New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. First edition, number IV of 20 numbered copies, of a total edition of 165 copies, signed by Bishop on the colophon page. This copy is additionally inscribed on the half-title to American poet "S. Foster Damon / as always - / from Latimer / Jan 21/36."
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1869). Second edition, with the addition of one unpublished ballad. BAL 11556. ¶ The second edition in book form of Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, Leland’s immensely popular humorous verse about the German-American, Hans Breitmann, who is full of fooling and philosophy and beer. There were.....
(Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1791). OCLC records four copies, Newberry Library, NYPL and two in Europe. The official publication of a law issued by the newly established National Constituent Assembly that commended and awarded pensions to those, mainly commoners, who sacrificed their lives or were wounded in the storming of...
[Philadelphia: Public Ledger, 1857]. A handsome carrier's address celebrating the new extension of the Capitol Building in Washington, with commendatory verse on the edifice and the values it represents: "Our Nation's Capitol in all the pride / Of architecture, guards Potomacs tide / On yonder eminence it proudly stands /...
Belfast: Printed by James Magee, 1774 [and] London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1775. First Dublin edition of Miscellaneous Pieces (first published in London by Johnson in 1773); first and only edition of Devotional Pieces. NCBEL II, 639 & Rothschild 18 (Miscellaneous Pieces); ESTC T101659 for Devotional Pieces, which is not...
London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In...
London: Printed by H. Woodfall for J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1744. First edition. ESTC T70375; Lowndes, page 1002, noting this title, but not this first edition. ¶ The first published work by James Harris (1709-1780), philosopher, partron of the arts - particularly music - and author of the famous...
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...
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...
(Playa Vista, California: Two Hands Press, 2018.), First Two Hands Press edition, a facsimile - or “recreation” as the press prefers to describe it - of the first edition of 1913, letter "J" of 30 lettered copies hors de commerce; there are also 150 numbered copies, for a total edition...
London: Printed for John Watts, 1728. First edition. Cross vol. 3, 290; NCBEL II, 927. Fielding’s second book, his first play and his earliest realistically obtainable work. Love in Several Masques was quite the triumph for the 20-year-old Fielding. It opened on February 16, 1728, in Drury Lane, with Colley...
London: Published by Wm. C. Hall, 1824. First edition. Keynes, Hazlitt, 77; NCBEL III, 1232. A substantial anthology of English poetry that was several years in the making and notable for its inclusion of the younger generation - Leigh Hunt, Shelley and Keats - in addition to Wordsworth, Coleridge Lamb...
London: Printed by T. Maiden for Vernor and Hood, J. Cuthell, J. Walker, J. Sewell, Lackington, Allen [and others], 1801. First abridged edition. NCBEL I, 2219; Jordan-Smith, Bibliographia Burtoniana, page 95. A popular edition of Burton's influential work, which distills it down into five chapters relevant to the readers of...
London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826. First edition, second issue with Hazlitt's name on the title-page. Kenyes, Hazlitt, 92; Pine-Coffin 824-7; NCBEL III, 1232. William Hazlitt's lively and insightful descriptions of France (Paris is the place to be) and Italy, written during a tour there in 1824 and '25...
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. Fourth edition. Wade 19; NCBEL III, 1917. Yeats's collected poems to date with his verse drama The Countess Cathleen and his play The Land of Heart's Desire. This edition incorporates the revisions of the 1901 third edition and contains a brief prefatory comment by Yeats dated May, 1904.
London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921. First Medici Society edition, number 705 of 1,000 numbered copies printed at the Riccardi Press. Purdy, page 178, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 981. A fine, handsome edition of Hardy's poems. Two extra printed paper labels tipped in at the rear paste-downs.
London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1774. Fourth edition. NCBEL II, 639; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 17. ¶ The first book by Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825), the poet, essayist, educator and early Romantic, whose impressive first collection of verse quickly went through several editions, all published by her friend Joseph Johnson.
Philadelphia: Published by Edward Earle; Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1810. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 924; American Imprints 21334; BAL volume 5, page 251 (Key). A substantial and varied collection of poetry and translations by John Shaw, a physician who traveled extensively before accepting a teaching position at the University...
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. Wolff 5605; Garside & Schöwerling 1824:77; NCBEL III, 758;. A historical romance set in 17th-century Balkan Peninsula about the Duke Christian of Luneburg's efforts to free the Bohemians, Croats and others from domination by the Turks.
(New York:) Published by Elam Bliss, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 39223; Sabin 38075. A landmark work on the history of American literature by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), author, local Massachusetts politician and lawyer. In 15 "lectures" Knapp writes about the origins of an American literature and the influences on...
London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1822, First edition. One of many instructional and educational works for children and young adults by Elizabeth Sandham, who flourished between 1799 and 1825. In this tale, two young ladies visit Brighton and witness "the evils attendant on an uncultivated and covetous mind" of...
London: Printed for J. Robson, Bookseller, 1783. First edition. Sabin 1258; ESTC T162394; Smith, American Travellers Abroad, A34. ¶ An entertaining travelogue under the guise of letters to a lady written between 1776-1777 by a prosperous, well-educated and Casanova-like American (Sabin describes the author as a "Loyalist refugee”) who recounts...
London: Murray; Bath: Cruttwell, 1828. First edition. NCBEL II, 643; Woolf, Some Uncollected Authors (Book Collector, Autumn, 1958), 28. A late and scarce work by William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), the influential and prolific poet. "Of all the forgotten poets of the last century, and their name is legion, there is...
Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited...
New York: George P. Putnam, 1853. Second edition, second printing. Sabin 42808. ¶ The first book by Anne C. Lynch, later Anne C. Lynch Botta (1815-1891), a minor but important figure in the New York literary scene, circa 1850-1880. She was a friend and supporter of many writers, editors and...