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Golden Cockerel Press. Lucretia Borgia, The Chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldi, Renaissance Period, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, commentary and notes by Randolph Hughes, engravings by Reynolds Stone, 1942, t.e.g., remainder uncut, orig. cloth gilt, sl. soiled, folio. Ltd. ed., 139/350. (1)

Golden Cockerel Press. One Hundred and Eleven Poems by Robert Herrick, illust. W. Russell Flint, 1955, colour frontis., colour title vign. and numerous monotone illusts. by William Russell Flint, t.e.g., orig. qtr. vellum gilt, in cloth slipcase (rubbed and some marks), sm. folio Limited edition 156/550. (1)

Golden Cockerel Press. The Golden Bed of Kydno, Translated from the Modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris, by P. M., illust. Lettice Sandford, 1935, twelve copper eng. plts. by Lettice Sandford, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. red full niger morocco gilt, one or two marks and some light spotting, folio Limited edition of 200 copies, this being number 25/60 specially bound, signed by P. Mathers, without the additional set of signed prints. (1)

Golden Cockerel Press. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illust. John Buckland?Wright, 1938, copper eng. plts. by John Buckland?Wright, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. brown crushed morocco gilt, a few minor marks to extrems., folio Limited edition 255/300. (1)

Golden Cockerel Press. Endymion, A Poetic Romance by John Keats, 1947, num. wood eng. illusts., incl. some full?page, a few leaves with some foxing and browning, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt?dec. qtr. vellum, folio Limited edition 181/500. (1)

Parker (Agnes Miller, illust.). Wood Engravings from the Fables of Esope. The Story of a Remarkable Book by Ian Rogerson, together with Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk?Tales. John Sampson and The Gypsies of Wales, by Ian Rogerson, together 2 vols., Gregynog Press, 1996?97, b&w wood eng. plts., printed from the original blocks on Japanese vellum, partly untrimmed, orig. matching cloth?backed patterned boards, in matching slipcases, folio Limited edition 69/200 & 72/200 respectively. Handsomely produced reprints of two of Agnes Miller Parker's finest private press works. (2)

Martin (Frank (born 1921)). A series of eleven woodcut illustrations to The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night, pub. Folio Society, 1958, b&w woodcuts, each signed in pencil, approx. 17.5 x 10.5 cm and similar, together with eleven ex?libris by Frank Martin, all for Gordon Smith, all featuring female nudes, mostly signed in pencil, approx. 16.5 x 10 cm and smaller, incl. one or two duplicates, plus eight other various erotic bookplates by Elly de Koster, Paolo Rovegno, Jacques Rasdolsky, etc, all contained in modern plastic album (1)

Hale (Kathleen). Orlando (The Marmalade Cat): Buys a Farm, 1st ed., 1942, together with His Silver Wedding, 1st ed. 1944; Becomes a Doctor, 1st ed., 1944; A Camping Holiday, 2nd ed., 1942; A Trip Abroad, 2nd ed., 1942, col. illusts., orig. pictorial soft covers, slightly rubbed to covers & extrems., slim folio, plus Orlando (The Marmalade Cat): The Frisky Housewife, 1st ed., 1956, col. illusts., inscription to upper paste down, orig. printed boards with juvenile drawings to boards, backstrip defective & extrems. rubbed, slim 8vo (6)

Rupert. Rupert Little Bear, More Stories, by Mary Tourtel, Sampson Low, [1939], col. frontis. plt., illusts. throughout, one crayoned in a juvenile hand, upper hinge partially split, orig. linen?backed pictorial boards showing Rupert and friends waving at a witch on a broomstick, rubbed and a little marked, worn at corners, 4to, together with Rupert and the Wonderful Boots, by Mary Tourtel, pub. Sampson Low, [1946], col. illusts. throughout, name filled?in with ink, orig. col. printed wrappers, rubbed and frayed, worn at spine, folio (2)

A COLLECTION OF FARTHINGS, SIXPENCES, SHILLINGS AND HALF-CROWNS, in a folio

1692. 4 William and Mary. contemp. calf, rubbed, joints cracked, folio. Includes An Act to Prevent Abuses Committed by the Traders in Butter and Cheese; An Act for Encouraging the Apprehending of Highway Men; An Act for Regaining, Encouraging and Settling the Greenland Trade; An Act for the more easie Discovery and Conviction of such as shall Destroy the Game of this Kingdom; and An Act for Continuing the Acts for Prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France, and for the Encouragement of Privateers. (1)

