Bookseller's advertisements, p. [123-124]., Bound in silver-painted wrappers; p. [1] pasted to p. [2] of wrappers., and Signatures: [A]⁸ B-H⁸ ([A]1 recto, H7, H8 blank).
Publisher:
By Isaiah Thomas, and sold, wholesale and retail, at his bookstore.,
Manuscripts, in different hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily satirical and anonymous poems, many scatological. The majority of the poems are political satires, especially concerning the abdication of King James II and the accession of King William III; other targets include Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; religious zeal; and France. Other poems satirize women, including Barbara Villiers (afterwards Palmer), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, with reference to her affair with rope-dancer Jacob Hall; Mrs. Moseley and her link with Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; and women's conduct generally. The collection also includes a broadside printing of Packington's Pound, as well as numerous satirical songs sung to its tune.
Description:
Binding: marbled covers, detached. and See "Early American Literature, vol. XIV, 1979, concerning the attribution of "A Fart" (p. 193).
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Duchess of, 1641-1709, Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691, Hall, Jacob, James II, King of England, 1633-1701. aut, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683, and William III, King of England, 1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, English poetry--17th century, Political poetry, English, Songs, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
Compiled by John Green, but known as the Astley collection. and v. 3. Voyages and travels to Guinea, Benin, Kongo and Angola. Description of Loango, Kongo, Angola, Benguela, and adjacent countries. Description of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guarda Fuy. Voyages and travels in China, 1655-1722.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Astley,
Subject (Geographic):
Benin--History--Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Voyages and travels--History--18th century, and Voyages and travels--History--Sources
"An epistle from the publisher to Thomas Dutton, one of those called French prophets, for him and the other sincere persons to come out of that net of Satan; with some further account of that accursed delusion, &c.": p. 107-121., "To the truly spiritual among the people called Quakers": p. 123-124., Errata on p. iv., No. 1 of 2 works bound together with binder's title: Samuel Keimer., Samuel Keimer's spiritual autobiography., Signatures: [A]² B-L⁶ [M]²., and The preface signed on p. iv: S. K. [Samuel Keimer]
Publisher:
Printed, and sold by W. Boreham ..., and by other booksellers,
Final p. blank., Imperfect: leaf F3 torn without loss of text. Annotated with some prices., Sale conditions signed: T. and J. Egerton., Signatures: pi1 A-I⁴., and Year given on p. 1 as 1785. The Feb. 20 fell on a Monday in 1786.
Publisher:
Catalogues ... to be had of Mr. Sewell ... Mr. Owen ... and of Mess. Egerton ...,
Subject (Topic):
Catalogs, Booksellers'--England--London--Early works to 1800
"Letters" by R. Bulkeley have added t.p.; the "Remarks" have added t.p. and separate pagination., Advertising on p. [1]-[2] at end., Includes bibliographical references., and Parallel French and English texts.
Publisher:
Printed for James Knapton,
Subject (Name):
Bulkeley, Richard, Sir, 1644-1710. Letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity. 1717, Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729. Remarks upon a book, entitled, A philosophical enquiry concerning human liberty. 1717, Clarke, Samuel,--1675-1729, Collins, Anthony,--1676-1729.--Philosophical enquiry concerning human liberty, Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716, and Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,--Freiherr von,--1646-1716
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred poems on primarily moral or spiritual subjects, many taken from printed works by such poets as John Dryden, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Isaac Watts. Other entries include epitaphs and psalms. The volume also contains some of Hamby's own religious verses as well as verses by several of his Norfolk acquaintances. The work is prefaced by an introduction which declares that although a preface seems needless when the volume is meant for "one private person," the preface will be useful to those who will read the work after his decease. The preface provides an autobiography of Hamby, focusing on his development as a writer.
Description:
Autograph on flyleaf: S. S. Toms., Autograph on title page: M. Toms., Binding: contemporary full morocco with gilt and blind-stamped decoration. Title on spine: Manuscript Poetry., Marbled endpapers., and Pasted in: engraved portrait of Nathaniel Hamby, "de Wymondham in Com. Norfoliciae."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century