![The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather. Autograph Edition [general title]. WILLA CATHER](/pictures/thumb/28457.jpg?v=1613775790)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937-41. First collected edition, first issue, number 416 of 970 numbered copies, signed by Cather. Crane AA1. ¶ The fine Autograph Edition of Willa Cather's fiction, designed by Bruce Rogers, and issued over four years.
La Haye: Chez Henri van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dansle Pooten, à l'Enseigne de Mezeray, 1692. Second edition; first published in 1691, also in The Hague. The popular and colorful Relation du Voyage d’Espagne by Marie-Catherine Aulnoy (1650-1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, the prolific French author of fairy tales, stories.....
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.....
London: Printed for the Writer and sold by J. Bell, British Library, Strand, [1785]. Third and final edition, issued in close proximity to the prior two editions and in an identical format. ESTC N10835 records four locations of this edition: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Harvard, MIT, LC; three locations of 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: 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.....
Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell and Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1817. First edition. Fleeman 88.3L/6; Courtney, page 169. ¶ An collection of over 70 letters, compiled and edited by Rebecca Warner of Bath, who clearly had a scholarly interest in the literature of the 18th.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First edition. BAL 14664. ¶ A collection of over 100 poems, lyrics and sonnets by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908), the prolific and influential writer who was at the center of the post-Civil War New England literary scene. See Wikipedia for an excellent brief biography.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition. ESTC T115675; NCBEL II, 995. The first novel by Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), the sister of novelist Henry Fielding. In her Advertisement to the Reader, Fielding justifies her authorship - a profession not considered suitable for a well-bred woman - as necessary because.....
London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848. First edition. OCLC records four copies (Duke, Columbia and London Library). ¶ An elaborate attempt to defend a literal interpretation of the Bible in the form of an eccentric attack on Charles Empson, who had apparently traveled to Egypt and had written about.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1877. First edition. BAL 23455. ¶ The third book by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894), a long poem contrasting a maiden and a lady, with obvious references to the pitfalls of marriage and the plight of unmarried women. Two Women was originally serialized in two issues of.....
London: Printed for J. and A. Ach, 1816. Second edition, enlarged; the first edition was published in 1813. ODNB; Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1788-1856) visited the famous abbey Port-Royal in France, where she was attracted to the serious study, Jansenist piety, their theories of philosophy.....
Hartford: Seldon & Goodwin, Printers, 1815. First edition. BAL 17615; American Bibliography 35937; Stoddard & Whitesell 1111. The uncommon first book by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865), a substantial collection of poems and short essays which foreshadowed her career as one of the most popular and prolific American literary women of.....
Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke, (1889). First edition. OCLC 20927090 records five copies (HEH, Chicago, Harvard, NYPL and Brown). A collection of 22 short comedies by Frances Aymar Mathews (c.1865-1925), New York novelist and playwright. See Wright III, 3641-43 for three other work by Mathews.
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 A. Millar, 1766. First edition. ESTC T71399; Sabin 78356 (American edition); Raven, British Fiction 1750-1770, 1038. A sequel to the popular novel A Description of Millenium Hall (1762), the story of an ideal community run by hard-working women, written by Sarah Scott with her friend Barbara Montagu.....
A fine, small amateur oil painting of a house on Orr's Island, Maine, that was the setting for Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Maine Coast, written when she lived in Brunswick in the 1850s; it was published by Ticknor and Fields in.....