London: Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1715. First Edition. 8vo: [2],219,[5]pp, with frontispiece and imprimatur leaf. Variant with price 3s/6d on title page. Period calf ruled in blind, rebacked to style, red morocco lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. From the library of bibliophile Hugh..... more
![The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays [Le Mythe de Sisyphe]. Albert CAMUS](/pictures/thumb/BB2038.jpg?v=1565284310)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First American Edition of Camus's most explicit philosophical pronouncement. 8vo (213 x 140mm): [2],viii,212,[2]pp. Publisher's saffron paper-covered boards, stamped in blind, backed by black cloth spine lettered in gold; typographic dust jacket (price-clipped) printed in French blue and black. Upper..... more
London: printed for Thomas Egerton, Whitehall, 1797. Three-Quarter Calf. First Edition of a work Lowndes called "indispensably necessary to every Shakespearian collector." Crown 8vo (211 x 123mm): iv,628pp, with shield device on title page, full-page engraving facing p. 224, and tailpiece on final page. Period three-quarter calf over blue marbled..... more
![Stonehenge] English Traits. EMERSON, alph, aldo](/pictures/thumb/BB1317.jpg?v=1503714848)
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing, with '(1)' on half-title, Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry on title page verso, battered type at the bottom of page 230, and type of last line on p. 304 not battered. 8vo: 312pp. Publisher's dark brown ribbed..... more
A Londres: chez J. Tonson, a l’enseigne de Shakespear dans le Strand; & J. Watts, a son Imprimerie dans Wild-Court pres de Lincolns-Inn-Fields, MDCCXXVI [1726]. Full Calf. The Second Edition published in England, based upon the extensively corrected, enlarged and reconceived Paris edition of 1717. 12mo; [18], xxviii, [4], 468..... more
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression, published three months after the first. Tall 8vo: 191,[1]pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine lettered in brown, top edge stained vermillion, patterned dust jacket priced 12/6. Near Fine (foxed edges but binding square and tight); Near Fine jacket (lightening to spine..... more
![The lives of the English poets; and a criticism on their works. [First Issue]. Samuel JOHNSON](/pictures/thumb/BB0727.jpg?v=1551913231)
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Williams, Colles, Wilson, Lynch, Jenkin, Walker, Burnet, Hallhead, Flin, Exshaw, Beatty, and White [through 1781], M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]. Full Calf. First Dublin Edition (unauthorized) and First Separate Edition, preceding the first London separate edition by two years, complete in three volumes. First Issue, with "partaking his..... more
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, [1775]. First Edition. Full Calf. 8vo: iv,416pp. Full calf, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco gilt lettering piece, all edges stained red. Minor wear and splits along joints, but binding square and tight; text clean and fresh with ample..... more
![The Structure of The Novel [Hogarth Lectures on Literature (First Series), No. 6]. Edwin MUIR](/pictures/thumb/BB2408.jpeg?v=1601171582)
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (one of 2,250 copies) of this guide to constructing a novel by one of Scotland's finest poets. Crown 8vo (185 x 118mm): 151,[1]pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in red; orange dust..... more
![How to Read [First Issue]. Ezra POUND](/pictures/thumb/BB2444.jpeg?v=1598206324)
London: Desmond Harmsworth, MCMXXXI [1931]. First Edition. Hardcover. A spectacular First Printing of this rancorous essay on literary instruction, language, criticism, and much else, including a checklist of recommended writers, beginning with Confucius and down through Flaubert and Rimbaud. Slim crown 8vo (190 x 129mm): 55,[1]pp. Publisher's first issue roughly..... more
London: printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street, 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. 8vo: [2],x,222pp. Contemporary leather spine in six compartments between raised bands, recent red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled sides and end papers. Joints skillfully and almost imperceptibly reinforced, marbled sides..... more
New York: Glenn Horowitz, 2015. Stiff Wrappers. First edition, one of only 125 copies, of Salter's deeply personal remembrance of his friend Peter Matthiessen. Demy 8vo (221 x 143mm): 10,[2]pp, with photographic portrait frontispiece. Stiff sea-green, speckled, string-tied wrappers lettered in brown. Twenty-five copies were signed by Salter and bound..... more
![Lectures on the art of reading [Parts I & II]. Thomas SHERIDAN](/pictures/thumb/BB1334.jpg?v=1535591240)
London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, MDCCLXXV [1775]. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Edition, in two parts (volumes): Part I. The art of reading prose. Part II. The art of reading verse..... more
London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, 1775. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition. 8vo; xii, 392pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer to period style in full speckled calf, spine in six compartments between..... more
![The history and adventures of an atom. In two volumes [First Issue]. Tobias George SMOLLETT](/pictures/thumb/BB0596.jpg?v=1499796673)
London: Printed for Robinson and Roberts, MDCCXLIX [but 1769]. First Edition. Full Calf. First Issue (with the erroneous date 1749 on the title page). 12mo: viii,227;[ii],190pp. Half title in Volume II only. Newly bound by Fitterer in period-style speckled calf, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in..... more
![Tatler] The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. Richard STEELE](/pictures/thumb/BB0758.jpg?v=1499796688)
London: printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, W. Owen, R. Horsfield , B. White and son, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Rivington, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwinm G. G. J. and J. Robinson, C. Dilly, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, W. Goldsmith, J. J, M DCC..... more
![A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick, [bound with] Yorick’s sentimental...](/pictures/thumb/BB0224.JPG?v=1499796642)
London: [n.p.], Printed in the Year MDCCLXIX [1769]. Quarter-bound Leather. Three titles bound in one, all issued (no printer or publisher given) in 1769, complete in five volumes, continuously paginated in Arabic and Roman numerals. 12mo: 150,[3],cliv-clxvi,[1],168-306pp. "Yorick’s sentimental journey, continued . . . By Eugenius" (i.e., John Hall-Stevenson) comprises..... more
London: Printed for S. Bagster, in the Strand, By R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the River Lea, Herts, MDCCCXV [1815]. Full Calf. 8vo: [2],514p,[20]pp, with 13 (of 14) full-page engraved plates and 36 further illustrations (17 of fish, 2 maps of the River Lea & the River Dove, 2 autograph..... more
London: Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1651. First Edition. Full Calf. 12mo: [60],540pp, with four copper-engraved portraits (of Wotton, Charles I, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Earl of Essex). Contemporary calf, flat spine with later red morocco lettering piece gilt, plain period..... more