{"title":"History, Politics \u0026 Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare and antiquarian works spanning political history, biography, memoirs, and historical narrative. From classical antiquity to the modern era, with a focus on primary sources, first editions, and finely bound copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"c-crispus-sallust-and-l-annaeus-florus-baskerville-birmingham-1774","title":"C. Crispus Sallust and L. Annaeus Florus — Baskerville, Birmingham (1774)","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC. Crispus Sallustius; et L. 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It contains the historical writings of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e together with those of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLucius Annaeus Florus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, bringing together two important Roman historical texts concerned with the rise, conflicts and development of the Roman state.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eV\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eery good; an attractive copy in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003econtemporary speckled calf\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, the spine divided by raised bands with gilt ornament to the compartments and a black morocco lettering-piece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn appealing example both as a work of classical history and as a product of \u003c\/span\u003eone of the most important English printers and type designers of the eighteenth century.\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\u003e17.5 × 11 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\u003eThe binding is firm and the boards remain securely attached. 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By various Persons of Rank or Consequence; Containing many curious Anecdotes, relative to that turbulent and bloody, but hitherto dark, Period of our History; and elucidating, not only Public Matters of State, but likewise the Private Manners of the Age…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787. 2 vols., 4to.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first edition and first publication of the Paston Letters, one of the most remarkable bodies of private correspondence to survive from medieval England. 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Later tan half calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, red morocco title-labels and black morocco volume-number labels, lettered and ruled in gilt, dates gilt at foot. Bindings sound and well presented, with light rubbing, marking and normal wear to the calf, corners bumped.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContents generally very good, with scattered foxing and spotting, somewhat heavier to occasional leaves and plates. The hand-coloured illustrations retain good colour. Large folding Paston pedigree complete, with a short closed tear at one fold without loss. All called-for illustrations present.\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, 1787 — original two-volume publication of the Paston Letters, preceding the corrected and expanded second edition issued later the same year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVol. I: xxxiii, \u003cspan class=\"text-token-text-primary cursor-text rounded-sm\"\u003e[55]\u003c\/span\u003e, 301 pp.; Vol. II: \u003cspan class=\"text-token-text-primary cursor-text rounded-sm\"\u003e[4]\u003c\/span\u003e, 341, \u003cspan class=\"text-token-text-primary cursor-text rounded-sm\"\u003e[23]\u003c\/span\u003e pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith two engraved title pages incorporating views of Caister Castle, two hand-coloured engraved frontispieces, a further hand-coloured plate of the Badges of the House of Lancaster, large folding Paston pedigree, and 14 engraved facsimile plates (I–XIV) of autographs, paper-marks and seals.\u003c\/span\u003e\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\u003eESTC N10147.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reservoir Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58000423780734,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/4464\/8318\/files\/IMG_0138.jpg?v=1789029896"},{"product_id":"alexander-dow-the-history-of-hindostan-1792-ebenezer-stott-of-virginia-copy","title":"Alexander Dow – The History of Hindostan, 1792 – Ebenezer Stott of Virginia Copy","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDOW, Alexander.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe History of Hindostan, Translated from the Persian. 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Engraved portrait frontispiece of John Wiclif. xxxii, 389, \u003cspan class=\"text-token-text-primary cursor-text rounded-sm\"\u003e[11]\u003c\/span\u003e pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReferences\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaggs Bros., \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProvincial Bookbinding in Great Britain: Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, catalogue 1014 (London, 1981), item 62.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles Ramsden, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBookbinders of the United Kingdom (Outside London), 1780–1840\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1954), p. 143.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reservoir Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58021484233086,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/4464\/8318\/files\/IMG_0347.jpg?v=1789294030"},{"product_id":"markham-george-truth-for-the-seekers-quaker-tithe-controversy-york-castle-allan-rowntree-association-copy","title":"MARKHAM, George — Truth for the Seekers — Quaker Tithe Controversy — York Castle — Allan Rowntree Association Copy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARKHAM, George, D.D.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTruth for the Seekers; or, A Fair and Full Statement of the Facts which gave rise to the Imprisonment of the Quakers now in York Castle.\u003c\/em\u003e London: sold by J. 