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Richmond: News-Leader, (1912). First and only separate edition. Not found in BAL; OCLC records one copy (Library of Virginia). A letter written by the venerable Virginia author, Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922), to his local newspaper about the state of politics in Virginia. The newspaper agreed with Page's sentiments and promoted.....
Paris: Printed by Hartley, Adlard and Son; London: Re-Printed for T. Williams, 1796. One of several competing editions published in London following the Paris edition of the same year, priority unknown. Gimbel, pages 60-61; ESTC N6535. A controversial attack by Thomas Paine, written when he was still in France and.....
London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1713. First edition. Rothschild 1512; Foxon P70; Hayward 149; NCBEL II, 561. A 36-page poem - or verse essay - on poetical styles by Irishman Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), clergyman, poet, essayist, and member of the Scriblerus Club, a group that included Swift, Gay, Pope, and.....
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1762. First edition. NCBEL II, 242. ¶ An early work by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), and an interesting work of English Sinology. Within a few years Percy would gain literary fame for his Relics of Ancient English Poetry (1765). The eight pieces collected here.....
London: Various publishers, 1717, 1731 & 1735. Various contemporary editions. On the front blank is the contemporary inscription ". . . Jesus College / 1738 / Entered July the 21st 1738." Below that is notation in a different hand "Pownall / the Gift of T. Nevile." Thomas Pownall (1722-1805) was.....
London: Printed and Published by Thomas Clio Rickman, 1819. First edition. Sabin 71242; Gimbel, page 136; Howes R278. An important memoir of Thomas Paine by his lifelong friend and supporter Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), the reform-minded bookseller and poet. “Rickman's name will be forever linked with Paine, for he was.....
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al., 1803. First edition. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine, and poems to David Garrick, Charles Churchill, Lord Chesterfield, William Cowper, Philip Thicknesse.....
Printed in Paradise, 1624 [for London: John Beale?], 1624. First edition, second issue with two typographical errors corrected. STC 22084a; ESTC S123283, which records four locations in the U.K. and six in the U.S. ¶ Fictitious letters from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1565-1601), defending his military campaigns and actions.....
London: Printed for James Knapton, 1691. First edition. Wing S-2872; NCBEL II, 745. ¶ A late play by Shadwell, a somewhat coarse comedy about scourers, whores and scoundrels - but in the end one of the scourers comes around to virtue. This was an early use of the word "Scowrer,".....
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition, one of 325 copies. ¶ From the library of David and Valerie Belch.
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First edition. BAL 19942; Wright I, 2562. A scarce novel by the nephew of Isaiah Thomas who was born in Providence, R.I., but was raised in Charleston, S.C. and spent much of his early career as a journalist, poet and novelist, in Cincinnati. Thomas (1806-1866).....
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880. First edition. ¶ An essay on bibliographic descriptions and preparing catalogues, with a list of 151 works purportedly by “A Lady,” which Ralph Thomas, writing under the pseudonym Olphar Hamst could not identify when compiling his Handbook of Fictitious Names of Authors of the Nineteenth Century.....
London: Printed for W. Button, [1794] & 1796. First edition of both parts. Gimbel, page 37. Another response to Paine's The Age of Reason, Parts I & II, by the Welsh clergyman Thomas Williams (1760-1844), who defends Christianity against the salvos of freethinkers like Paine, but Williams is careful to.....