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Orig. grey printed paper wrappers, label of P. Rolandi. Foreign Bookseller, Circulating Library, London, on front wrapper.

Orig. paper boards, printed paper spine label; some sl. wear to spine, corners a little bumped. Printed ownership label of J. A. Gillett; inscription on leading f.e.p.: 'Adderbury Friends Library from C. Gillett, 1885'. A v.g. copy as issued. First published in 1806, this edition four copies only on Copac. Scarce in commerce, the last copy on auction records sold in 1911. This book belonged to the Quaker businessman and banker Joseph Ashby Gillett, 1795-1853, husband to Martha Gibbins of the Gibbins banking family. The book was passed to their son Charles and then to the Adderbury Friends Library.…

Half title. Orig. yellow printed paper wrappers, label of the Foreign Circulating Library, (Haas & Nutt), London, on front wrapper. Subscriptions were 21/- for one year (five volumes allowed), 12/- for 6 months (four volumes), 7/- for 3 months (three volumes) and 3/- for a month (one volume).

Printed, sheet, 13 x 18cm, completed in ms; old folds, browned. The receipt is for 12 shillings and 6 pence 'received of Mr Buchanan', for six months subscription between April and October 1878 allowing for two volumes to be withdrawn at one time. The cheapest subscription, allowing for a single volume to be withdrawn is advertised at the bottom of the sheet for 10s 6d for 12 months. The most expensive, allowing for 12 books to be withdrawn, is 13 shilling per month or £4.10.0 a year. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.…

A single folded sheet. 4pp. Copac records copies at the BL & Cambridge only; OCLC adds UC Berkeley and National Library of Australia; a copy is also held by the Library of Congress. Repeal reading rooms were intended to: 'diffuse among the people useful information, and early intelligence on all subjects of public interest, especially on the great national question of Repeal; to collect and combine popular opinion in aid of Repeal; to afford a source of rational occupation for the leisure hours of the industrious classes, whence they may be instigated to increased patriotism, temperance, and virtue; and especially, to promote the weekly collection of the Repeal fund, and to extend the Repeal organization, so as to confer on the Repealers, in the several localities, the influence they should exercise as a compact body.'.…

[4], iv, 443, [1]pp., plates, Initial blank, subscribers' list (557), engraved music to seven songs. 4to. Contemp. half calf, faded but readable printed paper label on front board for 'Bull's Public Library', red spine label; careful repairs. Manuscript inscription on leading pastedown: 'Bull's Library, Bath'; contemp. inscription on leading blank: 'G. Harries, Tregwynt' together with a sl. later pencil signature of J. Herries. A nice copy. The label on the front reads: ' 'This book belongs to Bull's Public Library, where Subscribers are accommodated.'. Bull's Library was the successor to Leake's, established by James Leake in the early 18th century and one of the first such libraries in Bath. Robert Southey, writing of his youthful days, wrote: 'Bull's circulating library was then to me what the Bodleian would be now'. It was also at Bull's (and Frederick's - another Bath library) that Lydia Languish's maid (in Sheridan's play The Rivals) sought to find popular novels to read. (Circulating Libraries in Eighteenth Century Bath, V. J. Kite.) The Harries family, to whom this volume also belonged, had lived at Tregwynt Mansion, Pembrokeshire, since the 17th century. George Harries died in 1789 and it seems likely that the book was originally bought by the Harries family before being sold (or given) to the library after his death. Sadly, this would mean that the volume was not present for the French invasion of 1797 which took place just a few miles from Tregwynt Mansion. On the night of the French landing (which failed as quickly as it had begun) the leader of the local militia was dining with Eliza Harries (George's widow) at Tregwynt.…