London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1859. 1st Edition. viii, 376 pp. Frontispiece engraving. Tissue guard. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's rose-colored cloth binding, with gilt stamping to spines. Pale yellow eps. More
New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1856. 1st edition (Wright II, 1589). x, [11] - 423, [1 (blank)], 5 - 12 pp. 8 pages of adverts conclude volume. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards stamped in blind..... More
Gloucester: Printed for the Author, 1876. 2nd Edition. 174, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's orange pebbled cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Yellow eps. A story told in verse. More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill, 1862. Cf. NCBEL III, 1342). viii, 440, 16 pp. 16 page publisher catalogue, dated November 1862, concludes volume. Frontispiece portrait of Ruskin. Tissue guard. Crown 8vo. 8" x 5". Original publisher's green pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind..... More
[Edinburgh?]: Privately Printed, (n. d.). Ca 1868. 31, [1 (blank)] pp. Ribbon page marker. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/4". Period full polished tan calf binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board; gilt dentelles, marbled eps, TEG. Lampoons chiefly on Rev. David Williamson, minister of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh. The..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927. Facsimile reprint, limited to 550 cc. [8], 28, [4] pp. 4 page of "Notes" at rear. Unopened. 10-1/2" x 8-3/8". Original publisher's marbled paper cover with printed paper title label to front cover. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
London: Printed by T. Bensely, Bolt Court. Published for the Author, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1809. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 262; Sabin 10268). [4], 134 pp. 4to. Lacks boards, binding copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Author's famous work of a 1778 Indian massacre..... More
Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ruthven and Sons, 1801. Second Edition, Corrected. [2], 64 pp. Engraved title leaf. Untrimmed textblock. Vignette engraving to title leaf, drawn by A. Carse, engraved by R. Scott. 6-3/4" x 4-1/8" Period marbled paper boards. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1850. 1st US book edition, 1st printing (Tarr A21.2.b). Divers paginations. Stab holes present. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's vertically ribbed brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards blocked in blind. Contents: 1. The Present Time (46 pp). 2. Model..... More
London: James Clarke & Co., 13 & 14, Fleet Street, 1886. 1st Edition. xi, [3], 214, [2] pp. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5". Original publisher's grey cloth binding with dark blue stamped lettering. "Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth was an English author, poet, and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic..... More
[New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. 1st Edition. [8], 9, [3]. T.p. printed in 4 color. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-3/4". Blue cloth spine over blue pictorial paper-wrapped boards with nautical cover design by Charles W. Smith. The 8th publication in this series. More
London: MacMillan and Co., 1867. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 468). viii, 244 pp. 8vo. 7-1/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. More
London: Richard Bentley, 1848. 1st Series: 4th Edition; Second Series: 3rd Edition; Third Series: 2nd Edition. 3 volumes: xii, 338, [2]; vii, [1 (blank)], 288; vi, [2], 364 pp. Illustrated with plates, including engraved title leaf in each volume. Frontis portrait of Barham in Vol III. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4"..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. 1st Edition. vi, [2], 386, [6 (adverts)]; [4], 368; [4], 358, [2 (blank)], 32 pp. 32 page publisher catalogue concludes Vol III. 8vo. Original publisher's light maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spines. Pale yellow eps. More
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1887. 1st Edition. vi, 320; vi, 318 pp. Crown 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's brown cloth bindings with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Bevelled boards. Brown coated eps. Walford was a British magazine editor and a compiler of educational, biographical, genealogical and touristic works..... More
London / New York: MacMillan and Co., 1892. 3rd edition, first published in this form in 1874. xxvii, [1 (blank)], 245, [3]. 2 page publisher advert concludes volume. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. "Originally published as part of the volume 'Schools and Universities..... More
Cambridge: MacMillan and Co., 1856. 1st Edition. viii, 475, [1 (blank)], 24 pp. Partially unopened. 24 page publisher catalogue, dated March 1856, concludes volume. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow eps. More
Edinburgh / London / Dublin: James Nichol / James Nisbet & Co. / W. Roberton, 1854. 1st Edition. xxiv, 298 pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-3/8". 19th C. maroon full calf binding, gilt decorated spine, marbled edges & eps. More
London: Printed by J. Wright ... for C. Cooke, [1800]. Cooke's Edition. 204, ii pp. Last leaf, "Contents". Engraved title leaf. Tailpieces. Copperplate engraving after p. 128. 16mo. 5-3/4" x 3-5/8". Period maroon half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. Red speckled edges. More
New York / London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899. 1st US Edition. ix, [1 (blank)], 386 pp. Partially unopened. Crown 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's decorative green cloth, with black & silver stamping. TEG. More
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., (n. d.). Ca 1870s (?). 5 volumes: [4], 93, [3]; [4], 95, [3]; [4], 93, [3]; [4], 95, [3]; [4], 93, [3] pp. 2 page Index concludes each volume. ~ 550 illustrations per volume, or ~ 2750 total. Oblong folio: 12" x 17-3/4". Original publisher's..... More
Baltimore, MD. The Lord Baltimore Press, 1911. 1st Edition. 150 pp. Photographic frontispiece of the author. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's blue green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Gontrum a local attorney who dabbled in various literary pursuits, including poetry. More
New - York: Published by James Eastburn and Co. at the Literary Rooms, Broadway, Corner of Pine-street. Printed by J & J Harper. 1818. 1st edition thus (American Imprints 43864 [incorrectly noting 502 p]). 302, [4] pp. Table of Contents page follows text. 12mo, signed in 6s. 7-3/8" x 4-1/8"..... More
Cincinnati: Published for the Author by John P. Walsh, 190 Sycamore Street, 1869. ix, [3], 13 - 313, [1], 3 - 8 pp. Last 6 pages publisher adverts. Headpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 12mo. Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt stamping. Bevelled boards. Peach-colored eps. Contents: "Concerning Boys", "Curiosities..... More
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market. (n. d.). Ca late 1790s. 8 pp (one [half] sheet folded). Untrimmed. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper [two ships firing a broadside at each other]. 16mo. 6" x 3-3/4". Printed self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve... More
