freame's classic of Quaker literature and somewhat rare; Estc records only 2 copies in England and 1 in North America. First published in 1713 and originally prepared for the use of the author's children, the publication of this edition was undertaken by the Bristol Men's-Meeting and seems to have brought the work to greater prominence as it was reprinted several times thereafter, primarily for the use of the Quaker schools for the poor.

8686 Bristol printing THOMSON, Andrew. ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH HISTORY. [Bristol Printing] London: Published by Hamilton, Adams, and Co. And J. Chilcott, Wine-Street, Bristol, 1831. 8vo, (190x102mm), xii,iv,548p. some slight dust-soiling. An early example of original cloth, in this instance a deep red glazed calico, a little soiled and faded at the head at on the backstrip, that also faded and carrying a very degraded printed label, front joint split roughly halfway. £20.00
Imprint on the final leaf reading J. Chilcott, Printer, Bristol, another – nay yet another – example of a London wholesaler taking precedence on the imprint of what is undoubtedly a provincially printed and published book.

13476 Buckingham printing BICKERSTETH, Edward. A SCRIPTURE HELP, designed to assist in reading the Bible profitably, Second edition. [Buckingham printed] London: printed for L.B. Seeley... by J. Seeley, Buckingham, 1816. 8vo, (175x110mm), viii,212p. engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved folding maps. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt frame to the covers, the surface of the leather rubbed in patches, rear joint repaired, rice marbled edges; the front fly-leaf carrying a ms. prize inscription to one Wm T. Upton dated 1816, and with a later bookplate. £65.00

16414 Bungay printing WILSON, Thomas. SACRA PRIVATA. THE PRIVATE MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS of the Right Rev. Thomas Wilson, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. Accomodated to general use. New edition, [Bungay printed] London: sold by Charles Tilt, 1826. 8vo, (111x73mm), iv,124p. frontispiece portait and added engraved vignette title, some slight soiling. Contemporary sheep, worn and lacking the front free French-shell pattern marbled endleaves. £15.00
Printed in Bungay by J.R. and C. Childs and unrecorded in Copsey, Book distribution and printing in Suffolk.

12584 Carlisle printing BROWN, James Walter. KINMONT WILLIE IN BALLAD AND HISTORY. Carlisle: Chas. Thurnam & Sons, 1922. 8vo, (216x140mm), 15,[1]p. Original printed wrappers. £25.00
A brief account of the taking of the famous Border reiver by the men of the Lord of the West Marches on a Sunday, which was generally held to be a time of truce against such things. The black-hearted Armstrong was freed from Carlisle gaol under equally dubious circumstances.

12372 Carlisle printing DAVENPORT, R.A. A SUPPLEMENTAL HYMN BOOK. Carlisle: Charles Thurnam and Sons, 1934. Cr.8vo, (190x125mm), 54p. A good copy in original cloth. £15.00
A provincially printed hymnal, the compiler signs the preface from Scotby, and so was presumably designed for the use in the parish church there.

18927 Carmarthen printing SHADRACH, Azariah. UDGORN Y JUBILI YN CYHOEDDI RHYDDID I'R HOTTENTOTIAID; neu hymnau newyddion, ar amryw destunau, ac yn neillduol ar lwyddiant yr efengyl. Caerfyrddin [Carmarthen]: argraffwyd gan J Evans, 1818. Cr 8vo, (114x65mm), 136p. Finger-soiled and slightly browned throughout. Disbound. £30.00
The first edition of a rare Welsh hymnal, the only other copy we can locate is in the National Library of Wales.

17915 Chelsea printing CHAPBOOK. THE HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF BEN THE SOLDIER; with an account of his happy marriage after the fatigues and dangers of war. Chelsea: printed by J. Tilling for the Religious Tract Society, [1810?] 12mo, (172x106mm), 8p. ornamental woodcut on the cover title. Original self-wrappers, sometime disbound. £55.00
We cannot locate another edition of this chapbook on Copac where nine London and two provincial editions are recorded as being published between c.1804 and c.1830. The cover cut (an ornamental cut of drums and flags) is the same (or very similar) to that employed by Howard & Evans in c.1807 and Applegarth and Cowper in c.1820, on both occasions also printed for the RTS.

17028 Cheltenham Printing MIDDLETON, S. ON MR JESSOP'S BEAUTIFUL PLANTAIN, "THE MUSA." Cheltenham: J.J. Hadley, 1843. Single leaf, (252x141mm), set within a single-rule frame with ornate corner ornaments, slightly soiled. £15.00
A poems by the author of Pompeii &c reprinted from the Cheltenham Journal of 6 March 1843. Presumably one of a limited number of copies reset within an ornamental frame and run off for the author.

16534 Chester printing PARRY, John. BYR-GOFION O AMRYWIOL BETHAU HYNOD yn Mywyd ei Ddiweddar Fawrhydi, Sior y Trydd; brenin teyrnas gyffunol prydain fawr a'r iwerddon. Caerlleon [Chester]: I Fletcher, 1820. 12mo, (170x117mm), 24p. Disbound. £30.00

17803 Coventry Printing. GAY, John. FABLES BY THE LATE Mr. GAY. In one volume complete. Coventry: printed and sold by M. Luckman: sold also by R.V. Brooke, and Champante and Whitrove, Stationers, London. [1790?] Cr.8vo. (101x64mm), viii,213p. +3p publisher's adverts, engraved frontispiece, separate part title included in the pagination, some spotting throughout. Modern quarter morocco, marbled paper sides, previous owner's signature of Ann Salt of Birmingham dated 1807. (Morgan Printing and Publishing in Warwickshire p23) £200.00
An extremely rare provincial edition of Gay's Fables, Which was obviously something of a best-seller for Mary Luckman as she produced four editions in 1785?, 1790?, 1795, and 1798; of the edition we offer here only 2 copies are located on Estc and a total of only 12 copies are located for all four editions. The book was published at one shilling (as advised on the title) and the final three pages contain a priced catalogue of Luckman's books, several described as 'bound' or 'in boards.'

17824 Coventry printing CALCOTT, Wellins. THOUGHTS MORAL AND DIVINE; collected and intended for the better instruction and conduct of life. Third edition with improvements, Coventry: printed for the author, by T. Luckman, 1759. 8vo, (208x128mm) [12],[40],432,[3]p. slightly soiled thought. Later - mid-19th century - half calf, pebble-grain cloth sides, marbled endleaves and edges, previous owner's name on the from fly-leaf: Mr Archers of Bickershead Hall, and a later bookplate. (Morgan, Printing and publishing in Warwickshire p7) £100.00
First published in London in 1756; subsequent editions printed in Birmingham, Coventry, Manchester and Exeter during the following decade point to a widespread contemporary popularity perhaps among Freemasons; the author being a strong member of that community. The subscriber's list to the present edition occupies twenty pages showing copies were taken up throughout the country but especially in the midland counties, the various names, occupations and towns are given in the list amidst which may be noted 'Mr Baskerville, Letter-Founder, Birmingham.'

17805 Coventry printing HERVEY, James. MEDITATIONS AND CONTEMPLATIONS. Containing, meditations among the tombs: reflections on a flower-garden: and, a descant on creation. Contemplations on the night: contemplations on the starry heavens: and, a winter-piece. To which is prefixed a life of the author. A new edition. Coventry: printed and sold by M. Luckman: sold also by [11 other named booksellers in London, Bath, Bristol, Kettering, and Birmingham], 1792. 12mo, (175x107mm), xxxiv,177,[2],clxx-clxxxviii,(189-)372p. +2p publisher's adverts. 4 engraved plates including a portrait of the author. Contemporary sheep, joints restored; gift inscription to Bithia Atkins of Sharleston from Miss Scruton of York, dated April 1809, and a later bookplate. (Morgan Printing and Publishing in Warwickshire p24-5) £200.00
Rare, Estc locates only four copies (3 UK, 1 USA) of this provincial edition of a popular devotional work. It was perhaps intended for issue in two volumes as two of the engraved plates are headed frontispiece to vol. 1 ...2.

17842 Coventry printing [GRINFIELD, Charles Vaughan]. A PILGRIMAGE TO STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, the birthplace of Shakspeare [sic]. London: Longman, Brown & Co.; John Merridew, Coventry, 1850. 8vo in 4s, (160x105mm), 52p. +5p Coventry publisher's adverts, 2 engraved topographical plates, one shaved at the fore-edge with some slight loss from the imprint, title-page slightly spotted. Later brown paper over boards, gift inscription from Thomas Grinfield to John Pearce of Bristol Library, dated 1850, on the front pastedown endleaf, lacking the free endleaf. £25.00
Printed in Coventry by David Lewin.

16492 Denbigh printing DAVIES, Robert. DILIAU BARDDAS, SEF GWAITH BARDDONAWL: yn cynnwys Odlau, Cywyddau, Englynion, Carolau, a Dyriau, ar wahanol destunau. Dinbych [Denbigh]: Argraffwyd gan Thomas Gee, 1828. 12mo, (184x109mm), 320p. subscribers list. An uncut copy, internally clean, in original printed boards, these rather soiled and rubbed and lacking the backstrip. £25.00
'The [Gee] office printed two substantial volumes of Welsh verse....[one being] Diliau Barddas, a collection of the work of Robert Davies 'Bardd Nantglyn'. Davies had issued proposals in the spring of 1825 for this fairly expensive book (costing four shillings and sixpence in paper-covered boards) and eventually persuaded 998 subscribers to order 1198 copies. This led Gee to think well enough of its sales to buy the copyright... though he never published a new edition.' (Philip Henry Jones 'Thomas Gee senior' in McKay, Hinks & Bell, Light on the book trade.)

16409 Derby printing GESSNER, Mr. [Mary COLLYER] THE DEATH OF ABEL; IN FIVE BOOKS. Attempted from the German of Mr Gessner. Stereotype edition. Derby: Stereotyped for, and printed and sold by Henry Mozley, [1815?] 12mo, (173x104mm), [4],148p. occasional slight spotting, wood-engraved frontispiece and added vignette title. Contemporary marbled sheep, marbled edges, joints and edges slightly rubbed and a small piece of leather missing from the rear joint. £65.00
A rare edition of a long-running popular title, Copac records no copies of this Derby edition, however several Gainsborough editions by members of the Mozley family are recorded. Although the title imprint implies that Mozley printed this edition from stereotype plates a printer's imprint at the end of the text records that this book was 'Stereotyped and printed by A. Wilson,,,' in London.

