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Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1819, 1819. First edition. NCBEL III, 1463. Fine copy.. 8vo, original plain blue wrappers, [16] pages, a.e.g. Engraved title-page. The first book by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59), a 13-page poem of 280 stanzas on the popular classical subject, Pompeii and its famous destruction. Like many first books by noted English authors, Pompeii was a prize poem, which Macaulay delivered at the Cambridge commencement July, 1819. When copies of Pompeii were bound, the handsome engraved title-page , present here, was often discarded. This copy also has the unusual distinction of having all the edges gilt, including the edges of the wrappers, which is perhaps the case on all copies in the wrappers?

Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Vernor and Hood, 1800, 1800. First edition. ESTC T96380; NCBEL II, 2028; not in Garside and Schöwerling. Text a bit foxed and smudged; very good copy.. 8vo, modern brown half morocco, marbled paper boards, black label, gilt lettering, untrimmed. With half-title. An autobiographical novel by Scottish poet Hector MacNeill (1746-1818) who was sent to the West Indies as a young man in hopes that he would find a vocation as a sailor, but he eventually returned to Scotland and authorship. These memoirs follow Charles MacPherson to the West Indies in his quest for employment and in the process he comments at length on the customs of the islands and in particular "the nature, treatment and possible improvement of the negro in the British and French West India Islands."

London: Chatto and Windus, 1877, 1877. First edition. Sadleir 1527; NCBEL III, 1066; cf. Wolff 4415, who had the third edition. Edges a little worn; hinges on volume one starting, but sound; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, original decorated gray cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 36-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1877 in volume one. The first novel by William Hurrell Mallock, a famous Peacockian roman à clef, written while Mallock was an undergraduate at Oxford, which brings together under one roof several poets, philosophers, critics, and dilettantes to discuss the problems of religion, society and the arts. Many of the characters are thinly based on well-known persons, including Huxley, Ruskin, Carlyle, Arnold, Pater, Ouida, and Violet Fane (to whom the novel is dedicated). "The most successful conversation novel of the period . . . Mallock's epigrammatic satire on liberalism, radicalism and cant plays freely over the ensuing talk and talkers. It ends inconclusively with the… Read More

London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1742, 1742. Fourth edition; the first was published in 1709. NCBEL II, 1096; ESTC T57159. Text somewhat smudged and soiled; some minor chips and tears to the margins; a few faint damp-stains; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary calf with gilt rules and raised bands. An interesting variation on the courtesy book in ten dialogues between Lucinda, the elderly spinster aunt, and Antonia, her niece, in which Bernard Mandeville explores matrimony, child bearing, women's sexuality and happiness. The first dialogue begins with the aunt admonishing her niece for wearing a dress that reveals so much of her cleavage: She tells her: "Women, in strictness, should never appear in Public but veil'd; at least Young Women should never shew their Faces to any Men, but their nearest Relations." Mandeville (1670-1733) was a master of the dialogue form and used it most successfully in his Fable of the Bees. Scholars have made a case that the elderly aunt is based on English author Mary… Read More

London: Printed for John Barber and Sold by Benj. Tooke, Henry Clements and John Walthoe, 1717, 1717. First edition. ESTC T38771; NCBEL II, 767. First and final leaves a bit smudged; early paper repair to the lower margin of the verso of the title-page; very good copy.. 4to, 19th century half vellum, marbled paper boards, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering. The last of three plays by Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), who was well known for her roman à clef fictionalized memoirs. The is plot is loosely based on the reign of Lucius, the last king of Rome, and his powerful wife Queen Rosalinda, who lives to triumph over the schemes of numerous evildoers. Manley dedicated the play to Richard Steele, who paid her £600 for the right to produce it. As well, he wrote a preface "expressing my gratitude to the Ladies," and prologue. The epilogue is by Matthew Prior. Bound for T. Connolly, Bookseller of Dublin, with his booksellers' ticket on the front paste-down.

