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SPENCE ( Joseph ). Anecdotes, observations

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SPENCE ( Joseph ). Anecdotes, observations

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
SPENCE ( Joseph ). Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men. Collected from the conversation of Mr. Pope, and other eminent persons of his time. Now first published from the original papers, with notes, and a life of the author. By Samuel Singer. Published by W. H. Carpenter ... , 1820FIRST EDITION, with engraved portrait, pages xxxix, 501, (1, errata), complete with the half-title, 8vo, light marginal stain on first few leaves (not unsightly), otherwise very good to nice in contemporary half green straight-grained morocco, gilt ruled and lettered spine.First edition of Singer's edition, published the same day as the rival version by Malone, of the reminiscences of Pope's friend Joseph Spence (1699-1768), which, although not published until 1820, were well known and widely quoted during the 18th cent. "Singer's was the fuller and more authentic, being printed without omission of text or alteration of arrangement from Spence's own ms ... This edition also contained supplementary matter and a memoir of Spence by Singer ... " -DNBALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) BURTON ( Robert ). Melancholy ; as it proceeds from the disposition and habit, the passion of love, and the influence of religion. Drawn chiefly from the celebrated work intitled Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy ; and in which the kinds, causes, consequences and cures of this English malady "------ are traced from within its inmost centre to its outmost skin." Printed by T. Maiden, for Vernor and Hood … , 1801.FIRST ABRIDGED EDITION, with engraved frontispiece and wood-engraved tailpieces in the Bewick style, pages xii, 420, 8vo, near contemporary mottled calf, gilt bordered sides, fully gilt spine, with contrasting label, gilt : a very good to nice copy, Jonathan ("Jonty") Hanaghan's copy with his signature and address on front endpaper.A very appropriate association for this first abridged edition of the most frequently reprinted psychiatric text, regarded as the first psychiatric encyclopaedia. Hanaghan (1886-1967), poet and man of undoubted spiritual genius, founder of the Runa Press. Of Scottish and Irish ancestry, he came to Ireland in 1917 to establish psychoanalysis in Ireland and in about 1938 attracted amongst others the English journalist and writer Rupert Strong to join him as a trainee and colleague in this healing work. Ludovic Kennedy regarded Hanaghan as the most interesting person he had ever met.(2)JUNIUS. Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures, (now first collecdted). To which are added, his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H. S. Woodfall. With a preliminary essay, notes, fac-similes, &c. In three volumes. Second edition. Printed by G. Woodfall … , 1814. With 6 plates (5 folding), pp viii, 176, *173-*176, 177-588 : xi, 518 : xiii, (2), 510, without the half-titles, 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary half calf, gilt spines, with labels, gilt : the bindings a little worn but strong, though wanting a small portion of one headband, otherwise in clean and very good state, with the attractive booklabel of the Cork bookseller Osborne Savage.Cordasco 123. "Contains a wealth of notes culled from other editions and original notes as well which are very extensive." - Cordasco.(3) RITCHIE ( Leitch ). Scott and Scotland. 1835. FIRST EDITION, with additional engraved title-page and 20 engraved plates after George Cattermole, pages (4), iv, 256, (2, blank), 8vo, original publisher's red morocco, gilt, edges gilt, by Westley, with ticket : a nice copy.Faxon 1404. Heath's Picturesque Annual, 1835.(6)ENGLISH LITERATURE; HISTORY; POPE; MEDICINE; PSYCHIATRY; ENGLAND; TRAVEL; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; ; ;