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The First Woman in the United States to Make Her Living as a Writer

1. ADAMS, Hannah. An Alphabetical Compendium of Various Sects Which have appeared in the World from the beginning of the Christian Aera to the present Day. With an Appendix, Containing a brief Account of the different Schemes of Religion Now embraced among Mankind. The whole collected From the best Authors, ancient and modern...Boston: Printed by B. Edes & Sons, 1784. Octavo. [2], ii, [2], 204. lxxxiii, [1, errata], [22, index, and list of subscribers] pp. Handsomely bound in full recent antique-style mottled calf. Gilt-ruled covers, gilt spine with red morocco label. Occasional foxing, as usual. Portion of top blank margin of title-page clipped away, old ink signature on “To the Readers” page. Overall a very good copy. $1,500
First edition.
Hannah Adams (1755-1831) was the first woman in the United States to make her living as a writer. Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, Adams was a distant cousin of President John Adams and the daughter of a lifelong bibliophile called “Book” Adams, whose history included a failed attempt at bookselling. Too frail to go to school, she was taught Latin, Greek, geography and logic by theological students who boarded with her family. One of these students introduced her to Broughton’s Dictionary of Religions, which led to her interest in writing on religious topics. The present book, Adams’ first, was an important contribution to this literature, in that she represented denominations from the perspective of their adherents, without injecting her own opinions. (She herself was a Unitarian). It includes one of the earliest accounts of the Shakers and a description of modern Jewry. This work went through four editions in America under different titles and was republished in England. Her other works include A Summary History of New England (1799), The Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion (1804), History of the Jews (1812), Letters on the Gospels (1826).
Evans 18319. Sabin 208.

2. ALCOTT, William A. The Young Woman’s Guide to Excellence. Boston: George W. Light, 1840. Twelvemo. 356, [4, ads] pp. Original dark brown blindstamped cloth, spine lettering in gilt. Light wear at spine extremities, intermittent light foxing, as usual. Donor’s inscription, dated December 25, 1850. A very good, bright copy. $250
First edition.
William Andrus Alcott (1798-1859) was the cousin of Bronson Alcott. He became interested in popular education at an early age. He began teaching at the age of eighteen, and amassed a variety of teaching experience in New England and in the South by the time he started attending classes at Yale Medical School and eventually earned a diploma to practice medicine and surgery. He wrote a number of books about education and health, including The Young Mother or Management of Children in Regard to Health (1836), Confessions of a Schoolmaster (1839), The Young Man’s Guide (1839) The Home Book of Life and Health (1856) and Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders (1859). His works were popular, but have been criticized by later feminists as being too rigid.

Enlightenment History of Women

3. ALEXANDER, William. The History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time; Giving some Account of almost every interesting Particular concerning that Sex, among all Nations, ancient and modern…Dublin: Printed by J.A. Husband, For Messrs. S. Price, R. Cross…[et al.], 1779. Two volumes, octavo. [10], xxii, 448, [22, index], [2, blank]; [4], 449, [1], [25, index], [3, blank] pp. Contemporary calf, gilt red morocco labels. Small splits in spine, but generally a very good copy, tight and fresh. Light pencil annotations throughout by a former owner (late nineteenth-century). Includes the half-title to Volume I and the terminal blanks.
$1,500
First Dublin edition, published the same year as the first (second edition overall), of this wide-ranging history of the female sex.
William Alexander (bap. 1742?, d. 1788?) was a University of Edinburgh-educated medical doctor. The present work, which has sociological and anthropological overtones, is his best know. It “deserves to take a place among Enlightenment histories of civil society. Though Alexander clearly knew and was influenced by Montesquieu and the encyclopédistes, it was to contemporary Scottish historians such as John Millar, Lord Kames, and Gilbert Stuart that he owed his greatest debts. Like them, he attempted to place the history of women and gender roles firmly within the history of civil society, though he also perpetuated their disagreements and inconsistencies. The History is long, rambling, and inconsistent, and omits any scholarly references. In it, Alexander drew widely and indiscriminately upon biblical history, theological studies, classical and medieval histories, and travel literature to construct narratives of women's employment, marriage, child-rearing patterns, customs and ceremonies, and the status and public power of women. He explored the relative influences of nature, or biology, and education, or environment, in shaping the manners of women; the potential for the moral corruption of nations in the absence of female chastity; the relationship between the progress of ‘civilization’ and the condition of women; and the distinctive characteristics of both ‘northern’ and British women. On the whole Alexander was inclined to give little weight to the influence of Christianity in the improvement of the condition of women, and there is an anti-Catholic and anti-clerical tinge to much of his discussion” (D.N.B.). The History of Women went through three British editions in as many years. It was translated into French and German, and two American editions were produced.

4. [ALEXANDER, William.] Histoire des femmes depuis la plus haute antiquité kisqu à nos jours, Avec des Anecdotes curieuses, et de Détails très intérressans sur leur état civil et politique, chez tous ls peoples barbares et civilizes, anciens et moderns. Traduit de l’anglois Par le C. Cantwell…Paris: Chez Briand, 1794. Four volumes, [4], xxxiii, [1], 238, [2, errata]; [4], 312, [2, errata]; [4], 240, [2, errata]; [4], 301, [1], [1, errata] pp. Four engraved frontispieces by Philibert Boutrois. Complete with half-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt flat spines with brown and black morocco labels, edges stained red. Light wear to binding extremities, a little light foxing. A very good, clean se $950

First French translation of this well known Hitory of Women, which first appeared in 1779.
OCLC notes only three copies (Leeds, UCLA and the University of Kansas).

5. BENNETT, John. Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects, Calculated to Improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding…The Third Edition. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies…1803. Two volumes, twelvemo. pp. [iii]-xx. 240; [2], 264 pp. Bound without the half-titles. Contemporary tree calf, Gilt-decorated flat spines with red and black morocco labels. Minor signs of insect damage on the back cover of Volume II, but a fine, bright copy. Early ink signature on title-page of each volume (“Maria Frances Montgomery”), engraved bookplate of the same owner (“M.F. Montgomery Convoy”). $600
First published in 1789, this courtesy book in epistolary form went through a number of editions, both in England and America. The author, a clergyman who also wrote Strictures on Female Education (1780) aimed to “rouse young ladies from a vacant or insipid life, into one of usefulness and laudable exertion to recall them from visionary novels and romance into solid reading and reflection and from the criminal absurdities of fashion, to the simplicity of nature and the dignity of virtue. He has attempted a method of uniting, in their character, the graces with the virtues; an amiable heart with elegant manners and an enlightened understanding.”

6. [BOURDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre Joseph.] L’ami des femmes. Paris: Quay des Augustins, 1758. Small octavo. [iv], 188, [2] pp. Contemporary blue boards with printed paper label. Extremities of boards rubbed, old ink monogram on title-page, portion of bottom margin of title-page cut out to remove an ownership mark, not affecting text. A good, clean copy. $500
First edition of Boudier de Villemert’s classic treatise on women, reprinted dozens of times and translated into English as The Lady’s Friend. Includes chapters on women’s rank in society, their education and suitable occupations (The study of science is frowned upon.), women’s dress, love and marriage, domestic management, etc.
Despite the popularity of this book, the first edition is fairly scarce: OCLC lists five copies in North America (Berkeley, Library of Congress, Indiana, Harvard, North Carolina).
Cioranescu 13039.

7. BROOKE, Mrs. [Frances]. The Siege of Sinope. A Tragedy As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1781. Octavo, in fours. [viii], 71 pp. Recent half calf over marbled boards, new endpapers. A very good, clean copy.
First edition. $300
The most famous play of Mrs. Frances Brooke 1724-1789), who is chiefly known today as Canada’s first novelist for her works, The History of Julia Mandeville (1763) and The History of Emily Montague, written while she and her chaplain-husband were in Quebec. Mrs. Brooke was highly regarded in her time. The Catalogue of 500 Celebrated Authors of Great Britain Now Living (1788) described her as a “female writer of very distinguished merit,” and she was frequently mentioned in the Gentleman’s Magazine. She was a friend of Samuel Johnson’s and Fanny Burney’s.

Etiquette for Ladies

8. BUGG, Lelia Hardin. A Lady. Manners and Social Usages. Second Edition. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1893. Twelvemo. 317 pp. White cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Spine lightly soiled, minor soiling to covers. A very good, tight copy. $250
Lelia Bugg, who was from Wichita, Kansas, was the author of numerous self-improvement books, including The Corrrect Thing for Catholics (1891), Correct English (1895), A Little Book of Wisdom: Being Great Thoughts of Many Wise Men and Women (1897). She also wrote several works of fiction, including Orchids (1894) and The Prodigal’s Daughter and Other Tales (1898). Though reasonably popular in their own day, most of her books are now scarce. Of the present work, OCLC notes five copies of this second edition and two copies of the first. This is a practical etiquette book for young women. Topics discussed include the well-bred woman and man; the dress, amusement, and manners of children; the use of words, and tact in conversation; letter writing, invitations, acceptances and regrets; introductions; balls, manners at table; weddings; being a good hostess; proper dress; funerals and mourning attire, etc.

9. BURNAP, George W. Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman and Other Subjects. Baltimore: John Murphy, Printer and Publisher, 1841. Twelvemo. 272 + [4] pp. publisher’s ads. Original brown blindstamped cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Head and foot of spine worn, spine lightly cocked. A good, clean copy. $150
First edition.
George Washington Burnap (1802-1859) was an American Unitarian clergyman and pastor of the First Independent Church Baltimore. This is a series of ten lectures of interest to women on the subjects of education, development of the intellect, literature, health, and rights. Burnap was regent of the University of Maryland and one of the original trustees of the Peabody Institute, as well as a founder of the Maryland Historical Society. (See DAB.)

10. [CARACCIOLI, Louis-Antoine, Marquis de]. La vie de Madame de Maintenon, Institutrice de la Royale Maison de Saint-Cyr. A Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire…1786. Twelvemo. [xxiv], 524, [3, approbation and privilege] pp. Engraved frontisportrait. Contemporary half sheep over mottled brown boards, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, edges sprinkled blue. Joints starting to crack, but cords sound, a bit of wear to binding extremities. A good copy. $450
First edition of Caraccioli’s account of the life of Francoise d’Aubigne Maintenon (1635-1719), the governess who became the second wife of Louis XIV. Madame de Maintenon created a famous school for girls at St.Cyr, which provided girls of noble birth but impoverished means the opportunity to get the education expected when they would marry at their level or beyond.
This book is remarkable for being one of Caraccioli’s (1719-1803) longest works. The fact that the subject should be a female educator is interesting, though not surprising, coming from the author of books like Le véritable mentor, ou L’education de la noblesse (1759) and Derniers adieux de la maréchale de *** à ses enfants (1769). La vie de Madame de Maintenon is a scarce book: OCLC lists ten copies in North America and four in Europe.

the most learned lady in England during the eighteenth century”

11. CARTER, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a new edition of her poems, some which have never appeared before; to which are added, some miscellaneous essays in prose, together with her Notes on the Bible…By the Rev. Montagu Pennington, M.A.…London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1808. Two volumes, octavo. [8], 501; [2], 428 pp. Engraved frontisportrait. Late nineteenth-century half tan calf over tan cloth boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Bookplate of Charles Arthur Wynne Finch (1841-1903), Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Scots Guard. A very good, clean copy. $850
Second edition.
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806) was, to quote Priscilla Dorr in Schleuter’s Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, “the most learned lady in England during the eighteenth century.” She was one of the most famous members of the Blue Stocking Circle, which also included Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Vesey, Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Chapone, and Hannah More. Despite an early learning disability and “with a persistence that won the praise of V. Woolf in A Room of One’s Own,” (as Margaret Drabble reminds us in the Oxford Companion to English Literature) she learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in childhood with her brothers, and later studied French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Arabic. She was a friend of Samuel Johnson, who thought her one of the best Greek scholars he had known, and invited her to contribute to The Rambler. She made a number of translations, of which her Epictetus is the masterpiece.

The Two Major Works of a Leading Bluestocking

12. CHAPONE, Hester. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady [With:] Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. London, J Walter/ E.& C. Dilly, 1773-75. Three volumes, small octavo. viii, 200; [2], 230; xii, 178, [2, ads] pp. Lacking the half-title to Volume III. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf. Gilt-decorated flat spines with black morocco labels. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, front joints of the first two volumes neatly repaired. Ink signatures of three early women owners. A very good, attractive set. $950
Second edition of the first work, first edition of the second work.
Hester Chapone (1727-1760) was one of the Bluestockings. She was associated especially with Elizabeth Carter, and Elizabeth Montagu, to whom this work is dedicated, but was also a friend of Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney d’Arblay, and Gilbert White. She came to the attention of Samuel Johnson, who admitted four of her pieces to The Rambler. The publication of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, (1773), a treatise on female education, brought her fame, if not fortune; she was paid £50 for it. She was paid five times that for Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, which included her early verses, moral essays, and “The Story of Fidelia,” first published in The Adventurer (See the Linda V. Troost article in An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers).

13. CHAPMAN, Priscilla. Hindoo Female Education. London: Published b R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside; and sold by L. and G. Seeley, 1839. Twelvemo. xii, 175, [3], [2, ads] pp. Four lithographic plates. At the end is a list of members of the Ladies Society for Promoting Female Education in India. Original black cloth, chipped at head and foot of spine, front joint cracking, but sound, some light foxing, especially to preliminaries and first plate. Bookplates of the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution. A good copy of an uncommon book. $750
First edition of what would seem to be an early treatise on the plight of women in India, and the state of their education, or lack of it. Topics discussed include the relationship of females to males, the influence of the climate and famines, the condition of the poor, the state of medicine, polygamy, bathing, the native church, etc. The plates school a central school, an orphan refuge, and a village scene.
According to the preface, the Baptist Missionary W. Ward brought the “degraded and neglected state of females in India” to the attention of the women of Liverpool in 1821, and the Ladies Society for Promoting Female Education in India was born shortly thereafter. The Society for Promoting Native Female Education in China and the East already existed. The object was, of course, to introduce Christianity and well as to ameliorate the lives of women. We know nothing about the life of Priscilla Chapman. This appears to be her only book.

A Regency Scandal

14. CLARKE, Mary Anne. The Rival Princes: or, A Faithful Narrative of Facts, Relating to Mrs. M.A. Clarke’s Political Acquaintance with Colonel Wardle, Major Dodd, &c. &c. &c. Who Were Concerned in the Charges Against the Duke of York; Together with A variety of Authentic and Important Letters, and Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of Several Persons of Political Notoriety…London: Printed for the Author, 1810. Two volumes, twelvemo. [12], 216; [4], 307, [1], [4, ads] pp. Engraved portrait. Original boards, uncut, rebacked in later tan calf with burgundy and green morocco labels. Volume II lacks front free endpaper. Light offsetting at a couple of spots in Volume II from old acidic inserts (I4-5, X6-Y1, Z2-3). Nineteenth-century bookseller’s label on front pastedown of Volume I. Still, a very good, large copy, with half-titles and ads present.
First edition. $500
Mary Anne Clarke (1776?-1852), whose background remains obscure, was the mistress of Frederick, Duke of York (1763–1827). She was accused by Colonel Gwyllum Lloyd Wardle of soliciting bribes from the military in exchange for preferments and commissions from the Duke. The case became a great Regency scandal and resulted in a flurry of pamphlets. In more recent times, it became the subject of a novel, Mary Anne (1954), written by Mrs. Clarke’s great-granddaughter, Daphne du Maurier. According to the D.N.B., it was ghost-written by P. F. McCallum.

The Most Important English Work on Pedagogy
Between Locke and Spencer, Translated into French by a Friend of the Authors

15. EDGEWORTH, Maria, [and Richard Lovell Edgeworth]. Education pratique. Traduction libre de l’anglais…par Charles Pictet, de Genève. Genève: Chez Magimel…J.J. Paschoud, et à Paris, Magimel, An VIII [i.e., 1800?]. Octavo. [2], L, 458, [2, table and errata] pp. Contemporary calf over paste-paper boards, gilt spine. Two small tears at top of spine, front joint starting to crack, intermittent light dampstain at top edge. A good copy overall. $1,250
First French edition of “the most important work on general pedagogy to appear in this country between…Locke’s Thoughts…and Herbert Spencer’s Essay in 1861” (Muirhead, The English at School, 57). The fifty-page translator’s preface contains a significant discussion of Maria Edgeworth’s views on education, as well as an explanation of the liberties he has taken with the text. Pictet had a lengthy correspondence with Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
“This book…has a real value in the history of education. Mr. Edgeworth’s interest in the subject had been inspired by the study of Rousseau and by his friendship with Thomas Day. But he went beyond Rousseau, who developed his theories from his own ingenious mind and related an imaginary process. The Edgeworths brought a scientific method to their work. The second Mrs. Edgeworth (Honora Sneyd) began the collection of actual examples of conversations between the children and their elders. This was continued patiently by the writers of the book; and their reasonings were thus founded on an accurate record of childish methods of thought. They deprecated especially any measures that interrupted the child's own chain of reasoning. The chapters on the special subjects of study, chronology, geometry, &c., were written by Richard Lovell Edgeworth; those on toys, on rewards and punishments, on temper, &c., by his daughter” (Encyc. Brit., 13th ed.).
Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755-1824) was a Swiss rural economist. As envoy-extraordinary, he attended the Congress of Vienna in 1814 and that of Paris in 1815. He wrote a Picture of the Present Condition of the United States of America (1796) and a Treatise on Agriculture. He was one of the editors of the Bibliothèque Universelle, where he published a translation of Maria Edgeworth’s Moral Tales. He also wrote Théologie naturelle (1804), freely translated from the English of Paley. He was the brother of Marc-Auguste Pictet (1752-1825), who succeeded Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) in the chair of philosophy at the college of Geneva. Both Pictets were friends of the Edgeworths.
OCLC lists only the Harvard, Michigan, and Yale copies. RLIN adds the New York Public Library copy. The Sadleir copy at UCLA is from Richard Lovell Edgeworth’s library.
Slade 30.

