Literature and theology
Collection of works, 17th-19th century
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Newbery, Elizabeth (publisher). Anecdotes of Mary; or, the Good Governess. By the Author of the History of the Davenport Family. London: for E. Newbery, 1795. 12mo, contemporary marbled sheep, spine ruled in gilt, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 4 pp. advertisements, spotting, marginal damp-staining to frontispiece, free endpaper removed [ESTC T95414, tracing 7 copies in UK libraries; Roscoe J328];
Jurieu, Pierre. The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies ... Proving, that the Papacy is the Antichristian Kingdom. London: [no printer], 1687. First edition in English, 8vo, contemporary sheep [R6542];
Scott, John. The Christian Life, from its Beginning to its Consummation in Glory. London: for Walter Kettilby, 1683. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, engraved frontispiece, spill-burn in X6 [ESTC R220710];
Grotius, Hugo. De veritate religionis Christianae. Edio adcuratior. London: Paul and Isaac Vaillant, 1718. 8vo, contemporary sheep, engraved frontispiece, rubbed, joints cracked [ESTC N17247];
and approx. 20 others (these not collated), including: Fenelon, Dialogues of the Dead, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1755 (2 volumes, contemporary sheep, 2 copies on ESTC); New Testament in Greek, London: Jacob Tonson, 1714 (contemporary calf, frontispiece, worn); A New Version of the Psalms, Aberdeen, 1771 (contemporary sheep); The Confession of Faith ... third edition, 1688 (contemporary panelled calf); Robert South, Posthumous Works, 1717 (contemporary panelled calf, portrait frontispiece); Richard Baxter, A Paraphrase on the New Testament ... The third edition, corrected, 1701 (contemporary panelled calf, portrait frontispiece); Cicero, De natura deorum, Cambridge, 1723 (contemporary panelled calf); idem, Of the Nature of the Gods, 1741 (contemporary sprinkled sheep); finely bound copies of the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning; and similar
Footnote
Note:
Anecdotes of Mary; or, the Good Governess, held to be an imitation of Sarah Fielding's novel The Governess, has been identified as an influence on Victorian writing on governesses (see Cecilia Wadsö-Lecaros, 'The Victorian Heroine Goes A-Governessing', in Ayres, ed., Silent Voices, Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers, 2003).