Mackqueen John (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. [18], 160; [8], 64 pages. Comprehensive title, and separate title page for each Essay. An Essay on Honour: 1711. A Divine and Moral Essay on Courage: 1707. Each bears the Morphew imprint. Relatively recent red buckram; ugly but apparently professional corner repairs to first four leaves, and those leaves soiled. Second Essay foxed. Binding is sound. A few contemporary marginal emendations/quips. 8 x 6 inches.

First edition. [34], 280pp. With an errata slip pasted at the end of the preface. Consisting of: 'A sermon preached in St. Maryâs Church.' (1715, second edition); 'A thanksgiving sermon for the victory obtain'd at Oudenard.' (1715); 'A thanksgiving sermon for the taking of Lisle.' (1715); 'A discourse on casting our care on God.' (1715); and 'A divine and moral essay on courage.' (1715, second edition); each with a separate title page, but continuous pagination and register. Handsome contemporary richly gilt-tooled panelled black morocco presentation binding, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later armorial bookplate to FEP of British Army officer Garnet Joseph Wolseley, first Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913), inscribed 'Ld Wilmington' to verso of FFEP. An elaborately bound copy of the sole edition of a collection of four sermons, and a discourse, by Anglican clergyman John Mackqueen (d. 1734) all relating to British victories over French forces secured under the command of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) during the War of Spanish Succession. Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington (c. 1674-1743), Whig statesman and second prime minister of Great Britain from 1742 until his death. ESTC records copies at six locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Leeds Central Library, Leeds University, NT, and Oxford), and a further three in North America (California, Huntington, and McMaster). ESTC T29720. Size: 8vo.