Washington: [Privately Printed], 1907. First edition, privately printed. BAL 32. One of the most famous of all American autobiographies and the book for which Henry Adams is best known: a rich exploration of history and the writing of history told through Adams' life. Henry Adams published two great works of.....

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Sold by J. Bell, 1801. First edition. Summers, Gothic Bibliography, pages 525-26; and see Richard Garnett, Original Poetry By Victor & Cazire (John Lane, 1898). An anonymously compiled collection of 20 tales in verse which parody M. G. Lewis' popular Tales of Wonder (1801).....

London: Printed by Richard Bishop, 1651. The last 17th century edition. ESTC R12723; Wing B547; NCBEL I, 1083. A popular mid-Tudor work on moral philosophy by the poet, satirist and printer William Baldwin (circa 1518-1563?), "a literary innovator whose works influenced writers as historically distant and as thematically diverse as.....

[Hellgate, East River, New York, circa 1835.], A remarkable holograph manuscript by New York writer and man of letters Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874), written when he was a teenager and under the supervision and care of his famous grandfather, John Jacob Astor - many years prior to his first published.....

Bristol: Printed by George Routh, for the Author, n.d. [circa 1800]. First edition. ESTC T222838, which records two copies: BL and South Hampton; JISC adds four: National Library of Scotland, St. Andrews, and Wellcome; OCLC adds one, NYPL (Phforzheimer, apparently the only copy in America); and see Jackson, Romantic Poetry.....

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Sün Evrard. First edition. David Belch, proprietor of the Scarab Press and well-known biblio-bon vivant of the San Francisco Bay Area (circa 1960s-2010), commissioned several fine binders to design and produce bindings on Printing Poetry by Clifford.....

Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1865. First edition, privately printed, one of 50 copies. BAL 109, binding B, no priority. A laudatory essay written in tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson on his birthday, May 25, 1865, by his friend and “the most transcendental of the transcendentalists” (Seven Gables Catalogue 34), Amos Bronson.....

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.....

Boston: Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, 19 Water Street, [circa 1832]. One of several known variants, priority undetermined. Collins, Threads of History, 229, describing a similar version, but not this one. A linen handkerchief for children with religious poems, prayers and one of the most famous of all 19th century nursery.....

London: Printed for the Author, 1808; London: Printed by W. and T. Darton, 1808; London: Printed for the Author, 1809. First editions of the first two titles; second edition of the third. NCBEL III, 387; Wise and Wheeler, pages 30-32; Partridge, Robert Eyres Landor, His Life and Work, pages 32-35.....

[London:] Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1883-85. First collected edition, one of 50 copies only. NCBEL I, 1457. The first comprehensive collection of the works of Thomas Nashe (bap.1567- c1601), the colorful playwright, poet, satirist, novelist and pamphleteer, who was at the center of the Elizabethan literary scene and many.....

London: Printed for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669. Second edition in English, preceded by the edition of 1662. ESTC R30756; Wing O270; Cox, Literature of Travel, I, page 249. In 1634 Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (present day Denmark and Germany), sent an expedition, with Adam Olearus (1603-1671) as its.....

London: Printed by William Wilson, for Abel Roper, 1648. First edition. Wing A3744. An account of the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) in 1603 for fomenting a rebellion against King James, devising a plot to replace him with Lady Arabella Stuart, and encouraging a Spanish invasion. Raleigh defended himself.....