Search Results: Titles starting with E from The Brick Row Book Shop

London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas and Yale). Fine copy.. 4to, recent red quarter morocco period style by Philip Dusel, marbled paper boards, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and the first president of the Academy. The anonymous author makes fun of the pretentions of the Academy and its guidelines in choosing members. In the preface, Petit Mot Pour Rire ("a small joke"), Academy founder Johann Zoffany is subject to a particularly unfriendly tale of how he acquired his fame. This is followed by the review of the fictitious paintings, with prefatory remarks on the "revolution of taste in the Polite Arts" ("the love of novelty is particularly remarkable . . .") and an addenda with an assessment of the new quarters of the Royal Academy at New Somerset House,… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 1938, 1938. First edition. Baird & Greenwood, California Fiction, 2355. Fine copy in a slightly worn dust jacket.. 8vo, original red-brown cloth, gilt lettering. "A novel of California from 1837 to 1861 . . . unique among novels dealing with this period and setting in having a serious and philosophical point of view. Regional history is given considerable detail. Montery and Contra Costa Counties; also San Francisco" - Baird & Greenwood. Inscribed on the title-page "To the Woodfords / Sincerely / George R. Stewart."

Philadelphia: Published by Asbury Dickins . . . H. Maxwell, Printer, 1801, 1801. First edition. American Bibliography 700; Hill, American Plays, 144. Some foxing and scattered stains; very good copy, enclosed in a blue cloth clamshell box.. 8vo, modern blue paper wrappers, stitched, 84 pages. With half-title. The first book by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862), a Philadelphian who later became a prominent congressman and lawyer. Edwy and Elgiva was successfully performed at Philadelphia's Chestnut Street Theater in April, 1801, when Ingersoll was just 19 years old. The plot is an adaptation of the well known tale of a 10th century English monarch, Edwy, who marries his relative Elgiva - a story which was also successfully adapted for the stage by Fanny Burney. Though Ingersoll soon after entered the bar and politics, he remained close to the Port Folio crowd and in 1810 anonymously published the interesting satire Inchquin, the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States of… Read More

Paris: Marie-Nyon, 1832, 1832. Second edition; the first was published in 1830. OCLC records four editions between 1830 and 1847, with scattered but not plentiful holdings in Europe and three in North America: Montreal, Quebec and the Free Library of Philadelphia. Edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, contemporary continental half acid calf, paste-paper boards, orange and green leather spine labels, gilt decorations and lettering. Two title-pages in each volume, in French and English. An anthology-text book of English literature for the French student, compiled by D. O'Sullivan, an English professor at the Royal College of St. Louis, with notes and brief biographical sketches, including early critical treatments of Shelley, Coleridge, Byron, Hunt, Baillie and Barbauld for a foreign audience. On the recto of the French title-page of each volume is a printed statement about the authenticity of the text, signed by O'Sullivan.

Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793, 1793. First Bodoni edition. Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250. Spine and edges skillfully repaired; some light foxing and small stains, mostly in the margins; very good example of a rare, untrimmed copy in original state. Enclosed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase.. 4to, original plain pink wrappers, stitched as issued, remains of a small printed paper label on the spine, untrimmed. An attractive edition of Gray's famous Elegy with Giuseppe Torelli's Italian translation juxtaposed with the original English, preceded by a dedicatory sonnet by the printer Biambatista Bodoni to Signora Contessa Elisabetta Caterina Mosconi.

Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. Slight wear to the edges of the binding; fine copy.. 4to, contemporary vellum, gilt lettered spine, a.e. stained red. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited with being the first one there. Canovai makes the case that Vespucci set foot in America one year before Columbus. Canovai's Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci went through several editions, and the merits of it were debated for decades as new, revised editions appeared. See, for example, a substantial discussion of it in the North American Review, April 1821 (JSTOR). From the library of collector Brent Gration-Maxfield, with his interesting and extensive notes in pencil on the free endpapers, with bibliographical citations and statements (albeit not entirely… Read More

Stockholm: Zacharias Haggström, 1829, 1829. First edition of the first Swedish translation. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 71; OCLC records three copies in the US (Harvard, Kansas and NYPL) and three in Sweden. Wrappers slightly worn; fine copy, enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell box.. 2 vols, 8vo, original printed blue-gray wrappers, untrimmed. The first edition in Swedish, translated by Lars Arnell, of Washington's Irving's Tales of a Traveller, his continuation of the short stories that began with The Sketch Book. Contemporary ink signature on each front wrapper.

N.p., n.d.. Fine condition.. Sheet size 48.5 x 38 cm; image size 32 x 24.5. ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an engraver between 1880 and 1910, probably in New York.

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1659, 1659. First edition. ESTC R210048; Wing C3671; Mish, English Prose Fiction, 1600-1700, page 35; NCBEL I, 2058. Bound a little tightly; two mended tears, without loss; very good copy.. Small 12mo, late 19th century brown half smooth calf, brown cloth sides, gilt lettering. Text interleaved with old laid paper, but without annotations. A rare work of prose fiction by prolific writer, physician and philosopher William Charleton (1619-1707), a short philosophical tale based on the story of a woman from the legendary ancient city of Ephesus: "The Ephesian Matron: Based on the Tale in the 'Satyricon' of Petronius . . . is an attack on the fashionable cult of Platonic love of [Charleton's] day, in which he insists that physical love and lust are both manifestations of 'an appetite to procreation'. Charleton sees his lascivious heroine as an Epicurean who lives by 'the simple dictates of mother-Nature'" - John Henry in the ODNB. Provenance: small round stamp of… Read More

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."

London: Printed by J. Morphew, 1713, 1713. First edition. ESTC 66953; Goldsmiths' 5090; not found in NCBEL. Edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, modern brown half calf period style, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering. With half-title. A discussion about the injurious effects of gambling on the character and the purse in a dialogue between Callimachus and Dolomedes, set in early 18th century England. Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) was famous for his A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage and the "Collier Controversy" that ensued. This dialogue was later collected in Collier's Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects (1720).

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).

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1759, 1759. First edition. Gaskell, Foulis Press, 372. Edges just slightly rubbed; fine copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, black morocco label, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Half-title present. Three essays by James Moor, the most substantial of which is an interpretation of Plato's "Dialogue of Cebes" entitled "Essay on the Composition of the Picture Described in the Dialogue of Cebes." Contemporary bookplate of W. Danby on the front paste-down, with his signature above the plate.