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(New York:) Published by Elam Bliss, 1829, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 39223; Sabin 38075. Edges a little rubbed; some light foxing and faint stains; very good copy.. 8vo, 19th century black half morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering. A landmark work on the history of American literature by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), author, local Massachusetts politician and lawyer. In 15 "lectures" Knapp writes about the origins of an American literature and the influences on it of the American Revolution. From the library of a great American literary critic, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), with his bookplate on the front paste-down.

Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. Edges of the binding a little rubbed; scattered stains and foxing; paper repairs to the final two leaves, mostly marginal but affecting a few letters at the extremities of three lines in the penultimate leaf; very good copy, enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell case.. Small 12mo, 19th century brown half morocco, signed P. Pralon of Dijon, dark brown paper boards, blind rules and gilt lettering. Woodcut device on the title-page and two woodcut initials. [12], 95 pages. Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere's famous play, Tartuffe, and the deceased François Rabelais, written pseudonymously and modeled most closely on the dialogues of Lucian, Pietro Aretino and Bernard le Bovier Fontenelle. The subject of the… Read More

London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848, 1848. First edition. OCLC records five copies (Duke, Columbia, Monash and London Library). Ex-library markings at the foot of the title-page; edges a little rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, contemporary (probably original) purple morocco, decoratively blind-stamped, gilt lettering, a.e.g. 16 plates (eight color). An elaborate attempt to defend a literal interpretation of the Bible in the form of an eccentric attack on Charles Empson, who had apparently traveled to Egypt and had written about his findings there in connection with the scripture. Several of the plates are finely hand-colored renditions of Egyptian motifs, and the remaining plates are fine etching of Biblical scenes. About Mrs. Housman not a great deal is known, other than she was from Bath and published several other titles on similar themes, including such works as A Writing or Declaration from the Law Book, to Obliterate the House of the Revolver, or Solar System [1821] and Letter to Dr. Spry in… Read More

Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802, 1802. First edition. American Bibliography 2490; Sabin 38076. The lower blank margins of four leaves trimmed; moderately foxed; edges a little rubbed; fine copy in original state, enclosed in a cloth clamshell box.. 12mo, original marbled paper boards, hand-lettered spine, untrimmed. With half-title. The first book by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), a series of 14 literary letters fashioned after Goldsmith and Montesquieu. Knapp writes about Mary Wollstonecraft and her influence on American women, women's rights in America, American poetry, with extracts from Joel Barlow and other Hartford Wits, etc. Knapp's Letters are one of the earliest examples of the literary essay in American literature; and they were glowingly dedicated to John Quincy Adams. Contemporary book label of Edmund Shalter on the front paste-down. Ink signature dated 1907 on the title-page.

New York: William H. Clayton, 1824, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. Some light dust-soiling and stains; very good copy in a handsome binding.. 4to, later brown calf period style, gilt decorated and lettered spine. A collection of eight of Washington Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all originally written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited and published by his brother Peter Irving, and are collected here in an obvious attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the Sketch Book (1819) and Bracebridge Hall (1822). The letters are preceded by an unsigned eight-page biographical sketch of Irving, very likely one of the first of its kind.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Munday and Slatter, Oxford, 1813, 1813. First edition. NCBEL II, 1682. Edges a little rubbed; very good copy.. Two vols in three (as usual), 8vo, contemporary brown diced half morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt rules and lettering. Frontis portrait. A collection of over 150 letters, mostly concerning the recording of information of historical and biographical significance; thus there are letters about the merits of George Ballard's Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Walton's Lives, the reprinting of books in Black Letter - particularly Urry's Chaucer, etc. The writers include John Ray, George Lyttelton, George Ballard, Thomas Rawlins, Thomas Hearne, Anthony Wood, et al; the second volume, part 2, is dedicated entirely to the publication of John Aubrey's Lives of Eminent Men, its first appearance in print. Aubrey's Brief Lives, as they came to be known, have remained in print ever since.

London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756, 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. Hinges rubbed and starting, but sound; light damp-staining to the endpapers; very good copy.. 12mo, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt rules. One page of publisher's terminal advertisements. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In the 1770s Mrs. Piozzi wrote to Dr. Johnson that she had found a copy of this "strange book about Corporal Bates, which I bought and read . . . and found to be the very novel from which Sterne took his first idea . . . even the name Tristram itself, seems to be borrowed from this stupid history of Corporal Bates, forsooth." See Helen Sard Hughes "A Precursor of Tristram Shandy" in the Journal of English and German Philology (vol. 17, no. 2), who concludes that the story of Corporal Bates "was but one of… Read More

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."

London: Printed for A. Bell, W. Taylor and J. Baker, 1715, 1715. First edition. NCBEL II, 1709 (Oldmixon). Edges a little rubbed; upper joint starting, but sound; slight worming in the margins of the first 45 leaves (text not affected); very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, five raised bands. A memoir of politician and author Arthur Maynwaring (1668-1712), whose "influence among both politicians and writers was great" (DNB), including Addison, Steele, Congreve and Vanbrugh. The versatile John Oldmixon was the editor and author of the memoir, which includes poems, a dialogue, odes, prologues, epilogues, a fable and essays.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, 1843. First English edition, preceded a few months by the American edition. Smith, American Travellers Abroad, C2; Sabin 9889; Robinson, Wayward Women, page 233; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 65. Spine and edges repaired; some light browning and foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated August, 1845. "This is the earliest and most balanced first-hand account of Mexico to be written by a woman" - Robinson. Frances Calderon de la Barca (1804-82) was born in Scotland and raised in France and Boston, where she met the Spanish Minister to the United States, Angelo Calderon de la Barca. Together they traveled to Mexico. Bookplate of American novelist Larry McMurtry on the front paste-down; this is a duplicate from his large collection of books by women travelers.

