English Literature
Poems and essays ... The fourteenth edition. Published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath.
Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell... 1815. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 273; slightly later full straight-grain black morocco with elaborate filigree border in gilt on both covers enclosing a central gilt- and blind-stamped panel with 2 gilt-ruled interlocking lozenges, gilt-lettered direct on an elaborate gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g.; minor wear at the..... More
Poems and essays, by the late Miss Bowdler. Tenth edition. Published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath
Bath: printed by R. Cruttwell and sold by C. Dilly, Poultry, J. Robson and T. Hookham, New Bond-Street, London, and N. R. Cheyne, Edinburgh, 1798. Tenth edition, royal 4to, pp. xii, 232; largely unopened; errata slip tipped in at the table of content; engraved portrait frontispiece by Meadows after Lawrence;..... More
Anthony Trollope a new judgement.
New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1946. First American edition, 16mo, pp. [6], 35, [2]; fine in orig. marbled boards, orig. tissue jacket with chips and tears. A one-act play by Bowen, with Trollope as the main character. With a portrait, a map, a facsimile of Trollope's handwriting, and..... More
Hope, an allegorical sketch, on recovering slowly from sickness
London: printed for Dilly, in the Poultry; Cadell and Davies, in the Strand; and Crutwell, at Bath, 1796. First edition, 4to, pp. [6], 18; stitched, as issued; first and last page dusty and slightly stained, first leaf with top corner chipped, stitching compromised; all else very good. More
The poetical works…with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.
New York: D. Appleton, 1855. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. iv, 368; xx, 331; original smooth tan calf, spines in six compartments, stamped in gilt, red and green leather labels on each vol. lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers; bindings rubbed, still a very good, attractive set. More
Edith Sitwell.
The Ramparts, Monaco: Lyrebird Press, 1947. First edition, issued in the publisher's Contemporary British Poets series, tall 8vo, pp. 41, [3]; photo frontis of Sitwell by Baron; original tan wrappers printed in black and yellow; some cracking along the joints, else very good. This copy inscribed "To Mrs. Bernard Henize..... More
Rejected addresses, or the new theatrum poetarum with an introduction, notes and a bibliography.
London: Constable & Co., 1929. Limited edition, 1 of 1000 copies, small 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 181, [3]; frontispiece, plates, text illustrations after George Cruikshank; original white cloth over marbled boards; spine darkened, edges rubbed, otherwise very good. Written, but rejected, for the reopening of the Drury Lane Theater in..... More
The letters of Pliny the Younger with observations on each letter; and an essay on Pliny's life, addressed to Charles Lord Boyle.
London: printed by James Bettenham for Paul Vaillant, 1751. First edition, 2 vols., 4to, pp. [4], lxxxvii, [1], 440, [16]; [4], 509, [1], [30] index, [1] explanation of the copperplates; engraved vignette title-pp. by J. Vander Gucht, engraved initials, tail- and head-pieces designed by S. Wale and engraved by J...... More
Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; in a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamiltron Boyle. The second edition, corrected.
London: A. Millar, 1752. 8vo, pp. [2], 214, [8]; engraved frontis portrait of Swift; contemporary and probably original calf-backed marbled boards, label perished but a good, sound, venerable copy of the first biography of Swift, first published in Dublin in November, 1751. For rthe first London edition of the same..... More
The bankrupt beauty: David Garrick's unpublished poem to the honourable Mrs. Bouverie
[N. p.]: The Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1992. Edition limited to 250 copies, 4to, pp. [20] including 8 full-page plates (1 portrait, 7 facsimiles); a fine copy in the original saddle-stitched light tan wrappers printed in brown on front wrap. More
An historical treatise of cities and burghs or boroughs. Shewing their original, and whence, and from whom, they received their liberties, privileges, and immunities; what they were, and what made and constituted a free burgh and free burgesses. As also shewing when they first sent their representatives to Parliament. With a concurrent discourse of most matters and things incident or relating thereto.
London: printed for A.L. and sold by D. Browne [et al.], 1711. An uncommon variant of the second edition (1704); first published in 1690; folio, pp. [2], iv, 84; 25-26; 89-88 (i.e. 92); 1-41 (i.e. 43); many errors in pagination but the book is complete; contemporary full mottled calf, gilt-decorated..... More
The autobiography of Sir John Bramston, K.B., of Skreens, in the hundred of Chelmsford; now first printed from the original MS.
