»,^ CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FROM A FUND RECEIVED 1941 BY BEQUEST OF WILLARD AUSTEN (1860-1934) CLASS OF 1 891 LIBRARIAN I9I 5-1^X9 Tllabevt%mxySimi (istf^g^.^^ Cornell University Library Z1028 .BS6 Catalogue of books and tracts. olin 3 1924 029 551 078 The original of tliis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029551078 Catalogue OF BOOKS AND TRACTS, PRINTED AT OF GEORGE ALLAN, ESQ. F. S. A. jI5eto tattle : PRINTED BY S. HODGSON, UNION-STREET. MDCCCXVIII. PREFACE. The Account of the Productions from the Grange Private Press, as given by Mr. Dibdin, in his Bibliographical Decameron, being so (extremely deficient and imperfect, was my inducement for preparing the following Cata- logue. The Author tells us, that he derived his information, on this head, from a learned gentleman, whose name is mentioned; but it surely was his duty, (notwithstanding the con- fessedly high bibliographical knowledge of his informant,) to see, that the statement he ob- IV PREFACE, tained was correct and complete, before he published it to the world, particularly in such a splendid manner. In works so magnificently got up, — and that now under consideration is certainly equally to be admired for its typo- graphical beauty, as its graphic embellishment, — most readers look for, and naturally expect, all ordinary care and attention to have been bestowed, in the notes as zoell as the text. — Where a writer cannot do that, he ought, in common justice, to publish less. In the present case, the negligence is the more unpardonable; for, if the Author had made himself at all acquainted with the contents of the vert/ book he quotes, he might himself, unaided, have executed his task much better than has been done by an implicit, — and inexcusably indolent, — reliance on the communication of another. PJIEFACE. V The Author of the Decameron (so much bewildered with the account of the purchase of the " tfjtce bOfeeSi of CajCtOn, in one tome, for faUCe j3|)ttWnge!ES,") has committed two other blunders in the note concerning Mr: Allan's Press. In the first place, he is respect- fully informed, that the christian name of the present owner " of the elegant and hospitable mansion," to which he alludes, is not James, but George i James Allan, Esq. being the grandfather of the worthy Member. In the next place, if Mr. Dibdin had made himself acquainted with, or properly looked into, the Parliamentary History of his country, he would have known, or could easily have discovered, that Darlington, though a very respectable pl^ce, does not send Members to Parliament. B. A CATALOGUE, 1. The Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth, £01* Founding the Free Grammar School, at Dar- lington, 1567. Mr. Allan began his Typographical Labours with this Tract, which is, however, without any date. It is ac- companied by the appointments of four successive Upper Masters, viz. Cuthbert Allen, B. A. 174-7; Thomas Cooke, B. A. 1748; Robert Mectkirke, M. A, 1750; and Thomas Morland, Clerk, 1755; — as well as that of John Dixon, Under Master, 1758. To this publication are annexed " Statutes, Ordinances, and Decrees, Feb. 3d, 174(8," confirmed by Bishop Chandler in June, 1749. It has an engraved Vignette, containing the School Seal, — a Figure of the Royal Foundress. 2 2. Inspeximus (13 Eliz.) of the Surrender made by Hugh Whitehead, Prior of the Cathedral Church or Monastery of Saint Cuthbert, at Durham, to King Henry the Eighth, Deceim- ber 31, 1540. No Date. '3. The Foundation Charter of the Cathedral Church of Durham, by King Henry the Eighth, 12th May, 1541. No Dale. 4. The endowment of the Cathedral Church of Durham, by King Henry the Eighth, 16th May, 1541. No Date. 5. Rules and Orders to be observed in Actions and Proceedings in the Court of the County of Durham. No Date'. 6. Collections relating to St. Edmund's Hospi- tal at Gatesheved, in the County of Durham; shewing the Foundation thereof by Nicholas 3 Farnham, Bishop of Durham, about the year 1 247 ; and afterwards dissolved by a general Act of Parliament, 26th Henry VIII. 1535; but again refounded by James I. 4th Janu- ary, 1610, by the Name of King James's Hospital, in Gateside ; together with seve- ral Charters, Grants, &c. concerning the said Town and Church of Gateside, so far as can!* be collected from Registers, Close Rolls, Authentic Records, Wills, and other Instru- ments in MSS. and Print. " Gather up the Fragments that remain." 