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

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

[N. p., but Rhode Island?, ca. 1840]. Blank book in black half sheep and marbled boards, 9.88 x 7.75 inches, [2], 195 [i.e., 196] pages, including 8 leaves inserted with wax wafers and numbered consecutively. An extensive anthology of verse, with a substantial portion devoted to the deaths of infants..... 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

[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