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London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786, 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. Title page a little spotted and browned; very good copy.. 8vo, modern brown quarter calf period style, marbled paper boards, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie, with music by James Hook (1746-1827). A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook, the wife of James Hook. She is the acknowledged anonymous author of two other plays James Hook was involved with, The Double Disguise and the Irish Lad (both 1784).

San Francisco: Printed at the Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864, 1864. First edition. BAL 7237; Cowan, page 595. Wrappers a little dust-soiled, but essentially a fine copy.. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 31 pages. An eight-stanza poem written for the 14th anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers that juxtaposes the calmness of California to the violence of the Civil War in the Eastern states. "Poem" is one of Harte's earliest appearances in print, three years before his first book.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888, 1888. First edition. Edges of the cloth skillfully repaired; very good copy.. 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. Errata slip between pages 4 & 5. The scarce collected poems by the Concord minister and author David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887), one of the most highly regarded of the Transcendentalist writers, whose poems had previously only appeared in periodicals. This posthumous collection - Wasson's first and only book - was compiled with a preface by Ednah Dow Cheney, who also wrote about Louisa May Alcott and edited her letters and journals. Bookplate on the front paste-down of James Vila Blake (1842-1925), Unitarian minister, writer, poet, and playwright (see Wikipedia), with an inscription to him in pencil, dated Christmas, 1887. Annotations in pencil by Blake in the margins and rear endpapers, commenting on the poems. Blake attended Harvard College in the 1860s and served in several Unitarian churches in the Boston area, before… Read More

New York: Published by J. W. Bell, 1836, 1836. First edition. BAL 3300, state 2; American Imprints 36726; and see Robert Fraker, "Stomach for Them All: Collecting Minor American Verse in the Twenty-First Century," PBSA, Vol. 107, No. 3, 2015. Early ink signature partially erased from the front paste-down; some light foxing; cloth a little spotted and rubbed; but overall an unusually fine copy.. 12mo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering on the upper board. Frontis portrait. A collection of approximately 100 poems by McDonald Clarke (1798-1842), a.k.a. "The Mad Poet of Broadway," a beloved but enigmatic figure of New York's Knickerbocker literary scene and a model of the stereotypical forlorn but talented and deserving poet. Bookseller Robert Fraker wrote in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society that the "erratic, occasionally sublime, and startlingly modern lines of McDonald Clarke, neglected and absent from anthologies, could be read for insights into the poetry of Walt Whitman, who thought… Read More

Lambeth: Printed (For Private Distribution Only) at the Author's Private Press, 1829, 1829. First edition. NCBEL III, 1134; Copac records two copies (BL and Cambridge); OCLC adds Aberdeen and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Edges rubbed; very good copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary black morocco, skillfully rebacked, gilt decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Frontis portrait of the author after a portrait by R. Reading. Bound in before the portrait is a ten-page manuscript of Monceieff's poem "An Allegory," signed and dated September 20, 1845. A collection of about 100 poems in several forms by the playwright, theatre manager, miscellaneous writer and apparently occasional printer, as well. William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857) was a self-described "hack," and a prolific one, who specialized in adapting novels for the stage and who made what little money he could in theatre and literary work of any kind. A few years after this volume was published, Moncrieff began struggling with progressive blindness.… Read More

New York: Published by Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, 1818, 1818. First collected edition. BAL 23331; Stoddard & Whitesell 1215; American Bibliography 46864. Binding somewhat worn, but sound; text moderately to heavily foxed; a good copy.. 12mo, contemporary sheep, black leather label, gilt rules and lettering. Frontis portrait. ¶ The scarce collected verse of Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842), with a 10-page biographical sketch of the author by the publishers, Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, who state that one of the purposes of publication is to help relieve Woodworth's pecuniary misfortunes. Woodworth, poet, printer, playwright and journalist, was a regular and interesting fixture in the Knickerbocker literary scene.

London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White, 1805, 1805. First and only edition. See Colbert, Women's Travel Writing, 1780-1840. Original paper spine skillfully repaired; spine label almost gone; boards a little rubbed; but a fine copy in original state, enclosed in a cloth clamshell case.. 4to, original tan paper spine and blue paper boards, printed paper label, untrimmed. Two aquatint engravings by R. Pollard. Eight page list of subscribers. Topographically inspired poetry about Turkey, Syria and Greece by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1804), posthumously edited by his sister Susanna Maria Carlyle (1752-1833), handsomely printed by William Bulmer and illustrated with two fine aquatints by the artist and engraver Robert Pollard (1755-1838). Susanna Maria Carlyle's role in this publication was essential and hence Benjamin Colbert recognizes her contribution in his bibliography of Women's Travel Writing. Small book labels of Ruari McLean and J. O. Edwards on… Read More

[London]: Reprinted for Thomas Evans, [1775], 1775. First Evans edition. ESTC T138089; Jaggard, page 435 ("Perhaps edited by E. Cappell"); Lowndes, page 2308. Slight wear to the edges of the binding, otherwise a fine, handsome copy in contemporary state, about as nice a copy as one could ask for.. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label, gilt decorations and lettering. Engraved portrait on the title-page by Alexander Bannerman. An attractive 18th century edition of Shakespeare's poems, printed in a style similar to E. Cappell's 1767-68 edition of the Works and sometimes thought to be intended as a supplement to that edition. This edition preserves the order (and the doubtful poems) of the 1640 edition and adds an index.

