Search Results: Authors starting with T from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Printed for H. Whitridge, at the Royal Exchange; R. Griffiths, in Pater-Noster Row, and G. Woodfall, at Charing-Cross, 1755. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 180 x 111 mms.,pp. [iv], 72, 65 - 72, 81-112, 19th century quarter calf, rebacked, marbled boards (worn); lacking half-title, ex-library sticker on verso of title-page, inner margin of title-page defective, and title-page soiled, stab-holes visible inner margin; a so-so copy. Leman's objections to the Marriage Act stem from his contention that many houses in the Fleet Street area were devoted to clandestine marriages, and a "Priest was already for the Sacrifice. The incautious Youth, inflamed with Lust and Liquor, incentives to both, being readily furnished in the same Places, might there in all Seasons, and at all Hours, seal his final Ruin: Here the inexperienced Virgin [as distinct from the experienced Virgin?] might surrender her Honour and Fortune to the abandoned Libertine, or infamous Sharper, under the appeance of… Read More

No place Printed by Albert F. Allen [from colophon] [c. 1895]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 130 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 184, minimal title-page, bound in sturdy buckram, title on front cover, with inscription on verso of front free end-paper: "With the Compliments of / 'The Pilgrim' / Tappen Halsey / 1895"; small water-stain on front cover, but a very good copy, printed on thick paper. Tappen Halsey was a well-known citizen of Chicago in the late nineteenth century, being a businessman who owned several pharmacies in Illinois and Michigan. He seems not, however, to be generally known as a traveller or travel writer, and this appears to be the only copy known of his extensive account of his voyaging.Halsey travelled through at least seven countries, Algeria, Spain, Italy, France, Monaco, Switzerland, and Britain. Halsey was a sympathetic traveller with an eye for revealing detail. He reports, for instance, on the ubiquity of telephones in Switzerland (in 1895!). In Italy, he… Read More

London: Hatchard and Son..., 1831. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 194 x 119 mms., pp. [v] - viii, 104, original binder's cloth, paper label on spine (faded), uncut and largely unopened with top margin of pp vi-vii carelessly opened, and small circular armorial bookplate (?Elton) on front paste-down end-paper The volume is inscribed by the anonymous author "To the Hereditary Guardians of the British Constitution the Peers of England This Satire is inscribed." In the preface, the author refers the founding of the ceremony of the Taurobolium by Julian the Apostate, alluding to the sacrifice of a bull, which was practiced "rom about AD 160 in the Mediterranean cult of the Great Mother of the Gods. Celebrated primarily among the Romans, the ceremony enjoyed much popularity and may have been introduced by the Roman emperor. The nature and purpose of the ceremony seems to have gradually changed during the late 2nd and 3rd centuries. At the beginning it apparently resembled similar… Read More

London, Printed for C. Taylor, No. 10, near Castle Street, Holborn 1787. 4to, 198 x 158, a nonce collection in two volumes of poems with an engraving for each, bound in contemporary straight grain green morocco, gilt rule on borders, red leather labels, with general title-page tipped to a stub in volume 1; front hinge volume 2 repaired with tape. With a contents leaf at end of volume for volume 2, and an preface for the two volumes in volume 2. 39 engraved plates in volume 1, and 57 in volume 2. As ESTC notes, "On the verso of the contents list: "Gentlemen may bind any numbers together to make a volume, and in any order they please", which indicates the variety and strangeness possible in any copy. Match to these records by date of titlepage and add copy notes as appropriate.

