New York: Derby & Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857. First edition. BAL 249; Wright II, 35. ¶ The second book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), a novel about the mystery behind a stolen necklace and the life of a struggling writer in New York. There are numerous references to.....
![The Bride's Tragedy [bound with three other contemporary plays]. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES](/pictures/thumb/26181.jpg?v=1527031615)
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.....
Boston: Published by T. Bedlington, 1816. First American edition. American Bibliography 37004. One of several works of Biblical philosophy by Thomas Tregenna Biddulph (1763-1838), a clergyman from Bristol who played an important role in the popularity of English provincial evangelicalism. See the ODNB.
London: Printed for Sam Briscoe, [et al.], 1720. First edition. ESTC T128762; NCBEL II, 1044. ¶ A posthumous collection of miscellaneous writings by the great Grub Street author, Thomas Brown (1663-1704), including his Characters of Women of the Age, and several previously uncollected dialogues.
(Mt. Vernon, New York: Privately Printed by William Rudge for Bruce Rogers, 1924.), First separate edition, one of 223 copies. Jackson, Dibdin, 42; Windle & Pippin, Dibdin, A Bibliography, A30; Warde, Bruce Rogers, 185. An imaginary conversation between four characters, Lysander, Philemon, Lisardo and Almansa, who discuss merits of seven.....
(London:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799. The earliest recorded portrait of Thomas John Dibdin. NCBEL III, 1129-30. 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.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Gallup A64a; NCBEL IV, 161. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, (1948). First edition. Gallup D619. The first Swedish translation of Four Quartets, a collaborative effort by three translators. Inscribed on the half-title by one of them, Thomas Warburton, and dated Nov. 26, 1948.
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928. First edition, number 459 of 580 numbered copies of the "ordinary" issue. Gallup B7b. Two dialogues on poetry by two great poets, separated by 260 years. In the preface, Eliot writes that his purpose is to "throw the dialogue of Dryden into 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, indeed, inspired by Washington Irving; the first series was dedicated to him. Grattan (1792-1864) was.....
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.....
![The Hand of Ethelberta [in] The Cornhill Magazine, July, 1875 - May, 1876. THOMAS HARDY](/pictures/thumb/26653.jpg?v=1520101747)
[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.....
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.
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1928. First edition, one of 25 special copies on rag paper; there was also the "ordinary" or trade edition in wrappers of 1,000 copies. A fine exhibition catalogue, designed by Carl Purington Rollins, and the precursor to Richard Purdy's Hardy: A Bibliographical Study (Oxford, 1954).....
London: Printed for W. Crooke, 1682. Third edition, preceded by editions in 1679 and 1680. ESTC R28656; Wing H2215; NCBEL I, 2326. ¶ The causes of the English civil war debated in a dialogue between interlocutors named A and B. Hobbes' treatise, one of several dialogues he wrote on civil.....
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.....
Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1819, First edition. NCBEL III, 1463. ¶ Macaulay’s first book, a 13-page poem of 280 stanzas on the popular classical subject, Pompeii and its famous destruction. Like many first books by noted English authors, Pompeii was a prize poem, which Macaulay delivered it at the.....
Lambeth: Printed (For Private Distribution Only) at the Author's Private Press, 1829. First edition. NCBEL III, 1134. ¶ A collection of about 100 poems in several forms by the playwright, theatre manager, miscellaneous writer and apparently occasional printer, as well. Moncrieff (1794-1857) was a self-described "hack," and a prolific one.....