London: Printed by A. Paris, for J. Egerton, W. Richardson, and Fletcher and Hanwell, Oxford, 1794, 1794. First edition. NCBEL II, 674; ESTC T43580, which describes two issues, one with a dated title-page and one without. Edges a little rubbed; some light to moderate foxing; very good copy.. 4to, later catspaw calf, red morocco spine labels, gilt decorations and lettering. Frontis portrait. Seven-page list of subscribers. With half-title. The selected works of William Julius Mickle (1734-88), Scottish poet, translator and miscellaneous author, published by subscription for the benefit of his son. The works are preceded by a memoir of Mickle, which is interspersed with correspondence between Mickle and George Lyttleton. See the ODNB. Ink inscription dated 1946 on the front blank.

London: Printed for J. Payne, 1767, 1767. First edition. Scott, pages 197-98; Tinker 1115; Rothschild 1029. Endpapers browned and slightly chipped at the edges from the leather turn-ins; very good copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary calf rebacked, brown leather label, gilt lettering. Frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion. An anthology of mostly 18th century poems deemed suitable for ladies, anonymously compiled and with an introduction by Oliver Goldsmith. Included are works by Pope, Addison, Moore, Parnell, Thomson, Dryden, Swift, Collins, Gay and Goldsmith himself. - but none by ladies!

London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by Messrs. Wilkie, [1787], 1787. First edition. ESTC N25028 records two copies (Yale and HEH); COPAC adds BL; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 286. Frontis lightly foxed; fine copy.. 12mo, period-style tan paper spine and marbled boards by Philip Dusel, untrimmed. Frontispiece. Eight-page list of subscribers. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's fiction, notably The Little Family, published in 1797, and Edmund, a Tale for Children, in 1802, but little else about her appears to be known. This substantial collection of 70 poems is quite polished. Most are domestic in theme, but several show a passionate awareness of poverty and social injustice. There are also four poems written to or about author and philanthropist Jonas Hanway (1712-1786), apparently a family friend. And there is a poem on at least one other notable subject: "On Reading an Advertisement of a New Invented Method to Walk in the Air": "No more… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al., 1803, 1803. First edition. Cloth a little worn; some scattered foxing; very good copy.. 2 vols in 1, small 8vo, 19th century blue-green pebbled cloth, gilt lettering. Frontispieces. 26-page list of subscribers. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine, and poems to David Garrick, Charles Churchill, Lord Chesterfield, William Cowper, Philip Thicknesse, and Edmund Burke, among others. The poems previously appeared in self-published broadsides and periodicals. In 1810 Rickman published an Elegy to the Memory of Thomas Paine and in 1819 an important biography of Paine.

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1807, 1802. The 1801, 02 & 05 volumes are second editions; the 1803-04 volumes are first editions. Lowndes, page 1901; NCBEL III, 1873; Brewer, Leigh Hunt, pages 15-16; ODNB. Light foxing and smudges; very good copies.. 5 vols, 8vo, modern brown quarter calf period style, marbled paper boards, black morocco spine labels, gilt lettering. In 1801 Richard Alfred Davenport (1776-1852), an aspiring poet and energetic author, began independently issuing an annual compendium of contemporary English poetry. Davenport believed that England lacked an annual, like the French Almanach des Muses, that reflected the depth and strength of its poets. He solicited the help of Sir Egerton Brydges, Thomas Park and Anna Seward, among others, for obtaining contributions. The initial volume was a work of almost 500 pages, containing hundreds of poems, organized by Original Poetry (including sections dedicated to sonnets), Ancient Poetry (the contribution of Brydges), Fugitive… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co., [1891-1897], 1891. First edition, limited issue, number 45 of 110 numbered copies. Cited numerous times in NCBEL III under the individual poets. Some slight wear, soiling and small cracks and wrinkles in the vellum; in very good condition.. 10 vols, small 8vo, original white parchment, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. An exemplary poetical anthology, covering the whole of 19th century English poetry, more or less chronologically, from Crabbe, William Blake and the Romantics to Meynell, Le Gallienne, Bridges, Yeats and the poets of the 1890s. It is, as Miles states in the preface, an "Encyclopedia of Modern Poetry." Each entry is preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author, many of which were written by contributors other than the compiler, viz: Richard Garnett, J.A. Symonds, Cosmo Monkhouse, Alexander Japp, Arthur Symons, Yeats, Le Gallienne, Buxton Forman, Robert Bridges, et al. Among the many notable entries is Gerard Manley Hopkins' first appearance in… Read More

Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1819, 1819. First edition. NCBEL III, 1463. Fine copy.. 8vo, original plain blue wrappers, [16] pages, a.e.g. Engraved title-page. The first book by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59), a 13-page poem of 280 stanzas on the popular classical subject, Pompeii and its famous destruction. Like many first books by noted English authors, Pompeii was a prize poem, which Macaulay delivered at the Cambridge commencement July, 1819. When copies of Pompeii were bound, the handsome engraved title-page , present here, was often discarded. This copy also has the unusual distinction of having all the edges gilt, including the edges of the wrappers, which is perhaps the case on all copies in the wrappers?

(London:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799, 1799. The earliest recorded portrait of Thomas John Dibdin. NCBEL III, 1129-30. One crease; in fine condition. Rare.. Hand-colored etching, 20.5 x 16.5 cm, with the caption "Sans Souci, Jun." With the portrait is the manuscript note: "This Portrait of myself / taken in the palmy days of white neckcloths and frills / when I was, as you see, rather younger than at present, is presented / by Thomas Dibdin April 28, 1841." Around the image of Dibdin are depictions of his plays and songs. A fine portrait of the actor and writer, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), who like the other famous thespian Dibdins, was involved in the English theater from an early age. Thomas John was one of three illegitimate children of Charles Dibdin and actress Harriet Pitt, and in his early years on stage he used the name "T. Merchant" and his writings were published anonymously, a fact that the artist Dighton makes a playful reference to in giving the… Read More

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Sün Evrard. First edition. In fine condition.. 8vo, white calf spine, blue morocco boards with narrow white and red rule inlays, title in blue on a narrow white leather label. Enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell box. David Belch, proprietor of the Scarab Press and well-known biblio-bon vivant of the San Francisco Bay Area (circa 1960s-2010), commissioned several fine binders to design and produce bindings on Printing Poetry by Clifford Burke, that he had published to wide acclaim in 1980. Three of the binders were Sün Evrard of La Celle Les Bordes, France; Louise Genest of Outremont, Quebec; and Eleanore E. Ramsey of San Francisco. This binding bears Evrard's blind-stamped name on the front paste-down and blind-stamped "FIE" on the rear paste-down. On the colophon page, Evrard has neatly struck through in pencil the statement that the binding was by Cardoza-James of San Francisco (who were the binders for… Read More

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Louise Genest. First edition. Fine copy enclosed in a clamshell case.. 8vo, brown morocco (Oasis goatskin), inlaid decorative letters, 3-D pop-up on the upper and lower board, colored edges. David Belch, proprietor of the Scarab Press and well-known biblio-bon vivant of the San Francisco Bay Area (circa 1960s-2010), commissioned several fine binders to design and produce bindings on Printing Poetry by Clifford Burke, that he had published to wide acclaim in 1980. Three of the binders were Sün Evrard of La Celle Les Bordes, France; Louise Genest of Outremont, Quebec; and Eleanore E. Ramsey of San Francisco. Enclosed is Genest's statement about the design of the binding, signed and dated October 26, 2003, with the receipt for her fee: $3,500.00.

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Eleanore E. Ramsey of San Francisco. First edition. In fine condition.. 8vo, olive green morocco wrap-around binding with a magnetic closure on the upper board, designs tooled with oasis and morocco inlays, spine title tooled in white. David Belch, proprietor of the Scarab Press and well-known biblio-bon vivant of the San Francisco Bay Area (circa 1960s-2010), commissioned several fine binders to design and produce bindings on his publication Printing Poetry by Clifford Burke, that he had published to wide acclaim in 1980. Eleanore E. Ramsey, one of the most celebrated designer hand book binders of her generation, was a logical choice for one of the commissions. Holograph statement laid in from Ramsey, dated "2/93" describing her work on the binding, which was in early 1993, with the final note "Binder requests permission to show the book in eventual retrospective exhibition and to be contacted on change of… Read More

See Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1163-1172; ESTC T20784; T20781; T20780; T20726 and T45401; NCBEL II, 812. Some minor foxing, browning and stains; overall the pamphlets are in very good condition, with wide margins; enclosed in quarter morocco clamshell box.. 5 vols, 4to, uniformly bound with attractive tan paper spines period-style and sprinkled paper boards with manuscript titles on the spines. A gathering of five important pamphlets dealing with the acrimonious dispute between two groups of partners of the Covent Garden Theatre - usually referred to as the "Proprietors' Dispute" - a quarrel that began in 1767 when two of the partners, Thomas Harris and John Rutherford, attempted to insert mistresses - particularly one Mrs. Lessingham - into the theatre company and have them cast in unsuitable roles. Harris and Rutherford squared off with George Colman and William Powell, the opposing partners, for over a year of accusations and counter accusations that resulted in a… Read More