12953 Derby printing MAVOR, William. THE ENGLISH SPELLING-BOOK. Accompanied by a series of progressive series of easy and familiar lessons, intended as an introduction to a correct knowledge of the English language, Derby: John and Charles Mozley, 1859. 12mo, (180x116mm), 144p. wood-engraved frontispiece (carrying 2 images), 3 pages of a wood-engraved acrostic alphabet, and a number of other wood-engravings of animals in the text. Original sheep, rather rubbed, the front joint weak and the backstrip partly lacking. An early owner's signature, that of Thomas Price of Townsend, Dilwyn, dated 20 Nov 1860, on the verso of the front free endleaf, and a later gift inscription to 'Kathleen Amy Price from her loving mother' dated 16 Feb [19]06. £80.00
Ian Michael (The teaching of English p.515) wonders whether this was first published in 1801 or 1802; while we have seen copies with the preface dated 1806. Whatever its first date of publication was, this primer enjoyed a long, and possibly unparalleled, run as a principal text, for by 1866 it had run to at least 469 numbered editions. Sadly by this edition, the text no longer contains a poetical version of the `Rules of the Humane Society for recovering drowned persons', which must rank high in any list of staggeringly bizarre texts to put in a child's reading primer.

17812 Derby printing WATTS, Isaac. THE PSALMS OF DAVID; imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state of worship. A new edition, corrected. Derby: printed by and for Henry Mozley; sold also in London by G. Cowie, 1822. 12mo, (131x71mm), 304p. [bound with] WATTS, Isaac. HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS. Derby: printed by and for Henry Mozley; sold also in London by G. Cowie, 1822. 282,[22]p. Together 2 volumes in 1, Contemporary marbled sheep, backstrip, joints and corner tips worn, Early owner's signature of Elizabeth Breede of Orton, dated 1821 on the front free endleaf. £75.00
Rare editions of both titles, COPAC locates only a single copy of the first-named title, and does not locate an edition of the second-named at all.

16535 Dolgelleu printing HUNTINGTON, Wylym [William]. YR YSGERBWD ARMINAIDD, NEU YR ARMINIAD. wedi ei agor a'i fanwl-chwilio. Dolgelleu: Argraphwyd gan Williams, A Jones, [1807.] 12mo, (176x107mm), 240p. title and final leaf dust-soiled. Disbound. £65.00

7328 Doncaster printing TAYLOR, Alfred & Geoffrey HALTON. MORE YORKSHIRE MOTOR RUNS. Leeds: Yorkshire Evening Post, 1962. 8vo, 48p. illustrations, text interspersed with adverts, mainly for the motor trade. Original illustrated wrappers. spine slightly rubbed. £3.00
Printed in the Doncaster office of the Leeds Evening Post

5037 Douglas printing HAINING, Samuel. A HISTORICAL SKETCH AND DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF THE ISLE OF MAN; Designed as a companion to those who visit and make the tour of It. Douglas: Printed and Sold by G. Jefferson, for the Author; sold, also, by Lane and Son, Wellington News Room, Pier; and J. Townsend, Ramsey. 1822. 12mo, (160x96mm), viii,192p. 2 engraved plates, some browning. Original printed boards, somewhat rubbed and the letterpress rather indistinct, later rebacked in cloth with new endleaves. £60.00
The first edition of the earliest guide book to the Isle of Man which provided the model for a number of later guides, Cubbon suggests there was a Ramsey edition in the same year but whether that was a true edition or another issue, perhaps with a change of imprint to give more prominence to the Ramsey bookseller, is unclear.

14079 Durham printing NEASHAM, George. VIEWS OF MANSIONS & PLACE OF INTEREST in the Lanchester and Derwent Valleys, and portraits of local men. Durham: printed and published by the author, 1884. 4to, (320x247mm), [26]p. for the most part printed on the versos only +11 portraits & 21 topographic views employing a number of graphic processes. Original sand-grain cloth, gilt lettered, rebacked preserving most of the original backstrip. £65.00
The topographic views include Consett ironworks, and Shotley Grove paper mills.

18934 Edinburgh printing BIBLE THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. Newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. One volume in two. Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, 1716. 12mo, (120x62mm), [501 leaves, ?of 502], general title and separate title to the New Testament present, both with the printer's device; the former soiled and mounted on Japanese paper, a small piece torn from the head-fore corner of 2M8, some marginal tears repaired to several leaves. Slightly browned at the edges throughout and with the margins occasionally cut close to the text or, on a very few leaves, shaving the text. Contemporary dark blue calf, the centre of each cover decorated in gilt to a design formed from several individual tools within a frame of an ornamental roll with corner arabesques, backstrips gilt tooled in 5 compartments with raised bands; the whole slightly rubbed and a small area of wear at the head of the first volume, and with surface cracking of the leather on the backstrips; marbled paper endleaves, the front free endleaf of volume one replaced with near-contemporary marbled paper of a similar pattern and colour. Signature of Miss [Sarah] Campell dated 1770, partly obscured at the head of the general title and on the pastedown endleaf of the second volume and a gift inscription to Margaret Forbes 'from her affectionate mother' Sarah Forbes; another previous early owner's signature totally obscured to either side of the printer's device on volume one. (Herbert Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible 940) £450.00
The text ends on Tt10 (as accords with ESTC which locates 20 copies of this edition in the British Isles and 4 in the USA), this copy appears to lack A2 but the text begins at Genesis so presumably is wanting either a separate title to the Old Testament or a prefatory or dedicatory leaf.

18619 Edinburgh printing SCOTT, William. A NEW COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY: containing its general principles, and an account of all the countries of the earth, their divisions, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains, bays, straits, capes, islands... Intended chiefly for the use of schools. Fourth edition, greatly enlarged and improved. Edinburgh: printed for Peter Hill... by Murray & Cochrane, 1808. 12mo, (174x105mm), vi,258p. 6 folding engraved maps, three torn (without loss of image), browned throughout. Contemporary sheep, extremely worn and with some loss of leather from the covers. £50.00
A typically rare school textbook, Copac locates only four individual copies of a title that ran to seven editions. No copies of the first, second or third editions are recorded, and of the 2 recorded copies of the edition we offer, that in the National Library of Scotland has only 1 map, the Glasgow copy being described as having 'maps.'

18769 Falmouth printing LEWIS, Henry Arden. CHRIST IN CORNWALL? Legends of St. Just-in-Roseland and other parts. Described and examined. Falmouth: J.H. Lake, [1939.] 8vo, (190mm), 20p. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled. £10.00

18229 Glasgow printing BEATTIE, James. THE MINSTREL: and other poems. With a memoir of the author. London: Jones & Company, 1832. 24mo in 8s, (94x55mm), [8p. publisher's adverts],viii,71p. engraved frontispiece portrait, and vignette title (the latter dated 1824). Original red morocco grain silken cloth, worn at the backstrip and edges, gilt lettered on leather back-label, green paper endleaves, all edges gilt, Litchfield bookseller's ticket. £75.00
Printed in Glasgow by Hutchison and Brockman. Rare, Copac locates only the Cambridge copy of this edition. The advertisements that precede the text list a number of Jones' series of English classics, of this contribution to the 'Diamond poets' series, the publisher claims that they are the 'smallest ever printed. Uniting correctness, beautiful typography, portability, the greatest economy, &c.' This copy's attraction is enhanced by retaining the original binding which, though worn, is an interesting example of an early publisher's cloth edition binding. 'The Minstrel, a poem in Spenserian stanza, was begun in 1766, probably as a lighthearted, satirical work. In the spring of 1768 Beattie was inspired to continue it as his own poetic autobiography. It describes the childhood of Edwin, a shepherd boy brought up in solitary mountainous country, and his imaginative response to nature. In less than three months Beattie wrote most of the first book of The Minstrel, and began the second. The completion of the second book, however, took more than five years; an intended third book was never written. The poetic growth of Edwin was an inspiration to several generations of poets, most particularly to the Romantics, and this work had an important formative influence on William Wordsworth, who greatly admired it.' (DNB)

14336 Glasgow printing BUNYAN, John. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS and other works. The prefaces, indices, and the text revised by George Offor, with copious notes, original and selected; and an original memoir of the author by George B. Cheever. Glasgow: William Mackenzie, [1866.] 4to, (274x217mm), vi,xxxii,[2],942p. decorated lithographed title on a sepia ground, and 30 full-page plates (of 31, lacking the plate of Bunyan's Dream, but the key leaf to it is present), the folding facsimile of Bunyan's will frayed at the edges, and many smaller wood-engravings in the text by the Brothers Dalziel after William Harvey. a small stain in the head margin, pretty well throughout and a few instances of dust-spotting. Contemporary half black calf, dark green bead-grain cloth sides, edges and corner tips slightly rubbed. £75.00
Although lacking one plate this is still a not unacceptable book with a number of full-page steel-engraved illustrations and 20 full-page wood-engravings, printed on a sepia ground, by the brothers Dalziel after William Harvey. Harvey, a Newcastle-born artist had been apprenticed to Thomas Bewick before going to London where he did a great deal of work for the Dalziel's who describe this book as one in which 'he displayed all his tasteful fancy.' (Brothers Dalziel p17)

16417 Glasgow printing BURNS, Robert. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS; with memoir, prefatory notes, and a complete marginal glossary. Glasgow: John S. Marr & Sons, [1873.] 8vo, (170x117mm), 597p.+12p. publisher's adverts, wood-engraved frontispiece portait, vignette title and 6 full-page illustrations by R. Arthur, slightly soiled and with a small piece torn from the tail-fore corner of 4 leaves without loss of text. Original limp cloth binding, printed in black and somewhat faded and slightly creased; previous owner's signature (James Mulcaster, 1873) on the half-title and front cover, front pastedown endleaf (carrying adverts for works by David MacRae) torn and repaired though with some minor loss, some restoration work has been undertaken on this volume including supporting the textblock with mull prior to replacing it in the covers. £65.00
Printed in Glasgow by Bell and Bain. At first glance an undistinguished edition but perhaps noteworthy for the manner of binding as this edition, published at one shilling, is clearly evidence of a development in the production of cheap print. The stitching is simple, almost in the extreme, with four sewing stations, link stitched at the head and tail and no supporting tapes; while the covering cloth, a cheap calico, is supported only by the pastedown endleaves, both of which carry advertisements. Such a simple manner of limp binding is clearly a precursor of the later introduction of the mass-market paperback.