A Continuation of Some of Her Earliest Children’s Stories

16. EDGEWORTH, Maria. Harry and Lucy Concluded; Being the Last Part of Early Lessons. London: Printed for R. Hunter…Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy…1825. Four volumes in two, twelvemo. [iii]-xviii, 287, [1. blank], [2], 340; [2], 319, [1, blank]; [2], 336 pp. Lacking half-titles. Full late nineteenth-century calf. Gilt single-rule borders on covers, gilt spines with burgundy and black morocco labels. Light wear at feet of spines, intermittent light foxing. Ink signatures of original owner in each volume (“Emma Barnett, Janry. 29th, 1828”). A very good set. $500
First edition.
The original Harry and Lucy stories were part of the collection, Early Lessons (1801), and they were amongst the first children’s stories written by Maria Edgeworth. They demonstrate the educational theories of Maria Edgeworth and her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, as discussed in their work, Practical Education (1798).
Slade 23A. Sadleir 769.

Divorce in Normandy

17. EVERARD, Estienne. Metode pour liquider les mariages avenans des filles, dans la coutume generale de Normandie, & dans la Coûtume particulière de Caux. Seconde Edition, Revuë, corrigée & augmentée. A Rouen: Chez Jean-Baptiste Besongne...1734. Octavo. [20], 220, [47, table de matières], [4, privilege], [1, publisher's catalogue]. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with brown morocco label, edges sprinkled red. Bottom corner of front cover bumped, corners lightly worn. A very good copy. $750
First published in 1696.
This second edition is not noted in OCLC. OCLC lists five copies of one 1696 edition—at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego, plus two in France. It lists one copy of another 1696 edition (with a different collation) at the University of Leiden. We cannot be sure how this edition differs from the 1696 editions, though the table appears to be new.
This is a study of divorce under the Coutume de Normandie, a legal system that was instituted in this part of France in the tenth century and continued until the French Revolution. The factors which distinguish Norman law are an absence of distinctions between men who are equal before the law. The system of succession excludes females because of their inability to pass down property within the family.

The First Systematic Work to Deal with the Subject of Female Education

18. FENELON, [François De Salignac de La Mothe]. De l’education des filles. A Paris Chez Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery et Charles Clousier…1687. Twelvemo. [4], [3, catalogue], [1, blank], 275 [i.e., 269, pagination for pp. 193-8 omitted as usual, but complete], ], [6, privilege] pp. Title-page in black and red. Contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine. Spine ends, corners lightly worn. Some light browning, but generally a very good copy. $950
First edition, mixed issue, of Fénelon’s (1651-1715) most important book. This copy has no errata, as is the case with first issue copies, according to Tchermerzine. It follows Tchermerzine’s description of the second issue, with p. 167, line 20 having the reading “sans vivre de son esprit” . However, it has the errors on p. 275 (“manifiques” and “simplieté”), as does the first issue. Both O4 (pp. 167-8) and pp. 275-6 (Z3) are on stubs.
Instructions for the Education of a Daughter was “…the first systematic attempt ever made to deal with that subject as a whole. Hence it was probably the most influential of all Fénelon’s books, and guided French ideas on the question all through the 18th century. It holds a most judicious balance between the two opposing parties of the time. On the one side were the précieuses, enthusiasts for the ‘higher’ education of their sex; on the other were the heavy Philistines, so often portrayed by Molière, who thought that the less girls knew the better they were likely to be. Fénelon sums up in favour of the cultivated house-wife; his first object was to persuade the mothers to take charge of their girls themselves, and fit them to become wives and mothers in their turn” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 13th edition).
Tchermerzine III, p. 164.

19. Genuine and Authentic Memoirs of a Well-Known Woman of Intrigue, Containing a great variety of curious and interesting anecdotes, which have never yet appeared in print, of several of the first characters in the fashionable world. Written by herself. London: Printed for J. Ridgway…1787 [but a nineteenth-century reprint]. Small octavo. 120 pp. Half red morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. A very good copy. $300
Two editions of this work were published by Ridgway in 1787. The first edition appears to have been a two-volume twelvemo, known to ESTC only through a copy of Volume II at Lodz Universytet Biblioteka. A stated second edition, a twelvemo extending to 169 pages, appeared the same year, though it has been conjectured that that is one volume only of the two-volume work. ESTC reports only one copy of the second edition, at the Bodleian Library. OCLC notes two nineteenth-century reprints, one published in 1860, known in one copy at the University of Miami, and another published in 1886, known only in one copy at the National Library of Scotland. The collation of both matches that of the present book, which only includes the date 1787. It is not clear whether this copy is the same edition as one of those reported by OCLC, or yet another variant. In any case, all editions of this book are rare.

20. GISBORNE, Thomas. An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex. London: Printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies…1797. Octavo. viii, 426, [2] pp., with the final advertisement leaf. Contemporary calf over marbled boards, rebacked with new endpapers, gilt black morocco spine label. A little foxing. A very good copy. $750
First edition.
Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846) was an Evangelical clergyman and a close friend of Wilberforce and Hannah More. “His ethical writings are directed against Paley’s expediency, and endeavor to provide a basis of absolute right; but his criterion is mainly utilitarian. His sermons were held to rank with the best contemporary performances; but he shows more refinement and good feeling than intellectual force” (Leslie Stephen, D.N.B.). The present work is one of many advice books for young women that followed Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women. Gisborne argues that women's subordinate nature is innate. He commends the traditional feminine virtues and the domestic role for women. Law, politics and government, scholarship, philosophy, navigation and war all “demand the efforts of a mind endued with the powers of close and comprehensive reasoning, and of intense and continued application” and are thus best left to men. However, he does share Wollstonecraft's view that women should not conceal their intellectual abilities and that parents should never force their daughters into marriage. The first edition is surprisingly scarce: only one copy has come up at auction in the past twenty-five years.
See Alice Browne, The Eighteenth-Century Feminist Mind (1987); and see 'Appendix 2, Women: the Evidence of the Advice Books' in William St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys
(1989).

Original Boards, Uncut and Partially Unopened

21. GRANT, Mrs. [Anne.] Poems on Various Subjects. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author by J. Moir; London: Sold by Longman and Rees and J. Hatchard, 1803. Octavo. pp. 1-10, pp. 17-447. (Despite erratic pagination, the text is complete.) Long subscriber’s list at rear (according to Jackson, the subscribers totaled 3,000). Contemporary blue boards, uncut and partially unopened, rebacked to style, with new printed paper label. Edges of boards rubbed, old ownership signature, dated 1859. A very good copy. $750
First edition.
This is the first book of Anne MacVicar Grant (1755-1838), the Glasgow-born poet and author. Grant and her mother followed her father, a military man, to New York in 1758, and they remained there for ten years. She discusses her experiences in Memoirs of an American Lady (1808). In 1779, she married a clergyman named Grant, who was garrison-chaplain at Fort Augustus and minsiter of the parish of Laggan in Inverness-shire. Her husband’s death in 1801 left her penniless and in need of providing for her children, so she began a writing career. Her works include Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady between the years 1773 and 1807 (1807), Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders (1811), and translations of Ossian. Her literary friends included Scott, Lockhart, and DeQuincey.
Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 137.

The Cleverest Woman in London”

22. GROTE, Harriet. Collected Papers, (original and reprinted,) in Prose and Verse. 1842-2862. By Mrs. Grote. London: John Murray, 1862. Octavo. [2], iv, [2, contents with verso blank], 293, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank], 12 [advertisements, dated November, 1861] pp. Original terra cotta cloth with covers blocked in blind and spine blocked and lettered in gilt. Half-inch tear along back joint, contemporary ownership signature, remains of glue from an old bookplate. A few light pencil marks in margins. Overall a very good, bright copy. $300
First edition.
“The brilliant daughter of Thomas Lewin, an Indian civil servant, and a Miss Chaloner, Harriet Lewin [1792-1878] fell in love with the son of a neighbour near Bexley in Kent, George Grote [1794-1871], under whose careful tuition she prepared to share in his historical and political interests and whom she married in 1820. Harriet Grote devoted her considerable intellectual and practical talents to furthering her husband’s political career as a Radical Member of Parliament and later became closely involved in the preparation of his celebrated History of Greece (1845-56). Her vivacity and attested conversational skills made their home a natural centre for the parliamentary Radicals and for George Grote’s later literary and administrative activities…Her friend and biographer Elizabeth Eastlake once pronounced her ‘the cleverest woman in London’ [and] in 1862 she published her Collected Papers in Prose and Verse, mainly essays on literary, political, and economic subjects, many of them in accordance with the old Radical views” (Joanne Shattock, The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers, p. 195f).

23. HALE, Mrs. [Sarah]. Manners; or, Happy Homes and Good Society All the Year Round. Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1868. Octavo. [2], 377 pp. Green cloth with covers blocked in blind and spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Bottom of spine lightly frayed, remains of bookplates on pastedowns. A good copy, clean and bright. $450
First edition, variant of Blanck’s Printing 2, with the collation given, and printed on laid paper with brown-coated endpapers, but in green cloth, as Blanck’s Printing 1. It is not clear whether Blanck is indicating a priority. He makes no argument for priority, and indicates that copies of Printings 1 and 3 were received at Boston Public Library on the same day—December 18, 1867.
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879) was a novelist and poet, who is best known as the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, and as the author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Born in a small town near Newport, New Hampshire, she was educated at home by her mother and brother, both of whom had attended Dartmouth College. Her views of “woman’s role” and “woman’s sphere” are summed up in Manners: or, Happy Homes and Good Society All the Year Round. She was a strong advocate for women’s education and an arbiter for taste among middle-class American women. She was one of the founders of Vassar College and is credited with making Thanksgiving a national holiday in the United States. (It has previously been celebrated only in New England.)
OCLC notes twenty copies of the first edition, mostly in East Coast libraries. Though it was reprinted many times, the first edition is uncommon.
BAL 6897.

“An Important Attempt to Deal Seriously with the Life of an Admirable Roman Woman”
(Feminist Companion to Literature in English)

24. HAMILTON, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, the wife of Germanicus…In three volumes. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell; for G. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster-row, London, 1804. Three volumes, octavo. xxxciii, 319; v, [1, blank], 340; viii, 352 pp. Later nineteenth-century calf over marbled boards, gilt spine with burgundy morocco labels, edges sprinkled red. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Donegal landowner Horatio Granville Murray Stewart (1834-1904) in each volume. Remains of small circular label on spine of Volume I, some light dampstaining at fore-margin, and a few marginal pencil marks in the same volume. Otherwise a very good, attractive set, complete with half-titles. $850
First edition.
Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1808) is best known for her influential works on education, such as Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education. She was “one of the earliest British pioneers of the theories of Pestalozzi” (Stewart & McCann, p. 14), and was much admired by Maria Edgeworth. She also wrote social criticism, somewhat in the style of Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World, and books on Scottish manners and customs, which earned the praise of Sir Walter Scott. The present work is considered admirable in its understanding of Roman laws and customs. It has been called “an important attempt to deal seriously with the life of an admirable Roman woman” (Blain, Clements and Grundy, Feminist Companion to literature in English.

Logic for Ladies

25. KNIGGE, Philippine, Freiin Von. Versuch einer Logic für Frauenzimmer…Hanover: Christian Ritscher, 1789. Small octavo. 162 pp. Silhouette portrait vignette on title-page. Contemporary brown cloth over decorative boards, paper spine label with title in manuscript. Spine ends, edges of boards rubbed. Occasional light foxing. Former owner’s rubberstamp on front free endpaper and dedication page. A very good copy. $2,000
First and only edition of a philosophical manual written by the fourteen-year old Baroness Philippine von Knigge (1775-1841). She was the daughter of Adolf von Knigge (1752-1796), author of several satirical novels and best known for Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788), “a work of practical wisdom on the conduct of life” (Garland). In later years, Philippine von Knigge translated Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s life of Swift, together with her father (1795), and wrote by herself Lebensregeln aus den besten ältern und neueren Schriftstellern (1799). All of her works are rare.
This highly original work, for the young author states that no other work has been consulted, is the fruit of lessons in philosophy given by her father, and is published here that it might benefit women interested in the subject. It is divided into five sections: 1) of ideas or concepts; b) of symbolic knowledge; c) of judgments and theses; e) of conclusion and syllogisms. The whole is introduced by a preface detailing the use of logic and its place in philosophy, and concludes with some practical examples.
OCLC locates four copies: at Washington University, Princeton, the University of Texas, and Theologische University Kampen Broederweg in the Netherlands. Stanford also has a copy.

Hair Dressing for Women, by a Master Stylist

26. LEFEVRE, MAITRE COEFFEUR. Traité des principes de l’art de la coéffure des femmes, où il est démontré qu’avec un peu de réflexion on peut apprendre avec facilité à coëffer, & soi-Même, & toute autre personne. Paris: Chez l’Auteur, 1778. Twelvemo. [4], 168 pp. The words “avec approbation & privilége” have been crossed out on the title-page in a contemporary ink, and the two leaves of approbation and privlège have been excised from this copy (and probably in others as well). Nineteenth-century tan polished calf. Gilt triple-ruled borders on covers, gilt flat spine with red and brown morocco labels. Two small pieces of paper have been affixed to the lower margin of the title-page and last page of text, possibly to obliterate an ownership mark. A very good copy of a rare book. $1,250
First edition of a rare book on the styling of women’s hair, written by a professional. In his preliminary note, the author asserts that proper attention to hairstyling can turn a mediocre beauty into a great beauty, and can ensure a lasting marriage.
This is a comprehensive study. Topics discussed include the art of combing hair, how to separate the hair around the face from the hair at the back of the head, the correct way of cutting hair, the right time for a new haircut, how to make curls of different sorts, the use of a curling iron, how to decorate and powder a chignon, the use of buckles, how to place the bonnet after having one’s hair styled, etc.
Not in OCLC, RLIN or COPAC. Colas 1811. Hiler p. 534 (mistakenly citing the date as 1738). A second edition was published in 1783.

27. [LOS-RIOS, Charlotte-Marie de]. L’Encyclopédie enfantine, ou Magazin pour les petits enfans…Edition augmentée. Dresde: Chez les Frères Walther, 1791. Octavo. [2], 233, [3] pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette. Original light blue boards, gilt paper spine label, author’s name in manuscript on spine. Spine lightly browned, a little foxing to covers, occasional light foxing to text. A very good copy overall. $1,250
First edition, later (third?) issue, with a cancel title-page.
This is one of a series of educational works written by Charlotte Marie de Los-Rios, wife of the colorful Lyons bookseller, Jean François de Los-Rios. The first issue appeared in 1771 with the same collation as ours, and it is generally ascribed to Angelique de Los Rios. The present issue seems to be from the same sheets, with a new title-page. Querard lists a slightly different title, Magasin des petits enfans, ou Recueil d’amusements à la portée a leur age: suivi de deux traités instructifs & édifians, and OCLC cites editions of this title in 1774 and 1756 (of 144 pages). An “edition augmentée” of this present title appeared in 1780, but library cataloguing does not give the collation. Perhaps it is a second issue of the 1771 work, with a cancel title--page—or not. OCLC lists a 1791 edition of the “edition augmentée,” but it is only 110 pages in length. It lists no copies of this 233-page edition. Of the first edition, OCLC records two copies, one at Gottingen and one at Richmond Public Library in Virginia. It lists copies of the 110-page 1791 edition at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Nottingham. All issues are rare.
This work is divided into several sections, including etiquette and “good grace,” precepts of a father to his children, general ideas and definitions of things that children ought to be taught, short definitions of the different arts and sciences, and precepts of civilized life. Various different stylistic formats are used, including poems, fables, and a series of questions and answers, in an effort to make this didactic work more accessible. The terminal ads list other works by this author.

On Johnson’s Friend, Mrs. Piozzi

28. [MANGIN, Edward]. Piozziana; or, Recollections of the Late Mrs. Piozzi, with Remarks. By a Friend. London: Edward Moxon, 1833. Octavo. [234]. [2, ads] pp. Frontispiece facsimile of Mrs. Piozzi’s handwriting. Original drab boards, rebacked in later cloth, paper spine label. Boards lightly dampstained near bottom edge. A good, sound copy. $200
First edition.
Recollections by the miscellaneous writer, Edward Mangin (1772-1852), who knew Piozzi personally. “A man of wide reading and of fascinating conversation, combined with a natural aptitude for drawing, and with a remarkable memory, the possession of ample means enabled him to spend his time in study, and he was universally recognised as the head of the literary students of…[Bath]” (DNB).

