London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1735. First edition, one of two variants, this with the imprint date corrected from 1725. 8vo, removed, 60 pages. An entertaining and evidently hastily-produced attack on the recently-published anonymous biography of Sir Robert Cochrane, a combative 15th century architect whose rather spectacular rise and fall..... More

Boston: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, [ca. 1869]. Perhaps a later American edition with a notice on the verso of the title page "Reprinted from the London Religious Tract Society," though the relationship to the American Sunday-School Union work of 1834 with the same title is unclear. 16mo, original purple..... More

London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First London edition, this issue with "off from being ruined" as the final line of text; there is a Dublin edition dated 1744 noted in Kress and on the ESTC. 8vo, removed pamphlet, xii + 52 pages. A defense of the policies of the..... More

[Salem, Mass.? n. p., 1868]. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [7] pages. Title-page vignette of a booted elephant draped with a blanket reading "Only $600,000" and bearing aloft a banner with the strange device, "Old Aqueduct." An obscure (but amusing) satirical political work, aimed against the sale of the Salem..... More

[N. p., but America, almost certainly early, 19th century]. Single leaf of laid paper, approx. 7.5 x 12.75, rough trimmed, in autograph ink. The fine calligraphic headline (evocative and lovely, occasional smears, spelling corrections, off-kilter alignment and all) graces an extract from Burns on religion. More

Newcastle: Printed by George Angus, [1790?]. First edition? 12mo, unbound chapbook (stiched and fastened through the spine with a straight-pin), 24 pages. Illus. A chapbook history giving the context of a version of the famous ballad, already a matter of antiquarian interest, here illustrated with pleasing wood engravings. One of..... More

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Streeet, [after 1857, likely ca. 1857-1865?]. A later printing. 16mo, original pictorial wrappers, approx. 4.13 x 2.75 inches, 16 pages. Illus. "'O my child,' said her mother, 'because you have told a lie; a wicked lie. Do you know that God cannot love you..... More

Newburyport: Printed by Angier March, 1802 [& 1798?]. State eleventh edition of the first title; first edition of the second. Two pamphlets stitched together into contemporary unbleached heavy cartridge paper, 8 x 5 inches, 14, [2]; 18 pages. The second title is completely untrimmed. “Therefore, my child, as a good..... More

New York: P. S. Wynkoop & Son, 1868. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, 53, [1], [4] pages. “Dolby was alive, to begin with.” A satire on Dickens, with much seemingly intended to settle obscure scores on behalf of American literature. With four pages of publisher’s ads in the..... More

[N. p. n. p.], 1789. 8vo, removed, [ii], 29 pages. Small early ink spot to the title. Martin & Walker IV:2, 7690. More

(Boston: n. p., 1857). First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet removed from a nonce volume, 12 pages. A lively, vituperative and uncommon attack on the financial policies that led to the Panic of 1857, with much in the way of sectional attacks on the South. Includes flings against former Mississippi senator..... More

Boston: Published by Samuel T. Armstrong, and Crocker & Brewster, No. 50, Cornhill, 1823. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 36 pages (with the frontispiece first leaf mounted to the inside front wrapper, as published). “Thus died an amiable and excellent youth. His parents lost a beloved..... More

N.p., ca. 1895]. 17 pages on 17 leaves, generally 13 x 8 inches (though a few trimmed short, say to six or seven inches long), fastened in one corner with a brad, oages numbered a, 1-16. Two mounted cancellanda slips. Eschatological verse of one view of the prophetic arrival of..... More