JOB LOUSLEY'S COPY
Aedes pembrochianae: a new account and description of the Statues, Bustos, Relievos, Paintings, Medals, and other antiquities and curiosities in wilton-house...
[Salisbury].
Printed at the Salisbury Press: and sold by W. Morris...and B. C. Collins, 1795.
Twelfth edition.
[6], xvi, 133pp, [15]. Without half-title. ESTC T193594.
[Bound with:] The weymouth guide: exhibiting the ancient and present state of weymouth and melcombe regis... Weymouth. Printed for P. Delamotte, [1792]. Third edition. 128pp. With an engraved folding frontispiece, and one further engraved folding plate. ESTC T66352.
[And:] [MOREAU, Simeon]. A tour to the Royal Spa at Cheltenham; or, Gloucestershire Displayed... Bath. Printed for the Author by R. Cruttwell, 1793. Seventh edition. [3], vi-viii, 210pp. Without half-title. With an engraved plate. ESTC T60577.
[And:] [COOKE, John]. A concise description of the royal hospital for seamen at greenwich. Extracted from the historical account published by the chaplains. [London]. Sold only at the Hospital, 1791. [2], 40pp. Without half-title. With a folding table. ESTC T149218.
12mo and 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, marbled board, recently rebacked. Boards worn. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of A. M. Broadley and ticket of Maud booksellers of Andover to FEP, scattered spotting, margins of second mentioned work trimmed close. Job Lousley's copy: 'Job Lousley's Book, Hampstead Norris Berks 1844' to title of first mentioned work and gutter of p.38 of final mentioned work, and a manuscript list of contents in his hand to verso of FFEP.
[Bound with:] The weymouth guide: exhibiting the ancient and present state of weymouth and melcombe regis... Weymouth. Printed for P. Delamotte, [1792]. Third edition. 128pp. With an engraved folding frontispiece, and one further engraved folding plate. ESTC T66352.
[And:] [MOREAU, Simeon]. A tour to the Royal Spa at Cheltenham; or, Gloucestershire Displayed... Bath. Printed for the Author by R. Cruttwell, 1793. Seventh edition. [3], vi-viii, 210pp. Without half-title. With an engraved plate. ESTC T60577.
[And:] [COOKE, John]. A concise description of the royal hospital for seamen at greenwich. Extracted from the historical account published by the chaplains. [London]. Sold only at the Hospital, 1791. [2], 40pp. Without half-title. With a folding table. ESTC T149218.
12mo and 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, marbled board, recently rebacked. Boards worn. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of A. M. Broadley and ticket of Maud booksellers of Andover to FEP, scattered spotting, margins of second mentioned work trimmed close. Job Lousley's copy: 'Job Lousley's Book, Hampstead Norris Berks 1844' to title of first mentioned work and gutter of p.38 of final mentioned work, and a manuscript list of contents in his hand to verso of FFEP.
A sammelband of four works tentatively connected by a vague architectural interest, including architectural draughtsman and decorative designer George Richardson's (1737/8-c. 1813) popular survey of the contents of Wilton House, seat of the Earls of Pembroke; and the third and final eighteenth century edition of a provincially published guide to Weymouth and environs that reveals the origins of the town as a resort, including all seven 'Rules and Orders' of the public rooms, with 'IV. That no Lady or Gentleman be permitted to dance in coloured gloves' and 'VIII. That Gentlemen will be pleased to leave their swords at the door' particularly anachronistic highlights.
Job Lousley (1790-1855), English landowner, farmer, antiquarian and bibliophile. He lived at Blewbury and Hampstead Norris, near Newbury; an avid and idiosyncratic book-collector, with an eye for the curious and unusual, the books from his library, with the present being a curious exception, often bear forthright inscriptions relating his opinions of the contents, or his other encounters with the work.
£ 500.00
Antiquates Ref: 28838
Job Lousley (1790-1855), English landowner, farmer, antiquarian and bibliophile. He lived at Blewbury and Hampstead Norris, near Newbury; an avid and idiosyncratic book-collector, with an eye for the curious and unusual, the books from his library, with the present being a curious exception, often bear forthright inscriptions relating his opinions of the contents, or his other encounters with the work.
