Leigh's New Picture of London; or, a View of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral State of the British Metropolis; presenting a luminous Guide to the Stranger, on all Subjects connected with general Information, by Leigh, Samuel - 1823

First edition hardcover. 1866, New York. Condition is Very Good: Library sticker on spine, pencil note on copyright page, no other library markings. Some pencil notes on front blank, none elsewhere. Occasional foxing in text. Binding is sound. Light general wear to boards. A nice copy of an uncommon book. Author aims to offend as many people as possible and succeeds. Paginates: blanks, frontis, 312, [2], blanks, plus 11 unpaginated plates. Extremely obscure item. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: Author is brother of Samuel Comstock - infamous mutineer of the whaleship Globe. Such a lovely family. More notes: Satire aimed at (?) Charles Farrar Browne who was a humorist working under the name Artemus Ward. Browne (Ward) was reportedly a favorite of Abraham Lincoln. More notes: Most, but not all, first editions of this time period have the date on the title page and this copy does not. I have looked at WorldCat, online libraries and sale copies; I cannot locate any copy with a date… Read More

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Tan calf spine and corners. Brown textured boards. Gilt banding on the spine with the title plate missing.
First Volume of a two-volume set Milton's poetry was slow to see the light of day, at least under his name. His first published poem was "On Shakespeare" (1630), anonymously included in the Second Folio edition of William Shakespeare's plays in 1632. An annotated copy of the First Folio has been suggested to contain marginal notes by Milton.[53] Milton collected his work in 1645 Poems during the excitement attending the possibility of establishing a new English government. The anonymous edition of Comus was published in 1637, and the publication of Lycidas in 1638 in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago was signed J. M. Otherwise. The 1645 collection was the only poetry of his to see print until Paradise Lost appeared in 1667.
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and… Read More

Original dust sheet. Green cloth with gilt title on the spine.
One hundred and seventy-six early Turners, most in colour and reproduced for the first time, and 22 other reproductions.
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of… Read More

In the original dust sheet. Tan board with gilt title on the spine.
The Major Natural History Paintings Southern,
John (Archibald Thorburn) Archibald Thorburn FZS (31 May 1860, Lasswade, Midlothian - 9 October 1935, Hascombe, Surrey) was a Scottish artist who specialised in wildlife, painting mostly in watercolour. He regularly visited Scotland to sketch birds in the wild, his favourite haunt being the Forest of Gaick near Kingussie in Invernesshire. His widely reproduced images of British wildlife, with their evocative and dramatic backgrounds, are enjoyed as much today as they were by naturalists a century ago. Archibald was born at Viewfield House, Lasswade, Midlothian, the fifth son of Robert Thorburn (1818–1885), portrait miniaturist to Queen Victoria. His first education was at Dalkeith and in Edinburgh, after which he was sent to the newly founded St John's Wood School of Art in London. His stay there was only brief, since on the death of his father he sought the guidance of Joseph Wolf. It… Read More

Boston: D Lothrop & Co., 1887. Rare volume from 1887 with contributions from well-known writers and artists. 4to sized, brown clothbound hardcover with gilt titles and decorations. 112, heavy, glossy pages with many full page illustrations. Many pages are blank on the reverse. Bright gilt trim on all edges. Unique three color endpapers. Purple satin ribbon bookmark tucked inside. A special volume. Contributors: Susan Coolidge Adeline D.T. Whitney Sarah O. Jewett Margaret Sidney Nora Perry Celia Thaxter Harriet Prescott Spofford Margaret J. Preston Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Lucy Larcom Kate Putnam Osgood S M B Piatt Illustrations by: George Foster Barnes Edmund H. Garrett Hy Sandam F. Childe Hassam W. L. Taylor. Inked name on blank page following fep. Worn corners, 8.5 inch tear to exterior spine, edgewear. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Barnes, George… Read More

Chicago: Argus Press, 1927. Unusual item. "This edition consists of 490 numbered copies and 17 copies lettered A to Q and signed by the author. This is number _________" This field would normally be filled in by hand and the book would then be signed by the author. This field is blank and the book is not signed, making it a very rare item. Brown hardcover boards have dark brown leather spine which extends about an inch and a half onto covers. Bright gilt titles and decoration on front on leather. 71 pages on handmade or heavy ivory laid paper. Sewn binding. From page 49 "The love element is the dominant feature in Herrick's poetry, and it suggests a most interesting question: Did the women of whom he sang really exist, or were they creatures of fancy? This has always been a problem, not only for the student of Herrick and his day, but for all lovers of poetry: for it animates the dispute as to whether a man can create, upon a foundation of unreality, a thing of real… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.. Very Good+. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean violet cloth has gilt title on spine. Gilt embellished front cover with a centered paper paste-on. Top edge gilt. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. Each page is printed within a broad ornate border. Color illustrations by Harrison Fisher and decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood. Prior owners inscription dated 1909. Beautiful women in color. Women; Color Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages .

Elyria, OH 8vo size softcover with large plastic spiral binding; 348 pages with separate recipe index. Original artwork for cover and divider pages by John Rodak. Recipes are "signed" with name of contributor, but there is no index of contributors. The book is typescript (you can see some errors and strikethroughs.) The separate index, also typescript appears to be a photocopy. Two folded pages of 8.5x11 inch white paper are folded in half widthwise and make up the eight-page index. It is tucked into the book. Contents include: Appetizers Breads Cakes Coffee Cakes Candy Canning-Preserves Cheese Snacks Cookies Cutout Cookies Fried Cookies Filled (Pastry) & Tarts Drop Cookies Molded Cookies Desserts Dips Dressings Frosting Meatless Dishes Meats Lamb Fish Pies Punch Rolls Salads Soups Vegetables Recipes include: Beef Olive Spread; Sauerkraut Balls; Cheese Blintzes; Buttermilk Cupcakes; Polish Babka; Polish Sweet Bread; Polish Paczki (Donuts); Braided Butter Loaf; Rich Kolachi;… Read More

New York: Meredith Press, 1967. 6 1/4 x 6 1/4". First Edition, Pictorial dust jacket and boards with a few ships near the spine top, not price-clipped, in very good condition. Pictorial boards with slight indentation near top spine edge, full-color illustrations throughout, pages clean and unmarked, otherwise in very good condition. (Toledano A25)A humorous story about a cat, a doll and a moth. Delightful and quite less macabre than Gorey's usual style