1693-94. 5 William and Mary, and 5 & 6 William and Mary. [includes the Bank of England Act],. contemp. calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, folio. Contains the Bank of England Act, titled "An Act for Granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors, for Securing certain Recompences and Advantages.. to such Persons as shall Voluntarily Advance the Sum of Fifteen hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France", 1694. Also includes An Act for the Importation of Fine Italian, Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silk; An Act to Prevent Disputes and Controversies concerning Royal Mines; An Act for Relief of the Orphans and other Creditors of the City of London; and An Act for the Licensing and Regulating Hackney?Coaches and Stage?Coaches. (1)

1694. 6 and 7 William and Mary. contemp. calf, leather defective, joints cracked, folio. Includes An Act for the Frequent Meeting and Calling of Parliament [i.e. The Triennial Act]; An Act for Exempting Apothecaries from Serving the Offices of Constable, Scavenger, and other Parish and Ward Offices, and from Serving upon Juries; An Act for Granting to His Majesty several Addional Duties upon Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Spices, towards satisfaction of the Debts due for Transport Services for the Reduction of Ireland; and An Act to Prevent Counterfeiting and Clipping the Coin of this Kingdom. The Triennial Act ensured regular meetings of the Westminster Parliament and, by limiting their life?span to a maximum of three years, required regular elections, thus limiting the royal power to dissolve Parliament. (1)

1695. 7 & 8 William III. contemp. calf, worn, folio. Includes An Act for Remedying the I State of the Coin of the Kingdom; An Act to prevent False and Double Returns of Members to serve in Parliament; An Act to Incourage the Bringing Plate into the Mint to be Coined..; An Act for Preventing Frauds, and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade; An Act for Continuing to His Majesty certain Duties upon Salt, Glass Wares.., for Establishing a National Land Bank..; An Act for the better Incouragement of the Greenland Trade; and An Act for Encouraging the Linen Manufacture of Ireland.. (1)

1697. 9 William III. trivial marginal worming, contemp. calf, leather defective, lacking the backstrip, although stitching intact, folio. Includes An Act to prevent the further Currency of any Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom, and for Recoining such as is now in being..; An Act that all Retailers of Salt shall Sell by Weight; An Act to prevent the Throwing or Firing of Squibbs, Serpents, and other Fire?works; An Act to Settle the Trade to Africa; and An Act for the Increase and Preservation of Timber in the New Forest in the County of Southampton. (1)

1699. 11 William III. first two leaves re?margined to size, trivial worming in the gutter at the beginning of the volume, contemp. calf, worn, spine defective, folio. Includes An Act to Enable His Majesties Natural Born Subjects to Inherit the Estate of their Ancestors, either Lineal or Collateral, notwithstanding their Father or Mother were Aliens; An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy; An Act for the more Effectual Imploying the Poor, by Incouraging the Manufactures of this Kingdom; and An Act to Enable Justices of Peace to Build and Repair Goals in their respective Counties. (1)

1705. 4 & 5 Anne. contemp. calf, worn, joints cracked, folio. Includes An Act for Exhibiting a Bill in this present Parliament for Naturalizing the most Excellent Princess Sophia.. and the Issue of Her Body; An Act for making the Town of New Ross, in the County of Wexford.. a Port for the Exporting Wooll from Ireland into this Kingdom; An Act for the better Security of Her Majesties Person and Government, and of the succession to the Crown of England in the Protestant Line; An Act for Laying further Duties on Low?Wines.. and for Enabling Her Majesty to Dispose the Effects of William Kidd, a Notorious Pirate, to the use of Greenwich Hospital..; and An Act for the better Enabling the Master.. of Trinity?House, to Rebuild the Light?House on the Edystone Rock. (1)

1708. 7 Anne. contemp. calf, rubbed, folio. includes An Act for Naturalising Foreign Protestants; An Act for Enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England..; An Act for the better Preservation of Parochial Libraries in.. England; and An Act for Improving the Union of the Two Kingdoms [England and Scotland]. (1)

