All 4to. Half later calf, marbled boards slightly rubbed. Red spine label. With the English text of Fenelon's Tales and Fables London. 1789. (AKENSIDE, Mark). THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. A Poem in Three Books. London. R. Dodsley. 1744. pp. (ii), 5 - 126, (ii) of adverts. Lacking half title, pagination as the British Library copy. Foxon A140 Another edition (2nd edition). BARBAULD, Anna Laetitia. POEMS. London. Joseph Johnson. 1773. pp. vi, 138. Jackson. Romantic Poetry by Women. 2nd edition, same year as the first with p. 2 misnumbered as p. 4. Her first published work. (GLOVER, Richard). MEDEA. A Tragedy. London. Printed by H. Woodfall, sold by J. Morgan. 1761. pp (vi) 98. Light foxing and staining. ESTC T975 (MALLET, David). EDWIN, AND EMMA. Birmingham by John Baskerville for A Millar. 1760. pp.15. Text block lightly browned. ‘A ballad of unhappy love’ ODNB MORE, Hannah. SIR ELDRED OF THE BOWER, AND THE BLEEDING ROCK: Two Legendary Tales. London. T. Cadell. 1776. pp. (vi), 49, (i) of adverts. 1st edition. ESTC T62588. ODNB ‘More ‘earned Johnson's good opinion of her literary merit when she showed him two ballads, Sir Eldred of the Bower and The Bleeding Rock’. PRATT, Samuel Jackson. HUMANITY, or The Rights of Nature, A Poem; in Two Books, by the author of Sympathy. London. T. Cadell. 1788. pp. (iv), iv, 114, (ii) of adverts. 1st edition. ESTC T36737. Hogg. The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression 4194. pp. 12 & 21 a couple of ink corrections of the text. Pratt says in the Preface ‘ I felt myself called upon by all the awakened emotions of Humanity, to consider Slavery; but not only that species of it which consists in buying and selling our Fellow-Creatures in Aftrica … An hired srvant in Europe may be as little at his own command, and destined to as hard labour as a purchased Negro in Africa; but the essential difference consists in the one being guarded by the laws of the land, which spread before his person and his property a shield that defends him from every abuse of power; and the other is left naked and defenceless to the “insolence of office”. Humanity requires that the Rights of Nature should be enjoyed by every Human Being.’ ODNB ‘Pratt possessed considerable talents, but his necessities left him little time for reflection or revision. Some severe lines on his poetry and prose were in the original manuscript of Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, but they were omitted from publication.’ SWIFT, Theophilus. THE TEMPLE OF FOLLY. in Four Cantos. London. J. Johnson. 1787. pp. xvi, 96. Frontis. ESTC T49932. ODNB Both (his) father and mother were cousins of Jonathan Swift (1667–1745).

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(London?) (1781). pp. 8. 4to. Disbound, all leaves loose. Stamped Merchantile Library Philada. ESTC T48560. Title is in the form of a half-title. This copy is lacking the plate from which the date is taken (7 September 1781). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Lady Helen Boyle was the second wife of Sir James Douglas, a Naval Officer, who eventually became an admiral of the whiite, the colour being a ranking of admirals.

Reference: 148240

London. J. Dodsley. 1766. pp. (viii), 35, (iv), 39 - 55. 6 plates, 6 headpieces, 6 tailpieces, 1 vignette. Folio. Full calf, worn. Text and plates clean. The six poems are printed and foliated on the recto only. ’Odes by Mr. Gray’ and the ’Explanation of the prints’, by Horace Walpole, are printed on both the recto and verso.  ESTC N9933

Reference: 9969

London. Henry Colburn. 1839. 2 vols. pp. viii, 400; x, 565. Frontis - Vol I - foxed. 8vo. Original cloth, spines faded. Front hinge - Vol I - tender internally. Some light foxing. 1st edition. Chew p.234 Footnote 'Lady Blessington's Idler in Italy (1839) contains many miscellaneous remarks on Byron and Shelley, but nothing of importance'.A third volume was published in 1840 covering Northern Italy. These two volumes are complete in themselves.

Reference: 6335

A True Note of The auncient Castles, famous Monuments, goodly Rivers, faire Bridges, fine Towns, and courteous People, that I have seen in the noble Countrie of Wales. London. Reprinted from the Edition of 1587 for Thomas Evans. 1776. pp. xv, (i), 128. 8vo. Later quarter calf, boards. Some foxing. Half title present. ESTC T98908

Reference: 151090

Copenhagen & Leipzig. Jacob Preuss. 1741. pp. 382. Frontis, 3 plates. 8vo. Half calf, marbled boards, new spine and endpapers. Text block foxed text in German. Google translates the title as Nicolai Klim's Subterranean Journey contains a whole new description of the earth as well as a circumstantial account of the fifth monarchy, hitherto totally unknown to us.

Reference: 75410

York. A. Ward. 1773. pp. (vi), 295. 8vo. Full calf, hinges cracked but firm, spine label lacking. 5th edition. ESTC T90950

Reference: 2339

BOUND WITH MURRAY, Lindley. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETC OF HENRY TUKE. York. W. Alexander. 1815; (LURY, John Elton). A MEMOIR RESPECTING ANNE HARFORD LURY late of Bristol: who died the twenty eighth of the tenth month, MDCCCXX, in the twenty fifth year of her age. Bristol. John Wright. London. James Phillips. 1786. pp. 87, I of adverts, 54, 28. 12mo. Half calf, marble boards, hinges rubbed. A small amount of minor foxing.

Reference: 8856

London. John Rivington Jun. 1780. pp. (iv), 47, (iii), 336. 8vo. Full calf, spine with gilt decoration. Front hinge cracked but strings holding. A New Edition. The 47 pages between the title and Content leaf and the first work by Mrs Talbot, Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, is Benjamin Kennicott. The Sabbath. A Sermon Preached in His Majesty's Chapel, Whitehall, and before The University of Oxford. Oxford. at the Theatre. 1781. The title page of this work has several holes in it not affecting the text. ESTC T53369 Mrs Talbot. The Works. ESTC T98188. Shattock. Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. p. 416. 1721 - 1770. A blue stocking who 'Despite the encouragement of her friends , ... did not publish in her lifetime, ... apart from one paper in Dr Johnson's Rambler (no. 30, June 1750).'

Reference: 96010

. Paris. Didot L'Aine. 1783. pp. (iv), 195. 4to.Full morocco with gilt decoration, head of spine very slightly rubbed. All edges gilt. Some staining between gatherings N - V on bottom margin at the spine.

Reference: 27832

. Paris. P. Didot , fils aine de F.A. Didot L'Aine. 1790. pp. xl, 222, (ii). 4to. Full moriocco with gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Slight scar to top edge throughpout the Preface. Limited edition of 250 copies.

Reference: 87800