London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery, at the Original Juvenile Library; and B. Crosby, 1808. First edition. A humorous tale in rhyme for children about a lobster who moves to the Americas, with factual footnotes on various kinds of fish and marine animals. The illustrations are probably.....
London: Keegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883, First edition under this title, one of 50 large paper copies; this one out of series, but see below. NCBEL III, 1427. A combined edition with revisions and omissions of Proverbs in Porcelain and Vignettes in Rhyme. Inscribed on the front blank "For.....
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.....
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.....
London: Printed for J. Hassell, 1819. First edition. Abbey, Scenery, 30; Tooley, page 139. ΒΆ The Grand Junction Canal was designed to facilitate water transport from Oxford Canal to London, in place of the uncertain Thames River. The canal was opened in 1800 and pretty well completed in 1805, and.....
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First and only edition. ESTC T20407. A satire on unscrupulous politicians - particularly those involved with the "broad bottom" coalition which came to power in 1744 - with a sensational engraving "taken from an original painting of" William Hogarth, depicting Tory leaders with flabby.....
London and New York: Macmillan, 1892. Second edition, revised and augmented, large paper issue, number 93 of 200 numbered copies. NCBEL III, 1441; Colebeck, A Bookman's Catalogue, Lang 69. An elaborate production, in which Andrew Lang questions in his Preface to the Second Edition, the worth and validity of the.....