18879 Glasgow printing CHAPBOOK [BURNESS, John] THE COMICAL STORIES OF THRUMMY CAP AND THE GHAIST. Margaret and the minister. Soda water. Glasgow: printed for the booksellers, [1840s.] 12mo, (153x99mm), 24p. cover-title woodcut of an organ grinder and his monkey. Sometime disbound. £40.00
Carrying the series number 16 at the foot of the cover-title. This collection of three tales is attributed to John Burness of Glenbervie who was a distant relative of Robert Burns. The Scottish chapbook catalogue records a number of variant of this title including noting one with the same series number as that which we offer. However, the two editions listed which strictly follow the title of this copy are both noted as being in prose and verse, whereas that we offer is entirely in verse.

13408 Glasgow printing EVERS, Henry. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NAVIGATION. Glasgow & London: William Collins, Sons, & Company, 1873. 8vo (172x113mm),126p. +2p publisher's adverts; several tables and line diagrams in the text. Original cloth, lettered and blocked in blind, edges rubbed and some sight fading. Bookplate of the Gargrave Mechanics' Institute [Yorkshire] on the front cover with another, later version, tipped on to the front free endleaf. £20.00
Printed by Collins in Glasgow for their Elementary Science Series. The two versions of the Mechanics' Library label carry variant shelfmarks which suggests that the library had been re-arranged on at least three occasions, the presence of a number pencilled on the front pastedown may even suggest a fourth.

9021 Glasgow printing GRAY, Thomas. & George LYTTLETON. POEMS BY Mr. GRAY. [bound with] POEMS BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LATE LORD LYTTLETON. 2 Volumes in 1, Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1777. 12mo, (118x72mm), [4],56; [4],84p. Contemporary marbled calf, joints and backstrip a little worn, previous owner's signature: N. Sugden 1884, on the front free endleaf. (Gaskell, Foulis Press 618; 620). £125.00
Gaskell notes the presence of a printers' dagger-mark on the titles of both volumes; that on the Gray is present but not on the Lyttelton, suggesting that this title is the variant issue he notes but states as 'not seen.' An uncommon pair of Foulis press items, ESTC locating 5 copies of Gray, and only 3 of Lyttelton with the dagger-mark.

15691 Glasgow printing MACFARLANE, Charles. THE CABINET HISTORY OF ENGLAND, civil, military and ecclesiastical; from the invasion by Julius Caesar to the year 1846. 26 volumes in 13, [Glasgow printed] London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow: Blackie & Sons, 1851-55. 12mo, (158x100mm), 200+ pages per half 'volume' with a printed title to each 2 volumes in 1 pair, and an engraved vignette title to each individual volume. Original cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, some small damage to the backstrips of 2 volumes. £85.00
Printed in Glasgow by W.G. Blackie and Co.

17358 Glasgow printing PARNELL, Thomas. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. Glasgow: printed by Robert Urie, 1748. 12mo, (167x98mm), [2],247,[3]p. occasional slightly browned. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt tooled in the spince compartments with red leather lettering piece, joints rubbed and occasionally worn with some slight loss of leather from the rear and edges rubbed, bookplate. £80.00
The first Glasgow printing of this collection of verse by the Arch-Deacon of Clogher, the half-title carries a note that the book was 'Price bound and lettered Half-a-Crown.'

5772 Glasgow printing RAWNSLEY, H.D. LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS OF THE ENGLISH LAKES. Volume 1 [complete in itself] Cumberland, Keswick and Southey's country. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1894. 8vo, (197x126mm) xiv,232p. folding map. Original cloth, joints and edges rubbed, free endleaves spotted. £15.00
Covering Greta Hall, Applethwaite, Derwentwater, Mirehouse &c. with notice of Southey, Coleridge, Wordsworth, George Beaumont, Ruskin, Tennyson and various other literary worthies.

14420 Glasgow printing WHITE, Henry Kirk. THE REMAINS OF HENRY KIRKE WHITE, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, with a memoir of the author [by Robert Sothey?] Glasgow: printed for Richard Griffin & Co., 1825. 12mo, (142x87mm), [iii-]xxii,[2],(12-)420p. engraved frontispiece portait by C. Freeman, the the sub-title to the letters bound before the preface. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides, backstrip compartments tooled in gilt with red leather lettering piece. £45.00
Letters, poetry, and literary criticism by the Nottingham-born writer. Several editions were published in 1825, including another edition by Griffin in Glasgow. However, we have only been unable to locate two copies of this particular edition (both in the same institution) which is printed by James Starke. Several copies are recorded of an of edition also for Griffin in 1825, but printed from stereotype plates by Andrew and John Duncan and with a different pagination. Starke seems an interesting character who printed an address to Queen Caroline in Glasgow in 1820 and 'was persecuted in so many ways for doing so, that he deemed it necessary to retire to Canada', where, we are happy to say, he made a comfortable independence.'

15171 Gloucester printing HOWARD, Eliot. THE ELIOT PAPERS No II. The Eliot marriages: John Eliot (II) & Mariabella Farmborough Briggins 1734. John Eliot (III) & Mary Weston, 1762. Compiled from family papers. Gloucester: Privately printed by John Bellows, 1894. 4to, (265x192mm), viii,128p. Original quarter art vellum, grey paper sides, spine spotted. £25.00

1942 Grange printing MERCIER, Mrs Jerome. THE LAST WOLF. A story of England in the Fourteenth century. Grange-over-Sands: H.T. Mason, [1906]. 12mo. 72p. 8 plates, some slight spotting. Original stiff wrappers, yap edges frayed £12.00
Printed by the town's second printer and the first book we can locate to be printed in Grange.

12944 Guildford printing LOWELL, James Russell. THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL. London: Astolat Press, 1904. Cr.8vo (184x114mm), [1-],18,[1]p. Printed in red and black, free endleaves lightly browned. Untrimmed in original quarter cloth. £12.00
A volume in the publisher's Oakleaf series, printed on their press at Guildford.

16402 Guildford printing MARKHAM. Mrs. [pseud. Ie: Elizabeth PENROSE.] HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the first invasion by the Romans to the end of the reign of george the Third: with conversations at the end of each chapter. For the use of young persons. A new edition edited and continued to the present time by Mary Howitt. [Guildford printed] London: T.J. Allman, 1878. 8vo, (190x118mm), vi,568p. frontispiece and several line illustrations in the text, one gathering partly loose. Original cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, a very small tear in the cloth at the head edhe of the front cover. £25.00
Printed in Guildford by Billing and Sons.

18216 Guildford printing [DAWSON, Georg H., Editor] GEORGE J. DAWSON'S RECOLLECTIONS OF THE STAGE AND PLATFORM. [Guildford] Printed for private circulation, 1913. 8vo, (195x139mm), 71p. 4 plates. Original quarter cloth, decorated paper sides, corner tips slightly worn. £60.00
Printed by Billings on Guildford, memoirs of a onetime printer, theatrical performer, and employee of the typefounders Vincent Figgins, with added appreciations by Charles Cruikshank and Thomas Catling

19050 Halifax printing ARTHUR, Timothy Shay (& Harriette Newell BAKER) TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM, AND WHAT I SAW THERE. Also, THE HOLE IN THE POCKET. By Aunt Hattie [Harriette Newell Baker]. London: Milner and Co., [1880.] Cr.8vo, (130x78mm), 208,146p. +32p publisher's adverts; lightly browned throughout. Recased into the original cloth covers, lettered and blocked in black and blind, somewhat faded, free end-leaves replaced with paper of a similar age and colour. £20.00
Two classics of childrens temperance literature, with a separate title-page of the second named work, both texts carry ith the publishers imprint from the Halifax address at the end; COPAC locates only two copies of this edition.

16416 Halifax printing SOUTHWORTH, Emma D.E.N THE DESERTED WIFE. [Halifax printed] London: Milner and Company, [1880s]. 12mo, (130x78mm), 318p.+2,6,32p publisher's adverts. Engraved frontispiece and added vignette title. Original blue sand-grain cloth, backstrip lettered and blocked in gilt and black, the backstrip slightly faded. £35.00
Printed in Halifax by Milner. The Deserted Wife, Emma Southworth's second novel first published in 1849-50, stands as one of her finest, offering raw emotion, finely detailed development of the main character (up until the point her editor demanded she finish the novel quickly), and an insightful depiction of the break-down of a marriage. While other nineteenth-century American women novelists sold great numbers of individual novels, few met with success to equal hers and throughout her forty-four year career, Southworth's novels consistently became best-sellers making her perhaps the best-selling American author, male or female, of her generation. Her stories entered into the American consciousness, becoming popular plays, shaping fashion trends, developing women's visions of themselves as well as shaping the image of 'Americanness' in the minds of international readers.

16589 Hartlepool printing MOMENTO MORI. A DIE-CUT AND EMBOSSED MEMORIAL CARD: IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE PRISCILLA SCOTT, wife of James Scott, of West Hartlepool, who died November 7th, 1871. Aged 29 years, and was interred at the Baptist Chapel, Gildersome, Nov.11th. (followed by four lines of verse). [West Hartlepool?] 1871 Single sheet, (262x209mm), a fine and handsome example of Victorian death memorabilia, the details of the lady printed on a small black-edged card (74x114mm) which is laid down on a large die-cut and embossed off-white card with black border. The card has two angels supporting a broken column within a frame of a wreath of thorns, with trailing ivy, &c. above a table tomb. £35.00
The die-cut card was almost certainly mass produced with space left for the addition of the memorial card, and in this instance carries the maker's name 'Wood' in the lower left hand corner.

14333 Havant printing STAUNTON, George Thomas. MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES RELATING TO CHINA, and our commercial intercourse with that country, including a few translations from the Chinese language. Second edition, revised in 1822, and accompanied in 1850, by introductory observations on the events which have affected our Chinese commerce during that revival. [Havant printed] London: John Murray, 1850. 8vo, (215x138mm), 50,[ix-]x,432p. +16p. publisher's adverts dated April 1849. 2 folding tables present, lightly browned throughout and some slight soiling in the head margin of 2 pages. Modern buckram library binding. £250.00
Originally published in 1822, we rather suspect that the edition we offer consists of the sheets of that edition, printed in Havant by Henry Skelton - whom BBTI does not record as operating after 1828 - with a lengthy introduction added by an unnamed editor in 1850. The book contains a number of pieces on various aspects of Chinese history and culture followed by a great deal of information on trade and the East India Company in the period before about 1820.

18805 Hull printing BROWN, A. & Sons TYPE FACES. Hull: A. Brown & Sons, 1970. Imp.8vo, (248x153mm), [6],87p. original stiff wrappers slightly soiled. £10.00
A provincial printer's type specimen book of book and display types, &c. and including a small section of African languages shown in short paragraph settings.

