Search Results: Authors starting with A from The Brick Row Book Shop

Wien und Prag: Berlag von F. Tempsky, 1899, 1899. A second or later printing (possibly edition); the first was published in Leipzig and dated 1898. Paper a little browned, but supple; cloth slightly worn; very good copy.. 8vo, original decorated tan cloth, black lettering. Portrait and one plate. A German edition of the second part of Little Women, published in English for use in schools, with a seven-page introduction about Alcott in German by Professor Adolf Müller. This was issued in the series Freytags Sammlung französischer und englischer Schriftsteller. The front endpapers contain advertisements for other titles in the series. Stamp on the title-page of the Lehrer-Bücherei, an educational bookshop. Rare: OCLC lists four copies in all for the four printings (editions) it records.

Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793], 1793. First edition, state A.. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 (Dunlap) & 5046 (Dwight). Front blank and rear free endpaper lacking; some foxing and stains; a very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary sheep, gilt rules (spine label gone, but still bearing the impression of the lettering). 6-page list of subscribers and errata. The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned, but never published. Smith (1771-1798), a physician and author who died at 28 of yellow fever, was an active member of the "Hartford Wits" literary group and a close associate of the American novelist Charles Brockden Brown, who was living with Smith in Litchfield when this anthology of 70 poems was compiled. Modern scholarship has placed Brown among the contributors of anonymous poems, specifically as the author of "Utrum Horum Mavis, Elige," on pages 222-224. Other contributors include William Trumbull, Theodore Dwight, Joel… Read More

New York: Published by J. W. Bell, 1836, 1836. First edition. BAL 3300, state 2; American Imprints 36726; and see Robert Fraker, "Stomach for Them All: Collecting Minor American Verse in the Twenty-First Century," PBSA, Vol. 107, No. 3, 2015. Early ink signature partially erased from the front paste-down; some light foxing; cloth a little spotted and rubbed; but overall an unusually fine copy.. 12mo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering on the upper board. Frontis portrait. A collection of approximately 100 poems by McDonald Clarke (1798-1842), a.k.a. "The Mad Poet of Broadway," a beloved but enigmatic figure of New York's Knickerbocker literary scene and a model of the stereotypical forlorn but talented and deserving poet. Bookseller Robert Fraker wrote in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society that the "erratic, occasionally sublime, and startlingly modern lines of McDonald Clarke, neglected and absent from anthologies, could be read for insights into the poetry of Walt Whitman, who thought… Read More

Chaalons' [i.e. Châlons-sur-Marne], 'pour la Communauté des Libraires', 1735, 1735. New edition, apparently unrecorded. Not found on OCLC or the Union Catalogue of France (CCFr). A fine copy.. 12mo, contemporary polished continental calf, marbled paper endpapers, blind-ruled borders, red morocco spine label, gilt decorations and lettering, a.e. stained red. Woodcut tailpieces. By the late 17th century, the French government attempted to regulate all aspects of printing and the distribution of books in and around Paris. In 1686 those regulations were codified in the Édit du Roy pour le Règlement des Imprimeurs et Libraires de Paris and the Édit du Roy pour le Règlement des Relieurs et doreurs de Livres. Further revisions were made 30 years later, and after some disagreements, two editions of the code were published in 1723 and 1731 in the form of a decree. The code was extended to all of France in 1744 and remained in effect until 1777. This edition is a provincially printed version… Read More

San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931, 1931. First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed. Fine copy.. 4to, original tan linen spine, gray-green paper boards and printed paper labels, untrimmed. A dialogue between the book collector and scholar, Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Walter Savage Landor, set in Villa Landor in Italy, where Landor had once lived and where Fiske later lived. The dialogue, about Dante and Virgil, was written in observation of the two-thousandth anniversary of Virgil's birth.

