10. Chapbooks.- Weld ( Rev. John) History of the Inquisition...Public Trials and Modes of Torture, engraved frontispiece, title and a few other ff. water-stained, Liverpool, F.B.Wright, 1814 bound with The Entertaining and Affecting History of Belisa, Orsames and Julia. Supposed to be Written by Belisa, engraved frontispiece, Banbury, J. Rusher, n.d. bound with The Mysterious Stranger, or, Sorrows of a Natural Daughter, engraved hand-coloured frontispiece, offsetting, n.d. bound with The Twin Sisters; or, Two Girls of Nineteen, Being the Interesting Adventures of Sophia & Charlotte Melford, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, slightly trimmed at fore-edge, n.d. bound with A New History and Description of the Tower of London and its Curiosities, title with woodcut vignette, n.d. bound with The Affecting History of the Duchess of C**; who was Confined Nine Years in a Horrid Dungeon...by her Inhuman Husband, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, title with short tear and soiled, spotted, n.d. bound with Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, who died, in the Truth’s Service, at the House of Robert Lecky, in the County of Carlow..., Liverpool, James Smith, 1806, together 7 works in 1 vol., contemporary calf, rebacked, corners and edges of covers chipped, 8vo

est. £150 – £200

Sold for £400
Sale 594, 4th December 2006


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