158 FACETIÆ.-LA FONTAINE'S TALES, IMITATED IN ENGLISH VERSE. 1814. 2 vols, small 8vo, half calf extra, £2 28 : First complete English Translation of the celebrated Contes et Nouvelles of La Fontaine. The name of the translator is not known, but it is thought to be the work of either Tom Moore or W. H. Ireland. 159 FACETIÆ.-The New Boghouse Miscellany or a Companion for the Closestool, consisting of Original Pieces, in Prose and Verse, by several modern authors, printed on an excellent soft paper, and absolutely necessary for all those, who read with a view to convenience as well as delight, revised and corrected by a gentleman well skilled in the Fundamentals of Literature, near Privy Garden. 1761. 12mo, calf extra, £1 18 160 FACETIÆ.-TO-NIGHT, or the Total Eclipse, dedicated to " To-Day," and to all the Children of Darkness. Stockdale, 1818. With six coloured engravings by C. WILLIAMS, 8vo, stained calf extra, tooled back and borders, top edge gilt, UNCUT, £2 108 An exceedingly rare volume, containing many curious anecdotes exposing characters in high life, etc. 161 FAUSTUS (Dr.) The History of the Life and Death of DR. John Faustus. Pickering, 1827. 8vo, cloth, £1 18 Including a reprint of Gent's translation of "The History and Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus." 162 FENCING.-THE ENGLISH FENCING-MASTER: or, THE COMPLEAT TUTEROUR OF THE SMALL SWORD, wherein the truest method, after a mathematical rule, is plainly laid down, shewing also how necessary it is for all gentlemen to learn this noble art, in a Dialogue between Master and Scholar, adorned with several curious postures. 1702. FIRST EDITION, five full-page woodcuts, small 4to, old calf, £1 58 By Henry Blackwell. 163 FENNER (Dudley) THE ARTES OF LOGIKe and Rhetorike, plainlie set foorth in the English tounge, easie to be learned and practised, togither with examples for the practise of the same, for methode in the government of the familie, prescribed in the Word of God: and for the whole in the resolution or opening of certayne partes of Scripture, according to the same. Middleburgh, R. Schilders, 1584. With woodcut on title of men printing, half calf, very rare, £2 15s 161 FENTON (Roger) Answere to William Alabaster, his Motives [for remaining a ROMAN CATHOLIC]. Felix Kyngston, 1599. 4to, calf extra, by Aitken, 148 The book is directed to "William Alabaster, Prisoner in the Tower." 165 FISHER (Payne) Deus et Rex, Rex et Episcopus, Carmen ad Clerum, et ELOGIA SEPULCHRALIA (containing also a French Ode and an English Table of Contents). Privately printed by the Author, 1675. 8vo, original binding, each page neatly ruled with red ink, scarce, 158 Payne Fisher, or as he called himself Paganus Piscator, wrote as poet laureate to Oliver Cromwell. 166 FREEMASONRY.—A MASONIC DISCOURSE, delivered in the Ancient Lodges of Free Masons, Nos. 203-175, on the Celebration of St. John the Evangelist, by Charles F. Wittwer, Chaplain to the above Lodges, Dover, in the year of Masonry, 5810, and in the year of our Lord, 1810. Dover, 1811. 8vo, cloth, 128 167 FREEMASONRY.-JONES (STEPHEN) MASONIC MISCELLANIES, in POETRY AND PROSE, in Three Parts: I. THE MUSE OF MASONRY, comprising nearly Two Hundred Masonic Songs; II. THE MASONIC ESSAYIST; III. THE FREE-MASON'S VADE-MECUM. 1811. Frontispiece, 12mo, old half calf, 158 168 FREEMASONRY.-Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the SECRET MEETINGS OF FREEMASONS, Illuminati, and Reading Societies, collected from Good Authorities by JOHN ROBINSON, A.M. 1798. 8vo, old calf, 98 169 FULLER (Thomas) ANDRONICUS, OR THE UNFORTUNATE POLITICIAN. Shewing Sin stoutly punished. W. Wilson, 1646. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, original sheep, 158 170 FURNISS (Harry) M.P.'s IN SESSION, FROM MR. PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY. 1889. FIRST EDITION, hundreds of clever sketches by Harry Furniss, oblong 4to, original boards, as issued, 98 171 FURNISS (Harry) PARLIAMENTARY VIEWS. N.D. FIRST EDITION, with numerous clever illustrations on Japanese paper, with an illustrated key to each, by HARRY FURNISS, oblong, original ornamental cloth, as issued, 128 1893. 172 FÜRNISS (Harry) SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED, by LEWIS CARROLL. FIRST EDITION, with forty-six illustrations by HARRY FURNISS, 8vo, red cloth gilt, as issued, 78 6d 173 GILBERT (W. S.) THE "BAB" BALLADS, Much Sound and Little Sense. 1869.-MORE" BAB" BALLADS, Much Sound and Little Sense. N.D.-LEIGH (HENRY S.) CAROLS OF COCKAYNE. 1869. FIRST EDITIONS OF THE THREE BOOKS, with numerous engravings by W. S. GILBERT, JOHN LEECH, and ARTHUR CONCANEN, 3 vols, 8vo, uniformly and handsomely bound in olive green morocco super extra, gilt over the original gilt edges, as issued, with the covers preserved at end of each, by RIVIERE (a choice and desirable series), £8 188 6d 174 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING IN EUROPE. Dodsley, 1759. FIRST EDITION, vignette on title, small 8vo, FINE COPY in the original calf, £2 28 Very scarce. Goldsmith's earliest publication; the later editions of which are much altered and curtailed. See Cunningham's edition of the author's works. 