Dublin: Printed for C. Lewis, [1805]. Stated "Third Edition" on the title-page. See Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 1809-1828; not in NCBEL. In 1804, Miss Sydney Owenson (1775/6-1859), aspiring Irish novelist, poet and socialite (and later Lady Morgan) became embroiled in pamphlet war that began with the publication of Familiar Epistles.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811. Fourth edition; the first was published in 1806. NCBEL III, 772. A sequel to the popular Letters to a Young Man on His First Entrance in Life (1801), by the poet, novelist and playwright Jane West (758-1852), a series of.....
¶ 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.'"
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.....
Bristol: Albion Press: Printed by Wansbrough and Saunders, 1821. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 262. Poems centering on the ancient history of Bristol and its surroundings by a woman who was apparently a local. The Albion Press flourished in Bristol for about 12 years, circa 1818-1830. Attractive.....
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. First edition. BAL 14808, first printing; Wright III, 3888. A local color novel set in the moutains of Tennessee by the prolific and popular middle Tennessee author, Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922), who wrote the majority of her work under the pseudonym Charles Egbert.....
London: Published by B. J. Holdsworth, 1824. First edition. NCBEL III, 1087. A posthumous collection of over 75 essays and sketches "shrewdly designed to appeal to the intellectual and ethical interests of teenagers" (DNB) by Jane Taylor (1783-1824), author of several popular works for children, which were often written with.....
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, The Lakeside Press, 1919. First Lakeside Press edition.
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1984. First edition, one of 30 copies only. OCLC records two copies (Stanford and USF). ¶ A rare privately published and lavishly produced work of 25 rhymes for children, printed by Peter Koch at the Black Stone Press. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie.....
New York: Random House, (1977). First edition, special issue, one of 300 copies signed by Welty. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1922. First edition, second binding. Wilson A5b. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Cf. Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1817: 49 & Wolff 5606. ¶ An historical romance that begins in Lindisfarne shortly after the first Jacobite uprising. Porter’s popular novels served as one of the models.....
Edinburgh: W. Innes; London: Hamilton, Adams, 1841. First and only edition. OCLC records six copies (National Library of Scotland, NYPL, BL, Ox, Edinburgh Univ., National Library of Australia); COPAC adds one. A series of ten dialogues between a Dr. Truman and several ladies of Edinburgh, which introduce him to their.....