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(Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1791), 1791. OCLC records four copies, Newberry Library, NYPL and two in Europe. Creases from old folds; a little soiled; very good copy.. Bifolium, 25 x 19.5 cm, 4 pages. Large engraved floral headpiece with "No. 250" printed next to it. Seal of Louis XVI stamped in red ink above the imprint on page four. The official publication of a law issued by the newly established National Constituent Assembly that commended and awarded pensions to those, mainly commoners, who sacrificed their lives or were wounded in the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, one of the seminal events in Western history that marked the beginning of the French Revolution and the end of the Ancien Régime. The awards of pensions are separated into categories, e.g.: the wounded, crippled, widows, etc. One of the categories is devoted to the heroism of a woman, Marie Charpentier "who distinguished herself . . . fighting with men and showing great courage." A document celebrating those… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al., 1803, 1803. First edition. Cloth a little worn; some scattered foxing; very good copy.. 2 vols in 1, small 8vo, 19th century blue-green pebbled cloth, gilt lettering. Frontispieces. 26-page list of subscribers. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine, and poems to David Garrick, Charles Churchill, Lord Chesterfield, William Cowper, Philip Thicknesse, and Edmund Burke, among others. The poems previously appeared in self-published broadsides and periodicals. In 1810 Rickman published an Elegy to the Memory of Thomas Paine and in 1819 an important biography of Paine.

London: Printed for R. Triphood, 1810, 1810. First complete edition, preceded by the first edition of 1784; in 1795 there was a second edition that both added and subtracted material; this 1810 edition restores the original text of 1784, the additions of 1795 and adds two parts with new material. NCBEL II, 1764; Bronson, Joseph Ritson, Scholar-at-Arms, pages 756-57. Paper with scattered light browning; a fine copy with wide margins.. 8vo, modern dark purple morocco by Philip Dusel, gilt decorations and lettering. A collection of famous children's rhymes, first compiled by Joseph Ritson in 1784. Ritson (1752-1803) the antiquary was interested in the "folklore of the nursery" (Bronson) and brought together 75 rhymes in Gammer Gurton, based in part on the famous Mother Goose's Melody, also published in 1784, but there are several well known rhymes in Gammer Gurton not in Mother Goose, including "London Bridge is Broken Down," "There was an old woman, she liv'd in a shoe," "The Man in the Moon came… Read More

London: Printed for E. Symon, J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1723, 1723. First edition. ESTC N9868. First and final leaves a little dust-soiled; very good copy.. 8vo, disbound, 79 pages. Half-title present. A translation and adaptation of Racine's La Thébaide. The anonymous dedication states "This tragedy was writ by a young lady, and entrusted to my management . . . The four first acts are taken chiefly from Racine; but the last is (excepting a few lines) entirely new." The Fatal Legacy had a short run at Lincolns-Inn Fields, with Anthony and Anna Maria Seymour Boheme in starring roles. It is apparently the only publication by Jane Robe, about whom little else is recorded. The attribution to Robe comes from Allardyce Nicoll's A History of English Drama.

Gardiner, Maine: Printed for the Author, 1896, 1896. First edition, one of 312 copies privately printed. Wrappers skillfully repaired at the spine; some light foxing; fine copy, enclosed in clamshell case.. 12mo, original printed blue wrappers (text loose in wrappers, two-inch split at the heel of the spine, occasional light foxing), 44 pages. Edwin Arlington Robinson's scarce first book, a collection of 43 poems written between 1889 and 1896. The manuscript was rejected by commercial publishers and Robinson resorted to self-publishing it in an edition of 312 copies, which he distributed to friends and family; none were for sale. Of the original 312 copies, only 56 (including this copy) were located in Carl J. Weber's census in 1947 (Colby College Library Quarterly). An early presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page to "W. R. Gay / From E. A. Robinson / 7 December 1896." There are only two recorded copies with an earlier presentation (both dated December 4), and three others are known to have… Read More

London: probably 1791 or after, 1791. Cf. Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the Caricaturist (London: Chatto and Windus, 1880), volume I, pages 292-93; additionally two sets of the aquatint prints of these images are recorded sold at auction (Anderson Galleries in 1920 and Dominic Winter in 2005). One frame is chipped and in need of minor restoration; overall in very good condition.. Oil on wood panels, in early or contemporary frames, approximately 39.5 x 37 cm each. Two oil paintings after caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson, depicting tailors comically struggling with their patrons. The caricatures were produced as a pair of aquatint prints, published by S. W. Flores, 3 Piccadilly, dated 18 May, 1791, and are described in Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the Caricaturist (London: Chatto and Windus, 1880), volume I, pages 292-93; additionally two sets of the aquatint prints are recorded sold at auction (Anderson Galleries in 1920 and Dominic Winter in 2005). Provenance: a manuscript label on the verso of A Little… Read More