17691 Ipswich printing GOYMER, Edward Nutton. A COLLECTION OF HYMNS, adapted to the festivals and fasts of the Church of England, and other particular occasions. Ipswich: printed and sold by S. Piper; sold also by [6 other named booksellers in Colchester, Sudbury, and London]; and by the author, Stoke by Nayland, 1819. 12mo, (145x91mm), xxxvi,273p. A very clean copy internally in contemporary tree marbled calf, backstrip banded in gilt, joints and edges rubbed, the latter only slightly so. Bookplate. (Copsey Book distribution and printing in Suffolk 960, where the author's name is given as Goymour) £95.00
A somewhat rare hymnal that was presumably intended for local use. Copac locates only three copies: BL, Bodley and Glasgow.

16429 Kendal printing DAWSON, Joseph. DAWSON'S MONTHLY ADVERTISER FOR THE COUNTY OF WESTMORLAND, and the adjacent parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. No. 22, Kendal: J. Dawson, October, 1847. Broadsheet, (312x247mm), printed verso and recto in three columns, very slightly discoloured and with a few minor marginal handling tears. Preserved in a modern double-window mount of archival mountboard. £150.00
An extremely rare example of an early free advertising 'newspaper.' 1,500 copies were distributed monthly to the 'News and Reading Rooms, Inns and other places of public resort... in Kendal, Appleby, Kirkby-Lonsdale, Kirkby Stephen, Brough, Orton, Shap, Ravenstonedale, Ambleside, Staveley, Milnthorpe, Burton, Cartmel, Sedbergh, &c.' The recto carries public notices and adverts for several local businesses: chemists, dentists, a silk merchant, a subscription concert, Kendal Agricultual Society, &c. The verso is given over entirely to books offered for sale by Dawson, a number at reduced prices. Joseph Dawson established himself in or around 1842 as a bookseller, stationer, printer and bookbinder, and -as is evidenced by this broadsheet- also had on hand French accordeons (sic) and a Musical oil painting - 'price reasonable'

12565 Kendal printing [WESTON, Lady] SIR JOHN WESTON, BART. 1852-1926. His life and work in Westmorland. [Kendal: privately printed by Atkinson & Pollitt], 1927. 8vo, (209x137mm), 43,[1]p. frontispiece portrait. Original printed wrappers, slightly dust-soiled. Lady Weston's compliments slip tipped in. £12.00

8615 Leeds printing DAVIDSON, J. Best. A NEW SYSTEM OF SHORT HAND, or stenography, more easy of attainment and transcription, and one third briefer than the most popular system extant. [Leeds Printed] London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; J. Buckton, Leeds; and all other booksellers, 1847. 8vo, (180x110 mm), 24p. +4p. prospectus. 4 etched plates (1 folding), the plates lightly browned. Original dark grey rib-grain cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt and blind on the front cover, endleaves lightly browned. Carrying on the front pastedown a notice for 'Ruled Books for this system to be had of J. Buckton, Publisher, 50, Briggate, Leeds, Wholesale and Retail.' £25.00
Printed in Leeds by Alice Mann. One of those examples of the dominance of a London imprint reducing the impact of provincial publishing. This book is almost certainly properly a Leeds publication. Davidson was the principal reporter on the Leeds Mercury, as well as the author of several school textbooks on grammar and punctuation; the printer was a Leeds woman, and despite his humble position (and in much small sized type) on the imprint, Buckton was almost certainly the principal publisher. The prospectus consists of an announcement for the sixth thousand of Davidson's Difficulties of English grammar removed… with lengthy opinions of the press for former editions.

12938 Leeds printing FOX, George. A JOURNAL OR HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, travels, sufferings, Christian experiences, and labour of love, in the work of that ancient, eminent, and faithful servant of Jesus Christ... Sixth edition, 2 volumes, Leeds: printed by Anthony Pickard, 1836. 12mo, (198x120mm), viii,556,[1]; 564p. slightly dust-soiled in the extreme head margin. Original decorated-weave buff calico, printed back-labels (both somewhat degraded), the backstrips discoloured and slightly worn at the head and tail, lacking the rear free endleaf of volume 2. A contemporary gift inscription to Elizabeth Hatherley from her sister on the front fly-leaf, and the later signature of William Jones. £85.00
A nice example of an early provincial edition binding in a patterned weave of calico: a watered pattern of concentric ovals, that we cannot recall seeing before. The final leaf of volume one carries a plea from the editors (Joshua Kaye, George North Tatham, Calem Haworth & William Manley): 'As the Subscriptions already received, fall short of the large impression (5000 Copies), needful to enable the Editors to offer the work at so exceedingly a reduced price, further applications may be made, as before, to...'

15863 Leeds printing JOHNSON, Samuel. RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINA; a tale. Leeds: Printed by B. Dewhirst, and sold by M. Marsden, and Co. 1814. 12mo, (170x102mm), ix,[1],237p. with the added engraved vignette title page, by Samuel Topham, and half-title, slightly browned throughout. Contemporary half calf, backstrip tooled in gilt and blind, black leather lettering piece with some very minor loss from one corner, joints and edges a little rubbed, marbled end-leaves and sprinkled edges. With the signature of J.P. Haswell, dated 1826, on the engraved title and a gift inscription on the half-title and again dated 1826, to his godson Joshia Cole Monkhouse, perhaps identifiable as the man who was later one of the prime movers in the construction of the Darlington – Barnard Castle railway and served as one of its first directors. £105.00
The third instance of Johnson's novel appearing from an English provincial printer, being preceded by Rusher of Banbury, who printed an edition in his 'patent types' in 1804, and Nuttal, Fisher & Dixon of Liverpool who printed the text, together with Voltaire's Zagid in a stereotype edition in ?1813. COPAC records only four copies, in the British Library, Bodleian Library, National Library of Scotland and York Minster Library of this rare provincial printing by Benjamin Dewhirst who worked in Leeds from 1800 (or a little before) until 1824. The handsome vignette title was engraved by another local man, Samuel Topham, engraver and copperplate printer of Kirkgate (fl. 1809-37), however, we can find no reference to the publisher, M. Marsden.

12822 Leeds printing NELSON, John. AN EXTRACT OF JOHN NELSON'S JOURNAL; being an account of God's dealing with his soul from his youth to the forty-second year of his age, and his working by him: likewise the oppressions he met with people of defferent [sic] denominations. [Abridged by John Wesley]. Leeds: printed by J[ames]. Bowling, in Boar-Lane, 1773. 12mo, (173x105mm), iv,140p. title page browned and torn horizontally, with two pieces missing resulting in some loss from four of the five lines of quotation thereon, mounted on toned Japanese tissue, some browning thereafter, most noticeably to the margins. Signature of May Johnson [of] Shipston, at the head of the title. Rebound in modern boards using Ruscombe Mill drab-olive archival cover paper. £95.00
A rare Methodist title of which ESTC records only a single copy (in NA) of this edition of a relatively early Leeds printing. Priced (below the imprint) at one shilling.

17971 Leeds printing SYMINGTON, John Alexander. THE BROTHERTON LIBRARY. A catalogue of the ancient manuscripts and early printed books collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield. [With an introduction by George Winship Parker]. Leeds: printed for private circulation, 1931. 4to, (294x230mm), xvi,301p. 187 illustrations (many full page). A good copy in original buckram, lettered and blocked in gilt, bookplate of C, Lacy Hulbert-Powell. £25.00
Printed in Leeds by Hunters Armley.

18118 Leicester printing BRITISH BOOKMAKER. BRITISH BOOKMAKER. VOLUME IV [containing numbers 37-48]: A journal for the book printer, the book illustrator, the book-cover designer, the book binder, librarians, and lovers of books generally. Edited by Robert Hilton. London: Raithby Lawrence July 1890 - June 1891. 4to, (245x183mm), [6, 484]p, numerous illustrations and 22 supplementary plates including 9 in two or more colours of which one is die-stamped (in the manner of William Griggs) in imitation of tooling, and another is a leaf of samples of Berry & Roberts gold veined marbled papers carrying 6 original samples. Contemporary cloth, corner tips and head and tail of the backstrip worn, bound by J. Low of Chancery Lane and carrying the bookplate of The Law Society, all the original printed wrappers and adverts present, £165.00
Printed in Leicester by Raithby Lawrence at the De Montford Press. A full volume of an important trade journal that in its first three volumes was published as The Bookbinder. After changing its name to The British Bookmaker (we once bought several volumes at an auction otherwise devoted to books on horse racing!) it became more concerned with trade matters and is now recognized as an important contemporary record of bookbinding history. After volume seven it was absorbed into The British Printer; however the volume offered here continues to be essentially directed towards the bookbinder, with technical and historic articles and notes, trade news, exhibition notes and other related intelligence.

8938 Leicester printing WHETTON, H. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN TYPOGRAPHY. A Guide to the City and Guilds Institute of London and H.M. Stationery Office Examinations. Third Edition, Leicester: Raithby, Lawrence, [1930?] 8vo, (184x125mm), [4],60p. (58-60 publisher's adverts). 2 illustrations (of imposition schemes). A very clean copy internally, in original printed stiff wrappers, very slightly soiled. £15.00

8206 Lindfield printing CHURCHMAN, John. AN ACCOUNT OF THE GOSPEL LABOURS AND CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCES. Friends' Library, consisting principally of journals and extracts from journals and other writings of Members of the Society of Friends, Vol. XI. Lindfield: Printed at the Schools of Industry, and sold by Longman & Co., ... Harvey and Darton, ...&c. 1835. 16mo, (127x92mm), x,342p. some slight internal browning but generally a clean copy in original pale buff linen, printed paper back label, the cloth covers faded and worn at the tail of the backstrip and corner tips, later endleaves. However, a somewhat better copy than it sounds of a reasonably early example of a provincial cloth binding. £36.00
Carrying the imprint W. Eade, Printer, Lindfield on the verso of the first title, and Printed by W. Eade, at the Schools of Industry, Lindfield, on the final text leaf.

