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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857, 1857. First edition. NCBEL III, 1610. Cloth faded and worn at the spine and edges; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering. Eight pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions, a novel written in the form of the diary of Charles Thorndale, is one of the great 19th century fictional works of ideas and philosophical and religious opinions; and it remains enjoyable today. It is only one of two works by miscellaneous writer, poet and philosopher William Henry Smith (1808-1872), whom the ODNB describes as "one of the most solid and productive of the denizens of the Victorian literary world to have been completely forgotten."

London: Printed for B. and J. White, 1796, 1796. First edition. ESTC T138168; NCBEL II, 1561. Very good copy in a handsome contemporary binding.. Small 8vo, contemporary black half calf, red paper boards, gilt decorations in five compartments on the spine, gilt lettering. Without the half-title. Three clever dialogues by William Gilpin (1724-1804), the educator and writer on the picturesque, purporting to be conversations between one Dr. Joseph Frampton and the famous theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), as copied from a manuscript found in Frampton's library when it was sold at auction in 1730. The subjects discussed between Stillingfleet and Frampton include matters that are proper for clergymen to partake in outside their pastoral duties, such as shooting, playing cards, attending theater, gardening, riding horses, etc. Gilpin's first published book in 1748 was a dialogue on gardens. 20th century bookplate of Charles Benson on the front paste-down.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1820, 1820. First edition. Pine-Coffin 819-3; Robinson, Wayward Women, pages 44-45; see the ODNB. Edges slightly rubbed; some light foxing; very good copy in contemporary state.. 8vo, original gray boards skillfully rebacked, recent printed paper label, untrimmed. Frontispiece and five plates after sketches by Charles Eastlake. With errata, directions for the binder and four pages of advertisements between the front endpapers for the Literary Gazette, dated June 20, 1820. A travel narrative revealing of the adventurous and fearless nature of its author, Maria Graham (1785-1842). In the summer of 1819, she, her husband and the artist Charles Eastlake ventured into the mountains east of Rome, to the villages of Poli, near Tivoli and Palestrina, to escape the heat, but where it was known that the roads and locales were controlled by the dreaded banditti. Foreigners were discouraged from visiting this region and that… Read More

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867, 1867. First edition. BAL 11241, state A with the title leaf a cancel; Wright II, 1507. Edges slightly rubbed; paper a shade browned; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind- and gilt-decorated dark green cloth, gilt lettering. The first book and only work of fiction by poet and musician Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), a novel set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War, which uses the conflict as a backdrop to examine and contrast the complicated nature of man. We first purchased this copy from Booked Up in Georgetown in 1985 and quickly sold it through a catalogue to a collector in Virginia. Recently we re-purchased this from a dealer representing that collector. In the intervening years we have not had a copy of Tiger-Lilies, though we have seen a few beat-up ones.

(San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press), 1921, 1921. First edition, privately printed, one of 120 copies signed by Sterling. Mattila A24; BAL 18795; Grabhorn Bibliography 32. Boards a little dust-soiled and rubbed at the edges; very good copy of one of Sterling's least common works.. 4to, original printed gray paper boards, 12 pages. A popular poem by San Francisco poet George Sterling (1869-1926), privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for the San Francisco patron-of-the-arts Albert Bender. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear Dick, I hope you'll like my dancing girl? Yours ever, George. San Francisco, June 16, 1921."

Gardiner, Maine: Printed for the Author, 1896, 1896. First edition, one of 312 copies privately printed. Wrappers skillfully repaired at the spine; some light foxing; fine copy, enclosed in clamshell case.. 12mo, original printed blue wrappers (text loose in wrappers, two-inch split at the heel of the spine, occasional light foxing), 44 pages. Edwin Arlington Robinson's scarce first book, a collection of 43 poems written between 1889 and 1896. The manuscript was rejected by commercial publishers and Robinson resorted to self-publishing it in an edition of 312 copies, which he distributed to friends and family; none were for sale. Of the original 312 copies, only 56 (including this copy) were located in Carl J. Weber's census in 1947 (Colby College Library Quarterly). An early presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page to "W. R. Gay / From E. A. Robinson / 7 December 1896." There are only two recorded copies with an earlier presentation (both dated December 4), and three others are known to have… Read More

