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London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by Messrs. Wilkie, [1787], 1787. First edition. ESTC N25028 records two copies (Yale and HEH); COPAC adds BL; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 286. Frontis lightly foxed; fine copy.. 12mo, period-style tan paper spine and marbled boards by Philip Dusel, untrimmed. Frontispiece. Eight-page list of subscribers. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's fiction, notably The Little Family, published in 1797, and Edmund, a Tale for Children, in 1802, but little else about her appears to be known. This substantial collection of 70 poems is quite polished. Most are domestic in theme, but several show a passionate awareness of poverty and social injustice. There are also four poems written to or about author and philanthropist Jonas Hanway (1712-1786), apparently a family friend. And there is a poem on at least one other notable subject: "On Reading an Advertisement of a New Invented Method to Walk in the Air": "No more… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834, 1834. First edition. Wright I, 2276; Sabin 76442; American Imprints 26627. Cloth faded and a little worn; some foxing; very good copy.. 2 vols, 4to, original tan linen and printed paper labels. Frontis portrait. The selected writings of prominent member of the New York literati during the Knickerbocker era, Robert C. Sands (1799-1832), who, among other things, founded the Atlantic Magazine and edited the New York Review with William Cullen Bryant. Included here are his main works of fiction, an interesting essay on American literature, selection of his verse and a brief biography of Sands by another member of the Knickerbocker scene, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786-1870). This copy is additionally an interesting association copy; from the library of American author and journalist James Lawson (1799-1880), friend and collaborator with many New York writers of the period. Lawson's signature on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a clipping of an obituary of Sands by… Read More

London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760, 1760. First and only edition; there was a reissue in 1861 with a cancel title. ESTC T136422; NCBEL II, 640. Title-page a little stained and foxed, with a small piece torn from the lower corner; text a little foxed; very good copy. Uncommon.. 8vo, modern blue half morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt lettering. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie. Ink signature of Jas. French, dated 1764, on the title-page.

London: Printed and Sold by H. Herringman, D. Newman, T. Cockerel, S. Heyrick, W. Cadman, S. Loundes, G. Marriot, W. Crook and C. Smith, 1678, 1678. First complete translation in English of the five parts, preceded by their separate publications beginning in 1655. ESTC R19972; Wing S2156. A few smudges and small paper repairs, but overall a fine, large copy.. Folio in fours, recent panelled calf period style, maroon morocco spine label, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait and folding map. One of the famous rambling, lengthy novels by Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701), a prominent, popular and prolific writer in 17th century France. She mastered the dialogue format, as well as fiction, and left a large body of philosophical dialogues on the moral virtues of the aristocratic world. Many of those related subjects (sociability, marriage, honor, decency, politeness, friendship, love and gender) are woven into the dialogue in Célie, set in ancient Rome. One character reflects on marriage: "It is more… Read More

[London]: Reprinted for Thomas Evans, [1775], 1775. First Evans edition. ESTC T138089; Jaggard, page 435 ("Perhaps edited by E. Cappell"); Lowndes, page 2308. Slight wear to the edges of the binding, otherwise a fine, handsome copy in contemporary state, about as nice a copy as one could ask for.. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label, gilt decorations and lettering. Engraved portrait on the title-page by Alexander Bannerman. An attractive 18th century edition of Shakespeare's poems, printed in a style similar to E. Cappell's 1767-68 edition of the Works and sometimes thought to be intended as a supplement to that edition. This edition preserves the order (and the doubtful poems) of the 1640 edition and adds an index.

London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888, 1888. First and only edition: "Of this Book Twenty-five Copies have been printed." There were also apparently three copies printed on vellum, as noted in one OCLC record. Fine copy.. Small 4to, original printed tan paper boards, untrimmed. An essay on Shelley's faith, which concludes "Just as Religion is above all creeds, dogmas and theologies whatsoever so was Shelley's Faith above those articles and doctrines which many accept in place of Religion. Shelley's Faith was in the Eternal Goodness, in the Eternal Truth, and in Eternal Love." W. Kineton Parkes (1865-1938) was a novelist, art historian and librarian who had some involvement with the Pre-Raphaelites and compiled an interesting anthology entitled Painter Poets. His Shelley's Faith was probably first read as a paper, possibly before the Shelley Society, though that is not so stated. This publication has the earmarks of the involvement of T. J. Wise, but the stated limitation may not be as… Read More

