N.p.: n.p., 1800. First edition, second issue with the watermark of 1804. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 15; Hazen, Strawberry Hill - Detached Pieces, 94: “certainly not printed at SH;” cf. ESTC T141564 for the first issue. A separately printed epilogue to Mary Berry’s play Fashionable Friends, a comedy.....
Boston: D. Lothrop, (1883). First edition. BAL 6302, binding A. The rare first book by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), a collection of 12 poems for the illustrations of George F. Barnes. Freeman later became well known and celebrated for her popular local color stories about New England places and.....
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: John and Edward Bumpus Ltd., 1908. First edition. NCBEL IV, 596. The second book by Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943), a collection of about 45 poems, handsomely printed by the Chiswick Press. She would later become well known for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928).
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797. First edition. ESTC W29945; BAL 14558; Evans 32512; Stoddard & Whitesell 581. The first and only published part of an ambitious verse history of the American Revolution, dedicated to "the Citizen-Soldiers who fought, conquered, and retired, under the banners of.....
London: Printed for the Author; Sold by Edward and Charles Dilly, J. Robson, and J. Walter, 1779. First edition. ESTC T42668 (six copies in the UK and six in the US); Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 241. An accomplished and entertaining collection of over 30 poems and four poetical.....
London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by Messrs. Wilkie, [1787]. First edition. ESTC N25028 records two copies (Yale and HEH); COPAC adds BL; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 286. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's fiction, notably The Little Family, published.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....