New York: Harper & Brothers, MDCCCLXIII [for 1843], 1843. First edition in book form, preceded by an edition in parts. BAL 13632; Wright I, 1837; American Imprints 43-3398. Cloth a little worn; some light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering. Printed in double columns. The selected works of popular and respected Knickerbocker writer Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889), editor, poet, novelist and collaborator with Evert Duyckinck in founding the periodical Arcturus: Journal of Books and Opinions, among many other literary accomplishments. Perry Miller in The Raven and the Whale (1956) described Mathews as "almost the only man of letters outside of New England who gave serious thought to the problem of the new direction in which an American artist might develop, who sought vistas untenanted by Irving, Bryant and Cooper. To this end Mathews wrote essays, short stories, poems, novels, and plays, each of which has a uniquely American flavor" - as quoted in the DAB. A… Read More

London: Printed for A. Bell, W. Taylor and J. Baker, 1715, 1715. First edition. NCBEL II, 1709 (Oldmixon). Edges a little rubbed; upper joint starting, but sound; slight worming in the margins of the first 45 leaves (text not affected); very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, five raised bands. A memoir of politician and author Arthur Maynwaring (1668-1712), whose "influence among both politicians and writers was great" (DNB), including Addison, Steele, Congreve and Vanbrugh. The versatile John Oldmixon was the editor and author of the memoir, which includes poems, a dialogue, odes, prologues, epilogues, a fable and essays.

London: Printed by A. Paris, for J. Egerton, W. Richardson, and Fletcher and Hanwell, Oxford, 1794, 1794. First edition. NCBEL II, 674; ESTC T43580, which describes two issues, one with a dated title-page and one without. Edges a little rubbed; some light to moderate foxing; very good copy.. 4to, later catspaw calf, red morocco spine labels, gilt decorations and lettering. Frontis portrait. Seven-page list of subscribers. With half-title. The selected works of William Julius Mickle (1734-88), Scottish poet, translator and miscellaneous author, published by subscription for the benefit of his son. The works are preceded by a memoir of Mickle, which is interspersed with correspondence between Mickle and George Lyttleton. See the ODNB. Ink inscription dated 1946 on the front blank.

London: Hutchinson & Co., [1891-1897], 1891. First edition, limited issue, number 45 of 110 numbered copies. Cited numerous times in NCBEL III under the individual poets. Some slight wear, soiling and small cracks and wrinkles in the vellum; in very good condition.. 10 vols, small 8vo, original white parchment, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. An exemplary poetical anthology, covering the whole of 19th century English poetry, more or less chronologically, from Crabbe, William Blake and the Romantics to Meynell, Le Gallienne, Bridges, Yeats and the poets of the 1890s. It is, as Miles states in the preface, an "Encyclopedia of Modern Poetry." Each entry is preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author, many of which were written by contributors other than the compiler, viz: Richard Garnett, J.A. Symonds, Cosmo Monkhouse, Alexander Japp, Arthur Symons, Yeats, Le Gallienne, Buxton Forman, Robert Bridges, et al. Among the many notable entries is Gerard Manley Hopkins' first appearance in… Read More

San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1952, 1952. First edition, one of 129 copies signed by the printer, artist and translator. Fine copy.. 4to, original black buckram and printed paper spine label. Vignette title and 21 aluminum etchings by Edward Hagedorn. A handsomely printed and illustrated selection of the poems of poet Oscar Venceslas Lubiz-Milosz (1877-1939), who though Lithuanian by birth wrote in the language of his adopted country, France. The text of the poems, in both French and English, is preceded by an interesting introduction about Milosz by poet Kenneth Rexroth. This was the fifth book printed by Henry Evans at his Peregrine Press in San Francisco and one of several collaborations he did with artist Edward Hagedorn.

Lambeth: Printed (For Private Distribution Only) at the Author's Private Press, 1829, 1829. First edition. NCBEL III, 1134; Copac records two copies (BL and Cambridge); OCLC adds Aberdeen and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Edges rubbed; very good copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary black morocco, skillfully rebacked, gilt decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Frontis portrait of the author after a portrait by R. Reading. Bound in before the portrait is a ten-page manuscript of Monceieff's poem "An Allegory," signed and dated September 20, 1845. A collection of about 100 poems in several forms by the playwright, theatre manager, miscellaneous writer and apparently occasional printer, as well. William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857) was a self-described "hack," and a prolific one, who specialized in adapting novels for the stage and who made what little money he could in theatre and literary work of any kind. A few years after this volume was published, Moncrieff began struggling with progressive blindness.… Read More

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1759, 1759. First edition. Gaskell, Foulis Press, 372. Edges just slightly rubbed; fine copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, black morocco label, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Half-title present. Three essays by James Moor, the most substantial of which is an interpretation of Plato's "Dialogue of Cebes" entitled "Essay on the Composition of the Picture Described in the Dialogue of Cebes." Contemporary bookplate of W. Danby on the front paste-down, with his signature above the plate.

