Daisy’s Necklace: and What Came of It. (A Literary Episode).
New York: Derby & Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857. First edition. BAL 249; Wright II, 35. ¶ Aldrich’s second book and his first novel.
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![The Bride's Tragedy [bound with three other contemporary plays]. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES](/pictures/thumb/26181.jpg?v=1527031615)
The Bride's Tragedy [bound with three other contemporary plays].
London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822. First edition. Tinker 221; NCBEL III, 409. ¶ The second published work by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), a famous tragedy written when he was 16 which was praised by several of the principal participants in the Romantic movement. It is suitably.....
The Complete Works of . . . Edited with a Memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse.
London: The Fanfrolico Press, (1928). First edition, number 520 of 750 numbered copies. NCBEL III, 409. A fine edition of Beddoes' works, with 35 pages of biographical and bibliographical information by Gosse.
The Beggar Boy: A Novel in Three Volumes. By the Late Mr. Thomas Bellamy.
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. First American edition. American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of the only novel by Thomas Bellamy, the picaresque tale of a young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his mother and lives.....
Portrait of Cadell engraved by Henry Meyer after a drawing by W. Evans of the painting by Sir William Beechey.
London: H. Meyer, n.d., A fine engraving of the famous portrait that hangs at the Stationers' Company of the great 18th century English bookseller and publisher Thomas Cadell (1742-1802). The engraver, Henry Meyer (1782-1847), was himself a distinguished artist. See the DNB.
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse; By . . . The Supposed Author of the Poems Published Under the Names of Rowley, Canning, &c.
London: Printed for Fielding and Walker, 1778. First edition. Warren 5; NCBEL II, 606. 43 writings culled from Bristol and London newspapers, which constitute the first collection of Thomas Chatterton's "non-Rowlean" works. They were compiled by John Broughton of Bristol, who explains in the preface the rationale for the attributions.....
A Bibliographical Antiquarian, and the Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Robert Jennings and John Major, 1829. Second edition. Windle A38b; Jackson 49.
Portrait of Thomas John Dibdin, playwright, actor and song writer.
(London:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799. The earliest recorded likeness of Thomas John Dibdin. A fine portrait of the actor and writer, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), who like the other famous thespian Dibdins, was involved in the English theater from an early age. Thomas John was.....
A New Guide to the English Tongue . . .
Boston: Printed and Sold by William M'Alpine in Marlborough Street, 1771. About the tenth American edition and the second by the Boston publisher William M'Alpine, who first published this in 1770; this is possibly a reprint of that; they both contain 154 pages, as does another Boston edition of 1770.....
![Anabasis: A Poem by St.-J. Perse [pseud]. With a Translation into English by . . THOMAS STEARNS...](/pictures/thumb/21947.jpg?v=1518910321)
Anabasis: A Poem by St.-J. Perse [pseud]. With a Translation into English by . . .
London: Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition, number 56 of 350 numbered copies, signed by Eliot. Gallup A16b; NCBEL IV, 160. Eliot's translation from the French of the epic poem by Marie René Auguste Alexis Léger (who wrote under the pseudonym Saint-John Perse), which Eliot wrote is “of same importance.....
The Confidential Clerk. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Gallup A64a; NCBEL IV, 161. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
The Waste Land. By T.S. Eliot.
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2007. First Arion Press edition, number 65 of 300 numbered copies. The 79th book of the Arion Press and an exemplary fine press edition of a classic American poem, with essays by Helen Vendler on the Waste Land and Marco Livingstone on Kitaj's painting, a......
The Speech of the Lord Chancellor of England, in the Eschequer Chamber, touching the Post-nati.
London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1609. First edition, second impression with the errata on the verso of the title-page. STC 7540.5; ESTC S100270. A plea on behalf of the rights of Scots to own property and share the same citizenship rights as English. Lacking the first blank (A1).....
High-Ways and By-Ways; or, Tales of the Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces. By a Walking Gentleman. Third Series.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. NCBEL III, 728; not in Wolff or Sadleir, both of whom had other titles by Grattan. ¶ The final installment in Grattan's Irvingesque tales of France, sketches that were in fact inspired by Washington Irving; the first series was dedicated to him. Grattan (1792-1864).....
