Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1811. Lovely chapbook filled with illustrations. Much scarcer than later printings. Rosenbach 448. Shaw-Shoemaker 24052. Welch 215. 12 cm.16 pp. + 8 leaves of plates ill., with first and last pasted down to covers as usual.
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York: J. Kendrew, [n.d., circa 1820s]. A charming Kendrew chapbook featuring the classic Cinderella fairy tale with a woodcut on every page. “And now her god-mother came in, and touched her with her wand, When, lo! her rags were turn’d to robes, the richest in the land.”...
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First Edition. First edition. Henry wasn’t the only talented writer in the family, as his sister demonstrates in David Simple. This edition precedes those later editions which were substantially revised by Henry. Sabor, ed., The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last (1998.....
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London: C. Corrall for G. Pickering, 1822. One of the series usually known as Pickering’s “Diamond Classics,” they are some of the earliest books to have publisher’s bindings of cloth. 48mo. [7], 237pp., [9, index]. Keynes, pg. 72. Porter 146. Tomlinson & Masters, pg. 11. Carter, Binding Variants.....
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London: C. Corrall for G. Pickering, 1822. One of the series usually known as Pickering’s “Diamond Classics,” they are some of the earliest books to have publisher’s bindings of cloth. 48mo. [7], 237pp., [9, index]. Keynes, pg. 72. Porter 146. Tomlinson & Masters, pg. 11. Carter, Binding Variants.....
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Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. First Scottish edition, which includes, among others, poems from Gray’s most famous work, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751). For this edition, the Foulis brothers had Alexander Wilson cut a special font of double pica roman type. Updike, Printing Types, II: 143.....
Oxford and London: Printed for R. Clements, 1753. Hall boldly and incorrectly claimed, when the book was first issued in 1597, that he was the first English satirist (writing in the Latin tradition), “I first adventure, follow me who list; And be the second English satirist.” At the time.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. First trade edition. First Trade Edition (i.e. not the Kelmscott edition). “[O]ne of the most complex and beautiful fantasy quests ever written.” Mathews, Fantasy, the Liberation of Imagination (2002, pg. 44). “A romance of old England, recount[ing] the travels of Ralph and his three.....
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New Rochelle, NY: Elston Press, 1902. Limited edition, one of 160 copies from the important but short-lived press. Beautifully printed in black and red Caslon Old Roman type on handmade paper. Elston’s Clark Conwell “was one of the most brilliant of the Kelmscott disciples. His books exemplify the best.....
London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., [1936]. Limited edition, #237 of 460 hand-numbered copies, signed by Rackham, in publisher’s full vellum with gilt title and spine. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece, 12 mounted color plates by Rackham with lettered tissue guards. 4to. [iv], 5-256pp., [1]. Latimore &.....
London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 9132. Limited edition, #23 of 550 hand-numbered copies, signed by Rackham. Bound in publisher’s full limp vellum with gilt-lettered cover. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 3 color plates, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. 8vo. 48pp. Latimore & Haskell, pg. 67.
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Parma: Bodoni, 1794. One of a very few Bodoni printings in English. Bodoni “set what was, in general, to be the standard book style of the world until the appearance of William Morris.” Preece, Typography, Encyclopædia Britannica. William Morris “disliked Bodoni’s types, [and Morris’s followers] have stigmatized them as the.....
