Madras, Bombay, Calcutta, and London: Macmillan, 1932. First edition of this translation? 12mo, early red binder's cloth, [iv], 168 pages. Illus. A colonial English fictional treatment of the adventures of Rajput warrior Durgadas Rahtore (1638-1716). More about Durga-das the Rahtore. An Historical Romance
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 about The Plain Reasoner. Wherein the Present State of Affairs are set in a New, but Very Obvious Light
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1796. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [iv] + 90 pages. An extensive look at the state of the two nations' economies, perceived morale, colonial holdings, etc. The author concludes that the "external situation of Great Britain at this moment is unquestionably such, as to justify... More about A View of the Relative State of Great Britain and France, at the Commencement of the Year 1796
[London: J. Sewell? 1792-1793]. Perhaps first edition of each number. 5 numbers extracted together from a nonce volume, still bound together with traces of calf along the spine, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16 pages. General title lacking, presumably not printed (along with the prelims) until the completion of the first... More about Proceedings of he Association for Preserving Liberty and Property Against Republicans and...
London: Printed for J. Wright, 1798. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [ii] + 92 pages. Beeke is best remembered for his financial writings, especially for his Observations on the Produce of the Income Tax, and on its Proportion to the whole Income of Great Britain (1799). He here argues that... More about Letter to a Country Member, on the Means of Securing a Safe and Honourable Peace
London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, [n. d.]. Stated seventh edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [16] pages, untrimmed. Small ink number in a contemporary hand at the foot of the title page. The register of the final leaf a trifle high; the pagination may have been trimmed from the upper... More about Of the Happiness of the Saints in Heaven: A Sermon Preached before the Queen, at White-Hall...
London: Printed by H. Hills, 1708. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, extracted from a larger nonce collection, 15 [i.e. 16] + 16 pages, untrimmed. Black-ruled border to the title page of the first item, which was published the year of Beveridge's death; Hills does not refer to Beveridge as "late"... More about A Sermon Preach'd Before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament Assembled, in the...
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1804. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 48 pages. Bowles stands by his earlier attack on the late Duke of Bedford, charging him with irreligiosity, breaking the Sabbath, etc. Bowles appears to have been a conservative busybody; he admits in one letter to Adams... More about Observations on the Correspondence between Mr. Adam and Mr. Bowles, with the Correspondence...
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, and W. and J. Richardson, J. Hatchard, and J. Asperne, 1804. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [2], xxiii, [1], 119, [1]. Bowles writes at length on the creeping atheism and lack of moral education in England, especially among the upper classes. He also... More about A View of the Moral State of Society at the Close of the Eighteenth Century. Much Enlarged, and...
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1884. First edition thus, one of 75 large paper copies published in the Bibliotheca Curiosa series. 8vo, original printed parchment wrappers, 29 pages, untrimmed. A new edition of the 1610 English translation of a French anti-Roman Catholic tract in the wake of the assassination of Henri IV. More about The Apologie of George Brisset
London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1930). First edition. 8vo, navy cloth, blue label. Original printed jacket. A fantasy play: A giant brain grows in the Sahara desert, and soon assumes the responsibility for all human consciousness. The impending destruction of the solar system results in something of... More about Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth
[At the foot of the text:] Kettering: Printed and Sold by W. Dash; Sold also by James Nisbet and Co., London, and Wm. Bemrose, Derby, [1837]. First edition. 8vo, removed, 19 pages. A provincial tract that argues in detail in favor of Sabbath Bills (cf. Dickens' contemporary Sunday Under Three... More about The Parish Association for Promoting the Due Observance of the Lord's Day [caption title
London: Smith, Elder, 1871. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering. A lengthy dramatic monologue. Later bookplate on the front paste-down. NCBEL III, 443. More about Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. Third authorized edition. 8vo, removed (traces of old calf spine), [ii] + 118 pages. This edition preceded by the first edition, three printings of the second edition and a Dublin edition. Half-title not called for. Todd 17e; Adams, American Controversy 70-6f; Sabin 9303. More about Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents . . . The Fifth Edition
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, xii, 390 & ix, [1], 372 pages. Frontis portrait in each volume, 38 plates. Illus. The first standard biography of the painter, from his widow Georgiana Burne-Jones (née Macdonald--she was one of the remarkable Macdonald... More about Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones by G B-J
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Heath, 1656. First edition of the Carey translation. Small folio, early calf rebacked with a new spine and recornered, gilt morocco spine label, [20], 176, 167-201, 200-214, 217-452 pages. LACKS the frontis portrait. A translation of portions of Boccalini's satirical De' ragguagli di... More about I Ragguagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus in Two Centuries with the Politick...
