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London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. New edition [second edition]. About very good in publisher's grayish boards with paper spine labels, with some spotting and staining particularly to vol. II, tear to the foot of vol. I spine, boards & spines rubbed particularly to head & foot, contents clean.. [Cruikshank, George, ill.].. Intended for children and originally composed for the author's family, this three-volume work about science was first published in 1827. Originally published anonymously, in later editions authorship was credited to Paris. Dedicated to the writer Maria Edgeworth, it aims "to blend amusement with instruction", which Paris states Edgeworth has "satisfactorily demonstrated" in her own novels. Topics covered in volume 1 include momentum, geometry, elasticity, and rotatory motion, demonstrated using a yo-yo, a jack-in-the-box, and a slingshot, among other toys and games. A fascinating work in science education, the work seeks to prove "how profitably, and agreeably, the… Read More

London: T. Hookham, 1831. First Edition. About very good with edges worn, modern rebacking, occasional minor foxing and soiling in a custom cloth clamshell box.. First edition in the scarce publisher's blue-grey drab boards. A satirical gothic novel wherein, as with his earlier novel Headlong Hall, Peacock assembles an eccentric cast of characters whose banter and obsessions satirize Regency society. This work includes a character which unlike other works, is largely based on Peacock himself. 8vo. [10-page publisher's catalogue (lacking first leaf)], [ad leaf], [6], 300pp. Page 154 misnumbered 54. Carter, Binding Variants, pg. 146 (this copy is flat backed and unglazed, thus not a remainder). Sadleir 1957j. Scarce in boards.

London: Dodsley, 1765. Good plus in contemporary rebacked leather with some edgewear, few short closed tears, endpapers with light chipping, staining to pastedowns, prior owner bookplate and ink signatures, light to moderate foxing in various places.. First Edition. A collection of ballads, songs, sonnets, and romances that captivated the British public, and influenced many of the most notable authors over the subsequent century. Walter Scott ready Percy's Reliques in his youth, stating "and henceforth I overwhelmed my schoolfellows, and all who would hearken to me, with tragical recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy." (Millgate, Walter Scott: the Making of a Novelist, 1987; Mahoney, Some Antiquarian and Literary Influences of Percy's Reliques, 1964). The work is also attributed to influencing Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carroll, and Wilde. (Groom, The Making of Percy's Reliques, pg. 3). Groom even declares Reliques as "the seminal, epoch-making work of English Romanticism." 8vo. 3 vols. xxiii,… Read More

New York: G. Hillson for Wm. Randall, 1823. Good in contemporary quarter brown sheepskin over worn marbled paper boards, prior owner name on flyleaf, text block is stabbed with two thongs the ends finishing on top of the boards prior to covering, some foxing, staining, missing rear endpaper.. First Edition. Contains the purported memoirs of Miss Perkins (as well as anonymous prefatory matter and commentary), of whom there appears to be little information available apart from this book. The contents contain letters, poems, addresses, and quotes attributed to Miss Perkins, and reads more akin to hagiography than standard braggadocious memoir fare. It also appears that many of the passages were borrowed, verbatim, from other publications, such as the New England Tract Society (see e.g., pg. 85 "being who is transcendently glorious"). 12mo. [3, engraved allegorical frontispiece], [3]-96pp. Shoemaker 13731. Scarce in commerce, with the last copy appearing on RBH in 1970.

Firenze [Florence]: G. Barbera, 1901. Very good with some staining to the vellum and yellowing to the pages, as could be expected for cheaper reprint editions.. A charming 32mo reprint of Petrarch bound in full vellum likely by Ferdinando Ongania with his sticker to the front pastedown. The vellum is gilt throughout and also a gauffered and gilt top edge. As with many of the vellum bound reprints from the 19th-early 20th centuries, these were in booksellers shops catering to tourists.

