New York: Macmillan; Cambridge: University Press, 1941. First American edition, 4 vols., 8vo, dust-jackets slightly chipped at spine extremities, else very good. Outstanding compilation, indispensable, and including material left out of The New Cambridge Bibliography which was published in 1974. More
Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 282; original cloth in pale purple pictorial dust jacket; jacket spine faded, top edge a bit chipped and shelf-worn, else very good and sound. Author inscription to Gwin Kolb signed "Jim" on front free endpaper. More
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1938. Edition limited to 250 copies printed at the Merrymount Press, 8vo, pp. [4], 28, [4]; pictorial title-page, 4 plates; orig. red cloth, gilt-titled spine, t.e.g., negligible wear, generally a fine copy. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mr. Roy J...... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 230; rear free endpaper with a bizarre paper flaw, otherwise a very good, sound copy in original maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. This copy with an inscription by the author on the front fre endpaper: "Greater love hath..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 669; publisher's navy cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-lettered spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, else a very good copy. More
Athens & London: Univ. of Georgia Press[1998]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [6], 259; vignette title-p.; fine in dust-jacket. With a letter of transmittal from the publisher to Gwin Kolb. More
London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly ... and by William Creech, Edinburgh, 1778. First London edition (the work first appeared in Edinburgh in 1776), 8vo, pp. [6], 555; full contemporary calf neatly rebacked, preserving the old red morocco label; very good, sound copy. Beattie (1735-1803), the Scots moral philosopher..... More
London: printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, 1816. 12mo, pp. [3], 6-16, [1]-176; inserted engraved vignette title page, 5 engraved plates by Charles Heath after Richard Westall; contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards; extremities rubbed, a little bit of cracking of the calf along the joints;..... More
London: William Pickering, 1831. Small 8vo, engraved portrait, Pickering's vignette anchor & dolphin device on title page; early 20th century half brown morocco by Riviere, gilt paneled spines in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, t.e.g.; fine. Issued as part of the publisher's Aldine British Poets series. Contains a memoir..... More
London: Edward and Charles Dilly; Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and W. Creech, 1773. 8vo, pp. vi, [9]-518; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine, red morocco label; very good copy. Beattie (1735-1803), the Scots moral philosopher and poet, was acquainted with Monboddo, Pope, Johnson, and many other notables of the day, and was..... More
[Iowa City: Iowa Center for the Book, 1983]. Edition limited to 61 signed and numbered copies consisting of 52 editioned copies plus 9 unnumbered author's, artist's, and printer's proofs, this being the printer Kim Merker's own copy and marked 'PP." Large quarto, pp. [8], 39, [17]; original black niger morocco..... More
London: J. Debrett, 1802. Small 4to, pp. [iii]-xiv, [15]-360; engraved allegorical frontispiece, 2 engraved plates; very good copy in contemporary diced russia, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate of Lucius O'Brien. More
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Edition limited to 1550 copies (this no. 1485), 8vo, pp. [4], 172, [2]; colored stenciled illustrations done at the Curwen Press; original vellum-backed orange paper-covered boards with an Arabic design, t.e.g. on the rough; edges rubbed; very good. The first new translation of this classic tale..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1895. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 173, [1]; illustrated title page printed in red and black, plain text illustrations throughout; original brown pictorial cloth by Crane stamped in gilt, red and black, t.e.g.; spine a touch cocked, some minor offsetting to endpapers; contemporary..... More
[New York: De Vinne Press], n.d., [ca. 1912]. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 233; title within red ruled border; handsomely printed on handmade paper; full brown crushed levant by the Bagle Art Bindery, double gilt rule on covers enclosing a central double gilt-ruled panel, floral elements in the corners, gilt decorated..... More
London: printed and sold by the author, also sold by P. Elmsly, opposite Southampton-Street, Strand; Longman and Broderip, Musick Sellers, No. 26, Cheapside, and No. 13, Haymarket ; Thompson, Musick Seller, No. 75, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1783. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 62, [2]; wrappers wanting, stitching perished; very good..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1974]. First edition, review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. [8], 129; fine copy in the dust jacket. More
London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 332, [4] ads; publisher's green cloth with gilt title on spine; light toning and edgewear: good and sound overall. Laid in is an autograph postcard signed by Benson on Magdalene College, Cambridge letterhead, where Benson served as headmaster..... More
London & New York: John Lane, 1897. First edition, slim 12mo, pp. [2], viii, 73, [1],; 12-p. John Lane catalogue bound in at the back; very good, sound copy in orig. beige buckram. Benson (1862-1925) was master of Magdalene College, Cambridge; a poet, essayist, novelist, and friend extraordinaire of many..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 393; vignettes after Blake at section headings throughout; original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, lacking the dust jacket; negligible wear to extremities, a few scrapes and light rubbing to boards; otherwise very good. More
Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1983. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 302; frontis. of Furnivall and 8 plates; mint in jacket. Furnivall (1825-1910) was a scholar of English language and literature who played a crucial role in origins of the Oxford English Dictionary. He was also a founder of several..... More
Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1983. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi-[xii], 302; frontis. of Furnivall and 8 plates; mint in jacket. Furnivall (1825-1910) was a scholar of English language and literature who played a crucial role in origins of the Oxford English Dictionary. He was also a founder of literary societies..... More
Dublin: reprinted by, and for George Faulkner, 1738. 8vo, pp. xiv, 310; contemporary calf boards; 19th-century rebacking; leather scuffed around board edges; head of title page clipped and mended; otherwise very good. A fictional story about an Italian man who discovers a mythical paradise called Mezzoramia in the African desert..... More
London: J. Tonson, 1732. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [14], 356; [8], 218; engraved vignette title-pp.; bound with, as issued, An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, pp. [12], [215]-351; several woodcuts in the text; full contemporary calf, double gilt rules on covers, unlettered spines in 6 compartments, volume designations..... More
New Haven: From Sidney's hress. [sic]: Increase Cooke & Co, 1803. 8vo, pp. xiii, [2], 16-388, [2] ads; contemporary full mottled calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; very good copy. An early owner has neatly written extracts from the book in ink on the front free endpaper; p. [iii]..... More