6 John, V. 12. Printed in the year 1769. The most appropriate Note that can be added to this article, — and perhaps the best description of— and mode of conducting, — the Grange Press, that can be given, — is the following communication from Mr. George Allan, jun. published by Mr. Nichols in the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. — " Of Gateshead Hospital there were but 50 copies printed ; and that was when I was too young to have made any observation. I can only add, from what I have been told, that a great part of it was executed by a small 4 Folding Press ; but a regular printer having set up busi- ness In the town during the progress of it, a frame was made, to hold four quarto pages (the previous part having been performed by a page only at a time), which were composed at home, and sent, with the paper ready damped, to be worked off by the printer. The Tracts relating to Grethara and Sherburn Hospitals, were printed in the same manner ; and it is curious to ob- serve, that an intimate acquaintance of my father's, now living, asserts, that the proofs scarce ever stood in need of correction, he being himself not only the com- positor, but the distributor of the types, when the form was broken up. I remember the Folding Press very well, and the. arrival of that from London, with which he worked, even within the last j'ear of his life ; nay, so fond was he of the office or employment, he had under- taken, but a f^w mpntljs before his last illness, to print for me a Translation I had attempted of a small German Novel, in which, the Philosophy of Professor Kant is particularly satirized ; and actually corresponded with me respecting the number of pages it would run to, and in what manner I wished it to be executed. Being thus set up, as above, with a regular apparatus, he hired a devil, a poor fellow that occasioned him more trouble than if he had done all the drudgery himself; but he believed the man to be honest, and, as he was friendless, so far' from dismissing him without remuneration, he enabled him to enter into partpership with a bookseller in Darlington ; and on finishing the Legend of Saint P,uthbert, he permitted George Smith to be placed in the title as the printer, with a view to gain him some credit in his profession. This partnership did not last long ; but, during its continuance, my father very kindly corrected the press, even of every common hand- bill that went from the office ; and though he did not condescend to correct ballads, the printing of which was the chief part of the business, a copy was always brought to him. He had a bundle of these perform- ances, which I am not able to find ; but I recollect it con- tained a vast display of ribaldry and typographical error, which were equally amusing. After Smith's failure, he was again retained for the Private Press ; but he was the perpetual cause of trouble and anxiety, for my father never went into the printing room without being irri- tated by the dirty manner in which the forms were kept, and the filthy state of the types when distributed. Besides this, more time was lost, in correcting re- peated proofs, than he could well bear; and the fel- low becoming shamefully addicted to cock-fighting, a vice very prevalent in this county, which my father, if possible, held in greater abhorrence than drunkenness, he vi^as dismissed. He was, however, never totally abandoned by him ; and is now living at Darlington, obtaining occasional employment, having some relief from the parish, and sometimes partaking of a share of my bounty. The amusement was carried on afterwards by the assistance of a relation, whose time was his own ; and the correction of the press was latterly the only part my father performed. Independent of the Antiquarian Tracts, and the little performances for his friends, a great variety of fugitive satirical pieces 6 were printed, particularly election squibs ; but, whether by design or accident, I have not a copy of any one. He printed, also, copies of the family wills ; dnd I once heard him say, he would transcribe and print all the title deeds of his estate, which would certainly have been a labour of little use or profit. His last intention was, to have printed a catalogue of his museum ; which, by his manuscript preparations for it, I think would, have been very amusing ; and I lament he did not execute it. After his death, the press and materials were sold to a printer in the town, without my knowledge. I should otherwise have been tempted to have kept them as a memorial of past times, and present pleasing recollec- tions, rather than for any use I could have made of them. During a vacation from College, he once pre- vailed on me to become a Compositor ; and I made a tolerable proficiency in the art ; but I was not very en- thusiastically fond of the employment : Having mention- ed the wills, I may be permitted to add an anecdote of my own. Having occasion, a few years ago, to shew my title to a particular estate, to a very eminent attor- ney in London, to whom I was not personally known, I left a printed copy of a will, at his chambers, the authen- ticity of which he might have explored at Doctor's