¶ A letter of condolence to a friend in England written in Lydia Sigourney's exemplary penmanship, delivered for her by the diplomat, pacifist, and social activist Elihu Burritt, who Sigourney notes in her letter is "well known on both sides of the ocean as the 'learned blacksmith.'"
Dublin: Re-printed by, and for George Faulkner, 1752. Second Dublin edition, stated "The Fifth Edition" on the title-page; the first edition was published in London in 1737. Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pages 295-300; ESTC T59630. A celebrated utopian-philosophical imaginary voyage that went through numerous editions and translations.....
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al., 1803. First edition. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine, and poems to David Garrick, Charles Churchill, Lord Chesterfield, William Cowper, Philip Thicknesse.....
Camden, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1897-1912. The earliest letter is addressed "Dear Charlotte," and is personal correspondence on family affairs; the second letter, dated February 4, is to Richard Mansfield, the English actor-manager (1857-1907): "Dear Mr. Mansfield, I have the honor to be one of the executors of Walt.....
Various publishers, places and dates of publication, 1655-1900. See Beverly Seaton, The Language of Flowers, A History. University Press of Virginia, 1995. The Language of Flowers phenomenon flourished for almost eighty years, beginning in France in the early 19th century. As both potent and subtle symbols in Western culture, flowers.....
(Reno, Nevada): The Black Rock Press, (1965). First edition, one of 80 numbered copies. The first book of the Black Rock Press and the first book of poetry by playwright George Herman, a collection of six amusing poems on sparrows. The Black Rock Press was founded by Kenneth and Patricia.....
London: Printed for the Author; Sold by Edward and Charles Dilly, J. Robson, and J. Walter, 1779. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 241; ESTC T42668 (six copies in the UK; six in the US). An accomplished and entertaining collection of over 30 poems and four poetical dialogues.....
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Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797. First edition. BAL 14558; Evans 32512; Stoddard & Whitesell 581. ¶ The first and only published part of an ambitious verse history of the American Revolution, dedicated to "the Citizen-Soldiers who fought, conquered, and retired, under the banners of Washington.....
Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, May, 1826. An example of the influence and spread of the news of Mary Somerville’s first scientific publication, “On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays” – i.e., the magnetizing power of sunlight – that had been published in the February, 1826, issue of the Proceedings.....
New York, July 9, 1937. ¶ A fine portrait of the poet Witter Bynner (1881-1968), taken in early middle age by his friend, the writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. Bynner had a life-long interest in photography and was friends with many well-known photographers.
Norwich: Printed by and for Stevenson and Matchett, et al., (1800). Third edition, revised, preceded by editions in 1795 and 1798. ESTC T185020 records six copies, none in North America. A manual for measuring and surveying land, particularly farm land, with a supplement containing a table for measuring thatcher's work.....
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Constable and for Constable, Hunter, Park, and Hunter, London, 1810. First edition. An exhaustive - 646 pages - guide to gardening, including vegetable and fruit gardens, gardens for pleasure, green houses, and the keeping of exotic plants, etc. Walter Nicol (1769-1811) was a designer of gardens.....
London: Printed by J. Cooke, 1767. First edition. ESTC N6101, records six copies: BL, Cambridge (2), Reading University, HEH, and Washington State; there was a second printing in 1769, of which ESTC T173535 records ten copies. A substantial work over 125 short chapters on vegetable, herb, and fruit gardens, and.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. Sold by Paton, Symmer & Gordon, et al., 1743. First edition. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 7964; ESTC T137121; and see Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, pages 20-21. A seminal work on Scottish agriculture by Robert Maxwell (1695-1765), a farmer near.....
London: Printed for W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, B. Collins and J. Balfour, 1769. Second edition, revised and expanded, with a new preface; the first edition was published in 1768. NCBEL II, 1894; Cf. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 10407; Printing and the Mind of Man 214; and G. E. Fussell.....
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Brotherton, 1766 [&] London: Printed for J. Brotherton, 1766. First combined edition, printing two previously published works (of 1758 and 1759), bound with a third that was also first published in 1759. Cf. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 10183 and ESTC.....
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[London, 1795?]. The only recorded edition. ESTC T204804, recording a single copy at Cambridge, which contains the same apothecary's stamp. OCLC and COPAC record that same copy; Roud, Folk Song Index, V1851; and see Broadside Ballads Online at the Bodleian Library, which also notes the apothecary's stamp. A typical doggerel.....
London: Printed at the Oriental Press for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 16a. ¶ An anthology of almost 100 poems, compiled by Maria Riddell (1772-1808), a young Scottish woman who grew up in the Leeward Islands, which she wrote about in her.....
New York: Redfield, 1853. First revised edition, and the first edition with illustrations by Darley. BAL 18140; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, I, 608. ¶ The Yemassee, first published in 1835, was the most popular of William Gilmore Simms’s border romances, an elaborate series of stories, in the manner of.....
London: Printed by C.H. Reynell for R. Hunter and C. and J. Ollier, 1817. First edition. Keynes 17; NCBEL III, 1231. ¶ A major collection of essays by William Hazlitt (1788-1839), a study of the primary characters in Shakespeare’s plays, with chapters on sonnets, poems and doubtful plays. It was.....
Amsterdam [i.e. Paris]: Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1745. First edition. Tchemerzine, Bibliographie d'Editions Originales ou Rares d'Auteurs Francais II, 916; and see P.N. Furman, Diderot, A Critical Biography. ¶ The first book by the great French philosopher, writer, and polymath Denis Diderot (1713-1784), a translation of An Inquiry Concerning Virtue (1699).....
London: Printed and Published by Thomas Clio Rickman, 1819. First edition. Sabin 71242; Gimbel, page 136; Howes R278. An important memoir of Thomas Paine by his lifelong friend and supporter Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), the reform-minded bookseller and poet. “Rickman's name will be forever linked with Paine, for he was.....
London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712. First edition translated into English, issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. ¶ An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), a French Benedictine.....
New York: Linen and Fennell, 1841. First edition. BAL 14357 (Morris), 997 (Park Benjamin), 1166 (Robert Montgomery Bird), etc.; American Imprints 41-3619. An important anthology of American poetry that includes early and first appearances by Emma Willard, Albert Pike, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Simms, ad infinitum - and the first.....
Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First French edition. Yolton 91. The first French translation of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and an important edition, translated by Pierre Coste with the assistance of John Locke, who "was very interested in having his Essay available to a wider audience than might be.....