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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884, 1884. First edition. BAL 19780. Fine copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g. Three portraits, three illustrations, manuscript facsimile and vignette title-pages. A substantial biographical treatment of one of the great American travelers, travel writers and poets, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878). Ink inscription on the front free endpaper of Walter Sillman, Wolfe Hall, Griswold College, Davenport, IA, Mar. Fri 13 / 1885."

(San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1915), 1915. First and only edition. OCLC 44411941 records two copies (NYPL & UVa). Edges slightly creased, with a few small tears; fine copy.. Broadside, 56 x 41 cm, printed on laid paper with the watermark of Fabraino, Italy. A five-stanza, 92-line poem on the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in February 1915, which inspired numerous local San Francisco poets to commemorate the occasion. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923), politician (and former mayor), lawyer and physician, was an obvious choice for the job, as well as being a published poet. Though the attractive broadside is without an imprint, it is obviously the work of Taylor's son, Edward De Witt Taylor and the firm of Taylor, Nash & Taylor. With its elaborate border it clearly shows, as well, the influence of John Henry Nash, then part of the firm, who would become famous for this ornate style of fine printing.

See Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1163-1172; ESTC T20784; T20781; T20780; T20726 and T45401; NCBEL II, 812. Some minor foxing, browning and stains; overall the pamphlets are in very good condition, with wide margins; enclosed in quarter morocco clamshell box.. 5 vols, 4to, uniformly bound with attractive tan paper spines period-style and sprinkled paper boards with manuscript titles on the spines. A gathering of five important pamphlets dealing with the acrimonious dispute between two groups of partners of the Covent Garden Theatre - usually referred to as the "Proprietors' Dispute" - a quarrel that began in 1767 when two of the partners, Thomas Harris and John Rutherford, attempted to insert mistresses - particularly one Mrs. Lessingham - into the theatre company and have them cast in unsuitable roles. Harris and Rutherford squared off with George Colman and William Powell, the opposing partners, for over a year of accusations and counter accusations that resulted in a… Read More

(London:) Printed for the Author and Sold by C. Moran, 1761, 1761. Second edition, "Revised and Corrected, with Large Additions". ESTC T74956; NCBEL II, 687. Very good copy.. 4to, disbound, 46 pages. The first of several works by Edward Thompson (1737-1786), a naval officer, poet and friend of many in the literary circles, including Garrick (mentioned here), Wilkes and Sheridan. The Meretriciad, which went through six editions within a few years, celebrates in verse the charms of the famous English courtesan Kitty Fisher and some of her colleagues. Thompson wrote other works on courtesans; his first work of collected poetry was entitled The Court of Cupid (1770).

London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712, 1712. First edition translated into English, issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. Text lightly foxed and browned; binding rubbed; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf rebacked, black leather label, gilt lettering. Five engraved plates (four folding), 15 engravings in the text and vignettes. An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), a French Benedictine monk who was a pioneer in the disciplines of paleography and archaeology. In 1698 Montfaucon traveled to Italy to study antiquities and manuscripts, the results of which were published in Paris in 1702 as Diarium Italicum. It was translated into English in 1711 and published by Edmund Curll. There is an issue with a second title-page that reads "Diarium Italicum: or, a Journey Through Italy, London 1711." It appears, as stated in ESTC, to be the same setting of type as… Read More

London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1864, 1864. First edition. NCBEL III, 554. Edges slightly rubbed; very good copy.. Small 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, untrimmed. A substantial collection of over 100 sonnets by Charles Turner (formerly Tennyson and often referred to as Tennyson-Turner), an accomplished and prolific sonneteer (his collected poems contained over 400). In the ODNB, Roger Evans writes that this 1864 collection, Turner's second book, "reveals the influence of the sacramentalist idiom of Keble [i.e., John Keble, Church of England clergyman and poet, 1792-1866], a pronounced antipathy to current neologistic thinking, and a sensitive delicacy in its descriptions of natural forms." Charles Turner (1808-1879) was the brother of Alfred and Frederick Tennyson. Under the terms of a will, an inheritance from an uncle requested that he change his surname.