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

Boston: Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, 19 Water Street, [circa 1832], 1918. One of several known variants, priority undetermined. Collins, Threads of History, 229, describing a similar version, but not this one. A little stained and spotted, but overall a remarkably fine copy.. Broadside-handkerchief printed on plain weave cotton, 20 x 28.5 cm, five poems printed in three columns with four woodcut vignette illustrations, surrounded by a typographical border. A linen handkerchief for children with religious poems, prayers and one of the most famous of all 19th century nursery rhymes, Sarah Josepha Hale's "Mary's Lamb," above which is a woodcut vignette of Mary sitting under a tree with two lambs. That together with the three other Bewickesque vignettes of a bird, a dog and a rooster are not present in the other variants of this handkerchief as described by Collins." Mary's Lamb" first appeared in the magazine Juvenile Miscellany in 1830 and later that year in the book by Hale, Poems for Our Children.… Read More

San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, Printers, 1863, 1863. One corner chipped; in fine condition.. 14.5 x 26 cm, lithographed with two vignettes; the text is in several different typefaces. An early Bret Harte autograph document. Before he became famous as the author of short stories about the California Gold Rush and editor of Anton Roman's Overland Monthly, Harte worked in numerous other jobs in and around San Francisco, including as a secretary for mining companies, of which this document is an unusual example.

San Francisco: Printed at the Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864, 1864. First edition. BAL 7237; Cowan, page 595. Wrappers a little dust-soiled, but essentially a fine copy.. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 31 pages. An eight-stanza poem written for the 14th anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers that juxtaposes the calmness of California to the violence of the Civil War in the Eastern states. "Poem" is one of Harte's earliest appearances in print, three years before his first book.

Edinburgh: Printed by William Adams Junior. Sold by Booksellers of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, 1723, 1723. First and only edition. ESTC 140711. Early ink doodles in the margin of the title-page; some light foxing; fine, large copy.. 4to, modern dark blue half morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt rules and lettering, t.e.g. A re-examination of the history of Elizabeth Mure (1320-1355), the Countess of Strathearn, Athol and the wife of Robert II, King of Scots (1316-1390). It was generally alleged and believed that she was Robert's mistress for at least ten years prior to their marriage; that all their children were therefore born out of wedlock and were only legitimated in 1347 when Robert received a Papal dispensation for their late marriage. Hay attempts to prove that their marriage actually occurred several years earlier. Robert reign as king was late in his life, from 1371-84, which saw some calm after several tumultuous decades. An attractive and scarce example of early 18th century… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley, 1807, 1807. First edition. Keynes 3; NCBEL III, 1231. Contents leaves misbound after page 16 of the text; some light foxing; spine slightly faded; very good copy.. 8vo, later green half morocco by Tout, marbled paper boards and matching endpapers, gilt decorations and lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. William Hazlitt's third book, an abridgment of the magnum opus of 18th century English philosopher Abraham Tucker (1705-1774). The Light of Nature Pursued was first published over ten years (1768-78) in seven volumes., under the pseudonym Edward Search, Esq. Esher armorial bookplate on the front paste-down.

London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman, 1813, 1813. First edition. NCBEL III, 734 (which cites the date as 1825); Blakey, Minerva Press, page 241 (but apparently did not locate a copy to examine); OCLC records nine copies; Colbert; ODNB. Some browning and spots, but a fine copy overall.. 12mo, modern brown wrappers and printed paper label, 176 pages, untrimmed. Folding copper engraved frontispiece by Charles Heath. With half-title. The first of several imaginary travelogues for young adults by Barbara Hofland (1770-1844), the prolific novelist who never traveled out of England. The young traveler was 13-year-old Frederic, who accompanied his uncle on a tour of Northern Europe, and wrote to his friend Charles back home about the sights of Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and Leyden, with historical background about the palaces, churches, museums and people. The folding frontispiece is an eerie depiction of the interior of an iron mine, with miners at… Read More