Philadelphia: Issued by John M. Wolff, Stationer, [n.d., but circa 1855-60], 1855. An early broadside edition., and the first separately printed edition that identified Moore as the author. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas, A Descriptive Bibliography, 25; noted under BAL 14346: "An undated broadside, printed in blue and red, was issued ca. 1842 by John M. Wolff, Philadelphia.". Tears in the lower margin skillfully repaired; edges slightly worn; very good copy.. Broadside, 41 x 28 cm, title and text printed in red and blue within a decorative border with of a leafy-vine motif printed in red, surrounded by a double-line border printed in blue. An attractive broadside edition of Clement Moore's famous poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas, familiarly known as "The Night before Christmas," printed for Philadelphia stationer John M. Wolff. The imprint on the broadside does not contain a date; BAL and others have speculated that the date was circa 1842; others still, the AAS catalogue record included,… Read More

London: Printed by James Flesher, 1668, 1668. First edition, one of two issues. ESTC R17163; Wing M2650; NCBEL I, 2335. Title-page a little dust-soiled; some smudges in the text; edges and spine skillfully repaired; very good copy.. 12mo, contemporary sprinkled calf rebacked to style, red leather spine label, gilt lettering. Title-page in red and black. A philosophical-theological discussion in three dialogues between Cuphophron, Hylobares, Philopolis, Sophron and other Greek-named interlocutors by the poet, theologian and philosopher Henry More (1614-1687), published under the pseudonym Franciscus Evistor Palaeopolitanus, though in this earlier issue only the initials F. P. are on the title-page. Among the subjects discussed is the validity of the verses of Lucretius.

Dublin: Printed for C. Lewis, [1805], 1805. Stated "Third Edition" on the title-page. See Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 1809-1828; not in NCBEL. Fine copy.. 12mo, disbound, 43 pages. With half-title. In 1804, Miss Sydney Owenson (1775/6-1859), aspiring Irish novelist, poet and socialite (and later Lady Morgan) became embroiled in pamphlet war that began with the publication of Familiar Epistles on the Present State of the Irish Stage, anonymously published, but attributed to John Wilson Croker. It satirized and questioned the talents of favorite Irish actors and stage managers, of which Sydney Owenson's father, Robert Owenson, was one. Known as "Croker's Epistles," it spawned a host of responses, enlargements and ripostes, including Owenson's A Few Reflections . . . On the Present State of the Irish Stage (1804). In 1805 Cutchacutchoo, or The Jostling of the Innocents appeared. Modeled on "Crocker's Epistles," it aimed its lively and sharp pen at prominent society ladies of Dublin, with… Read More

New York: Linen and Fennell, 1841, 1841. First edition. BAL 14357 (Morris), 997 (Park Benjamin), 1166 (Robert Montgomery Bird), etc.; American Imprints 41-3619. Some light foxing; edges skillfully repaired; very good copy.. 16mo, original gilt- and blind-stamped red morocco, gilt lettering, a.e.g. Frontis, engraved title and two plates. An important anthology of American poetry that includes early and first appearances by Emma Willard, Albert Pike, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Simms, ad infinitum - and the first version of the most famous of American songs, Robert Montgomery Bird's "God Bless America." On the front free endpaper is an inscription to another American poet "H. T. Tuckerman / from the Publishers." Tuckerman (1813-1871) was a widely published poet and literary critic and one of the great men of letters of his era. See BAL and the DAB. 19th century bookplate on the front paste-down of C. B. Tillinghast.

[London: Privately printed by John Murray, 1824.], 1824. First edition. NCBEL III, 297; Chew, Byron in England, page 211. Fine copy.. 8vo, modern red morocco, gilt lettering. A rare privately printed pamphlet by Byron's publisher John Murray, compiled and written in response to Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron at Pisa (1824), which was notorious for its inaccuracies. Chew describes Medwin's work as a "trumpery affair, giving a fairly amiable impression of Byron, but full of errors and frivolities . . . the whole testimony of Medwin, unless corroborated by reliable persons elsewhere, is worthless." Among those Medwin succeeded in offending was John Murray, who responded by quoting directly from Byron's letters in his possession in the "deadly parallel" format, and in the process revealed interesting publication details about Byron's books and life. The self-wrappers title-page, which did not bear an imprint, lacks the upper and lower blank margins, which have been skillfully… Read More