Elegia Inglese di Tommaso Gray Sopra un Cimitero Campestre Trasportata in Verso Italiano da Giuseppi Torello Veronese.
Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793. First Bodoni edition of three translations of Gray's famous Elegy, two in Italian and one Latin, with the English text. Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250 records seven copies (Birmingham, BL, Rylands, Eton, UCLA, UNC & UVa). ¶ An attractive edition.....
The Works of . . . With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by William Mason. To Which are Subjoined Extracts Philological, Poetical and Critical from the Author's Original Manuscripts. Selected and Arranged by Thomas James Mathias.
London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Press, for John Porter, 1814. First Bulmer edition. Northup 18; NCBEL II, 577. ¶ The fine Bulmer Shakespeare Press edition of Gray's works, which includes a considerable amount of previously unpublished material.
Christmas in the Elgin Room. British Museum: Early Last Century.
(Dorchester: Printed Privately by Hy. Ling Ltd, January 1928). First edition, second issue. See Purdy, pages 251-252 and 349, who does not record this issue. One of over 15 works by Thomas Hardy privately published all in a similar pamphlet format by his wife, Florence Hardy. The earliest examples were.....
![The Hand of Ethelberta [in] The Cornhill Magazine, July, 1875 - May, 1876. THOMAS HARDY](/pictures/thumb/26653.jpg?v=1520101747)
The Hand of Ethelberta [in] The Cornhill Magazine, July, 1875 - May, 1876.
[London:] Cornhill Magazine 1875-1876. First appearance in print. Purdy, page 22; NCBEL 981. ¶ The 11 vignettes by Du Maurier were not used subsequent book editions.
Selected Poems of . . . With Portrait & Title Page Design Engraved on Wood by William Nicholson.
London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921. First Medici Society edition, number 705 of 1,000 numbered copies printed at the Riccardi Press. Purdy, page 178, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 981. A fine, handsome edition of Hardy's poems. Two extra printed paper labels tipped in.....
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman. Faithfully Presented by . . .
London: Osgood, McIlvaine, (1892). First one-volume edition, called the "Fifth Edition," with a new preface by Hardy, dated July 1892. Purdy, page 77, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 982.
The Vineyards and Wine Cellars of California. An Essay on Early California Winemaking . . . First Published in Adelaide, Australia, in 1885. Edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Pinney and a Foreword by Robert Mondavi.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1994. First edition, one of 400 copies printed at the Yolla Bolly Press. ¶ An outstanding and handsome work on the California wine industry in the 19th century. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.
Reliquiæ Bodleianæ: or Some Genuine Remains of Thomas Bodley. Containing His Life, the First Draught of the Statues of the Publick Library at Oxford (in English) and a Collection of Letters to Dr. James, &c. Published from the Originals in said Library.
London: Printed for John Hartley, 1703. First edition. NCBEL II, 1700; Lowndes 1022. ¶ Over 200 letters from Thomas Bodley (1545-1613) to the his first librarian, Thomas James (1572-1629), on matters pertaining to the establishment, plan, design and mission of the library, including methods of cataloging, types of bindings, subject.....
Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff. Translated from the Original Latin M.S. Under the Immediate Inspection of the King, by John Brown, Esq.
London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825. First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds, and Yale) and.....
National Tales.
London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. First edition. NCBEL III, 359; not in Wolff. ¶ A series of short sketches modeled on the popular tales by Washington Irving and others of that style, and an early work by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), published by the future novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth.
Hood’s Own: or, Laughter from Year to Year. [With:] Hood’s Own . . . with a Preface by His Son. Second Series.
London: A. H. Baily and Co., 1839; London: Edward Moxon, 1861. First edition of both series. NCBEL III, 359; Gilmour, “Some Uncollected Authors,” The Book Collector vol. 4, 1955, page 243. ¶ A fine collection of the writings of Thomas Hood ((1799-1845): "A medley of prose, verse and pictures from the.....