Bombay: Curwen, Kane & Co., 1892. First edition. 8vo, original rose cloth, gilt lettering, xiii, [1], 199, [1], iii. This is the second course of lectures, delivered from 27 April to 11 June 1838, and they survive in manuscript in the shorthand of Thomas Chisholm Anstey . . . (Tarr)... More about Carlyle's Unpublished Lectures. Lectures on the History of Literature or the Successive Periods...
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London: Printed at the "Catnach Press," by W. S. Fortey, [ca. 1850-1865?]. Broadside, approx. 7.5 x 10.13 inches, wove paper. Woodcut headpiece. "I am dressed in my best, tho' I cannot pretend, That my costume is quite comme il faut; You observe that my watch has been left with a.... More about Out in the Cold. [With:] Shabby Genteel . . . [caption titles
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[London]: Taylor, Printer, 93, Brick Lane, Bethnal Green, [1859]. First edition. Broadside, approx. 10 x 7.25 inches on stock falling somewhere on the fragile side between India paper and tissue paper. Small woodcut device. A rousing slip ballad attacking the fashionable elite and touting the controversial radical English attorney Edwin... More about James for Marylebone! [caption title
London: Printed for R. Baldwyn, 1681. First edition. 4to, unbound, 40 pages. A pamphlet that deplores, among other things, the Popish drift of a number of recent publications. If this pamphlet was indeed written by Shaftesbury, political foe to Halifax and champion of the Exclusion Bill, it was no doubt... More about An Impartial Account of the Nature and Tendencies of the Late Addresses, in a Letter to a...
(Bristol): Printed for the Author, 1911. First edition thus, one of 150 copies, expanded and corrected from the 300 copy edition of 1907. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait, four plates. An account of the life of the Quaker peace activist and author Charles Dymond (1796-1828), compiled from... More about Memoir, Letters and Poems of . . . with Bibliographical Supplements . . . Definitive Edition
Selby: W. B. Bellerby and Son, 1903. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-decorated green cloth, vii [sic], 83, [3] pages. A presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title and signed "The Author." Verses of a Nineties variety, with a good dose of celebration of the Empire. According to a notice printed here... More about Poems
[London?]: Printed in the Year, 1713. First edition in English. 8vo, later brown wrappers, 128 pages. Folding table. A pamphlet widely circulated as Whig propaganda, attacking the plans of the Tory administration to give up Spain to the House of Anjou; cf. Moore's article on the attribution to this item's... More about Les Soupirs de l'Europe &c. or, The Groans of Europe at the Prospect of the Present Posture...
London: Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1753. Stated eighth edition. 12mo, removed (no wrappers), 60 pages. Perhaps published in competition with the Foulis edition of the same year, this cheap edition of the ballad opera with the book only (without the music)... More about The Beggar's Opera. Written by Mr. Gay . . . the Eighth Edition
Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1825. First edition of Gleig's first novel. 12mo, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering, [iv], 373, [1], 6 pages. Glieg's second book, a fictional account of the Peninsula campaign during the Napoleonic wars. Bound with the half-title. Wolff 2578; NCBEL III, 725. Early... More about The Subaltern