175 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) POEMS FOR YOUNG LADIES, in Three Parts, Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining, the whole being a collection of the Best Pieces in our Language. 1767. FIRST EDITION, with a frontispiece, small 8vo, old calf (loose), 188 Edited and selected by Dr. Goldsmith, and on pages 91-98 is his poem, Edwin and Angelina (the Hermit), with the alterations of the later issues of the poem filled in in MS. 176 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) RETALIATION, A POEM, BY DOCTOR GOLDSMITH, INCLUDING EPITAPHS ON THE MOST DISTINGUISHED WITS OF THIS METROPOLIS. London, Printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-street, 1774. FIRST EDITION, with a pretty vignette portrait of the author on the title, small 4to, FINE COPY in calf super extra, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £6 68 177 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) THE ART OF ENGLISH POETRY ON A NEW PLAN, illustrated with a great variety of Examples from the Best English Poets, and of Translations from the Ancients, TOGETHER WITH SUCH REFLECTIONS AND CRITICAL REMARKS AS MAY TEND TO FORM IN OUR YOUTH AN ELEGANT TASTE, AND RENDER THE STUDY OF THIS PART OF THE BELLES LETTRES MORE RATIONAL AND PLEASING. J. Newbery, 1762. FIRST EDITION, choice engraved frontispiece, 2 vols, small 8vo, A BEAUTIFUL COPY in stained calf super extra, very chorcely tooled back and borders, gilt edges, by FRANCIS BEDFORD (a very scarce book), £4 48 178 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) THE GOOD-NATURED MAN, a Comedy, as performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. W. Griffin, 1768. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, A VERY FINE COPY in sprinkled calf extra, choicely tooled, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £4 4s Exceedingly rare, the whole of the edition was sold the second day after publication. "His two admirable Comedies of 'The Good-natured Man' and She Stoops to Conquer' are the greenest spots in the dramatic waste of the period of which we are speaking. They are worthy of the author of The Vicar of Wakefield,' and to praise them more highly is impossible. Wit without licentiousness; humour without extravagance; brilliant and elegant dialogue; and forcible, but natural, delineation of character, are the excellencies with which his pages are prodigally strewn."-Lects, on Eng. Dramat. Poet. 179 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) THE LIFE OF RICHARD NASH OF BATH, Esq., extracted principally from his Original Papers. J. Newberry, 1762. FIRST EDITION, very fine portrait of Nash by Walker, 8vo, A FINE COPY in the original calf, £2 28 It is a clever book; and as one examines the original edition with its 234 goodly pages, it appears quite a surprising performance. No name was on the title-page, but the writer whose powers were so various, and performances so felicitous, finds it difficult not to reveal his name. It contains some specimens of Nash's stories, and of his manner of telling them, given in the very best manner of Goldsmith himself.-Forster's "Life of Goldsmith." A copy sold by auction in 1889 for £3 108. 180 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion, translated from the Original just published at the Hague by James Willington. 1758. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 12mo, sprinkled calf extra, by LARKINS, FINE COPY, £4 48.-Another copy, 2 vols, brown morocco extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT (very scarce thus), £8 8s The FIRST PUBLISHED WORK of Oliver Goldsmith. 181 GOLDSMITH (Oliver) THE ROMAN HISTORY, from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction of the Western Empire. 1769. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, original calf gilt, 158 Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall ; [Price Six-pence]. 4to, morocco extra, gilt edges, by the late FRANCIS Bedford, £68 10s This is the remarkably rare First Edition of Gray's immortal Elegy. 183 GREVILLE (Algernon).—HOPKINS (EZEKIEL) A Sermon Preached at the Funeralls Not mentioned in Lowndes. With 12 pages of POETICAL effusions addressed to Algernon Grevil 184 HEATH (William).-COMBE (Wm., i.e., Dr. Syntax) THE WARS OF A nice book. 185 HEATH (William) THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER, a Narrative and Descriptive Poem. 1823. FIRST EDITION, with eighteen beautifully COLOURED engravings by WILLIAM HEATH, royal 8vo, calf extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by RIVIERE (a nice book), £5 58 186 HEPTAMERON (The), OR TALES AND NOVELS OF MARGUERITE, QUEEN OF NAVARRE, now first completely done into English Prose from the original French by Arthur Machen. Privately Printed, 1886. Portrait of the authoress and several fine engravings by Flameng, 8vo, mottled calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £2 2s 187 HEYWOOD (John) John Heywoodes A Dialogue Conteyning the FIRST EDITION, with fine full-page woodcut portrait of the author, small 4to, a large and very fine copy in morocco super extra, rough gilt edges by RIVIERE, £57 108 One of the rarest of books to find in perfect state as the