29. MARCET, Jane. Willy’s Holidays; or Conversations on Different Kinds of Governments. Intended for Young Children. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836. Twelvemo. vi, [2], 149, [1] pp. Quarter red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt-ruled flat spine with title also in gilt. Foot of spine lightly worn, boards lightly rubbed. A good, clean copy. $350
First edition.
Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769–1858) was born in London, to a wealthy Swiss family, and was tutored at home. She was married to Alexander Marcet, a Swiss physician living in London. Through her husband, she met many leading scientists. After helping her husband proofread her husband’s books, she decided to write her own, and she produced many valuable introductory science books and a few on other subjects. Her Conversations on Chemistry (1819) is said to have inspired Faraday as a boy working in a bookbinder's shop. She wrote several works on economics, including Conversations on Political Economy, in which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained (1816), John Hopkins's Notions on Political Economy (1833), and Rich and Poor (1851). After 1833, she increasing wrote books for children, including a series of tales of a curious boy named Willy and his sisters, of which this is one. Marcet, a strong advocate of the working class, uses this as a vehicle to express her opinions of despotic sovereigns, flogging, and slavery. On the subject of the latter, she tells Willy, “I am sorry to say that slavery still exists in some countries…but as people become wiser and better they see how wicked it is to deprive fellow creatures of their liberty…”

An Attractive, Unsophisticated Edition of This Scarce Piracy

30. MARLBOROUGH, Sarah, Duchess. Authentick Memoirs of the Life and Conduct of her Grace, Sarah, late Dutchess of Marlborough, containing a genuine Narrative of her Grace's Conduct...Likewise All her Grace's Letters to the Queen...To which is prefix'd, The last Will and Testament. London, for the proprietors and sold by R Walker, 1744. Twelvemo. 228 pp. Engraved portrait of Sarah, and of John, Duke of Marlborough. Contemporary speckled sheep, later paper label. A fine, clean copy. $600
First edition thus. This is an unauthorized printing by Robert Walker, who has stolen the substance of Nathaniel Hooke’s An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough of 1742 and added the Duchess’s will and codicil, which comprise the first seventy-two pages.
The edition is scarce: ESTC lists twelve copies, six in America.

31. MORE, Hannah. Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic: With Reflections on Prayer. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1819. Octavo. xxiii, [1, blank], 518 pp. Full period-style brown calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, new endpapers. A very good, clean copy. $600
First edition.
Hannah More (1745-1833) was the most prolific and one of the most famous of the Bluestockings and the author of the poem “The Bas Bleu,” (1782), in which she saluted London’s female intelligentia. Under the patronage of David Garrick, she wrote a number of religious dramas, including The Inflexible Captive (1774) and Percy (1777), but after Garrick’s death in 1779, her interest in the theatre waned. She turned her interests to a series of prose works in which she exhorted her readers to embrace true Christianity, by which she meant an Evangelical form of Anglicanism. The present work was one of her last works of this sort. More was so popular at this point that the it went through three editions in the first year, plus an American edition (Boston: Wells and Lilly). “Her writings have the old-fashioned flavour of the eighteenth century; while they now represent the teaching of the evangelical school, which looked up to Newton and Cecil, and of which William Wilberforce and his friends were the recognised political and social leaders. Though now out of fashion, they show not only high moral and religious purpose, but strong sense, as well as considerable intellectual vivacity…Her services to education as a time of general indifference deserve the highest praise…” (Leslie Stephen in D.N.B.).
See also Encyclopedia of British Women Writers.

32. MORE, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune…in two volumes…London: Printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies…1799. Two volumes, octavo. xix, [1], 274; vii, [1], 322, [2, ads] pp. Complete with half-title in Volum e I and fly-title in Volume II. Contemporary calf rebacked, to style, gilt spine with brown and green morocco labels, edges sprinkled gray. Covers rubbed. A very good copy, well-margined and very clean. $1,500
First edition of one of More’s (1745-1833) best-known and most important works.
Written in the vivacious style that made her popular, this book emphasizes the acquisition of factual knowledge by young ladies, with warnings against the “dangers arising from an excessive cultivation” of imagination and of the fine arts. The study of history, geography, and “accuracy in language” is not only worth while in itself, but of religious and moral benefit, helping to protect young ladies from the “dissipation an d the modern habits of fashionable life.”
At least seven editions of this book were published in 1799.

33. MORGAN, [ Sydney Owenson ], Lady. La France; Par Lady Morgan, Ci-devant Miss Owenson; Traduite de l’Anglois par A.J.B.D. Seconde Edition revue, corrigée et augmentée, avec des notes critiques par le traducteur. Paris et Londres: Chez Truettel et Würtz, 1817. Two volumes, octavo. xiv, 346; [4], 478 pp., including half-title in each volume. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spines gilt, with red morocco labels. Small ink stain at lower margin of first four leaves of Volume I. Front board of Volume II shows some wear. A very good, attractive set. $650
Lady Morgan’s popular book was published both in French and English in 1817, with second editions following in the same year. This translation into French by Phillipe Alexandre Lebrun de Charmettes adds a number of notes and observations on her work. Lady Morgan’s book also inspired another commentary, that of Auguste Jean Baptiste Defauconpret, Observations sur l'ouvrage intitule: La France; par Lady Morgan. Par l'auteur de Quinze Jours et de Six Mois a Londres.

34. [MULOCK, Diana Maria, later Mrs. Craik]. A Woman’s Thoughts About Women. By the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman, &c. &c. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1858.Octavo. [vi], 348, [4, ads] + [24] pp. publisher’s catalogue. Original purple blindstamped cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Some light soiling, hinges cracking, but sound. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. $300
First edition.
Diana Mulock (1826–1887), who was trained as a governess, was the author of several novels and tales for children. John Halifax, Gentleman (1856), the archetypal story of a poor boy who makes good through initiative and hard work, was extremely popular, and in her own day, she was often compared to George Eliot and the Brontës. A Woman’s Thoughts About Women was originally published serially in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts. She addresses single women like herself and urges them to become financially and emotionally independent, all the while acknowledging the pain and loneliness of the single woman’s life. She also advocates a sense of sisterhood among women. Though she advocates marriage and motherhood as the highest calling for women, she stresses that women should be able to support themselves happily should this avenue not be open to them.

35. [NICKLIN, Susan]. Address to a Young Lady on Her Entrance into the World…London: Printed for Hookham and Carpenter, 1796. Two volumes in one, octavo. [2], 202; [2], 216 pp. Contemporary calf with gilt stamp of the Greenock Library in Scotland, dated 1783. Rebacked in recent calf, gilt-ruled spine with burgundy morocco label. Bookplate of the Greenock Library, later bookplate of John Lawson. New endpapers, some light foxing, especially to title-page of first volume, small dampstain at top margin of the last few leaves. Ink signature on first title—page. A good copy. $1,250
First edition.
This seems to be the only book written by Susan Nicklin, a governess about to retire. Nicklin stresses the importance of young women being taught to lead a Christian life. There are chapters on reading the Scriptures, the observation of the Sabbath, on content as a habit of mind, on the duty of children to parents, etc.
This is a very scarce book. ESTC lists six copies, four in North America (Huntington Library, Library of Congress, Library Company of Philadelphia, Yale). OCLC adds Columbia, the Winterthur Museum, UCLA, and the Iliff School of Theology in Denver.

36. PANKHURST, Sylvia. The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910. New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1911. Octavo. [12], 517 pp. Original cloth. Old bookplate on front pastedown. A very good, bright copy. $200
First edition.

37. [PENNY, Anne]. Poems, with a Dramatic Entertainment. By **** *****. London: Printed for the Authour; and sold by J. Dodsley…and F. Newbery, [1771]. Quarto. [20], 220 pp. Copper-engraved title and other vignettes after Wright. Dedication to the philanthropist, Jonas Hanway. With the errata, and a list of subscribers, including the names of Hanway, Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Thomas Astle, etc. Nicely bound in recent calf over decorative boards, gilt spine with red morocco label, edges stained red, new endpapers. Small library rubberstamp on title and a few other leaves. A little light browning. Generally a good, clean copy of an attractively printed book. $850
First edition.
Anne Penny (1731-84) was born in Bangor, Wales. In 1746, she married Captain Thomas Christian, a retired and wealthy naval officer. Her son became an admiral. In 1761, she published a versified Rambler story inscribed to Samuel Johnson, Anningait and Ajutt: A Greenland Tale. The next year she published pastoral poems from a new English prose version of Gessner’s Idyllen. The present book reprints these, along with a “dramatic entertainment” called “The Birth Day,” verse on many public occasions, and praise of Elizabeth Montague. Her second husband was Peter Penny, who left her in financial distress. (See Feminist Companion to Literature in English).
Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 254, no. 1.

38. [RICCOBONI, Marie-Jeanne Laboras De Mezieres]. Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby, à Milady Henriette Campley, son amie. A Amsterdam, 1759. Twelvemo. [2], 250 pp. Recent antique-style calf. Gilt spine wit morocco label. Small hole in upper margin of title. Otherwise a very good, attractive copy, in a Portuguese binding. $750
First edition of this epistolary novel, set in England.
Madame Riccoboni (1714-1792) was an actress, and the wife of comedian and dramatist Antoine Francois Riccoboni. She quit acting in 1761, when her success as a writer allowed her to retire. She was much influenced by English writers, and her novels have been compared to Mackenzie and Fielding.Her novels include Lettres de mistriss Fanny Butlerd (1757), and Histoire de M. Le Marquis de Créssy (1758), She also wrote a continuation of Marivaux’s unfinished Marianne and a novel on the subject of Fielding’s Amelia. The present work was reprinted numerous times. This first edition, however, is scarce. OCLC lists ten copies, eight in North America.
Cioranescu 53043.See Julia Kavanagh, French Women of Letters (1862).

39. [ROBERTS, Mary]. Select Female Biography; Comprising Memoirs of Eminent British Ladies, Derived from original and other authentic Sources. London: Printed for John and Arthur Arch, 1821. Twelvemo. ix, [1, [2, contents], 331, [1], [2, ads] pp. Original boards, rebacked in recent board, with original printed paper spine label laid down. Boards lightly foxed, minor foxing internally, old ink signature on title-page. A very good, uncut copy. $750
First edition of an uncommon book. OCLC lists only one copy, at Cambridge. A second edition, which is much more common, appeared in 1829. There are some changes in the contents of the two editions.
Mary Roberts(1788-1864), who came from a Quaker family, wrote primarily in the area of natural history. Her best known work, Annals of My Village (1831), deals with the natural history and daily rural life of the village of Sheepscombe. Other works include The Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom Displayed (1822), The Conchologist’s Companion (1824), and A Popular History of the Mollusca (1851). She also sometimes wrote for children.
In the present work, Roberts presents biographies of twenty-four women, some of them quite recently deceased. Subjects include Anne Askew, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Hamilton, Caroline Symmons, and Elizabeth Smith.

40. STAEL-HOLSTEIN, [ Anne Louise Germaine ] de, and Jacques Necker. Memoirs of the Private Life of My Father…To which are added, Miscellanies by M. [Jacques] Necker. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818. Octavo. xvi, 416 pp. Original drab boards, uncut and partially unopened, neatly rebacked, with printed paper label. A very good copy. $450
First edition in English of Madame de Stael’s (1716-187) account of her father, Jacques Necker (1732-1804), the eminent Geneva-born financier who directed French finances from 1776 to 1781, when his famous Compte rendu or report on French finances led to his resignation. Madame de Stael’s commentary is followed by close to 300 pages of miscellaneous writings by her father.
The original French edition of this work was published in 1804, following Necker’s death. The English edition was released shortly after Madame de Stael herself died. It includes an introduction , excerpted from the Mercure de France, edited by her close associate, Benjamin Constant.

First French Edition

41. [SCOTT, Caroline Lucy, née Douglas]. Tryvelyan. Par l’Auteur d’Elisa Riwers et du Mariage dans le grande monde. Paris: Adolphe Guyot…Mansut fils [volume 3], 1834-5. Three volumes, large octavo. [xvi], 352; [iv], 325; [iv], 267, [3] pp. With the half-titles. Contemporary quarter purple calf, spine decoratively stamped in gilt and blind, edges sprinkled turquoise. Intermittent light foxing throughout, but generally a fine, attractive set. $500
First French edition of the most successful novel of Carolina Scott (1784-1857). Scott, who began writing in her forties, produced three novels, A Marriage in High Life (1828), Trevelyan (1833) and The Old Grey Church (1856). The present work was the most successful and the highest regarded. The theme was he conflict between pious individuals and their more fashionably self-indulgent friends or family. The Quarterly Review thought it “the best feminine novel … that has appeared since Miss Edgeworth's Vivian” (vol. 50, 429, quoted in Oxford DNB). George Eliot famously ridiculed The Old Grey Church in her essay, “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists.”
OCLC lists only one copy of this book, at Yale University.
See also The Feminist Companion to English Literature.

The Leading English Actress of the Late Eighteenth-Century

42. [SIDDONS, Sarah]. CAMPBELL, Thomas. Life of Mrs. Siddons. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. Two volumes, octavo. [x], 299; vii, [1, blank], 394 pp. Engraved frontisportrait by Thomas Lupton after a painting by Thomas Lawrence. Half early twentieth-century tan calf over marbled boards, gilt spine with tan and grey morocco labels, edges sprinkled red. Spines lightly faded, first and last few leaves of each volume foxed, minor foxing otherwise. A very good copy. First edition. $300
Dedicated to Samuel Rogers: “I have heard you say, that, rare as it was to meet with so gifted a genius as that of Mrs. Siddons, it was almost equally so to meet in human nature with so much candid and benignant singleness of mind as belonged to her personal character. Though this was always my own conviction, yet I was gratified to hear it strongly expressed by one so well acquainted with her, and possessing so much perspicacity.” According to a letter from Rev. Alexander Dyce to Sir Egerton Brydges, once in the possession of G. Thorn-Drury, Campbell was assisted by Dyce in the writing of this work. Dyce did not wish the fact to be publicly known.

43. SMITH, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse: by Miss Elizabeth Smith, Lately deceased. With some account of her life and charcter, by H.M. Bowdler. A new edition. London: Printed by Richard Cruttwell...and sold by Cadell and Davies...1810. Two volumes, octavo. xxii, 274; xiv, 242 pp. Frontisportrait. Half calf over marbled boards. Spines stamped in gilt and blind, black morocco labels. Edges sprinkled blue. Binding extremities rubbed, some light foxing. Ink signatures on half-titles (“Sophia JB Price. Additional signature with annotation on an opening blank of Volume I: “Sophia Boodie Septr. 1st 1810. A Birthday present from my dear Mary—“ A good copy. $200
First published in 1808, two years after the author’s premature death.
Elizabeth Smith (1776–1806) was an accomplished scholar, though largely self-taught. She knew French, Italian, Spanish, German, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, some Syriac, and Erse, and was studied in music, mathematics, and astronomy. Henrietta Maria Bowdler, her great friend, introduced her to Elizabeth Hamilton, who greatly admired her. Hannah More praised her in Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1804). In her short life, she completed a translation of Job, and translated F. G. Klopstock's memoirs for publication. This posthumous work proved very popular, going through sixteen editions before 1815.

Supplementing Rousseau’s ‘Confessions’

44. WARENS, Madame de [Louise Eleonore de La Tour du Pil, baronne de]. Mémoires de Madame de Warens et de Claude Anet, pour servir de Suite aux Confessions de J.J. Rousseau…Edition Originale. A Chambéry, & se trouve a Paris: Chex Leroy…1786. Octavo. [6], xvi, 237 pp. Engraved portrait.
Apparent first edition. Another edition was published in Chambéry in the same year, without the notation “edition originale” on the title-page. Rousseau lived in Chambéry from 1732 to 1740 with his mistress and onetime mentor, Madame de Warens (1700-64) and her friend and gardener, Claude Anet (b. 1697) in an apparent ménage à trois. Anet taught Rousseau about botany, which became a continuing interest; Rousseau’s Lettres Elementaires Sur La Botanique was published in 1771-73. The editor of this volume is general and physician Amédée Doppet (1753-1800). Doppet led the army of the Alps and directed the siege of Lyons in 1793. He also wrote several significant medical texts, some relating to Mesmer and animal magnetism.
[bound with:]
[MERCIER, L.S.]. Le destruction de la ligue, ou la reduction de Paris, Piec Nationale en quatre actes. Amsterdam [i.e., Paris:] 1782. Octavo. xliii, [1], 209, [1] pp. Contemporary boards with modern calf backstrip. Spine ruled in gilt and blind, with brown calf label, edges stained yellow. Armorial bookplate of Holland House. A very good, clean copy. $450

One of two editions with the Amsterdam 1782 imprint. This is a play about the destruction of the Catholic League during the reign of Henry IV, a subject which also attracted Voltaire.