1713. 13 Anne. [although titled "Anno.. Duodecimo" on the divisional title?pages and running headlines],[includes the Longitude Act 1714..]. , contemp. calf, leather defective, joints cracked, folio. Contains the first Longitude Act, titled "An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons or shall Discover the Longitude at Sea". Also includes An Act for Allowing a Drawback upon the Exportation of Salt, to be made use of for the Curing of Fish taken at North Seas, or at Isleland; An Act for Charging and Continuing the Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry.. And to Enable the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and others, to Lend money upon South Sea Stock; An Act to Prevent the Growth of Schism, and for the further Security of the Churches of England and Ireland; An Act for Encouraging the Tobacco Trade; and An Act fot the Preserving all such ships, and Goods thereof, which shall happen to be forced on Shore, or Stranded upon the Coasts of this Kingdom, or any other of Her Majesties Dominions. The Schism Act saw the Tories turning on the Whigs and their supporters by legislating against dissenting schools and academies. (1)

1717. 4 George I [includes the Transportation Act],. some text stained, first leaf inserted from a smaller copy, contemp. calf, slightly rubbed, folio. Contains An Act for the Further Preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons, and Unlawful Exporters of Wooll, and for Declaring the Law upon some Points relating to Pirates. This statute, known as the Transportation Act, allowed for transportation not only as part of the pardoning process in the case of capital offences, but also as a penalty for a wide range of lesser crimes, including grand larceny. Parliament went on to pass another sixteen Acts between 1720 and 1763 that established transportation as a penalty for crimes from perjury to poaching. Returning from transportation was a capital offence. Also includes An Act to Enable His Majesty to be Governor of the South?Sea Company [Sperling 75]; and An Act for Relief of the Wholesale Traders and Dealers in English Bonelace, by Obviating several Doubts in the several Acts for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars. (1)

1719. 6 George I,. contemp. calf, rubbed, folio. Includes An Act for Enabling the South?Sea Company to Increase their present Capital Stock and Fund.. [Sperling 158]; An Act for the better Securing the Dependency of the Kingdom of Ireland upon the Crown of Great Britain; An Act for preventing the Carriage of Excessive Loads of Meal, Malt, Bricks, and Coals, within Ten Miles of the Cities of London and Westminster; and An Act for better Securing certain Powers and Privileges intended to be granted by His Magesty by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea.. (1)

1721. 8 George I,. contemp. calf, worn, folio. Includes An Act for taking off the Duty, upon all Salt used in the Curing of Red Herrings..; An Act for Encouragement of all Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom.. and for reducing the Duties upon Beaver Skins, Pepper, Mace, Cloves, and Nutmegs Imported, and for Importation of all Furs of the Product of the British Plantations, into this Kingdom only; An Act to prevent the Clandestine Running of Goods, and the Danger of Infection thereby, and to prevent Ships breaking their Quarentine..; An Act for the more effectual Suppressing of Piracy; An Act for better Supplying the City and Liberties of Westminster, and Parts adjacent, with Water; together with several Acts relating to the South Sea Company. (1)

1722. 9 George I,. [includes the Workhouse Test Act], contemp. calf, worn, folio. Contains An Act for Amending the Laws relating to the Settlement, Imployment, and Relief of the Poor. Statute, known as the Workhouse Test Act, was sponsored by the SPCK. It encouraged parishes to found workhouses to provide the poor with work and accommodation. Also includes An Act for Enabling His Majexty to put the Customs of Great Britain under the Management of One or more Commissions, and for better securing and ascertaining the Duties on Tobacco..; An Act for the more effectual Punishing wicked and evil?disposed Persons going Armed in Disguise, and doing Injuries and Violence to the Persons and Properties of His Majesty's Subjects..; Acts to inflict Pains and Penalties on John Plunket, George Kelly alias Johnson, and Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester; and Acts relating to the South Sea Company. The "Act.. for Punishing wicked and evil?disposed Persons" became known as the "Block Act", and created about fifty new capital offences, including killing game, breaking down fences, and going in disguise. (1)

1726. 13 George I [includes Negro Slaves to Buenos Ayres],. minor marginal worming at the end, first leaf detached, contemp. calf, worn, folio. Includes An Act for Importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Pensilvania in America; An Act to enable the South Sea Company, with the Licence and Consent of the East India Company, to take in Negroes within their Limits of Trade, and to deliver the same at Buenos Ayres [Sperling 469]; An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses in the dying [sic] Trade; and An Act for better Regulation of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures in.. Scotland. (1)

