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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.

London: Printed for William Crooke, 1676, 1676. First edition. ESTC R2537; Wing B-5253. Hinges and chipped edges of the free endpapers neatly repaired; very good copy in contemporary state.. Small 8vo, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, brown leather label, gilt lettering. With the first and final blanks and three pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. An interesting guide to the landmarks and civic structure of London by a lawyer and author on legal matters, John Brydall (circa 1635-1705). He writes about the origins and organization of cities; the etymology of the name London; the history of its landmarks; the layers of civic bureaucracy; and the essential laws and regulations governing the town.

London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1724, 1724. First edition, first state with A4 not canceled. Rothschild 923; NCBEL II, 498; ESTC T13811. Outer top margins a little worn, just affecting the page number on the final leaf; very good copy.. 8vo, disbound, 67 pages. Woodcut ornaments and initials. Without the half-title. One of John Gay's lessor known works, a tragedy that met with little success and has been long overshadowed by The Beggar's Opera, but it has a clever, humorous epilogue probably by Gay's friend Alexander Pope, that is worth the price of admission.

Madrid: Imprenta de Sancha, 1790-93, 1790. A mixed set of later printings or editions; the first editions of the five volumes were originally published over a six-year period beginning in 1786. Cf. Palau 12207. Vellum worn on two volumes; some worming (most significantlt on volume five); a made-up or "married" set, in sound, decent condition.. 5 vols, 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, titles and volume numbers in manuscript on the spines. With half-titles in volumes one and three. The popular and influential account of Italy by Juan Andrés y Morell (1740-1817), the Spanish Jesuit priest, humanist and writer. The letters, written between 1785 and 1791, center on visits to museums, academies, libraries, booksellers, artists and scientists in Rome, Florence, Verona, Venice, Padua, Bologna and Mantua. Four of the five volumes contain indices that detail the contents of the letters. Andrés resided in Italy after the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain. He was an important figure in the Spanish… Read More

Paris: Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in Officina Rob. Stephani, 1577, 1577. First edition edited by Joseph Scalinger. Adams C1156; Schreiber, The Estiennes, 248. Edges just a little rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, two parts in one volume, 18th century French cat's paw calf, marbled endpapers, maroon morocco spine label, gilt decorations and lettering, a.e. stained red. Woodcut vignette printer's device of the Estiennes on the title-page. The celebrated and often reprinted edition of Catullus and his two fellow Roman poets, Tibullus and Propertius, edited by French scholar Joseph Justus Scalinger (1549-1609), one of the most influential classical scholars of the Renaissance. Scalinger's Catullus became the definitive text of the great lyrical poet, and like many of Scalinger's works, a model for future textual scholarship. Scalinger "produced, in 1577, a new textus receptus of Catullus (if less so for Tibullus and Propertius), which endured, in common use with some modifications, for two hundred and fifty… Read More

[Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1502]. (Colophon: Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi. Mense Ianuario m.d.ii), 1502. First Aldine edition, first issue with the misprint of "Propetius" for Propertius on the title-page and the cancellan of the corrected title-page on the final leaf. Renouard 1502-16; Adams C1137; Clemons and Fletcher 32. Faint early ink ownership marks on the title-page; binding slightly rubbed, particularly at the head of the spine, where the hinge is just starting; a fine copy.. Small 8vo, 19th century brown polished calf, dark brown morocco spine labels, Aldine anchor gilt-stamped on the upper and lower boards, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. The first Aldine edition of the complete poetry of Catullus, published with the selected verse of his fellow Roman poets, Tibullus and Sextus Propertius, edited by Girolamo Avanzi - an important and authoritative edition for its scholarship and as a precursor to Aldus' designs as a publisher of the Classics in small format: "The starkness of this… Read More

London: Sold by J. Ridley, G. Kearsly and W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1766, 1766. Fifth edition; first published in London in 1760. ESTC T12472. First and final leaf a little dust-soiled; very good copy.. 8vo, disbound, 39 pages. A widely reprinted tract by the Quaker minister Sophia Hume (1702-1774), who was born and bred in luxury in Charleston, South Carolina, but cast off her material lifestyle and converted to the Quaker view in 1740. Like many of her religious tracts, in A Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times she delivers a jeremiad against sinful pathways and false religiosity that she herself experienced as a young woman in Charleston.

Philadelphia: Issued by John M. Wolff, Stationer, [n.d., but circa 1855-60], 1855. An early broadside edition., and the first separately printed edition that identified Moore as the author. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas, A Descriptive Bibliography, 25; noted under BAL 14346: "An undated broadside, printed in blue and red, was issued ca. 1842 by John M. Wolff, Philadelphia.". Tears in the lower margin skillfully repaired; edges slightly worn; very good copy.. Broadside, 41 x 28 cm, title and text printed in red and blue within a decorative border with of a leafy-vine motif printed in red, surrounded by a double-line border printed in blue. An attractive broadside edition of Clement Moore's famous poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas, familiarly known as "The Night before Christmas," printed for Philadelphia stationer John M. Wolff. The imprint on the broadside does not contain a date; BAL and others have speculated that the date was circa 1842; others still, the AAS catalogue record included,… Read More

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.

