San Francisco: (Printed at the Grabhorn Press), 1953. First and only edition, one of 125 copies printed. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 542. Agustin Vicente Zamorano and the Duke of Roxburghe come down from heaven to visit the first joint meeting of the two California book clubs named for them. They gossip.....
Paris: Isdore Liseux, 1890. First complete English translation. Cf. Foxon, Libertine Literature in England, pages 38-43. The famous six erotic dialogues of Frenchman Nicholas Chorier (1612-1692). They were first published in Latin in about 1660 under the guise of being a translation of the 16th century young Spanish woman, Luisa.....
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 L’Estrange, 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.
London: Printed by James Flesher, 1668. First edition, one of two issues. ESTC R17163; Wing M2650; NCBEL I, 2335. A philosophical-theological discussion in three dialogues between Cuphophron, Hylobares, Philopolis, Sophron and other Greek-named interlocutors by the poet, theologian and philosopher Henry More (1614-1687), published under the pseudonym Franciscus Evistor Palaeopolitanus.....
(London:) The Nonesuch Press, [1924]. First Nonesuch Press edition and the first edition of this translation, number 398 of 1050 numbered copies. Dreyfuss, Nonesuch Press Bibliography, 19. An adventurous translation of the famous dialogue by Plato, in which he explored the nature of love. The Symposium is considered the great.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890. First edition. BAL 19315. Wide-ranging imaginary conversations between Mallett and Belton, mostly in Mallett's studio in Rome, on art, artists, writers, music, current events, etc. William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) is famous for his sculpture, but he was also a fine, perceptive writer of.....
London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757 or 1758]. First edition. ESTC T43943. An engaging series of caricatures of English society, fashion, culture, religion and politics, a few of which are entitled “Hieroglyphics,” and are decrypted in the explanatory text. Several of the caricatures also employ captions in balloons, an early.....
(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: Printed by Joseph Hartnell for N. Jones, 1806 [volume 1]; London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Williams, 1803-1806 [volumes 2-4]. Fifth edition of volume one; fourth editions of volumes two, three and four. A popular series of 37 dialogues that deal with a variety of subjects: the evils.....
London: Printed for S. Wilmot and sold by S. Birt and T. Longman, 1737. Second edition; the first edition was published in two parts, 1726-27. ESTC N9342; NCBEL II, 1748. A critical analysis of Pope's translation of Homer in a dialogue between two friends, Antiphaus and Philypsus, over the course.....
Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1969. First Allen Press edition, one of 140 copies printed. Allen Press Bibliography 33. A handsome fine press edition of Cervantes' clever Dialogue of the Dogs, first published as part of his Exemplary Novels (1604), in which he continued the social satire and fantasy of Don.....
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 L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1760. First edition. ESTC T1560; NCBEL II, 826; Eddy, John Brown, 61. ¶ A dialogue by "Estimate" Brown (1715-1766) in which he responds to political positions taken by Lord Lyttelton in his famous Dialogues of the Dead (1760), which had appeared earlier.....
Hartford: Published by Oliver D. Cooke, 1810. First edition. American Bibliography 20174. Dialogues and letters between Crispus and Gaius on moral, theological and philosophical subjects, followed by essays and conversations between Peter and James on imputation, substitution and redemption.
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1803. First Isaiah Thomas edition; the first edition was published in 1788. American Bibliography 5604. Four dialogues by Universalist preacher Elhanan Winchester (1751-1797) on theological matters as discussed between a minister and a layman. They were immensely popular as teaching tools and were frequently reprinted in America.....
London: Printed for J. Wilkie and P. Uriel, 1771. Third edition, enlarged from the first edition of the same year. ESTC N55642. A popular dialogue about the development of game laws in England, with three plates containing the laws as they separately relate to hares, pheasants and partridges. Gloucester bookplate.....
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1927-36. First edition, one of 525 sets. NCBEL III, 1211. The essential collection of the works of Walter Savage Landor, with previously unpublished Imaginary Conversations, poetry, miscellaneous essays and highly useful bibliographical information. The first 12 volumes edited by Welby were published from 1927-1931 (Imaginary Conversations.....
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.
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed. ¶ A dialogue between the book collector and scholar, Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Walter Savage Landor, set in Villa Landor in Italy, where Landor had once lived and where Fiske later lived.....
London: n. p., [circa 1880-1886]. A famous portrait of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) by the French artist Paul Adolphe Rajon (1843-1888). This lithographed image reproduces the original chalk sketch which hung in Whistler’s Fulham Road home in London. The original is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Vocarium Records, as Recorded for The Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, 1941. Edition not stated. The Harvard “Vocarium” recording project was founded in 1930 by Frederick C. Packard, who coined the word “Vocarium," which means “a collection of voice recordings for use as a study aid in.....
Patavii [Padua, Italy]: Typographia Seminaria, 1698. First edition. The famous work of Quranic scholarship by Ludovico Marracci. Marracci's Quran was the first to publish the entire Arabic text with a Latin translation, to which Marracci added extensive notes. In the second volume, Refutatio Alcorani, Marracci systematically refutes the tenets of.....
London: Printed in the Year, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of.....
Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, 1803. First American edition. American Bibliography 4914; see under Sabin 65514. 71 lectures on history by Joseph Priestley, a work previously published in England, but issued here in its first American edition, with the addition of the first appearance of his 20-page lecture on the.....