{"title":"19th Century (1800–1899)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare and antiquarian books from the nineteenth century, spanning Romanticism, Victorian scholarship, industrialisation, and empire. First editions, fine bindings, and important texts from 1800 to 1899.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"conversations-on-botany-fitton-eighth-edition-1834","title":"Conversations on Botany — Fitton. Eighth Edition (1834)","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFITTON, Sarah Mary \u0026amp; Elizabeth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConversations on Botany. With Plates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEighth Edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834. 12mo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eighth edition of this popular early nineteenth-century introduction to botany, attributed to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSarah Mary Fitton, with the assistance of her sister Elizabeth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished anonymously\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the work is now attributed to the Irish sisters Sarah Mary and Elizabeth Fitton. Their names did not appear on the title pages of the successive editions, a circumstance which led earlier bibliographers to attribute the book variously, most notably to Jane Marcet, whose influential \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConversations on Chemistry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e helped inspire its conversational form. The work proved an enduring success for Longman, passing through \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003enine editions between 1817 and 1840\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Its approachable conversational format brought the principles of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLinnaean taxonomy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to a broad readership.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIllustrated with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e22 hand-coloured engraved plates, all present\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, depicting flowering plants and botanical structures together with ferns, mosses, lichens, fungi and seaweeds. The colouring remains particularly pleasing, with strong greens, blues and yellows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBound in \u003cstrong\u003econtemporary green half calf over marbled boards\u003c\/strong\u003e, the spine with five raised bands, gilt decoration and red morocco lettering-piece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA handsome example of a particularly appealing nineteenth-century botanical book, combining an attractive period binding with a fine suite of hand-coloured plates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e18 × 11.5 cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInternally very good, with occasional light spotting and age-toning. The plates are generally clean and retain bright, fresh colouring. Binding rubbed at extremities with some surface wear and fading to the spine; corners worn. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe spine has mellowed towards olive, with rubbing and wear to the joints, corners and extremities, but the binding remains sound and attractive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBibliographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEighth edition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComplete with all 22 plates; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ePlate 7, although listed for insertion at p. 47, is bound as the frontispiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReferences\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCf. 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Rivington, 1816. 12mo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn attractive first edition of Robert Nares’s study of the historical consistency of the Gospel narratives. Nares approaches the Evangelists comparatively, examining differences of wording, sequence and testimony while arguing that their accounts remain mutually corroborative. Particular attention is given to passages shared between the Synoptic Gospels, culminating in the folding Greek table at the end of the volume, which places the accounts of the Parable of the Sower alongside one another for direct comparison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Nares (1753–1829) was an English clergyman, philologist and antiquary. He served at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritish Museum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, first as Assistant Librarian and, from 1799 to 1807, as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKeeper of Manuscripts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and became \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArchdeacon of Stafford\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 1801. A Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society, he was also a founding editor of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritish Critic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which he edited from its establishment in 1793 until 1813. He is best remembered for his substantial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlossary, or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1822), devoted particularly to the language and literature of the Elizabethan period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eContemporary half calf over marbled boards, with calf corners; spine divided by gilt rules and decorated with repeated gilt floral tools, the title lettered directly in gilt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work belongs to the early nineteenth-century tradition of Christian evidential writing and is an interesting example of comparative analysis of the Gospel narratives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e19.5 × 12 cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBinding \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003esound and attractive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, with light rubbing and wear to the calf, principally at the extremities and corners; gilt decoration and lettering remain bright and clear. Marbled boards well preserved, with only minor surface wear. Internally generally clean, with occasional light spotting and toning, mainly to the endpapers. Text block firm. Terminal folding comparative table \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecomplete and well preserved\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, with the folds remaining sound. A particularly neat copy in an appealing contemporary binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBibliographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition. 288 pp., followed by a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eterminal folding comparative table\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, headed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAppendix No. V. The Parable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, presenting parallel passages from Matthew, Mark and Luke in Greek.