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1728. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fine. With A Table of 69 Songs; Overture Compos'd by Dr. Pepusch; typographic music throughout the text; plus woodcut head- and tailpieces. 8vo. Full speckled calf, gilt ruled, spine with 2 gilt lettering-pieces; aeg; by Rivière & Sons. London: John Watts, 1728. Second Edition. The first expanded edition to include the music printed in the text. Gays highly successful ballad opera, satirizing popular Italian opera was an immediate triumph, and ran for a record 62 consecutive performances at the Theatre Royal where it premiered in January 1728. The first edition, printed earlier the same year, had 16 pages of engraved music at the end. Here, the music is printed in the text in woodcut. It features such memorable low-life characters as Polly Peachum, Jemmy Twitcher, Filch and Sukey Tawdry. For some lyrics, Gay borrowed from Allan Ramsays Gentle Shepherd. The music was composed by the German born Johann Christoph Pepusch, a contemporary of George Frederick Handel. It… Read More

Signed First Edition.One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. This is copy "A. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Grove Press, New York (1958). First Edition. " Fine.

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters. With Occasional Notes and Narratives by John Lord Sheffield. 4to. Bound in original publisher's boards, rebacked in cloth, original paper labels on spines, with the price of 4 shillings preserved on the label for the third volume; in slipcases.London: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies. 1796. 2 volumes. Together with the third volume, London, Printed for John Murray . . . 1815. First Edition. Frontispiece in volume I and III. Rare errata leaf in volume II. Untrimmed throughout, with deckle edges. Comprising the first appearance in print of Gibbon's "Memoirs," one of the earliest and finest of literary autobiographies; plus the first published collection of Gibbon's correspondence. Also included is the "Essay on the Study of Literature" in English and in its French original; plus copious and entertaining notes on Buffon and Walpole,… Read More

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters. With Occasional Notes and Narratives by John Lord Sheffield. 4to. Bound in original publisher's boards, rebacked in cloth, original paper labels on spines, with the price of 4 shillings preserved on the label for the third volume; in slipcases. London: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies . . . 1796. 2 volumes. Together with the third volume, London, Printed for John Murray . . . 1815. First Edition. Frontispiece in volume I and III. Rare errata leaf in volume II. Untrimmed throughout, with deckle edges. Comprising the first appearance in print of Gibbon's "Memoirs," one of the earliest and finest of literary autobiographies; plus the first published collection of Gibbon's correspondence. Also included is the "Essay on the Study of Literature" in English and in its French original; plus copious and entertaining notes on Buffon and Walpole, among… Read More

Translated from the Dutch. Illustrated with 83 woodcut book plates, including an original woodcut by M.C. Escher. 12mo. Yellow and Black cloth. Golden Griffin Books, New York 1950. The Second of the Golden Griffin Books. Limited to 500 copies on antique laid paper. This copy #251. The Escher book plate for A.M.E Dishoeck (page 75) is listed by Locher/Bool #329. Slight staining to covers; interior clean, with sharp, bright images. Fine.

A JESUIT CORRECTS EULER'S THEORY OF LUNAR ATMOSPHERERuggero Giuseppe Boscovich. De Lunae Atmosphaera Dissertatio. Text in Latin. Illustrated with fold-out engraved plate comprising numerous geometric diagrams bound at the end; large woodcut device on title-page; woodcut baroque decorative head-piece and woodcut initial on page III. Errata on verso of last leaf. Slim 4to. Original Italian flexible carta rustica, later backed in parchment, untrimmed. Printed in Rome by Generoso Salomoni for Venanzio Monaldini, 1753. First Edition of this important pioneering workby Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, the celebrated Croatian Jesuit scientist, in which he examines and disproves the claims (by Leonhard Euler among others) that the moon has an atmosphere. (Riccardi I, 177-8 (42); Honeyman Collection 422)"Boscovich's first contribution to the pluralist debate was indirect and antipluralist in its implications; in 1753 he published De lunae atmospheraera, in which he analyzed whether or not the moon possesses an… Read More

8vo. Original buff paper boards, paper rebacked. Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. And Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First Edition. 3 volumes. Mandeville was the author's fourth, and arguably most Gothic novel. It provoked an anonymously published spurious fourth volume, and was also one of several influences of Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Set in 17th-century England, it follows the trials and social tribulations of Charles Mandeville, an orphan with Anglo-Irish connections, who loses his honor, his sister and finally suffers facial disfigurement through involvement with his most popular Winchester School colleague, Lionel Clifford. With half titles to Vols., I and II. Some light wear to extremities, rubbing to boards and occasional soiling. Early signature on title pages of three volumes. Uncut.

