Phillips (Thomas) A Letter to a Student at a Foreign University on The Study of Divinity, contemporary ink inscriptions to title and front endpaper, for R.Baldwin, 1756 § Lévesque de Pouilly (Louis-Jean) The Theory of Agreeable Sensations..., second edition, woodcut decorations, lacking half-title, upper hinge splitting, for W.Owen, 1750 § Lloyd (Thomas) An Essay on the Literary Beauties of the Scriptures, Chester, by J.Fletcher, 1784 § [Wilcocks (Joseph)] Sacred Exercises. In Four Books..., engraved illustrations, title with woodcut coat-of-arms, woodcut decorations, front endpaper with ink inscription dated 1791, by B.Barker, 1759 § [Allestree (Richard)] The Art of Contentment..., title with woodcut device, woodcut decorations, [Evans, 7083], Oxford and Philadelphia, by James Chattin, 1753, each but second first edition, foxing and/or spotting, first later half calf, third later quarter cloth, preserving contemporary boards, others contemporary calf, fourth rebacked, all worn, first upper board detached, second and last joints splitting; and 22 others, similar, v.s. (27) ⁂The inscriptions identified as by William Smith (1711-87) poet, classicist, chaplain to Edward Stanley, the 11th Earl of Derby: they concern the gift of the book to Smith Thomas Phillips (1708-74) Jesuit priest and scholar, chaplain to George Talbot, the 14th Earl of Shrewsbury. The inscriptions: to title: "T. Philips Author of a Life of Cardinal Pole, & Chaplain to | Ld Shrewsbury"; to front endpaper: "NB. This piece written by Father Philips, Chaplain | to the Earl of Shrewsbury, the first Earl of England and a Papist, | was sent as a present through the conveyance of Sr Rowland | Stanley a Papist to me, who am Chaplain to the second Earl, | of England, and the first Protestant Earl, the Earl of Derby". A further inscription on the front pastedown, in another hand: "This Book was a present from the author to | Dean Smith whose hand writing appears | on the Title page, and on the leaf before | the Title". Provenance: second mentioned: John Bond Grange (bookplate)
Phillips (Thomas) A Letter to a Student at a Foreign University on The Study of Divinity, contemporary ink inscriptions to title and front endpaper, for R.Baldwin, 1756 § Lévesque de Pouilly (Louis-Jean) The Theory of Agreeable Sensations..., second edition, woodcut decorations, lacking half-title, upper hinge splitting, for W.Owen, 1750 § Lloyd (Thomas) An Essay on the Literary Beauties of the Scriptures, Chester, by J.Fletcher, 1784 § [Wilcocks (Joseph)] Sacred Exercises. In Four Books..., engraved illustrations, title with woodcut coat-of-arms, woodcut decorations, front endpaper with ink inscription dated 1791, by B.Barker, 1759 § [Allestree (Richard)] The Art of Contentment..., title with woodcut device, woodcut decorations, [Evans, 7083], Oxford and Philadelphia, by James Chattin, 1753, each but second first edition, foxing and/or spotting, first later half calf, third later quarter cloth, preserving contemporary boards, others contemporary calf, fourth rebacked, all worn, first upper board detached, second and last joints splitting; and 22 others, similar, v.s. (27) ⁂The inscriptions identified as by William Smith (1711-87) poet, classicist, chaplain to Edward Stanley, the 11th Earl of Derby: they concern the gift of the book to Smith Thomas Phillips (1708-74) Jesuit priest and scholar, chaplain to George Talbot, the 14th Earl of Shrewsbury. The inscriptions: to title: "T. Philips Author of a Life of Cardinal Pole, & Chaplain to | Ld Shrewsbury"; to front endpaper: "NB. This piece written by Father Philips, Chaplain | to the Earl of Shrewsbury, the first Earl of England and a Papist, | was sent as a present through the conveyance of Sr Rowland | Stanley a Papist to me, who am Chaplain to the second Earl, | of England, and the first Protestant Earl, the Earl of Derby". A further inscription on the front pastedown, in another hand: "This Book was a present from the author to | Dean Smith whose hand writing appears | on the Title page, and on the leaf before | the Title". Provenance: second mentioned: John Bond Grange (bookplate)
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