18833 Liverpool printing BIBLE THE HOLY BIBLE: Containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Translation; with all the parallel texts and marginal readings. [Also containing the Apocrypha]. To which are added, notes and practical observations, designed to help to a correct understanding of the sacred writings. ...[with an] Introduction by Adam Clarke. Liverpool: Nuttall, Fisher, Dixon, and Gibson, 1813. Folio (425x270mm), [2],8,568,[2],869-1172,177p. Separate titles to the OT & NT present. 44 engraved plates - each within an ornate frame, the engraved title frayed at the edges and crudely mounted, the frontispiece bound to face Isaiah, 3 other plates torn. Some occasional spotting particularly to the engraved plates and the leaves surrounding them, and a stain in the gutter of the first 10 leaves. Contemporary calf, joints rubbed and head and tail of the backstrip worn, covers generally a bit rubbed. Front and rear covers panelled with two-line and single-line frames tooled in black, backstrip in 7 compartments with red leather lettering piece and blind ornaments in the others, marbled endleaves. A handsome large-print lectern Bible. (Herbert Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible1577) £125.00
An uncommon edition, we can find locate only 6 copies in the UK (of which three are incomplete). This 'Grand Folio Bible' was the first edition to contain Adam Clarke's introduction. Clarke, a famous Wesleyan preacher, was the best known author of the firm of Nuttall, Fisher, Dixon and Gibson. This partnership, formed in 1807 (when Nuttall had all but retired), was one of the first to issue publications in monthly or quarterly parts; illustrated Bibles, religious works and miscellaneous works of travel and literature were sold to subscribers by canvassers covering most of the northern counties of England. Although a fairly small number of books appeared under their imprint (three in 1813 - a fairly typical year - for instance) their widespread and imaginative selling methods built up a large and highly profitable business. This Bible appears to have been one of their parts issues, most plates are undated but while the few that are carry dates of 1811-12; while the frontispiece is dated 1813, as is the general title both of which were presuambly issued to subscribers when the various parts had been completed. The parts numbers are printed in the inner-tail margin of the various signatures showing the OT & NT to have appeared in 73 parts and the Apocrypha in 11.

6230 Liverpool printing GREEN, Thomas. MEMOIRS OF HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS CHARLOTTE-AUGUSTA of Wales and of Saxe-Cobourg; containing an account of her juvenile years, education, marriage with Prince Leopold, accouchement, death and funeral. To which is prefixed, a concise history of the illustrious House of Brunswick, brought down to the present time... Liverpool: Caxton Press, Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, [1818.] 8vo, 576p. engraved illustrated title and 10 engraved plates (dated 1818). browned throughout, the illustrated title heavily soiled with a repair-tape stain. Contemporary marbled calf, worn, both boards detached and the leather split down the spine. £25.00

17841 Liverpool printing TANSILLO, Luigi. THE NURSE, A POEM. Translated from the Italian of Luigi Tansillo. By William Roscoe. Second edition, Liverpool: printed by J. M'Creery, for Cadell and Davies, London, 1800. 8vo, (159x101mm), 90,[2],34p. wood-engraved vignette on the title & 4 wood-engravings in the text, lightly browned throughout. Contemporary marbled calf, front cover detached and a fragment of leather lacking from the head of the backstrip. £40.00

14310 Liverpool printing TANSILLO, Luigi. THE NURSE. A poem translated from the Italian by William Roscoe. Liverpool: printed by J. M'Creery, for Cadell and Davies, London, 1804. 8vo, (157x100mm), 89,[3],34p. (perhaps wanting a half-title), title vignette and 3 wood-engravings in the text. An attractive copy in contemporary light tan morocco, ornamental gilt border, backstrip lettered and tooled in gilt and slightly discoloured, and a little rubbed at the edges, bookplate. (Hugo Bewick collector 197) £85.00
The poem in set in parallel text on facing pages, with a delicate italic type for the Italian text and roman for the English. Translated and edited by William Roscoe who succeeds in combining in this volume both his love of Italian literature and his approval of breast-feeding. He retins many of the notes from Antonio Ranza's edition, to which he adds some of his own. Hugo notes that the engravings are frequently attributed to Thomas Bewick but believes that they should be correctly attributed to his apprentice Henry Hole who left Bewick's studio in 1801 and settled in Liverpool where he became a member of the Liverpool Academy.

19087 Luton printing COLEBROOK, Chris. &c WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY A SYMPOSIUM ON 21 YEARS. Chris Colebrook, Kenneth Day and Bernard Roberts. London: Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1978. 250 copies, 8vo, (212x133mm),16p. A fine copy in original stiff wrappers. £10.00
A symposium held at Stationers' Hall, London; printed at The Leagrave Press, Luton for presentation to members.

16532 Lymington printing ENFIELD, William. THE SPEAKER: OR, MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, selected from the best English writers, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. To which is prefixed, an essay on elocution. [Lymington printed] London: Published for the booksellers: and printed and sold by R. Galpine, Lymington. 1821. 12mo, (182x105mm), xxi,[1],396p. wood engraved frontispiece. Contemporary (?original) marbled sheep, a little rubbed head and tail of the backstrip, the joints, again at the head and tail, neatly strengthened with Japanese paper stained to match. £95.00
An extremely rare provincial printing of Enfield's long-running favourite, Copac records only the British Library copy of this edition. It is also an early example of printing from this Hampshire town; Estc records a 4 page pamphlet subjectively dated to [1795?] and seven books of varying sizes that appeared from the town before the end of the eighteenth century. Thereafter we can locate only one other book printed in Lymington before the appearance of that which we offer. Enfield's work was first published in 1774 and around sixty editions were to appear before 1860. It 'was probably the most widely used of all school anthologies. Forty-two years after its publication the Edgeworths could say, rather loftily, "we are informed that this is an established school-book, and we see in private families that it is in everybody's hands." ' (Michael The teaching of English). This present edition, which does include the author's Essay on elocution, does not contain his essay: On reading works of taste, which seems to have fallen out of favour in editions after about 1799.

1564 Malton printing WRANGHAM, Francis. THE ENGLISH PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE VEN. FRANCIS WRANGHAM; ARCHDEACON OF CLEVELAND. 'Only Seventy Copies - Unpublished.' Malton: Printed by R. Smitherson ... in Yorkersgate, 1826. 8vo in 4s, (222x140mm), [10],646p. 2 wood-engravings in the text (attributed by Hugo to Thomas Bewick). A handsome, untrimmed and partly unopened copy with some very slight spotting; a later engraving of Hunmanby Church laid down on the verso of the front free endleaf. Bound in 20th century canvas retaining the earlier leather lettering piece on the backstrip and the earlier marbled paper endleaves. A pencilled note on the front free verso states 'Original boards, recovered.' (Sadleir 63) £350.00
Extremely rare. 'Wrangham was not a rich man. Yet he contrived to indulge his passion for books, to secure what he wanted, and to revel in its possession. This he did by going after his own taste, and only following the taste of the day when it happened to coincide with his own. The result was that he rescued hundreds of interesting books from oblivion - many at very low cost - and, by studying and cataloguing them, registered their interest for always. No greater service than this can be rendered by a collector to his age and to posterity ... Wrangham's collecting-methods may have seemed trivial and whimsical at the time, but the spirit of the future was in him.' (Michael Sadleir, Archdeacon Francis Wrangham p49) The catalogue is more than a mere listing of his collection. It is extensively annotated by him with what are often quite lengthy comments on the contents of his books, their value as works of scholarship, and other points of interest to, and opinions of, Wrangham. It is indeed an insight into the man, the breadth of his learning, and his opinions.

12804 Manchester printing LADY, A. NOTES ON ENGLISH HISTORY. Manchester: John Heywood, [c.1870]. 16mo, (165x104mm), 29p. +3p publisher's adverts. Some slight soiling and some fragmentary loss from the head of the title page. Original printed wrappers, spotted and with some loss from the front cover. Preserved in a custom made binders' cloth envelope chemise. £45.00
A rare little guide to the main points in English history that concludes with the Second Reform Bill of 1869. The section on wars (both internal and external) gives the cause and results and suggests that the 'Lady' was decidedly in the Parliamentary camp over the English Civil Wars.

8541 Manchester printing MANCHESTER LIBRARY. [SOUVENIR COTTON KERCHIEF] JULY 17th 1934 SOUVENIR OF THE OPENING OF THE NEW LIBRARY MANCHESTER BY HIS MAJESTY THE KING. [Manchester: no imprint] 1934. (300x310mm), printed in blue on a fine cotton lawn, with roundel portraits of the King and Queen, an open book with an elevation of the front of the library, Coat of Arms, &c. all within a frame. A small instance of soiling towards one corner (surely no one would use such a thing!) otherwise a very good copy. £50.00
Typically Mancunian, everyone else when they go in for such printed memorabilia use handmade paper, vellum, or silk; Manchester, proud of its long tradition as the centre of the British cotton industry, uses its 'native' fabric.

13307 Manchester printing PRESTWICH, A. THE YOUNG MAN'S ASSISTANT TO COTTON SPINNING, &c. (Enlarged and illustrated) containing a collection of useful calculations in connection with cotton spinning, &c. practically explained and worked out by both figures and by slide rule... [Third edition], Manchester: John Heywood, [1892.] 8vo, (185x124mm), 168p. +12p. trade adverts, including the endleaves. Original cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt and black, joints and corners rubbed. £12.00
Printed in Manchester by Heywood, dating of this edition is taken from the advertisements.

18279 Manchester printing THOMSON, W[illia]m. THE SIZING OF COTTON GOODS and the causes and prevention of mildew. Second Edition, Manchester: John Heywood, 1879. 8vo, (220x138mm), x,258,xp. +viiip. trade adverts. 58 plates & text illustrations (several folding). Original green sand-grain cloth, blocked in blind, stitching slightly shaken. £25.00
Printed in Manchester at Heywood's printing works.

8682 Manchester printing WALKINGAME, Francis. THE TUTOR'S ASSISTANT; being a compendium of arithmetic, and a complete question book… To which are added a new and very short method of extracting the cube root… [Manchester Printed] London, Published by all the Booksellers. Printed & Sold by R. & W. Dean, Market-street, Manchester. [1815?] 12mo, (175x105 mm), viii,192p, finger-soiled throughout (this has received more attention than my maths textbooks did!) Original sheep, front joint split, perhaps lacking a front free endleaf. Signatures of Robt Lloyd (two versions in different hands) on the title one with Marquis [?] added beneath, and on the recto of the rear free endleaf Sarah Lloyd her Book 1831 (again two versions, one in an unformed hand) and Elizabeth Hayes and Hannah Hayes Was Born (WAS born! Mr Hayes needed a grammar not an arithmetic) July 19 of C R. Hayes 1875. £40.00
Advertised on the title as 'price Two Shillings Bound.' The conviction with which we state `original calf' above - as opposed to our usual and more cautious 'Contemporary ?original' - is based in part on this advertised price and partly on the presence of a printed page of `Arithmetical Tables' within a wavy rule frame, which constitutes the front pastedown endleaf. A popular maths textbook, if that is not a contradiction of terms, which saw thirty or so editions in the second half of the 18th century, mainly London but also provincial printings from Birmingham, Gainsborough, Manchester (1794), Uttoxeter and York. Many more editions were to follow in the 19th century including printings in Toronto and Montreal.