1729. 3 George II,. contemp. calf, spine rubbed at head, folio. Includes An Act for importing Salt from Europe into the Colony of New York in America; An Act for reducing the Annuity or Fund of the United East India Company, and for ascertaining their Right of Trade to the East Indies; An Act for the better Regulation of Juries; An Act for the better Regulation of the Coal Trade; and An Act for granting Liberty to carry Rice from his Majesty's Province of Carolina.. directly to any Part of Europe Southward of Cape Finisterre.. (1)

1735. 9 George II,. text damp?marked throughout, with the paper rather fragile at the end, contemp. calf, a little rubbed, folio. Includes An Act to repeal the Statute made [1 James I] intituted. An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits..; An Act for the better enlightning the Streets of the City of London; An Act for laying a Duty upon the Retalers of Spirituous Liquors, and for licensing the Retalers thereof; and An Act for naturalizing her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The Witchcraft Act banned accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. The second Gin Act, "for laying a Duty upon the Retalers of Spirituous Liquors..", was the second attempt to deal with the problem of "Madam Geneva". It required retailers to buy a £50 licence, and imposed a heavy twenty shillings per gallon duty on the retail trade. It also made provision for the payment of informers. It was a disasterous failure. The idea spread that when the Act came into effect gin would be permanently unobtainable. Riots resulted, there was an orgy of bingeing and suspected informers were murdered. Great ingenuity was applied to the task of evasion: some outlets styled themselves as chemists, and coloured the gin in labelled bottles with such instructions as "Take 2 or 3 spoonfuls of this 4 or 5 times a day, or as often as the fit takes you". Between 1736 and 1738 12,000 were convicted of breaking the Act, and only two licences were ever taken out. It was repealed in 1743. (1)

1743. 17 George II,. contemp. calf, a little rubbed, folio. Includes An Act to oblige Overseers of the Poor to give publick Notice of Rates made for the Relief of the Poor, and to produce the same; An Act for raising and establishing a Fund for a Provision for the Widows and Children of the Ministers of the Church of Scotland..; An Act for repealing the Duties payable on Glass Beads..; An Act for the better Encouragement of Seamen in His Majesty's Service, and Privateers, to annoy the Enemy; and An Act to make it High Treason to hold Correspondence with the Sons of the Pretender to His Majesty's Crown.. in Case they shall land or attempt to land in Great Britain.. (1)

1744. 18 George II [includes the North West Passage],. trivial worming in the first few leaves, contemp. reversed calf, spine discoloured, folio. Contains An Act for giving a Publick Reward to such Person or Persons, His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a North West Passage through Hudson's Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America. A prize of £20,000 was offered for "a perfect Discovery of the said Passage..". Also includes An Act for making the Surgeons of London and the Barbers of London Two Separate and Distinct Corporations; An Act for effectually preventing the Exportation of Foreign Linens, under the Denomination of British or Irish Linens; An Act for repealing the present Inland Duty.. upon all Tea sold in Great Britain.. and for better securing the Duty upon Tea, and other Duties of Excise..; and An Act to explain, amend, and make more effectual the Laws in Being, to prevent excessive and deceitful Gaming, and to restrain and prevent the excessive Increase of Horse Races. (1)

1762-63. 3 George III [includesJohn Harrison's Machine], Acts 1-25, pp 1-482,. the Table of the Statutes partly excised, contemp. reversed calf, spine worn, folio. Contains An Act for the Encouragement of John Harrison, to publish and make known his Invention of a Machine or Watch, for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea. Although preceded by a remarkably successful and accurate trial, the Board of Longitude deemed that "the Experiments.. have not been sufficient to determine the Longitude at Sea", and withheld the cash prize. None of the astronomers or admirals on the Board understood the Watch, and they began hounding Harrison early in 1763 to explain it to them, both as a matter of intellectual curiosity and national security. Also includes An Act for the Regulation of His Majesty's Marine Forces while on Shore; An Act to prevent Occassional Freemen from Voting at Elections of Members to serve in Parliament for Cities and Boroughs; An Act to impower the Commissioners or Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, .. to provide for such Seamen worn out and become decrepit in the Service of their Country..; and An Act to prevent fraudulent and occasional Votes in the Elections of Knights of the Shire, and of Members for Cities and Towns.. (1)

