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Polished sheep in panel design, covers ruled and tooled in blind to panel design with small fleurons, rebacked; pp. 444; woodcut device to title, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces; a little scuffed and worn with some light offsetting to endapers but a good sound copy; bookplate of Lord Calthorpe and shelf-mark to upper pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly Continental edition of Milton’s celebrated defence of the English Commonwealth, issued with a false London imprint the same year as the first printing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pivotal work in the polemics of the Interregnum, Milton’s \u003ci\u003eDefensio\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing rebuttal of Claude Saumaise’s \u003ci\u003eDefensio regia\u003c\/i\u003e, the Royalist tract defending Charles I, published the previous year. The work is significant as the official reply commissioned by the English Parliament, written in Milton’s capacity as Latin Secretary to the Council of the Commonwealth. Prompted by the serious effect Salmasius’s arguments were having on public opinion across the Continent, the treatise offers an eloquent defence of the regicide and the legitimacy of the Commonwealth. Milton considered it his finest work in prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eDefensio\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in more editions and was more widely circulated during Milton’s lifetime than any other of his works. The speed with which the work travelled across Europe is reflected in this Amsterdam edition, produced by Jansson’s press at a moment when the book was fiercely sought after. Contemporaries recognised Milton’s 1651 reply to Saumaise as an extraordinary demonstration of talent by a previously little-known writer, decisively dismantling the arguments of one of the most eminent scholars of the age. 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Bristow dated January 1911 to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUncommon first edition of an early Mills and Boon publication, a provocative novel centred on women’s suffrage, featuring episodes of cross-dressing and the storming of the House of Commons, this copy with the contemporary female ownership of Ida G. Bristow (b. 1877) of Bexley, Kent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinifred Graham (1873–1950) was a prolific author and campaigner whose works addressed subjects ranging from Christian Science to anti-Mormonism. Although she later married Theodore Cory, she continued to publish under her maiden name. \u003ci\u003eThe Enemy of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e explores the suffrage movement through its perceived effects on domestic and political life, although Graham’s precise stance on women’s enfranchisement remains somewhat ambiguous. While the novel satirises activism and its societal consequences, it also grants its female protagonist, Meg, an unusually forceful political voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Enemy of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Meg drugs her brother Lionel, an MP, during dinner; she then removes him from the dining room and spills whisky over his clothes, leaving the household staff to assume he is intoxicated, causing him to miss an important parliamentary debate as a result. Seizing her moment, Meg cross-dresses as her brother and enters the House of Commons in his place. Rising to speak, she directs the debate to the question of votes for women, provoking ‘a thrill of startled surprise’ (p. 17). 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Contemporary straight-grained red roan, covers with gilt- and blind-tooled border and central lozenge, flat spine gilt in compartments with gilt black morocco lettering-piece, speckled edges, corners of board-edges roll-tooled in gilt; pp. [6], 159, [1 (blank)], with half-title; corners, upper joint, and spine ends lightly worn, a few small scuffs to rear board at head; light spotting throughout (heavier to first and final leaves); a very good copy; neat early ownership inscription ‘Annette Newton, Paris’ to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA delightful and very rare Parisian edition of Southey’s two late narrative poems, published in the same year as the first, dedicated to his ‘dear friend, […] sister Poetess’ and future wife, Caroline Bowles, our copy in a charming contemporary binding.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Southey (1774–1843), with his friends Wordsworth and Coleridge was, during the revolutionary 1790s, something of a radical spirit. With Coleridge, he devised the idealistic and never-realised scheme of pantisocracy, an imagined egalitarian settlement in North America. Like them, however, he grew more conservative with age, and in 1813 was appointed Poet Laureate, a post he held until his death thirty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis attractive and uncommon little volume – more often encountered in its John Murray edition issued the same year – was among Southey’s final poetic works and appears to have been animated by his growing attachment to the poet Caroline Bowles. The book is dedicated to her with a twelve-line poem, located and dated ‘Keswick, 21 Feb. 1829’, which prompted Bowles to write to Southey of ‘a sense of deep unworthiness, a gush of tears, and an inward prayer to become more worthy of such friendship.’ Southey claimed his intention was merely to bring Bowles’ name as a poet before a wider public (she is addressed as his ‘dear friend, and sister Poetess’), but the dedication reads unmistakably as a love poem. They were married ten years later, two years after the death of Southey’s first wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘All for Love’ (not to be confused with Dryden’s play) and ‘The Pilgrimage to Compostella’ were both commissioned for literary annuals (where, for different reasons, neither appeared). In mid-February 1828, Charles Heath, publisher of The Keepsake, travelled to the Lake District to commission contributions from its distinguished residents, offering Wordsworth one hundred guineas for five short poems and Southey fifty for a single long one (Coleridge was also enlisted). ‘I sold him,’ Southey explained in a letter to his friend Allan Cunningham (24 February 1828), ‘a ballad-poem entitled “All for Love, or a Sinner well Saved”, of which one-and-twenty stanzas were then written. I have added fifty since, and am only half-way through the story. It is a very striking one […].’ The poem outgrew the limits of the commission and was replaced by two shorter pieces. ‘The Pilgrimage to Compostella’, written a few weeks later for Cunningham’s annual, The Anniversary, was omitted by the publisher, who feared it might prevent the annual from selling in Roman Catholic circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth poems recall Southey’s early experiments with the narrative ballad with Wordsworth and Coleridge. Their subject matter is drawn from Iberian Catholic legend and miracle, to which Southey was clearly drawn while regarding the stories as mere superstition. Reserving his more explicit anti-Catholic polemic for his prose works, the poems invite the reader to suspend disbelief and engage with the narratives on their own terms. ‘All for Love’ tells the story of a young suitor who sells his soul to the devil to win his bride, eventually escaping through the intercession of St Basil. Its companion piece relates the fate of a young pilgrim executed for a theft he did not commit; miraculously immune from death, he is saved when the judge who condemned him is punished when the roast chickens he eats spring back to life. The volume was well received, The Monthly Review praising ‘All for Love’ as ‘an admirable poem,’ asserting that ‘both in invention and pathos’ it placed Southey higher ‘in the rank of poets […] than any of his former productions’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSouthey clearly had readers abroad, as evidenced by this uncommon Parisian pocket edition, published the same year as the London edition by Jules Didot, founder of the Royal Printing House in Brussels and inventor of round-edged initials, for the Galignani brothers. The Galignanis, noted publishers of English books for the continental market, sometimes paid authors for advance sheets (and sometimes not). 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Publisher’s red illustrated boards depicting a clown and two donkeys to upper board, a clown with a circus paper hoop and publisher’s advertisements for ‘Dean’s Cardboard Panorama Toy Books’ to lower; [10] chromolithographic panels depicting circus scenes, attached with a black cloth strip to rear extending to 264cm in length; a little bumping and scuffing to extremities, repairs to cloth joints between panels [2] and [3], and panels [4] and [5]; short closed tear to foot of panels [1] and [2], the former with unobtrusive adhesive repair, lightwater staining to lower edge, slight cockling to a few panels; overall a bright example, very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn eight-and-a-half-foot panoramic view of the circus produced by the Victorian children’s publisher Dean \u0026amp; Son, renowned for their innovative movable books, comprising ten scenes depicting clowns, animals, and a female dog trainer and tightrope walker.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDean \u0026amp; Son were founded in London before 1800, and turned their attention in the mid-nineteenth century to the production of movable books. 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