London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....

Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, for the Author; Sold also by Robinson, Cadell and Evans, [et al.], 1781. First edition. ESTC T41382; Sabin 79477; Adams, American Controversy, 81-65a; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 291; NCBEL II, 682. The second published work by poet and writer Anna Seward.....

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T64790; Robinson, pages 249-50; ODNB. Like Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Ward (1699-1783) became a traveler when she accompanied her husband Thomas Ward on a diplomatic mission, this one to Russia between 1730 and 1739. Also like Montagu she did not intend.....

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 J. Wilkie, 1767. First edition. Pottle 22; NCBEL II, 1211. One of many books and pamphlets about the "Douglas Cause," a major cause célèbre in Scotland in the 1760s. Boswell served as a journalist and chronicler of the legal proceedings and wrote several works about the case.....

York: Printed by W. Blanchard and sold by R. Faulder, London, [etc.], 1791. First edition. ESTC T68679; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 365; NCBEL III, 772. The scarce third book by poet and novelist Jane West (1758-1852) - and her first substantial book - which brings together 22 poems.....

London: Printed for Humfrey Lownes, 1595. The first edition as edited by Gervase Markham; revised from the first edition of 1486. STC 3314; ESTC S103621; NCBEL I, 689 (Berners) & 2011 (Markham). A famous 15th-century courtesy book and instructional manual on hunting, hawking and coats of arms, traditionally attributed to.....

London: Printed for R. Triphood, 1810. First complete edition, preceded by the first edition of 1784; in 1795 there was a second edition that both added and subtracted material; this 1810 edition restores the original text of 1784, the additions of 1795 and adds two parts with new material. NCBEL.....

Circa 1820. Apparently not published in this form. ¶ A traditional Scottish song, a shorter version of which Scott included in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822), page 476. James Hogg also had a version of this song in his The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819-1821). Scott collected his own renderings.....

Baltimore: Published for the Editor by E. J. Coale, 1821 [&] Annapolis: Printed by Frederick Green, 1808. First editions, albeit only the second volume of the second title is present. American Imprints 4963 (Miscellaneous Selections); Sabin 12173. Miscellaneous Selections and Original Pieces is a commonplace anthology compiled by Marylander Elizabeth.....

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition, one of 325 copies, signed by Duncan. Five essays and addresses on the art of printing by the printer and typographer, Harry Duncan, most famous as the founder of the Cummington Press. A handsome production, designed by Carol Blinn, printed by Daniel Keleher.....

London: Printed for the Railway Companies . . . by John Cassell; Sold by M'Glashan, Dublin; Peat, Liverpool and by All Booksellers, 1853. Second edition, enlarged. A profusely illustrated guidebook to Ireland prepared and published to meet the needs of the expected hordes attending the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853.....

Edinburgh: Printed by William Adams Junior. Sold by Booksellers of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, 1723, First and only edition. ESTC 140711. A re-examination of the history of Elizabeth Mure (1320-1355), the Countess of Strathearn, Athol and the wife of Robert II, King of Scots (1316-1390). It was generally alleged and.....