London: John Murray, 1823. 1st UK edition (Barclay 3b, "Published in London on 26 February 1823, three weeks after American publication."). 3 volumes: viii, 268; [4], 274; [4], 364 pp. 12mo. Period olive green half-calf bindings with marbled paper boards & maroon title label in the spine's second compartment. Speckled..... More
London: John Murray, 1824. 1st Edition (BAL 10115, State A). 2 volumes: xvi, 364; vi, 394 pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Period full polished tan calf with deep maroon spine labels in second & fourth compartments. Includes 5 pieces not found in the 1st US edition. More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1986). 1st Edition. xiv, 194 pp. Illustrated. 4to. Original publisher's tan cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards stamped in blind. Blue dust jacket. More
London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's - Head, Pall Mall, 1739. 1st Edition, 2nd issue (Foxon W418). [2], 17, [1 (blank)] pp. Half-title leaf present. T.p. ornament. Headpiece. Decorative initial capital letter. 14-3/4" x 9-1/8". Original printed self-wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A prior owner..... More
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1910. 1st edition thus (NCBEL IV, 1023). 70 pp. Few unopened leaves. Vignette onlays. 12mo. 4 1/2" x 5 3/4". Brown suede binding with dark brown & gilt stamping. Reprints 5 essays from 'Twelve Types' [1902]. More
London: Albion Press. Printed by and for J. and J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, [1812]. "A New Edition" 2 volumes in 1: xi, [1 (blank)], 623, [1 (publisher advert)]; 472, [20 (Index)] pp. Text in double columns. Vol I: Frontispiece & engraved title page. Text illustrated with inserted plates [some fold-out]..... More
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 196 Piccadilly, 1858. 1st Edition. xvi, 41, [1 (blank)], lxviii pp. Tipped-in "Additional subscribers" slip after p. xvi. Partially unopened. Albumen photograph, of a painting of Bunyan, as frontispiece. Inserted plates, some color. Royal 8vo. 10-5/8" x 7-13/16". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with elaborate gilt..... More
Camden, N.J. The Haddon Craftsman, 1941. 1st edition thus. Facsimile signature of Eva Le Gallienne. Unpaginated, though 16 pages. 16mo. 6" x 4-5/8". Pale blue paper wrappers, printed in dark blue, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The poem first written in 1903, prophetically predicting the mid-20th C...... More
London: Parker Son and Bourn West Strand, 1861. 1st Edition. iv, 382, [1 (advert)] pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo. 8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine letterin & boards stamped in blind. Concerning the parson's choice between town and..... More
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