Actress’s Memoirs

45. WELLS, Mary Leah. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, late Wells; of the Theatres-royal, Drury-lane, Covent-garden, and Haymarket. Written by herself. Including her correspondence with Major Topham, Mr. Reynolds the dramatist, &c. &c. &c. London: Printed for C. Chapple, 1811. Three volumes, twelvemo. xvi, 239; [4], 241, [1, blank], [2, ads]; [4], 232pp. Late nineteenth-century half sheep over marbled boards, gilt spines with red and black morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers. Binding extremities rubbed, label chipped in Volume I. A little light foxing. A good, clean copy of an uncommon book, bound with the half-titles. $950
First edition.
Mary Leah Wells (1762-1829), the daughter of a Birmingham carver and gilder, made her debut on the London stage in 1781. She was a celebrated beauty, and was much in demand at her peak, playing roles such as Jane Shore in Nicholas Rowe's Tragedy of Jane Shore, Mrs Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lady in Milton's Comus, and Fatima in Garrick's Cymon. She was less successful in her personal life. Her first husband, a fellow actor, left her. She then began a liaison with the journalist and playwright Edward Topham, who deserted her for another woman, taking their three daughters. Her second husband, a Moorish Jew who was secretary to the ambassador from Morocco, left her in destitute means. The present work chronicles her various adventures and marital woes. She spent her final days on an annuity from the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund.
Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, 3620.

With Color-Printed Title-Page and Ten Color-Printed Plates

46. WRIGHT, Thomas. Womankind in Western Europe from the earliest times to the Seventeenth Century. London: Groombridge, 1869. Small quarto. xii, 340 pp. Color-printed title, and ten fine color-printed plates, some with gold. Half later green crushed morocco over green cloth boards. Gilt spine with raised bands, all edges gilt. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, some light spotting to front cover. First and last few leaves foxed, a little minor foxing otherwise. A good copy of a scarce piece of color printing, which isn’t listed in any of the standard sources. $350
First edition.
Thomas Wright (1810-1877) was a distinguished antiquary and a prolific writer. He was one of the founders of the Camden, Percy, and Shakespeare Societies, and of the British Archaeological Association. His publications include Queen Elizabeth and her Times (1838) and History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages (1862). He co-authored several books with Shakespeare scholar J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps and edited several works for the Roxburghe Club.

47. WILKES, Wetenhall. A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady: Being A System of Rules and Informations; digested into a new and familiar Method, to qualify the Fair Sex to be useful, and happy in every Scene of Life…London: Printed for C. Hitch…1748. Twelvemo. [6]. 198 pp. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red morocco label. Head of spine lightly worn, joints cracking, but cords sound. Small piece of leather worn away on back cover. Lacks front free endpaper and terminal blank. Otherwise a good, clean copy. With the bookplate of John Lawson.
Fifth edition, “carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged by the author.” $450
Wilkes (1705/6-1751) was an Irish poet and theological writer, known for his works, An Essay on the Existence of God (1730), and The Mourning Muse, a Verse Elegy (1738). The present work was originally published by subscription in 1740. Jonathan Swift subscribed to twenty copies. Wilkes’s notion of female education is very limited, and he emphasizes her role as wife and helpmate. He attaches great importance to chastity and modesty.
All editions of this book are scarce. OCLC notes only a handful of copies of each of the first five editions in libraries.

48. [YONGE, Charlotte]. The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest. By the Author of the ‘Heir of Redclyffe.” In two volumes. London: Macmillan, 1866. Two volumes, octavo. xvi, 271, [2]; 6, 250, [2] + 28 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Original royal blue cloth, neatly recased. Westerton’s English and Foreign Library copy, with their label on the front cover of each volume. Back cover of Volume I darkened, a little light soiling and a few minor stains. A good, clean copy. $350
First edition of this novel, set in the Middle Ages. The protagonist is a single mother raising two boys and educating them to be virtuous young men, using books she hid in her clothing.
Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901), a popular women’s and children’s writer, published nearly 160 books. Yonge, who herself was raised according to the system advocated by Maria Edgeworth and her father, was the child of a man who believed at once in higher education for women and female subservience to men. Not surprisingly, her work has not been embraced by modern readers. Still, her novels are important for their rounded views of women, and their insistence on the importance of the education and intellectual nurture of women. While few of her books are rare, they are difficult to find in fine condition.
Wolff vol. 4, p. 289 (which notes the titles of his Yonge gift to Harvard). Not in Sadleir.

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Inscribed Copy

1. ADAMS, Ansel. The Portfolios of Ansel Adams. Introduc-
tion by John Szarkowski. Boston: Little/Brown/New York
Graphic Society, [1981]. Octavo. Wrappers. Presentation copy,
inscribed by Adams on the half-title: “For…Ansel Adams,
Carmel 1-20-83.” Fine condition. $225
First paperback edition.

Presentation Copy

2. ADDAMS, Charles. Creature Comforts. New York:
Simon and Schuster, [1981]. Quarto. Color-illustrated fly-
leaves, black and white illustrations throughout. Boards. Fine in
price-clipped dust jacket. $300
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the half-
title: “For Richards, Happy Hallowe’en. Chas. Addams 1981.”

3. ALLEN, Lewis. Printing with the Handpress. Herewith a
Definitive Manual...to Encourage Fine Printing through
Hand-craftsmanship. Kentfield, California: The Allen Press,
1969. Folio. 75, [1], [2, index] pp. Illustrated in black & white
by Victor Seward. The engraved hand device, by Mallette
Dean, which is printed in blue at the beginning of each chap-
ter, is printed in red on the front cover. Title-page printed red,
blue and black; decoration in red and blue throughout. Printed
on handmade paper from the Wookey Hole Mill. Brown linen,
stamped in red. One tiny break in the paper over the rear hinge
and a couple of tiny ink flecks at fore-edge. Otherwise a fine
copy of this classic text, often considered the masterpiece of the
Allen Press. In acetate dust jacket. $2,000
One of 140 copies.
Allen Bibliography 34.

One of 350 Copies Printed by the Incline Press

4. [ANGUS, Peggy]. TRANT, Carolyn. Art for Life: The
Story of Peggy Angus. With a Foreword by Tanya Harrod.
[Oldham: Incline Press, 2005]. Folio. [4], 242, [2, colophon]
pp. Illustrated with many tipped in photographic prints and
reproductions of Angus’ paintings, pastels, watercolors, and
portraits. Also with prints from linocut designs for ceramic tiles
and wallpapers, many taken from the original cuts. Includes a
full page example of genuine wallpaper hand printed by Angus's
granddaughter. Paper by the Magnani mill in Italy. Quarter
gold-colored cloth over decorative boards. Fine in slipcase,
together with an accompanying portfolio which contains three
facsimile sketchbooks in color, a booklet on Indonesian People's
Art, prospectus for Camden Studios Workshop, and other
ephemera, together with a compact disc containing
commentary by Peggy Angus about her life, and songs sung by
Peggy Angus. Together in patterned paper slipcase. As new.
One of 350 copies. $650
Peggy Angus was a contemporary and fellow student of
Ravilious, Bawden, and Piper, and shares a number of stylistic
qualities with them. In addition to her many artistic projects,
she taught at the Camden Studio Workshops in the 1970s. The
title is taken from prospectus she prepared advertising her
Community Art School there.

5. [ARCHETYPE PRESS]. Curiositas: The Strange, The
Rare. The Novel. [Pasadena:] Archetype Press, 2008. Folio. 14”
x 11.” 20 pp., printed on rectos only. Designed and illustrated
by students at the Archetype Press at Art Center College of
Design, using foundry metal and wood type, linoleum cuts,
and photopolymer plates. Printed letterpress under the direction
of Gloria Kondrup. Sixteen broadsides, loose, in gray cloth
slipcase. As new. $300
One of thirty-five copies.
A celebration of unusual and strange animals. Students
combined two known species to invent a new one. Combina-
tions include a tortoise/beetle, a spider/goat, a saber-tooth
tiger/teratorn, a jackass/elephant, a rhinoceros with a built-in
propeller, etc. A very inventive production, with a clear
Victorian influence.

The First English Translation Directly from the Greek

6. ARISTOTLE. A Treatise on Government. Translated
from the Greek…by William Ellis. London: Printed for T.
Payne…and T. Cadell…1776. Quarto. [2], xviii, 428, [14,
index] pp. Contemporary speckled calf, front hinge very neatly
restored. Gilt-decorated spine with red morocco label. A very
good, attractive copy. Old bookplate from Baggrave Library,
old manuscript index laid in. $2,500
First edition of the first English translation directly from
the Greek of Aristotle’s Politics. A translation from the French
appeared in 1598.
Lowndes calls this a “faithful and perspicuous version.”

7. AUGUSTINE, Saint, and Saints Anselm and Bernard.
Pious Breathings. Being the Meditations of St. Augustine, His
Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies, and Manual. To
which are added, Select Contemplations from St. Anselm, & St.
Bernard. Made English by George Stanhope, D.D., Chaplain
in Ordinary to His Majesty. London: Printed for S. Sprint…[et
al.], 1701. Octavo. [10], 414 pp. Engraved frontispiece and
three engraved plates. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked.
Gilt spine, new endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. Old ink
signature crossed out on title-page. Corners rubbed, a little light
foxing. A good copy. $750
First edition of this collection of devotional writings,
translated by George Stanhope (1668-1728), Dean of
Canterbury, one of the most popular preachers of his time. John
Evelyn wrote: “This Mr Stanhop[e], is certainly one of the
most accomplish[ed] preachers that in my life I ever heard, both
for Matter, Eloquence, Action, Voice, Authority: & one of an
excellent Conversation as I am told’ (Evelyn, 5.223, quoted in
Oxford DNB).

8. AYER, Alfred J. Language, Truth and Logic. London:
Victor Gollancz, 1936. Octavo. 254 pp. Original blue cloth
with gilt spine. Spine and covers near fore-edge lightly
browned. Contemporary ink signature. A very good copy,
without the dust jacket. $500
First edition.

9. BALSTON, Thomas. The Cambridge University Press
Collection of Private Press Types: Kelmscott, Ashendene, Eragny,
Cranach. [Cambridge:] Printed by the University Printer for
his Friends, 1951. Quarto. x, 46 pp. Illustrated with fifteen
facsimile pages. Printed in black and red, at the Chiswick Press.
Olive cloth with gilt spine. A fine copy in original glassine
jacket. Jacket a bit chipped. $450
Limited to 350 copies. Inscribed on the colophon by the
book’s designer, John Dreyfus, for William Morris collector
Sandy Berger.

10. [BERKELEY, George, Bishop of Cloyne]. Alciphron: or,
The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an
Apology for the Christian Religion, against those who are
called Free-thinkers. London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1732.
Two volumes, octavo. [12], 350; [8], 358 pp., with the final
blanks Z8 and 2A4, in Volumes I and II respectively. Engraved
title-page vignettes. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt double-
ruled borders on covers and spine. Edges sprinkled red. Volume
I neatly rebacked, first third of Volume I lightly dampstained at
top and bottom of gutter margin. Contemporary ink signature
on front pastedown of Volume I. Still, a good copy, very crisp
and sharp. $950
First edition. Pages 211-358 of Volume II contain the
third edition of Berkeley’s Essay Towards a New Theory of
Vision, originally published in 1709.
Berkeley (1685-1753) wrote the Alciphron during the
years 1729 to 1731 while relaxing in Newport, Rhode Island,
where he was awaiting funds (which never came) for his
projected college in the Bermudas. The book attracted more
attention than any of his previous works. The dialogues it
contains constitute a defense of Christianity from the point of
view of an Anglican divine.
“Alciphron is regarded as an outstanding example of
English literature among works on philosophy. It is described
on the title-page as ‘an Apology for the Christian Religion,
against those who are called Free-Thinkers,’ and the Dialogues
defend revealed religion against the current beliefs of the Deists.
Luce places Alciphron with Joseph Butler’s Analogy, 1736, as the
only comparable book on Christian apologetics in the
eighteenth century” (Keynes, p. 37).
Keynes 15. Rothschild I, 374.

One of Eighty Copies,
With Nineteen Matted Proofs Accompanying the Book

11. [BEWICK, Thomas.] MIDDLETON, R. Hunter.
Thomas Bewick’s Fables of Aesop and Others. Nineteen headpieces
proofed from the original wood-blocks…with an introduction
by Iain Bain including four further subjects printed from the
wood. [Staplehurst, Kent:] The Florin Press, 1980. 7 x 4 ½.”
[2], [36] pp. Four engravings, printed from the original wood-
blocks, three lithographically reproduced drawings. Printed on
Barcham Green handmade paper. Quarter mottled calf over
golden brown linen boards, printed paper label on front cover.
Together with a suite of nineteen proofs, laid into green paper
passe-partouts with printed titles. Both the book and the prints
are housed in a tan linen buckram clamshell slipcase. Fine
condition. $750
One of eighty copies, so presented. There were also fifty
copies of the book alone, cloth bound. A fine copy.

12. [BIRD & BULL PRESS]. NEVINS, Iris. Varieties of
Spanish Marbling: A Handbook of Practical Instruction with twelve
original marbled samples. [Newtown, Pennsylvania:] Bird & Bull
Press/Iris Nevins, 1991. Octavo. [82] pp. Twelve tipped in
paper samples. Text composed in cochin types by M&H Type
and printed on Johannot mould-made paper. Blue cloth over
marbled paper boards, gilt burgundy leather spine label. Fine,
with original prospectus laid in. $350
One of 250 copies.

13. BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Severinus. Of the
Consolation of Philosophy. In Five Books. Made English and
Illustrated with Notes, by the Right Honourable Richard Lord
Viscount Preston. London: Printed by J.D. for Awnsham and
John Churchill…[et al.], 1695.Octavo. xxxii, 246, [1] pp.,
including the errata leaf. Engraved frontisportrait. Contem-
porary calf, rebacked, with gilt black morocco spine labels, gilt
coat-or-arms on front cover. Some browning to portrait, and
small chip at fore-margin, last few leaves with uneven brown
spotting, one leaf with chip at fore-margin, not affecting text.
A good copy. $950
First edition of this translation.
Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae, which was
written in prison shortly before the author’s death in 525 A.D.
was long considered the last great classic work of ancient
literature. It was one of the most popular literary works of the
Middle Ages and was translated into many languages. Preston
justifies this fourth English translation on the grounds that two
seventeenth-century predecessors were too incomplete and
imperfect, and that Geoffrey Chaucer’s early translation—itself
an imitation of Alfred the Great’s Anglo-Saxon version—was
too incomprehensible to late seventeenth-century readers.
Preston intended his translation to bring Boethius’ treatise on
worldly suffering and the goodness of God within the
understanding of ordinary people. He therefore compressed and
minimized his notes so not to distract from the text. A life of
Boethius and translations into English of early comments about
him by Greek and Latin authors are prefixed to the text.
Wing B3433.

“Prepare[d] the way for…[Rhetoric’s] Emergence in England as the
Acknowledged Custodian of the Belles Lettres…” (Howell)

14. BOUHOURS, [Dominique], Father. The Arts of Logick
and Rhetorick, Illustrated by Examples taken out of the best
Authors, Antient and Modern, In all the Polite Languages.
Interpreted and Explain’d By that Learned and Judicious
Critick…To which are added Parallel Quotations Out of the
Most Eminent English Authors in Verse and Prose…London:
Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett…[et al], 1728.
Octavo. xxxii, 232, pp, 225-418, [16, index], [2, ads] pp.
Text is continuous despite pagination. Title-page in black and
red. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked to style. Gilt spine
with red morocco label, edges sprinkled red. Light tape stains
on front cover. Ink signature of Thomas Foxcroft (1697-1769),
pastor of the Congregational Church in Boston, admired for his
skills as a logician. Additional ink signature of Joseph E.
Foxcroft (1773-1852), colonel, merchant, sheriff, state senator
and postmaster from New Gloucester, Maine. Ink notations on
back endpapers, including a index, in the hand of one of the
two Foxcrofts. A good and interesting copy. $1,500
First edition of this second English translation of
Bouhours’ important book. As Howell notes in Eighteenth-
Century British Logic and Rhetoric, this is really more of a
paraphrase of Bouhours, with added references to English
writers, and as such, is almost a new work.
Bouhours (1628-1702) was a Jesuit professor of rhetoric
and belles lettres at the Collège de Clermont, among others. He
was a friend of Boileau, La Fontaine, La Bruyère, Racine, and
Bussy-Rabutin. The present work first appeared in 1687. In the
“Avertissement” to the French text, he notes that he does not
intend for it to have any connection with the Port-Royal Logic,
or seek to use the rules of Aristotle or Descartes govern-ing
thinking. He seeks rather to show readers how to form correct
judgments in matters concerning eloquence and belles-lettres. It
consists of four dialogues between two fictional persons named
Eudoxe and Philanthe, in which they ponder what makes a
literary work great. Topics discussed include truthfulness,
sublimity, agreeableness, clarity and intelligibility in style.
The first English edition appeared in 1705 as The Art of
Criticism: or, The Method of Making a Right Judgment Upon
Subjects of Wit and Learning. The translator is given as “a person
of quality.” The present translation—or paraphrase—by John
Oldmixon (1673-1742) quickly eclipsed the earlier one. The
key interest lies in the fact that Oldmixon “not only translated
belles lettres into ‘polite Learning,’ and specified that this phrase
embraced works of history, poetry and eloquence, but he also
suggested that his own title was dictated by what Bouhours had
said when he called his original work a discourse on ‘both the
Arts and Logick and Rhetorick.’ Moreover, by adding copious
English illustrations to those given by Bouhours in French,
Italian, Latin and Spanish, and by speaking words of blame or
praise for English writers, Oldmixon gave the arts of logic and
rhetoric a central place in the study and criticism of literature of
his own land…By putting rhetoric in this kind of frame-work,
Oldmixon was helping to prepare the way for its emergence in
England as the acknowledged custodian of the belles lettres…
(Howell, p. 529).