1763-64. 4 George III, Acts 1-41, pp 1-580,. the Table of Statutes partly excised, some damp?staining, paper of last few leaves rather fragile, contemp. reversed calf, a little rubbed, folio. Contains several important Acts relating to the American colonies, including An Act for granting a Bounty upon the Importation of Hemp, and rough and undressed Flax, from His Majesty's Colonies in America; An Act for granting.. a Liberty to carry Rice from.. South Carolina and Georgia, directly to any Part of America to the Southward.. subject to the like Duty as is now paid.. to Places in Europe..; and An Act to prevent Paper Bills of Credit, hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's Colonies of Plantations in America, from being declared to be a legal Tender.. Also includes An Act for vesting the Fort of Senegal, and its Dependencies, in the Company of Merchants trading to Africa; An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses in relation to the sending and receiving of Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Postage; and An Act for the Encouragement of the Whale Fishery in the Gulph and River of Saint Lawrence, and on the Coasts of His Majesty's Colonies in America. (1)

1766-67. 7 George III, Acts 1-59 [includes the Tea Act], pp 1-894, the Tables of Statutes partly excised,. slight damp?staining, mostly confined to the margins, contemp. calf, patch of leather missing from upper cover, folio. Contains several important Acts relating to the American colonies, including An Act for taking off the Inland Duty of One Shilling per Pound Weight upon all Black and Single Teas consumed in Great Britain, and for granting a Drawback upon the Exportation of Teas to Ireland, and the British Dominions in America.. for permitting the Exportation of Teas in smaller Quantities than One Lot to Ireland, or the said Dominions in America, and for preventing Teas seized and condemned from being consumed in Great Britain; An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, for allowing a Drawback of the Duties of Customs upon the Exportation, from this Kingdom, of Coffee and Cocoa Nuts of the Produce of the said Colonies.. and for more effectually preventing the clandestine Running or Goods in the said Colonies..; and An Act for restraining and prohibiting the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives, of the Province of New York.. from passing or assenting to any Act of Assembly, Vote, or Resolution.. Also includes An Act to enable the Trustees of the British Museum to exchange, sell, or dispose of, any Duplicates of printed Books, Medals, Coins, or other Curiosities..; An Act to amend and render more effectual An Act.. for Encouragement of the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching, Historical and other Prints, and for vesting in, and securing to Jane Hogarth Widow, the Property in certain Prints; and An Act for erecting a proper and convenient Pier at the Port of Saint Ives in the County of Cornwall, for the better Protection of Ships and Vessels.. (1)

1775. 15 George III, Acts 1-26, pp 1-096,. without a Table of Statutes, contemp. calf, a little marked and rubbed, folio. Contains several highly important statutes and relating to the American colonies, including An Act to restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Provinces of Massachuset's Bay and New Hampshire, and Colonies of Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation, in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies, and to prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland..; An Act to restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, Pensylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies..; and An Act to amend and render more effectual in His Majesty's Dominions in America.. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion.. (1)

1776. 16 George III, Acts 1-29, pp 1-836,. bound without Table of Statutes, contemp. calf, slightly worn, folio. With some highly important statutes relating to the American Colonies and War of Independence, including An Act to prohibit all Trade and Intercourse with the Colionies of New Hampshire, Massachuset's Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, during the Continuance of the present Rebellion..; Also includes An Act for giving a publick Reward unto such Person or Persons.. as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans..; An Act for the better securing a Fund, belonging to certain Persons of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, applicable to charitable Uses..; and An Act for vesting in John Liardet, Clerk.. the sole Use and Property of a certain Composition or Cement of his Invention.. (1)

1782. 22 George III, Acts 1-41, pp 1-658,. without the Table of Statutes, contemp. calf, a little rubbed, folio. Includes An Act for the better detaining, and more easy Exchange, of American Prisoners brought into Great Britain; An Act to prohibit the ransoming of Ships or Vessels captured from His Majesty's Subjects..; An Act for allowing the Importation of Goods of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture, of the Islands of Saint Christopher, Nevis and Montserrat.. upon payment of the British Plantation Duties; and An Act to permit the Importation of British Plantation Tobacco from any Port or Place either in America, or the West Indies, during the present Hostilities. (1)