Madrid: Imprenta de Sancha, 1790-93, 1790. A mixed set of later printings or editions; the first editions of the five volumes were originally published over a six-year period beginning in 1786. Cf. Palau 12207. Vellum worn on two volumes; some worming (most significantlt on volume five); a made-up or "married" set, in sound, decent condition.. 5 vols, 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, titles and volume numbers in manuscript on the spines. With half-titles in volumes one and three. The popular and influential account of Italy by Juan Andrés y Morell (1740-1817), the Spanish Jesuit priest, humanist and writer. The letters, written between 1785 and 1791, center on visits to museums, academies, libraries, booksellers, artists and scientists in Rome, Florence, Verona, Venice, Padua, Bologna and Mantua. Four of the five volumes contain indices that detail the contents of the letters. Andrés resided in Italy after the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain. He was an important figure in the Spanish… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826, 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue). Some smudges and stains in the text; very good copy.. 8vo, later green half calf, green cloth boards, red morocco label, gilt decorations and lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Half-title and errata leaf present. A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes, including ones about Burns, Byron, Shelley, Boswell and John Gay, interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces, such as the account of the "Hungry Poet" with two of his poems. Almost all the pieces are unsigned, but at least two are attributed: A. Cunningham on the last moments of Roberts Burns and Walter Scott on the "Character of Lord Byron." There was a variant or probably second issue, with the title augmented slightly to The Curious Book; or, Literary Relics.

London: William Pickering, 1851, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and National Library of Scotland). Edges rubbed; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering on the upper board. Errata slip inserted at page eight. Four pages of publisher's terminal ads. An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To / Professor F. W. Newman / from the Author as a / slight acknowledgement of / both pleasure and profit derived / from his lectures. Feb 2nd, 1854." Francis William Newman (1805-1897) was a philosopher and brother of Cardinal John Henry Newman. Bookplate of collector Simon Nowell-Smith on the front paste-down.

London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756, 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. Hinges rubbed and starting, but sound; light damp-staining to the endpapers; very good copy.. 12mo, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt rules. One page of publisher's terminal advertisements. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In the 1770s Mrs. Piozzi wrote to Dr. Johnson that she had found a copy of this "strange book about Corporal Bates, which I bought and read . . . and found to be the very novel from which Sterne took his first idea . . . even the name Tristram itself, seems to be borrowed from this stupid history of Corporal Bates, forsooth." See Helen Sard Hughes "A Precursor of Tristram Shandy" in the Journal of English and German Philology (vol. 17, no. 2), who concludes that the story of Corporal Bates "was but one of… Read More

London: Printed for Joseph Wilde, at the Elephant at Charing Cross, 1700, 1700. First edition, one of two variants. In this one the dedication is signed "E. L.". ESTC R223814 records nine copies (Durham, Oxford Bodleian, National Trust, Folger, UCLA, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, Beinecke); Wing A226C. Edges neatly repaired; a little browning and slight smudges in the text; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary panelled sheep neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on, brown leather spine label, gilt decorations and lettering. Informed and lively observations on Spain at the end of the 17th century, the political intrigues of the monarchy, Spanish culture - including bull fighting and theater - and one allegorical tale entitled "The Story" about the "Monarchy of Philippia," all written in a series of letters to a Mr. Brunet from "His Devoted Friend R.--", who apparently visited Spain and northern Africa between 1694 and 1696. The "Epistle Dedicatory" signed "E. L." in this variant is signed "E.… Read More

London: Printed for T. Harris and Sold by C. Corbet, 1744, 1744. Second edition; first published in 1637. ESTC T51881. Fine copy.. 8vo, disbound, 30 pages. The story of a famous miser who operated a ferry boat on the Thames, near where the London Bridge eventually went. John Overs was frugal to a fault, and from his appearance it was thought he was poor. But he died a rich man, leaving wealth to his beautiful daughter.

London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786, 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. Title page a little spotted and browned; very good copy.. 8vo, modern brown quarter calf period style, marbled paper boards, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie, with music by James Hook (1746-1827). A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook, the wife of James Hook. She is the acknowledged anonymous author of two other plays James Hook was involved with, The Double Disguise and the Irish Lad (both 1784).