15203 Marlborough printing ASPINALL, James. [EDWARDIAN PARLOUR GAME] ASPINALL'S CARD FOR AMUSEMENT, INSTRUCTION, AND SOCIAL PASTIME. Middlesbrough: Burnett and Hood, printers, [1905?] (154x114mm), comprising a title and master list, a leaf of instructions (as clear and helpful as a computer 'help' option!) and 6 cards each carrying a number of quotations. The whole contained within a worn blue paper envelope. £65.00
A nice example of a provincially printed Edwardian parlour game, requiring the players to select quotations from their card and see how many appear on other's cards – or some such. Doubtless in an age before ipods and other modern twaddle this caused hours of amusing fun to our poor benighted ancestors.

15143 Marlborough printing LITTLECOTE ESTATE, Hungerford, Wiltshire. LITTLECOTE ESTATE TIMBER SALE. TO BE OFFERED FOR SALE BY TENDER, nearly 800 timber trees, as marked by Mr. W.E.Baverstock, surveyor, Marlborough, situate on the Littlecote estate, in the county of Wilts, and comprising some fine oak of good dimensions, superior long ash, and some excellent elm and beech of average meteings... Marlborough: printed at the "Times" Office, January, 1887. 8vo, (220x139mm), [4]p. Fine. £15.00

15144 Marlborough printing LITTLECOTE ESTATE, Hungerford, Wiltshire. LITTLECOTE ESTATE TIMBER SALE. TO BE OFFERED FOR SALE BY TENDER, 478 timber trees, as marked by Mr. W.E.Baverstock, surveyor, Marlborough, situate on the Littlecote estate, in the county of Wilts, and comprising some fine oak, long ash, and good beech... Marlborough: printed at the "Times" Office, December, 1890. 8vo, (220x139mm), [4]p. Fine. £15.00
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15142 Marlborough printing WOOTTON RIVERS, Pewsey, Wiltshire WOOTTON RIVERS, NEAR PEWSEY, & BURBAGE, WILTSHIRE CATALOGUE OF OAK, ASH, AND ELM TIMBER, with the lop, top, and bark, to be sold by auction by Mr. Westall on Tuesday, the 20th day of January, 1863... at the Royal Oak Inn, Wootton Rivers... Marlborough: A. Emberlin, printer, 1863. 8vo, single leaf, (155x115mm), printed verso and recto on a single sheet of thin card. £20.00

15145 Newcastle printing BALLAD. A BALLAD FOR THE TIMES. THE OLD PARISHIONER & THE MODERN PARSON. No place or imprint but ?Newcastle upon Tyne, 1855? 4to, single leaf, (222x157mm), set in two columns and slightly frayed at the edges. £15.00
"Why, John, I haven't seen your face In church for weeks, I know." "No, Sir, its such a queerish place, - when its restored I'll go."... An amusing ballad gently poking fun at the Anglo-Catholic decoration of the high church, regretting the 'improvements' and embellishments to a parish church and requesting the restoration of a purer Anglican tradition.

15496 Newcastle printing CHAPBOOK. [GRAHAM, Dougal, [also] Robert ANDERSON.] THE WITTY AND ENTERTAINING EXPLOITS OF GEORGE BUCHANAN commonly called the king's fool. To which is added, Daft Watty's ramble to Carlisle. Newcastle-on-Tyne: W.R. Walker, Royal Arcade, [185?] 12mo, (155x96mm), 24p. (including wrappers), 4 woodcuts, the first page of text trimmed close with some loss from the last line of text on the recto. A good copy in original self wrappers, sometime disbound. £40.00
The first named title by Dougal Graham, a noted Scottish chapbook writer; the second by Robert Anderson, a noted Cumbrian dialect poet, however Sparke (Bibliography of the dialect literature of Cumberland and Westmorland...) does not record any separate issues of Daft Watty, which first appeared in chapbook form in the second decade of the 19th century from another Newcastle printer. Dating is based on the printer, William Reay Walker, who was at 7 Arcade, Newcastle between 1856 and 1861.

16396 Newcastle printing DICKENS, Charles THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. [Newcastle printed] London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., [1884.] 8vo, (190x124mm), 451p. +[14]p publisher's adverts, 5 plates. Original cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt, slightly dulled and the textblock a little shaken. Publisher's advert. leaf for their Union Library tipped on to the first text leaf. £15.00
Printed in Newcastle upon Tyne

12645 Newcastle printing DODS, Madeleine Hope [Editor]. THE REGISTER OF FREEMEN OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE From the corporation guild and admission books chiefly of the seventeenth century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumberland Press for the Newcastle upon Tyne Records Committee, 1923. 8vo, (212x135mm), xiii,[3],243p. A slightly spotted ex-library copy in original cloth, covers faded. £35.00

15147 Newcastle printing HORSLEY, Jas. GEORDIE'S JUBILEE ODE. Newcastle upon Tyne: Allan, Brackett Street..., 1887. Sm.folio single leaf, (250x176mm), printed in brown within an single line border with ornate corner ornaments, on buff paper, slightly soiled. £18.00
Dialect verse in praise of 'wor Empress-Queen se grand' on Queen Victoria's jubilee.

9844 Newcastle printing NEWCASTLE POCKET BOOK. THE NEWCASTLE POCKET-BOOK: OR GENTLEMAN AND LADY'S COMPLEAT JOURNAL FOR THE YEAR MDCCVII [sic actually 1767]. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by I Thompson, and sold by W. Charnley… [1766]. 8vo in 4s, (160x100mm), [10], [63], [44]p. the final 2 leaves folding. Lacking at least one leaf of printed introductory matter and containing only 63 diary pages - lacking all before April 18 & several thereafter. The diary leaves unused apart from one excised entry. Original wallet binding in sheep, rubbed but sound, previous owner's signatures on the front pastedown endleaf. £215.00
Exceedingly rare, we can locate no entry under this title in any of the usual places. Thompson did print a Newcastle Memorandum-Book for Thomas Slack which first appeared in 1754, and several editions under that title are in the Newcastle City Library, while ESTC records a couple of other editions. The contents include a chronological list of remarkable occurrences from October 1765 to November 1766; a list of fairs in the six North of England counties and the principal fairs in Scotland; a table of roads; list of carriers, and a list of the horse races in the North and Newmarket for 1765 with what appears to be a list of all placed horses up to eight runners. The diary pages have daily spaces (a week to view) for memoranda and appointments on the recto leaf with accounts of cash (column ruled) on the facing verso.

10719 Newcastle printing NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE EXTRACTS FROM THE MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTS OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. Newcastle: printed by M.A. Richardson, 1848. 100 copies. 8vo, (200x128mm), 123p. the title, colophon and introduction leaves printed in black, red & blue with a two colour decorated initial at the start of the text. Original printed wrappers, these a little soiled and frayed at the edges. £25.00
Number LXVII [of] Reprints of rare tracts & imprints of antient manuscripts.

14093 Northampton printing BALLAD. UPON THOSE MOUNTAINS HIGH. [with] LOVELY NIGHT. Northampton: Henson, printer, &c., 81, Bridge Street, [1840?] 4to single sheet, (250x190mm), set in two columns. A good copy. £40.00
The first named song, here of 56 lines, runs over into the second column and recounts a version of the tale of Reynardine, sometimes known as Randal Rhine, and here called Roynel Doine. It retains the traditional euphemism for his sexual intercourse with the fainted damsel: 'I had not kissed her once or twice, when she came to again.' However, the location of the tale in the Transylvanian-sounding 'Pomisa' mountains with the more or less obligatory castle 'in yonder forest', lends support to the theory, posited by Buffy St Marie, that the subtext of this song may be traced back to traditional middle-European vampire tales.

14074 Norwich printing [SPILLING, James.] GILES'S TRIP TO LONDON: a farm labourer's first peep at the world. Edited by The Village Schoolmaster. Reprinted from the "Eastern Daily Press," with additions and notes as in the "Ipswich and Colchester Times." Twenty-fifth edition, Norwich: Printed at the offices of the "Daily Press," and sold for the author by Jarrold and Sons,... London, [1870?] 12mo, (156x102mm), 103p. very lightly browned throughout. Modern quarter binders' cloth, previous owner's signature, dated 1872, at the head of the title. £25.00
An immensely popular local dialect work which had reached a 58th edition (239 thousand) by 1903 and was still going strong in 1919. That said, we can locate only a handful of copies on COPAC and none earlier than the 28th edition, which is dated [1872].

13592 Nottingham printing GERRING, Charles. NOTES ON PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS. With a chapter on chap books. [Nottingham printed] London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.; Nottingham: Frank Murray, 1900. 8vo, (225x140mm), xii,119p. 56 illustrations with rubber stamps in the margins. An ex-library copy in half morocco, cloth sides, joints and corner tips very lightly rubbed. £75.00
Printed in Nottingham by W.B.Cooke: the Thoroton Press.

18482 Nottingham printing [WALTON, Ronald G.] PRINTING IN NOTTINGHAM SINCE CAXTON. Quincentenary commemorative brochure 1476-1976. Nottingham: Nottingham Printing Industries Association, 1976. 8vo, (240x178mm); 16p. 27 illustrations. A good copy in original stiff wrappers. £5.00

18305 Otley printing WALKER, William. WALKER'S OLD MOORE'S ALMANAC 1937. Incorporating Roberts' edition. Otley: William Walker, [1936]. 8vo, (192x134mm), [24p]. Original wrappers, a little soiled, staples removed (leaving small stains) and replaced with binders' thread. £10.00

14422 Oxford printing BRYAN, George Printer of Oxford. [INVOICE HEAD] AN UNUSED COLOUR-PRINTED INVOICE FOR GEO. BRYAN AND Co. Artistic and general printers. Oxford: Geo. Bryan & Co., 18 Cornmarket Street, [late 1920s]. Single sheet (270x210mm), printed in red and green at the head, with ledger ruling in blue. Very slightly spotted at the head and sometime folded with a slight horizontal crease. £10.00
A nice late example of restrained 'Artistic Printing', a movement at its height in the 1880s and 1890s, in this piece the printers name in two-colour capitals is printed over a light toned device of multiple motifs.

13925 Paisley printing LOVE, William. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM LOVE, P.C. A native of Paisley, better known as the Roving Scotchman, the greatest traveller alive! having already walked more than six times round the earth!! Containing an account of his birth, parentage, and education, travels to remarkable places, love adventures, opinions on things in general, with philosophical remarks on particular subjects. Paisley: printed by G. Caldwell 2, New Street, 1857. 12mo, (154x93mm), 56p. frontispiece, some spotting. Modern binders' boards. £85.00
An amusing autobiography by a pseudonymous Scots chapman.

