London: Printed for J. and T. Tonson, 1756. First edition. ESTC T97706. A clever collection of maxims, interwoven with short character sketches (Camilla, Melissa, Praxiteles, Flora, etc.) and reflections, written in collaboration by Fulke Greville and his wife, the poet Frances Macartney Greville. Fulke Greville (1717-1806) was handsome dandy, an.....
Bristol: Printed by George Routh, for the Author, n.d. [circa 1800]. First edition. ESTC T222838, which records two copies: BL and South Hampton; JISC adds four: National Library of Scotland, St. Andrews, and Wellcome; OCLC adds one, NYPL (Phforzheimer, apparently the only copy in America); and see Jackson, Romantic Poetry.....
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. Second edition, the same year as the first which was issued in an unwieldy large, think single-volume quarto format; this second edition was reset in a two-volume octavo format and thus is the first practical edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, pages 290-91;.....
London: Printed for E. Williams and Sold by All Booksellers, 1806. Second edition, enlarged; the first was published over 20 years before in 1783. A scarce collection of essays, letters, and a dialogue on conduct and philosophy by Juliana Yonge, about whom little is recorded. She wrote on theological subjects.....
London: Printed for C. Parker, 1772. First translation into English. ESTC T60642. A colorful collection of portraits, part factual and part fiction, of legendary courtesans who were also influential women, by French writer and translator Anne de La Roche-Guilhem, first published in French in 1675. La Roche-Guilhem (1644-1710) was herself.....
Seattle, Wash. and Portland, Ore.: Lindsay Publishing Company, Makers and Distributors, 1910. First edition. Smith, American Fiction 1900-1925, L-348; OCLC records four copies, including the University of Washington; there is also a copy at LC, cited by Smith. A scarce novel set in Seattle and the surrounding area, highly descriptive.....
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N.p., n.d. [but probably Cleveland, Ohio, 1871]. First edition. Not found in BAL or OCLC; no copy found in trade or at auction. A rare early work by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) - very likely her first separate appearance in print - a poem in three 12-line stanzas written to.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First edition, limited issue, number 36 of 40 numbered copies on Japanese Vellum (of 225 copies), signed by Cather. Crane A14a. Willa Cather's famous novel about Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his new house.
Chicago: Joseph G. Branch Publishing Co., (1912). First edition. An uncommon memoir by Mary Polk Branch, about her life in Middle Tennessee (specifically Columbia and its environs) in the years leading up to the Civil War and immediately afterward. Her immediate family and inlaws were well connected, wealthy Southerners and.....
London: Printed by George Cawthorn, Bookseller and Printer to the Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, 1803. First edition in English. The first English translation of Madame de Stael's impressive survey of literature in historical perspective, De la Litterature Consideree dans ses Rapports avec les Institutions Sociales, a work that.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1820. First edition. Pine-Coffin 819-3; Robinson, Wayward Women, pages 44-45; see the ODNB. A travel narrative revealing of the adventurous and fearless nature of its author, Maria Graham (1785-1842). In the summer of 1819, she, her husband.....
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 and Sold by H. Herringman, D. Newman, T. Cockerel, S. Heyrick, W. Cadman, S. Loundes, G. Marriot, W. Crook and C. Smith, 1678. First complete translation in English of the five parts, preceded by their separate publications beginning in 1655. ESTC R19972; Wing S2156. One of the famous.....
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.....
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.....
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Boston: Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, 19 Water Street, [circa 1832]. One of several known variants, priority undetermined. Collins, Threads of History, 229, describing a similar version, but not this one. A linen handkerchief for children with religious poems, prayers and one of the most famous of all 19th century nursery.....
London: Sold by J. Ridley, G. Kearsly and W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1766. Fifth edition; first published in London in 1760. ESTC T12472. A widely reprinted tract by the Quaker minister Sophia Hume (1702-1774), who was born and bred in luxury in Charleston, South Carolina, but cast off her.....
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.....
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. ESTC T68679; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 365; NCBEL III, 772. The scarce third book by poet and novelist Jane West (1758-1852) - and her first substantial book - which brings together 22 poems.....