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.
New York: Derby & Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857. First edition. BAL 249; Wright II, 35. ¶ Aldrich’s second book and his first novel.
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.....
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.
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.....
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.
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.....
London: Robert Jennings and John Major, 1829. Second edition. Windle A38b; Jackson 49.
(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.....
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.....
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.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Gallup A64a; NCBEL IV, 161. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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......
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).....
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).....
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.....
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.
(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.....
[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.
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.....
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.
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.
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....