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AN ESSAY UPON PRINTS. WILLIAM GILPIN. Published by: London: printed by G. Scott for J. Robson bookseller to the Princess Dowager of Wales at the Feathers in New Bond Street. 1768. Second edition. 8vo, pp246. A very good copy; recently rebound to style in quarter cloth, with genuine marble paper boards and paper label. Second edition: first published earlier the same year. 'Containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty; the different kinds of prints; and the characters of the most noted masters: illustrated by criticisms on particular pieces: to which are added, some cautions that may be useful in collecting prints'. Gilpin was on hand to set standards, and to give definitions: there are four pages of 'Explanation of Terms' before the main text, including this of the word 'picturesque': "a term expressive of the peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture". Gilpin was not the first writer to use the word Picturesque (the OED quotes Richard Steele from 1705 and Udal ap Rhys… Read More

A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Printed for F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse: London. 1791. Hardcover. Illustrated with black and white plates. 'Goldsmith's Natural Histories'. Eight volumes. Original calf bindings. Text block in excellent condition. Tattered spines but good hinges. Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 - 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. He is best known for his novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766), his pastoral poem 'The Deserted Village' (1770), and his plays 'The Good-Natur'd Man' (1768) and 'She Stoops to Conquer' (1771, first performed in 1773). He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale 'The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes' (1765).

Printed for T Carnan and F New. Condition: Very Good. 1770. Paperback. 23pp. Disbound. Lacks half-title page. Slight dust soiling. With illustrated engraving by C. Grignion after painting by S. Wale on title page.

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Signed and numbered edition. Published by: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd,: London. 1929. Quarto. Publisher's original vellum boards, gilt title to spine and front board, triple rule to front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A bright clean copy with a couple of light marks to the spine and a small crack at the head of the spine that has been professionally repaired. Mild and light foxing to prelims. The vellum binding has a natural discolouring due to the quality and natural selection of the skin. An excellent copy. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Number 243 of 575 copies for England, signed by Arthur Rackham. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward, the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With 'The Vicar of Wakefield' of 1929, Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume, in which he had long been… Read More

GRAY'S ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD.
Golden Cockerel Press. Morgan, Gwenda. Gray, Thomas.
Published by Golden Cockerel Press, London (1946)
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. By Thomas Gray. Edited and with a Foreword by Christopher Sandford. Number 654 of 750 copies set in 12 pt, Caslon old Face type and printed on mould-made paper. 7.25 X 5 ins. 22 pp. Quarter blue buckram with marbled paper boards. Gilt spine titling. T.E.G., others uncut. 9 wood engravings by Gwenda Morgan, 6 full page. Sandford wrote of them: "Gwenda Morgan filled me with admiration by producing a set of engravings which, though entirely in the modern vein, proved a perfect complement to the eighteenth-century text" delightfully interpretive of village life in England and the unchanging face of the land.

Two page spread of the Illustrated London News containing 12 illustrations by Kate Greenaway, titled "Christmas at Little-Peopleton Manor".

John Murray, London, 1845, 184pp. bound in recent half red calf, 'Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes in the West Indies' by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1845. Lewis owned a considerable property in Jamaica. 'Philip Musgrave; or, Memoirs of a Church of England Missionary in the North American Colonies' edited by Reverend J Abbott, published in 1846. This work is a collection of vaguely fictionalized thoughts and anecdotes about his time in the North-American colonies as a missionary for the Church of England. Matthew Lewis was a novelist best known for his Gothic novel 'The Monk'. Joseph Abbott was a Church of England clergyman and author, who was also well known for his work 'Memoranda of a Settler in Lower Canada'.