Measures, &c. The Second Edition Corrected and Improv'd. Charles King, London, 1732. Fine copy, calf, 8° (58 6d 567)

2 MEMORIA Technica or Method of Artificial Memory applied to and exemplified in Chronology History Geography Astronomy also Jewish, Grecian & Roman Coins, Weights Measures &c. To which are subjoined Lowe's Mnemonics Delineated in various branches of Literature & Science. W. Lowndes, London, 1812. Boards uncut, 12o (3s 6d 568)

GRIMALDI, JOSEPH, Clown. The original manuscript Autobiography of this greatest of great English Clowns, filling 400 closely-written folio pages, profusely illustrated with portraits, scenes, views, drawings, autographs, etc. and richly bound in bright red morocco extra full gilt back, folio. (100 guineas 569)

It is not often one is able to get behind a real live clown and see how he moves, lives, and holds his being. We know all about lawyers and clients, printers and readers, authors and buttermen, clergymen, editors, bankers and forgers, contractors and stockbrokers, gamblers, thieves, directors and shareholders, claimants, horse jockies and other gentlemen, but the private and peculiar ways and means of clowns are still obscure. This book, therefore, fills a gap. It is perhaps as genuine and faithful an autobiography as ever was written, full, frank, and delightfully clownish, childlike and simple-the cream of all which lastnamed recommendations the two able editors who edited and polished it for the press 35 years ago neglected to skim off. The clown was as true to his pen as he was to his calling. His pen was his father confessor, to which he recapitulated all his transgressions, big and little; hence, as an autobiography, it is as frank as Franklin's, and the errata, like his, are not omitted. Grimaldi was born in 1779, and died in May, 1837, in his 58th year. He finished his autobiography the 57th birthday, Dec. 18th, 1836. On the 21st of March, 1837, he contracted with Thomas Egerton Wilks to rewrite, revise and correct the manuscript to be entitled the Life and Adventures of Joseph Grimaldi, the revised manuscript to be completed and ready for printing on or before the first day of Dec. 1837, Wilks to have one-half the proceeds of the sale of the MS. This original contract, signed by both parties, is attached to this volume. Grimaldi was found dead in his bed on the morning of the 1st of June following. Wilks completed his MS the best way he could, of course labouring under many difficulties, and sold it outright, with the executor's consent, to Mr Bentley. But this original manuscript remained in the hands of Mr Hughes the executor. The Wilks manuscript was not only an abridgment of Grimaldi's (the present volume), but the matter had been translated from the first to the third person, a process, in this case, very much like mixing your effervescing powders the night before to drink in the morning. The fiz and snap were gone, and the spirit flattened.

Wilks' manuscript was subsequently placed in the hands of Boz to edit, and in Feb. 1838 that distinguished editor finished his labours and dated his Introduction. One is struck on reading the two books with this closing remark by Mr Dickens: "He has merely to add, that there has been no book-making in this case. He has not swelled the quantity of matter, but materially abridged it." It is now time for a new and true Life of Grimaldi. Let it come out with all the garrulity and egoism of the original manuscript and the public will gladly recognize the old familiar here we are again.' The Wilks-Dickens varnish certainly weakens the picture and disguises the clown.

The volume is extensively illustrated with above 60 portraits, besides play-bills, drawings, views of theatres, &c. many of them adding materially to the biography of Grimaldi. There is an original finely painted miniature of Grimaldi and two silhouettes, also water-colour drawings of his residences. The many other particulars the purchaser may have the pleasure of picking out for himself.

2 MEMOIRS Of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz." With illustrations by George Cruikshank. Richard Bentley, London, 1838. The 2 volumes expanded into 4 by appropriate illustrations and additions: bound by Rivière in plain red morocco gilt edges, post 8°

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A charming set of books compiled and arranged between 1838 and 1844, by Mr Upcott, who has added a valuable alphabetical manuscript index of the chief additional illustrations. These additions, about doubling the bulk of the original work, are of great value historically and biographically, comprising as they do above 110 illustrations, such as portraits, caricatures, autograph letters, play-bills, views, scenes, clowns, theatres, etc. to say nothing of above 160 theatrical advertisements, critical remarks, anecdotes, and other cuttings or notices, of a very miscellaneous character, but all pertaining closely to the subject in hand. Among the Autograph letters are those of Grimaldi himself, Charles Dickens, Harlequin Davidge, Mr Elliston, C. Kemble, Miss Kelly, Thomas Dibdin, Mr Price, Mr Harley, etc. Near the end of volume IV is a drawing by Gosden of the gravestone of Grimaldi in Pentonville Chapel Burying Ground.

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GROSE, FRANCIS. The Antiquities of England and Wales. New Edition. 7 volumes. Hooper & Wigstead. London, 1784-1797. With Supplement, or vol. VIII. 1787. And Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time. New Edition with material additions and improvements. 2 vols. Stockdale, London, 31 July 1812. Together 10 volumes, with numerous maps and plates, very fine copy in pale russia extra gilt edges, full gilt backs and broad gold and blind borders on sides, 4° (£7 78 573) 2 RULES for drawing Caricatures with an Essay on Comic Painting. Samuel Bagster, London n. d. Portrait and four plates, sewed uncut, scarce, 8° (58 6d 574) GROVE HILL. [Dr. Lettsom's at Camberwell.] A Descriptive Poem. No Title-page. LARGE PAPER. With proof impressions of the elaborate woodcuts. Fine copy, half morocco, 4° (10s 6d 575)

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GROVES, Rev. JOHN. A Greek and English Dictionary, comprising all the Words in the Writings of the most popular Greek Authors; in the Septuagint and New Testament; with an English and Greek Vocabulary, etc. Fifth Edition, enlarged and revised. G. Cowie and Co, London: 1833. Clean copy, 8° (58 6d 576)

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HAIGH, THOMAS. The Latin Pocket Dictionary, comprising upwards of Twelve Thousand Words of Pure Latinity; with a Compendium of Ancient Classical Biography, the Roman Calendar, and its Explanation. New Edition. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, London: 1835. Roan, 12o (28 6d 587)

HAINING, SAMUEL. A Historical Sketch and Descriptive View of the Isle of Man; designed as a Companion to those who Visit and make the Tour of it. For the author by G. Jefferson, Douglas, 1822. Map and frontispiece, clean and uncut, 16° (4s 6d 588)

HAKEWILL, JAMES. The History of Windsor, and its Neighbourhood. E. Lloyd, London: 1813. With plates, some coloured, fine copy, half morocco, (£2 2s 589)

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