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(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.

London: Printed by Brettell for Appleyards, 1808, 1808. First edition. Title-page and final leaf a little stained; very good copy.. 8vo, recent tan wrappers, 32 pages. The first of three plays by Marie Therese Kemble (1774-1838), the Austrian-born English actress and mother of Fanny Kemble. She moved to England at an early age and became a popular child actress. She later married actor Charles Kemble, for whom she wrote this short comedy about marriage ("the lottery of wedlock"), in which they played the starring roles, he as Colonel Freelove and she as his 18-year-old tempestuous wife, Lady Elizabeth Freelove. He attempts to subdue her temper tantrums, but is warned by her brother, Lord Rivers, that "you may break a horse, you may even subdue a lion, but you'll never tame a woman." This and one other short comedy by Kemble were remarkably popular, often preformed and reprinted.

Edinburgh: Printed by James Donaldson, for Alexander Donaldson, and sold at his Shops [sic], and by all the Booksellers in Scotland, 1774, 1774. First edition with "Shops" in the imprint, second issue with the catchword "Lord" on page iv; "comparatively" on page 34; etc.. Pottle 50 and see pages 98-101; Rothschild 450; ESTC T88998; NCBEL II, 1212. Title-page skillfully repaired at the gutter; very good copy, enclosed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase.. 4to, modern blue paper wrappers, 37 pages. An important literary copyright dispute between booksellers in England and Scotland, known as Hinton v. Donaldson, in which James Boswell and John MacLaurin represented the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson and his cohorts against claims by London publishers that he was violating their copyrights. Donaldson specialized in publishing inexpensive reprints of English books which he maintained were not protected by the Copyright Act of 1710. The London publishers argued that their copyright existed… Read More

Boston: D. Lothrop, (1883), 1883. First edition. BAL 6302, binding A.. Worn and somewhat shaken, but sound; enclosed in a cloth clamshell box.. Small 4to, original pictorial boards. 14 full-page illustrations by George Barnes. The rare first book by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), a collection of 12 poems for the illustrations of George F. Barnes. Freeman later became well known and celebrated for her popular local color stories about New England places and characters. Decorative Plaques is not found in any of the legendary first book catalogues by Seven Gables, Goodspeed, Reese, the New York Berg Collection Catalogue or elsewhere.

London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760, 1760. First edition, Todd's edition A.. ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, "Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead," Studies in Bibliography, No. 8, 1956. Hinges starting, but sound; edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, later 18th century English brown half calf, marbled paper boards, red morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (also spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773). This first edition contains 28 dialogues, the first 25 are by Lyttelton and the final three by his friend Elizabeth Montagu. Lyttelton's interlocutors include Addison and Swift, Plato and Fenelon, Cortez and William Penn, Boileau and Pope, Locke and Bayle, and Lucian and Rabelais. In number 28, Elizabeth Montague has Plutarch, Charon and a contemporary London bookseller discussing reading tastes of the day. Lyttelton was a respected and well-connected politician and man of letters. His Dialogues,… Read More

London: Printed by W. B. for A. Millar; Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer, 1764, 1764. Second edition, published the same year as the first. ESTC N3140; not found in NCBEL. A little dust soiling and smudges in the text; fine copy.. 8vo, modern brown quarter calf period style, marbled paper boards, red morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering, untrimmed. Original wrappers bound in. An entertaining imaginary conversation between Anthony Ashley, the third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) on the benefits of travel to Europe - i.e., the Grand Tour - which was popular with the youth of the upper classes. Hurd (1720-1808) was a literary critic and the editor of William Warburton, Jeremy Taylor and Abraham Cowley. He was later the Bishop of Worcester.

London: Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck, 1697, 1697. First edition, separate issue. ESTC R14052; Wing B1928; cf. Bibliotheca Fictiva 39. Edges a little rubbed; upper hinge repaired; very good copy.. 8vo, early polished calf, gilt rules. The seminal treatise by Richard Bentley (1662-1742) on the authenticity of ancient texts, most notably the alleged letters of the 500 BC tyrant Phalaris, which Bentley convincingly demonstrated on linguistic and historical grounds to be forgeries. It was a controversial treatise and roundly attacked, but Bentley successfully defended his arguments. "Richard Bentley was and remains the greatest of English classical scholars. His reputation was made by his Dissertation on Phalaris, the final crushing blow in the Battle of the Books" - see under Printing and the Mind of Man, 178. The Dissertation was issued in two forms in 1697, as an appendix to William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, Second Edition (1697) and separately, as here. The… Read More

London: Printed by James Flesher, 1668, 1668. First edition, one of two issues. ESTC R17163; Wing M2650; NCBEL I, 2335. Title-page a little dust-soiled; some smudges in the text; edges and spine skillfully repaired; very good copy.. 12mo, contemporary sprinkled calf rebacked to style, red leather spine label, gilt lettering. Title-page in red and black. A philosophical-theological discussion in three dialogues between Cuphophron, Hylobares, Philopolis, Sophron and other Greek-named interlocutors by the poet, theologian and philosopher Henry More (1614-1687), published under the pseudonym Franciscus Evistor Palaeopolitanus, though in this earlier issue only the initials F. P. are on the title-page. Among the subjects discussed is the validity of the verses of Lucretius.

New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1832, 1832. First edition. BAL 5687; American Imprints 12383. Cloth and labels a little stained and worn; some light foxing; a very good copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, original rose linen and printed paper labels. The first book by Knickerbocker writer and later diplomat, Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), a collection of genial Irvingesque essays and sketches that originally appeared in the New York Mirror, of which Fay was an editor along with George Pope Morris and John Inman. See the DAB.