Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. ¶ Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere’s famous play, Tartuffe, and.....
No place, no date, but 18th century holograph, circa 1753-75, with numerous swash letters, most notably the long S., See NCBEL II, 1598. ¶ A fair copy manuscript of one of Hester Chapone's earliest published works, apparently copied directly from John Hawksworth's weekly magazine The Adventurer, in which the story.....
London: Printed by Brettell for Appleyards, 1808. First edition. The first of three plays by Marie Therese Kemble (1774-1838), the Austrian-born English actress and mother of Fanny Kemble. She moved to England at an early age and became a popular child actress. She later married actor Charles Kemble, for whom.....
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London: Printed for the Author, 1808; London: Printed by W. and T. Darton, 1808; London: Printed for the Author, 1809. First editions of the first two titles; second edition of the third. NCBEL III, 387; Wise and Wheeler, pages 30-32; Partridge, Robert Eyres Landor, His Life and Work, pages 32-35.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1783. First and only edition. ESTC T2862; Courtney, page 139; NCBEL II, 1153. ¶ An interesting essay on Samuel Johnson's treatment of poets in his famous Lives of the English Poets, which evolves into a close examination of Johnson's discussion of Thomas Gray's lyric poetry.....
London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1743. The second edition (but first London) of the first English translation of The Memoirs and Adventures of the Marquis de Bretagne and the History of the Chevalier de Grieu and Moll Lescaut, preceded only a Dublin edition of 1741, printed "for the translator." ESTC.....
Paris: Jules Gay, Editeur, 1863. First edition, number 75 of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper (of a total of 317 copies). An interesting compilation by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author, of the library of Marie Antoinette that was housed at her estate, Petit Trianon. The.....
Paris: Eugene Renduel, Editeur-Libraire, 1829-31. Second edition of volume one, published the same year as the first; first edition of volume two. An early and scarce work by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author of novels and short tales, who often wrote under the pseudonym "Bibliophile Jacob,".....
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937-41. First collected edition, first issue, number 416 of 970 numbered copies, signed by Cather. Crane AA1. ¶ The Autograph Edition of Willa Cather's fiction, designed by Bruce Rogers, and issued over four years.
London: MDCCLCIII. First and only edition. ESTC T99774 (BL, Cambridge, Congregational Library, National Library of Scotland, Bodleian, Huntington, Chicago, Penn, Texas-HRC, Yale, National Library of Australia). An interesting and unusual nonsectarian tract on natural philosophy, which examines the mechanisms of nature, animal existence and the structure of the earth as.....
London: [n. p.] 1779. Second edition, published the same year as the first. ESTC T85283; NCBEL II, 1875; Jessop, Bibliography of Hume, page 41. The famous dialogues of Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (1711-1776), in which three philosophers - Cleanthes, Philo and Demea - debate the intellectual understanding of.....
London: Imprinted by his Majesties Special Privilege and Command, 1663. Separate edition of a dialogue first published in 1615 in English and Latin. ESTC R10350; Wing M2302. A dialogue between Theodidactus and Philalethes in which they debate the merits of the church's oath of allegiance. Traditionally attributed to theologian and.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. First edition. BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631. A picaresque tale about a young man who becomes peripherally involved in a number of crimes and misdeeds in New York and London in the early 19th century. Sydney Clifton, one of several novels.....
A letter from 21-year-old Julia White Peck (1829-1859) to her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Marsh of St. Louis, Missouri. Julia was about to travel to Turkey to serve as a Christian missionary with her fiancé, Rev. Dwight Marsh, who was stationed in Mosul (then part of Turkey). Her knowledge of.....
London: Printed for B. and J. White, 1796. First edition. ESTC T138168; NCBEL II, 1561. Three clever dialogues by William Gilpin (1724-1804), the educator and writer on the picturesque, purporting to be conversations between one Dr. Joseph Frampton and the famous theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), as copied from.....
New York: Published by S. Colman, 1839. First edition. BAL 556; Wright I, 218; Sabin 7801; American Imprints 54087. The second book by Delia Bacon (1811-59), an historical tale set during the early days of the American Revolution, told in a series of dialogues, that includes among its principle characters.....
London: Printed for W. Crooke, 1682. Third edition, preceded by editions in 1679 and 1680. ESTC R28656; Wing H2215; NCBEL I, 2326. ¶ The causes of the English civil war debated in a dialogue between interlocutors named A and B. Hobbes' treatise, one of several dialogues he wrote on civil.....
London: Printed by W. B. for A. Millar; Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer, 1764. Second edition, published the same year as the first. ESTC N3140; not found in NCBEL. An entertaining imaginary conversation between Anthony Ashley, the third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) on.....
London: Published by J. Hatchard and Williams and Co., 1818. First edition, first issue without the author's name on the title-page. OCLC records about 16 copies of the two issues combined; not found in Block or Garside, Raven & Schöwerling. An uncommon and unusual novel, written in the form of.....
San Francisco: Alta California Publishing House, 1880. First edition. Wright III, 1583; Baird & Greenwood, California Fiction, 679; Cowan 1933. An interesting example of Yellow Peril literature in the form of dystopian fiction about aconquest the United States by the Chinese, beginning in California where they had immigrated since the.....
Canterbury: Printed by Simmons and Kirkby, 1802. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Dodsworth, 1; OCLC records 12 copies; COPAC adds one. An accomplished collection of over 30 poems by Anna Dodsworth (1740-1801) of Kent, posthumously published by her husband, the Vicar of Dodington, in an edition of "a.....
(London:) Printed for Robert Wilson, 1614. First edition. STC 1125; Gibson 102; ESTC 121055. One of Francis Bacon's first acts when he became the Attorney General under James I, was to attempt to bring a halt to dueling, a practice that was particularly fashionable among the ruling classes. James I......
London: John Miller, 1823. First edition. BAL 15781. A short opera written for the actor Charles Kemble and best remembered for its theme song “Home Sweet Home," sung by Clari early in the first act. This is the first appearance of Payne’s famous song, for which he received no additional.....
Anvers: Chez Van der Hey, Libraire, 1735. First edition. OCLC 8848288 records five copies (Yale, Smithsonian, Virginia, Sydney, and one in Germany); COPAC records four later editions, but not this one. The gossipy and scandalous memoirs of the eccentric and learned Abbe de François Timoleon Choisy (1644-1724), who, at his.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. First edition, Todd's second impression. ESTC T46573; Todd 53a; NCBEL II, 1185; Printing and the Mind of Man 241. Burke's famous polemic on the French Revolution, here in its second impression - as distinguished by Todd C, plate 6; the cancels and press marks.....