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3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. On paper with the 1842 watermark of R. Turner of Chafford Mills.In fair condition, aged, and with a central spike hole. He has received the ten books, and is returning them 'by the night mail', and will return 'the box of books' later, 'as unfortunately a courier only passes here but on certain days in the week'. Changing tone, he continues: 'I beg that my name may not be put down as a subscriber this year to the library; for I feel after the number of years we have been subscribers that we might have had the 5th Vol of Mad. D'Arblay before now and that greater attention might have been paid to us.'.…

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Arnold, whose conversion to Roman Catholicism hindered his academic dvancement in England, was grandfather of the writer Aldous Huxley, and taught James Joyce at Dublin. At the time of writing he was running a private tutoring establishment at Oxford. He begins the letter by explaining that it has hardly been possible to reply to Hutchinson 'during term time [.] I had so much work on my hands'. He is returning 'Canon Bright's letter', and has 'not had time to look at the treatises on Perseverance and Predestination'. He has however 'read some way into the Epistle to Sixtus, and can find in it nothing like a denial of free will on human merit, though this last also he ascribes to an effect of the divine grace. Why some are saved and others lost, he cannot tell; he calls the whole subject a "difficillima quaestio" [.]'. He continues with a number of Latin quotations (including one from a letter to Abbot Valentine of Adrumetum), noting that 'St Austin' was 'misunderstood in his own day as he often is in ours'. He continues: 'With such passages as these to enlighten one as to the Saint's real meaning, may one not well feel reluctant, unless a whole string of predestinarian (in the bad sense) passages were adduced from his writings, to admit that he fell into, or countenanced, error?' He ends with a discussion of 'the good works of the heathen'. Cf. Bernard Bergonzi, A Victorian Wanderer The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.…

An interesting letter, attacking the serving Tory Prime Minister Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), who had stood against the Duke of Sussex (noted for his liberal sympathies) in the election for President of the Royal Society of Arts. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded three times. The recipient is not named, but is identified in an endorsement on the reverse of the second leaf as 'Earl St Vincent'. Written in a hurried, untidy hand. The letter begins: 'My Dear Lord | Our excellent friend Miss Knight informed me how kind and how anxious You had been about my election as President of the Society for the Promotion of Arts Manufacture and Commerce; You will therefore I trust excuse my intruding upon your time to express the Gratitude for Your Lordship's friendly exertions on the occasion.' Referring to the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool he continues: 'Through the Kindness of my friends my triumph over the Premier has been complete.' His pleasure over his rival's failure 'has not been small on the Occasion, for his Lordship opposed himself, knowing that my name had been up Three Weeks, and even his Vote had been solicited at that period [] Could I prognosticate a further decline in public Opinion I should be most happy for a Minister of England who ventures to establish a Succession by Fraud against the General Wish of Nation is not well calculated to inspire confidence as to his Constitutional [?]'. He ends by sending his regards, and in a postscript asks for an enclosure to be 'delivered to Miss Knight'. Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757-1837) is present among Jervis's mourners in his 1838 biography as 'Miss Knight, formerly, sub-governess to the Princess Charlotte of Wales'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'. …

First Edition. Joseph Butterworth & Son and J. Cooke, 1821-1823. First Edition of One of the Most Important Treatises on the Law of Mortgage Coote, Richard Holmes. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage [with] Part the Second. London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth & Son and J. Cooke, 1821 and 1823. 2 parts in 1 volume. viii, 372; viii, 373-712 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"). Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, blind fillets, lettering piece and gilt date to spine, endpapers renewed. Light fading to spine. Light toning to interior, negligible light soiling to a few leaves, light foxing to last fifteen or so leaves, early ownership signature (of solicitor and legal writer George Dudgeon) to head of title page, early underlining and marks to margins on a few leaves. A nice copy. $650. * First edition. One of the most important nineteenth-century treatises on the law of mortgage, it was considered the "standard work" by Holdsworth. It went through nine editions, the last in 1927. George Dudgeon, a former owner of our first edition, is best known as the author of The Duties of Overseers of the Poor, and Assistant Overseers (1st ed. 1838), one of the many manuals for overseers that proliferated after the New Poor Law of 1834. Holdsworth, A History of English Law XIII:477. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:78. Joseph Butterworth & Son and J. Cooke, 1821-1823. (illustratore).…

London: Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1823. Rare Nineteenth-Century Treatise on Ship Mortgages Trollope, Thomas Anthony [1774-1835]. A Treatise on the Mortgage of Ships, As Affected by the Registry Acts; And on the Proper Mode of Effecting Mortgages on Property of this Nature, And on the Liabilities of the Mortgagee. London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1823. [xii], xxiv, 144 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary calf with later rebacking, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few shallow scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, front hinge cracked, rear hinge started. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in a few places, partial crack in text block between pp. 142 and 143. A nice copy of a rare title. $1,250. * Only edition. This treatise addresses the intricate law of ship mortgages, which was then in a period of transition. OCLC locates 4 copies (British Library, National Library of Scotland, Oxford, University of Aberdeen). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:361. London: Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1823. (illustratore).…