Boston: Belcher & Armstrong, Printers, 1807. First edition. Removed pamphlet (retained the original wrappers), 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 19, [1] pages. Occasional verses delivered before this fraternal secret society, with reference to the novel as literary trash, the follies of free thought (Godwin and Paine and Hume are all handled... 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
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
[Boston]: A. W. Lovering, (1874). First edition. 12mo, original printed blue wrappers, 29 pages. "To fall into a hole of snakes, / 'Mong briery and bewildering brakes, / Should be preferred to askin aid / Where daily's done so foul a trade." One of Clark's verse satires, this on the... More
New-England [Providence?]: Printed for the Publishers, 1825. Second edition, greatly expanded over the 12-page first edition of 1822. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 32 pages. "But other persons, who were of an Epicurean rather than a Stoical temperament, being unwilling to admit that every thing is nothing, lest they should... 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
Caen: Le Gost-Clérisse, Libraire, 1860. First edition. Small 8vo, original wrappers, 51, [1] pages. An altogether pleasing provincial dramatic parody from a Norman author that capitalizes on the contemporary literary sensation that swirled around the pubication of Louise Colet's novel Lui: Roman Contemporain (Paris 1860), which dealt in part with... More
Newcastle: Hernaman & Perring, Journal-Office, Pilgrim Street, [1832]. Broadside, 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. A satirical verse attack in four stanzas on William Ord, Jr., known as "Orator Ord," who had been stumping for his leftist Whig father (forced to run as a candidate for Parliament for South Northumberland after his... More
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Barcelona: Antoni Lopez, [ca. 1882-1886]. Stated second edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 32 pages. Illus. by Manuel Moline. Humorous verses in Catalan, evidently on the practice and perils of fashionable courtship, from this prolific author of ephemeral verse and theatre. "Fecha seguin Palau: entre 1882 y 1886" (CCPB). More
Printed at Dublin. London: Reprinted [by William Bowyer] and sold by A. Moor, 1729. First collected edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt rules, red morocco label, gilt lettering, [6], 217, [1] pages. “Tear out the Tale, and wipe your A---, / I know you love to act a Farce.” Satirical Dublin... More
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1757. Second edition. 8vo, original polished calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, [1-2], [i]-iii, [1], 233-234, [1]-232 pages. Frontispiece of a cat tormenting a mouse. “Must not this love of Tormenting therefore be cultivated and cherished? There are many tastes, as that of the olive... More
Albany: Printed by E. & E. Hosford, 1813. A later edition, the first complete edition having appeared in 1782. 12mo, removed, 112 pages, untrimmed. A mock epic on the American Revolution from the Hartford Wit John Trumbull (1750-1831), no doubt here republished due to anti-English sentiment fanned by the War... More
[New York]: Press of Gutenberg, Faust & Schoffer, 1889. First edition. Original printed stiff red wrappers, 9.63 x 6.88 inches, [9] pages. Frontis, illustrations from comical stock cuts. A wonderful and uncommon jeu d’esprit celebrating an Edison patent legal victory, executed as a pastiche of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”..... More
