New York: Published by D. Longworth, at the Shakespeare Gallery, L. Nichols, Print, 1804. First edition illustrated by Alexander Anderson, issue without the series title for Longworth's Select Modern Poets. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 224; not found in American Bibliography. An early work by the prolific American wood engraver.....
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. First American edition. American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of Thomas Bellamy's picaresque novel about young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his mother and lives through numerous "calamitous vicissitudes" as a......
New York: William H. Clayton, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. A collection of eight of Washington Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all originally written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited.....
(New York:) Published by Elam Bliss, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 39223; Sabin 38075. A landmark work on the history of American literature by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), author, local Massachusetts politician and lawyer. In 15 "lectures" Knapp writes about the origins of an American literature and the influences on.....
New York: Published by Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, 1818. First collected edition. BAL 23331; Stoddard & Whitesell 1215; American Bibliography 46864. ¶ The scarce collected verse of Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842), with a 10-page biographical sketch of the author by the publishers, Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, who state that.....