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    • [Matthews (John)] Eloisa en Dishabille, one of only 50 copies, 1822 & others, poetry and illustrated (14)
      Oct. 28, 2021

      [Matthews (John)] Eloisa en Dishabille, one of only 50 copies, 1822 & others, poetry and illustrated (14)

      Est: £300 - £400

      [Matthews (John)] Eloisa en Dishabille: being a new version of that lady's celebrated epistle to Abelard, one of only 50 copies, half-title, original roan-backed red boards, rubbed, 1822 § [Benson (White)] Poems and Ballads, only edition, decorative half-title, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations in the style of Thomas Bewick, contemporary ink signature to head of title and bookplate of Juliet Foord-Bowes, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked with gilt spine, [3 copies only on Library Hub], Huddersfield, Brook and Lancashire, 1810 § Poetical Magazine (The), 4 vol., first edition, 4 stipple-engraved vignette titles, the last by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, 51 aquatint plates only after Rowlandson and others (of 52, lacking plate 23 'Doctor Syntax at a Review' in vol.2), all but 2 hand-coloured, woodcut vignette, without the 'To Readers' leaves as usual but unusually with the advertisement leaf in vol.1, rather browned, some foxing or soiling, a few plates becoming loose and frayed at edges, contemporary russet straight-grain morocco, spines gilt, [Abbey, Life 214; Tooley 421], [1809-11], all rubbed; and 8 others, poetry, 8vo et infra (14) ⁂ The first is a parody of Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard'; the third includes the original issue of the first tour of Doctor Syntax, under the title 'The Schoolmaster's Tour', with plates after Rowlandson. According to Abbey Combe wrote the poem around Rowlandson's sketches.

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    • Execution.- A Particular Account of the Dying Behaviour of John Matthews, Who was executed at Oxford... For a Highway Robbery, broadside, 1822; and 6 other broadsides (7 pieces).
      Jul. 08, 2021

      Execution.- A Particular Account of the Dying Behaviour of John Matthews, Who was executed at Oxford... For a Highway Robbery, broadside, 1822; and 6 other broadsides (7 pieces).

      Est: £100 - £150

      Execution.- A Particular Account of the Dying Behaviour of John Matthews, Who was executed at Oxford... For a Highway Robbery, broadside, cut down and mounted on 2pp. of an album leaf, 1822; and 6 other broadsides, v.s., v.d. (7 pieces).

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