Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, 1809. Second edition. 12mo. Frontispiece and 23 plates, all hand-colored. [4], 136, [2], [2, ads] pp. Contemporary half red morocco; damage to tail end of spine, some discoloration to plates Published anonymously and now ascribed to Charles Lamb.REFERENCES: Gumichian 3594

London: Printed by T. Plummer … for G. and J. Robinson, 1802. First edition. 8vo. Uncut in publisher's pink boards; fine, in a custom green cloth chemise Fine first edition in boards of Lamb’s first play, a presentation copy from Fanny Holcroft to fellow author Catherine Hutton. Holcroft (1780-1844), a translator and novelist and friend of Charles and Mary Lamb, was the author of the anti-slavery poem “The Negro” and such novels as Fortitude and Frailty and The Wife and the Lover. Her father was the dramatist and radical Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809), who published several of her translations in his Theatrical Recorder. Catherine Hutton (1756–1846) was a novelist (The Miser Married, The Welsh Mountaineer, Oakwood Hall) and prolific letter-writer.A letter from T. Harral, editor of the periodical La Belle Assemblée, to Catherine Hutton, May 20, 1827, records a gift of a Lamb title, presumably the present volume: "Miss Holcroft has given me a little volume for you, the production of a particular… Read More

London: The New Sydenham Society, 1876. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, strapwork design in blind, gilt-stamped profile portrait and lettering on spine; light shelfwaer, vol. I spine ends frayed and joints starting, contemporary ownership signature on half-title, book-plate, ink number stamp to vol. I title

London: The New Sydenham Society, 1893. First English edition. 8vo. 6 plates (4 chromolithographs by Nicolet after Lavern and 2 heliotypes by Racle), each with leaf of descriptive text. xii, 197, [1] pp. Publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; ex-library with faint stamps (St. Mary's Hospital) on title and p. 1, small shelfmark sticker to spine, endpapers foxed, book-plate Laveran's discovery of the malaria parasite, Volume CXLVI of The New Sydenham Society series.REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 5236

London: J. Johnson and Co., 1811. First London edition. [with:] LEADBEATER, Mary. Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry.... Part Second. With Notes and Illustrations. Dublin: Printed at the Hibernia-Press Office, for J. Johnson & Co., St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1813. First edition2 vols. 12mo. [2], v, [5], 343, [1] pp., with half-title; viii, [1], 212, [8, blank], [213]-275, [1] pp. Both volumes uncut in publisher's boards, printed spine label to first title; light wear to joints, housed together in a cloth folding box. The first London edition of Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry and the first (Dublin) edition of its continuation, both in fine condition in publisher's boards, and the former with the ownership signature of Scottish literary critic and author Elizabeth Rose, Baroness of Kilravock. The Cottage Dialogues are a series of morally improving vignettes by the Irish Quaker author, diarist and chronicler of Irish rural social life, Mary Leadbeater (1758–1826). "The… Read More

London: Harrison & Sons, 1907. First book edition. 8vo. 58 pp. Publisher's blue cloth. Printed author's compliments leaf laid-in; slight shelfwear to foot of spine Lister's talk was delivered October 2, 1900, and first published in The British Medical Journal that year.

London: Harding and Lepard, 1835. 12 vols. 4to. 240 engraved portrait plates with accompanying biographical essays, tissue guards, picked impressions of the plates. Near contemporary full pebbled red morocco, gilt, a.e.g.; occasional rubbing or scuffing to extremities, very infrequent and minimal foxing to plates, small dampstain to lower corner of portion of vol. IX textblock

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, n.d.. Cambridge Edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume. Uniformly bound in contemporary three-quarters red morocco and marbled boards, gilt; light shelfwear

Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1841. First edition. 8vo. viii, 182 pp., errata slip tipped-in at rear. Publisher's tan boards, printed spine label; near fine, with slight wear and offsetting to covers, in custom green cloth slipcase and chemise First edition in publisher's boards of Lowell's first major publication, preceded only by a Harvard poem and class address. With p. 41, l. 9, ending with an exclamation point (as indicated in errata slip); in some copies the exclamation is not present.PROVENANCE: early ownership signature ("C.L. Inches") in pencil on half-title; Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame book-label)REFERENCE: BAL 13037

Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. First edition. 8vo. [6], 27, [1] pp. Publisher's printed yellow glazed boards; spine chipped with loss, covers rubbed, front board tender, small dampstain to front cover and flyleaf, in custom green cloth slipcase and chemise First edition of Lowell's "greatly popular" (ANB) Authurian tale, derived from Malory and, as Lowell indicates in his Preface, indebted to Tennyson.PROVENANCE: Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame book-label)REFERENCE: BAL 13069

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First American edition. 8vo. [4], lxxx, 258 pp. Publisher's purple blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; short split to cloth on front joint, gathering slightly proud, light foxing throughout, in a custom burgundy cloth slipcase and chemise First American edition of the Second Series of Lowell's satire in Yankee dialect, written in support of the Union cause. First published in three parts in London in 1862 followed by one volume editions in 1864 and 1865. As in the First Series, published in 1848 and written in opposition to the Mexican-American War and the expansion of slavery, the Second Series is presented as a series of letters and verse by the New England farmer Hosea Biglow and his friend Birdofredom Sawin, and is embellished with a faux critical apparatus by editor Homer Wilbur, Pastor of the First Church of Jaalam. Includes Lowell's popular Yankee dialect poem "The Courtin'."PROVENANCE: Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame book-label)REFERENCE: BAL 13126

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1857. First edition. 8vo. 371, [1] pp. Publisher's plum-brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind; spine faded, extremities rubbed, some foxing throughout First edition of the "first full-length work of American drug literature" (Horowitz), the first book on cannabis in English and the author's first book. Ludlow (1836-1870) began his experiments with drugs as a teenager in Poughkeepsie; the present work recounts his hallucinogenic experiences with large doses of cannabis extract while a student at Union College. PROVENANCE: James B. Weller (early ownership signature in pencil on title)REFERENCE: Horowitz, Phantastica, no. 153; Wright II, 1592