Commons, yet this circumstance appeared to him so strange, that he took it to be an imposition ; and it was necessary for me to explain, through my own attorney, that my father had had a private press, under the im- pression of which almost every matter he was interested in, fairly went ; and that I had left the printed copy of the will required merely to save time." 7. Collections relating to the Hospital at Gre- tham, in the County of Durham; shewing the Foundation thereof by Robert Stichehill, Bishop of Durham, about the year 1272; and afterwards refounded and incorporated by Letters Patent of King James I. 20th July, 1610, by the Name of ' Master and Brothers of the Hospital of God in Gretham, in the County Palatine of Durham.' Toge- ther with several Charters, Grants, Visita- tions, Inquisitions, Rules, and Ordinances, concerning the said Hospital and Church of Gretham, &c. No Date. See Note to No. 6. 8. Collections relating Sherburn Hospital in the County Palatine of Durham; shewing the Foundation thereof by Hugh Pudsey, Bishop of Durham, about the Year 1181, and what Alterations it has since undergone by an Act of Parliament, incorporating the same 8 27th Q. Eliz. 1585; and several Charters, Grants, Benefactions, Visitations, Inquisi- tions, Rules, Ordinances, and Masters there- of, so far as can be collected from Registers, Close Rolls, authentic Records, Wills, and other Instruments in Manuscript and Print. " Gather up the Fragments that remain." 6 John, V. 12. Printed in the year 1771. This Book is embellished with a West View of Sher- burn Hospital, fronting the title ; a Vignette of the Hospital Seal ; and the Monument of Thomas Lever, one of the Masters, who died in 1577, on the reverse of leaf 59, there being no paging. — Mr. Allan was at the expense of engraving, on one Plate, a Portrait of himself and Mr. Hutchinson, which is sometimes prefixed to this publication. See Note to No. 6. 9. The Recommendatory Letter of Oliver Cromwell to William Lenthall, Esq. Speaker of the House of Commons, for erecting a College and University at Durham j and his Letters Patent (when Lord Protector) for founding the same- "With the Address of the Provost and Fellows of the said College, to his Son, Richard (when Lord Protector), on the Death of his Father. No Date. The above letter and patent are from the originals in the Durham Library. The latter is beautifully illumi-> nated with Cromwell's Picture and Arms, and a variety of emblematical designs. 10. A Letter from William Frankeleyn, Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, to Cardinal Wolsey, Bishop of Durham, about certain Coal Mines at Whickham, and other Rights and Privi- leges of the Bishopric, and the Cardinal's Mint there for Coinage of Money. No Date. 11. An Address and Queries to the Public, relative to the compiling a complete Civil and Ecclesiastical History of the ancient and 10 and present State of the Count j Palatine of Durham. Darlington 1774 Mr. Allan was induced to turn his attention to this subject from having recently become possessed of Mr. Randall's Manuscripts. The design, however, received but little encouragement at the time, and was afterwards altogether abandoned in favour of Hutchinson's well- known work. 12. Antiquarian Tracts selected from the Ar- chaeologia, &c. No Date. 13. A Sketch of the Life & Character of The Right Honorable and Reverend Richard Trevor, Lord Bishop of Durham. With a particular Account of his last Illness. Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus Tam cari capitis ? . Quando ullum invenient parem .' Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. Darlington printed by Messrs. Darnton S( Smith, 1776. 11 The Portrait, by Cdlyer, which adorns this Sketch, ■was copied from a Drawing made by Robert Hutchinson, one of Bishop Trevor's domestics, and improved from a Wax Model by Isaac Gossett, father of the well- known Dr. Gossett, so celebrated among Bibliomaniacs. The Book also contains a Plate of the Bishop's Seal at page 1 (partly etched by Mr. Allan himself) ; and a View of Glynd Place, in Sussex, page 6. The Bishop's Arms are likewise engraved at the end of the Volume.. Mr. Nichols has reprinted this Life of Bishop Trevor, in the 9th Volume of his amusing Anecdotes. 14. The Legend of ^ai'ltt Cttt^fiCtt or the Histories of his Churches at Lindisfarne, Cunecascestre, & Dunholm, by Robert Hegg, 1626. Darlington Printed bij George Smith, 1777. Embellished with a vignette View of Lindisfarne ; a View of the Cathedral of Durham, &c. page 1 ; a Saxon Coin, ignorantly attributed to Saint Cuthbert, page 16 ; and the Chest in which that holy man's body was depo- sited, page 23, Two other editions of this extraordi- nary Legend have been published; one in 1663, 12mo. with a Prologue, which is very rare ; and the other in 1816, 4-to. by Mr. Taylor, of Sunderland. See Note to No. 6. ^' , V ' '' ■ '' 12 15. The Origin and Succession of the Bishops of Durham, from the original MS. in the Dean and Chapter's Library. 