The arts of reading
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1960. 8vo, pp. xiv, 488; original blue cloth, white lettering to front and spine, fine; interior very slightly foxed, very good; no dustjacket. More
English Literature
The works of the learned Joseph Bingham ... Containing I. Origines Ecclesiasticae: or, The antiquities of the Christian Church. In twenty three books. II. A scholastical history of lay-baptism. In two parts. III. The French churches apology for the Church of England. IV. A discourse concerning the mercy of God to penitent sinners. In two volumes.
London: Robert Knaplock, 1726. First collected edition, 2 vols., folio, pp. [4], xxxi, [1], 831, [11] index; [16], 842, [2] ads; first title-p. printed in red and black, sectional titles, 2 engraved plates and 10 engraved maps by Herman Moll; contemporary full paneled calf, effectively rebacked, rehinged with cloth tape... More
English men of letters: William Hazlitt.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. 8vo, pp. viii, 230, [2]; jacket, t.e.g., slightly soiled, red lettering on spine faded, small fold near top edge on back cover, some brown spotting on paste-downs and free endpapers, hinges slightly cracked; else very good. More
Rudyard Kipling.
New York: Random House, [c1978]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 421; 34 photographic illus on rectos and versos of 8 plates; a fine, unread copy in very good dust jacket. More
The blame of kirk-buriall, tending to perswade cemiteriall civilitie. By Mr. William Birnie, minister of Lanark. Edited by W.B.D.D. Turnbull, Esq.
London: W. Pickering; Edinburgh: G.A. Douglas, 1833. One hundred copies printed, 4to, pp. xii, [44]; contemporary red roan-backed boards, gilt lettering on spine; some spotting of the text, especially at the back, old boards rubbed, worn, and soiled, but the binding is sound. A reprint of the very rare and... More
Obiter dicta.
London: Duckworth & Co., [1910]. 8vo, near fine sound copy in original blue cloth binding, gilt lettered, decorative stamp on both covers, slight wear, mild foxing throughout. First and second series. complete. More
A rogue's memoirs
London: Arthur H. Humphreys, 1912. First edition, square 16mo, pp. vii, [1], 83, [1]; three-quarter green levant over green linen sides by Bayntun, spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in 3, t.e.g.; 6 mounted reproductions of engravings printed in sepia; fine copy. In addition to the title essay, the book contains... More
Dirty hands or the true-born censor.
Cambridge: The Minority Press; Gordon Fraser at St. John's College, 1930. First edition, "Minority Pamphlet No. 5" in the publisher's series; 8vo. pp. 15, [16]; original tan wrappers printed in green, some wear and browning to extremities, the wrapper detached. The author's first book, a short essay on American censorship. More
Commentaries on the laws of England … A facsimile of the first edition of 1765-1769.
Chicago & London: Univ. of Chicago Pres, [1979]. First edition thus, 4 vols., 8vo, orig. terracotta cloth, gilt lettering on spine; fine. With Introductions by Stanley N. Katz, A. W. Brian Simpson, John H. Langbein, and Thomas A. Green. More
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres.
London: for A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1783. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. viii, 496; [4], 550, [17] index; engraved frontispiece portrait; full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in red and black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; some foxing, very good and sound. Hugh Blair (1718-1800)... More
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres.
Philadelphia: printed and sold by Robert Aitken, 1784. First American edition, 4to, pp. viii, 454, [12] index; full contemporary sheep with an early, primitive American rebacking in sheep, also with early resewing; old red morocco label showing through; the whole rubbed and worn, the sheep used in the rebacking is... More
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. The third edition.
