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

London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1724, 1724. First edition, first state with A4 not canceled. Rothschild 923; NCBEL II, 498; ESTC T13811. Outer top margins a little worn, just affecting the page number on the final leaf; very good copy.. 8vo, disbound, 67 pages. Woodcut ornaments and initials. Without the half-title. One of John Gay's lessor known works, a tragedy that met with little success and has been long overshadowed by The Beggar's Opera, but it has a clever, humorous epilogue probably by Gay's friend Alexander Pope, that is worth the price of admission.

Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2014, 2014. First edition, second issue; 375 copies printed. The first issue contained printer's errors and the majority of it was pulped. Fewer than ten copies of the first issue survived. Designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. As new.. 8vo, gray cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis and ten illustrations. ¶ Franklin Gilliam, Texas Bookman, was a work long in the making. Part biography, part encomium to the famous proprietor of The Brick Row Book Shop from 1953 to 1983, the planning for the publication began within hours of Franklin's funeral, more than 20 years ago, in Cuero, Texas. Like most things involving Franklin, the wheels turned slowly, so much so that a few individuals, including most of the contributors to the book, thought it was some kind of joke. In late 2013 there was a determination by The Book Club of Texas to finally see the project through or forget about it once and for all, and responsibility for its production was dropped into the lap of… Read More

London: Printed for B. and J. White, 1796, 1796. First edition. ESTC T138168; NCBEL II, 1561. Very good copy in a handsome contemporary binding.. Small 8vo, contemporary black half calf, red paper boards, gilt decorations in five compartments on the spine, gilt lettering. Without the half-title. Three clever dialogues by William Gilpin (1724-1804), the educator and writer on the picturesque, purporting to be conversations between one Dr. Joseph Frampton and the famous theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), as copied from a manuscript found in Frampton's library when it was sold at auction in 1730. The subjects discussed between Stillingfleet and Frampton include matters that are proper for clergymen to partake in outside their pastoral duties, such as shooting, playing cards, attending theater, gardening, riding horses, etc. Gilpin's first published book in 1748 was a dialogue on gardens. 20th century bookplate of Charles Benson on the front paste-down.

London: Printed for J. Payne, 1767, 1767. First edition. Scott, pages 197-98; Tinker 1115; Rothschild 1029. Endpapers browned and slightly chipped at the edges from the leather turn-ins; very good copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary calf rebacked, brown leather label, gilt lettering. Frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion. An anthology of mostly 18th century poems deemed suitable for ladies, anonymously compiled and with an introduction by Oliver Goldsmith. Included are works by Pope, Addison, Moore, Parnell, Thomson, Dryden, Swift, Collins, Gay and Goldsmith himself. - but none by ladies!

(San Francisco: The Jumbo Press, 1955), 1955. First edition, one of a very few copies for private circulation. OCLC records three copies (BCC, Wellesley & Brigham Young); not in the Grabhorn Press Bibliography. In fine condition, handsomely framed.. Broadside, 49 x 16 cm, printed in black on mustard-yellow paper. The second broadside Jane Grabhorn wrote and printed for her husband Robert on the occasion of his birthday. This one is comprised of 18 spurious and ridiculous quotations that only the wit of Jane Grabhorn could devise: "Our long association has been a frightful, I mean fitful, well, anyway, it's been damn long. Ed Grabhorn"; "Birthday-wise 55 is not fabulous, but Robert Grabhorn-wise you might say it's amazingly different, period. Albert Sperisen"; "Warren thinks all the Dutch do is slog around in wooden shoes picking tulips and repairing dykes. Very few of us wear wooden shoes. Antoinette Howell"; etc. From the library of San Francisco bookseller and close friend to the Grabhorns - as… Read More

[Laguna Beach, Ca.:] Laguna Verde Imprenta, [1985], 1985. First edition, one of "some" 70 copies. Spine a trifle faded; fine copy.. 8vo, quarter blue morocco, decorated paper boards, gilt lettering. Color illustrations and facsimiles of Jane Grabhorn's work. A charming book about the printer Jane Grabhorn based on a talk by the printer Ward Ritchie which he gave as part of the Goudy Lecture series at Scripps College, Claremont, California. Ritchie later converted his talk into this book, the 25th publication of his Laguna Verde Imprenta. This copy, unlike many, is signed by Ritchie on the colophon page with a small ink notation below "WR 25." The colophon states "Perhaps some seventy copies have survived this printing by Ward Ritchie on the Albion hand press of Laguna Verde Imprenta . . ."

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1820, 1820. First edition. Pine-Coffin 819-3; Robinson, Wayward Women, pages 44-45; see the ODNB. Edges slightly rubbed; some light foxing; very good copy in contemporary state.. 8vo, original gray boards skillfully rebacked, recent printed paper label, untrimmed. Frontispiece and five plates after sketches by Charles Eastlake. With errata, directions for the binder and four pages of advertisements between the front endpapers for the Literary Gazette, dated June 20, 1820. A travel narrative revealing of the adventurous and fearless nature of its author, Maria Graham (1785-1842). In the summer of 1819, she, her husband and the artist Charles Eastlake ventured into the mountains east of Rome, to the villages of Poli, near Tivoli and Palestrina, to escape the heat, but where it was known that the roads and locales were controlled by the dreaded banditti. Foreigners were discouraged from visiting this region and that… Read More

Various publishers and locations, including London, Edinburgh, New York and Philadelphia, 1803-1903, 1803. Condition varies, from good to fine; a full description of the collection, with bibliographical details, is available upon request.. Eleven volumes and one manuscript letter. The titles include Poems on Various Subjects (1803); Letters from the Mountains (1806); Memoirs of an American Lady (1808); Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811); The Highlanders and Other Poems (1813); and Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem (1814). The holograph letter by Grant is to Irish poet and biographer James Wills (1790-1868), concerning his manuscripts, writings and potential contributions to Blackwoods Magazine. Grant was famous her works on Scottish lore and history, especially Letters from the Mountains; Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1803; and her account of life in New York, where she lived as young girl, in Memoirs of An American Lady, With… Read More

Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793, 1793. First Bodoni edition. Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250. Spine and edges skillfully repaired; some light foxing and small stains, mostly in the margins; very good example of a rare, untrimmed copy in original state. Enclosed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase.. 4to, original plain pink wrappers, stitched as issued, remains of a small printed paper label on the spine, untrimmed. An attractive edition of Gray's famous Elegy with Giuseppe Torelli's Italian translation juxtaposed with the original English, preceded by a dedicatory sonnet by the printer Biambatista Bodoni to Signora Contessa Elisabetta Caterina Mosconi.

London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1606, 1606. Second edition in English of Justinus's Historiæ Philippicæ; the first edition of this translation. ESTC S117759; STC 24293. Some light stains and smudges in the text; two small burn holes, with slight loss, but not to the sense; occasional contemporary ink marks; edges rubbed; very good, sound copy.. Folio, contemporary calf rebacked, red morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering. 12 wood engraved portraits of Roman emperors in the text, wood engraved initials, head-and tailpieces and one illustration. Without the initial and final blanks. The An Epitomie of the Lives and Manners of the Romane Emperors has a separately printed title-page with the same imprint and date, but the sequence is continuous. Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus' epitome of the expansive history and origins of the world from the beginning of time to the era of the Caesars by Augustan historian Pompeius Trogus. A complete text of Trogus's work has not survived,… Read More