William Enfield, First Edition (15 results)

Half Leather & Marbled Board. Condition: Good. First Edition. 335pp. contains A Familiar Treatise on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Still well bound but with wear to extremeties of cover, a couple of pages near middle coming loose. Apart from some light occasional ageing/useage marks, more so to end pages, interior generally in nice clean condition - no deliberate marks. Gilt titling on spine.

1st edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Title page damaged. Front board shadow stained. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi, 670 p.; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical footnotes and index. Subjects: Philosophy History. Philosophy History 18th century. Great Britain 18th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 336 pp.+ Hand Watercolored FoldOut Map of Great Britain at Frontis & 6 Other FoldOut Maps, Full Brn Leather, Red Spine Label, Gilt title, 12mo (3.75 x 6 Inches), the frontis map has 2 inch tearout at top left, else Good & Solid, 1st ed.

1st edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Title page damaged. Front board shadow stained. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi, 670 p.; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical footnotes and index. Subjects: Philosophy History. Philosophy History 18th century. Great Britain 18th century. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. Limited Numbered Edition. 4to., vii., (6) 116 pp. facsimile edition of the 1773 original, limited edition this being no. 20 of 250. c.p with plates and 3 folding maps. Ex-library with label to front pastedown, class mark to verso of title page, foot of pp. 1 & 100. very good in original brown paper covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Small tape adhesive residue marks to both boards otherwise light shelf wear, very good in original unclipped dustwrapper with lib class mark to foot of spine, good plus in removable cello sleeve. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Leather. Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. Woodcuts; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 172 pages; 1st American edition, from the 5th British revised. Bound in full period calf with original morocco title label to spine. Boards slightly concave. Dampstaining to front and rear endpages but text is bright, clean and free from any damp evidence. Tiny worming hole in the front hinge of the cover and mild predation in the endpage joint. Horizontal tear across the first page of text has been artfully mended with archival japanese tissue. Illustrated with in-text woodcuts scattered throughout. Author's pedagogical account of nature as reflective of the beauty of God's plan and majesty. Uncommon in the marketplace, either the British or American editions. VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Complete set has 10 vol, this is volume 10. London, 1809. No ffep leather spine 16mo. Book.

Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. IX pp + 329 pages with 4 folding plates, one being a chart, this has some damage and an astronomical clock which has an overlay disc depicting the constellations which revolve, (all complete and very good). Some offsetting at plates and some age browning to some pages, but all in firm and clean order. Marbled paper boards and leather spine, rubbed and small split started at bottom of the spine, later front endpapers? Also an old ink covering hiding the "volume 1" very subtly done on the spine, almost not noticed and NOT recent. Contents near Very good. bound in 6's. Approx 5.7 x 4 inches. Very Scarce. NOTE: *A copy with the same title and separate title at that on the OCLC in Stanford University as number 655985789 in their catalogue and a date of 1809. The book does stand alone as a work on Astronomy for youth another 9 subjects in the series were issued.

First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.25" [21.5cm x 14cm x 3cm] . 3 matching full leather bindings. Original polished tree calf, corners and hinges carefully strengthened. Smooth spines with gilt banding, gilt volume numbers and original red leather title labels (chipped). Light foxing and soiling to endpapers (both front & rear). Bookplate to the verso of each front board: "Paul Rader". Frontis is an engraved silhoutte of William Enfield, by "Anker Smith A.R.A. sculpt." Printed title to each volume, with old red ink stamp: "Bishop Seabury Mission. Faribault, Minnesota." Vol. I. : pp.48/436 (Includes a "Biographical Account Of The Author." and a "List of Subscribers.") ; Vol. II. : pp.8/440 ; Vol. III. : pp.10/458 . Referenced by: ESTC T105886. A very good set. Extract from: "Historical Sketches of Hymns, Their Writers, and Their Influence." - "Rev. William Enfield, LL.D. This gentleman, the author of, - "Behold where, in a mortal form," was for many years an Arian minister, first at Liverpool and afterward in Norwich, both in England, and died in the latter city, 1797, at the age of fifty-six. For several years he was a professor of belles-lettres at the Unitarian Academy at Warrington, and was the author of several popular volumes." The Dictionary of National Biography lists: ENFIELD, WILLIAM (1741-1797), divine and author, was born of poor parents at Sudbury, Suffolk, on 29 March 1741. His earliest instructor was the Rev. William Hextall, a dissenting minister, by whose advice he was prepared for the ministry, and sent, in his seventeenth year, to the Daventry Academy, then conducted by Dr. Caleb Ash-worth. He was there educated as one of the alumni of the Presbyterian fund. In November 1763 he was ordained minister of the congregation of protestant dissenters at Benn's Gimien, Liverpool In 1770 he succeeded the Rev. John Seddon as tutor in belles-lettres and rector of the academy at Warrington. That institution was from various causes in a declining condition, and it was dissolved in 1783. In the meantime he established a sound reputation as a divine and author, and the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Edinburgh on 8 March 1774. His pastoral duties to the Cairo Street Presbyterian congregation, which he had undertaken on first going to Warrington in 1770, were continued two years after the closing of the academy, and only relinquished on his receiving an invitation (in 1786) to the Octagon Chapel at Norwich. For some time after taking up his residence in that city he received pupils at his house, as he had done at Warrington, and among them were Denman, afterwards lord chief justice, and Maltby, subsequent bishop of Durham. Enfield was an amiable and estimable man, an influential writer and persuasive preacher, and was a leading figure in the literary society of both Warrington and Norwich. Dr. Paul Rader (born March 14, 1934) was General or leader of the Salvation Army from 1994 - 1999, and was the President of Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky from 2000-2006. - See Wikipedia .

