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
English Literature
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
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
A cradle song
Iowa City: The Roberta Press, June, 1959. Edition limited to 90 copies handset in Arrighi Italic type, "printed on Okawara and Venezia papers, with covers of Omi, by N.R.K., at the Typographic Laboratory in the School of Journalism, State University of Iowa." 8vo, pp. [4]; mounted etching printed in sepia..... More
One of twelve bound in parchment and with hand-colored woodcuts
Genesis. Verses from a manuscript of William Blake
[Cummington, Mass.]: [1951-2]. Edition limited to 170 copies (this, out-of-series and unsigned, but see below) printed at the Cummington Press October 1951 to March 1952 by Wightman Williams "who cut the woodblocks, and Harry Duncan who set the type," 4to, pp. xxviii; printed in red, blue and black; original full..... More
A letter from William Blake
[Northampton, Mass. Gehenna Press, 1964. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 254), 16mo, pp. [16]; fine in original marbled wrappers; From the library of Kim Merker. The text is Blake's letter to Thomas Butts dated January 10, 1802. Baskin 37. More
With four pen-and-ink illustrations by Eric Kennington
The poetical works ... 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, Edinburgh [et al.]: Oxford University Press, 1913. Oxford Edition, 8vo, pp. lvi, 453, [1]; frontispiece portrait, 15 plates showing title pages of Blake's books; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front hinge starting, else very good. This copy enhanced with an inscription from Celandine..... 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
Who knew Shakespeare? What was his reputation in his lifetime?
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, [1965]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 13-97, [1]; title page in red and black; fine copy in the dust jacket. Froim the library of Kim Merker. Cheever 146. 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
Tributes to the dead: consisting of more than two hundred epitaphs, many of the original compositions, suitable for persons of all ages and circumstances
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1830. 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 98, [2] ads; vignette title (repeated as a tail-piece), some spotting and foxing, but a good copy in orig. printed paper-covered boards, neatly rebacked. Epitaphs are included under eight sections: infancy, youth, manhood, age, general, speedy death, sudden death, and..... 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
Boswell's Life of Johnson including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887. First Hill edition and one of the finest of all editions of this classic work; 6 volumes, large 8vo, 14 plates including frontispieces, facsimiles (some folding) and a map; generally a fine set in original green cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Pottle 98: "This has so long held..... More
The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson … containing some poetical pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the tour, and never before published: a series of his conversation, literary anecdotes, and opinions of men and books … From the London edition, revised and corrected by the author
Philadelphia: John F. Watson, 1810. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 412; contemporary marbled boards rebacked and retipped, new red morocco label on spine; title a bit browned, else a very good, sound copy. Another edition was published in Boston later the same year. "Though the Life is a...... More
The life of Samuel Johnson
Oxford: William Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 [i.e. 1827]. First Pickering edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait of Boswell and Round Robin plate and a facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; contemporary full blindstamped calf, gilt decorated spines, a.e.g.; light wear to the spines but on the whole very good..... 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
