Carl Van Vechten: Bilignin, France, 1934. Iconic photograph of Gertrude Stein in her garden in Bilignin, France. This is one of several photographic images of Stein by her friend and collaborator Carl Van Vechten.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 38563. A study of French poet, theologian and writer François Fénelon, with translations from his writings, by the Boston author Eliza Lee Follen (née Cabot) (1787-1860). This is Follen's first book, preceded by a serial publication for children; she.....
London: Printed for John Barber and Sold by Benj. Tooke, Henry Clements and John Walthoe, 1717, First edition. ESTC T38771; NCBEL II, 767. The last of three plays by Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), who was well known for her roman à clef fictionalized memoirs. The is plot is loosely based on.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T91685; Rothschild 1338 (Horace Walpole’s copy). The letters of poet Henrietta Knight (1700-1756) to poet William Shenstone (1714-1763), written over a twenty year period during which she was sequestered by her husband at their Warwickshire country home, Barrells. Lady Luxborough and.....
London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1734. First edition. ESTC T42622; Foxon, page 45; Teerink 747; Sale, Samuel Richardson, Master Printer, 135; Lonsdale, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, pages 118-129. The only book by the Irish poet Mary Barber (1685-1755), whose first published poem written on behalf of a destitute woman, received the.....
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern.....
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale”; “Sonnet sur l’oiseau du.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Second edition, published the same year as the first, but under a different title. Colbert; ODNB; NCBEL III, 1288; not in Wolff, Block or Garside, Raven and Schöwerling. A novel in the form of a travel diary by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) which she states in.....
Fair copy manuscript, no place, circa 1806. There are six fair copy manuscripts of Psyche held in institutions that have been found: National Library of Wales, Morgan Library, Beinecke Library, two at the British Library (one incomplete), Wilson Library at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one is listed in OCLC.....
London: Printed for D. Browne, A. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, [et al.], 1717. The eighth edition in English, preceded by editions beginning in 1691; all the 17th century English editions are scarce. ESTC T79450. This English edition is a testament to the success and resiliency of Countess.....
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. 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 (1742-1809), a.k.a......
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme, 1805. First edition. Pine-Coffin 778-7; Colbert; ODNB. Novelist and poet Cornelia Knight (1757-1837) lived for several years in the 1790s in Rome and other parts of Italy, where she mastered numerous languages, drawing, painting and writing, the latter which she put to.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Colbert; ODNB; Sabin 18640; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 2, 16. Frances Wright (1785-1852), also known as Fanny Wright and later as Frances D’Arusmont, traveled to America in 1818 with the intention of observing and writing about the.....
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.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. First edition. Colbert; NCBEL II, 694. The final work on France by Helen Maria Williams, first English woman to write about the upheavals of the French Revolution when she traveled there in 1790. She later became repulsed by Robespierre and the reign of terror.....
London: Printed for E. Symon, J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1723. First edition. ESTC N9868. A translation and adaptation of Racine's La Thébaide. The anonymous dedication states "This tragedy was writ by a young lady, and entrusted to my management . . . The four first acts are taken chiefly.....
York: Printed by W. Blanchard and sold by R. Faulder, London, [etc.], 1791. First edition. NCBEL III, 772; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 365; ESTC T68679. 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.....
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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.....
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. First edition. Rothschild 1553; NCBEL II, 1595. A sweeping chronological history of the world in 540 pages, from the birth of Christ to 1800, told in the entertaining, informal style of Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821). Retrospection was written and published to celebrate (and profit.....
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.....
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.....