[N.p., n.p.,] April 5, [1779], 5177. See the ODNB for Sheridan and Henderson. In fine condition.. Small ticket, 7.5 x 12 cm, printed in red, on the recto only, window-mounted on paper stock. Initialed by Sheridan in the lower right corner. In the mid 1750s, actor Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) began delivering a series of public lectures on spoken English to promote his published discourses on the English language, education, theater and his second career as a orthoepist and educator. His lectures were occasionally delivered in collaboration with others, as is the case with this example of a lecture he gave with fellow actor John Henderson (bap. 1747-d.1785) on "A Course of English Reading." The two had previously collaborated on a series entitled "Practical Method of Reading and Writing English Poetry," and some years later on another slightly different series. Hickford's Great-Room was a famous West End concert hall, which hosted performances by Scarlatti and Mozart, among others. It closed in 1779… Read More

(London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1799), 1799. ESTC N60288 (Lincoln's Inn Library and Wellcome Institute). Fine.. 4to, disbound, paginated [637]-652, untrimmed. An act passed by Parliament in the summer of 1799, delineated in 39 paragraphs, that regulated the slave trade beginning in August, 1800 - an act no doubt intended to placate the growing voices of opposition to the English slave trade. The act stipulates how many slaves could be stowed in a ship (by mathematical formula according to the size of the ship, but never more than 400); that slaves must be separated from other cargo; and that the space for the slaves "be full and complete perpendicular height of five feet." Nothing is said about their treatment, other than that the ship's surgeon was required keep a log of illnesses and deaths of both slaves and crew. Much of the act is taken up with its enforcement, and the penalties and fines for violations; it also regulates the… Read More

Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, 1753-56, 1753. Third edition; second edition; second edition; first edition; first edition (respectively). ESTC: T118047; T107185; T10788; T107187; T43252; NCBEL II, 590; cf. Rothschild 1865. Fine, large copies, enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. Complete sets in such fine condition are uncommon in the trade.. Five parts, 4to, modern gray wrappers period style, stitched. Final leaf of advertisements present in four parts, as called for in ESTC. The famous Seatonian Prize Poems, an annual award that commenced in 1750 with the bequest of clergyman Thomas Seaton (1684-1741), who dictated that the prize be awarded to the best poem in English on the subject of the supreme being. Christopher Smart (1722-71), then a student at Cambridge, won the prize the first five out of six years.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857, 1857. First edition. NCBEL III, 1610. Cloth faded at the spine and edges; very good copy. Scarce.. 8vo, original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering. Eight pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions, a novel written in the form of the diary of Charles Thorndale, is one of the great 19th century fictional works of ideas and philosophical and religious opinions; and it remains enjoyable today. It is only one of two works by miscellaneous writer, poet and philosopher William Henry Smith (1808-1872), whom the ODNB describes as "one of the most solid and productive of the denizens of the Victorian literary world to have been completely forgotten."

Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, May, 1826, 1826. Fine copy.. 4to, recent wrappers, [16] pages, printed in double columns numbered [49]-64. An example of the influence and spread of the news of Mary Somerville's first scientific publication, "On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays" - i.e., the magnetizing power of sunlight - that had been published in the February, 1826, issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Her husband, William Somerville, had "communicated" her observations to the Society because as a woman Mary had no access to such outlets of communication. Nonetheless, the scientific observations were clearly credited as hers, and news about them quickly spread to Europe, as evidenced by this report in a German scientific periodical within months of their first publication in London. The notice is the lead article in this issue of Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde and takes up three columns. The accomplishments and career of Mary Somerville… Read More

London: Printed for R. Sare, F. Saunders and Tho. Bennet, 1697, 1697. First edition in English. ESTC R5377; Wing Q188. Binding, particularly the spine, rubbed; text fine; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated and lettered spine. The first English translation of Francisco de Quevedo's La Hora de Todos y la Fortuna con Seso, a biting satire of Spanish politics and the follies of the times, written under the guise of a prose fantasy. Ouevedo (1580-1645), a contemporary and friend of Cervantes, was one of the greatest writers of his era in Spanish literature. The translator, Capt. John Stevens, was a prolific translator of Spanish literature and author on Spanish subjects.

London: Published by W. H. Carpenter; Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820, 1820. One of two rival editions to appear almost simultaneously in 1820, priority not established. The other was edited by Edmond Malone and published by John Murray, but this edition by Carpenter is the superior text. See the ODNB. NCBEL II, 1749; Lowndes, page 2475. Fine copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, later full brown morocco by H. Wood, spines in six compartments with gilt-stamped floral designs, gilt inner dentelles, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis portrait, as called for, and extra-illustrated with 188 plates. ¶ One of the great works of 18th century literary anecdotal literature by one of the most interesting of the era's literary figures, Joseph Spence (1699-1768). An ideal work for extra-illustration, of which this is an excellent example, with quality engravings.

