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

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

Bury: Printed by J. Kay, Fleet Street, 1838. Second edition? Unbound pamphlet, approx. 6.5 x 4 inches, 8 pages, unopened. "The Kingdom to be divided into Unions for the purposes of this Act, and Guardians to be chosen for each, as the Commissioners may appoint; *provided always,* that no such..... More