New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by bother authors in a single inscription in which the authors alternated their writing.

London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A.K. Newman and Co. Leadenhall-Street, 1814. Scarce Minerva Press printing of Hervey’s proto-Gothic popular work. While not a gothic novel of which the Minerva Press was infamous, Meditations and Contemplations, with its somberness and sentimentalism, contained numerous elements later found in gothic fiction.....

Philadelphia: Hoffman & Morwitz, 1872. First Edition in English. Scarce first edition in English of the minor German childrens' works. Morgan, A Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation at 263. 3 copies located on Worldcat at the time of cataloguing.

Boston (128 Washington Street): Munroe and Francis, [n.d. 1824-1837]. First American Edition. First American Edition, and apparently only American edition of this work by the prolific English author. A presentable copy of a scarce American imprint. 16mo. viii; [9]-192pp. Matches Yale Shirley 1076. Publication date based on the.....

London: Charles Ollier, 1846. First edition (but see below). Chapter IV of John Carter’s Binding Variants in English Publishing 1820-1900 (London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1932) revolves around binding variants of this book. Carter notes several different binding variants and calls it “the prize exhibit in my collection of [binding.....

Printed for Archibald Constable and sold by T. Cadell Junior, and W. Davies, London: Edinburgh, 1801. This facsimile edition of Complaynt was the first since its initial publication in Paris in 1550 (of which only 4 copies of the first edition are known to exist and are all in institutions).....

London: C. Bathurst . . . [and 35 Others], 1781. First separate edition. First separate edition. Courtney calls Lives of the Poets Johnson’s “second great work,” simple in style and expression but which “appealed to every man of letters in the three kingdoms.” This copy with somewhat interesting provenance.....

New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. First Edition. First edition of this post-crash guide to beating the stock market. Kelly was a well-known author, biographer, and business speculator. “Kelly and Burgess have cut through to the heart of the matter in their development of market rules and in their.....

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832-1833. Pleasant five volume set bound in blue gilt half leather over red marbled boards, top edge gilt. 5 vol. 16mo. Volumes I to IV from 1832. Volume V from 1833. xxiv, 347pp., [1]; xxxix, 319pp., [1]; xvi, 333pp., [1], xiii.....

London: William Pickering, 1851. First Edition. Based on the author’s research into Druid temples on her native British island of Jersey. This work includes the perhaps more influential poem “The Dying Druid” by R.A. Davenport: “. . . this little poem . . . published some years ago in a......

1715. Signed by Leslie at the conclusion. Leslie was the leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution and is best remembered today for his role in publicizing the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe 16pp. ESTC T113238.

London: Chapman And Hall, 1865. First Edition. First edition. Illustrated throughout with 30 plates by the venerable Victorian-era illustrator Phiz. In publisher's plus sand-grain clothing in blind and gilt. 8vo. Frontispiece and engraved title, vii, [1], 503, [1]. Wolff 4092. Sadleir 1409 (primary binding).