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[n.p., likely Stockton], 1780. Good with faint creases and several holes/tears expertly repaired, with some loss of text.. An apparently unrecorded broadside concerning a scandal caused when the widower "J.H." (likely John Hope) took in a young maid to help around his home. Hope defends himself against an allegation of an inappropriate relationship with the maid from "M.C." The "M.C." and "J.H." are identified in early manuscript ink and later pencil as Mat[t]hew Consett and J. Hope, respectively, both active in County Durham, and Hope published a book in Stockton, Thoughts in Prose and Verse started in his walks. Hope's wife died in 1767 and he died in 1785, which gives a rough period for when this interesting piece of verse was written.

Baltimore, MD: A. Vogeler & Co, 1881. Very good with some paper yellowing, cover fading, minor tears at edges and corners.. A scarce advertising booklet filled with outlandish testimonials and even cartoons with rhyming captions. 32pp. in publisher's pictorial wraps. Worldcat locates 6 copies. Perhaps little more than snake oil, The Wood Library Museum of Anesthesiology, describes the product as "a turpentine-ether-alcohol tincture" and gives the percentage of aconite at 2%. Aconite is a deadly alkaloid of Monkshood-also known as Wolfsbane. See Nickell, Center for Inquiry, St. Jacob's Oil, 2014.

London: C. Bathurst . . . [and 35 Others], 1781. First separate edition. Joints are starting or weak, leather is dry, and bumping and chipping to corners and spine, else very good.. First separate edition. Courtney calls Lives of the Poets Johnson's "second great work," simple in style and expression but which "appealed to every man of letters in the three kingdoms." This copy with somewhat interesting provenance, contemporary ownership signature on all volumes of Richard Milles (probably the Tory MP, died 1820), whose daughter Reynolds painted. Also present is a later bookplate of Nina McAlpin, ex-relative by marriage to David Hunter McAlpin, III, making it possible that this particular set was owned by David Hunter McAlpin, Sr., the famed collector of British history and theology. Four volumes in contemporary tree calf with engraved portrait frontispiece by Sir Joshua Reynolds in volume I. ESTC T146734; Courtney & Smith, pgs. 141-42; Chapman & Hazen, pg. 159; ESTC and Chapman call for… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees . ., 1815. Quadruple decker second edition of the anonymously published polemical novel. Affectionally referred to as the "brave-hearted lady" by Carlyle, the republication of this work in 2003 brought renewed, and deserved, attention to the long-neglected proto-feminist author. In his introduction to the 2003 edition, Professor Andrew Monnickendam notes this novel challenges commonly accepted beliefs about patriotism, gender, religion, and nationalism - noting the novel is subversive and does not shy away from controversy, an example being her referral to a military parade as a "rehearsal for murder." While titled as a national novel, Monnickendam emphasizes the novel was "at odds with the whole concept of union and patriotism that dominates the fiction of Walter Scott . . ." Moreover, Johnstone avoids the tropes of delicate or weak women, Monnickendam stresses the strength of the female protagonist, and that the "women are more rational beings, preferring… Read More