London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, 1692. Third and last folio edition; the first in one volume, with new material. ESTC R15282; Pforzheimer 561; NCBEL I, 1655. An important edition of Ben Jonson's works, with the addition of.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. First American edition, wrappers issue. NCBEL III, 1079. An early and popular novel by Anne Isabella Thackeray (1839-1919), set among the London scenes she was familiar with from childhood and about which her father wrote. The majority of the illustrations signed "G.D.L." are from.....
Lvgd. Batavorum: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1640. One of two Elzevier editions published in 1640; as noted by Willems, one contains summaries at the head of each chapter; the other did not; this copy does not have the summaries and is described first in Willems. Willems, Les Elzevier, 502; Brunet III.....
London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First Shelley Society edition, third printing (stated "Third Edition"), one of 150 copies. The Shelley Society's Publication, Second Series, No. 1. Bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux on the front paste-down.
London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First Shelley Society edition, third printing (stated "Third Edition"), one of 150 copies. The Shelley Society's Publication, Second Series, No. 5. Bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux on the front paste-down.
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888. First and only edition: "Of this Book Twenty-five Copies have been printed." There were also apparently three copies printed on vellum, as noted in one OCLC record. An essay on Shelley's faith, which concludes "Just as Religion is above all creeds, dogmas and.....
London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First Shelley Society edition, second printing (stated "Second Edition"), one of 150 copies. The Shelley Society's Publication, Second Series, No. 3. Bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux on the front paste-down.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 38563. A study of French poet, theologian and writer François Fénelon, with translations from his writings, by the Boston author Eliza Lee Follen (née Cabot) (1787-1860). This is Follen's first book, preceded by a serial publication for children; she.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Second edition, published shortly after the first. BAL 19258; cf. Smith, American Travelers Abroad, S200, which records an 1887 edition. A popular travel narrative about Rome by the American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), who was a talented writer, as well. The title of "Roba,".....
Cambridge: The Riverside Press (for Houghton Mifflin), 1902. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies; this one is unnumbered and is designated "Publisher's Copy. / Not to be sold." BAL 18026. The first collected edition of the poetry of Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887), a fine production by the Riverside Press.....
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.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Third edition, expanded. BAL 6975; American Imprints 45-2974. A collection of 21 poems by Knickerbocker poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), with one previously unpublished poem.
New York: George Dearborn, 1836. Second edition, expanded. BAL 6971; American Imprints 37878. A collection of 20 poems by the important Knickerbocker poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), with three previously unpublished poems. An interesting association copy: from the library of fellow Knickerbocker James Lawson (1799-1880), an author, journalist, and a friend.....
(Bologna: Dalla Stamperìa di Lelio dalla Volpe, 1776). First edition. A treatise in praise of Prince Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-1680), the professional soldier from Modena who saw few equals on the battlefield during his life. He later served as a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Melfi in.....
Boston: Published by D. C. Johnston, 1831. A famous portrait by Chester Harding (1792-1866) of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "drawn on stone by D. C. Johnston" and printed by Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.
London: Printed for Wilkie and Robinson, J. Walker, Cadell and Davies, [et al.], 1811. A later edition. An attractive and handsomely printed edition of the famous series of poems by James Thomson (1700-48). This edition includes the life of the poet by Murdoch, that was first published with the Works.....
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. First illustrated edition. BAL 10353; not found in Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators. A popular tale of early Dutch settlers in New York by Washington Irving, which first appeared in Bracebridge Hall (1922). Here it is separately printed with ten lithographed plates after drawings.....
London: Whittaker and George Bell, 1867. Second edition, revised; the first was published in 1857. A scholarly edition of the satires of contemporary Romans Juvenal and Persius Flaccus, with the text in Latin and the editors' scholia in English, preceded by brief biographies of the two authors. It was edited.....
Oakland: Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1934. First Eucalyptus Press edition, one of 150 copies printed. Cf. Cowan, page 557. An entertaining, whimsical ballad about the geological formation of the San Francisco Bay, attributed to early San Francisco publisher and businessman, C. P. Kimball. The first edition is rare, and this.....
London: Printed by Brettell for Appleyards, 1808. First edition. The first of three plays by Marie Therese Kemble (1774-1838), the Austrian-born English actress and mother of Fanny Kemble. She moved to England at an early age and became a popular child actress. She later married actor Charles Kemble, for whom.....
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1919. First edition, number 623 of 1000 copies, signed by Moore. Gilcher, Moore, A38a; NCBEL III, 1016. An interesting series of imaginary conversations between George Moore, Edmund Gosse and an American writer named Balderston, all centered on English literature, its history and their fates in.....
London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1680. Second edition; the first was published earlier in 1680. Wing L1217; ESTC R179467; NCBEL II, 1037. A dialogue between Zekiel and Ephraim about Roger L’Estrange himself, under the guise of a polite conversation about his opinions.
London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1681. Second edition; the first was published in 1680. Wing L1210; ESTC R2207; NCBEL II, 1037. A satire on controversial minister and theological writer Richard Baxter, and a classic example of the frequent use of the dialogue format by Roger L'Estragne (1616-1704) to explore the.....
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(Berkeley: University of California General Library, 1960). First edition, one of 200 copies printed by Kenneth J. Carpenter as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, 1960. Bartlett & Campo A17. One of several early poems written by William Everson that remained unpublished until years.....
San Francisco: (The Grabhorn Press), 1933. First edition, one of 50 copies privately printed for the author. Grabhron Press Bibliography 183. Reflections on Shakespeare by the San Francisco attorney and book collector Oscar Sutro (1874-1935).