Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 308
308. Marshall (John) th e life o f ge o r g e wa s h i n g t o n, 5 vol., 15
engraved maps and plates, most folding, and one vignette, some
soiling and offsetting, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving
original spines, red morocco labels (one renewed), a little rubbed,
8vo, 1804-07. £200 - £300
*** Provenance: The Prince Consort’s Military Library (bookplate).
309. se l f in s t r u c t o r (th e), o r yo u n g ma n’s Be s t co m pa n i o n,
engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, water-stained, later calf,
gilt spine in compartments, slightly rubbed, scarce, Liverpool,
J.Nuttall, 1806 § Mair (John) Book-Keeping Moderniz’d; or,
Merchant-Accounts by Double Entry, ninth edition, contemporary
tree calf, reabcked, corners and edges worn, rubbed, Edinburgh,
1807; and 2 others, similar, v.s. (4) £200 - £300
Lot312
Lot 310
310. Brontë (Rev. Patrick) th e co t ta g e in t h e wo o d; o r t h e art
o f Be c o m i n g ri c h a n d happy, engraved frontispiece, with final
blank, frontispiece water-stained, C1 and D2 loose, a few other ff.
working loose, some spotting or light foxing, a few creases, upper
hinge split, original calf-backed boards, rubbed and scuffed, soiled,
12mo, Bradford, Printed and Sold by T.Inkersley, 1815.
£1,500 - £2,000
*** A rare little work by the father of the Brontë sisters. We can
trace only 1 other copy at auction in the last 35 years.
311. Franklin (Benjamin) me m o i r s o f t h e life a n d wr i t i n g s,
3 vol., engraved portrait 7 plates and one map, some staining
and offsetting, half-titles to vol.1 and 2 only, contemporary calf,
rebacked and corners repaired, covers of vol.1 worn and repaired
at upper edge, 4to, 1817-18. £150 - £250
312. Clare (John) po e m s , Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery,
first e d i t i o n, 1820; The Shepherd’s Calendar; with Village Stories,
and other Poems, p r e-p u B l i c at i o n (?), first e d i t i o n, 1826, 2 vol.
bound as 1; The Village Minstrel and other poems, 2 vol bound as
1, first e d i t i o n s, 1821, uniformly bound in contemporary half calf
over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, upper joint of second volume
cracked at head, front hinges in both volumes cracked, sm.8vo.(2).
£1,800 - £2,200
“At last toward the end of November [1826] Clare received six
copies of the book [i.e The Shepherd’s Calendar]’ but was not yet
ready for the public for De Wit’s first drawing had proved unsuitable
and the second was mad and engraved, thus two more month’s were
added to the long struggle of the Shepherd’s Calendar towards the
light”, ‘John Clare. A Life’ 1932, J.W. and Anne Tibble.
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