Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802. First edition. American Bibliography 2490; Sabin 38076. The first book by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), a series of 14 literary letters fashioned after Goldsmith and Montesquieu. Knapp writes about Mary Wollstonecraft and her influence on American women, women's rights in America, American poetry.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886. First and only edition. COPAC and OCLC between them record only a handful of copies. ¶ An unusual work which combines an imaginary conversation between Augustine and Aimée on the philosophy of Auguste Comte, with essays on the rights of animals, Madame de Staël, the.....
Maidstone: Printed for the Author by D. Chalmers. Sold by Mess. Wilkie, and H. D. Symonds, London, [et al.], 1796. First edition. ESTC N18496; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 139. A collection of 28 poems and epitaphs by an obscure, but accomplished poet from a humble walk of life.....
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First and only edition. ESTC T20407. A satire on unscrupulous politicians - particularly those involved with the "broad bottom" coalition which came to power in 1744 - with a sensational engraving "taken from an original painting of" William Hogarth, depicting Tory leaders with flabby.....
Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793. First Bodoni edition. Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250. An attractive edition of Gray's Elegy with Giuseppe Torelli's Italian translation juxtaposed with the original English, preceded by a dedicatory sonnet by the printer Biambatista Bodoni to Signora Contessa Elisabetta Caterina Mosconi.....
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 A collection of 21 poems by Knickerbocker poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), with one previously unpublished poem.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 A collection of 20 poems by the important Knickerbocker poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), with three previously unpublished poems.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.....
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1840. First edition. Sabin 39863; American Imprints 40-3934. Writings from the combative radical Democrat and journalist William Leggett (1801-1839), who edited the Evening Post with William Cullen Bryant and championed and wrote extensively on abolition and free speech. This collection marked the first American attempt.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First American edition, preceded by the London edition of the same year. NCBEL III, 263; American Imprints 23679; Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 3542. The English poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) on Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), the great English actress, who was from the distinguished theatrical Kemble.....
New York: Published by E. Bliss, 1832. First edition. BAL 1603; American Imprints 11544. Bryant’s second substantial collection of verse, which reprints the eight pieces from Poems, 1821 (including minor revisions to “Thanatopsis”) and adds 82 poems. An interesting copy: laid in is a manuscript note, probably in the hand.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947. First edition. ¶ Gore Vidal's second novel. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
(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.....
London: Printed by J. Hart and Sold by J. Lewis, 1745. First edition. ESTC T115907 records two copies (John Rylands and Yale). A dialogue about antinomianism by the prolific English theologian William Cudworth (?1717-1763). Contemporary ink signature of Wm. Rainsdon above the title.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First edition. BAL 8757, second printing, State A (B?), binding D.
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928. First edition, number 459 of 580 numbered copies of the "ordinary" issue. Gallup B7b. Two dialogues on poetry by two great poets, separated by 260 years. In the preface, Eliot writes that his purpose is to "throw the dialogue of Dryden into a......
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. Third edition, published shortly after the first and second editions. ESTC T78376; NCBEL II, 556. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (sometimes spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773). Like the first and second editions of the same year, this edition contains 28 dialogues.....
Edinburgh: W. Innes; London: Hamilton, Adams, 1841. First and only edition. OCLC records six copies (National Library of Scotland, NYPL, BL, Ox, Edinburgh Univ., National Library of Australia); COPAC adds one. A series of ten dialogues between a Dr. Truman and several ladies of Edinburgh, which introduce him to their.....
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. Second edition, published shortly after the first. ESTC T79409; NCBEL II, 556. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (sometimes spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773). Like the first edition, this edition contains 28 dialogues, 25 by Lyttelton and three by his friend Elizabeth.....
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. First edition, Todd's edition A. ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, “Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead,” Studies in Bibliography, No. 8, 1956. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (also spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773).....
Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1913. First Merrymount Press edition. Ransom, Private Presses and Their Books, 24. A fine edition, issued in the Merrymount Press series The Humanist's Library, of Albrecht Dürer's account of his travels to Venice and the Netherlands.
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(San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1915). First and only edition. OCLC 44411941 records two copies (NYPL & UVa). A five-stanza, 92-line poem on the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in February 1915, which inspired numerous local San Francisco poets to commemorate the occasion. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923), politician.....
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.....
London: Printed for T. Beckett and T. Evans, 1773. "New" edition, probably the second London edition; the first was published in 1755 as Poems by Eminent Ladies, and again in Dublin in 1757. ESTC T144911. An important English poetical miscellany that brings together the works of 18 English and Irish.....
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San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1995. First Greenwood Press edition, number 60 of 135 numbered copies, signed by Jack Stauffacher. The translation was by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. One of the evocative poems referencing Greek mythology and history by Alexandrian-Greek poet C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933), a favorite poet and.....