18544 Paisley printing. RODGER, Alexander (Editor). WHISTLE-BINKIE; or, the piper of the partly: being a collection of songs for the social circle. Chiefly original. Fifth series, third thousand, Glasgow: David Robertson, 1853. Cr.8vo, (122x80mm), 128p. facsimile signatures of the authors throughout. Original printed wrappers (detached), these somewhat spotted but the text is clean throughout. £30.00
Stereotyped and printed in Paisley by Neilson & Murray.

12581 Penrith Printing DENT, Reginald T. TEN SHORT POEMS. Penrith: R. Scott, printer, "Observer" Office, [1915]. Cr. 8vo, (173x130mm), 15p. Original stiff wrappers, sewn with red ribbon. £12.00

16448 Penrith printing APPLEBY - Hotel & Posting House Auction. MESSRS. THORNBORROW & CO. WILL OFFER FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION THE VALUABLE HOTEL & POSTING HOUSE KNOWN AS THE KING'S HEAD HOTEL with the tap room, stabling, and out-offices, and building and accommodation lands in and near Appleby, in Westmorland, at the King's Head Hotel, Appleby, on Saturday, the 19th day of November, [Penrith printed] London: Ellis & Ellis solicitors; Penrith: Little & Lamonby, solicitors, 1898. Folio, (458x285mm), [4]p. Foredge very slightly frayed and the last page dust-soiled. £20.00
Printed at the "Times" Printing Co., Penrith; contains details of the 8 lots of buildings and lands relating to the hotel followed by lengthy 'general conditions of sale.'

12583 Penrith printing JACKSON, John. REBELLION. A historical play in 3 acts dealing with the history of Penrith in the Forty-Five rebellion. Penrith: Penrith Observer, [1933?] 8vo (215x142mm), 48p. Original printers wrappers, edges slightly discoloured. £15.00
First performed by the Penrith Players in April 1933.

16279 Penrith printing SCOTT, Daniel. DESCRIPTION OF APPLEBY CASTLE AND CAESAR'S TOWER. Penrith: R. Scott Printer, Observer Office, 1897. 8vo, (184x125mm), 16p. some spotting. Original printed wrappers. £25.00
Set newspaper column width and presumably from issues of the Penrith Observer of October 1897.

12582 Penrith printing SCOTT, Daniel. SOME LOCAL AND OTHER EPITAPHS. Kirkyard humour and curiosities. Penrith: printed by R. Scott, "Observer" Office, 1899. 8vo (216x142mm), 11p. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled. £15.00
A reprint of two articles that appeared in the Penrith Observer in June 1899; the text retains the column width of the original newspaper settings.

16278 Penrith printing [DOCKER, Margaret? Editor.] THE COMBAT OF SIR MUSGRAVE AND THE BARON: a ballad of the north countrie, devised long ago, and now first imprinted and set forth, from the portfolio of an ancient druid. [Penrith?] Privately printed, [1850?] 8vo, (182x110mm), [4[,19p. frontispiece. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled in the head-forecorner and some creased vertically. £45.00
Signature of Miss Margaret Docker, Newby Head House, via Penrith on the front cover and on the rear: 'Reprint it if you like, then return to me. No Hurry, M.D.'

16277 Penrith printing [SCOTT, Daniel.] THE MILL AND ITS STORY. [and] An abduction and a Gretna Green wedding. Penrith: Penrith Observer, 1898. 8vo, (183x117mm), 16p. Original printed wrappers, slightly dust-soiled. £15.00
Two articles of local interest reprinted from the Penrith Observer of 19 April and 7 June 1898, and still set in newspaper column width, signed under Scott's pseudonym of Northerner.

16419 Preston printing BULMER T.F. HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY OF EAST CUMBERLAND, comprising its ancient and modern history; a general view of its physical features: agricultural condition, mines and minerals; trade, commerce and manufactures: statistics, &c. &c. Manchester: T. Bulmer, 1884. 8vo, (220x140mm), 700p.+xviip adverts. large folding hand-coloured map, torn on one fold, the stitching slightly shaken. Original blind blocked cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, slightly spotted. (Shaw & Tipper, British directories 300) £75.00
Printed in Preston by T. Snape & Co., Church Street.

13559 Preston printing BULMER, T. HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY OF WEST CUMBERLAND, comprising its ancient and modern history; a general view of its physical features; geological character, mines and minerals; trade, commerce and manufactures; statistics, &c. &c. Preston: printed for the proprietors by T. Snape, 1883. 8vo (215x136mm), 679p. +xxivp adverts, Original cloth, cover spotted and the cloth with some slight wear at the edges, rebacked preserving the original backstrip and pastedown endleaves (carrying adverts). (Shaw & Tipper British directories 2990) £50.00
Printed in Preston by T. Snape, Church Street and Bolton's Court.

16420 Preston printing BULMER, T. [F.] HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY OF WEST CUMBERLAND, comprising its ancient and modern history; a general view of its physical features; geological character, mines and minerals; trade, commerce and manufactures; statistics, &c. &c. Preston: Printed for the Proprietors by T. Snape, 1883. 8vo, (218x138mm), 679p. +xxivp adverts, large folding hand-coloured map, small tear on one fold. Original green blind blocked cloth, very slightly spotted. (Shaw & Tipper, British directories 990) £65.00
Printed in Preston by T. Snape, Church Street and Bolton's Court.

13410 Salisbury printing TURNER, R. AN EASY INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTS AND SCIENCES: being a short, but comprehensive system of useful and polite learning. Divided into lessons. Twelfth edition, [Salisbury printed] London: printed for J. Johnson, F . and C. Rivington, [and five others], 1807. 12mo, (143x90mm), x,[1],273,[1],[2]p. half title present, 3 engraved plates & 45 wood-engravings in the text; some finger-soiling throughout and a few leaves slightly frayed at the edges, a small piece torn (with very slight textual loss) from the tail-fore corner of R1. Contemporary (?original) marbled sheep, joints and edges worn and with slight loss of leather from the head and tail of the backstrip. Signature of Margaret Wright 11th Sept. 1809 on the front free endleaf. £100.00
Printed in Salisbury by Benjamin Charles Collins, with his imprint on the verso of the half-title (as Sarum) and on the final verso (as Salisbury). This final advertisement page is of interest as not only being conjugate with 2A1 but also for carrying an announcement; `This day is published, a new edition to universal geography...' and carrying a full list of the London conger. The text presents a compendium of useful knowledge in question and answer form, with wood-engravings illustrating the mythology and natural history sections. One cannot escape the suspicion that this latter section is drawn, at least in part, from Thomas Boreman's Description of more than 300 animals.

13329 Sheffield printing AUSTEN, John. HISTORICAL NOTES ON OLD SHEFFIELD DRUGGISTS. Also including a supplement containing an account of the John Austen Collection by Agnes Lothian, and a short memoir of the author by J.M. & D. Austen. Sheffield: J.W. Northend, 1961. 8vo (248x152mm), xviii,116p. illustrations. A good copy in original cloth. £20.00

17817 Shefford printing CHAPBOOK THE NOBLE AND RENOWNED HISTORY OF GUY EARL OF WARWICK, containing a full and true account of his many famous and valiant actions, remarkable and brave exploits, and noble and renowned victories. Shefford: printed by Charles Stafford, 1841. 8vo, (183x110mm), 24p. folding, hand-coloured etched frontispiece carrying five images. Faint pencilled excision through 'full and true' on the title-page. Original printed wrappers, a small piece of the front wrapper lacking at the tail-fore corner, and the rear wrapper, creased and a little torn. £85.00
An extremely rare edition of a popular and long-standing chapbook favourite. We can locate no other copies at all of this Bedfordshire printed edition.

18652 St Helens printing BEECHAM, Thomas. BEECHAM'S HELP TO SCHOLARS. New and enlarged edition containing arithmetical tables and signs, weights and measures, tables of the metric system, geographical & drawing definitions. St Helens: Thos. Beecham, November, 1900. Cr.8vo, (140x108mm), 16p. slightly soiled, creased, and with some pencilled marginalia. Original printed wrappers, a little soiled and worn. £20.00
A handy guide for school children, first issued by Beecham's Pills in July 1889 and claimed to have reached 15 million copies by this edition appeared. The back page advertisement re-states the firm's famous advertising claim that their product is 'Worth a guinea a box.'

15381 Stirling printing WRIGHT, Joseph. YE'RE A' WELCOME HAME. Tune: The auld house. Stirling: Drummond's Tract Depot, [1870.] Single leaf (112x73mm), printed on both sides on off-white paper, the text set within a thin rule border with corner ornaments. A fragment of paper missing from one edge. £25.00
Stirling leaflets no. 79.

19046 Stratford on Avon printing JAGGARD, W. SHAKESPEARE ONCE A PRINTER AND BOOKMAN. Lecture one of the twelfth series of printing trade lectures at Stationers' Hall, London... October, 1933. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Press, [1933.] 500 copies, 4to, (272x220mm), [4],34p. 4 plates printed on jap vellum. Original quarter cloth, printed paper sides slightly soiled. £20.00

17819 Stratford on Avon printing MEDWIN, Thomas Rae. SERMONS PREACHED AT THE CHAPEL OF THE GUILD OF THE HOLY CROSS, Stratford-upon-Avon. [Stratford printing] London: G. Bell. Oxford: J.H. Parker. Stratford-upon-Avon: F. & E. Ward, 1851. 8vo, (177x110mm), [2],239,[1]p. Engraved frontispiece of the Guild Chapel and Grammar School at Stratford. Original blind-blocked cloth, slightly discoloured and a little soiled, backstrip worn at the head and tail. Author's presentation inscription to F.C. Pritchard, dated May 1868, on the front pastedown endleaf, and later bookplate. (Morgan Printing & publishing in Warwickshire p63) £45.00
Copac locates only the British Library copy of this title.

