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Oxford and London: Printed for R. Clements, 1753. Very good in period polished calf, hinges reinforced, wear to edges, Rugby School and prior owner bookplates to front pastedown.. Hall boldly and incorrectly claimed, when the book was first issued in 1597, that he was the first English satirist (writing in the Latin tradition), "I first adventure, follow me who list; And be the second English satirist." At the time, the Archbishop of Canterbury directed that Virgidemiarum be burned for licentiousness, but later relented. Alexander Pope declared the Virgidemiarum to be the "best poetry and truest satire in the English language." (Dibdin, Bibliomania, pg. 506, 1811). 12mo. ix, [7], 13-108 pp. ESTC T140513.

[Chicago?], 1901. Very good with bumping and wear to the boards and some loss to gilt.. Salesman's dummy, consisting of variously paginated specimen pages and plates, followed by publisher's announcements and a group of ruled leaves for recording subscribers' names (including an actual order penciled in), concluding with photographs of the two versions of the book that could be purchased in texoderm or morocco. Sample of spine binding not present on this copy, and no evidence of same being present. Bound in original light brown cloth with lettering and design stamped in gilt on upper cover. Photograph of William McKinley mounted on upper cover. Sample of lettering and design in gilt on lower cover.

[n.p., England], 1917. Very good internally but vellum heavily soiled and toned, boards bowed, contents clean with some light finger-soiling.. Attractive manuscript children's book filled with watercolor illustrations. A whimsical story in verse about a carefree itinerant fellow and his dog set in the early twentieth century wandering the towns of southern England before finding and then losing untold riches in Canterbury - and learning that time and leisure are more valuable than money. This book appears to be unpublished as we trace no printed version of any variation of this title by this author or illustrators. Oblong 4to. 7 leaves. Clearly a work of love as it is bound in full vellum with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers.

Eton, 1871. First Edition. Both boards detached but present, some foxing and dampstaining. Beautiful, bright tree calf, a copy that is a choice candidate for repair.. [3], xvii leaves, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates; 25 x 33 cm. Photographs are 17 mounted albumen prints.

Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1840. Very good in publisher's gilt and blind stamped brown cloth, mild to moderate foxing throughout.. 12cm. v, [3], [11]-209pp. See American Imprints 1835, 32112 (though Anners did not commence printing until 1839). Scarce American printing which Worldcat locates two copies as of May 2021.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1950. Good in a good heavily chipped dustwrapper.. Hilaire Belloc's copy with birthday inscription to him on the front free endpaper.

Philadelphia: Hoffman & Morwitz, 1872. First Edition in English. Good plus in publishers gilt stamped blue cloth with some wear to corners and rippling to the cloth, contents generally clean with minor penciling on a few pages.. Scarce first edition in English of the minor German childrens' works. Morgan, A Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation at 263. 3 copies located on Worldcat at the time of cataloguing.

Boston (128 Washington Street): Munroe and Francis, 1837. First American Edition. Good in publisher's red leather backed paper boards with hinges starting and wear to edges and some dampstaining; contents generally clean with some toning and foxing and light pencil notation to front free endpaper.. First American Edition, and apparently only American edition of this work by the prolific English author. A presentable copy of a scarce American imprint. 16mo. viii; [9]-192pp. Matches Yale Shirley 1076. Publication date based on the publisher operating at address between 1824 and 1840; Inscription of Miami (Ohio) copy dated 1837; Wood engraved vignette on t.p. by JVN Throop; errors in pagination: 166 as 16.

London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co. Leadenhall-Street, 1816. Ex-library with stamps and ink inscription to verso of title and modern library cloth, toning and soiling to pages, tape to title of volume 1, contemporary owner inscription on flyleaf.. First Edition. A scarce copy in commerce of a work of fiction from the famous/infamous Minerva Press. 24mo. [iii, half title, engraved frontispiece, title], [1]-140pp.; [iii, half title, engraved frontispiece, title], [1]-134pp., [4, ads]. MacLeod, pg. 390; Blakey, pg. 252; Opie A 557.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First Edition. About very good in original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, somewhat cocked and rubbed with prior owner name in ink, and dampstaining to volume 2.. First Edition first printing per BAL's points of issue. Volume II has inserted catalog dated January, 1861. Notably, BAL notes the earliest catalog as February 1861, whereas this copy's catalog is dated the prior month. Holmes's first novel. His medical background, and job as a professor at Harvard Medical School, was an important influence on the novel's storyline, as the book is narrated by . . . a medical school professor. 12mo. 2 vol. [i-ix], x, [xi], xii, [13]-288; [i-iii], iv, [5]-312 + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated January 1861. Bleiler pg. 151; Wright II:1249, BAL 8801; Ives pg. 176.

Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2005. Near fine with cloth spine over paste-paper boards.. One of 27 copies of the leaf book with 2 tipped-in hand-colored lithographic plates from the octavo edition of James Audubon's The Birds of America and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Printed at Hawley's private press on laid paper, bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis, and utilizing hand-decorated paste paper by Carol Blinn at the Warwick Press. The Contre Coup Press is the embodiment of a private press, as Hawley "produces extremely limited editions - often fewer than 30 copies - using his vintage Vandercook SP20 printing press." U. of Louisville, Local Small Press Printer Timothy Hawley Celebrated in Exhibit, 2015. Folio. [6], 29pp., [1].

London: Charles Ollier, 1846. Very good in green cloth binding, with some bumping to corners and heavier at the spine, university bookplate and a few remnants of card pocket. Still very presentable and quite uncommon in commerce.. First edition (but see below). Chapter IV of John Carter's Binding Variants in English Publishing 1820-1900 (London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1932) revolves around binding variants of this book. Carter notes several different binding variants and calls it "the prize exhibit in my collection of [binding variant] puzzles." Id. at 62. However, the copy here appears to be anomalous - it has both the 1846 Ollier title page and the 1846 Ollier advertisements - but the binding is not any of Carter's four variants. Rather it appears to be the Hex5 "pansy" cloth introduced in the mid-1860s. Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823-50, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 100, No. 1 (March 2006), pg. 59. Like Carter suggests, the binding variants of… Read More

1907. First trade edition. Good plus in publisher's orange cloth with gilt, wear to spine and edges, over opened, some foxing throughout though mainly to preliminaries, tipped-in plates clean.. [Dulac, Edmund, ill.].. First trade edition of "Dulac's most important book [which] was an overnight sensation that unequivocally established Dulac's reputation." This copy is a fantastic association copy which is inscribed to Algernon Charles Swinburne by his sister, Isabel Swinburne, for Christmas 1907, and with Swinburne's bookplate. Swinburne was a notable poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, and a subject of a painting, housemate, and a close friend of Rossetti. Large 8vo. xvi, 133pp. [3] + 50 tipped-in color plates, including frontispiece, mounted on gray stock with captioned tissue guards. Hughey 16b. All of the plates, with the exception of the frontispiece, are bound at the end. Without the extremely scarce dust jacket.

Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882. First thus. Very good in publisher's green cloth boards with blind and gilt stamping, with some wear to spine and slight cocking.. This copy is from the Fern Glen Series and carries a different title, but its contents almost exactly mirror "A Children's Year" which was first published in London in 1847. OCLC 10109609 reflects a New York printing also in 1847. However, the Fern Glen Series was largely produced in the 1870s and the instant binding and catalog mentioning an 1882 release largely confirms that to be the case, perhaps utilizing old sheets with a new title and binding to reinvigorate a weak seller. 12mo. 8, 9-257pp., + 15 page catalogue. Not in Woodring. NCBEL III, 1286 for the English title.