Includes a Signed Prints by William Burroughs

15. [BURROUGHS, William, et al.]. Ruby Editions.
Portfolios 1-4. London and Toronto: Wallrich Books, 1974-75.
Four portfolios, 17 3/8” x 11 3/8,” each with three silk screen
prints by various artists, each signed by the artist. The
portfolios are of heavy burgundy paper, printed in white. All in
excellent condition, except for the usual marks from adhesive in
the lower corner of each portfolio. $1,250
Limited to one hundred copies each, plus thirty copies
Hors Commerce.
The contents include: Number 1: William Burroughs,
Cozette de Charmoy; Henri Chopin; 2: Bob Cobbing, E.M.
de Melo e Castro; Tom Phillips; 3: Gianni Bertini, Jonathan
Williams, Krzysztof Wodiczko; 4: Arthur Aeschbacher; Brion
Gysin; Patrick Hughes.

Josiah Royce’s Copy, with his Signatures in Each Volume
and with Original Photographs of Emerson and Carlyle Mounted In

16. CARLYLE, Thomas, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The
Correspondnce of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1834-
1872. [Edited by Charles Eliot Norton.] Boston: James R.
Osgood, 1883. Two volumes, octavo. xii, 368; xiii, 383 pp.
Etched frontisportraits, index. Brown cloth with leather spine
labels. Gilt spine, top edge gilt. Spine extremities a bit chipped
and frayed, labels lightly worn, and one label corner chipped. A
good copy, tight and clean. $950
First American edition, probably issued simultaneously
with the London edition. Josiah Royce’s copy, with his ink
signature on the front free endpaper of each volume. In
addition, original photographs of Carlyle and Emerson are
mounted on the front pastedown of each volume, Emerson in
Volume I and Carlyle in Volume II.

The Two Major Works of a Leading Bluestocking

17. CHAPONE, Hester. Letters on the Improvement of the
Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady [With:] Miscellanies in Prose and
Verse. London, J Walter/ E.& C. Dilly, 1773-75. Three
volumes, small octavo. viii, 200; [2], 230; xii, 178, [2, ads]
pp. Lacking the half-title to Volume III. Uniformly bound in
contemporary mottled calf. Gilt-decorated flat spines with black
morocco labels. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, front joints
of the first two volumes neatly repaired. Ink signatures of three
early women owners. A very good, attractive set. $950
Second edition of the first work, first edition of the
second work.
Hester Chapone (1727-1760) was one of the
Bluestockings, associated especially with Elizabeth Carter, and
Elizabeth Montagu (to whom this work is dedicated) but also a
friend of Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney d’Arblay, and
Gilbert White. She came to the attention of Samuel Johnson,
who admitted four of her pieces to The Rambler. The
publication of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, (1773), a
treatise on female education, brought her fame, if not fortune;
she was paid £50 for it. She was paid five times that for
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, which included her early verses,
moral essays, and “The Story of Fidelia,” first published in The
Adventurer (Encyclopedia of British Women Writers).

An Exceptional Copy, with Four Pages of Additional Material

18. [CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.] HENKEL, Abrosius.
Der Grosse ABC-Buch. Enthaltend: Das ABC, Wurzelworter, und
Wurzelworter mit Ihren Angehangten Ableitungssylven …Zweite
Auflage. New-Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia: Salomon
Henkel and J.H. Lawton, 1820. Twelvemo. [2], 92, [4,
woodcuts] pp. Woodcut frontispiece depicting the letters of the
alphabet and animals whose names start with each one, woodcut
title-page vignette, woodcut alphabets and vignettes in text.
Our copy has two final unnumbered leaves with eight woodcuts
of different animals, which is quite uncommon. Original
patterned cloth over pictorial printed boards. New endpapers,
with presentation inscription from Elan O. Henkel, a
descendant of the compiler and printer, dated October 29,
1925. A remarkably fine, bright copy. $1,500
Second edition of a book that first appeared in 1817.
The first edition apparently did not have the four pages of
additional material at the end. OCLC reports other copies of
the second edition without the final four pages, but only one,
the copy at Princeton, which as them.
The Henkels started the first Lutheran printing house in
the U.S. in 1806. Ambrosius Henkel, who wrote the primer,
also cut the woodblocks for the illustrations.

19. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World War.
London: Cassell, [1948-54]. Six volumes, octavo. Black cloth
with gilt spines. Some fading to top edges, not affecting cloth.
An unusually fine, clean set. Spines of dust jackets a bit faded.
An occasional short tear in the jackets at extremities. A near
fine set in like dust jackets. $750
First editions of Churchill’s masterpiece. Churchill was
awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953.
Woods A123b. Langworth, 264.

Important Textbook of Hydrostatics and Pneumatics,
With Nine Copperplates

20. CLARE, M[artin]. The Motion of Fluids, Natural and
Artificial; In particular that of the Air and Water, In a familiar
Manner, proposed and proved, by evident and conclusive
Experiments with many useful Remarks…London: Printed for
Edward Symon…1735. Octavo. [16], 323, [23, index and
errata], [2, ads] pp. With nine fine copper-engraved plates, plus
engraved coat-of-arms on dedication leaf, and detailed glossary
and index. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, with original
spine laid down, gilt red morocco label. A little light foxing.
Overall a very good, clean copy. $1,250
First edition of this esteemed and popular book,
expanded from private lectures given by Clare. Rouse remarks
that “for its time, this was an excellent textbook.” A second
edition appeared in 1737, a third in 1747, and a revised
edition in 1802.
The section on statics and hydrostatics contains chapters
on syphons, various forms of pumps, fire engines, a water-
raising machine, the motion of water in canals and pipes, jets,
specific gravity, and the hydrometer. The section on pneu-
matics contains chapters on the barometer, air-pump, the effects
of air pressure on animal bodies, muscular motion, blood
circulation, animal respiration, the spring and elasticity of the
air, the thermometer, the hygrometer, etc.
Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 72. Rouse, Historic Writing on
Hydraulics, 120.

“…a crucial element in the ‘literary culture
of nonconformity’” (DNB)

21. CLARKE, Samuel. The Lives of sundry Eminent Persons
in this Later Age. In Two Parts. I. Of Divines. II. Of Nobility and
Gentry of both Sexes. By Samuel Clark. Printed and Reviewed
by himself just before his Death. To which is added His own
Life, and the Lives of the Countess of Suffolk…[and four
others] drawn up by other hands…London: Printed for Thomas
Simmons…1683. Folio. [2], 11, [9], 24, 33-66, 57-176, 153-
192, 177-223, p. 214, 89-116, 105-216 pp. Engraved
frontisportrait, engraved coat-of-arms plate. Title-page in black
and red. Numerous engraved portraits in text. Contemporary
paneled calf, rebacked, with old spine laid down. Edges stained
red. Joints cracking, but sound, some light foxing, back free
endpaper lacking, front free endpaper neatly restored at top
corner. Old ink signature on title-page (“Elizabeth Bernard her
Booke given by her Aunt Shatmer”). Old ink signature (“M.
Shatmer”) on back pastedown, bookplate partially removed
from back pastedown. Wax seal on front free endpaper, with a
later ink signature. Old, crude repair on Bb4, with some letters
shaved and a few lost. Lower margin of Ff1 professionally
restored. Overall good copy of a book that has become hard to
find. $1,500
First edition.
Samuel Clarke (1599-1682) was a nonconformist
Presbyterian minister. After a long career, predominantly as
curate of St. Benet Fink, London, and as governor and twice
president of Sion College, he sought work in the post-
Restoration government. He was one of the Presbyterian
representatives at the Savoy conference of 1661, but when it
became clear that agreement with the Episcopalians was
impossible, and he refused to conform, he was ejected, along
with two of his sons. He thence gave up preaching and devoted
himself to writing biographical works, including The Lives of
Thirty-Two English Divines, appended to the third edition of A
Generall Martyrology (1677, first published in 1651), and the
present work. “In these he lovingly constructed and celebrated a
moderate puritan tradition of godly ministers and laity who had
worked for further reformation and frequently suffered for their
nonconformity, yet never risked a disruptive separation from a
flawed, yet valid national church. These works…were a crucial
element in the ‘literary culture of nonconformity,’ offering
exemplars and consolation” (Oxford DNB).
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C4538. Sabin 13446.

Presentation Copy

22. COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J. Amantium Irae: Letters
to Two Friends, 1864-1867. [Hammersmith: The Doves Press],
1914. Octavo. [145] pp. Frontispiece portrait printed on India
paper. Printed in red and black. Full limp vellum with title in
gilt spine. A fine copy. Inscribed by the printer: “To Catherine
Holiday. C.S.” Leather bookplate of Alfred Sutro. $950
One of only 150 copies.
These are Cobden-Sanderson’s letters to Lord and Lady
Amberley, Bertrand Russell’s parent. Cobden-Sanderson was
one of Bertrand Russell’s two godfathers; the other was John
Stuart Mill.
Ransom, Private Presses, p. 253, no. 39. Tomkinson, p.
58. Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 109-110.

Postage Stamp Art, One of Twenty Copies

23. COHEN, Claudia. Counting. [Vancouver:] Heavenly
Monkey, 2009. Octavo. Printed on double-fold leaves of black
and gray paper. With forty-seven mounted postage stamps and
nine decorative morocco pieces pasted in. Cream-colored
boards with overall design of twigs and leaves, gilt black
morocco spine label. As new in matching cloth and board
slipcase. $600
One of twenty copies, signed by Claudia Cohen.
“Similar in spirit and form to Claudia's previous
volumes Bookbinding Ephemera and Chasing Paper, Counting
presents a series of spreads, each combining a 60-mm le
Corbusier stencil for a number in the sequence one through ten;
postage stamps corresponding to the number; and a tipped-on
leather skiver hand-tooled in gilt…” (from the publisher’s
promotional material).
“Postage stamps with striking typographic design and
color have always attracted my interest, particularly those with
strong numerical forms. A beautiful example of a definitive
numeral set was designed for the Dutch Post Office by Jan van
Krimpen, type designer, typographer & calligrapher extraordi-
naire. The stamps on the title page are all his. The remaining
stamps, as well as the ornaments arranged on leather, all relate to
van Krimpen's interlaced calligraphic flourishes” (colophon).

The First Book to Use a Steel-Engraved Plate

24. COXE, Peter. The Social Day: A Poem in Four Cantos.
London: Printed by J. Moyes…for James Carpenter & Son
…and R. Ackermann…1823. Large octavo. xvi, [16], 354, [1,
errata], [1, blank], [1, ads] pp. Thirty-two engraved plates,
including “The Broken China Jar,” which has long been
considered the first steel engraving to be used in book illus-
tration; the remainder are copper-engravings. With subscribers’
list. Contemporary full green morocco, covers ruled in gilt and
blind, spine gilt-tooled in compartments, marbled edges.
Extremities lightly rubbed, some light foxing, including
margins of most plates. Old ink signature. Very good. $350
First edition.
Hunnisett, Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England, pp.
28-29. See also Berry and Poole, Annals of Printing.

With a Double-Page Fold-Out Pop-Up Construction of the
Brooklyn Bridge

25. CRANE, Hart. Three Poems by Hart Crane from The
Bridge. [Bremen, Maine, and New York City:] Red Angel
Press, 2004. Oblong quarto. [32] pp., with the poetry printed
on Saunders Waterford paper and the title and illustrations on
Sekishu. Six illustrations of the Brooklyn Bridge in black,
green, and brown, plus a large double fold-out leaf with a pop-
up construction of the Bridge. Ecru cloth with front cover
illustration and spine lettering in charcoal. As new. $900
One of 100 copies signed by the printer/illustrator/
designer, Ronald Keller.

Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Crick

26. CRICK, Francis. The Astonishing Hypothesis. New
York: Scribners, [1994[. Octavo. Clothbacked boards, spine
stamped in silver. Fine in fine dust jacket. $950
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Crick to a
La Jolla physician.

From Crick’s Library

27. [CRICK, Francis]. CAIRNS-SMITH, A.G. Evolving
the Mind: On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of
Consciousness. [Cambridge:] Cambridge University Press,
[1966]. Octavo. Clothbacked boards. Very good in fine dust
jacket. Francis Crick’s copy, signed by him on the front free
endpaper, and with his rubberstamp with the Salk Institute
address and library pocket from his office at the Salk. $350
First edition.

28. [CRICK, Francis]. DENNETT, Daniel C. Kinds of
Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness. [New York:]
Basic Books, [1996]. Octavo. Clothbacked boards. Very good
in fine dust jacket. Francis Crick’s copy, signed by him on the
front free endpaper, and with his rubberstamp with the Salk
Institute address and library pocket from his office at the Salk.
First edition. $250

Refuting the ‘Leviathan’

29. CUDWORTH, Ralph. The True Intellectual System of
the Universe…London: Printed for Richard Royston, 1678.
Folio. [xx], 899, [1, blank], [84, contents] pp. Engraved
title/frontispiece by R. White after J.B.Caspers, showing the
figures of Aristotle, Pythagoras and Socrates (labeled “Theists)
winning over Epicurus, Anaximander, and Strato (labeled
“Atheists”). Title in black and red. Contemporary calf,
rebacked to style, though gilt stamping is a little crude, edges
sprinkled red. Former owner’s ink inscription on front free
endpaper, dated 1752. A very good, clean copy. $1,250
First and only edition.
This is the main work of Ralph Cudworth (1617-
1688), a leader of the group known as the “Cambridge
Platonists.” It is an answer to Hobbes’ Leviathan. Cudworth
contrasts the tenets of the materialists (Democritus, Lucretius)
with the idealism of Plato and Aristotle. Lengthy developments
aim at refuting paganism and atheism “with all the reasons that
his reading could supply.”
Wing C7471.

One of Sixty Copies

30. [D’AMBROSIO, Joseph, printer and binder].
NYKAMP, William. The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New
England. Northridge: California State University, Northridge,
Libraries, Santa Susana Press, 1987. Octavo. [6], 65, [1] pp.
Full-page woodcut portraits of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas
Paine, plus smaller woodcut illustrations. Printed in black and
red on Johannot paper with a Vandercook proof press. Includes
notes and bibliography. Quarter black leather over marbled
boards, with an inset of gilt flames. The flame device is
repeated as a die-cut on the title-page. A fine copy. A typically
innovative production from Joseph D’Ambrosio. $500
One of sixty copies. Printed for the Santa Susana Press,
under the direction of Norman E. Tanis.

One of Fifty Copies in a Special Binding

31. [D’AMBROSIO, Joseph]. RITCHIE, Ward. Of
Bookmen & Printers: A Gathering of Memories. [Los Angeles:]
Dawsons, [1989]. Octavo. 183, [9] pp. Indexed. In a special
binding, designed by Joseph D’Ambrosio, of Gray cloth over
light orange printed boards. A cloth and board cut-out R is
transposed over the front board. Spine stamped in off-white.
Fine in matching slipcase. $450
Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by the Premier
Printing Corporation in an edition of 500 copies. This special
binding is limited to fifty copies. Signed by Ward Ritchie and
Lawrence Clark Powell.

Paul Landacre Illustrations

32. DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species By Means of
Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the
Struggle for Life. With a New Preface by Charles G. Darwin.
Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Paul Landacre. [New
York:] Printed for The Limited Editions Club at The Griffin
Press, Adelaide, South Australia, 1963. Large octavo. With 71
illustrations engraved in wood by Landacre, including plates
and text illustrations. Black wallaby over wood-grain boards,
spine decorated in gilt with green morocco label. Fine in
slipcase. Some light staining to case. $350
One of 1,500 copies.

The First Leaf Book Listed in ‘Disbound and Dispersed’

33. DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. An Introduction to the
Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin
Classics. Together with an Account of Polyglot Bibles…Fourth
Edition; Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. London: Printed for
Harding and Lepard, and G.B. Whittaker, 1827. Two volumes
in one, octavo. [2], xiv, 560; [4], 580 pp. With a frontispiece
facsimile, and with an original leaf from Pickering’s
“Diamond” New Testament, 1826, at p. 166. Late nineteenth
century half brown morocco, gilt spine, all edges gilt. Minor
chip at foot of spine. Joints just starting, but cords sound. A
very good copy. $750
Fourth and best edition, with the author’s final
revisions—and an example of an early leaf book. This is the
first leaf book listed in John P. Chalmers’ checklist at the back
of Christopher de Hamel and Joel Silver’s Disbound and
Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered (Caxton Club, 2005).

34. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. The Lives, Opinions, and
Remarkable Sayings of the Most Famous Ancient Philosophers.
Written in Greek, by Diogenes Laertius. Made English by Several
Hands. The First Volume. London: Printed for Edward
Brewster, 1688. Octavo. [14], 589 pp. Engraved frontis-
portrait. Contemporary calf, old hand-lettered paper spine label.
Small wormhole at lower portion of spine, not affecting text.
Joints lightly rubbed, old ink signature and notes on front
endpapers. A very good copy. $950
First edition, all published at the time. A two-volume
second edition, including a reissue of this first volume, with
new material at the front, was published in 1696.
Wing D1516.