London: for the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nicols and Son, 1845. Small 4to, pp. xx, 443; small crack at top of spine, else very good in orig. blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Bramston, a lawyer from Essex, was born in 1611 and lived, with all his..... More
Dictionary of phrase and fable giving the derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell ... Second edition
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, n.d., [ca. 1870s]. 8vo, pp. [iii], viii, 979, [1]; text in double column; later half red morocco over marbled boards by Macdonald, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, t.e.g.; fine, bright copy. Originally published in London in 1870, this American issue..... More
Leaves from a Leigh Hunt note-book
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press and of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer, 1932. Edition limited to 325 copies, small 8vo, pp. 39; original tan printed wrappers (a bit soiled), a near fine copy. More
Leigh Hunt and Charles Dickens. The Skimpole caricature
Cedar Rapids: Privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer, 1930. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. 35; original tan cloth-backed boards (some soiling), gilt-stamped spine, gilt mostly rubbed away, else a very good copy. Printed at the Torch Press. More
Some Lamb and Browning letters to Leigh Hunt
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer, 1924. Edition limited to 300 copies, small 8vo, pp. 43, [7] leaves of facsimile plates; original vegetable vellum-backed blue-grey boards (a bit soiled), top and fore-edges toned, interior fine. Printed at the Torch Press. More
An Exmoor scolding; in the propriety and decency of Exmoor language, between two sisters, Wilmot Moreman & Thomasin Moreman, as they were spinning. Also, an Exmoor Courtship...
Exon [i.e. Exeter]: A. Brice and B. Thorn, 1771. Seventh edition, "wherein are now first added such marginal notes, and a vocabulary or glossary, at the end, as seems necessary for explaining uncouth expressions, and interpreting barbarous words and phrases." Slim 8vo, pp. [2], iv, 3-60; original drab paper-covered boards..... More
J. P. Brissot, deputy of Eure and Loire, to his constituents, on the situation of the National Convention; on the influence of the Anarchists, and the evils it has caused; and on the necessity of annihilating that influence ignorer to save the Republic. Translated from the French. With a preface and occasional notes by the translator. A new edition
London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1794. 8vo, pp. xl, 121, [1], [6] Stockdale ads; in this copy the first gathering (pp. i-viii) is repeated; the translation is by William Burke, revised and with a lengthy preface by Edmund Burke, but purporting to be by the translator. First published in..... More
Rules and regulations of the Bristol Constitutional Club
Bristol: T. D. Taylor, Sons and Hawkins, "Times and Mirror Office" 1900. Small 8vo, pp. 31, [1]; original blue printed wrappers; vertical crease else near fine. A rather informative pamphlet as to the conservative politics of the West Country in the late 19th century. Includes an 8-page list of members..... More
A compleat history of the late war in the Netherlands. Together with an abstract of the Treaty of Utrecht
London: William Pearson for Thomas Ward, 1713. First edition, 1 volume in 2, 8vo, pp. [2] ads, [10], 23 (subscribers' list), [1], xvi, 218; [2], 221-448, [12] index; full contemporary paneled calf, gilt spines, red morocco labels; spines rubbed, small cracks starting at ends of joints, but generally a very..... More
Gustavus Vasa, the deliverer of his country. A tragedy. As it was to have been acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
London: R. Dodsley, 1739. First edition, regular issue, without the list of subscribers and with the price of "one shilling and six-pence" under the imprint on the title-p. 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 81, [4]; modern brown paper-covered boards, leather label on spine; title-p. browned and with a small chip at..... More
1914 and other poems
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. First American (copyright) edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 11-63, [1]; contemporary three-quarter blue morocco by Stikeman, gilt lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine; neatly rebacked with old spine laid down; a very good copy. Bound in at the front is a printed leaf..... More
The collected poems of Rupert Brooke. With an introduction by George Edward Woodberry and a biographical note by Margaret Lavington
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Reprint, 8vo, pp. 180; black and white photographic portrait plate; rebound in half red morocco over cloth (some dampstaining) by Maurin, gilt spine in 4 compartments, t.e.g; leather a touch scuffed, front flyleaf excised, fore-edge dampstained, else a good, quite nicely bound copy..... More
Religion in literature and religion in life. Being two papers written by...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1901. 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. [4], 58-[60]; rubricated title-page and chapter heads; a near fine copy in a darkened and somewhat tattered dust-jacket printed in green, t.e.g., page edges darkening. Brooke writes about Morris, Rossetti, Swinburne, Arnold, and Clough; Updike..... More