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[Hafod, Ceredigion, Wales]: At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1807. The last book in the Froissart Chronicles, the so-called volume 5, and containing the index for the prior books, however, Memoirs was issued five years after the earlier volumes and was the last book to be issued by this early Welsh private press. Contains a hand-colored frontispiece, and as with other Hafod titles, an engraved vignette title of Johnes's estate. 4to. [5], 221pp., [3]. Plomer, Some Private Presses of the Nineteenth Century (The Library, pgs. 407-08, 1900). Very good in contemporary dice calf, all edges marbled, bookplate of Lord Northwick, some rubbing to joints and boards, minor age toning.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833. Very good with some rubbing to corners and spine, prior owner name in each volume, some pages unopened.. Pleasant five volume set bound in blue gilt half leather over red marbled boards, top edge gilt. 5 vol. 16mo. Volumes I to IV from 1832. Volume V from 1833. xxiv, 347pp., [1]; xxxix, 319pp., [1]; xvi, 333pp., [1], xiii, [3] + 328pp.; xxxviii, 309pp., [1].

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1786. Paper wrappers, chipped and soiled throughout, with paper over spine missing and front wrap almost off. Lightly ex-library otherwise good.. An Early American imprint. Sabin 39326; Evans 19755. Small 8vo. [1], viii, 132 pp.

London: William Pickering, 1851. Very good in the original wavy-grain textured green cloth without no spine label and a small patch of fading at the head of the upper cover.. First Edition. Based on the author's research into Druid temples on her native British island of Jersey. This work includes the perhaps more influential poem "The Dying Druid" by R.A. Davenport: ". . . this little poem . . . published some years ago in a periodical work." A relatively obscure then, as now, Ainsworth's Magazine's reviewer writes "the versification is melodious, and the thoughts with which the poem abounds are full of grace and purity." Small 8vo. xi, [1]-156pp. Black, Druids and Druidism, pg. 10. Hutton, Blood & Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain.

London: Printed at the Minerva Press for Lane, Newman, and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1807. About good in well-worn blue paper board with spine label with substantial loss, hinges loose, prior owner name to title page, some soiling and dog-eared pages, but contents generally clean. Nevertheless desirable as a very scarce item.. Scarce Minerva Press imprint of two travel works. Curiously, apart from the Minerva title page, this volume seems identical to Volume XXII of Mavor's Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of Columbus to the present period . . . (1801), even containing the same pagination, printer imprint, and volume numbering (as Minerva was known to place their imprint on those of other publishers). 12mo. [viii], [1]-318. Frontispiece and engravings at pgs. 93 and 265. Not in Blakey. Not is McLeod. Two copies located on Worldcat as of February 2021 (Yale and NLS).

1715. Very good, bound in 19th century half leather with loss to the spine.. Signed by Leslie at the conclusion. Leslie was the leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution and is best remembered today for his role in publicizing the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe 16pp. ESTC T113238.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1873. New Edition. Three-quarter leather with over green marbled paper. A pleasing copy in three quarter leather with some wear to leather, particular at the hinges, which are starting, otherwise very good.. The "New Edition" includes 18 full page unpaginated plates by the esteemed "Phiz". Rather scarce in commerce compared to the first edition. 8vo. [11], 470pp. + 18 leaves of plates. See Sadleir 1408a for Smith, Elder printing of 1872, being the first new edition/first illustrated.

London: Chapman And Hall, 1865. First Edition. A good plus copy with has bumping and wear to spine, fading to spine, and contents clean but a few gatherings loose.. First edition. Illustrated throughout with 30 plates by the venerable Victorian-era illustrator Phiz. In publisher's plus sand-grain clothing in blind and gilt. 8vo. Frontispiece and engraved title, vii, [1], 503, [1]. Wolff 4092. Sadleir 1409 (primary binding).

London: D. N. Shury, for J.F. Hughes, 1805. First Edition. Very good in later speckled calf with gilt edges and spine, marbled endpapers, minor browning to a few pages and endpapers, but generally clean and tight, housed in a marbled slipcase.. First edition of Monk Lewis's translation, from the German, of Zschokke's sensational gothic romance Abällino, der grosse Bandit, first published in 1793. In Coleridge's view, this work exhibited the "wonder of effects produced by supernatural power, without the means," and the plot follows the adventures of a banished and starving aristocrat who seeks employment as a hired assassin. 8vo. viii, 340pp., [4, errata and ads]. Wolff 4113. NCBEL III, 743. Summers, pg. 252 (noting a few copies contain an 1804 date on the title page, this copy with 1805). Thomson, Voller, and Frank, pg. 254.

New York: Appleton and Company, 1854. Good in publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt-stamped spine, hinges starting, cloth rubbed and worn, with significant spine lean, damp-staining, and scattered foxing throughout.. First Edition. Scarce work of a minor nineteenth-century American author, set in upstate New York. Among the odd plot lines present is the heroine's scoundrelous father uses her in a money counterfeiting scheme. The Western Literary Messenger in 1855 called it "a genial and wholesome romance." 8vo. 2 vols. [2], 359pp.; [2], 360pp. Wright II, 1554.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First Edition. Very good in publisher's mottled-grey printed wrappers with some browning to wrappers and chafing to upper corner (where it appears some penciling was erased).. First edition. Lytton Strachey's copy, with his faded penciled ownership signature to the head of the upper wrapper and with his Dora Carrington-designed bookplate to the verso. Shortly before theirs deaths in 1932, Carrington wrote in her journal, "As I stuck the book plates in with Lytton I suddenly thought of Sothebys and the book plates in some books I had looked at, when Lytton was bidding for a book and I thought: These books will one day be looked at by those gloomy faced booksellers and buyers. And suddenly a premonition of a day when these labels will no longer (be) in this library came over me. I longed to ask Lytton not to stick in any more." Anne Chisholm, ed. Carrington's Letters Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships. 8vo. [2], 2-24pp. Wise 63 (noting 2,000 copies were printed and… Read More