Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [‎38v] (83/1814)

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277 PERCY (Thomas, Bp. of Dromore) Reliques of Ancient
English Poetry : consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs,
and other Pieces of our earlier Poets (chiefly the Lyric kind),
together with some few of dater date, frontispieces: a set of
proof sheets as originally printed before the book was
rearranged for publication by the Editor, containing
very copious MS. Notes and Additions chiefly in his
writing, 3 vols. post 8vo. original half calf (broken), edges
eoitirely uncut, with an original a. l. s. of Bishop Percy and W.
oHENSTONT. . 1(‘<J , enclosed in new polished Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. morocco
case by Riviere, a valuarle and interesting item, which
WOULD MAKE A NOTABLE ADDITION TO ANY GREAT COLLECTION
of English Literature, £42. j. Dodsley , 1765
„ unique and very interesting copy was presented by the Author to his
Secretary, Mr. Meredith Darby, in 1S08. It contains several cancelled Pages
and Ballads, and each of the volumes has an MS. Explanation as to the sup-
pressed Rems in Bishop Percy’s Autograph. There is also a drawing of the
afferent diesses in which Robin Good-fellow was anciently represented on
supp^efijl thlS WaS WOrked int0 one of the vi g ne ttes that was afterwards
The spaces for some of the vignette illustrations (including the Shake-
spearian one) have been left blank by the printer, and the illustration has been
pasted down in the same afterwards. There are a few lacuna, where pages have
been taken out or interchanged. p °
Amongst some extra printed matter inserted is a page from Ballard’s Cata-
ofd U |rfghsh V Ba!lads OT £ e i! t lT ° f WhiCU readS ’ ‘ A Collection ab °«t 300 scarce
a the firs , t edition of the Reliques was printed, and before it was pub-
ished, Percy made a great alteration in its arrangement. The ffrst volume was
fn thA C f m f ° r f n third ’ and the third into the first, as may be seen by a reference
u the page + S whe J e ^ old numb ering remains. By this means the
nKf th - were j :i 3 rned off to the end, and Chevy Chase and Robin Hood
btamed the piace of honour. Several ballads were also omitted at the last
at°ntfnrrf nd mimbers left vacant. These occur in a copy of two volumes
at Oxford, which formerly belonged to Douce. In Vol. Ill (the old Vol. I)
Book 1 there is no No. 19 ; in the Douce copy this is filled by The Song-birds
[present in the above copy]. In Vol. II, Book 3, there are no Nos. 10 and 11 •
TT«L in nf Tn w 1Ce C0 ? y N^°% 9 ’ 10 ’ and n ’ are Cock Lorrell’s Treat, The Moral
nHntp?/ a p d ° ld bll J on the Kinge [the pages on which these were
printed appear to have been torn out of the present copy, but the necessary
catchword occurs at the foot of the previous page]. Besides these omissions it
will be seen that in Book 3 of Vol. Ill there are two Nos. 2 ; and that George
Barnwell must have been inserted at the last moment, as it occupies a duplicate
series of pages 22o-240, which are printed between brackets. In 1765 the volumes
were published in London.’ — H. B. Wheatley.
BOOKS ON PERSIA AND ARABIA:
278 ADAMS (Isaac, pr . 9 m.d., founder of the Nestorian Colony in
Canada) Persia by a Persian : being Personal Experiences of
Manners, Customs, Habits, Religious and Social Life in Persia,
with portrait, and many illustrations, Svo.hf. morocco, IsfSd 1906
Erancis. Surgeon and Geologist to
the Expedition) Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Ex
pedition [1872] , map, 2 vois. 8vo. cl,, 12 s (p. £1. 12 s) 1888
In connexion with the proposed Euphrates Valley Railway, the cost of which
ffve to ten millions—was^considered too much to pay for this important link
with India. . What it would have been worth at the present time it is impossible
r° ^ ° f oourse have forestalled the great German dream
of the Berlin to Bagdad Railway.