London: C. Corrall for G. Pickering, 1822. Very good uncut and partially unopened, publisher's dark cloth, worn paper label on spine, a variant binding which is perhaps later.. One of the series usually known as Pickering's "Diamond Classics," they are some of the earliest books to have publisher's bindings of cloth. 48mo. [7], 237pp., [9, index]. Keynes, pg. 72. Porter 146. Tomlinson & Masters, pg. 11. Carter, Binding Variants, pgs. 9-15.

London: C. Corrall for G. Pickering, 1822. Very good uncut and partially unopened, slight foxing of engraved leaves, publisher's ochre cloth which has faded but turn-ins appear to reflect an original brighter red color, worn paper label on spine, prior owner inscription dated 1830 (placing the cloth not later than such date).. One of the series usually known as Pickering's "Diamond Classics," they are some of the earliest books to have publisher's bindings of cloth. 48mo. [7], 237pp., [9, index]. Keynes, pg. 72. Porter 146. Tomlinson & Masters, pg. 11. Carter, Binding Variants, pgs. 9-15. Nash, Two Hundred Years of Publisher's Cloth, Journal of Printing Historical Society (2020, passim).

London: Macmillan, 1904. First English Edition. Very good with the tasteful bookplate of Oliver Henry Perkins (of Des Moines, Iowa, whose fine private library was sold at auction in 1926)./Good dust jacket with some loss at the spine, significant browning to spine and edges and several tears at the edges.. First edition. 8vo. [viii], 77pp. Two pages of adverts at rear. Errata slip tipped in. Many pages unopened. NCBEL III, 1194 (German edition).

New Rochelle, NY: Elston Press, 1902. Very good with minor rubbing to edges and spine, and minor staining to endpapers/pastedowns.. Limited edition, one of 160 copies from the important but short-lived press. Beautifully printed in black and red Caslon Old Roman type on handmade paper. Elston's Clark Conwell "was one of the most brilliant of the Kelmscott disciples. His books exemplify the best in the private press spirit: with traditional models as a point of departure, they achieve freshness of their own. They were printed by handpress in limited editions on handmade paper [] bound in boards . . ." Thompson, American Book Design and William Morris, 1977. Small 4to. [8], 24pp., [1]. Johnson 13. Ransom 12. Very good in publisher's dark blue cloth boards with gilt spine, top edge gilt, and deckle edges.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First Edition. Very good in nineteenth-century brown half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt rules, joints rubbed, and hinges just starting.. First edition. A historical romance set in the 17th-century Balkan Peninsula, about the Duke Christian of Luneburg's efforts to free the Bohemians, Croats, and others from domination by the Turks. "His Majesty George IV was so pleased with [her prior work] that he requested Miss Porter to take for her next hero his great ancestor, Duke Christian of Luneburg. . . she complies, of course, with His Majesty's gracious request. . . The king furnished her with the documents, and declared that the 'work had been completed according to his fullest wishes.'" Appleton, The Novel of the Eighteenth Century (1880, pg. 55-56). 3 vols. 12mo. viii, 357pp., [1]; [1], 416pp.; [1], 402pp., [6, ads]; half titles wanting. Wolff 5605. Garside 1824:77.

London: Vale Press, 1899. Very good with toning to the top edge.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 26 (for the book).

London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with significant toning.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 10 (for the book).

London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).

London: Vale Press, 1899. Very good with toning to one side of the leaf.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 28 (for the book).

[Hafod, Ceredigion, Wales]: At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1807. Very good in contemporary diced calf, gilt ruled, rebacked with original backstrip laid down but ends chipped with loss, corners rubbed, the text generally clean but with foxed plates, and with prior owner signature to half titles.. Memoirs of a crusader printed at the first private press in Wales, which was operated by Johnes from 1803-10. Plomer, Some Private Presses of the Nineteenth Century (The Library, pgs. 407-08, 1900). From a printing of 230 copies. Contains three engraved plates (one folding), including frontispiece in vol. I, three engraved maps (two of which are folding). Sir Walter Scott's library at Abbotsford held a copy and he cites to it in his Essay on Chivalry, (Prose Works, vol. 6, pgs. 95-96). 4to. 2 volumes. [11], [1]-426pp.; [3], [v]-vii, [1]-328pp. Scarce in commerce. One Hundred Books Since 1471, pg. 17; Lowndes 1224; Allibone, pg. 969; Dibdin, Bibliomania, pg. 647. Paper with watermark of noted… Read More

