Scribleriana Transferred, Printed Materials for Sale, 2017–2018

• • McNaughtan's Bookshop of Edinburgh describes an unrecorded issue or edition of Justinus's Historiarum ex Trogo Pompeio libri XLIV ("Ex officina Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, Londini," 1728), edited by Michael Mattaire. ESTC T188639 records such a title and imprint as 12mo: [10], 286, [36], with frt, noting three copies. But McNaughtan's 12mo has pp. [10], 285, [39], with frt. McNaughton notes that his copy's pagination and signatures "accord with the 1758 reprint," for J. & R. Tonson, T474495, only at the BL, reporting A⁶ B-N¹² O⁶.

• • Hugh Pagan of Brockenhurst, Hants., offers a bound collection of eight pamphlets dated 1728 to 1743 "on the alternative designs for a new bridge over the Thames at Westminster, including two by John Price, two by Batty Langley, one by John James, one by Charles Labelye," and two that are anonymous, one being probably by Labelye (c. $12,453). Two are unrecorded, including the earliest by Price: A Short History of Bridges, Ancient and Modern, referring to the drawings made by John Price, Architect, Part 1 ("Printed in the Year MDCCXXVIII"). The text is signed "Strand, Oct. 22, 1728, from my house in Villar's-Street, York-Buildings," which confirms that this is the builder who designed the tower of Laleham Church in Middlesex, 1730–1731 (he died in 1736). The drawings include Ponte San Angelo in Rome. The dealer thinks no second part was probably produced since its text "was recycled, with minor alteration" in Price's 1736 effort, which lacks a part 2 (the next item in the volume). That second work is also not in the ESTC: Price's Some Considerations humbly offered to the Honourable Commissioners … for building a stone-bridge … at Westminster … together with some proposals relating to a design annexed, drawn for that purpose, 2nd ed. (Printed in the Year XXXVI). The first edition has much the same title but was "offered to the Honourable Members of the House of Commons" (n.s., 1735), T49261. The expanded second edition, dated May 25, 1736, has illustrations of Price's "new design for a nine-arch stone bridge." Several of the other pamphlets are very rare, including Batty Langley's A Design for the Bridge at New-Palace Yard, Westminster … with observations on the several designs published to this time (for the author and J. Millan, 1736), dated June 5, 1736, and favoring a design with "chain arches," T31718.

• • Bernard Quaritch lists an unrecorded "second edition" of An Essay upon Modern Gallantry: Address'd to Men of Honour, Men of Pleasure, and Men of Sense. With a Seasonable Admonition to the Young Ladies of Great Britain (A. More, 1726), 4to: pp. 45 [1]; disbound, shaved at bottom edge, £1000). Quaritch acknowledges that it is probably a press-variant reissue of the first edition (with same imprint) and notes that the dedication—dated "Bloomsbury Feb. 21. 1726" to "J. J. H[eidegge]r"—offers a "mock defense" of Heidegger's masquerades.

• • William Reese lists "a significant anti-Quaker polemic by George Keith," A Serious Call to the Quakers Inviting Them to Return to Christianity. … To which is added, a true Copy of the Last Will … [of] George Fox ("Printed by G. Parker in Salis- ⎜ bury-Court" [n.d.], 8vo, 16 pp. (untrimmed, $3000). Though Reese identifies it as "unrecorded edition," it is ESTC T17782 recorded for three copies, including the BL's on ECCO, with a title page setting identical to Reese's copy's. The ESTC offers the date "[1701?]," but Reese conjectures c. 1715 on good grounds: "this copy was discovered bound in contemporary boards with a large number of English parliamentary petitions dating almost exclusively to that year. It may have been resurrected to distribute during the 1715 Parliamentary debate on whether to allow Quakers to revise the 'Solemn Affirmation' the British government had granted them to take in place of an oath." Unlike most editions of Keith's attack on the Quakers (first printed in 1700 and reversing his earlier publications), this contains Fox's will (in black letter) and closing comments on it.

• • B. & L. Rootenberg...