London: Printed for S. Wilmot and sold by S. Birt and T. Longman, 1737, 1737. Second edition; the first edition was published in two parts, 1726-27. ESTC N9342; NCBEL II, 1748. Calf a little spotted and worn; fine copy.. 12mo, contemporary sprinkled calf, brown morocco spine label, gilt lettering. Allegorical engraved frontispiece by John Pine after Hubert-François Gravelot. A critical analysis of Pope's translation of Homer in a dialogue between two friends, Antiphaus and Philypsus, over the course of five winter evenings. This was the first book by Joseph Spence (1699-1768), the prominent Oxford literary scholar and anecdotist, and it received the approval and admiration of its subject, Alexander Pope, who became one of Spence's supporters and friends. Spence wrote two other notable dialogues: Polymetis (1747) and Crito, a Dialogue on Beauty (1752).

London: Printed by George Cawthorn, Bookseller and Printer to the Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, 1803, 1803. First edition in English. Boards slightly stained; a few clean tears in the margins; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, original drab boards rebacked with tan paper spines and new printed paper labels, untrimmed. The first English translation of Madame de Stael's impressive survey of literature in historical perspective, De la Litterature Consideree dans ses Rapports avec les Institutions Sociales, a work that touches on pretty much all of Western literature from the Greek and Latin classics to Elizabethan literature and theatre, including a lengthy section on Shakespeare and the English novel and poetry of the 18th century. French writer and novelist Madame de Stael (1766-1817) was an admirer of England and made numerous literary friends there on her extended visits. Early round embossed stamp of a Boston church library on the title-pages; tear in the upper margins of the title-pages, to… Read More

N.p., n.d. [but circa 1960], 1960. Hinged on the verso of a board and matted, which should probably be replaced. Original wooden frame preserved, but chipped and worn.. 27 x 20 cm, signed on the verso in pencil by the photographer William Ward Beecher. A photographic portrait of John Steinbeck taken by artist William Ward Beecher (1921-2006), a descendant of the famous New England Beechers. How many portraits were produced from this one sitting is not recorded, but there were at least two: this one and a similar one that was used in 1961 on the rear panel of the dust jacket of Winter of Our Discontent. This one, which apparently was not published, was the personal property of John and Elaine Steinbeck, and was sold as part of the remains of their estate in February 2020. Betty and William Ward Beecher and the Steinbecks were apparently friends. The Beechers had books inscribed to them by John Steinbeck, and the Steinbecks owned a few of Beecher's lithographs and paintings.

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916, 1916. First edition. BAL 18767; Mattila A12. Spine dull; cloth a little worn; a good copy.. 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. A selection of Sterling's best poetry to date. Inscribed by Sterling on the front free endpaper to his wife, Carrie: "Dear Carrie: / Just a / few unnatural [?] sonnets. / George. / San Francisco, July 5, 1916." ¶ Printed by the Philopolis Press in San Francisco.

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921, 1921. First edition. BAL 18797; Mattila A25. Cloth slightly worn; fine copy in the original printed dust jacket.. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering. ¶ An early presentation copy: "For / Ida Brenda Gregg / these songs of California / and Dreamland, with / all good wishes. / George Sterling. / San Francisco, Dec. 6th, 1921." The earliest presentations copies noted in BAL and Mattila are dated December 6 and 8.

[San Francisco: William Dassonville], 1915, 1915. In fine condition.. Platinum print, 20.5 x 15.5 cm, with the photographer's estate stamp ("Estate of William Dassonville") on the reverse of the print. A rare and fine photographic portrait of the prominent California poet George Sterling (1869-1926), taken by the prominent California photographer, William Dassonville (1879-1957) and inscribed to Dassonville by Sterling in the lower left corner of the image: "Dear Dassonville: This is the best picture ever taken of your friend George Sterling 1915." Sterling was a photogenic subject and by 1915 Dassonville was well established as one of the most sought-after portrait photographers in California, and the combination of the two makes for a striking portrait. 1915 was also the year Sterling's famous poetical contributions to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

(San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press), 1921, 1921. First edition, privately printed, one of 120 copies signed by Sterling. Mattila A24; BAL 18795; Grabhorn Bibliography 32. Boards a little dust-soiled and rubbed at the edges; very good copy of one of Sterling's least common works.. 4to, original printed gray paper boards, 12 pages. A popular poem by San Francisco poet George Sterling (1869-1926), privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for the San Francisco patron-of-the-arts Albert Bender. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear Dick, I hope you'll like my dancing girl? Yours ever, George. San Francisco, June 16, 1921."