[Rarebooks] Cato conspirators, their last words in print, and Lewis's BRAVO OF VENICE in the Simpkin edition

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1)      Adolphus (John) THE CATO STREET CONSPIRATORS / APRIL 
1820.  Cover title. Oblong format, original full leather. 9 engraved 
leaves. First leaf with text:

"Toward the close of the trials for High-treason in April 1820, it 
occured for Mr Alolphus, one of the counsel for the prisoners, that 
it would be desirable to obtain and preserve a specimen of their 
hand-writings.  At his request, communicated through Mr. Harmer, 
their solicitor, each of them wrote something in verse or prose, in a 
book, sent to them for the purpose. Some wrote in court, and some in 
Newgate - Of these sentences a fac-simile has been made, and a very 
few copies printed, and Mr. Adolphus has the honour to present one to"

"Newman Knowles Esq / Common Serjeant of the City of London" [in holograph]

There follows in facsimile verse or prose by Tidd, Thistlewood, 
Davidson, Wilson, Bradburn, Brunt, Inge, Cooper, and Gilchrist, all 
of whom were soon decapitated. OCLC = no copies, apparently. $1750.00





2)  Lewis (M.G.)  THE BRAVO OF VENICE.  London: Simpkin & Marshall, 
1818.  Signature of Caroline Gardiner across title. Attractive early 
3/4 leather, 282pp.  "The Seventh Edition"  [sic?].  Shury published 
in 1805, 1806, 1807, 1809.  A Dublin ed. appeared in 1814.  There 
were early American editions prior to 1818. This is surely the first 
Simpkin edition.  $250.00



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