16541 Trefriw printing EVANS, Evan. LLYTHYR ODDIWRTH Y PARCHEDIG EVAN EVANS, (Gynt o Lanrwst) a Anfonwyd o Affrica, at Eglwys y Methodistiaid Calfinistnidd, yn Llanrwst. At yr hwn y chwanegwyd Rhan o'i Lythyr at ei Riene yn cynnwys talfyriad o Bregeth un o'r Hottentotaid. Trefriw: Argraphwyd gan J. Jones. [1818.] 12mo, (176x108mm), 16p. browned, the title rather soiled. Disbound. £45.00

16542 Trefriw printing JONES, Robert. LLEFERYDD YR ASYN ER GWAHARDD YNFYDRWYDD Y PROPHWYD SEF, COPI O LYTHYR a anfonodd wr Urddaslo [i.e. Zaccheus Hughes], a anfonodd er was i Aflonyddu Addoliad Crefyddol ar Ddydd yr Arglwydd... Trefriw: Argraffwyd gan J. Jones, 1819. 12mo, (176x108mm), 36p. a little browned throughout. Disbound. £35.00

16536 Trefriw printing PARRY, John. MYFYRDOD MEWN MYNWENT. Trefriw: Argraffwyd gan I. Davies, 1814. 12mo, (176x107mm), 16p. slightly soiled. Modern binders' boards. £30.00

18424 Wakefield printing [SHERWOOD, Mary Martha.] THE LITTLE WOODMAN, and his dog Caesar; with other interesting stories. London & Wakefield: W. Nicholson & Sons, [1900?] 8vo, (168x133mm), 158p. +2p publisher's adverts, wood engraved frontispiece, title vignette and several text illustrations. Original cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, joints slightly rubbed, bookplate removed from the front free endleaf; a gift inscription, from Myrtle Point, Oregon dated 1905, on the front free endleaf. £25.00
'To inculcate sound religious belief painlessly The little woodman, a tale for the very young of all classes, could hardly have been bettered and, outlasting for generations similar tracts, it remained in print into the twentieth century. Seldom has so much essential tract material been so sensationally presented for children.' (Nancy Cutt, Mrs. Sherwood and her books for children.)

17813 Warwick imprint LANEHAM, Robert. LANEHAM'S LETTER DESCRIBING THE MAGNIFICENT PAGEANTS PRESENTED BEFORE QUEEN ELIZABETH AT KENILWORTH CASTLE IN 1575; repeatedly referred to in the romance of Kenilworth; with an introductory preface, glossarial and explanatory notes. Warwick and Leamington: John Merridew, 1824 8vo, (187x118mm), xviii,104p. wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth I with an aquatint engraving of Kenilworth Castle by J. Bailey after Maria Johnson; near-contemporary half purple calf, marbled paper sides, backstrip rather faded and worn at the head. (Unrecorded in Morgan Printing and Publishing in Warwickshire ) £115.00
Copac locates only two copies of this provincially published edition. Laneham - described by F.J. Furnival as a 'coxcomb... a most amusing, self-satisfied, rollicking chap' - provides the reader with a view of a world 'permeated with images derived from books of chivalry.' The text provided a major source for Scott's Kenilworth and Laneham himself received a minor role in the romance. Pages 36-8 contain a list of ballads and romances from the collection of his friend Captain Cox of Coventry. Despite the Warwickshire imprint, this edition was printed in London by S. & R. Bentley who also printed the 1821 London edition.

15266 Warwick imprint TWIGGER, H. THE HISTORY OF GUY'S CLIFFE and the old Saxon mill, with poems. Warwick: H. Twigger, [1920s] Cr.8vo, (150x125mm), 9p. pencilled circles on the final blank. Original printed wrappers, a little soiled. £12.00
A small guide book to this Warwick building - complete with dire threats against those who make 'damaging statements' about the publisher.

16148 Weybridge printing STERNE, Laurence. THE LIFE AN OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN. [Weybridge printed] London: printed for Walker and Edwards; [and 16 other named London booksellers], 1817. 12mo, (142x76mm), [4],604p. +2p publisher's adverts, engraved frontispiece and vignette title. Untrimmed in original printed boards, rather worn at the edges, lacking the backstip. £45.00
Printed in Weybridge by S. Hamilton. An early nineteenth century example of relatively cheap print, in this case set in a small typesize and bound in paper-covered boards, the rear cover carries a priced list of Walker's British Classics series which reflects that present after the conclusion of the text. The prices for books in the series range from one shilling for Falconer's Shipwreck to one guinea for Peter Pindar's Works in 4 volumes.

1687 Whitby printing SUTCLIFFE, Irene & Brenda H. ENGLISH. STILL MORE RHYMES FROM A YORKSHIRE VILLAGE. Whitby: Horne & Sons, 1934. 4to, (252x187mm), [32]p. 9 woodcuts by Irene Sutcliffe. Original illustrated wrappers, edges slightly frayed. £20.00
Dialect verse, with a glossary.

16648 Windsor printing GRIFFIN, George [pseud. ie: George Canning & others.] THE MICROCOSM, A PERIODICAL WORK, ... of the College of Eton. Inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Davies. Third edition, Volume 2 only [of 2], Windsor, Published for C. Knights... and sold by Robinson.... and Debrett, London, 1790. 12mo, (175x100mm), x,228p. slightly browned throughout. Contemporary sprinkled calf, very worn and the backstrip largely lacking, bookplate of the Gibraltar Garrison Library. £45.00
The pseudonym of the author covers the writings of George Canning, Charles Ellis, Hookham Frere, and John and Robert Smith. This volume includes an essay on 'Mr. Newbery's little books, recommended in preference to novels.'

17832 Woking printing HOFLAND, Mrs [Barbara]. THE YOUNG CADET. New edition, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., [1855.] 12mo, (165x102mm), xii,166p. Engraved frontispiece and title-page, some spotting. Original blue diagonal wave-grain cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, joints and edges rubbed, modern bookplate £40.00
Printed in Woking by J. Billing, The Young Cadet is couched in the form of a journal which provides a vehicle for Hofland to describe Indian manners, places, habits, beliefs, and so on and in so doing to justify the British presence there. There is no story as such, but there are many enlivening, exciting episodes. Overall, the book is a successful attempt to add a measure of enjoyment to the traditional geographical and historical text-book. In this edition, which is unlocated on Copac, a new address to the reader, dated 1836, notes that the account the Burmese war has been omitted as althought topical at the time of its original publication in 1827, interest had declined. Hofland also confesses to have borrowed heavily from Emma Roberts' Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan.

17840 Worcester printing GRIFFITH, George. RIBBESFORD AND OTHER POEMS. [Second edition], Worcester: printed for the author by Parry & Co. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1859. 8vo, (199x126mm), [6],270p. some light spotting of the tiel and the paper lightly discoloured throughout. Original blind-blocked bead-grain cloth, rebacked, some fading, backstrip worn at the head and tail, bookplate. £40.00
An uncommon example of English provincial verse, Copac locating only five copies of the three editions that appeared and only the BL copy of this edition. The author's notes are appended to many of the poems.

16281 Workington printing GREENUP, Gwordie [ie Stanley MARTIN.] CUMBRIAN RHYMES, a series of stories & scraps in dialect verse. Workington: printed and published by George Suart, 1876. 8vo, (208x134mm), 24p. Original printed wrappers, soiled, and worn at the spine. £40.00
The inside of the front wrappers carrying an advertisement for the printer with the range of services offered, the rear wrapper, both inside and out, carrying local commercial adverts.

15992 Wrexham printing KEMPIS, Thomas A. PATTRWN Y GWIR-GRISTION: nwu ddiliyniad Iesu Grist. A 'scrifenwyd gynta' yn Lladin. Ngwrecsam [Wrexham]: R. Marsh, 1775. 8vo, (155x97mm), vi,265p. browned throughout, text block loose in contemporary sheep, joints and edges rubbed. £80.00
A rare Welsh-language edition of the Imitato Christi, a copy of this edition is in the National Library of Wales; however, there is no record on Estc which offers only one Eighteenth-century Welsh edition subjectively dated to 1768 which itself is located in only a single copy.

17818 Yeovil Printing, Axminster imprint PSALMS 1809. PORTIONS OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, together with appropriate anthems and hymns, accommodated to the services of the Church of England, on Sundays and other holy seasons of public worship, and selected for the use of the parish church of Axminster in the county of Devon. Second edition, with additions. Yeovil: printed by J. King, in the market-Place, and sold by the clerk of the parish church of Axminster, 1809. 8vo, (144x92mm), [2],114,[5]p. some slight soiling, with occasional pencil and ink annotations to one leaf towards the end. Modern paste paper covered boards. £80.00
Rare, we are able to locate only the British Library of this provincially printed Psalms which, perhaps surprisingly, was printed in Somerset for the use of a Devonshire church.

16126 York printing COOK, Thomas. THE UNIVERSAL LETTER-WRITER: or, new art of polite correspondence. Containing a course of interesting original letters, on the most instructive, and entertaining subjects. [York printed] London: printed for A, Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater; and for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York, 1796. 8vo, (168x105mm), 228p. Engraved frontispiece by Darton & Harvey. Contemporary (?original) sheep, worn and with some loss of leather from the edges. £100.00
A rare edition of this title (ESTC locates only two copies) of a typical false imprint from the York firm of Wilson, Spence and Mawman. In this instance they have included both of their apparently preferred methods of giving their books spurious London imprints by including in the imprint well-known or respected members of the London trade with whom they had no connection and who were either long-dead or to whom they gave false initials, in this instance Andrew Miller (arguably the bete noir of the provincial book trade) had died in 1768, and William Law in c.1779, while R. Cater is utterly fictitious and is probably aimed at William Cater who died in or about 1776.

13470 York printing MURRAY, Lindley. ENGLISH GRAMMAR, adapted to the different classes of learners. With an appendix, containing rules and observations, for assisting the more advanced students to write with perspicuity and accuracy. Thirty-second edition, York: printed by Thomas Wilson & Sons for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown and for Darton and Harvey, London: Wilson and Sons, York, 1819. 8vo, (180x105mm), 348p. some spotting. Modern binders' quarter buckram. (Darton, The Dartons G678(31)) £70.00
Rare, Darton recorded that he had been unable to locate a copy of this edition, a statement supported by a search of COPAC which records four UK locations, but all for an microfilm copies of American editions of the same year. Given that Murray was the most important grammarian writing at the time and that his books were reprinted more or less annually until the middle of the century, the survival rate of copies is remarkable small.

12824 York printing WALKINGAME, Francis. THE TUTOR'S ASSISTANT; being a compendium of arithmetic, and a complete question-book... A new edition, corrected, and every question worked anew, by T.Crosby. York: printed by and for Thomas Wright and Sons, in High-Ousegate, 1818. 12mo in 6s, (171x104mm), 192p. engraved folding frontispiece, the text browned and spotted throughout. Contemporary (?original) sheep, worn, the front joint split. Two early signatures, of Alice Hewlle and Anna Huntley on the front pastedown endleaf. £35.00
A York printing of a popular maths textbook, which saw thirty or so editions in the second half of the 18th century, mainly from London but also provincial printings from Birmingham, Gainsborough, Manchester, Uttoxeter and York. Many more editions were to follow in the 19th century including printings in Toronto and Montreal.