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

Boston: Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, 19 Water Street, [circa 1832], 1918. One of several known variants, priority undetermined. Collins, Threads of History, 229, describing a similar version, but not this one. A little stained and spotted, but overall a remarkably fine copy.. Broadside-handkerchief printed on plain weave cotton, 20 x 28.5 cm, five poems printed in three columns with four woodcut vignette illustrations, surrounded by a typographical border. A linen handkerchief for children with religious poems, prayers and one of the most famous of all 19th century nursery rhymes, Sarah Josepha Hale's "Mary's Lamb," above which is a woodcut vignette of Mary sitting under a tree with two lambs. That together with the three other Bewickesque vignettes of a bird, a dog and a rooster are not present in the other variants of this handkerchief as described by Collins." Mary's Lamb" first appeared in the magazine Juvenile Miscellany in 1830 and later that year in the book by Hale, Poems for Our Children.… Read More

New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899, 1899. First edition. McElrath A3.1.a, first printing, state 3 (as usual); BAL 15031; Wright III, 3989. Spine a little faded; edges slightly worn; very good copy, enclosed in a clamshell case.. 8vo, original red cloth, white decorations and lettering. Four-page terminal supplement with an article about Norris entitled "A New American Author." One of the major and enduring of 19th century American novels, the realistic and gripping tale of the dentist McTeague (his first name is never revealed) and his miserly and difficult wife, Trina, who is the cause of his tragic downfall. A wonderful association copy: on the front free endpaper is the ownership signature of another important San Francisco author, Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909), dated Washington, May 1900. On the front paste-down is a note to Stoddard from Frank Norris in his stylized holograph: "To Charles Warren Stoddard: With the kindest regards, and in testimony of generous encouragement and good… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Vernor and Hood, 1800, 1800. First edition. ESTC T96380; NCBEL II, 2028; not in Garside and Schöwerling. Text a bit foxed and smudged; very good copy.. 8vo, modern brown half morocco, marbled paper boards, black label, gilt lettering, untrimmed. With half-title. An autobiographical novel by Scottish poet Hector MacNeill (1746-1818) who was sent to the West Indies as a young man in hopes that he would find a vocation as a sailor, but he eventually returned to Scotland and authorship. These memoirs follow Charles MacPherson to the West Indies in his quest for employment and in the process he comments at length on the customs of the islands and in particular "the nature, treatment and possible improvement of the negro in the British and French West India Islands."

London: Printed for A. Millar and J. Nourse, R. and J. Dodsley; D. David and C. Reymer, 1757, 1757. First edition. ESTC T89805; Fleeman 57.3LMM/1. Edges a little rubbed; fine copy.. 5 vols, 12mo, 20th century olive speckled calf period-style with brown on-laid panels on the upper and lower boards, brown morocco spine labels, gilt decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Bound without the half-titles. Charlotte Lennox's translation of the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719), written by Madame Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle (1726-1773), and one of several translations from the French by novelist and poet Lennox (1720-1804). Madame de Maintenon was the second wife of Louis XIV of France, though the marriage was not officially acknowledged and she was consequently never the queen of France. Her first marriage was to French poet Paul Scarron. Samuel Johnson assisted Lennox with the dedication. Oliver Goldsmith reviewed the translation in the Monthly Review and… Read More

London: Printed for T. Evans, 1775, 1775. Second edition; the first was published in 1752 under the title Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain . .. ESTC T94269; NCBEL II, 1806. Edges a little rubbed; some light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary smooth calf rebacked to style, red leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering. A slightly revised edition of George Ballard's collection of 50 brief biographies of remarkable English women, from poets to heads of state, including Juliana Berners, Anne Finch, Mary Astell, Constania Grierson, Katherine Philips and Katherine Killigrew, followed by an index of every person mentioned in the text. Ballard (1705-1755) had antiquarian interests from an early age. The list of 400 subscribers (not called for here) to the first edition included 143 women. See the ODNB. Contemporary armorial bookplate of John Cator on the front paste-down.

