London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. First edition. NCBEL III, 359; not in Wolff. ¶ A series of short sketches modeled on the popular tales by Washington Irving and others of that style, and an early work by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), published by the future novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth.
London: Printed for J. Mathews, 1791. First English edition. Noted under BAL 5041 and Wegelin 129. A long poem dedicated to Voltaire and written as a Calvinist orthodox response to what Dwight states in his dedication is the negative influence on religion of Voltaire, Hume and Priestley: “Reasoning is an.....
Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681. Second English edition; the first was published in 1672, also by Hayes. ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029. ¶ The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius (1622-1650), first published in Amsterdam in.....
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743. First edition. ESTC N18218; Foxon B271; Hayward 166; NCBEL II, 537. The famous and often re-printed poem by Robert Blair; the most notable edition was illustrated by William Blake in 1808. The Grave is one of the classic works of the “graveyard school” of.....
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1860. First edition, cloth issue. BAL vol. 5, page 94. ¶ A collection of over 30 tributes to Irving from contemporaries and literary colleagues, including Lowell, Curtis, Cozzens, Willis, Duyckinck, Longfellow, Tuckerman, etc. Contemporary stenciled ink ownership markings on the front free endpaper and title-page.....
[London: Printed for C. M., 1681]. First edition. Macdonald 1; ESTC R2918; Wing H316; NCBEL II, 1040. The first published work by George Saville (1633-1695), First Marquess of Halifax, a response to the pamphlet A Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend, published in the spring of 1681.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1853. First edition, second printing. The first book by Lewis Gaylord Clark (1808-1873), a collection of Irvingesque essays and gossip that originally appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine's "The Editor's Table" column, a precursor to the Talk of the Town in the New Yorker. At the time.....
New York: Published by Baker & Scribner, 1848. First edition. Sabin 65546. ¶ The first book by William Cowper Prime, a collection of sketches and tales. Prime was a young lawyer in New York City at the time this work was published; he later went on to become president of.....
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1860. First edition. BAL 1668, small paper edition.
New York: William H. Clayton, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. ¶ A collection of eight of Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited and.....
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First edition. BAL 6282; Kramer 69; Wright III, 2013. One of the great American realistic novels to emerge from the 1890s. Harold Frederic (1856-1898) traces the fall of a contemporary upstate New York Methodist minister without the brutality found in more naturalism-driven works of the.....
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London: Vizetelly & Co., 1883. First edition. ¶ A wonderfully elaborate publication, a series of somewhat cynical sketches on types of characters, with chapters entitled “The Old Earl,” “The Dowager,” “The Family Solicitor,” “The Promising Son,” “The Rich Widow,” etc. Barnard’s illustrations almost perfectly interpret Murray’s satire.
New York: Derby & Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857. First edition. BAL 249; Wright II, 35. ¶ The second book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), a novel about the mystery behind a stolen necklace and the life of a struggling writer in New York. There are numerous references to.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. First edition. BAL 19780. ¶ A substantial biographical treatment of one of the great American travelers, travel writers and poets, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878).
Hartford: Seldon & Goodwin, Printers, 1815. First edition. BAL 17615; American Bibliography 35937; Stoddard & Whitesell 1111. The uncommon first book by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865), a substantial collection of poems and short essays which foreshadowed her career as one of the most popular and prolific American literary women of.....
Chicago: The Stein Company, 1902. First edition. OCLC records five copies (OSU, Chicago, Stanford, Northern Illinois and Penn). One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Chicago author William Wilson Knott, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Knott.....
[Chicago: n.p., n.d., 1894]. First edition. OCLC 20150325, 20150203 & 12380909 record three copies: OSU, Chicago and Stanford. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Chicago author William Wilson Knott, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Knott.....
[Chicago: n.p.], (1897). First edition. OCLC 64100281 & 71848624 record three copies: Stanford, OSU and Chicago. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Paul James Duff, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Duff, other than that he.....
[Chicago: n.p.], (1899). First edition, one of two imprints; the other was Chicago: Ross Pub. Co., issued as No. 4 in the Lyceum Series. OCLC 10244252, 64471423 and 199661009 record seven copies Chicago, Indiana, OSU (both imprints), UCLA, Penn and Stanford. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by.....
New York: The Eagle Book Co., 1891. First edition. OCLC 57760704 & 720621672 record variant imprints with one holding each, both at Ohio State. A classic example of the pulp fiction produced at the end of the 19th century. This is the only title found in OCLC under the name.....
Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke, (1889). First edition. OCLC 20927090 records five copies (HEH, Chicago, Harvard, NYPL and Brown). A collection of 22 short comedies by Frances Aymar Mathews (c.1865-1925), New York novelist and playwright. See Wright III, 3641-43 for three other work by Mathews.
Dublin: Printed for C. Lewis, [1805]. Stated "Third Edition" on the title-page. See Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 1809-1828; not in NCBEL. In 1804, Miss Sydney Owenson (1775/6-1859), aspiring Irish novelist, poet and socialite (and later Lady Morgan) became embroiled in pamphlet war that began with the publication of Familiar Epistles.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1766. First edition. ESTC T71399; Sabin 78356 (American edition); Raven, British Fiction 1750-1770, 1038. A sequel to the popular novel A Description of Millenium Hall (1762), the story of an ideal community run by hard-working women, written by Sarah Scott with her friend Barbara Montagu.....
A fine, small amateur oil painting of a house on Orr's Island, Maine, that was the setting for Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Maine Coast, written when she lived in Brunswick in the 1850s; it was published by Ticknor and Fields in.....
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.....