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA second edition, with additions, followed in 1819. The first edition appears uncommon in commerce.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reservoir Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57994923803006,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/4464\/8318\/files\/IMG_0134.jpg?v=1789026225"},{"product_id":"scott-the-lay-of-the-last-minstrel-second-edition-1805-neoclassical-gilt-calf","title":"Scott — The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Second Edition, 1805 — Neoclassical Gilt Calf","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSCOTT, Walter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Lay of the Last Minstrel. A Poem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Second Edition. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, and A. Constable and Co., Edinburgh, by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1805. 8vo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScott’s first major narrative poem and the work which established him as one of the most successful poets of his generation. Set amid the feuds and legends of the sixteenth-century Scottish Borders, the poem combines historical romance, antiquarian scholarship and the supernatural within the framework of a tale recited by an ageing minstrel. The first edition of 750 copies appeared in January 1805 and was rapidly exhausted; this \u003cstrong\u003esecond edition of 1,500 copies\u003c\/strong\u003e followed in October of the same year. The success was extraordinary for contemporary poetry and established the pattern for Scott’s enormously popular narrative poems which followed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA particularly attractive copy in contemporary mottled calf, gilt extra in a strongly Neoclassical design, the covers framed by Greek-key rolls and elaborate repeating ornament incorporating lyres, urns, floral swags and classical devices, with small gilt-lettered cartouches incorporated into the decoration. Marbled endpapers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the small contemporary bookseller’s ticket of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWilliam Lindsell, 87 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, where Lindsell is recorded as bookseller and stationer from 1802.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProvenance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the library of Roger Poole (1939–2003), literary theorist and scholar. 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Contents generally clean and fresh, with occasional minor spotting and age-toning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo notable closed tears, without apparent loss, affect leaves P2 (pp. 243–244) and P6 (pp. 251–252); the longer tear to p. 244 extends upwards from the lower edge into the text, while that to p. 252 is shorter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBibliographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSecond edition, published later in the same year as the first. 334 pp., with half-title, dedication to Charles, Earl of Dalkeith, and prefatory matter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTodd \u0026amp; Bowden 14Ad. The edition has a known pagination irregularity towards the end, with the sequence which should constitute pp. 305–332 numbered 307–334. Leaves P2 and P6 were subject to cancellation in this edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe present copy has an additional and unusual configuration. Pages 243–244 and 251–252 occur in their normal positions, but additional examples of both leaves are also bound into the final portion of the volume. After p. 324 the sequence is: 324, 243, 244, 328, 325, 326, 331, 332, 329, 330, 251, 252, 333, 334.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComparison of the relevant readings:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ep. 244 (normal position): “order of sanctity” | additional leaf: “odour of sanctity”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ep. 252 (normal position): “barell” | additional leaf: “barell”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA comparable second-edition copy described under Todd \u0026amp; Bowden 14Ad likewise retains both normally positioned and additional versions of P2 and P6, although its reported readings differ from the present copy. 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Internally toned throughout, with handling wear to several pages, spotting and occasional marks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe publisher’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDirections for placing the Plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e calls in this copy for a portrait, vignette title and five subject plates. The portrait, vignette title and four subject plates are present; lacking only \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCanga, or Boat Used on the Nile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, called for at p. 51.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBibliographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title page is undated; the Cundee issue is conventionally dated \u003cspan class=\"text-token-text-primary cursor-text rounded-sm\"\u003e[1812]\u003c\/span\u003e. 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Compiled from his Original Works, and Other Authentic Sources, by John Campbell, Esq.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e London: Printed for A. K. Newman \u0026amp; Co., Leadenhall Street; by Oliver \u0026amp; Boyd, Edinburgh, 1817. 12mo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn early nineteenth-century single-volume account of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eboth of Mungo Park’s expeditions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e into the interior of West Africa, compiled by the Scottish missionary and traveller John Campbell from Park’s published writings and other contemporary sources.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePark’s first expedition of 1795–97, undertaken for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfrican Association\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, established his reputation as one of the most celebrated European explorers of his generation. 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The engraved frontispiece dramatically depicts the the disastrous event.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProvenance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the handsome engraved \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003earmorial bookplate of Bushell Anningson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to the front pastedown, displaying three ladders on the shield, a ladder as crest, and crossed sword and firearm beneath. 