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

[Boston], 1857, 1857. Myerson and Wilson, Picturing Emerson: An Iconography, Appendix A.. A few minor restorations of the edges and brown spots; a skillfully executed replacement marble base; in very good condition.. Oval, 20.5 x 15 inches, signed and dated on the edge "J. Carew SC, 1857." A fine bas-relief portrait in marble of Ralph Waldo Emerson, sculpted the year he voiced his support for the abolitionist cause. Joseph Carew was active between 1840-1870 and worked in partnership with his brother Thomas Carew in the firm Carew & Brothers, Sculptors, at 143 Harrison Avenue, Boston, near the Common. His sculptures were exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum on at least three occasions: 1853, 1859 and 1860. There is no evidence to link Emerson with Joseph Carew, and Emerson scholars Joel Myerson and Leslie Perrin Wilson in their monograph Picturing Emerson: An Iconography (Houghton Library, 2016), record this portrait under Appendix A, Apocryphal Images of Emerson, with the following note: "Joseph Carew… Read More

Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, 1885, 1885. First Daniel Press edition, number 45 of 150 numbered copies. NCBEL I, 1699. Vellum and boards somewhat rubbed and soiled; text fine, though some signatures are lightly printed.. 4to, original quarter vellum, blue paper boards, untrimmed. An interesting later edition of a play originally entitled A Cure for the Cuckhold: A Pleasant Comedy, published by bookseller Francis Kirkman in 1661 and perhaps speciously attributed to John Webster and William Rowley. Later critics, Edmund Gosse among them, thought that Rowley's contribution was crude (he was "a rough playwright of the Jacobean age") and that Webster's part of the play stood alone as a "charming domestic drama of English country life." Gosse, with the help of S. Spring-Rice and the printer Henry Daniel, sought to correct that, and they published this edition, under the new title Love's Graduate: A Comedy, which omitted the contributions attributed to Rowley. In the Prefatory Essay,… Read More

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1807, 1802. The 1801, 02 & 05 volumes are second editions; the 1803-04 volumes are first editions. Lowndes, page 1901; NCBEL III, 1873; Brewer, Leigh Hunt, pages 15-16; ODNB. Light foxing and smudges; very good copies.. 5 vols, 8vo, modern brown quarter calf period style, marbled paper boards, black morocco spine labels, gilt lettering. In 1801 Richard Alfred Davenport (1776-1852), an aspiring poet and energetic author, began independently issuing an annual compendium of contemporary English poetry. Davenport believed that England lacked an annual, like the French Almanach des Muses, that reflected the depth and strength of its poets. He solicited the help of Sir Egerton Brydges, Thomas Park and Anna Seward, among others, for obtaining contributions. The initial volume was a work of almost 500 pages, containing hundreds of poems, organized by Original Poetry (including sections dedicated to sonnets), Ancient Poetry (the contribution of Brydges), Fugitive… Read More

San Francisco: Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker, 1948-1990, 1948. A detailed description is available via pdf on our website on the catalogues page.. The Peregrine Press, the Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker flourished in San Francisco between 1948 and 1990, under the stewardship of Henry Evans, his wife Patricia and their daughter Judith. Shortly after World War II, Henry Evans (1918-1990) established an antiquarian and secondhand bookstore in San Francisco, under the name H. H. Evans, Bookseller, which within a few years was one of the largest bookstores of its kind on the West Coast. In 1950 Evans purchased a nineteenth-century Washington handpress and dedicated himself, with the assistance of his wife, to producing iconoclastic and avant-garde books of poetry and art under the imprint of the Peregrine Press. In 1952 they combined the Peregrine Press and their book business under the name of the Porpoise Bookshop, which became a multifaceted, unique… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019, 2019. First edition. As new.. 4to, green linen spine, decorated wrappers, 52 pages. Profusely illustrated. A bio-history of the engaging San Francisco bookseller and botanical printmaker Henry Evans (1918-1990), who founded the Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press in San Francisco in the early 1950s with the assistance of wife Patricia and daughter Judith. Evans later became a prominent botanical printmaker. This monograph, the annual keepsake published by The Book Club of California, includes a checklist of all the publications of the Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker. It was handsomely designed by Jonathan Clark of the Artichoke Press. Many of the illustrations have not been previously published.

Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985, 1985. First Still Point Press edition, number 31 of 300 numbered copies, printed by the Bird & Bull Press. Fine copy.. 8vo, original brown quarter morocco, decorated paper boards, gilt lettering, untrimmed. Title-page vignette and nine full-page illustrations by "Tottoroto," and one folding plate. A handsome fine press edition of John Evelyn's treatise on the making of salads, first published in 1699. "Evelyn's message in Acetaria was that vegetables were a healthy addition to the diet, and he gave clear instructions on how to cultivate a wide range, native and exotic, along with herbs and fruit. He also discussed what made for good food" - Margaret Willes, The Curious World of Samuel Pepys & John Evelyn. Kit Currie concludes in her informative introduction that Evelyn was a "delightful personality, a passionate lover of gardens . . . and a bibliophile of no small stature. The world would be a better place for more men such as he." Indeed.

London: Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin, 1700, 1700. Fourth edition. ESTC R219623 (six in the UK and five in North America); Wing E3940A; Keynes, Evelyn, 16a. Wrappers a little worn at the edges; shadow of a label on the front wrapper; very good copy.. 8vo, early plain pink wrappers, 35 pages. With half-title. An anonymously written pamphlet under the guise of being a dairy of a Frenchman's visit to England and his shock at the dirty, chaotic streets of London, the noise and polluted air, the vulgar women in Alehouses, ad infinitum. Evelyn originally published this in 1659 under the title A Character of London. There were three editions that year, followed years later by this fourth one, with an altered title, which was apparently meant to associate it with William Lister's A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698 and the satire of it by William King, A Journey to London in the Year 1698. From the library of Robert S. Pirie, with his bookplate inside the front wrapper and his notation in pencil that he… Read More