London: Holdworth and Ball..., 1829. FIRST EDITION of this translation. Large, thick 8vo, 228 x 134 mms., pp. [ii], [iii] iv -xxvi, 766, [8 - adverts], folding engraved map as frontispiece, folding "Chronology of the Persian and Grecian History," uncut, many leaves unopened, original boards, linen spine, paper label; ex-library stamp on title-page, edges a bit soiled, but a very good copy, inscribed on top margin of recto of front free end-paper, "The editor of the Literary Gazette."Even though many leaves are unopened, someone last left the marginal injunction "omit" beside this passage on page 433: "If the kings do not make their appearance at the public supper, two choenices of barley-bread are sent home to each of them, with a small pint of wine:--if they are present, they have a double portion of all. The same honour is conferred upon them, when invited to a private house." A theologian, artist, and inventor, Isaac Taylor of Stanford Rivers]… Read More

London: Printed for W. Owen..., 1774. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. ix [x blank], 242 [243 - 244 adverts], including half-title, 19th century sheepskin, with spine severely wormed, but joints firm; probably a continental binding, to judge from the end-papers. Taylor (?1741 - 1797) is identified as the author of this work in two copies in the BL, with ms. attributions to him on the title-page. The work has also been attributed to William Richardson, Professor of Humanity at Glasgow, and Joseph Ritson. Richardson wrote four books on Shakespeare, and this volume seems unlikely to be by him; the style is certainly different, as is the conduct of the argument. The contemporary name of Susanna Taylor appears on the title-page and has been scored through with the next owner adding his or her name at the top of the title-page; one of these hands has made a few ms. corrections to Taylor's punctuation and capitalization.

Edinburgh: Printed by Murray & Cochrane, 1790. 8vo (in 4s), pp. viii, 139 [140 blank], uncut, original boards, paper label on spine; front joint worn, spine a little worn, binding soiled. Tertulian (c. 160 - c. 225) appears to have written this in 212 to persuade Scapula that Christians should not be persecuted, as they are not "atheists," nor are they disloyal. Sir David Dalrympe (1726 - 1792) had a wide circle of literary friends, including David Hume, Adam Smith, James Boswell, and James Beattie among others. He met Edmund Burke in 1791, shortly after this work was published and just before his death. Burke said of him, that he was "the pleasantest, the most good humoured, the most unaffected, & the most communicative man of letters I ever conversed with." In this work, his considerable knowledge of the classics and of early Christian writings is very much on display: the text occupies the first 32 pages, and pages 35 - 139 are notes and commentary, including a… Read More

London: Printed for R. Francklin..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 32. BOUND WITH: [PULTENEY (William), Earl of Bath]: An Answer to One Part of a late Infamous Libel, Intitled, Remarks on the Craftsman's Vindication of his two honourable Patrons; In which the Character and Conduct of Mr P. is fully Vindicated. London: Printed for R. Francklin..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 62. BOUND WITH: [ARNALL (William)]: Observations on a Pamphlet, Intitled, An Answer to one Part of a late Infamous Libel, &c. In a Letter to Mr P. London: Printed for J. Roberts..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 50. 3 volumes in 1, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy. In 1730 - 1731, Bolingbroke contributed 24 essays to The Craftsman (edited by Nicholas Amhurst and one of most outspoken periodicals against Walpole's government), which later formed his Remarks on the History of England. Francklin, the publisher, had been brought to trial in… Read More

Parisiis. Apud Gervasium Chevallonium. 1539. Folio, 335 x 212 mms., foliated [10], 381 [= 379], engraved vignette on title-page with publisher's initials in centre and "Chapel House Newport" above the vignette, contemporary annotation on title-page and numerous marginal annotations also in a contemporary hand, paste-down end-papers from printers' waste in red and black (probably pre-1500), contemporary calf, bordered and panelled in blind with a lozenge in blind within the border, remains of clasps, foully rebacked in totally unsympathetic style, title-page with stains, fore-margins of first 7 leaves very slightly stained Denis the Carthusian (aka Denys van Rijkel [1402/1403 - 1471] was educated at the University of Cologne and entered the Carthusian order in 1425. An astonishingly prolific author, he began his commentary on the Bible with the Psalms and extended it to the whole of the Old and New Testaments; this commentary on the first four books of the Bible is perhaps his… Read More