London: for A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1787. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. 1; full contemporary calf, red morocco labels and green morocco numbering pieces on spines; minor wear but a very nice set. Hugh Blair (1718-1800) the famed Scots divine and professor... More
The book of Los
Lambeth: printed by Wm. Blake, 1793: [i.e. Paris: Trianon Press, 1976.]. Edition limited to 538 copies, this one of 480 bound in quarter morocco; 4to, pp. [18]; 5 hand-stenciled collotype illustrations; commentary and bibliographical history by Geoffrey Keynes; fine copy in publisher's slipcase. More
The book of Thel
[London & New York: Victor Gollancz [and] Payson and Clarke Ltd., 1928]. Edition limited to 1700 copies, this copy no. 672; slim 4to, pp. [18] printed on rectos only; original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine (faded and rubbed at extremities). Reproduced from a copy in the British Museum. More
Proverbs of Hell
Harper Woods, MI: Adagio Press, 1982. Edition limited to approximately 200 copies signed by Bahr (this, no. 16), 8vo, pp. [32]; printed in red, black and blue; fine copy in original brown printed wrappers, publisher's mailing envelope with this title printed on the address panel. Original prospectus laid in. More
Songs of innocence and of experience. Shewing the two contrary states of the human soul, 1789-1794
New York: Orion Press, 1967. 8vo, unpaginated; 55 color facsimiles with printed poem on facing page, text printed in black and brown; original blue cloth, gilt spine, in matching pictorial slip case; book spine and gilt toned, slip case a bit soiled; previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper... More
The poetical works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the minor prophetic books and selections from the four Zoas, Milton, & Jerusalem. Edited with an introduction and textual notes by John Sampson
London: Oxford University Press, 1925. 8vo, pp. lvi, 453, [1]; portrait frontispiece, 15 plates; original blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt; bookplates on both pastedowns; about fine. More
The celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare. Translated from the original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into verse by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
London: Reeves & Turner, 1892. First edition, square 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 125, [1]; original terracotta buckram lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; spine sunned, else near a near fine, largely unopened copy. Colbeck I, p. 73. More
A dissertation upon parties: in several letters to Caleb d'Anvers, Esq; … to which is prefixed, the life of the author, by Dr. Goldsmith. The tenth edition.
London: printed for T. Davies and T. Cadell, 1775. 8vo, pp. [2], liv, 316, [4] index; contemporary tree calf, rebacked in varnished buckram, manuscript label on spine; looks a lot nicer than it sounds; a good, sound copy. Goldsmith's Life was first included in the ninth edition of 1771, where... More
Johnson: the critical heritage..
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1971]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 457; slight crease to top edge of jacket, else fine. Interpretation and selection from the mass of critical writings on Johnson. Published in the Critical Heritage series. More
Eighteenth-century studies in honor of Donald F. Hyde
New York: Grolier Club, 1970. First edition, 8vo, xv, [1], 424, [2]; 4 plates; original cloth, slipcase; fine. Scholarly studies in eighteenth century literature, dedicated to former Grolier Club president Donald F. Hyde. More
Signed autograph manuscript titled "To the Cannons"
March 16, 1822. Single leaf (approx. 21.5 x 18.5 cm.); neat 1-inch tear from previous fold, else about fine. Clean manuscript copy of a 35-line poem, "To the Cannons / removed from the dismantled Fort of Sidmouth to sustain part of the Parish Church." Signed "L. Booker, LLD." Booker (1762-1835)... More
Lavengro; the scholar, the gypsy, the priest. In three volumes
London: John Murray, 1851. First ediiton, 8vo, 3 volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume I; original ribbed green cloth, paper labels on spines; a very good, sound set. Borrow's most controversial work which gained him innumerable critics and enemies. Autobiographical in content (although he denied it), Lavengro was a vitriolic... More
The life of Samuel Johnson and Journal of a tour to the Hebrides ... [Edited and] with a bibliographical introduction by Clement Shorter.
New York: printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922. Temple Bar Edition, limited to 785 copies, 10 volumes, 8vo, many fine illustrations through; original art vellum-backed brown paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine; fine set. Esteemed edition, beautifully printed. More
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works ... a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published ...
London: T. Cadell & W. Davis, 1807. Third Malone edition, 8vo, 4 volumes, frontispiece portrait, folding "Round Robin" plate, folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; full contemporary calf, red morocco labels; ex-Heriot's Hospital, with its name in gilt at the base of each spine, and with early an 19th century ex-libris... More
