First Edition. Together 3 volumes. 8vo. vol. I, 221 leaves, the last a blank, lacking; [vol. II] 216 leaves, the last a blank,
lacking; this volume has no title-page, the half-title for Part II is on Ff
1, pagination as well as signatures are continuous; vol. III, 233 leaves. The portrait which should be in vol. I is lacking
in this copy.
Lowndes III, page 1412.
Hazlitt II, page 370.
Grose 2875.
STC L3460-3462.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled end papers by Joseph Milligan; initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I and T in each volume (in vol. II at sig. Ii and Tt); waterstained throughout. With the Library of Congress 1815
bookplate.
The binding was executed for Jefferson on February 24, 1809, billed on March 8, price $3.00. This book is on most of Jefferson’s lists of recommended historical reading.
Edmund Ludlow, ?1617-1692, English regicide, spent the last years of his life in exile at Vevey, where his Memoirs were nominally printed.
The Preface to vol. III is dated from Bern, March 26, 1699. In vol. I is an account of the reduction of Barbadoes by Sir George
Ayescue, with the aid of the Virginia fleet, in 1651.
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Temple’s works.
2. v.
fol. 1665-1679. insert ante.
1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 95, as above, omitting
insert ante.
TEMPLE,
Sir William.
The Works of Sir William Temple, Bar
t. In
Two Volumes. Volume the First [-Second]. To which is prefixed, The Life and Character of Sir William Temple. Written by a particular Friend [Jonathan Swift].
London: Printed for
T. Woodward,
S. Birt [and others],
1750.
D273 .A2 T4
2 vol. 4to. vol. I. 248 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Vertue after P. Lely; vol. II, 291 leaves, in twos. The book is technically a quarto, but measures 12 in. by 9 in. and has the appearance of a
folio. The general title of volume II is differently set up from that in volume I and has only an ornament between the words
Volume the Second and the imprint; each work has a separate title-page. On 6P
1, page (525), at the end of the second volume is the title for
An Introduction to the History of England . . .
Lowndes V, page 2602.
This edition not in Grose.
Jefferson entered this work twice in his dated manuscript catalogue, the first to indicate its rightful place, between Ludlow’s memoirs and the Account of the Rye House plot, with the indication
see post; the second as above on the next leaf where he had plenty of room, with reference to the former entry.
Jefferson acquired his copy of this work with his purchase of the Bland library.
Sir William Temple, 1628-1699, English statesman and author.
Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, dean of St. Patrick’s, secretary and friend of Sir William Temple, whose papers and memoirs he prepared for publication.
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Account of the Rye house plot.
fol. 1683.
1815 Catalogue, page 17. no. 96, as above.
[SPRAT,
Thomas.]
A True Account and Declaration of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King, His Present Majesty, and the Government: As
it was Order’d to be Published by His late Majesty.
[
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
Thomas Newcomb, One of His Majesties Printers; and are to be sold by
Sam. Lowndes,
1685.
DA430 .S75
First Edition. Folio. 160 leaves; the verso of the first leaf (recto blank) has the authorization of James II to
Thomas Newcomb One of Our Printers, to Print this Account and Declaration; and
that no other Person presume to Print the same, dated from Whitehall, 23 May, 1685, and signed by Sunderland. The second alphabet is for the relative tract
Copies of the Informations and Original Papers relating to the Proof of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King . . . usually bound with Sprat’s work.
Lowndes V, page 2483.
STC S5066 places this as the second issue of the first edition, which was printed in the same year by Thomas Newcomb, but without the name Sam. Lowndes in the imprint.
Thomas Sprat, 1635-1713, was made dean of Westminster in 1683 and bishop of Rochester in 1684. This work was published anonymously, and
was compiled to express the author’s gratitude for these preferments. A second edition was published in the same year.
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