1791-97. 31 to 37 George III. A collection of over 350 public Acts from these parliamentary sessions, in 8 bound volumes,. occ. light damp?staining, contemp. calf, more or less uniform, a little rubbed, some joints cracked, lacking some labels, folio. Each volume contains an unbroken sequence of Acts, with consecutive pagination within that volume. Some sessions, or part sessions, are missing however. The contents reflect the society and developments of the time. There are a large number of local Acts, relating to urban improvements, and very many River Navigation and Canal Acts. Also contains Acts on trade, including the Slave trade, commerce, and taxation, and some occasional appealing esoteric subjects. Includes An Act for vesting in James Turner.. the sole Use and Property of certain Yellow Colour, of his Invention..; An Act to continue.. the shipping and carrying Slaves in British Vessels from the Coast of Africa; An Act for establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of Newfoundland..; An Act for requiring all Boats, Barges, and other Vessels.. used on Navigable Rivers, and on Inland Navigation.. to be registered; An Act for carrying into Execution the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, concluded between His Majesty and the United States of America; and An Act for enabling Thomas Macklin to dispose of his Collection of Modern Paintings, as now exhibited at his Gallery.. by way of Chance. (8)

1685 and later. 1 James II onwards. A large collection of Acts from the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, to 7 George II, 1733,. comprising the annual sessional volumes, or part volumes, with occasional individual Acts extracted, some soiling, occasional marginal worming or staining, various bindings, mostly contemp. calf, worn, some volumes broken, folio. Particularly strong in William and Mary, William III, and Anne. Whilst some Acts have been removed, a large number of important items remain, including for instance many relating to the South Sea Company, and the Bubble of 1720. The Act of Toleration of 1689 is also present. Virtually all of the Acts are duplicates of those offered in the main chronological run of annual volumes present. (23)

1694. 5 & 6 William and Mary. An Act for Granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale and other Liquers, for Securing certain Recompences and Advantages.. to such Persons as shall Voluntarily Advance the Sum of Fifteen hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France,. 56pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, and final blank leaf, together with 1695, 7 & 8 William III. An Act for Continuing to His Majesty certain Duties upon Salt, Glass Wares, Stone and Earthern Wares, and for granting several Duties upon Tobacco Pipes.. for Carrying on the War against France, and for Establishing a National Land Bank.., 74pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, both disbound, folio. The Bank of England Act, and a further Act for founding a "National Land Bank". The Bank was founded in 1694 as a device for securing a government loan of #1,500.000. Its successful flotation institutionalised the national debt. (2)

1694. 6 & 7 William III, An Act to Prevent Counterfeiting and Clipping the Coin of this Kingdom,. 10pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, together with 1695, 7 William III, An Act for Remedying the Ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom, 16pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, and final blank leaf, and 1695, 7 & 8 William III, An Act for taking off the Obligation and Incouragement for Coining Guineas for a certain time therein mentioned, and seven other Acts from the reign of William III, all relating to coinage, all disbound, folio. (10)

1698. 10 & 11 William III. An Act for making Billingsgate a Free Market for Sale of Fish,. 7pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, disbound, folio. For many centuries Billingsgate and Queenhithe were the main wharfs in the City for the mooring of fishing vessels, Billingsgate gradually superseding its rival. It became a "free and open market for all sorts of fish" in 1698, when this Act was passed to break the monopoly of a group of fishmongers. The foul and abusive language used there became notorious, incidently. (1)

1698. 11 & 12 William III. An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy,. 14pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, disbound, folio. (1)

1698. 10 & 11 William III. An Act to Incourage the Trade to Newfoundland,. 16pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, and final blank leaf, disbound, folio. Britain's interest lay in the immense cod fisheries off the Newfoundland coast. (1)

1720. 7 George I. An Act for making the Rivers Mercy and Irwell Navigable from Liverpoole to Manchester..,. 10pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, and final blank leaf, disbound, folio. Work on the Mersey, to improve navigation to Manchester, began in 1724. (1)

1728. 2 George II. An Act for better Preservation of His Majesty's Woods in America, and for the Encouragement of the Importation of Naval Stores from thence, and to encourage the Importation of Masts, Yards, and Bowsprights, from.. Scotland,. 13pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, disbound, folio. No White Pine Trees were to be cut down, and premiums were offered for the importation of masts, tar, pitch and turpentine. (1)