London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825, 1825. First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds, and Yale) and six of the first issue (BL, Bodleian, Harvard, NYPL, Texas & Yale). Edges a little worn; some foxing; cancel-title just starting, but sound; very good copy.. 12mo, contemporary brown half cloth, marbled paper boards, gilt decorations. The youthful and rare first novel by friend, comrade, acolyte, and later memorialist of the Romantics, Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792-1862). Prince Alexy is an animated tale that shows the influence of Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, William Beckford and Voltaire, among others, in its philosophical, picaresque narrative about the life of a Russian prince, who travels the world seeking truth about love, education and governance. The novel also shows the… Read More

Cambridge: Published by Hilliard and Brown, 1830, 1830. First editions. Currier & Tilton, Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, pages 14-17; Sabin 14407.; OCLC records nine copies. Binding a little faded and worn; some foxing; very good copy.. Six numbers [all published] in one volume, small quarto, original purple pebbled cloth, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering. A complete run of a rare Harvard undergraduate literary magazine that contains 22 poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of his first substantial contributions to a publication of any kind. 15 of the poems were not reprinted again until 1975. The other contributions include essays, sketches, poetry and reviews by a host of Harvard students, including Epes Sargent and John Lothrop Motley.

London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848, 1848. First edition. OCLC records five copies (Duke, Columbia, Monash and London Library). Ex-library markings at the foot of the title-page; edges a little rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, contemporary (probably original) purple morocco, decoratively blind-stamped, gilt lettering, a.e.g. 16 plates (eight color). An elaborate attempt to defend a literal interpretation of the Bible in the form of an eccentric attack on Charles Empson, who had apparently traveled to Egypt and had written about his findings there in connection with the scripture. Several of the plates are finely hand-colored renditions of Egyptian motifs, and the remaining plates are fine etching of Biblical scenes. About Mrs. Housman not a great deal is known, other than she was from Bath and published several other titles on similar themes, including such works as A Writing or Declaration from the Law Book, to Obliterate the House of the Revolver, or Solar System [1821] and Letter to Dr. Spry in… Read More

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. Cloth a little worn at the edges; very good copy.. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.

In very good condition.. Single sheet folded to make four 20 x 13 cm pages. "Dear Sir: It falls to me, in Mr. Fields's absence, to thank you for your poem, which I'm sorry to have come a day or two too late for our September number. It will be printed in October, however, and I will send you a proof as soon as it is in type. Very truly yours, W. D. Howells / Mr. Whittier."

Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885, 1885. First edition. BAL 9619, state 1; Wright III, 2829. Edges slightly worn; faint stain on the upper board; nearly fine copy.. 8vo, original decorated gray-green cloth, gilt lettering. ¶ Howells' most famous novel, and one of the cornerstone works of American realistic fiction, the story of the newly rich businessman, Silas Lapham, his frustrations in dealing with Boston brahmins and his rise and eventual tragic fall.

London: Sold by J. Ridley, G. Kearsly and W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1766, 1766. Fifth edition; first published in London in 1760. ESTC T12472. First and final leaf a little dust-soiled; very good copy.. 8vo, disbound, 39 pages. A widely reprinted tract by the Quaker minister Sophia Hume (1702-1774), who was born and bred in luxury in Charleston, South Carolina, but cast off her material lifestyle and converted to the Quaker view in 1740. Like many of her religious tracts, in A Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times she delivers a jeremiad against sinful pathways and false religiosity that she herself experienced as a young woman in Charleston.

London: Printed by W. B. for A. Millar; Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer, 1764, 1764. Second edition, published the same year as the first. ESTC N3140; not found in NCBEL. A little dust soiling and smudges in the text; fine copy.. 8vo, modern brown quarter calf period style, marbled paper boards, red morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering, untrimmed. Original wrappers bound in. An entertaining imaginary conversation between Anthony Ashley, the third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) on the benefits of travel to Europe - i.e., the Grand Tour - which was popular with the youth of the upper classes. Hurd (1720-1808) was a literary critic and the editor of William Warburton, Jeremy Taylor and Abraham Cowley. He was later the Bishop of Worcester.