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

London: Published by James Piper, 1807. First edition. 8vo, removed, 34 pages. A satirical and incisive attack on the conjugal mores of Frederick, the Duke of York. The delicate inquiry alludes to the contemporary investigations into what might with some justice be called complications regarding whether the Prince of Wales..... 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

Concord [N. H.]: Printed for Nathaniel K. Hardy, June, 1812. Second edition. Pamphlet restitched into later early drab wrappers, scant 6 x 3.5 inches, 12 pages. “On the 19th of February, at evening, she was in great distress of mind, so that she screamed, not uttering words that could be..... More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1857. First edition. 8vo (7.63 x 5.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to the spine, 329, [1], [6] pages. “The object which the writer of the following pages proposes, is, to advocate the teachings of the Scriptures. In his opinion..... 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

St. Louis: Published by B. Herder, 1884. First edition. Small 8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, 81 pages. Ex-library copy from the Fathers' Library of the Society of the Divine Word in Techny, Illinois, with their occasional ink stamp, circulation pocket on the rear paste-down, and attractice pictorial bookplate on..... More

London: Printed and sold by J. Evans and Son, No. 42, Long-lane, [between 1814-1820]. Likely a later edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 8 pages. Wood-engraved title page vignette of a woman leaning out of a window with flames burning around her and a ladder just out of reach. With the additional..... More

[New York]: American Tract Society, [1832]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 6.75 x 4.25 inches, 8 pages. “Many and awful are the national sins that may have drawn down upon us this visitation. The highest privileges ever granted to a people have been by multitudes neglected and scorned. Obscene impurities, drunkenness..... 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

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