35. [DOYLE, Arthur Conan]. The Strand Magazine.
London: George Newnes Limited, 1891-93. Volumes II-VI of
this periodical, containing the complete Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Octavo. Woodcut
illustrations throughout. Text in double columns. Original light
blue cloth, with front covers pictorially stamped in black, and
with spines stamped in black and gilt. Top edge gilt. Binding
extremities lightly rubbed, old pencil ownership marks. Joints
of Volumes V-VI cracking. A very good, bright set. $1,250
The first appearances of the twenty-four Sherlock
Holmes cases that were subsequently collected in these two
classic books.

36. [ERASMUS]. KNIGHT, Samuel. The Life of Erasmus,
More particularly that part of it, which He spent in England…With
an appendix Containing several Original Papers. Cambridge:
Printed by Corn. Crownfield, 1726. Octavo. [xxxii], 386,
cxliv, [16, index] pp. Engraved frontisportrait by Vertue after
Holbein, plus nineteen other fine engraved plates (three more
than are noted in the list of plates), some folding. Full brown
crushed morocco by Roger de Coverly. Gilt-panelled covers
and spine with gilt rosette ornaments, gilt-ruled turn-ins, all
edges gilt. Light shelfwear, versos of some plates lightly
browned. Overall a very good, clean copy. $1,250
First edition.
Knight (1675-1746), who served as chaplain to George
II and archdeacon of Berkshire, was one of the founders of the
Society of Antiquaries. In addition to his life of Erasmus, he
wrote a life of Dr. John Colet, Dean of St. Paul’s, also
illustrated with Vertue engravings (D.N.B.).

37. [EROTIC POETRY]. TANSILLO, Luigi. Il
Vendemmiatore, poemetto in ottava rima…e la Priapea, sonetti
lussuriosi-satirici di Niccolò Franco. A Pe-King: regnante Kien-
long, nel XVIII. secolo [i.e., Paris: J.C. Molini, 1790]. Small
octavo. viii, 187 pp. Nineteenth-century cloth with gilt spine.
A little light foxing. A very good copy. $750
First collected edition.
Luigi Tansillo (1510-68), who was born into the
Neapolitan aristocracy, was considered the most important
Southern Italian Petrarchist. He was admired by Torquato
Tasso and others for his anticipation of the Baroque manner. Il
Vendemmiatore was first published in 1532. Early editions of the
work have 183 stanzas; this edition, like others that appeared
after the book was censured, have 171. Niccolò Franco (1515-
70), was born in Benevenuto, moved to Naples as a young
man, and later to Venice, where he became Pietro Aretino’s
secretary. A very contentious rift developed between Aretino
and Franco, which led to the publication of Rime contro
l’Aretino and Priapea, both of which were placed on the Index.
His anti-clerical satires offended Pope Paul IV, and he was
ultimately arrested, tried by the Inquisition, and hanged. (See
Oxford Companion to Italian Literature).
Gay, 1864 edition, p. 203 (Not in Gay/Lemonnyer).

The Greatest Comparative Study of Religions Practices
(P.M.M. 374), Presentation Copy from the Author to his Teacher

38. FRAZER, J.G. [Sir James George]. The Golden Bough:
A Study in Comparative Religion… London: Macmillan and Co.,
1890. Two volumes, octavo. xii, 409 pp. [2] pp. publisher’s
ads in Volume I. Frontispiece in Volume I. Publisher’s dark
gren cloth. Gilt stamped spines, front cover ornaments of
intertwined mistletoe twigs, the “golden bough.” Presentation
copy, inscribed on the second blank leaf of Volume I:
“Professor G.G. Ramsay/with the kind regards of/his old pupil
the Author.” A later presentation inscription from a member of
the Ramsay family to an unidentified person appears on the
first blank leaf of each volume. Spines slightly wrinkled, slight
stain on front cover of Volume I, corners lightly worn, back
hinge of Volume I lightly cracked, endpapers lightly foxed. A
very good, bright copy. $3,500
First edition of this classic work on the beliefs and
customs of primitive man.
Frazer (1854-1941) was educated at the University of
Glasgow and Trinity College, Cambridge, in classics and
remained a fellow at Trinity for life. His interest in
anthropology was aroused by his reading of E.B. Taylor’s
Primitive Culture (1871) and by William Robertson Smith,
professor of Arabic, who as editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica
asked Frazer to contribute several articles to the ninth edition,
first on classical subjects, and later the articles on “Taboo” and
“Totemism” (1888).
Frazer maintained a lifelong interest in classics and “his
anthropological work was deeply rooted in his classical studies”
(DSB). He believed that the concepts of “clean” and “unclean”
embodied in the tribaL phenomena of totemism and taboo led
to sacrificial practices. “He was especially attracted to tracing
the connexion of these two ideas with the mysteries associated
with the [historical] shrine of Diana at Lake Nemi and with the
riddle of the King of the Wood [the priest at Lake Nemi],
whom he conceived as a totemistic figure” (P.M.M.).
After the first two volumes of The Golden Bough were
published, “edition succeeded edition in continually enlarged
form—a second edition in three volumes in 1900, a third
edition beginning in 1911 and extending to thirteen volumes
by 1936” (P.M.M.) as Frazer demonstrated a theory of the
evolutionary succession of magic, religion and science in
human culture. “No one before or since has brought together
such a volume of data on customs and beliefs, classified and
documented to stimulate other workers” (D.S.B.).
George Gilbert Ramsay (1839-1921) was a professor of
classics at the University of Glasgow. He produced esteemed
translations of Tacitus, Juvenal and Persius. Frazer met him as a
student there. While he was working on The Golden Bough,
Frazer continued with classical scholarship by working on a six-
volume translation and commentary on the ancient Greek
traveler Pausanias (Pausanias's Description of Greece), which
appeared in 1898, with Frazer’s dedication to G.G. Ramsay.
Printing and the Mind of Man, 374.

39. FRAZER, J.G. Totemism. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles
Black, 1887. Small octavo. viii, 96 pp. Red cloth, gilt spine
and front cover. Bookplate of Aneurin Williams (1859-1924),
British liberal politician. A near fine, bright copy. $200
First edition of the author’s first book.

Contributor Tom Disch’s Copy

40. GIOIA, Dana, [editor]. Formal Introductions: An
Investigative Anthology. [West Chester, PA:] Aralia Press at West
Chester University, 1994. Tall octavo. 40, [6] pp. Title in blue
and black. Printed on Johnnot paper. Ecru linen over decorative
boards, printed paper spine label. Fine condition. Contributor
Tom Disch’s copy, inscribed by the printer: “Thank you,
Tom. Mike Peich,” and bearing the signatures of four of the
contributors beneath their respective poems (Dana Gioia, Bruce
Bawer, Rachel Hadas, Charles Martin, Robert B. Shaw). With
a trial pull of the “Table of Contents” laid in, inscribed on the
conjugate blank by Peich to Disch, with a note arranging a
reading in Chelsea in January. Also laid in is a typed letter
signed by Disch to Peich after the Chelsea reading,
enthusiastically responding to a proposal by Peich for an Aralia
Press edition of Disch’s sestinas and villanelles, with a list of
twelve of his poems (“it’s all I’ve done in those forms in the
course of 20 years”). $500
One of 210 copies. Dana Gioia has signed the title-
page, as well as his own poem.

“The Cleverest Woman in London”

41. GROTE, Harriet. Collected Papers, (original and reprinted,)
in Prose and Verse. 1842-1862. By Mrs. Grote. London: John
Murray, 1862. Octavo. [2], iv, [2, contents with verso blank],
293, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank], 12 [advertisements,
dated November, 1861] pp. Original terra cotta cloth with
covers blocked in blind and spine blocked and lettered in gilt.
Half-inch tear along back joint, contemporary ownership
signature, remains of glue from an old bookplate. A few light
pencil marks in margins. Overall a very good, bright copy.
First edition. $300
“The brilliant daughter of Thomas Lewin, an Indian
civil servant, and a Miss Chaloner, Harriet Lewin [1792-1878]
fell in love with the son of a neighbour near Bexley in Kent,
George Grote [1794-1871], under whose careful tuition she
prepared to share in his historical and political interests and
whom she married in 1820. Harriet Grote devoted her
considerable intellectual and practical talents to furthering her
husband’s political career as a Radical Member of Parliament
and later became closely involved in the preparation of his
celebrated History of Greece (1845-56). Her vivacity and attested
conversational skills made their home a natural centre for the
parliamentary Radicals and for George Grote’s later literary and
administrative activities…Her friend and biographer Elizabeth
Eastlake once pronounced her ‘the cleverest woman in London’
(Oxford Guide to British Women Writers, p. 195f).

42. HALE, Mrs. [Sarah]. Manners; or, Happy Homes and
Good Society All the Year Round. Boston: J.E. Tilton and
Company, 1868. Octavo. [2], 377 pp. Green cloth with covers
blocked in blind and spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt.
Bottom of spine lightly frayed, remains of bookplates on
pastedowns. A good copy, clean and bright. $450
First edition, variant of Blanck’s Printing 2, with the
collation given, and printed on laid paper with brown-coated
endpapers, but in green cloth, as Blanck’s Printing 1. It is not
clear whether Blanck is indicating a priority. He makes no
argument for priority, and indicates that copies of Printings 1
and 3 were received at Boston Public Library on the same
day—December 18, 1867.
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), novelist and poet, is
best known as the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, and as the
author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Born in a small town
near Newport, New Hampshire, she was educated at home by
her mother and brother, both of whom had attended
Dartmouth College. Her views of “woman’s role” and
“woman’s sphere” are summed up in Manners: or, Happy Homes
and Good Society All the Year Round. She was a strong advocate
for women’s education and an arbiter for taste among middle-
class American women. She was one of the founders of Vassar
College and is credited with making Thanksgiving a national
holiday in the United States. (It has previously been celebrated
only in New England.)
BAL 6897.

The Author’s First Book

43. HEARN, Lafcadio. Stray Leaves from Strange Literature.
Stories Reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheill, Baital, Pachisi,
Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Small octavo.
225 pp. Original dark blue cloth with front cover decoratively
stamped in black, and spine stamped in black and gilt. Binding
extremities lightly rubbed. A very good, tight copy. $750
First edition of Lafcadio Hearn’s first book, first issue,
with “JR.O.&. CO” at the foot of the spine.
BAL 7912.

44. HERBERT OF CHERBURY, Edward, Lord. The Life
of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Written by Himself.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770. Quarto. [10], 173 pp.,
plus folding engraved frontisportrait. Modern half brown
morocco over rust-colored cloth, tooled in gilt. Gilt spine with
raised bands, top edge gilt. Occasional light foxing, offsetting
from portrait onto title-page. A very good copy. $450
Second edition, preceded only by the limited Strawberry
Hill Press edition of 1764.
While Lord Herbert’s celebrated autobiography neglects
mention of his worthy philosophical writings, and ignores the
very important diplomatic and soldierly events in which his role
ranks him among the most significant of Tudor Englishmen, it
is nonetheless a tale worth reading. The anecdotal, swaggering
narrative, focusing primarily on amours and social triumphs,
suggests something of Cellini. It served as a model for a type of
English-language autobiography.

First Edition in Greek

45. [HIEROCLES, OF ALEXANDRIA]. [Greek title].
Commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Paris Nicolaum
Nivellium…1583. Twelvemo. xxiiii, 247 [i.e. 347], [1] pp.
Woodcut arms of the dedicatee, François de la Rochefoucauld-
Randon, on the title-page. Woodcut headbands and initial
letters. The Golden Verses are printed in Greek capitals, and
Hierocles’ commentary in lower case Greek. On facing pages is
a Latin translation by Johannes Curterius. Contemporary limp
vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Old ink ownership
inscription on front pastedown, a couple of old marginal notes,
later printed bookplate. Occasional light browning. Overall a
very good copy. $1,500
First edition in Greek of Hierocles’ commentary. This
work appeared in two issues, the other with the publisher
Stepanus Prevosteau on the title. It was produced from a
manuscript in the library of François de la Rochefoucauld-
Randon.
Hierocles (fl. 430) is usually considered the first repre-
sentative of the Alexandrian school of Platonism. “His doctrine
that the Demiurge who created the cosmos is the supreme deity
(that is, has no One above him) is opposed to that of Plotinus
and may have been that of Origen the Pagan, since the latter
seems to have been the author of a writing directed against
Plotinus on this very score. Hierocles’ thesis that Plato and
Aristotle agree in fundamentals could hark back to Plotinus’
teacher Ammonius Saccas…Several doctrines of Hierocles have
a Christian flavor, such as that the Demiurge needs no pre-
existing matter and creates by act of will out of nothing and
that, as far as reasonable creatures are concerned, he exercises
providence over them through subordinate deities and spirits
(angels); they are not subject to fate” (Philip Merlan in the
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, I, 75).
The only complete work of Hierocles that has been pre-
served is his commentary on the Carmina aurea of Pythagoras.
Adams P2313. Brunet III, 154. Cf. Sandys II, 105.

46. [HOMER]. RICCI, Angiol Maria. Dissertationes
Homericae habitae in Florentino Lyceo ab Angelo Maria Riccio
Graecarum literarum prof. Quibus accedunt eiusdem orationes
pro solenni instauratione studiorum. Florence: ex typographia
Gaietani Albizinii, 1740-1741. Three volumes, small quarto.
xliv, 340; xliv, 340; xxviii, 342 pp. Engraved frontisportrait
in Volume I. Contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spines. Spines,
board edges rubbed, a little foxing. A very good set. $750
First edition.
A collection of sixty-one essays on Homer, and various
aspects of Greek studies, by a Florentine classicist. Also with
seven orations and a few letters to colleagues. Includes disser-
tations on various episodes of the Odyssey, the influence of
Homer on Plato and Virgil, the scholarship of J. C. Scaliger,
Homeric repetition, food and drink, Greek music, etc. A
substantial but uncommon example of Greek scholarship in
18th-century Italy.
Graesse VI, 109. B.

With 74 Engraved Plates of Versailles

47. HOSTEIN, Hypolite. Le Musée de Versailles. Paris:
Audot, 1837. Octavo. 107 pp. + seventy-four engraved plates
by Leonce L’Huillier. Early twentieth-century red cloth over
marbled boards, black leather label. Original green printed
wrappers bound in. A very good copy. $250
First edition.
Hypolite Hostein (1814-1879) was a theatre director
and a friend of Alexandre Dumas. His text features picturesque
descriptions and anecdotes.

One of the Earliest Pieces Printed by Ward Ritchie

48. JEFFERS, Robinson. Stars. [Pasadena:] The Flame
Press, 1930. 7 13/16 x 5 1/16.” [8] pp. Original blue printed
wrappers, stitched at spine. A fine copy. $750
Second edition, limited to 110 copies printed by Ward
Ritchie at the Abbey of San Encino Press.
This is one of the legendary Jeffers/Ritchie rarities. The
first edition was printed in an edition of 72 copies, but all but
six copies were destroyed, and it is virtually unobtainable on
the market. This second edition is also rare. Ritchie (b. 1905-)
was recently graduated from Occidental College and was still
working in the barn of his childhood home in South Pasadena.
He printed this at Clyde Browne’s San Encino Press.
Ritchie Bibliography, p. 127.

Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Jeffers

49. JEFFERS, Robinson. Themes in My Poems. San
Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. Quarto. ix, [1,
blank], 49 pp. Woodcut illustrations in several colors by
Mallette Dean. Quarter light brown linen over green decorative
boards, printed green paper spine label. Small bump at top of
spine. A very good copy $500
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Jeffers:
“To Phyllis and David Kennedy, with great pleasure in
meeting them here. Sincerely, Robinson Jeffers. Tor House,
Carmel, California. April 1, 1958.” One of 350 copies, printed
by Mallette Dean. This copy is also signed by Dean.
This is the based upon a lecture delivered by Jeffers at
the Library of Congress, Harvard and elsewhere in 1941.
Magee, The Hundredth Book, 93.

First Todd Edition

50. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Langu-
age; in which the words are deduced from their originals; and
illustrated in their different significations, by examples from the
best writer: Together with A History of the Language, and an
English Grammar…With numerous corrections, and with the
addition of several thousand words…by the Rev. H.J. Todd,
M.A. F.S.A. In five volumes. London: Printed for Longman,
Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown…[et al.], 1818. Large quartos.
Text in double columns. Engraved frontisportrait of Johnson,
foxed in the margins. Contemporary half calf over brown
pebbled cloth boards. Spines ruled in gilt and blind, with black
morocco label, marbled edges. Binding extremities rubbed,
small stains to covers. Offsetting from portrait, occasional fox-
ing. Title-page of Volume I with old waterstain at top inner
margin. A good set. $2,500
First Todd edition.
“Todd made some additions to Johnson's grammar and
history of language, extended Johnson's word list with obsolete
and local terms and with derivatives and compounds, improved
etymologies, added quotations where they were lacking and
corrected some of those which had been given, but left the
famous definitions pretty much unchanged” (Sledd & Kolb, p.
154).
See Printing and the Mind of Man, 201.

One of 800 Copies

51. KAFKA, Franz. In the Penal Colony. Translated from the
German by Willa and Edwin Muir. With lithographs by
Michael Hafftka. [New York:] Limited Editions Club, [1987].
Quarto. [2], 53, [3], [2, colophon with blank verso] pp. Four
full-page illus-trations. Printed on mould-made Magnani paper
at the Shagbark Press in South Portland, Maine. Hand-bound
in vellum paper flexible boards. Fine in publisher’s clamshell
slipcase. $400
One of 800 copies, signed by the illustrator.

