London: George Routledge, 1852. Second English edition, preceded by the three decker published by T. C. Newby in 1849. NCBEL III, 738; cf. Wolff 3506 for the 1849 edition; OCLC records only one copy of this second edition. ¶ Historical fiction about evil deeds committed by man.
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1769. First edition. ¶ One of several anti-Catholic works by Lewis (1701-1784), a rector and chaplain. This one attempts to reinvent Henry VIII as an enlightened monarch and in the process attacks Swift for his criticisms of the monarch.
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1778. First edition, all published. ESTC P2575; NCBEL II, 1305. A complete run of 42 issues of an illustrated magazine published by George Kearsly between 1774 and 1777, intended to display and celebrate the art of copperplate engraving. Each of the 123 examples is accompanied.....
London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1750. ¶ An act passed by parliament under the reign of George II that attempts to discourage swearing by establishing a set of fines for the offenders: first time offenders could be fined from one to five shillings; seamen, soldiers and government employees were fined.....
London: Printed for J. Morgan, 1756. First edition, one of two issues; this one without the errata on page 76. ESTC T22278; Eddy, Samuel Johnson Book Reviewer in the Literary Magazine, 26; Hanley, Samuel Johnson Book Reviewer, pages 134-36. ¶ A defense of Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) of the Royal.....
See Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1163-1172. A gathering of five important pamphlets dealing with the acrimonious dispute between two groups of partners of the Covent Garden Theatre - usually referred to as the “Proprietors' Dispute” - a quarrel that began in 1767 when two of the partners.....
London: Printed for J. Robson and W. Clarke, 1788. First edition. ESTC T11081, state 2 without a pressmark on page 74 and with a single flower on page 75; NCBEL II, 177. ¶ The only performed play by the poet Bertie Greatheed (1759-1826), a member of the group that fancied.....
London: Printed for T. Davies, 1768. First edition. ESTC T3451; NCBEL II, 841; Fleeman 68.12HC/1a. ¶ The first of three plays by John Hoole (1727-1803), translator and aspiring writer. Hoole was a friend of Samuel Johnson and a member of his Essex Head Club. Johnson wrote the dedication to Cyrus.....
Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, 1885. First Daniel Press edition, number 45 of 150 numbered copies. NCBEL I, 1699. An interesting later edition of a play originally entitled A Cure for the Cuckhold: A Pleasant Comedy, published by bookseller Francis Kirkman in 1661 and perhaps speciously.....
London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie, with music by James Hook (1746-1827). A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook, the wife.....
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[London: John Payne Collier, 1865]. The second book issued by subscription in John Payne Collier's Blue Series of facsimiles of rare English poetical miscellanies, one of 50 copies. See Freeman & Freeman, John Payne Collier, A136, for the interesting history of this "hybrid" facsimile and other Collier projects. Contemporary bookplate.....
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1807. The 1801, 02 & 05 volumes are second editions; the 1803-04 volumes are first editions. Lowndes, page 1901; NCBEL III, 1873; Brewer, Leigh Hunt, pages 15-16; ODNB. In 1801 Richard Alfred Davenport (1776-1852), an aspiring poet and energetic author, began independently issuing.....
London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1740. First edition. ESTC T22372; Foxon M-236; NCBEL II, 796. A satirical poem by the dedicated satirist James Miller, directed at Robert Walpole. It “caused a sensation. Six replies quickly appeared, including one by Miller, The Great Man's Answer, where, in confident colloquial verse, Walpole.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. First edition. A bio-history of the engaging San Francisco bookseller and botanical printmaker Henry Evans (1918-1990), who founded the Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press in San Francisco in the early 1950s with the assistance of wife Patricia and daughter Judith. Evans later.....
San Francisco: Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker, 1948-1990.
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951. First edition, one of 175 copies. An attractive and amusing work on mushrooms, the history of their uses in cooking, how to choose and clean them, etc., with several recipes of the ideal mushroom dishes, including beouf stroganoff, oeufs aux champignons and creole mushroom.....
Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985. First Still Point Press edition, number 31 of 300 numbered copies, printed by the Bird & Bull Press. A handsome fine press edition of John Evelyn's treatise on the making of salads, first published in 1699. "Evelyn's message in Acetaria was that vegetables were a......
London: Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin, 1700. Fourth edition. ESTC R219623 (six in the UK and five in North America); Wing E3940A; Keynes, Evelyn, 16a. An anonymously written pamphlet under the guise of being a dairy of a Frenchman’s visit to England and his shock at the dirty, chaotic.....
York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, J. Robson, T. Durham, London; W. Creech and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1776. The first edition edited by Alexander Hunter. Keynes 47; ESTC T123233; NCBEL II, 1580. An extensively annotated edition of John Evelyn's famous treatise on trees, edited by Edinburgh.....
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, [1984]. First edition, number 21 of 226 copies signed by Everson, Killion and Wilson. Designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley. From the library of David and Valerie Belch. Original prospectus laid in.
(New York): New Directions, (1948). First edition. Bartlett & Campo A9. ¶ Everson’s first major collection of poetry, a selection from previous volumes, with one unpublished poem and new 3-page preface. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “For Dorothy Whitnah / with best wishes etc / Bill Everson.” Dorothy Whitnah.....
Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press, 1968. First edition, one of 180 copies, signed by Everson on the front blank. Bartlett & Campo A30. Seven previously unpublished poems by William Everson, originally written in 1947 and printed by Kenneth and Patricia Carpenter of the Black Rock Press in a edition.....
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(Berkeley: University of California General Library, 1960). First edition, one of 200 copies printed by Kenneth J. Carpenter as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, 1960. Bartlett & Campo A17. One of several early poems written by William Everson that remained unpublished until years.....
San Francisco: Herbert and Peter Fahey, 1951. First edition. A handsome manual for those interested in fine bookbinging, written, printed and published by the Faheys of San Francisco. This set of unbound sheets was purchased by a local San Francisco binder, who did not get around to binding it.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931). First trade edition. Petersen A9.2a. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.