LARGE PAPER COPYWILLIAM GODWIN. Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of Milton. Including Various Particulars of the Literary and Political History of Their Times. Illustrated with 3 engraved portraits (dated 1815 in the margins below the images). Small Folio. Bound in contemporary 3/4 red morocco leather binding, over original marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown. . . . 1815. First Edition. Large Paper Copy. With an appendix containing: Collections for the Life of John Milton by John Aubrey First. Printed from the Manuscript Copy and also Milton's Imitations on Ben Jonson. Where Samuel Johnson had credited "the pupils of Milton" with only one literary production, and others had found half a dozen, Godwin unearths forty or fifty texts by the nephews, and is the major source for information about them in David Masson's biography of Milton. Not unreasonably, Miltonists take him to have written a life of Milton's nephews. Yet Godwin did… Read More

Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. (The 5x8 Press, New Jersey 1942). First Edition. Presentation copy from Paul Goodman to James Laughlin. For James Laughlin / Paul / May 1942. A wonderful association copy from Goodman to the owner of New Directions Press. In 1941 Laughlin published an anthology of five young American poets that included Paul Goodman. Very light water stain to edge of cover, o/w Fine.

First Edition.Signed by Gorey.Limited to 250 numbered copies, This copy # 172. The Loathsome Couple is an illustrated, fictionalized account of the Moors murders.Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, in pictorial dust wrapper; enclosed in publisher's black slipcase. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York (1977). Very light stain to cover of dust wrapper, o/w Fine.

ONE OF 26 LETTERED COPIES, INSCRIBEDIllustrated. 4to. Original pictorial cloth, in pictorial dust wrapper; enclosed in publisher's slipcase, pictorial label. Congdon and Weed, New York (1983). First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies, signed by Gorey. This copy inscribed "For Isobel" on the colophon page. Isobel was a very good friend of Gorey's who became the dedicatee of his book The Water Flowers. A compilation of 17 books including The Utter Zoo, The Blue Aspic, The Epiplectic Bicycle, The Sopping Thursday, The Grand Passion, Les Passementeries Horribles, The Eclectic Abecedarium, L'Heure Bleue, The Broken Spoke, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, The Glorious Nosebleed, The Loathsome Couple, The Green Beads, Les Urnes Utiles, The Stupid Joke, The Prune People, and The Tuning Fork.Dust wrapper price clipped, some white staining on front of slipcase, o/w a fine copy. Scarce.

Translated by Ralph Manheim. Illustrated by Grass. 4to. Original cloth with eel skin spines, paper labels on covers; enclosed in publisher's cloth box, paper label on spine. The Limited Editions Club, New York 1985. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. 3 volumes. Laid-in is the original monthly newsletter which accompanied the book. Spines are slightly different colors, having aged differently. Slipcase slightly worn; o/w Fine. Scarce.

Illustrated. 8vo. Original leather-backed boards, gold lettering on spine, in publisher's slipcase. The Jones Library, Inc., Amherst (1937). First Edition. Limited to 150 numbered copies on hand-made paper, signed by Frost. Bottom of box slightly chipped, o/w Fine.

Frontispiece. Tall 8vo. Original gray striped, gold-flecked wrappers. New York: Firsts & Company, 1989. First Edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Greene. Printed by the Allethaire Press and The Grenfell Press on T.H. Saunders paper. This copy #215. Included is a 4-page facsimile of the author's manuscript of this essay. Fine.

Tall 8vo. Original cloth; spine label. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, of an edition of 330. Set in Aldus types on Arches mouldmade paper. This copy #143. Fine.

Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Original self cover, stitched. Printed for James Ridgway, London 1814. First Edition. William, Lord Grenville was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1806-07. During his ministry the two most influential Acts in the history of slavery abolition were passed: the Foreign Slave Trade Act (1806), which prohibited the importation of slaves into British colonies by British subjects, and the Slave Trade Abolition Act (1807). Describing slavery as contrary to the principles of justice, humanity and sound policy, Grenville remained concerned with any apparent resurgence of the slave trade during his years in the House or Lords. Lord Darnleys copy, signed by him on the front cover. It was Darnley who called for an inquiry into the actions of Grenville and his cabinet following the collapse of his Ministry in the wake of the royal rejection of Catholic emancipation. Some slight wear, o/w Fine.