52. KANT, Immanuel Critick of Pure Reason. Translated from
the original…Second edition with notes and explanations of
terms by Francis Haywood. London: William Pickering, 1848.
Octavo. xlvi, 625, [1, errata] pp. With a 20 pp. publisher’s
catalogue, dated July 1848, bound in front. Original green
cloth with printed paper spine label. Spine browned, spine
extremities lightly worn, hinges tightened. Endpapers foxed, a
few old light pencil notes in margin. A good, clean copy, scarce
in original cloth. $750
Second edition of the first complete English translation
of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, expanded with two
appendices and a new preface. First published in 1838.
Francis Haywood (1793/4–1858), was the son of a
successful cotton broker and a member of the intellectual circle
headed by William Roscoe, biographer of Lorenzo de Medici.
He was also a good friend of Antonio Panizzi, principal librari-
an of the British Museum. The present work established his
reputation. It was praised by Sir William Hamilton, the chief
authority on Kant in Britain, and it was the standard translation
for a number of years.

53. KANT, Immanuel. Religion Within the Boundary of Pure
Reason. Translated out of the Original German by W.H.
Semple. Edinburgh: Thomas Clark, 1838. Octavo. x, 275 pp.
Modern boards with paper spine label. A very good copy,
entirely uncut and unopened. $600
First complete edition in English of Kant’s Die Religion
innerhalb der Grenzen der Blossen Vernunft, originally published
in German in 1793.
Kant’s Religion Within the Boundary of Pure Reason “is in
effect a commentary on and a reinterpretation of Christian
doctrine and practice…Kant took a particular interest in
Christianity, which he saw as at least approximating true reli-
gion though corrupted by the presence of extraneous elements
derived from Judaism…Kant sets aside the historical elements in
Christianity as having no importance in themselves: Whatever
is true in the religion must be derivable from moral reason. To
think of the uttering of religious formulas or the performance of
formal services to God as having a value of their own is to fall
into the grossest superstition” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
These views naturally struck the Prussian authorities as
subversive, and Kant was forced to refrain from further
pronouncements on religion.

54. KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York:
Harper & Brothers, [1956]. Octavo. [xxii], 266 pp. Index.
Black cloth over blue paper boards, gilt spine. A few light white
specks on binding. A very good, clean copy. Dust jacket is
price-clipped, and has some light chipping around the edges,
but is very good. $600
First edition.

With 132 Chromolithographic Plates and 2,810 Wood Engravings

55. LACROIX, Paul. [Works:] Les arts au moyen age.
Sixième edition. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot…1877;
Moeurs, usages et costumes du Moyen Age. Sixième edition.
1878; Vie militaire et religieuse au moyen age. Quatrième edition.
1877; Sciences et letters au moyen age. Deuxième edition. 1877;
XVIIe siècle: Institutions, usages et costumes. Deuxième edition.
1880; XVIIe siècle: Lettres, sciences et arts. 1882; XVIIIe siècle:
Institutions, usages et costumes. Troisième edition. 1878; XVIIIe
siècle: Lettres, sciences et arts. Deuxième edition. 1878. Eight
volumes, large octavo. Each volume is lavishly illustrated, after
designs by Watteau, Boucher, Lancret, Greuze, Chardin,
Gravelot, Eisen, and others. The set contains 132 chromo-
lithographiuc plates and 2,810 wood-engravings. Uniformly
bound in contemporary green morocco over decorative boards.
Gilt spines with raised bands, top edge gilt. Binding extremities
lightly worn in places, spines slightly darkened, a little light
foxing. Overall a very good, clean set. $1,250
Early editions of eight works by Paul LaCroix (1806-
1884), best known under his pseudonym, P.L. Jacob, biblio-
phile, or Bibliophile Jacob. All are published by Firmin-Didot
for L’Institut de France. These works are notable for their
illustrations of costume, architecture, artworks, crafts, mechan-
ical devices, etc. They are useful reference tools, and have been
reprinted many times, including recently. Only the early
editions, however, have the wonderful chromolitho-graphs.

Finely Printed Black Letter Edition

56. LANGLAND, Robert. Visio Willi de Petro Ploughman.
The Vision of William concerning Peirs Ploughman and The Visions
of the same concerning the Origin, Progress, and Perfection of the
Christian Life...Printed from a MS. contemporary with the
author, collated with two others of great antiquity, and
exhibiting the original text. Together with an introductory
discourse, a perpetual commentary, annotations, and a glossary.
By Thomas Dunham Whitaker… London: Printed for John
Murray, 1813. Quarto. [4], xlviii, [4], 412, [2], 31 (notes and
glossary) pp. Text in Black Letter, printed in black and red,
with notes in roman type. Wood-engraved decorative initial
letters and tail-pieces. Later nineteenth century (ca. 1860) full
brown morocco, gilt-ruled covers and spine, gilt turn-ins, edges
stained red. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, old armorial
bookplate. A very good copy. This is likely a publisher’s
remainder binding. $950
A sumptuously printed edition, with extensive notes.
Lowndes notes that this work sold for a whopping £8.8s. when
it was published, though it also adds that Whitaker “has
carefully suppressed all the passages relating to the indecent lives
and practices of the Romish Clergy” (p. 1888).

In a Painted Vellum Binding by Garth While

57. LARKIN, Philip. Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces
1955-1982. London: Faber and Faber, [1983]. Octavo. 315 pp.
Finely bound by Garth While in full vellum, with decoration
painted in black, gold and various colors. Covers lettered in
black, with gold flecks, with background design of black rules,
with blocks of red, orange, yellow, purple, and brown. Spine
lettered in black with gilt flecks. All edges gilt. A fine copy in
blue cloth clamshell case. Laid in is a piece of promotional
material from the Bookbinding Competition of 1985,
sponsored by Faber and Faber and Designer Bookbinders. This
binding was one of the entries there. $1,250
First edition.
Garth While, is from South East London and was
trained at Morley College, London. He has won and placed in
numerous competitions. He has in recent years given up
binding to concentrate on silver-smithing. Some of his silver
work is housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The First Exposition of the Differential Calculus

58. [L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine de.]
Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence des lignes courbes.
Paris: De l’Imprimérie Royale, 1696. Quarto. [18], 181, [3]
pp. With eleven copper-engraved folding plates, an engraved
title-page vignette, and two engraved head- and tail-pieces. Full
modern antique-style calf. Seven of the folding plates have been
repaired at the fore-margin, with no loss of content, but with
some old marginal soiling. Occasional light soiling. Old oval
library stamp in blank margin of one leaf, and bookplate of the
Bibliotheca Lamoniana on front pastedown. Contemporary
ownership signature of finance minister Louis Gon de
Bergonne, Me. de Compter on title-page. Some twentieth-
century light pencil scribbling, apparently in a child’s hand. A
good copy of an important book. $4,500
First edition of the first exposition of the differential
calculus, which includes the original publication of ideas
developed by Leibnitz and Bernoulli.
L’Hospital (1661-1704) is best known for the rule
which bears his name for calculating the limiting value of a
fraction whose numerator and denominator either both
approach zero or both approach infinity.
Norman, 1345.

The Last Edition of the ‘Essay’ Published During Locke’s Lifetime,
With Significant Additions

59. LOCKE, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Under-
standing. In Four Books. The Fifth Edition, with large
Additions. London: Printed for Awnsham and John
Churchil…and Samuel Manship…1706. Folio. [38]. 210, 203,
212-232, 225, 234-258, 260-261, 255, 263, 263bis, 264-284,
345-422, 425-464, 467-604, [10] [=584] pp. This edition
does not call for an engraved portrait, as others do.
Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, with old spine laid down,
spine ruled in gilt and blind, with titling in blind, edges
speckled red. Corners worn, chip in back free endpaper. A very
good, large copy. $2,500
Fifth edition, the first published after Locke’s death,
incorporating Locke’s final few corrections.
Locke (1632-1704) took up Bacon's challenge “to
estimate critically the certainty and adequacy of human knowl-
edge when confronted with God and the universe” (Lilly
Library, Printing and the Mind of Man, 148). It is a study that
has “remained fundamental to philosophical discussion ever
since” (op. cit.). After its initial publication in 1690, Locke
continued to revise his work. Between the first and second
(1694) editions, Locke issued corrections on printed slips
designed to be pasted in. The second edition incorporated these
corrections. The third edition is a page by page reprint of the
second edition The fourth edition contains even more new
material, including the section entitled “Of the association of
ideas (II.xxiii) and “Of Enthusiasm” (IV.xix). The fifth
edition, issued posthumously in 1706, incorporated further
revisions dictated by Locke, including a defense against the
criticisms of Peter Bayle.
Yolton 65. See Grolier Club, One Hundred English, 36;
Printing and the Mind of Man, 164.

60. LOCKE, John. Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke:
Viz. I. Of the Conduct of the Understanding. II. An Examination
of P. Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing all things in God. III. A
Discourse of Miracles. IV. Part of a Fourth Letter for Toleration. V.
Memoirs relating to the Life of Anthony first Earl of Shaftsbury. To
which is added, VI. His New Method of a Common-Place-Book,
written originally in French, and now translated into English.
London: Printed by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill, 1706.
Octavo. [4], 336 pp. Contemporray paneled calf, gilt red
morocco spine label. A very good, crisp copy. Armorial
bookplate of Le Gendre Pierce Starkie. eighteenth-century
Lancashire land owner. $1,250
First edition.
“Published by Locke’s literary executors, Anthony
Collins and Sir Peter King” (Pforzheimer), these six essays are
not only first editions, but were the product of Locke’s first
thoughts on the various subjects, none having been revised or
in any way prepared for publication by their author. He died
while working on the very important Fourth Letter for
Toleration.
Yolton 299. Pforzheimer 609.

Early Locke Biography in Original Boards

61. [LOCKE, John.] KING, [Peter, seventh baron King, of
Ockham]. The Life of John Locke, with Extracts from His
Correspondence, Journals, and Common-Place Books. London:
Henry Colburn, 1829. Quarto. [xii], [408] pp. Engraved
frontiportrait after Worthington, one plate of facsimile
handwriting. Original boards with printed paper spine label.
Front hinge neatly repaired. A very good, large copy. $1,250
First edition.
King (1776-1833), a descendant of Locke’s cousin,
Anne Locke, wrote the second major biography of John Locke,
after LeClerc’s life of Locke, which appeared in the Bibliothèque
Choisie in 1705. It added a great deal to what had previously
been known about Locke, as King was able to draw upon
extensive correspondence, and Locke’s personal papers. King’s
aim was, by using a wealth of primary sources, to “make Mr.
Locke, as far as possible, his own biographer.” The letters that
were chosen were intended to demonstrate “the interest which
was felt by Mr. Locke on so many different questions, the
versatility of his genius, and the variety of his occupations.”
Yolton 328.

62. MARCET, Jane. Willy’s Holidays; or Conversations on
Different Kinds of Governments. Intended for Young Children.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, &
Longman, 1836. Twelvemo. vi, [2], 149, [1] pp. Quarter red
straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt-ruled flat spine
with title also in gilt. Foot of spine lightly worn, boards lightly
rubbed. A good, clean copy. $350
First edition.
Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769–1858) was born in
London, to a wealthy Swiss family, and was tutored at home.
She married Alexander Marcet, a Swiss physician living in
London. Through him, she met many leading scientists. After
helping him proofread his books, she decided to write her own,
and she produced many valuable introductory science books and
a few on other subjects. Her Conversations on Chemistry (1819)
is said to have inspired Faraday as a boy working in a book-
binder's shop. She wrote several works on economics, including
Conversations on Political Economy…(1816), John Hopkins's
Notions on Political Economy (1833), and Rich and Poor (1851).
After 1833, she increasing wrote books for children, including a
series of tales of a curious boy named Willy and his sisters, of
which this is one.

Hand-Colored Title and Frontispiece and Silhouette Woodcuts

63. MAYHEW, Henry and Augustus Mayhew. Acting
Charades; or Deeds Not Words. A Christmas Game to Make a
Long Evening Short. Illustrated by H.G. Hine. London: D.
Bogue, [n.d., 1850]. Square octavo. pp. [v]-x, [2], 158, [1] p.,
[2] pp. Engraved title with hand-colored vignette, engraved
hand-colored frontispiece. Many silhouette woodcut illustrations
in text. Original red cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt and
blind. All edges gilt. A remarkably nice copy. $350
First edition.

Mill’s First Publication in America

64. MILL, John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and
Inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence
and the methods of scientific investigation…New York:
Harper and Brothers…1846. Octavo. xii, 593, [1, blank], [2,
ads] pp. Contemporary dark brown blindstamped cloth, gilt
lettering and publisher’s device on spine. Crown of spine lightly
frayed, lightly foxed as usual, intermittent light marginal
dampstain. Still, an unusually nice, bright copy. In leather-
tipped open-end slipcase. $750
First American edition of Mill’s greatest work, and his
first book publication in America.
“With the publication of the Logic, Mill took a major
step toward showing that the philosophy of experience, which
had hitherto been identified primarily as a skeptical position,
could offer at least as much in the way of constructive thinking
as any other kind of view…Mill held that the philosophy of
experience was more likely than any other to encourage the
development of society along liberal lines. He therefore held
that it was a matter of considerable importance to show that
empiricism was a viable alternative to the less progressive
views—notably, Scottish common-sense philosophy and
German idealism—which were then dominant. The Logic
succeeded in doing this” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
Schumpeter, p. 450.

65. [MUSIC]. GRASSINEAU, James. A Musical Dictionary;
Being a Collection of Terms and Character, As well Ancient as
Modern; Including the Historical, Theoretical, and Practical
Parts of Music: As also, an Explanation of some Parts of the
Doctrine of the Antients; Interspersed with Remarks on their
Method and Practice, and curious Observations on the
Phaenomena of Sound Mathematically considered, As it’s
Relations and Proportions constitute Intervals, And those again
Concords and Discords. The whole carefully abstracted from the
best Authors in Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English
Languages. London: Printed for J. Wilcox…1740. Octavo.
xii, 347, [1, ads] pp., with some mispagination. Four engraved
plates, three folding. Contemporary calf, gilt-ruled covers and
spine, gilt red paste-paper label, edges sprinkled red. Binding
extremities lightly rubbed, a little superficial wear to spine. A
very attractive copy. $1,500
First edition.
"While Grassineau's Dictionary awaits serious studies in
textual criticism, it can be said to be the most important
dictionary of music published in Britain until the translation of
Rousseau's. In 1769, after Grassineau's death [in 1767], it was
reissued with a separate appendix containing articles from
Rousseau's dictionary; the editor is unknown" (New Grove,
Vol. 7, p. 642).
Much of the material in this work derives from the work
of the French musicologist, Sebastien de Brossard (1655-1730),
as well as other contemporary sources.

Signed Copy

66. [MUSIC. VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES.]
GAVOTY, Bernard. Victoria de Los Angeles. [Series:] Les Grands
Interprets. Geneve: Editions René Kister, 1956. Large octavo.
[32] pp. Black and white photographic reproductions from
portraits by Roger Hauert. French text. Pictorial stiff wrappers,
in dust jacket. Minor chipping to extremities, jacket has light
edgewear and a tape stain on back cover. A very good copy.
Signed by Victoria de Los Angeles on the title-page. $250
First edition.
A study in words and pictures of the Barcelona-born
operatic soprano (1923-2005).

Logic in the Vernacular

67. NEWTON, John. An Introduction to the Art of Logick:
Composed for the use of English Schools, and all such who having no
opportunity of being instructed in the latine Tongue, do however
desire to be instructed in this liberal Science. London: Thomas
Passenger and Ben. Hurlock, 1671. Twelvemo. [12], 174 pp.,
with the extra leaf inserted after D2. Without the four-page
bookseller’s advertisements that are sometimes present.
Nineteenth century calf, ruled in blind. New endpapers. Pages
closely cropped, with occasional loss to numerals and running
titles. Bookplate. A good, clean copy. $2,000
First edition of a work by the mathematician and
reformer John Newton (1621-78). A second edition appeared
in 1678.
“Being a royalist Newton received no preferment during
the interregnum and supported himself by teaching
mathematics and astronomy. He wrote a connected series of
books on these subjects, all in English, advocating the use of
decimal arithmetic” (Oxford DNB).
Newton wanted all the sciences to be available in
English. At the beginning of this work, speaking to teachers of
vernacular learning, he presents logic as the seventh and last part
of an English Academy, stating that the present work was
composed “from those well known…compendiums of
Saunderson, Mr. Airy, Mr. Smith, Burgersdicius, and “others.”
“Had Newton included Brerewood in this last of
sources, he would have been able to suggest that his vernacular
logic had been influenced by every important work published
in Latin by the English Systematics” (Howell, Logic and
Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700, p. 316).
ESTC lists seven copies of this book, including only
two in North America.
Wing N1063.

