Bloomsbury Auctions

174. Johnson (Samuel).- Jo h n s o n i A n A; o r, A co l l e c T i o n
o f bo n Mo T s, &. b y dr. Jo h n s o n, A n d oT h e r s firsT
e d i T i o n, inner margin of title repaired, name on front
paste-down, nineteenth-century red cloth, rubbed, 8vo,
For J. Ridley (et al.), 1776. £300 - £400
Lot 175
175. Angell (John) sT e n o g r A p h y; o r, sh o rT-h A n d
iM p r o v e d, fourth edition, advertisement leaf at
beginning, engraved title with decorative border and
21 plates, lightly soiled and browned, old library label
on front pastedown, contemporary calf, a little worn,
upper cover detached, 8vo, M.Angell..., [c.1787].
£150 - £200
Lot 176
176. Wordsworth (William).- Th e eu r o p e A n
MA g A z i n e, A n d lo n d o n re v i e w, vol.11, engraved
vignette title and plates, front pastedown with booklabel
of ‘G.Newcombe’s Circulating Library and News
Room, 12 Edgecumbe-Street, Stonehouse’, occasional
spotting, some offsetting, antique style half calf over
contemporary marbled boards, 8vo, January - June,
1787. £500 - £700
*** wi l l i A M wo r d s w o rT h’s firsT A p p e A r A n c e in p r i n T.
The March issue contains ‘Sonnet, on Seeing Miss
Helen Maria Williams weep at a Tale of Distress’
(p.202), signed ‘Axiologus’. The sonnet was never
collected by Wordsworth, but appeared later in the 1904
Oxford edition of the Poetical Works.
Lot 177
177. Education and the Poor.- Brownlow (Lord
Bishop of Winchester) A s e r M o n p r e A c h e d in T h e
c AT h e d r A l c h u r c h o f sT. pA u l, lo n d o n: o n Th u r s d Ay,
Ju n e 10, 1790. be i n g T h e T iM e o f T h e y e A r ly M e e T i n g
o f T h e c h i l d r e n e d u c AT e d in T h e c h A r i T y-s c h o o l s, in
A n d A b o u T T h e c i T i e s o f lo n d o n A n d we s T M i n s T e r,
occasional water-staining or spotting, contemporary
wrappers, spine ends and corners chipped, stained and
slightly faded, Ann Rivington, 1790; and a 19th century
‘Covenants of an Indenture of Apprenticeship...for
Apprentices of the City of London, 4to (2) £100 - £150
*** The first mentioned SPCK publication includes
a list of the Charity schools, a catalogue of books
dispersed to the schools, lists of the clothing allowance
to those in work-houses and preachers in the Society,
and details of missions to the Scillies, East India and
the Isle of Man.
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