1779. 16. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons for appointing the Sale of Bishops' Lands for the use of the Commonwealth in 1646, with a Particular of the Bishop of Durham's Lands, and various other Acts during Oliver Cromwell's Usurpation, No Date. 17. Commission to hear and determine the Appeal of Cuthbert Tunstall Bishop of Dur- ham, being deprived of his Bishoprick, 1 Sept. 1553. No Date. 18. Statuta et Ordinationes Ecclesiae Cathedra- lis Dunelmensis, 20 Martii, 1553, No Date. 19. An Act of Parliament empowering Q,. 13 Mary to make Statutes for Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, 2nd April, 1554. No Date. 20. Inspexiraus of an Act of Parliament in the 1st Year of Queen Mary for the Repeal of two Acts 7 Edw. VI. touching the Dissolu- tion of the Bishoprick of Durham, and for re-establishing, reviving, and restoring it, 2 April, 1554. No Date. 21. The Grant (3 Philip and Mary) of Nomi- nation, Presentation, and Collation of all the twelve Prebendaries in the Cathedral to Bishop Tunstall and his Successors, 7 Feb. 1555. No Date. 22. Extracts from Rymer's " Fcedera," and Strype's " Annals, &c," relative to the Elec- tion of Bishop Pilkington. No Date. 14 23. Extracts from the Journals of the House of Commons, 1650, touching the College at Durham being converted into a University. No Date. 24. Further Extracts concerning the Bishop- rick of Durham, and sending Members to Parliament, for the County, City of Durham, Barnardcastle, and Hartlepool. No Date. 25. Collectanea ad Statum Civilem et Ecclesi- asticum Comitatus Dunelmensis spectantia, ex variis Codicibus, tam Manuscriptis, quam Impressis, sine ordine congesta. " Gather up the Fragments that remain." This is a single leaf containing a Vignette, by Bailey, which appears to have been intended as a general Title for the Miscellaneous Collections relative to the County of Durham, printed by Mr. Allan. To which is added, another leaf containing the following Dedication to the Bishop :— " To the Reverend Father in God John by 15 Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Durham, These Miscellaneous Collections (the amuse- ment of leisure hours) are humbly Inscribed by His Lordship's " Obedient humble Servant, « GEORGE ALLAN. Darlington, 1st July, 1774." In addition to the above Publications of his own, Mr, Allan printed for his Friend, Thomas Pennant, the well-known Tourist and Natura- list, the following Tracts. Speaking of these Publications, Mr, Pennant in his Life, says, — " I at several times gave to the public some trifles, which were not ill-received j but few knew the author. These I collected some years ago, and printed, for the amusement of a few friends, thirty copies, by the friendly press of George Allan, Esq. at Darlington." 16 26. Of the Patagonians ; formed from the Rela- tion of Father Falkener, a Jesuit, who had resided among them 38 Years; and from the different Voyagers who had met with this iall late Race. Printed, by the Friendship of George Allan, Esq. at his Private Press, at Darlington, 1788. 27. Catalogue of my "Works. 28. Ode, occasioned by a Lady professing an Attachment to Indifference; Chester, March, 1769. 29. On a Lady chosen on the same Day Patroness of a Book Society and a Hunting Meeting; Chester, September 20th, 1771. 30. Two Letters, copied from the Chester Cou- rant, 1781. 17 The first of these letters is an " Essay on the impro- per Behaviour of married Ladies towards our Sex," and the latter " A Ridicule on the bold and masculine Fashion of the Ladies wearing Riding-Habits at all Times of the Day." 31. American Annals, 1775 — 78; or, Hints and Queries for Parliament Men. 32. The Flintshire Petition, 1780. The discontents of the year 1779 were grown to such a height, that the county of Flint took share in the at- tempt to produce a redress of grievances. I wished to allay the popular fury as far as in me lay ; because num- bers of the complaints were excited by that bane of this kingdom in all ages, pretended patriots. I formed a speech, which I had not courage enough to speak, so printed the lenitive intention, as certainly it could do me no discredit. The event shewed that impossibilities were attempted, and that as soon as the patriots got into power, no more was thought of the plan once urged with much violence. — Mr. Pennant. 33. An Account of several Earthquakes felt in Wales, 1780, by Thomas Pennant, Esq. F. R.S., in a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, 18 F. R. S. Read January 25th, 1781, before the Royal Society. Portrait of Mrs. Allan — small xohole-length. 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