London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825, 1825. First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds, and Yale) and six of the first issue (BL, Bodleian, Harvard, NYPL, Texas & Yale). Edges a little worn; some foxing; cancel-title just starting, but sound; very good copy.. 12mo, contemporary brown half cloth, marbled paper boards, gilt decorations. The youthful and rare first novel by friend, comrade, acolyte, and later memorialist of the Romantics, Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792-1862). Prince Alexy is an animated tale that shows the influence of Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, William Beckford and Voltaire, among others, in its philosophical, picaresque narrative about the life of a Russian prince, who travels the world seeking truth about love, education and governance. The novel also shows the… Read More

Chicago: Joseph G. Branch Publishing Co., (1912), 1912. First edition. First signature loosening; boards a little spotted and worn; very good copy.. 8vo, original green cloth spine, gray pictorial paper boards. Frontis portrait and ten illustrations. An uncommon memoir by Mary Polk Branch, about her life in Middle Tennessee (specifically Columbia and its environs) in the years leading up to the Civil War and immediately afterward. Her immediate family and inlaws were well connected, wealthy Southerners and had numerous properties (i.e., plantations) throughout the South. Among their family members were President James K. Polk, and Confederate Generals Lucius E. Polk, Leonidas Polk (the "Fighting Bishop") and Lawrence Branch. The memoir is followed by a genealogy of her family, with brief biographies. Presentation copy: Inscribed twice on the front free endpaper "To Captain P. W. Thompson with Compliments of Joseph Branch, Chicago, June 15/12" and below that "To [?] R. Branch Compliments of Capt. P.… Read More

(London:) Printed for the Author and Sold by C. Moran, 1761, 1761. Second edition, "Revised and Corrected, with Large Additions". ESTC T74956; NCBEL II, 687. Very good copy.. 4to, disbound, 46 pages. The first of several works by Edward Thompson (1737-1786), a naval officer, poet and friend of many in the literary circles, including Garrick (mentioned here), Wilkes and Sheridan. The Meretriciad, which went through six editions within a few years, celebrates in verse the charms of the famous English courtesan Kitty Fisher and some of her colleagues. Thompson wrote other works on courtesans; his first work of collected poetry was entitled The Court of Cupid (1770).

London: Printed for Thomas Bennet, 1694, 1694. First edition. ESTC R8939; Wing K-461; NCBEL II, 767. Damp-stain in the upper portion of the first two signatures; some light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary black morocco, gilt panels, decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Poetic and prose meditations written towards the end of the life of Sir William Killigrew (bap. 1606-1695), playwright and courtier, whose career flourished almost the entire span of the 17th century. Inscribed on the front blank in a contemporary hand, quite possibly Killigrew's: "For ye Countesse of Peterborough." Bookplate of American collector Robert S. Pirie on the front paste-down.

London: William Pickering, 1851, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and National Library of Scotland). Edges rubbed; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering on the upper board. Errata slip inserted at page eight. Four pages of publisher's terminal ads. An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To / Professor F. W. Newman / from the Author as a / slight acknowledgement of / both pleasure and profit derived / from his lectures. Feb 2nd, 1854." Francis William Newman (1805-1897) was a philosopher and brother of Cardinal John Henry Newman. Bookplate of collector Simon Nowell-Smith on the front paste-down.

Baltimore: Published for the Editor by E. J. Coale, Richard J. Matchett, Printer, 1821, 1821. First edition. American Imprints 4963; Sabin 12173. Tears in two margins, probably from opening, but not touching text; some foxing and browning; very good copy.. 12mo, original drab paper boards and printed paper spine label, untrimmed. A commonplace anthology compiled by Marylander Elizabeth Chase (1767-1840), the sister of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Chase. The contents, from both American and English sources, range from brief biographical sketches of writers, excepts from Samuel Richardson, William Gilpin, commentary on Edmund Burke, a brief essay about the horrors of slavery - presumably by Elizabeth Chase, but it is unsigned - and several poems by an "Edgar" which have in the past been hopefully but speciously attributed to the young Edgar Allan Poe. Early and contemporary annotations and ownership signatures in pencil.

London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by A. Millar, 1743, 1743. First edition, ordinary paper issue. ESTC N11032; Cross III, pages 308-09. Edges a little rubbed; one label chipped; a few hinges starting, but sound; very good copy in contemporary state.. 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary smooth brown calf, marbled endpapers, spines in six compartments with gilt decorations, brown and black morocco spine labels, gilt lettering. 22-page list of subscribers. An important work by Henry Fielding (1707-54), an assemblage of poems, essays, satires, dialogues, plays and prose fiction, several examples of which appear here for the first time, including his novel The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild (one of the great works in the literature of roguery) and A Journey from This World to the Next. Fielding personally supervised the compiling of Miscellanies, and it was his only privately published ("Printed for the Author") work. Contemporary bookplate of George Garnier on the front paste-downs, below which is the modern… Read More

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

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.