1745. 19 George II. An Act for the more effectual disarming the Highlands in Scotland, and for more effectually securing the Peace of the said Highlands, and for restraining the Use of the Highland Dress,. 16pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, together with 1746, 20 George II. An Act to enlarge the Time limited by an Act.. for restraining the Use of the Highland Dress, 4pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, and 1746, 20 George II. An Act to prevent the Return of such Rebels and Traitors concerned in the late Rebellion, as have been, or shall be pardoned on Condition of Transportation, and also to hinder their going into the Enemies Country, 4pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, and four other Acts relating to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, all disbound, folio. Apart from the actions of "Butcher Cumberland", Parliament undertook a course of legislative Scots bashing at the end of the Forty?five, aimed at dismantling clan society and preventing any further insurrection in the Highlands. Amongst the totemic Acts passed were the new Disarming Act, the Heritable Jurisdictions Act, and the Tenure of Ward Holding Act, all present here. Other Acts concerned the punishment of rebels, and forfeiture of estates. (7)

1750. 24 George II. An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year, and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use,. 32pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, disbound, folio. Eighteenth?century Europe was in a process of transition from the "Old Style" Julian calendar to the Gregorian calender which was fixed in 1582. Britain changed in 1752, at which stage eleven days in September had to be "lost", September 2nd being followed by September 14th. (1)

1753. 26 George II. An Act to render more effectual an Act.. for providing a publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall discover the Longitude at Sea,. 5pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, disbound, folio. A revision of the First Longitude Act of 1714, "with regard to the making Experiments of Proposals made for discovering the Longitude, and to enlarge the Number of Commissioners.." (1)

1753. 26 George II. An Act to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion, to be naturalized by Parliament; and for other Purposes therein mentioned,. 4pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, disbound, folio. The Jewish Naturalisation Act. The Act made it easier for Jews to be naturalised by private act of Parliament, dropping the phrase "on the true faith of a Christian" from the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance. A vicious press campaign of anti?Semitic hatred, with popular backing, forced its repeal within a year. Drunken country?wide celebrations followed, with effigies of Jews paraded through the streets and burnt. (1)

1753. 26 George II. An Act for the Purchase of the Museum, or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts; and for providing One General Repository for the better Reception and more convenient use of the said Collections; and of the Cottonian Library..,. 36pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, disbound, folio. The British Museum Foundation Act. The BM originated in an offer by the physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane, who died in 1753 and suggested in his Will that Parliament might like to buy for #20,000 his works of art, antiquities, and natural history collections that had cost him about #50,000 to assemble. The Act authorised the purchase, and that of the Harleian Manuscripts. A sum of #300,000 was raised by public lottery and the Museum, housed in Montagu House, Bloomsbury, opened in January 1759. (1)

1753. 26 George II. An Act for regulating the Manner of Licensing Ale?houses in.. England, and for the more easy convicting Persons selling Ale, and other Liquors, without Licence,. 8pp, plus parliamentary session title page, disbound, folio. (1)

Ainsworth (Henry). Annotations upon the Five Bookes of Moses, the Booke of the Psalms, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles, Miles Flesher for John Bellamie, 1627-26, seven separate title pages, contemp. calf, some wear to extrems. with lower board and last two leaves near?detached, folio, together with Hutcheson (George), An exposition of the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to John, 1657, title page torn with loss, some browning and contemp. marginalia, contemp. panelled calf, crude reback, folio (2)

Boniface VIII (Pope). Liber sextus decretalium cum certis additionibus Johannis Andree, Basel, Johann Froben & Johann Amerbach, 1 December 1500,. two parts in one, 194 and ninety?four folio leaves, printed in red and black throughout, large woodcut illust. by Sebastian Brant, occn. early ink marginalia, late 18th or early 19th c. full sprinkled calf, contrasting morocco labels to spine, 4to. Handsome copy. Edited by Sebastian Brant, with notes by Johannes Andree. Goff B1015. Hain?Copinger 3626. Pellechet 2763. BMC III, 793. (1)

Dugdale (Sir William). A Short View of the late Troubles in England, 1st ed., Oxford, 1681, eng. vignette to title page, light staining to upper margin, late 18th c./early 19th c. half reversed calf, leather worn and joints cracked, folio With the armorial bookplates of William Priestley, Lightcliffe. Priestley founded the Halifax Quarterly Choral Society in 1817. Wing D2492. (1)

Kollar (Adam Frantisek). Analecta Monumentorum omnis aevi Vindobonensia, 2 vols., Vienna, 1761-62, eng. vignette titles printed in red and black, numerous eng. plts., incl. many folding, some minor foxing and marks, contemp. sheep, heavily rubbed and scuffed, folio (2)

