N.p., n.d., ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an.....
[New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1964]. A reprint of a privately printed pamphlet which EW sent out as a Christmas and New Year’s greeting in 1954.
Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. BAL 20738; Wright I, 2629; American Bibliography 39136. ¶ An interesting novel by playwright, poet and jurist Royall Tyler (1757-1826), the story of American physician Updike Underhill who signs on.....
London: Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper, 1746. First edition. Foxon, page 871; Hayward 169; NCBEL II, 689. The first collection of poetry by Joseph Warton (1722-1800), clergyman, poet, and literary critic, 14 odes preceded by the author's "advertisement" in which he states that his collection is.....
New Haven: Published by S. Babcock, 1849. Probably the first edition of the text, but this is a work highly derivative of earlier works. Block, Baseball Before We Knew it, page 212; not in Rosenbach "Early American Children's Books," which does describe similar titles, but none that precisely meet the.....
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 Second edition, with the addition of one unpublished ballad.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 /.....
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 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. Frist edition. NCBEL III, 1211; Wise and Wheeler 27; Block, The English Novel, page 133. An exchange of letters between fifth-century B.C. Athenians that sets a framework for a commentary on the literary and political world of that era and the relevance of that on.....
London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1742. First edition. NCBEL II, 798. ¶ An interpretation by the American-born James Ralph (d. 1762) of Sarah Churchill's Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, and one of several popular works of journalism and contemporary history by Ralph, an interesting Grub.....