above copy is. There was no copy of this the First Edition in Mr. Corser's collection, nor is it included in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, or Payne Collier's notes, and the only other perfect copy we can trace having been sold for over forty years is David Laing's, which was a poor one, having the headlines cropped throughout, but nevertheless it realized £30 10s in 1879. The present copy is in remarkably fine state for a book of this class, being perfect even to the blank leaf at end. "John Heywood, commonly called the Epigrammatist, was beloved and rewarded by Henry VIII for his buffooneries. His merriments were so irresistible that they moved even the rigid muscles of Queen Mary; and her sullen solemnity was not proof against his songs, his rhymes, and his jests. He is said to have been often invited to exercise his arts of entertainment and pleasantry in her presence, and to have had the honour to be constantly admitted into her privy chamber for that purpose. "His epigrams, 600 in number, are probably some of his jokes versified; and perhaps were often ex. temporaneous sallies, made and repeated in company."-See Warton's History of English Poetry. 188 HEYWOOD (Thomas) TROIA BRITANICA, OR GREAT BRITAINES TROY. A POEM. DEVIDED INTO XVII SEVERAL CANTONS, INTERMIXED WITH MANY PLEASANT POETICAL TALES. Concluding with an Universal Chronicle from the Creation, untill these Present Times. Printed by W. Jaggard, 1609. FIRST EDITION, small folio, panelled calf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £6 68 189 HONE (William) THE EVERY-DAY BOOK, OR EVERLASTING CALENDAR OF POPULAR AMUSEMENTS, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, incident to each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days in the past and present times, etc., etc. 1826-7. 2 vols.-THE TABLE BOOK. 1827-8. 2 vols in 1.— THE YEAR BOOK OF DAILY RECREATION AND INFORMATION, concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merrymakings, Antiquities and Novelties, etc., etc. 1832. 1 vol.-FIRST EDITIONS OF THE THREE SERIES COMPLETE, with fine impression of the five hundred and fifty engravings, many of which are by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK and other celebrated artists, together 4 vols, 8vo, uniformly and handsomely bound in calf extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £8 88 The frst volume is dedicated to Charles Lamb, who was a large contributor to the Every Day Boox and Table Book. It is nrely that the complete series in genuine first editions of the three books as the above set is, occurs for sale; Mr. McKenzie's realised £20 in 1889, by auction. 190 HDOD (Thomas) HUMOROUS POEMS, with a Preface by ALFRED AINGER. 1893. With one hundred and thirty very clever illustrations by CHARLES E. BROCK, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, cloth, uncut, 68 191 HUMOUR. THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE, or the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy, with a few supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy, in Twelve Dialogues. 1806. With engravings AND ADDITIONALLY ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSEKTION OF AKINSON'S COLOURED PLATES expressly designed to illustrate the text, 2 vols, small 8vo, sained calf extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £3 108 192 HJNT (Leigh) BACCHUS IN TUSCANY, a Dithyrambic Poem, from the Italian of Francesco Redi, with Notes Original and Select. 1825. FIRST EDITION, Small 8vo, a very fine and clean copy in the original boards, UNCUT, as issued, with paper label at back, 33 38 193 HUNT (Leigh) READINGS FOR RAILWAYS; or Anecdotes and other Short Stories, Refletions, Maxims, Characteristics, Passages of Wit, Humour, and Poetry, etc., togetler with Points of information on matters of general interest, corrected in the cours of his own Reading. N.D. (1849). FIRST EDITION, 12mo, original printed boards as pulished, UNCUT, 108 6d HUSBANDRY.-See under Angling. 194 FUSENBETH (Dr. F. C.) A Volume in the Handwriting of Dr. Husenbeth, consiting of 12 Subjects, viz., Letter of John, Earl of Shrewsbury, Letter from Dr. Pusey, Origin of the English Coll. at Rome, Vision of St. Thomas of Canterbury, etc., etc. In 1 vol, 4to, half calf, an interesting collection, £1 10s 195 1USENBETH (Dr. F. C.) Answers to some Objections to Teetotalism. ORDINAL MANUSCRIPT, 4to, sewn, 38 1848. 196 HUSENBETH (Dr. F. C.) OUTLINES OF LECTURES on Total Abstinence, delivered by Commission from the Very Rev. Father Matthew. N D. THE ORIGINAL MATUSCRIPT, written in a thin 4to exercise book, 38 197 HUSENBETH (Dr. F. C.) THE CONVERT MARTYR, a Drama, arranged from "Callista" by permission of its Author, The Very Rev. J. H. Newman, D.D. 1857. 1200, FIRST EDITION, boards, 28 6d 198 INDIA. - A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for enquiring into the History, Cvil and Natural, The Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia. Delivered a Calcutta, Jan. 15, 1784. A Charge to the Grand Jury at Calcutta, Dec. 4, 1783. And A HYMN TO CAMDEO, Translated from the Hindu into Persian, and from Persian into English by SIR WILLIAM JONES, 1784. 4to, sewn, 78 6d |