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Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell & Son for Longman & Rees, and J. Wright, London, 1800, 1800. First and only edition. ESTC T115459; Sabin 30010 (Hamilton) & 38570 (Lafayette); Jackson, La Fayette, a Bibliography, page 199 (mis-attributes the poem to Anne Bannerman). Edges a little worn and darkened; very good copy in original state.. 8vo, contemporary blue-green paper spine, stiff marbled paper wrappers (skillfully restored), untrimmed. A 457-line poem by George Hamilton (1757-1832), set at the time of Lafayette's release from the Austrian dungeon at Olmetz which in part compares Washington's selfless patriotism and valour with the corruption that followed the French Revolution. Sabin comments: "This exceedingly rare poetical piece was written during the lifetime of General Washington, but was not printed until after his death." Contemporary ownership inscription "Anthony Moir" on the front free endpaper. This work followed a poem in similar format by Hamilton "The Telegraph: a Consolatory Epistle."

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888, 1888. First edition. Edges of the cloth skillfully repaired; very good copy.. 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. Errata slip between pages 4 & 5. The scarce collected poems by the Concord minister and author David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887), one of the most highly regarded of the Transcendentalist writers, whose poems had previously only appeared in periodicals. This posthumous collection - Wasson's first and only book - was compiled with a preface by Ednah Dow Cheney, who also wrote about Louisa May Alcott and edited her letters and journals. Bookplate on the front paste-down of James Vila Blake (1842-1925), Unitarian minister, writer, poet, and playwright (see Wikipedia), with an inscription to him in pencil, dated Christmas, 1887. Annotations in pencil by Blake in the margins and rear endpapers, commenting on the poems. Blake attended Harvard College in the 1860s and served in several Unitarian churches in the Boston area, before… Read More

Boston: Published by D. C. Johnston, 1831, 1831. Margins a little foxed and stained; one corner slightly chipped; imprint a little faint; very good example.. 28 x 21 cm image on a 40 x 35 cm sheet. A famous portrait by Chester Harding (1792-1866) of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "drawn on stone by D. C. Johnston" and printed by Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.

York: Printed by W. Blanchard and sold by R. Faulder, London, [etc.], 1791, 1791. First edition. ESTC T68679; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 365; NCBEL III, 772. Paper flaw in one leaf, not seriously affecting the text; fine copy.. 8vo, recent brown quarter morocco by Philip Dusel, marbled paper boards, dark green morocco label, gilt rules and lettering. Five-page list of subscribers. Without the half title or initial blank; terminal leaf with advertisements present. The scarce third book by poet and novelist Jane West (1758-1852) - and her first substantial book - which brings together 22 poems with the play "Edmund, Surnamed Ironside," an historical drama about English King Edmund II, a.k.a. Edmund Ironside. The poems are West's most accomplished to date. They include four poetic tributes to fellow women writers and poets Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward and Sarah Trimmer, and a nine-page poem on George Keate's account of the Pelew Islands. Contemporary ink signature of… Read More

London: n. p., [circa 1880-1886], 1880. Slight brown square outline around the image from a previous mat; in fine condition.. 29.5 x 21.5 cm on tan laid paper. A famous portrait of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) by the French artist Paul Adolphe Rajon (1843-1888). This lithographed image reproduces the original chalk sketch which hung in Whistler's Fulham Road home in London. The original is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901, 1901. First edition. Cloth a little soiled and worn; very good copy.. 8vo, original decorated gray cloth, black lettering. ¶ White's second book, and like his first and many to follow, a novel of rugged Western life. ¶ Inscribed twice by White: on the front paste-down is a long presentation inscription: "My dear Colonel McClure: I want you to have this book, not because I think it amounts to very much, but because it is really a sincere attempt to record some of the life we talked about at dinner the evening of March 12, 1903. / Stewart White." And on the front free endpaper is the short inscription "With the Compliments of the author / Stewart Edward White.".

London: Trübner & Co., 1887, 1887. First edition. Wolff 7188; Sadleir 3020a; NCBEL III, 1076. Fine copy.. 8vo, original dark blue cloth, gilt lettering. The third of six novels that William Hale White (1831-1913) wrote under the dual pseudonyms of Mark Rutherford and his imaginary editor Reuben Shapcott. White was fairly well known under his actual name as a journalist and translator of Spinoza, but apparently wanted to hide his identity as the author of novels that eloquently examine adversity in political radicalism, religious nonconformity and the ability of man to change or make a difference. The main character in The Revolution in Tanner's Lane is Zachariah Coleman, a printer, political radical and moderate Calvinist, who is lectured to by another activist when he expresses remorse about the lack of progress their movement had made: "Stop, stop, Mr. Coleman. Here is the mistake you make. Grant it all - grant your achievement is ridiculously small - is it not worth the sacrifice of two or… Read More

Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836, 1836. First edition. BAL 21697; American Imprints 42466. Recased with new endpapers (as it was when Spoor owned it); cloth slightly stained and faded; very good copy, enclosed in a red morocco solander case.. 16mo, original patterned brown cloth, gilt decoration and lettering on the upper board. An early narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891), based on the story of the legendary 17th century Indian warrior Mogg Hegon. Mogg Megone was first published in the spring of 1835 in two issues of The New England Magazine. From the library of collector John A. Spoor, with his bookplate crowding the front paste-down of this small volume. Lot 1131 in the Spoor sale catalogue, Parke-Bernet, 1939.

Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. Edges a little rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, contemporary French red straight-grain morocco, blue watered silk doublures with gilt-decorated borders, boards, spine and inner dentelles, gilt lettering, a.e.g. Errata. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale"; "Sonnet sur l'oiseau du tropique"; "Les glaciers des Alpes"; "Hymne, composé au milieu des Alpes"; and "Nouvelle Américaine." French scholar, writer and friend of Williams, Charles Pougens (1755-1833) arranged the translations specifically for this sole edition; the majority of the poems were not published in English until 1823.

New York: Published by Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, 1818, 1818. First collected edition. BAL 23331; Stoddard & Whitesell 1215; American Bibliography 46864. Binding somewhat worn, but sound; text moderately to heavily foxed; a good copy.. 12mo, contemporary sheep, black leather label, gilt rules and lettering. Frontis portrait. ¶ The scarce collected verse of Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842), with a 10-page biographical sketch of the author by the publishers, Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, who state that one of the purposes of publication is to help relieve Woodworth's pecuniary misfortunes. Woodworth, poet, printer, playwright and journalist, was a regular and interesting fixture in the Knickerbocker literary scene.