Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. First edition. 12mo, original ribbed green cloth, printed paper label. A collection of essays and criticism from this Baltimore physician, though only one piece is given over to his native American literature and that examined rather abstractly in comparison to the literature of England; Collins... More about Miscellanies
Bethlehem, Penn. Lehigh University, 1931. First edition. 8vo, original printed tan wrappers, 59 pages. Issued as vol. 5, no. 3 in the Lehigh University Publications. An addition to the literature of Shakespeariana, over 50 contemporary parallels and allusions, assembled by an independent scholar and edited by a professor at Lehigh. More about Shakespeare Allusions and Parallels [wrapper title
Indianapolis: Nature Publishing Company, 1906. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 230 pages. Frontis, nine plates. Astute and thoughtful essays on nature and life in Indiana (with references to Thoreau). Besides the expected reveries on woodland flora and fauna, includes a look at the Indiana dunes. Blatchley wrote... More about Boulder Reveries
London: Walter Scott, 1885. First edition to include the Skipsey material. 16mo, original blue cloth, printed paper label, 356 pages. Originally issued as an inexpensive edition of Burns. Contemporary ink signature on the front free endpaper and that owner's bookplate on the front paste-down. NCBEL II, 1985. More about The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Poems with a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical, by...
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(Hanover, N.H. T. Mann, Printer, 1835). First edition of the second and third number of this Dartmouth literary journal (which ran to four numbers). 2 vols, 8vo, unbound as issued, [17]-32 & [33]-48 pages, untrimmed, unstitched. The second and third numbers of a short-lived literary journal, with an essay on... More about The Magnet . . . Hanover, N. H. Nov. 4, 1835 [caption title, with:] The Magnet . . . Nov. 18, 1835
Wawaka, Indiana: [n. p.], 1899. First edition. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, 85, [1] pages. One of the few works of literature to issue forth under the banner of a Wawaka imprint, a series of essays and papers tending toward uplift, though Ebey does touch on some rather pleasantly homely... More about The House that Jack is Building and Other Essays
Aberdeen: John Avery and Company, (1949). Stated 14th edition, with a new preface. 8vo, textured red boards, pictorial paper label, gilt lettering, 160 pages, original dust jacket. Illus. Entertaining philosophical reflections on the writings of Burns, with extracts; one of the many populist works to spring up around his works... More about Brithers A': 14th Edition Completing 120,000. A Minute a Day with Burns, Poet, Lover, and Prophet...
Aberdeen: John Avery and Company, (1949). Stated 14th edition, with a new preface. 8vo, textured red boards, pictorial paper label, gilt lettering, 160 pages, original dust jacket. Illus. With a shaky biro inscription on the front paste-down from the curator of the Burns House in Dumfries, dated 22-6-56. Entertaining philosophical... More about Brithers A': 14th Edition Completing 120,000. A Minute a Day with Burns, Poet, Lover, and Prophet...
London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1895. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped light brown cloth, black lettering. An attractive collection of literary essays from a lecturer in French at University College, Liverpool. The bulk of the pieces cover French literature (Racine, Corneille, De Musset, Paul Bourget), though there are also... More about Gallica and Other Essays
London: Hutchinson, (1959). First edition. Large 8vo, original brown linen, printed dust jacket, 287 pages. More about The Burns Encyclopedia
London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by Trübner & Co., 1870. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 139 pages. Partially unopened. Middle English pieces, with glossary, etc. More about Ratis Raving and Other Moral and Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse. Edited from the Cambridge...
Dublin, London: Maurice Fridberg, (1947). First edition. 8vo, original pink and green wrappers, 50 pages. Frontis by Louis le Brocquy. Three lectures. More about The Art of the Theatre
New Haven: Herrick & Noyes, 1838. First edition. 12mo, original ribbon embossed green cloth, printed paper spine label, 200 pages. From the president of Yale; per Schneider’s History of American Philosophy, “As the new three-faculty psychology became familiar during the 1830s, being expounded in both American and Scottish texts, and..... More about An Inquiry Respecting the Self-Determining Power of the Will; or Contingent Volition
Philadelphia: Private Edition, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 108 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on the front blank, "Ephraim M. Huntington from his affectionate friend the Author." A series of analytic-lyric essays tending to reconcile science to the Gospel (the book commences with a.... More about Windfalls. By the Author of "Aspects of Humanity."
London: James Brown, [1868]. Stated second edition; the first appeared in Glasgow in 1857, perhaps without the second essay. 8vo, unbound as issued, 30 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink at the head of the title, "To Geo. Cruikshank Esq., with the Author's kind regards." The Scottish attorney and... More about Summary of Moral Evidence: and an Essay on Memory . . . Second Edition
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Adriani Wyngaerden, 1656. First edition. 4to, 18th century calf, gilt spine, [8], LXX, 294, [4], 77, [1], 67, [1] pages. Engraved portrait of Saumaise. A posthumous work of the French Protestant critic and scholar Saumaise (1588-1653), collecting previously published epistles and a new life of Saumaise by... More about Claudii Salmasii viri maximi Epistolarum liber primus: accedunt, De laudibus et vita ejusdem,...
New York: Israel Publishing Company, 1909. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt lettering, 162 pages. "There is no Jewish people, but there exists a multitude of Jews." The New York attorney and playwright (in both Yiddish and English) here lays out (in English) his theories on antisemitism and his... More about The Primary Cause of Antisemitism: An Answer to the Jewish Question
London: Printed for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1871. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, xlvii, [1], 100 pages. NCBEL I, 413. More about Joseph of Arimathie: Otherwise Called, The Romance of the Seint Graal, or Holy Grail: An...
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1856. A later edition; the first combined edition appeared in 1853. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, 184 pages. From the eventual Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and philosopher Whately (1787-1863), the first part is an elaborate satire meant as an attack... More about Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. First edition. 8vo, original violet cloth, ix, [3], 471, [1], [4] pages. A presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper, "To Fred'k Billings Esq. With the compliments of Geo. Wilkes." From Wilkes (1817-1885), the American journalist and founder of... More about Shakespeare, from an American Point of View; Including an Inquiry as to his Religious Faith, and...