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.

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.

London: probably 1791 or after, 1791. Cf. Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the Caricaturist (London: Chatto and Windus, 1880), volume I, pages 292-93; additionally two sets of the aquatint prints of these images are recorded sold at auction (Anderson Galleries in 1920 and Dominic Winter in 2005). One frame is chipped and in need of minor restoration; overall in very good condition.. Oil on wood panels, in early or contemporary frames, approximately 39.5 x 37 cm each. Two oil paintings after caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson, depicting tailors comically struggling with their patrons. The caricatures were produced as a pair of aquatint prints, published by S. W. Flores, 3 Piccadilly, dated 18 May, 1791, and are described in Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the Caricaturist (London: Chatto and Windus, 1880), volume I, pages 292-93; additionally two sets of the aquatint prints are recorded sold at auction (Anderson Galleries in 1920 and Dominic Winter in 2005). Provenance: a manuscript label on the verso of A Little… Read More

[Hellgate, East River, New York, circa 1835.], 1835. Binding a little rubbed; in fine condition, enclosed in a recently-made quarter morocco clamshell box.. 4to, contemporary American red morocco, upper and lower boards with a center rectangular gilt border with floral corners, edges with a 1.5 cm floral-gilt border, spine elaborately gilt decorated in five compartments, marbled paper endpapers, a.e.g. Ticket of Arnold & Grubb, Bookseller and Binders, 289 1/2 Main St., Poughkeepsie, on the paste-down. A remarkable holograph manuscript by New York writer and man of letters Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874), written when he was a teenager and under the supervision and care of his famous grandfather, John Jacob Astor - many years prior to his first published book. Bristed's manuscript is in two parts, bound téte-bêche style (sometimes referred to as a "dos à dos" binding) with 86 unpaginated leaves (172 pages) legibly written in ink on the rectos and versos, numerous corrections in the text,… Read More

(Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1791), 1791. OCLC records four copies, Newberry Library, NYPL and two in Europe. Creases from old folds; a little soiled; very good copy.. Bifolium, 25 x 19.5 cm, 4 pages. Large engraved floral headpiece with "No. 250" printed next to it. Seal of Louis XVI stamped in red ink above the imprint on page four. The official publication of a law issued by the newly established National Constituent Assembly that commended and awarded pensions to those, mainly commoners, who sacrificed their lives or were wounded in the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, one of the seminal events in Western history that marked the beginning of the French Revolution and the end of the Ancien Régime. The awards of pensions are separated into categories, e.g.: the wounded, crippled, widows, etc. One of the categories is devoted to the heroism of a woman, Marie Charpentier "who distinguished herself . . . fighting with men and showing great courage." A document celebrating those… Read More

Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, 1885, 1885. First Daniel Press edition, number 45 of 150 numbered copies. NCBEL I, 1699. Vellum and boards somewhat rubbed and soiled; text fine, though some signatures are lightly printed.. 4to, original quarter vellum, blue paper boards, untrimmed. An interesting later edition of a play originally entitled A Cure for the Cuckhold: A Pleasant Comedy, published by bookseller Francis Kirkman in 1661 and perhaps speciously attributed to John Webster and William Rowley. Later critics, Edmund Gosse among them, thought that Rowley's contribution was crude (he was "a rough playwright of the Jacobean age") and that Webster's part of the play stood alone as a "charming domestic drama of English country life." Gosse, with the help of S. Spring-Rice and the printer Henry Daniel, sought to correct that, and they published this edition, under the new title Love's Graduate: A Comedy, which omitted the contributions attributed to Rowley. In the Prefatory Essay,… Read More

London: Printed for John Barber and Sold by Benj. Tooke, Henry Clements and John Walthoe, 1717, 1717. First edition. ESTC T38771; NCBEL II, 767. First and final leaves a bit smudged; early paper repair to the lower margin of the verso of the title-page; very good copy.. 4to, 19th century half vellum, marbled paper boards, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering. The last of three plays by Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), who was well known for her roman à clef fictionalized memoirs. The is plot is loosely based on the reign of Lucius, the last king of Rome, and his powerful wife Queen Rosalinda, who lives to triumph over the schemes of numerous evildoers. Manley dedicated the play to Richard Steele, who paid her £600 for the right to produce it. As well, he wrote a preface "expressing my gratitude to the Ladies," and prologue. The epilogue is by Matthew Prior. Bound for T. Connolly, Bookseller of Dublin, with his booksellers' ticket on the front paste-down.

London: Hamilton, Adams; Liverpool: Marples, 1834, 1834. First English Translation. OCLC records about 15 copies. Very good copy.. 16mo, contemporary brown moire, a.e.g. Frontis portrait. The first translation into English of the poetical work of German poet and soldier Theodor Körner (1791-1813), a romantic and popular figure in German literature and lore. He heroically died in battle at the young age of 21. His literary remains, mostly plays and poetry, were compiled and edited by his father and sister. The English translator was William Brownsword Chorley (1804-1879), a scholar and book collector, who inscribed this copy "To Hartley Coleridge with the Translator's respects and regards." Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849), the eldest son of Samuel Taylor and Sara Coleridge, and was an interesting and brilliant but tormented poet.