[La Popeliniere, Henri Lancelot Voisin de]. The Historie of France: The Foure First Bookes, [trans. Edward Hoby], Printed by Iohn Windet, 1595, title withing decorative woodcut border (one small and two large ink stamps, lower outer corner torn with small loss), woodcut initial and headpiece to dedication and each of the four books, colophon and printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf of text (closed repair not affecting text), final leaf blank, some sl. browning and soiling throughout, two large ink name stamps to front pastedown, hinges crudely repaired, later sheep, somewhat rubbed and worn at extremities, folio STC 11276. (1)

Laroon (Marcellus, 1653-702). The Cryes of the City of London, Drawne After the Life.., Printed & Sold by Henry Overton, 1711, seventy?four fine plts. engraved by P. Tempest (complete, inc. title), a.e.g., early 19th c. panelled calf by Tout, neatly rebacked retaining gilt dec. spine, slim folio Bookplate of Edward Whittaker Hennell. A fine copy. (1)

Plutarch. Summi et Philosophi et Historici Parallela, id est, Vitae Illustrium Virorum Graecorum et Romanorum, utilissima historia expositae, atque inter se comparatae. Guilielmo Xylandro Augustano interprete, Frankfurt, Sigismund Feyerabendt, 1580,. title printed in red and black with large woodcut device, large woodcut coat of arms to first leaf of dedication, woodcut head pieces, initials, etc., many large woodcut illusts., mostly of battle scenes, etc., after Joost Amman, old vellum, rubbed and marked, small repair to head of spine, folio (1)

Benzelius (Erik & Lye, Edward). Sacrorum Evangeliorum Versio Gothica ex Codice Argenteo Emendata Atque Suppleta, Oxford: e Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1750, text in Latin and Gothic, spotting to endpapers, untrimmed large paper copy, contemp. mottled calf, lacks lower board with upper board detached but extant, folio, together with another copy of the same work, similarly lacking one board, plus Skeat (Walter W.), The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, in Anglo?Saxon, Northumbrian. and Old Mercian Versions.. together with The Gospel According to Saint Luke.., Cambridge University Press, 1874 & 1887 respec., orig. cloth, 4to (4)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches, 2 vols., Oxford, printed by John Baskett, 1717-6, title and 4pp calendar printed in red and black, ruled in red throughout, engr. allegorical frontis by Du?Bosc after J. Thornhill (showing Moses writing the first words of Genesis), general title with engr. view of Oxford by G. Van der Gucht, N.T. title with large engr. vignette of the Annunciation, engr. headpieces, initials etc, num. engr. illusts to text after Thornhill, Cheron, Laguere and others, occ. minor foxing, a few leaves with some light overall browning, a few minor marginal tears without loss, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, contemp. Oxford binding of gilt?dec. black goatskin, covers elaborately panelled (decorated with insects, snails, etc.) with a central lozenge (decorated with phoenix) enclosing royal coat?of?arms, gilt corner?pieces, gilt pyramid built up from small tools to each side, spine compartments tooled with sprays and serpent in each corner, retaining 4 (of 8) orig. blue silk ties, with gold threaded tassels, spines a little dulled, joints partly cracked, rubbed and some wear to outer corners, large folio (page size approx. 540 x 355mm). (2)

Bible [Italian]. La Sacra Bibbia, tradotta in lingua Italiana, e, commentata da Giovanni Diodati, 2nd ed., Geneva, Pietro Chovet, 1641,. addn. eng. title by Abraham Bosse, printed title with woodcut device (with single library ink stamp at foot), occn. light browning, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, single library ink stamp to verso of front endpaper, 18th c. panelled calf gilt, scuffed and some wear, joints partly cracked, folio. Darlow & Moule 5600. Ownership signature of A. Somersett (possibly Adolphus Somersett eleventh duke, 1775-855), to head of title, and with presentation inscription in ink to front endpaper "Uvedale Price his Book. The Gift of the Rght. Honble. the Lord Somersett, Poston, Nov: ye 2d 1718." The date would appear to be an error. (1)

Bible [English]. An Illustration of the Holy Scriptures, by Notes and Explications on the Old and New Testament, 3 vols., 6th ed., 1759, num. eng. plts., many folding, contemp. calf gilt, the upper cover of each vol. lettered 'Francis & Eliz: George, 1762', joints cracked, some wear, thick folio (3)