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

New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1840, 1840. First edition. Sabin 39863; American Imprints 40-3934. Some foxing; cloth a little faded and worn; very good copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering. Writings from the combative radical Democrat and journalist William Leggett (1801-1839), who edited the Evening Post with William Cullen Bryant and championed and wrote extensively on abolition and free speech. This collection marked the first American attempt "to establish the standing of a writer on the basis of journalistic work" - DAB. Bryant, who held the copyright on this work, worked with Sedgwick on the editing. From the library of a friend of Bryant and probably Leggett, as well, New York author and journalist James Lawson (1799-1880), with his signature in penciil ("James Lawson / Yonkers") on each title-page. Lawson was a friend and collaborator with many New York writers of the period. See the DAB. This work often - but not always - contains a frontis portrait of Leggett.… Read More

First or early editions. Various places and publishers, 1655-1897, 1655. See Beverly Seaton, The Language of Flowers, A History. University Press of Virginia, 1995. A detailed description of the collection is available via pdf on our website on the catalogues page.. The Language of Flowers phenomenon flourished for almost eighty years, beginning in France in the early 19th century. As both potent and subtle symbols in Western culture, flowers are found in religious texts, poetry, heraldic, and emblematic literature from the classical period and early Christianity, through medieval literature and the enlightenment. In the early 19th century books were written and published for the first time under titles such as Abécédaire de Flore ou Langage des Fleurs (1811), Oracles de Flore (1816), Emblemes de Flore et des Végéaux (1819) and Le Langage des Fleurs (1819). With those publications, the language of flowers and its exploration of floral symbolism in communication - usually as a language of… Read More

Cambridge: Published by Hilliard and Brown, 1830, 1830. First editions. Currier & Tilton, Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, pages 14-17; Sabin 14407.; OCLC records nine copies. Binding a little faded and worn; some foxing; very good copy.. Six numbers [all published] in one volume, small quarto, original purple pebbled cloth, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering. A complete run of a rare Harvard undergraduate literary magazine that contains 22 poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of his first substantial contributions to a publication of any kind. 15 of the poems were not reprinted again until 1975. The other contributions include essays, sketches, poetry and reviews by a host of Harvard students, including Epes Sargent and John Lothrop Motley.

[London:] Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1883-85, 1883. First collected edition, one of 50 copies only. NCBEL I, 1457. Edges slightly rubbed; very good copy.. 6 vols, 8vo, red half morocco by Strikeman for Charles Scribners' Sons, red cloth sides, gilt decorated and lettered spines, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Vignettes and ornamental initials. The first comprehensive collection of the works of Thomas Nashe (bap.1567- c1601), the colorful playwright, poet, satirist, novelist and pamphleteer, who was at the center of the Elizabethan literary scene and many of its controversies and quarrels. This edition, arranged chronologically by date of publication, was privately printed for the Huth Library, founded by bibliophile Henry Huth (1815-78) and continued by his son Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910). On the front free endpaper of volume one is the small ownership stamp of James Laughlin IV, founder of New Directions.

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.

[Boston], 1857, 1857. Myerson and Wilson, Picturing Emerson: An Iconography, Appendix A.. A few minor restorations of the edges and brown spots; a skillfully executed replacement marble base; in very good condition.. Oval, 20.5 x 15 inches, signed and dated on the edge "J. Carew SC, 1857." A fine bas-relief portrait in marble of Ralph Waldo Emerson, sculpted the year he voiced his support for the abolitionist cause. Joseph Carew was active between 1840-1870 and worked in partnership with his brother Thomas Carew in the firm Carew & Brothers, Sculptors, at 143 Harrison Avenue, Boston, near the Common. His sculptures were exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum on at least three occasions: 1853, 1859 and 1860. There is no evidence to link Emerson with Joseph Carew, and Emerson scholars Joel Myerson and Leslie Perrin Wilson in their monograph Picturing Emerson: An Iconography (Houghton Library, 2016), record this portrait under Appendix A, Apocryphal Images of Emerson, with the following note: "Joseph Carew… Read More

London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1778, 1778. First edition, all published. ESTC P2575; NCBEL II, 1305. Head of the spine chipped; edges and hinges a little rubbed; very good, sound copy.. Folio, contemporary brown smooth calf, red morocco spine label, five raised bands, gilt lettering. Engraved title-page and 123 engraved copper plates. A complete run of 42 issues of an illustrated magazine published by George Kearsly between 1774 and 1777, intended to display and celebrate the art of copperplate engraving. Each of the 123 examples is accompanied by a leaf of explanatory text. The subjects include portraits (25 English and 16 French - all men), historical events, mythology and fables (40 plates, including several dedicated to scenes from Telemachus) and views of important castles, houses and other picturesque structures and places (42 plates), including two of Strawberry Hill. At least 12 engravers were involved, among them Thomas Cook, Thomas Ryder, William Sharp, William Walker, Charles Grignion… Read More

London: Printed for John Murray, 1812, 1812. First edition. Wise & Wheeler 12; NCBEL III, 1211. Some minor chafing and wear to the binding; very good copy.. Small 8vo, early 19th century blue diced calf, green leather label, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Bound without the half-title. The first published play by Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), an historical drama based on the Spaniard, Julian, Count of Ceuta, his quarrel with Roderic and the tragic consequences it had on Spain. This famous event in Spanish history was also used in verse and plays by Walter Scott, Robert Southey and Willilam Rowley. Attractive armorial bookplate on the front paste-down, signed "G.W. Eng '94"

[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

Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826, 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue). Some smudges and stains in the text; very good copy.. 8vo, later green half calf, green cloth boards, red morocco label, gilt decorations and lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Half-title and errata leaf present. A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes, including ones about Burns, Byron, Shelley, Boswell and John Gay, interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces, such as the account of the "Hungry Poet" with two of his poems. Almost all the pieces are unsigned, but at least two are attributed: A. Cunningham on the last moments of Roberts Burns and Walter Scott on the "Character of Lord Byron." There was a variant or probably second issue, with the title augmented slightly to The Curious Book; or, Literary Relics.