![Item #187 [Cheap Repository]. Execution of Maclean, commonly known by the name of the Gentleman...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/187.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1605579225)
London: J. Marshall & R. White; Bath: S. Hazard, [1795]. A scarce Cheap Repository printing of the story of James Maclean, who was executed at the infamous Tyburn tree on October 3, 1750, following a short but successful stint as a highwayman who rid his victims of their possessions in.....
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William St. [n.d., 1856-57]. “I never heard of a lazy child on a Christmas morning”. A pleasant chapbook with five full-page woodcut illustrations. 32mo. [1], 2-16pp. Scarce with one institution located on Worldcat as of October 2020 holding the imprint with.....
Dublin: Printed for Patrick Dugan, 1719-20 [1720]. The Dublin Edition. The Dublin edition, issued in the same year as the English edition. As proclaimed opposite the title page, “[t]his edition is much more correct than that of London, having been compared with two Manuscripts...” Clarendon’s account of the events in.....
![Item #191 [Sedilia]. A Brief Survey of a Part of Canterbury Cathedral, as Described by Eadmer and...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/191.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1605579757)
[London]: [1793]. An offprint of an article by the antiquary Rev. Samuel Denne which appeared in Archaeologia, v11 (1792): 375-396. While a niche essay, on a niche topic, Charles Clarke’s original essay and this response form part of the “first critical examination of the liturgical function and development of sedilia.....
London: Printed for Lane and Newman, at the Minerva Press, 1804. An uncommon printing from the famous/infamous Minerva Press which is not found in McLeod or Blakey. 24mo. vii, 248pp., missing engraved frontispiece. McLeod (pg. 324 for 1805 printing). Scarce as Worldcat locates three copies as of October 2020.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First Edition. First edition. Lytton Strachey’s copy, with his faded penciled ownership signature to the head of the upper wrapper and with his Dora Carrington-designed bookplate to the verso. Shortly before theirs deaths in 1932, Carrington wrote in her journal, “As I stuck.....
London: Printed by H. Baldwin: for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell,) in the Strand, 1796. First Edition. This work was “a comprehensive and sensational exposure of the Shakespeare forgeries by William Henry Ireland” (DNB) who purportedly discovered a treasure trove of documents by Shakespeare including.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. First Edition. First Edition of Rossetti’s first regularly published book, one of around 600 copies (and given institutional holdings, not likely too many remaining in private hands). 8vo. xxxvi, 464pp., bound without half-title or errata. Fennell 19; Fredeman 23.3; W.M. Rossetti 9; NCBEL.....
Perth: printed by R. Morison, [circa 1800]. A ballad with apparent miraculous results, “at Bath in 1796, the year of scarcity, the singing of her ballad The Riot . . . effectively checked a very formidable riot.” Jones, Hannah More, Cambridge, pg. 147 (1952); Taylor, Memoir of Mrs. Hannah More.....
