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RICKMAN, THOMAS CLIO.

The Life of Thomas Paine, Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, Letter to the Addressers, &c.

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.....

Price: $750.00

RICKMAN, THOMAS CLIO.

Poetical Scraps.

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.....

Price: $375.00

[SCOTT, THOMAS].

Robert Earle of Essex His Ghost, Sent from Elizian: To the Nobility, Gentry, and Communaltie of England.

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.....

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[SHAKESPEARIANA]. Lodge, Thomas.

Rosalynd. Euphues' Golden Legacie, Found after his Death in his Cell at Silexedra . . . Upon Which Shakespeare Founded his “As you Like It.” Reprinted from the Edition of 1592.

London: Thomas Rodd, 1841. The Shakespeare's Library reprint. NCBEL I, 1435; Freeman & Freeman, John Payne Collier, pages 426-427. ¶ The first in a series of reprints of source books used by William Shakespeare, with an unsigned introduction by John Payne Collier and published by Thomas Rodd. There were seven.....

Price: $150.00

(TAYLOR, THOMAS, COMPILER).

Printer's Choice. A Selection of American Press Books, 1968-1978. Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club, New York, December 19, 1978-February 3, 1979. Selection of Books and Press Histories by Ruth E. Fine and William Matheson. Bibliographical Descriptions and Notes by W. Thomas Taylor.

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition, one of 325 copies. ¶ From the library of David and Valerie Belch.

Price: $300.00

[THOMAS, RALPH, COMPILER].

Aggravating Ladies, Being a List of Works Published Under the Pseudonym of “A Lady,” with Preliminary Suggestions on the Art of Describing Books Bibliographically. By Olphar Hamst [pseud].

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.....

Price: $250.00

[WILLIAMS, THOMAS].

The Age of Infidelity: In Answer to Thomas Paine's Age of Reason. By a Layman. [Bound with:] The Age of Infidelity: Part II. In Answer to the Second Part of The Age of Reason. With Some Additional Remarks Upon the Former. By a Layman.

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.....

Price: $950.00