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Spine dry and rubbed, with loss and abrasion at head and foot and remnants of old labels; surface wear and some loss to the marbled paper sides, particularly at the corners and edges. Corners rounded and exposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInternally generally well preserved. Text leaves show light age-toning, occasional spotting and some occasional marginal staining, but remain clear and legible. The pamphlets retain generous margins. Allan Rowntree's pencil ownership inscription appears on the front endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe binding defect is conspicuous and the volume should be handled with care, but the text block itself appears substantially intact. Offered unrestored, preserving the contemporary binding and provenance evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA particularly attractive association copy. The constituent pamphlets are scarce individually, but their survival together gives the volume considerably greater historical coherence: it follows the argument from Markham's initial justification of the imprisonment through the Quaker response and subsequent replies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe later ownership by Allan Rowntree adds another layer of Quaker history extending the book's significance from the eighteenth-century tithe controversy into the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Yorkshire Quaker commercial world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReferences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eESTC T90470; T102447; T66608; Smith, \u003cem\u003eFriends’ Books\u003c\/em\u003e, II, 964. 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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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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. These blanks are part of the later binding structure and do not represent missing or removed material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"auto\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eBinding sound and attractive, with light rubbing and minor marks commensurate with use; small ink numeral \u003cstrong\u003e“6”\u003c\/strong\u003e to one marbled board. Spine gilt remains bright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eOriginal pamphlets with light age-toning, occasional spotting and handling marks; Simpson's title somewhat toned and creased, but entirely legible. Contemporary \u003cstrong\u003eJames Stowe\u003c\/strong\u003e inscription clear at the head of the title. Both pamphlets complete, Simpson concluding at p. 16 and Bulkeley at p. 15.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eNumerous clean later binder's blanks before and after the original texts. R. C. Fiske bookplate internally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eA particularly appealing copy of two exceptionally scarce pieces of Norwich ephemera, preserving the accusation and rebuttal together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reservoir Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58083565601150,"sku":null,"price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/4464\/8318\/files\/IMG_0811.jpg?v=1790168525"},{"product_id":"williamson-memorials-of-james-watt-1856-first-edition-alexander-mckenzie-ross-association-copy-campbell-bryson-montreal-binding","title":"Williamson — Memorials of James Watt — 1856 First Edition — Alexander McKenzie Ross Association Copy — Campbell Bryson Montreal Binding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWILLIAMSON, George.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMemorials of the Lineage, Early Life, Education, and Development of the Genius of James Watt.\u003c\/em\u003e Printed for the Watt Club by Thomas Constable, Printer to Her Majesty. 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. Contemporary sources identify Ross as Chief Engineer of the Grand Trunk and credit Ross and Stephenson with the design of the great tubular Victoria Bridge across the St Lawrence, constructed between 1854 and 1859.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe provenance is unusually well evidenced. The front pastedown bears an engraved armorial bookplate reading \u003cstrong\u003e“Alexander Mackenzie Ross”\u003c\/strong\u003e, while a preliminary blank is inscribed \u003cstrong\u003e“A. M. Ross — Montreal.”\u003c\/strong\u003e The volume was bound locally by \u003cstrong\u003eCampbell Bryson of 24 St François Xavier Street, Montreal\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose printed binder’s ticket remains on the front pastedown. Bryson is independently recorded at this address as a Montreal bookseller, stationer and binder during the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe association is especially appropriate. 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. These facsimiles reproduce not merely the handwriting but also endorsements, annotations and even coloured documentary stamps with striking fidelity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the illustrative material are portraits of James Watt and Denis Papin; the large folding map relating to the Clyde; facsimiles of Watt correspondence and calculations; engineering and surveying material; plans of the Royal Mail steamship \u003cem\u003eAtrato\u003c\/em\u003e; a large lithographic view of the \u003cem\u003eAtrato\u003c\/em\u003e at sea; and the proposed elevation for the Cemetery Hill Watt testimonial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe connection between book and owner is therefore unusually resonant: a contemporary documentary history of Watt, steam power and engineering owned in Montreal by one of the principal railway and bridge engineers of the age, while the Victoria Bridge project was under construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliamson’s \u003cem\u003eMemorials\u003c\/em\u003e was issued by the Watt Club of Greenock and was intended to preserve documentary evidence relating to Watt’s ancestry, education and early development while such evidence could still be recovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexander McKenzie Ross (1805–1862)\u003c\/strong\u003e — engraved bookplate to front pastedown and contemporary ownership inscription “A. 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. Boards with gilt double-rule borders and extensive blind-tooled panel decoration; spine divided into gilt-decorated compartments, lettered \u003cem\u003eMEMORIALS OF WATT\u003c\/em\u003e, with ornamental gilt tooling. Marbled endpapers. The binding is significantly rubbed and scuffed, particularly to the boards, but remains attractive and structurally sound, with the gilt spine retaining considerable presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite its condition, the volume remains an unusually appealing object: the richly gilt Montreal binding, Ross provenance and remarkable array of engineering plates and facsimiles give it substantially greater historical interest than an ordinary copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reservoir Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58086613451134,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/4464\/8318\/files\/IMG_0820.jpg?v=1790198543"}],"url":"https:\/\/reservoirbooks.store\/collections\/history-politics-biography.oembed","provider":"Reservoir Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}