Perth: Printed by Crerar and Son, 1827. 12mo (in 6s), 184 x 111 mms., pp. [v], vi - viii [ix Contents, x blank, xi drop title, xii blank, xiii], 14 - 295 [296 blank], including half-title, uncut, bound in waste-paper boards, paper label on spine; spine slightly defective at top and base, joints a little worn, some general wear to binding, but a rather nice survival of a practice of reusing discarded leaves for a temporary binding. James I (1394–1437) was known as the author of The Kingis Quair, a poem of 197 seven-line verses, dealing principally with the theme of philosophy and fortune after the manner of Boethius was known as the author of The Kingis Quair, a poem of 197 seven-line verses, dealing principally with the theme of philosophy and fortune after the manner of Boethius. His works were edited by various scholars. The "Dissertation on the Scottish Music" is at the end of the volume (pages 245 - 293) and begins, "The genius of the Scots has, in every age, shone… Read More

London, Printed and are to be sold by the Booksellers of Lond and Westminster. 1702. 8vo, 181 x 115 mms., pp. xxvi, 27 - 176, errata slip pasted on page [xxiv], contemporary panelled calf; no leaves before title-page and no rear free end-paper, spine dried, lacks spine label, with the recent armorial bookplate of "Little of Liberton, Esq" on the front paste-down end-paper, which covers ink scribbles on the end-paper, where the name "John Clerk" appears on the top margin and also on the title-page This seems to be the only translation into English of the Younger Pliny's tribute to Trajan, Emperor of Rome, 53-117. ESTC N12177 noting that "Apparently printed by John Darby; the work is listed in an advertisement for 'Books printed by J. Darby' in Algernon Sidney's Discourses concerning government, 1704.

London: Printed for John Nutt, near Stationrs-Hall, 1706. 8vo, 188 x 117 mms., pp. [viii], 311 [312 adverts], including half-title, contemporary calf, panelled in blind; joints slightly cracked, no label, but a good to very good copy with a clean text, and the armorial bookplate of "Sr. Robert Eden, Bart" on the front paste-down end-paper. The army officer and colonial governor Sir Robert Eden (1741 - 1784) was Governor of Maryland, and ODNB records that he did not have an easy time, "when the crisis in relations between colonists and crown came to a head during his governorship. Although he retained the good will of his Maryland subjects, he was unable to reconcile the colonists to continued parliamentary rule despite his best efforts to act as a buffer between the two sides. Eden succeeded in remaining in Maryland as nominal governor until June 1776, but his effective authority had ended two years earlier when the first extra-legal Maryland convention assembled in June 1774. 'He… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for A. Guthrie, and J. & J. Robinson, 1793. 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 85 mms., pp. [ii], vi, 46. AND: An Unfortunate Mother's Advice, to Her Daughters, in a Letter to Miss Pennington. By the Late Lady Pennington. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Guthrie, and J. & J. Robinson, 1793. 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 85 mms., pp. 63 [64 blank]. AND: Advice of a Mother to her Daughter. Bt the Marchioness de Lambert. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Guthrie, and J. & J. Robinson, 1793. 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 85 mms. pp. 48 (misbound, with title-page following first leaf of text]. AND: Fables for the Female Sex. By Edwrd Moore. Edinburgh: Printed by David Ramsay; for A. Guthried, no. 25, South Bridge Street, 1792, 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 85 mms., pp. [iv[, iv, 887 [88 blank], with separate pagination but continuous collation, bound in contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; lacking the general title-page, binding slightly worn, front joint slightly cracked. With the 1810 ownership… Read More

Glasguae, in Aedibus Academis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis..., 1746. 4to, 187 x 149 mms., pp. [xii], 32, 45 - 192, including half-title, later 18th century mottled calf, gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments to a thistle motif, black leather label; paper defect at lower corner of pages 129;130, not affecting text, joint s cracked (but firm), corners slightly worn, slight general wear to binding, but a good to very good copy, with the armorial bookplate of Charles Edmund Ruck Keene (1792 - 1880) on the front paste-down end-paper. Gaskell 78.

Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1770. FIRST EDITION by Warton. 2 volumes. 4to, 288 x 224 mms., pp. [iv], lx [lxi - lxii], 236 [237 - 316 indexes]; [iv], 412 [413 - 416 index, addenda, and corrections], [v] - vii [viii blank], 45 [46 blank, 47 - 48 Index], 5H1 in volume 2 in uncancelled state, later (early 19th century( fine polished calf, gilt border on covers, all edges gilt, with the armorial crest of Frederick, Earl of Cawdor in gilt on each cover; spine sun-darkened and very slightly chipped, but a sumptuous copy, from the library of John Campbell, first Earl of Cawdor (1790 - 1860). The appendix at the end of volume 2 was issued in 1772 and doesn't appear in earlier issues. Warton's fine edition of Theocritus was noticed in The Critical Review, volume 29, 1770: "We find it difficult to pronounce whether the editor of the Oxford Theocritus discovers a greater share of taste or of erudition. Works of this kind have been too commonly executed by scholars of more industry… Read More

London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1713. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [ii], iv, 105 [106 - 108 Contents, 109 - 112 adverts], engraved portrait of Theocritus as frontispiece, contemporary calf; upper joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped. With the autograph and date of Henry Samuel Partridge (1772 - 1858), Magdalen College, Oxford, 23 January 1802, on the front paste-down end-paper. Creech's translation of Theocritus was first published in 1684, just two years after his very successful translation of Lucretius. Straus, p. 221.

Patavii [Padua]: Excudebat Josephus Cominus, 1736. 8vo, pp. [viii], xxxix [xl permission], 640, 85 [86 colophon, 87 adverts, 88 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine (rubbed); joints slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners slightly worn. With the autograph "J. G. Phillimore" on the verso of the front free marbled end-paper, and "Augustus Phillimore/ In Memoriam (J. G. P.)/ From R. M. P./ Shiplake/ May 22nd 1865." on the recto of the following leaf. John George Phillimore (1808 - 1865) published a number of works on Roman law and jurisprudence. He was elected M. P. in 1852. The presentation inscription to Augustus Phillimore is by J. G. Phillimore's wife, Rosamond Margaret, daughter of James Lewis Knight Bruce, later the lord justice. Augustus Phillimore is possibly the Vice-Admiral, Sir Augustus Phillimore (!822 - 1897). Macrobius (395 - 423) was a late Roman neoplatonic grammarian and philosopher whose best-known… Read More

Glasguae, Excudebat Robertus Foulis..., 1748. 12mo (in 6s), 133 x 75 mms., pp. 52, 34, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; front joint cracked (but holding), corners worn, top and base of spine chipped, binding a bit sprung. With the contemporary inscription on the top margin of the title-page: "Ex Lib: T. Proctor. Coll. Ball[iol]." The first three words are transliterated from the Greek. Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614) published his commentary on Theophrastus in 1592. Gaskell 120.

London: Smith, Elder and Co...., 1847. 8vo, pp. viii, 192, 16 pages adverts dated January 1851, engraved portrait frontispiece, original embossed cloth, block in gilt on front cover; spine a little faded and rubbed, small stain on rear cover, but a good copy. Thom (1798? - 1848), after a desultory career as weaver, bookseller, flautist, and journalist, published the first edition of these rhymes in 1844 and sold about one thousand copies.

Turnham Green, Printed for the Author by G. J. Baynes, 1830. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 184 x 127 mms, pp. [iv], iv, ii, [7] - 206, with an extra printed leaf laid in as dedication, "To A Christian Lady, Mrs. Edward Parker, My very dear and valued friend. These Poems are Inscribed with sentiments of gratitude, affection, and esteem," bound in contemporary olive calf, gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments (but faded), red leather label (chipped), all edges gilt. A very good copy. The work was mentioned in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 49 (1837), in the context of a "conversazione" between a rector and a doctor, the former of whom remarks, "Ah, Horace again! -- 'The Maid of Skiddaw, and other Poems; with Translations from Horace. By Thomas Bourne.' I have no taste for 'Maids of Skiddaw, ' however graceful their sorrows; but I never see a fragment of Horace without feeling something like a veteran treading over the fields where… Read More