Search Results: Titles starting with I from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

[Chicago?], 1901. Very good with bumping and wear to the boards and some loss to gilt.. Salesman's dummy, consisting of variously paginated specimen pages and plates, followed by publisher's announcements and a group of ruled leaves for recording subscribers' names (including an actual order penciled in), concluding with photographs of the two versions of the book that could be purchased in texoderm or morocco. Sample of spine binding not present on this copy, and no evidence of same being present. Bound in original light brown cloth with lettering and design stamped in gilt on upper cover. Photograph of William McKinley mounted on upper cover. Sample of lettering and design in gilt on lower cover.

Philadelphia: Maxwell, 1800. First American Edition. Contemporary leather boards with significant wear and front board starting separation with a few spots of paint and scattered foxing and dampstaining and tasteful plate of prior institutional owner. Overall a good copy.. First American Edition of these two satires that were bound in a single volume. Each work separately paginated, with their own title-pages; leaf of ads at the rear. Tall 8vo. [6], 3-49, [4], 5-59, [2]. Evans 37937.

London: Printed by H. Baldwin: for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell,) in the Strand, 1796. First Edition. Very good in 19th century half leather with worn boards, a few dog-eared pages, one plate reinforced, one with a small tear, some pages browning at edges, but overall a clean copy.. This work was "a comprehensive and sensational exposure of the Shakespeare forgeries by William Henry Ireland" (DNB) who purportedly discovered a treasure trove of documents by Shakespeare including the unknown play Vortigern and Rowena. The instant work was published a few days prior to the first performance of Vortigern, which was interrupted and heckled throughout by the "Malone faction", which in part led it to be the only performance - until the Pembroke Players revived it for one night in 2008. Outside of his Shakespeare research, Malone collaborated with Boswell, which "was one of the greatest literary collaborations in English literature, Malone spending hundreds of hours with… Read More

New York: New York: Published by Charles Wiley. ., 1824. Good plus with spotting to all pages in modern decorated wraps.. An operetta and a comic drama bound together in eternal bliss. The latter work is from the most famous actor of the eighteenth century. 32mo. 30pp.; 41pp.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1820. First edition, mixed issue. Good plus in contemporary half leather over marbled boards with some rubbing on covers and extremities, heavier on joints and corners, light sunning on spines, front board almost separated on vol. I, light scattered foxing and open tear with loss on front free endpaper and some loss to top of spine on vol I., toning on preliminary leaves of vol. II, ghosting to title pages, though internally very good.. Triple decker first edition, mixed issue with several first issue points of the classic of English literature, featured in the Grolier 100, One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, and arguably Scott's most famous and enduring work, which influenced the modern popular conception of the Middle Ages. 8vo. 3 vols. Todd & Bowden 140Aa-b (our copy includes Vol. I misnumbering which thus ends on page 298). Worthington 8.