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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of...

MERRYMOUNT PRESS.

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the Protestant Episcola Church in the United States of America. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

(Boston:) Printed for the Commission (by D. B. Updike, the Merrymount Press), 1930. The first of this edition, one of 500 copies printed. ¶ One of the great monuments of the career of printer Daniel Berkeley Updike and considered one of the finest examples of 20th century American book design.....

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Poems, and Compositions in Prose on Several Occasions. WILLIAM MUNFORD

MUNFORD, WILLIAM.

Poems, and Compositions in Prose on Several Occasions.

Richmond: Printed by Samuel Pleasants, 1798. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 610; Hill, American Plays, 194; Evans 34159; Sabin 51316. The first book by William Munford (1775-1825), a collection of verse, prose and one play. Munford was a native of Virginia and the son of Revolutionary War soldier and dramatist.....

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Poems on Various Subjects. ANN MURRY

MURRY, ANN.

Poems on Various Subjects.

London: Printed for the Author; Sold by Edward and Charles Dilly, J. Robson, and J. Walter, 1779. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 241; ESTC T42668 (six copies in the UK; six in the US). An accomplished and entertaining collection of over 30 poems and four poetical dialogues.....

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The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes. Or a Summarie Discourse, Prooving: The Wearing and Nourishing...

PRYNNE, WILLIAM.

The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes. Or a Summarie Discourse, Prooving: The Wearing and Nourishing of a Lock or Love-Locke, to be Altogether Unseemely, and Unlawfull unto Christians . . .

London: Printed, Anno, 1628. First edition, one of two issues, the difference being the spelling of "needs" on page 19. STC 20477.5. A rare and early work by pamphleteer and lawyer William Prynne (1600-1669), who was tried twice by the Star Chamber for sedition, but later served in the government.....

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The Fatal Legacy; A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields. JANE ROBE

[ROBE, JANE, TRANSLATOR].

The Fatal Legacy; A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields.

London: Printed for E. Symon, J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1723. First edition. ESTC N9868. A translation and adaptation of Racine's La Thébaide. The anonymous dedication states "This tragedy was writ by a young lady, and entrusted to my management . . . The four first acts are taken chiefly.....

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Poems on Various Occasions. CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH SANDERS

SANDERS, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.

Poems on Various Occasions.

London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by Messrs. Wilkie, [1787]. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Sanders 1; ESTC records two copies (Yale and Huntington), to which OCLC and COPAC add BL. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's fiction, notably The.....

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Holograph manuscript, not signed, fair copy of a Scottish song, first line: "It's hame & it's...

SCOTT, SIR WALTER.

Holograph manuscript, not signed, fair copy of a Scottish song, first line: "It's hame & it's hame & it's hame I wad be."

Circa 1820. Apparently not published in this form. ¶ A traditional Scottish song, a shorter version of which Scott included in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822), page 476. James Hogg also had a version of this song in his The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819-1821). Scott collected his own renderings.....

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Elegiac Sonnets . . . The Fifth Edition, with Additional Sonnets and Other Poems. [Bound with:]...

SMITH, CHARLOTTE AND HANNAH COWLEY.

Elegiac Sonnets . . . The Fifth Edition, with Additional Sonnets and Other Poems. [Bound with:] [Cowley, Hannah]. The Poetry of Anna Matilda [pseud]. [With:] Smith, Charlotte. Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems. Vol. II.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789; London: Printed for John Bell, 1788; London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1797. Fifth edition of the first volume of Elegiac Sonnets; first edition of volume two of Elegiac Sonnets; the first edition of The Poetry of Anna Matilda. NCBEL II.....

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Fortune in Her Wits, or, the Hour of all Men. Written in Spanish by the Most Ingenious Don...

[SPANISH LITERATURE]. Quevedo Y Villegas, Francisco Gomez De.

Fortune in Her Wits, or, the Hour of all Men. Written in Spanish by the Most Ingenious Don Francisco de Quivedo Villegas . . . Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens.

London: Printed for R. Sare, F. Saunders and Tho. Bennet, 1697. First edition in English. Wing Q-188. ¶ The first English translation of Quevedo's La Hora de Todos y la Fortuna con Seso, a biting satire of Spanish politics under the king's minister Olivaries, written under the guise of a......

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Original photographic portrait of poet George Sterling. GEORGE STERLING, William Dassonville,...

[STERLING, GEORGE]. Dassonville, William, Photographer.

Original photographic portrait of poet George Sterling.

[San Francisco: William Dassonville], 1915. A rare and fine photographic portrait of the prominent California poet George Sterling (1869-1926), taken by the prominent California photographer, William Dassonville (1879-1957) and inscribed to Dassonville by Sterling in the lower left corner of the image: "Dear Dassonville: This is the best picture ever.....

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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse . . JONATHAN SWIFT, ALEXANDER POPE

SWIFT, JONATHAN, ALEXANDER POPE AND OTHERS.

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse . . .

London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1727. First edition. Rothschild 1421; Teerink 25 (1b, 2a & 3b-d); Griffin 184, 185 & 197; ESTC T39458. Volume one has the cancelled forms of K7-8 and L6-7; volume three is Teerink's 3b, but also includes the errata leaf usually found in Teerink 3d. A.....

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The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger: Being the Sequel of The Fool in Fashion. A Comedy. Acted at...

[VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN].

The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger: Being the Sequel of The Fool in Fashion. A Comedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.

(London:) Printed for Samuel Briscoe, 1697. First edition. Wing V-57; Pforzheimer 1021; NCBEL II, 749. ¶ The first play and first published work by the architect and playwright Vanbrugh, a sequel to Colley Cibber Love’s Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion. The Relapse was performed on and off for.....

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Mogg Megone, A Poem. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF.

Mogg Megone, A Poem.

Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836. First edition. BAL 21697; American Imprints 42466. An early narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891), based on the story of the legendary 17th century Indian warrior Mogg Hegon. Mogg Megone was first published in the spring of 1835 in two issues of The New.....

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Journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet d'après le Manuscrit Original Accompagnée de...

[WOMEN TRAVELERS]. Freycinet, Rose Marie Pinon De Saulces De.

Journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet d'après le Manuscrit Original Accompagnée de Notes par Charles Duplomb.

Paris: Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes, et Coloniales, 1927. First edition. Hill, Pacific Voyages, 652 & 649. ¶ An account of an important French voyage to South America and the Pacific from 1817 to 1820, sponsored by Napoléon. This version is unusual for it was written by the wife of the.....

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The Gentleman Dancing-Master. A Comedy, Acted at the Duke's Theatre. WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM.

The Gentleman Dancing-Master. A Comedy, Acted at the Duke's Theatre.

London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring, 1673. First edition. This copy is without the tailpiece on the recto of Q2. Wing W-3744; Pforzheimer 1099; NCBEL II, 742. ¶ The uncommon second play by William Wycherley (1640-1716), a satire and romp of manners centering on a......

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