London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas and Yale). Fine copy.. 4to, recent red quarter morocco period style by Philip Dusel, marbled paper boards, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and the first president of the Academy. The anonymous author makes fun of the pretentions of the Academy and its guidelines in choosing members. In the preface, Petit Mot Pour Rire ("a small joke"), Academy founder Johann Zoffany is subject to a particularly unfriendly tale of how he acquired his fame. This is followed by the review of the fictitious paintings, with prefatory remarks on the "revolution of taste in the Polite Arts" ("the love of novelty is particularly remarkable . . .") and an addenda with an assessment of the new quarters of the Royal Academy at New Somerset House,… Read More

London: Printed in the Year, 1689, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). Edges rubbed with some loss at the end and foot of the spine; hinges starting, but sound; some spotting and small stains; very good copy.. Folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, blind rules and decorations, red morocco spine label, gilt lettering "State / Tracts / Vol. / I" 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of some particular Gentlemen, who set an extraordinary value and estimate upon them." Politics and life under Charles II are the primary subjects, with an emphasis on anti-Catholicism, including poet Andrew Marvell's An Account of the Growth of Popery, first published in Amsterdam in 1677. There was a second volume in 1692, and both volumes were reprinted together in 1693. See ESTC R17906 and R28848. From the library of prominent Englishman… Read More

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744, 1744. First edition, the issue with the price beneath the imprint. ESTC T187239; Foxon A296; Hayward 168; NCBEL II, 535. Fine, handsome copy.. 4to, modern sprinkled calf period-style by Philip Dusel, orange-red morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering. A long poem in blank verse on the virtues of fresh air, diet, exercise, and the passions. John Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician who published several other poems, essays, and miscellaneous works; this was his best known, as indicated by its inclusion in the Hayward exhibition.

E. Edwards, Photo.: N. Y. Photo-Gravure Co, n. d.. Photogravure, 16 x 23.5 cm (image) , 27.5 x 34.5 cm (sheet). A fine photograph of the Chicago home of Franklin MacVeagh, at the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Shiller Street, designed by H. H. Richardson, who received the commission in July 1885. The house was completed in 1887, the year following Richardson's death. Franklin MacVeagh (1837-1934), was a Chicago banker and one-time Secretary of the Treasury under William Howard Taft. This photograph was apparently part of a series by the photographer E. Edwards of stately residences in Chicago. This stately residence was demolished in 1922.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Munday and Slatter, Oxford, 1813, 1813. First edition. NCBEL II, 1682. Edges a little rubbed; very good copy.. Two vols in three (as usual), 8vo, contemporary brown diced half morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt rules and lettering. Frontis portrait. A collection of over 150 letters, mostly concerning the recording of information of historical and biographical significance; thus there are letters about the merits of George Ballard's Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Walton's Lives, the reprinting of books in Black Letter - particularly Urry's Chaucer, etc. The writers include John Ray, George Lyttelton, George Ballard, Thomas Rawlins, Thomas Hearne, Anthony Wood, et al; the second volume, part 2, is dedicated entirely to the publication of John Aubrey's Lives of Eminent Men, its first appearance in print. Aubrey's Brief Lives, as they came to be known, have remained in print ever since.

Taunton: Printed by and for Thomas Norris; London: Sold by Carpenter, E. Newbery, Hurst and Co., [et al], (1800), 1800. First edition; there were two subsequent editions. ESTC T108778 records five copies in the British Isles (BL [2], Morrab, Oxford, Somerset; and five in North America (HEH, Columbia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Harvard [2] and Morgan). Very good copy, enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell case.. 8vo, later brown paper wrappers, typed label on the upper wrapper, 43 pages. Woodcut plan after the title-page; without half-title. A trial for the crime of shoplifting which achieved great notoriety in its time and remains interesting today for the fact that the accused, Jane Leigh Perrot, was the aunt of novelist Jane Austen and a regular presence in her life in Bath. There were three witnesses for the prosecution and over twelve (primarily character witnesses) for the defense, in addition to Mrs. Perrot's statement on her behalf. The jury was out for about fifteen minutes and then… Read More