London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712, 1712. First edition translated into English, issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. Text lightly foxed and browned; binding rubbed; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf rebacked, black leather label, gilt lettering. Five engraved plates (four folding), 15 engravings in the text and vignettes. An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), a French Benedictine monk who was a pioneer in the disciplines of paleography and archaeology. In 1698 Montfaucon traveled to Italy to study antiquities and manuscripts, the results of which were published in Paris in 1702 as Diarium Italicum. It was translated into English in 1711 and published by Edmund Curll. There is an issue with a second title-page that reads "Diarium Italicum: or, a Journey Through Italy, London 1711." It appears, as stated in ESTC, to be the same setting of type as… Read More

London: Printed by Richard Bishop, 1651, 1651. The last 17th century edition. ESTC R12723; Wing B547; NCBEL I, 1083. Paper a little browned; some light foxing; early ink doodling on the title-page; edges slightly rubbed; very good copy.. Small 8vo, modern dark green morocco by MacDonald, gilt rules and lettering, a.e.g. A popular mid-Tudor work on moral philosophy by the poet, satirist and printer William Baldwin (circa 1518-1563?), "a literary innovator whose works influenced writers as historically distant and as thematically diverse as Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and Alexander Pope" - ODNB. A Treatise was first published in 1547 and many editions in the 16th century. "In his Treatise, Baldwin [adapted] the precepts of the philosophers to the practical needs of would-be governors and gentlemen without robbing them of the mystique - the impression they gave of skimming the surface of unplumbed esoteric depths - that made them attractive." See R. W. Maslen, "William Baldwin and the Politics of… Read More

London: Printed by George Cawthorn, Bookseller and Printer to the Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, 1803, 1803. First edition in English. Boards slightly stained; a few clean tears in the margins; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, original drab boards rebacked with tan paper spines and new printed paper labels, untrimmed. The first English translation of Madame de Stael's impressive survey of literature in historical perspective, De la Litterature Consideree dans ses Rapports avec les Institutions Sociales, a work that touches on pretty much all of Western literature from the Greek and Latin classics to Elizabethan literature and theatre, including a lengthy section on Shakespeare and the English novel and poetry of the 18th century. French writer and novelist Madame de Stael (1766-1817) was an admirer of England and made numerous literary friends there on her extended visits. Early round embossed stamp of a Boston church library on the title-pages; tear in the upper margins of the title-pages, to… Read More

Taunton: Printed by and for Thomas Norris; London: Sold by Carpenter, E. Newbery, Hurst and Co., [et al], (1800), 1800. First edition; there were two subsequent editions. ESTC T108778 records five copies in the British Isles (BL [2], Morrab, Oxford, Somerset; and five in North America (HEH, Columbia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Harvard [2] and Morgan). Very good copy, enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell case.. 8vo, later brown paper wrappers, typed label on the upper wrapper, 43 pages. Woodcut plan after the title-page; without half-title. A trial for the crime of shoplifting which achieved great notoriety in its time and remains interesting today for the fact that the accused, Jane Leigh Perrot, was the aunt of novelist Jane Austen and a regular presence in her life in Bath. There were three witnesses for the prosecution and over twelve (primarily character witnesses) for the defense, in addition to Mrs. Perrot's statement on her behalf. The jury was out for about fifteen minutes and then… Read More

London: Printed for T. Harris and Sold by C. Corbet, 1744, 1744. Second edition; first published in 1637. ESTC T51881. Fine copy.. 8vo, disbound, 30 pages. The story of a famous miser who operated a ferry boat on the Thames, near where the London Bridge eventually went. John Overs was frugal to a fault, and from his appearance it was thought he was poor. But he died a rich man, leaving wealth to his beautiful daughter.

London: John Murray, 1821, 1821. See NCBEL II, 643. Edges a little rubbed; preliminary binder's blank detached; very good copy.. 8vo, later olive half calf, marbled paper boards and matching endpapers, gilt lettering, a.e.g. A collection of the writings of William Lisle Bowles (1752-1860) in which he defends himself against attacks he had received from Byron, Thomas Campbell, Octavius Gilchrist (a "Certain Critic and Grocer") and others over his treatment of Alexander Pope in the ten-volume edition of Pope's works that Bowles edited. The pamphlet war that ensued became known as the "Pope Controversy" and here Bowles presents the lion's share of it with notes. See Cecil Woolf, "Some Uncollected Authors," The Book Collector, Autumn, 1958, for an interesting account of Bowles, and the DNB.