London: Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press (for the Employment of Women), 1861. London: , 1861. First edition, the first book published by Faithfull at the woman-owned and -run Victoria Press, which was established in 1861, and which was the "high point of all printing done at the Victoria Press." Fredeman, pg. 153. The Victoria Press "was a venture in mid-Victorian feminism. . . offered new opportunities for the remunerative employment of women and girls. . ." Sadlier, pg. 214. This work "a splendid example[] of the capabilities of the women compositors, and [] The Victoria Regia must be represented in any collection of Victorian book production" Fredeman, pg. 157. Large 8vo. x, 349pp., [1]. Sadleir, Trollope 213 (violet issue, all with same priority). Fredeman, Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press: an Experiment in Sociological Bibliography, The Library, 1974. King 379. Very good in publisher's heavily gilted beveled violet morocco cloth, all edges gilt, with some rubbing to corners and… Read More

York: J. Kendrew, 1820. Very good in stitched paper wraps with light soiling to covers.. A charming 48mo chapbook. In its 16 pages, it was able to fit 16 woodcuts. Kendrew, despite being a provincial printer in York was one of the most prominent printers of nineteenth century children's chapbooks until his death in 1841. This instant book was from his series of twenty-four 16-page halfpenny chapbooks. Atkinson, Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, pgs. 218-19. Uncommon in commerce as other copies appear bound as sammelbands with other chapbooks. Davis, Kendrew of York 40; Opie N 799.

London: Charles Dolman, 1851. First Edition. Very good pamplet without wrappers as issued.. First edition of Pugin's pamphlet wherein he again attempted to venture into theological matters creating quite a controversy, and one of the last works he wrote prior to his death in 1852. Belcher A56.

London: Printed for the Author, 1836. First Edition. Very good in contemporary cloth, spine reinforced with later linen, with scattered foxing throughout, primarily to edges. Scarce in commerce.. First edition of Pugin's monumental work which arguably defined the Gothic Revival in architecture. Belcher declared it "Pugin's most original, characteristic and influential book." Ferrey's biography of Pugin noted that Pugin published the work himself as he could not "find a publisher who would incur the responsibility of giving to the world a work so strongly seasoned with personal abuse." "Only Pugin was prepared to project the romantic retrospective vision of the medieval world on the present and the future, to urge a complete revival of the Church and the arts of the Middle Ages . . . . Contrasts appeared on 4 August, a date that marked the beginning of Pugin's public career and the effective end of Georgian architecture." Hill, God's Architect (2007, pgs. 158-59). 4to. iv, 50pp. + 16 plates. Belcher A3.1. Read More

London: Charles Dolman, 1841. Second Edition. Very good in modern quarter leather over marbled boards with minor scattered foxing throughout, primarily to edges.. Second edition of Pugin's groundbreaking work which arguably defined the Gothic Revival in architecture. With a total of 20 plates, an addition of 5 plates (and omission of 1) from the first edition, this second edition adds the notable plates whereby Pugin shows contrasting views of English Catholic towns in 1440 versus 1880, and ancient homes for the poor versus the modern-Victorian panopticon workhouses, and in which he of course laments and "exposed the degrated [sic] state of architecture" after the Middle Ages. The "most important addition to Contrasts [second edition] was a pair of plates. . . These plates made an argument more powerful than Pugin would ever make in words." Hill, God's Architect (2007, pg. 248). 4to. v, 104pp. + 20 plates. Belcher A3.2. Scarce in commerce.