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Sinistrari considers whether some beings traditionally identified as incubi and succubi might not be demons at all, but rather a distinct order of rational, corporeal creatures: beings possessing bodies and souls, capable of birth and death and, within his theological scheme, potentially of salvation or damnation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom this premise he develops an extraordinary combination of scholastic theology, sexual casuistry, demonology, Classical mythology and supernatural folklore. The work discusses the physical nature of incubi and succubi, relations between humans and supernatural beings, supposed extraordinary births, fauns and sylvans, and the juridical distinction between “demoniality” and other sexual offences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cool, analytical manner in which Sinistrari approaches these subjects is precisely what gives the book its peculiar fascination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Liseux Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work remained unpublished as a separate text until the nineteenth century, when Parisian publisher and bibliophile Isidore Liseux obtained a manuscript attributed to Sinistrari and issued the present edition in 1875. Liseux printed the Latin text together with his French translation on facing pages and limited the edition to 598 numbered copies. The edition rapidly became sought after among collectors of demonology, occult literature and bibliographical curiosities, and Liseux issued a second edition the following year. This copy is a \u003cstrong\u003e1st Edition,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNo. 144\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlfred Clériceau Provenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front of the volume bears the elaborate pictorial bookplate \u003cstrong\u003eEX AMICIS \/ A. CLERICEAU\u003c\/strong\u003e, signed in the plate \u003cem\u003eStern, Paris\u003c\/em\u003e. Alfred Clériceau was a French bibliophile whose books are encountered in finely bound and carefully selected collections. The unusually large and theatrical \u003cem\u003eEx Amicis\u003c\/em\u003e plate is entirely in keeping with the character of the present volume. The Clériceau provenance is particularly attractive here because this is far from an ordinary rebound copy: the choice of binding and endpapers suggests a collector treating the volume as an object in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Japoniste Binding\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most immediately striking feature of this copy is its elaborate black-and-gold Japoniste binding. The original parchment-paper wrappers have been retained and bound into the volume, but the book was subsequently given decorative boards with elaborate gilt ornament and exceptionally unusual Japanese pictorial endpapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe endpapers depict Japanese figures in a domestic setting surrounded by a dramatic flight of birds released from a cage. Their almost supernatural imagery is particularly apt in a book concerned with incubi, succubi and strange corporeal beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe binding is unsigned, and no attribution to a particular binder or workshop is presently made. It appears to be a late nineteenth-century French decorative binding produced in the period when Japonisme exercised a powerful influence over Parisian decorative arts and book design. The preservation of the original wrappers is important: the elaborate later presentation has not required the sacrifice of the book’s original covering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very good and highly individual copy. The decorative binding remains handsome and structurally sound, with rubbing and wear to the extremities and some surface wear consistent with age. The black leather spine label remains present and gilt-lettered. The remarkable Japanese pictorial endpapers are well preserved, with expected minor handling and age wear. Original parchment-paper wrappers bound in. Internally generally well preserved, with expected light age-toning and occasional minor spotting. Red-and-black title page and numbered limitation leaf present. \u003cstrong\u003eNo. 144 of 598 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorldCat \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e6624999\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reservoir Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58081621410174,"sku":null,"price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/4464\/8318\/files\/IMG_0783.jpg?v=1790155467"},{"product_id":"simpson-bulkeley-an-abortive-norwich-duel-two-rare-pamphlets-1826-james-stowe-r-c-fiske-provenance","title":"Simpson \u0026 Bulkeley — An Abortive Norwich Duel — Two Rare Pamphlets, 1826 — James Stowe \u0026 R. C. 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Two pamphlets bound together in later quarter black morocco over marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt \u003cstrong\u003e“BULKELEY V SIMPSON — NORWICH, 1826.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eAn extraordinary survival of a provincial quarrel which rapidly escalated from a street scuffle into the formal preliminaries of a duel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe first pamphlet, \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Simpson's \u003cem\u003eStatement of the Facts which occurred in the late affair between Mr. Bulkeley, of the 40th Regiment, and Mr. William Simpson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, opens with Simpson's account of an altercation on the evening of \u003cstrong\u003e21 June 1826\u003c\/strong\u003e. According to Simpson, he and \u003cstrong\u003eLempster Bulkeley of the 40th Regiment\u003c\/strong\u003e “collared” one another before a scuffle ensued. 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Bacon\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe negotiations failed to produce a meeting. Simpson eventually declared Bulkeley a coward for refusing the satisfaction he believed honour demanded. Bulkeley instead made a deposition before the \u003cstrong\u003eChief Magistrate of Norwich\u003c\/strong\u003e, following which Simpson was bound over to keep the peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eSimpson's pamphlet concludes with a postscript dated \u003cstrong\u003e21 August 1826\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eOf particular interest, its title-page bears the contemporary ownership inscription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“James Stowe \/ Augt 23d 1826.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe pamphlet was therefore in Stowe's possession only \u003cstrong\u003etwo days after Simpson's concluding statement\u003c\/strong\u003e, demonstrating almost immediate contemporary circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThree days later, on \u003cstrong\u003e26 August 1826\u003c\/strong\u003e, Bulkeley issued the second pamphlet bound here, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Reply to Mr. Simpson's Statement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Bulkeley states that Simpson's behaviour had been “ungentlemanly and insulting” and admits that:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e“I … knocked him down and struck him several times with my stick.