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

Salem: Printed at the Office of "To-Day," Oct. 31, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial glazed white wrappers, 15 pages. Pictorial title page, illus. "If you ask the touris why he visits Salem, he will tell you that he has four reasons: to see the old houses, to feel the... More

Boston: Printed by S. N. Dickinson & Co., 1846. First edition. 12mo, unbound, 12 pages. The war-cry of Popery and Puseyism has long resounded in our ears. . . . Our Rt. Rev. Bishop has thrown the gauntlet into the face of one of the most beloved and respected of... More

Philadelphia: Published at 23 N. Second st. [1844]. First edition. Original printed pictorial yellow wrappers, scant 7 x 4 inches, 24 pages. Illus. “Out of the windows of nearly every Native American and Protestant Irishman in the district, hung the American and tri-colored flags. This was regarded as sufficient protection... 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

Boston: Printed by and for Henry Jenkins, 1831. First American edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, 8 x 5.75 inches, 23, [1] pages, untrimmed. An ephemeral piece of Gothic blood and thunder romance, with daggers drawn and maidens nearly outraged, the hellish villain at last dying at the stroke of... More

Boston: Published by S. G. Simpkins, 1841. First edition. 16mo, original blind-stamped diaper grain blue cloth, gilt lettering, 48 pages. "No man of ordinary observation can pass through the streets of New York or Philadelphia, without meeting numerous living witnesses of the misery which exists in both of those cities... More

Boston: Printed and Published by J. Q. Adams, 1828. First edition. 12mo, original printed tan wrappers, 21 pages. An entry in a moderately convoluted pamphlet controversy, an anonymous defense of certain liberal Unitarian principles against orthodox doctrines of endless punishment, the whole prompted by Lewis Tappan's Letter from a Gentleman... More

Paris: P. Mongie aîné, 1812. First edition. 8vo, removed (lacks wrappers), 78 pages. An anonymous satire on French literary figures (including some dramatic figures) in Alexandrines, owing an obvious debt to the Dunciad. Includes the half-title. Unattributed in Brunet and all the expected places. CCFr notes three copies at BNF..... More

London: Printed for G. Keith, 1749. Stated second edition, published the same year as the first. Small 8vo, removed, [2], 82 pages. "It is in like Manner ridiculous, when our little Coffee House Politicians exclaim in your Dialect, against an unsuccessful War." A defense of the Prime Minister and his... 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