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce discussion on many different fields of art, by William Enfield. The first edition of this very scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated, complete.An educational work introducing the reader to the arts and manufactures.This volume covers many different mediums and fields, discussing their benefits and processes, with concise instruction on each.Discussing woollen cloth, refining metals, paper making, the composition of glass, the growth of sugar cane, iron manufacture, staining wood, preparing and moulding papier mache, japanning, hat making, galico painting, brewing, distilling brick making, and more.By William Enfield. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally, smart. Light marks to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean, with a few scattered spots and handling marks. Tidemark and a small closed tear to the frontispiece. Tidemark to the final few pages. Very Good. book.

Quarto. (10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches). xii, 353pp., [1], 11pp. Lacking half-title, with errata slip pasted in at end of Contents covered with another blank slip labelled "corrected" in contemporary manuscript, 11 folding engraved plates, corrections in ink. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine preserving red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Dalton Hall (bookplate) First edition. Throughout Enfield's career as a Unitarian minister, he studied ethics, natural philosophy, and mathematics, putting him in the company of friends John Aikin and fellow Unitarian Joseph Priestly. Enfield published this work as a textbook for his students. It includes chapters on the laws of motion, pneumatics, astronomy, hydrostatics, and optics. ESTC 105929.

Folio, pp. vi, [6] subscriber list, 116; large folding map at the back, 2 folding charts, 9 engraved plates; one leaf loose (present) in the subscriber's list; all else near fine in contemporary limp pastepaper boards, manuscript titling on spine. A re-issue of the first edition of 1773, with cancel title page, a new preface and additional Y* signature. Enfield (1741-1797) became the minister at Benn's Garden Chapel in Liverpool, a wealthy and well-connected congregation. He was also the author of a well-received book on oratory, The Speaker, which went through many editions from 1774 to the mid-19th century; and the popular Institutes of natural philosophy, theoretical and practical which also went through many editions in both Britain and America.

1st Edition. Folio. pp. vi, [5, list of subscribers], [1, advertisement and errata], 116; 9 plates, map, chart, diagram of the chart. Contemporary calf, later reback and a little spotted. The antiquary and historian George Ormerod's copy with his bookplate. The first edition is uncommon.

Early edition (Speaker), first edition (Exercises), of these best-selling anthologies on elocution, recognized by the Monthly Review as "a valuable miscellany". In these works, William Enfield (1741-1797), a utilitarian minister and lecturer at Warrington's dissenting academy in Lancashire, collects extracts from classical and contemporary authors, including Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Cato, to serve as models for young readers. This edition of The Speaker is apparently unrecorded in ESTC, which identifies one octavo edition in 1774, with 376 pages. The present edition, by contrast, has 421, adding Sterne's Story of Le Fever at the start of Book VI. Alston VI 376; ESTC T71552. Monthly Review, or Literary Journal, vol. 52, 1775. 2 vols, octavo (200 x 122 mm). Contemporary tree calf, smooth spines with six compartments panelled and with floral decoration in gilt, red morocco label, covers bordered with single gilt fillet, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled red. Engraved book label of William Leak (c.1796-1857) of the Poplars, Follifoot, on front pastedowns of both vols. Gathering K bound after S (Exercises). Judicious restoration to spine ends, very light bumping and wear, slight browning and foxing to endpapers and outer leaves: a very attractive pair.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition (ESTC T105929). Collated and complete. Rebound in full leather (though the binder used upholstery leather for reasons unknown.) with new end sheets and significant paper restoration to front matter. Ink gift note and owner information on front flyleaf, light stains to some pages (mostly margins), a couple minor ink marks to text and margins on only a few pages (these are mostly helpful clarifications of the text and references to the fold-out plates). 1785 Full-Leather. xii, 353, [1] pp. 11 fold-out plates, each featuring numerous figures depicting geometric and scientific principles. A work designed for use as a textbook, by a friend of noted Unitarian Joseph Priestley. The book is dedicated to Priestley, and despite occasional professional disagreements the two were friends. Enfield was also a Unitarian minister, and is best known for his 1774 work on elocution, entitled The Speaker.