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eAcross fifteen pages Bulkeley systematically answers Simpson's accusations and defends his refusal to resolve the affair by duel, concluding from the barracks on \u003cstrong\u003e26 August 1826\u003c\/strong\u003e that he had published his account in order “to set the public right in regard to the true merits of the case.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eTogether the two pamphlets preserve \u003cstrong\u003eboth sides of an unusually well-documented dispute\u003c\/strong\u003e, printed within days of one another by two different Norwich presses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Whitbread connection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003e“Mr. Whitbread”\u003c\/strong\u003e whom Bulkeley initially asked to act as his second is very probably \u003cstrong\u003eEdmund Salter Whitbread (1804–1890)\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eWhitbread was then an undergraduate at \u003cstrong\u003eTrinity Hall, Cambridge\u003c\/strong\u003e, taking his B.A. in April 1827. The identification fits the pamphlet's explicit statement that participation in the duel would expose Whitbread to \u003cstrong\u003eexpulsion from the University\u003c\/strong\u003e. He was also firmly connected with East Anglia: born in Suffolk, ordained at Norwich Cathedral in 1828, and later Rector of Strumpshaw with Bradestone in Norfolk for more than half a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe pamphlet itself gives only the surname, however, and the identification should therefore be regarded as \u003cstrong\u003ehighly probable rather than proven\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Stowe\u003c\/strong\u003e, contemporary ownership inscription dated \u003cstrong\u003e23 August 1826\u003c\/strong\u003e to the title-page of Simpson's \u003cem\u003eStatement\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eLater from the library of \u003cstrong\u003eR. C. Fiske, North Walsham\u003c\/strong\u003e, with his engraved armorial \u003cem\u003eEx Libris R. C. Fiske Nth. Walsham\u003c\/em\u003e bookplate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eFiske was a significant Norfolk antiquarian collector whose library included substantial holdings of Norfolk, naval and Nelson material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographical note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe pamphlets are of considerable rarity. A previous specialist auction catalogue described both as \u003cstrong\u003efirst editions\u003c\/strong\u003e and recorded them as absent from COPAC at the time of cataloguing. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eArmy List records Bulkeley’s commissions as Ensign, 8 April 1825; Lieutenant, 29 May 1828; and Captain, 9 January 1835.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical description\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eOctavo. Two separately printed pamphlets bound together:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIMPSON, William.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eStatement of the Facts which occurred in the late affair between Mr. Bulkeley, of the 40th Regiment, and Mr. William Simpson.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwich: printed by S. Wilkin, Upper Haymarket, [1826]. \u003cstrong\u003e16 pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBULKELEY, Lempster.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eA Reply to Mr. Simpson's Statement.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwich: Matchett and Stevenson, Printers, Market-place, [1826]. \u003cstrong\u003e15 pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eLater quarter black morocco over green and red marbled boards; spine ruled in gilt and lettered \u003cstrong\u003e“BULKELEY V SIMPSON \/ NORWICH, 1826.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eA substantial number of \u003cstrong\u003elater binder's blanks\u003c\/strong\u003e have been inserted before and after the original pamphlets, evidently to give sufficient body to the very slender publications when they were rebound. 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Edinburgh, 1856.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. Quarto. x, [1], xi, [1], [15]–262 pp., extensively illustrated with portraits, maps, engineering plans, folding plates and finely executed facsimiles of original documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA particularly evocative association copy of this major nineteenth-century memorial to James Watt, belonging to \u003cstrong\u003eAlexander McKenzie Ross (1805–1862)\u003c\/strong\u003e, Chief Engineer of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada and one of the engineers responsible for the design of Montreal’s Victoria Bridge. Ross worked closely with Robert Stephenson and was in Montreal during precisely the period in which this book was published and bound. 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Williamson’s work is far more than a conventional Victorian biography: it is an unusually rich documentary and engineering memorial to Watt and the technological world that followed him. Alongside portraits and biographical material are folding maps, technical drawings, ship plans, surveys and highly accomplished lithographic facsimiles of original correspondence and engineering documents. 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M. Ross — Montreal” to preliminary blank. Ross was appointed Chief Engineer of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1853 and was closely associated with Robert Stephenson in the engineering of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, the vast tubular railway bridge across the St Lawrence, constructed 1854–1859.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCampbell Bryson, Montreal\u003c\/strong\u003e — binder’s ticket: \u003cem\u003e“Campbell Bryson, Bookseller, Stationer, Blank Book Manufacturer, General Binder, \u0026amp;c., No. 24 Saint François Xavier-Street, Montreal.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCollation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete in text. The extensive suite of portraits, maps, facsimiles, plans and folding illustrations is present with the sole exception of the plate depicting Stephenson’s Rocket, which is absent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA handsome and historically compelling copy with significant but stable condition issues. The volume has suffered historic damp exposure, affecting the endleaves, preliminary and terminal leaves, and portions of the plate stock, resulting in areas of brown staining, tide marks, cockling, scattered foxing and areas of old mould staining. The mould is historic, dry and inactive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eContemporary burgundy full leather binding by \u003cstrong\u003eCampbell Bryson, Montreal\u003c\/strong\u003e, with his printed ticket to the front pastedown. 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