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

In fine condition.. Single sheet folded to make four 24 x 19 cm pages, approximately 1,000 words. A letter from 21-year-old Julia White Peck (1829-1859) to her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Marsh of St. Louis, Missouri. Julia was about to travel to Turkey to serve as a Christian missionary with her fiancé, Rev. Dwight Marsh, who was stationed in Mosul (then part of Turkey). Her knowledge of Turkey came from the letters she had received from Dwight Marsh and conversations with a missionary, Thomas Laurie, who had recently returned to New York from Turkey. She expresses concern about "mingling with oppressed and degraded beings . . . a people whose habits and morals are so much inferior to ours." She had been told of "the moral degradation, the deceitfulness, ingratitude of the Arabs, of the low condition of our own sex. Oh it is a dark picture and one which makes a woman cling to the delightful privilege of her own sweet home in America." But, she writes, she will persevere in her work on behalf… Read More

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801, 1801. First edition. Rothschild 1553; NCBEL II, 1595. Edges a little rubbed; some light foxing; very good copy.. 2 vols, 4to, contemporary half calf, blue paste-paper boards, red morocco spine labels, gilt rules and lettering. Frontis portrait. Without the half-titles and eight-page publisher's catalogue in volume two, but with the four pages of Stockdale's proposal for the publication of maps. A sweeping chronological history of the world in 540 pages, from the birth of Christ to 1800, told in the entertaining, informal style of Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821). Retrospection was written and published to celebrate (and profit from) the turn of the century, for which Piozzi proposed a £1,000 advance. John Stockdale agreed to her terms, but Retrospection was not a commercial success. It is an early example of a history of the world by a woman - though not the first. It took Piozzi at least five years to complete.

London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789, 1789. First edition. ESTC T71718; Rothschild 1551; Pine-Coffin 784-5; Robinson, Wayward Women, page 243. Edges and boards a little rubbed and worn; light foxing to the prelims; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary red half calf, blue paper boards, marbled endpapers, green leather spine labels, gilt rules and lettering. Six pages of publisher's advertisements in volume two. In 1784 Hester Lynch Thrale (1741-1821), the famous friend and confidante of Samuel Johnson, married an Italian musician, Gabriel Mario Piozzi, and they soon set off for Europe, where they traveled for three years, which she artfully chronicled in one of the most entertaining accounts of the Grand Tour. Written in an informal conversational style, Observations and Reflections is "alive with present-tense immediacy, to erode the barriers between diary and travel narrative. Her delight in Piozzi and in Italy was everywhere apparent in the materials she included in this… Read More

London: Printed by David, Wilks, and Taylor for J. Mawman, 1801, 1801. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1801: 57; JISC (Copac) records four copies in the British Isles; OCLC records three copies in North America. The binding is professionally executed by Canterbury Bookbinders; the text is in fine condition.. 12mo, modern blue-green buckram, gilt lettering, untrimmed. A scarce and clever epistolary novel by Annabella Plumptre (1761-1838), the younger sister of novelist, translator and traveler Anne Plumptre (1760-1818). The Plumptre sisters were raised in an eurdite family and began their parallel careers as writers early in life. The Western Mail tells the story of George____________ who robbed the mail to pay his debts and relieve his family of their destitute circumstances. He was eventually caught, found guilty and paid the ultimate price at Hounslow Heath. Some years later his family again found themselves in difficult circumstances and looked to the bag of letters their father… Read More

Amsterdam: Engraved by J. Houbraken for J. & P. Knapton, London, 1747, 1747. Wimsatt, Portraits of Alexander Pope, 66.15. Two abrasions to the margins of the lower half of the image; two tears in the lower blank margin; a good example.. 46 x 31 cm (sheet), 35 x 22 cm (image). One of many famous portraits of the great poet of the Augustan age, Alexander Pope. This truncated engraved version of Van Loo's oil portrait is surrounded by an elaborate allegorical scene, depicting Britannia with classical references. This engraving was made in Amsterdam for Thomas Birch's Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, volume 2.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1783, 1783. First and only edition. ESTC T2862; Courtney, page 139; NCBEL II, 1153. Spine skillfully rebacked; fine, large copy.. 4to, 19th century maroon half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait of Thomas Gray after a drawing by Potter. With half-title. An essay on Samuel Johnson's treatment of poets in his famous Lives of the English Poets, which evolves into a close examination of Johnson's discussion of Thomas Gray's lyric poetry. Robert Potter (1721-1804) was a clergyman, translator and poet himself (see the ODNB), who pays respect to Johnson, but thinks many of his comments about certain poets, Gray among them, are too severe and in some cases unnecessarily caustic. The essay on Johnson and Gray is followed by Potter's translation of the Ninth Pythian Ode of Pindar. Contemporary ink signature of "L. Cautley Jes: Coll" on the half-title and title-page.

Bristol: Albion Press: Printed by Wansbrough and Saunders, 1821, 1821. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 262. Edges a little worn; but overall a fine copy in original state.. 8vo, original tan boards and printed paper label. Eight-page list of subscribers. Poems centering on the ancient history of Bristol and its surroundings by a woman who was apparently a local. The Albion Press flourished in Bristol for about 12 years, circa 1818-1830. Attractive contemporary stylized signature and small sketch on the title-page.