68. [NINJA PRESS]. HANNON, Michael. Pruned Boughs.
[Sherman Oaks:] Ninja Press, 2008. 10” x 5.” [24] pp. The
type is hand-set Meridien with Weiss Initials Series III for the
display, printed letterpress in three colors onto dampened
Frankfurt. A simple decorative device used throughout, printed
and hand-brushed with iridescent mica, is from a punch cut by
Carolee Campbell, then struck into a matrix by Theo Rehak.
Walnut paper covers, stitched at spine, title in blind on front
cover. As new. Original prospectus laid in. $200
One of 100 copies, signed by the poet. These previously
unpublished poems are the third in a series of Ninja Press
publications of the work of Michael Hannon.
“With its rich walnut covers and stark white text, this
slender volume brings into sharp relief the somber prospect
invoked by these poems" (from the prospectus).

Lovely Art Nouveau Illustrations

69. [ORAZI, Manuel, illustrator]. Aventures Merveilleuses de
Huon de Bordeaux, pair de France et de la belle Esclarmonde ainsi que
du petit roi de féerie Auberon. Mises en nouveau langage par
Gaston Paris de l’Academie Française. Paris: Maison Didot,
[1898]. Quarto. 315 pp. Twelve color plates from the
watercolor designs of Manuel Orazi (1860-1934). Each page
within green pictorial borders. Designed by Eugene Grasset.
Half red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt spine with raised
bands, with gilt vignettes of a shield with swords. Original
wrappers bound in. A near fine copy. $450
First Orazi edition. A lovely art nouveau rendering of
the thirteenth-century chanson de geste.
“Intéressante publication recherchée...belles aquarelles de
cet artiste” (Carteret V.108).
Monod 671. Not in Ray, The Artist & the Book in
France, or Turn of the Century.

70. PEPLER, H.D.C. The Four Minstrels of Bremen and
“The Two Robbers”, being more Plays for Puppets…Ditchling,
Hassocks, Sussex: St. Dominic’s Press, [n.d., 1935?]. Octavo.
[6], 47 pp. Printed in black and red. Quarter blue morocco
over blue cloth boards, printed paper label on front cover. Some
light offsetting to endpapers, minor shelfwear. A very good,
clean copy. $350
First impression, limited to 100 copies printed on
handmade paper. This copy signed on the title-page by the
author/printer.

First Plato Published in England

71. PLATO. Platonis de Rebus Divinis Dialogi Selecti Graece &
Latinae…In commodas Sectiones dispertiti; Annexo ipsarum
Indice. Cambridge: Joann. Hayes, Celeberrimae Academiae
Typographi, 1673. Octavo. [16], 248 [i.e., 258] pp. Title-
page in red and black, woodcut initial letters and head-pieces.
Text in double columns, with facing Latin and Greek text.
Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. New endpapers. Ink
inscription of “Johannes Lewis Rector d. Sandringham 1698”
and his notes, have been lifted from the original endpaper and
mounted on the new front pastedown. Tiny wormhole in
bottom margin of first three leaves, a little light browning. A
very good copy. $1,250
First edition of the first Plato published in England.
Edited by John North (1645-1683).
Includes Crito, Phaedo, Alcibiades Secundus, De Religione,
De Justo, De Animae Immortalitate, De Precibus, etc, with index,
all translated by Ficino.
Wing P2406.

72. PLOTINUS. [Works]. London: Philip Lee Warner,
Publisher to the Medici Society, 1917-30. Five volumes, large
octavo. Light blue boards with tan linen backstrips, paper labels
on front covers and spines. All volumes in dust jackets. Jackets
of Volumes I and II partially faded. Offsetting to covers of these
two volumes because of the acidic content of the jackets. A
very good to fine set, scarce in dust jackets. $950
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies on all-rag paper.
Translated by Stephen McKenna, with the assistance of B.S.
Page in Volume V.
The definitive English Plotinus set.

73. [QUAKERISM]. BURNYEAT, John. The Truth
Exalted in the Writings of That Eminent and Faithful Servant of
Christ. London: Printed for Thomas Northcott, 1691. Quarto.
[8], 20, 257, pp. 260-264 [i.e., 262] pp. Includes the prefatory
poem, “On John Burnyeat’s Book.” Contemporary black
panelled morocco. Gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, all
edges gilt. Former owner’s signature (John Selfe), dated 1785.
Five pages of manuscript genealogical notes in the same owner’s
hand, on preliminary blanks. A very good and interesting copy
in an attractive binding. $1,500
First edition.
Burnyeat (1631-1690) was born at Crabtreebeck, near
Loweswater, Cumberland. George Fox convinced him to take
up Quakerism in 1753. In 1670, he sailed to America to
prepare the way for Fox’s arrival the next year. This work
includes much on Burnyeat’s travels in Maryland, Virginia,
New York, and other colonies. It gives an account of his
dispute with Roger Williams, cruelties inflicted upon the
Quakers in New England, etc. Sabin 9417. Wing B5968.

74. [RED OZIER PRESS]. PEICH, Michael. The Red
Ozier: A Literary Fine Press. History and Bibliography 1976-1987.
[New York:] The New York Public Library, The Yellow Barn
Press, [1993]. Quarto. xxxii, [2], [87] pp. With reproductions
of illus-trations from their books throughout. Artists represented
include Barry Moser, John DePol, Fritz Eichenberg, and
Antonio Frasconi. Printed letterpress on dampened Rives
Heavy white. Title in black and red; shoulder-notes in red.
Quarter burgundy linen over paste-paper boards, black leather
spine label. Fine in slipcase. $500
One of 170 copies.

Heavenly Monkey Press

75. REID, Robert R. A Young Printer in San Francisco
1949. [Vancouver, British Columbia:] Heavenly Monkey,
2007. Octavo. [10] pp. Frontisportrait of Reid from a linocut
by Andrea Taylor. Printed in burgundy and black. Handmade
pastepaper wrappers, stitched at spine. A fine copy. $200
One of thirty-five copies (from a total edition of 50
copies), referred to as the 'Miniscule' edition. Numbered and
signed by the author.

One of Seventy Copies

76. RITCHIE, Ward. Jane Grabhorn: the Roguish Printer of
the Jumbo Press. [Laguna Beach: Laguna Verde Imprenta,
1985]. Octavo. [47] pp. With illustrations in several colors,
including facsimiles of Jane Grabhorn’s work. Printed on
handmade paper. Quarter blue-green leather over black and gray
decorative boards, title in gilt on front cover. Spine slightly
faded, but a fine copy. $650
One of about 70 copies printed by Ward Ritchie on the
Albion hand press of Laguna Verde Imprenta. This book was
created from a talk given as the Goudy Lecture at Scripps
College, Claremont.
Laguna Verde Imprenta Bibliography, 25.

Unique Copy, in a Special Binding, With Color Proofs Bound In

77. [ROXBURGHE CLUB]. WORMALD, Francis. An
Early Breton Gospel Book. A Ninth-Century Manuscript from
the Collection of H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence 1887-1965. Edited
by Jonathan Alexander. Cambridge: Printed for Presentation to
the Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1977. Folio. xv, [1,
blank], 31, [1, acknowledgements], [2] pp., collotype plates
lettered A-H and I-XL, [4, prospectus], and 97 leaves of proofs,
mainly color trials. Designed by Geoff Green and printed at the
University Printing House, Cambridge. Bound by Spink &
Thackray, Headingley, in full crimson morocco. Covers décor-
ated in blind with a grid pattern, spine tooled in gilt and blind
in five compartments, with gilt lettering and blindstamped
ornamental vignettes. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Fine
condition. $2,000
A unique copy of this Roxburghe Club publication,
specially bound with proofs of the plates in multiple states. An
excellent exhibition item, showing the various steps of the color
printing process.
“The subject of An Early Breton Gospel Book is a
virtually unknown manuscript which was almost certainly
written in Brittany in the late ninth century. It appears to have
been brought to England not later than A.D. 1000, as shown
by numerous corrections and glosses in both Latin and Old
English in insular hands of that time. The manuscript was
reported as being in private hands in A.D. 1900, but its
whereabouts during the preceding nine hundred years remains
unknown…
“The particular interest lies in the decoration of the
manuscript, as seen in the Canon Tables, the decorative initials
and the miniatures, many of which have been reproduced in
seven colour or duo-chrome to match the unusual palette of the
artist and the tint of the original vellum. To ensure the accurate
reproduction from the original folios, the entire manuscript has
been disbound from its early nineteenth-century binding by
Mr. Sydney Cockerell of Cambridge:” (from the prospectus).

Signed Limited Edition

78. SANTAYANA, George. Poems. Selected by the author
and revised. London: Constable, [1922]. Small octavo. xiv,
[140], 4 (ads) pp. Original ecru cloth with front cover and
spine decoratively stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Spine slightly
discolored, fly-leaves browned, a little light foxing, mostly to
preliminaries. A very good, bright copy. $500
First edition. Limited to 100 copies, signed by the
author.

With a Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript Leaf

79. SCHULZ, H.C. French Illuminated Manuscripts. San
Francisco: David Magee, 1958. Small octavo. 30 pp. Printed
in black and brown in Lutetia type with the pages ruled in
orange. With an original illuminated manuscript leaf from a
fifteenth-century Book of Hours tipped in, and a reproduction
of an illuminated miniature, redrawn and hand-colored by
Mary Grabhorn. Quarter white parchment over decorative
white boards with title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. $950
One of 200 copies printed on English handmade paper
by the Grabhorn Press.

One of 470 Copies Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press

80. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems & Sonnets of
William Shakespeare. Edited by Gwyn Jones. [London:] Golden
Cockerel Press, 1960. Folio. [246] pp. Title-page printed in
black and red, with vignette of cockerel in gold, decorative
initial letters in red.Printed on water-marked handmade paper.
Designed by Christopher Sandford. Composition and press-
work at the Chiswick Press. Full burgundy linen buckram with
front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Bottom corners slightly
bumped. Otherwise a fine copy, clean and tight. $375
One of 370 copies regular copies out of a total edition
of 470 copies. The remaining 100 copies were specially bound.

One of 350 Copies Printed at the Whittington Press

81. SHAKESPEARE, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Wood-engravings by John Lawrence. [London:] Printed for
Asprey & Co. by the Whittington Press, [1979]. Square
octavo. Unpaginated. Woodcut frontispiece, title-page
vignette, and tail-piece. Decorative initial letters in blue, green
and burgundy. Printed on mould-made paper. Full green
morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Gilt ruled spine with black
morocco label. Gilt-ruled covers with arms device in center of
front cover, top edge gilt. Floral-decorated endpapers. A fine
copy. $600
One of 350 copies.

One of 120 Copies,
Considered by Many to be the Masterpiece of Plantin Press

82. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Sonnets of William
Shakespeare. [Los Angeles: Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at
the Plantin Press for Jacob Israel Zeitlin and Josephine Ver
Brugge Zeitlin, 1974]. Octavo. [4], 154, [4] pp. Woodcut
title-page and frontispiece by Mary Kuper. Woodcut printer’s
device on colophon. Dedicated to Alfred Fairbank, designer of
the Narrow Bembo types in which these Sonnets are printed.
Bound by Max Adjarian in quarter light brown morocco over
decorative boards. Gilt brown morocco spine label. Bookplate
of noted voyages and travels collector Kenneth E. Hill. Several
small, light brown stains to free endpapers, presumably from
something laid in. Aside from that, a fine, clean copy. $2,000
One of 120 copies.
This was Saul Marks’ final publication; he died later in
1974. Many consider it the masterpiece of the Plantin Press.

In the Original Shipping Box

83. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. ARAGON, Louis, and
Pablo Picasso. The Picasso-Aragon Shakespeare. New York:
Abrams, [1965]. Large folio. 124 pp. Thirteen full-page
lithograph reproductions of original sketched portraits of
Shakespeare created by Picasso in 1964, the four hundredth
anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. Salmon-colored boards.
Attractive bookplate on front pastedown. Fine in fine dust
jacket, in the original publisher’s shipping box. $400
First edition. One of 1,000 copies.

84. SWIFT, Jonathan. The History of the Four Last Years of
the Queen. Published from the Last Manuscript Copy,
Corrected and Enlarged by the Author’s Own Hand. London:
Printed for A. Millar, 1758. Octavo. xvi, 392 pp. Contem-
porary calf, nicely rebacked to style. Gilt spine with red mor-
occo label. Contemporary armorial bookplate, twentieth-
century armorial bookplate. A very good, clean copy. $500
First edition, without the variant misprints on Z3 and
Aa3. as noted by Teerinck.
Written around 1713, Swift’s (1667-1745) defense of
Queen Anne’s attempts to negotiate the peace of Utrecht, was
delayed because of the procrastination of Oxford and
Bolingbroke. It was finally published posthumously.
Teerinck 809. Rothschild 2186.

With a Bookplate, Signed by Thompson

85. THOMPSON, Hunter S. The Proud Highway: Saga of a
Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955-1967. The Fear and Loathing
Letters, Volume 1. New York: Villard, [1997]. Octavo. Boards.
Fine in fine d.j. Bookplate signed by Thompson mounted on
front free endpaper. $300
First edition.

86. TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. With more than
300 illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company,
1883. Octavo. 624 pp. Text illustrations. Original brown
cloth, decoratively stamped in black and gilt. Corners rubbed,
light fraying at head and foot of spine. A very good copy,
tight and unusually bright. $1,250
First edition, later issue, without the tailpiece on p. 441,
and with the caption on p. 443 reading “The St. Charles
Hotel.”
BAL 3411.

One of 501 Copies, Signed by the Author
Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega

87. WASSON, R. Gordon. The Wondrous Mushroom. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1980. Quarto. xxvi, [248] pp. Full- and
partial-page illustrations, many in color. Quarter green morocco
over decorative linen boards, gilt spine. Spine slightly faded.
Otherwise fine in matching linen slipcase. $600
One of 501 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega,
signed by the author.
Wasson’s history of the use of psilocybin mushrooms in
Central America from pre-Columbian times to the present.
Wasson and his companion, photographer Allan Richardson,
were given sacred mushrooms to eat at the end of June 1955,
on the occasion of a nocturnal mushroom ceremony. They thus
became probably the first outsiders permitted to take
teonanacatl.

One of Thirty Copies with Hand-Colored Illustrations

89. [WHITTINGTON PRESS]. RANDLE, Rosalind.
Rose’s Aga Recipes. Illustrated with linocuts by Judith Verity.
[Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucester:] The Whittington
Press, [1984]. Small octavo. [44] pp. With six charming hand-
colored illustrations of culinary themes—a kitchen stove, people
at table, picking vegetables—complete with children and dogs
and cats in the background. Red and blue plaid cloth with
printed paper label on front cover. A fine copy in publisher’s
clamshell slipcase. $600
One of thirty copies with hand-colored illustrations, out
of a total edition of 250 copies. Numbered and signed by the
artist on the colophon. This copy has laid in a hand-written
recipe by the author for Lemon Refrigerator Pudding. Also laid
in is the Whittington Press pamphlet, “Books from the
Whittington Press 1983 & 1984.”
“The keynotes of this unusual recipe book are simplicity
and economy. The ingredients are those which can be easily
obtained from the village shop, and in their preparation the
author has in mind those cooks who do not wish to spend
overmuch time in the kitchen, and yet who enjoy preparing
food.
“The recipes range from soups through main courses to
puddings which, while designed for the fuel-burning stove, can
equally well be used with gas or electricity…” (from the
publisher’s promotional material).

Presentation Copy from the Printer/Illustrator

90. WILDE, Oscar. Poems in Prose & the Preface to the
Picture of Dorian Gray. [Pownal, Vermont:] Mason Hill Press,
1974. Octavo. [2], [29] pp. Printed in red and black on laid
paper, by James M. Dignon, Bill Ittmann and Mark
Livingston. With seven woodcuts, designed by James Dignon.
Decorative woodcut initials, paragraph marks, and tail-pieces.
Quarter green morocco over floral patterned boards. Spine
lightly faded. Otherwise a fine, clean copy. $450
One of 120 copies, signed by the illustrator. This copy
is additionally inscribed by Dignon: “To Edith & Zoltan my
dearest friends. Jimmie.”

91. [WOMEN]. ALCOTT, William A. The Young
Woman’s Guide to Excellence. Boston: George W. Light, 1840.
Twelvemo. 356, [4, ads] pp. Original dark brown blind-
stamped cloth, spine lettering in gilt. Light wear at spine
extremities, intermittent light foxing, as usual. Donor’s
inscription, dated December 25, 1850. A very good, bright
copy. $250
First edition.
William Andrus Alcott (1798-1859) was the cousin of
Bronson Alcott. He became interested in popular education at
an early age. He began teaching at the age of eighteen, and
amassed a variety of teaching experience in New England and
in the South by the time he started attending classes at Yale
Medical School and eventually earned a diploma to practice
medicine and surgery. He wrote a number of books about
education and health, including The Young Mother or
Management of Children in Regard to Health (1836), Confessions of
a Schoolmaster (1839), The Young Man’s Guide (1839) The
Home Book of Life and Health (1856) and Forty Years in the
Wilderness of Pills and Powders (1859). His works were popular,
but have been criticized by later feminists as being too rigid.

92. [WOMEN]. [ALEXANDER, William.] Histoire des
femmes depuis la plus haute antiquité kisqu à nos jours, Avec des
Anecdotes curieuses, et de Détails très intérressans sur leur état
civil et politique, chez tous ls peoples barbares et civilizes,
anciens et moderns. Traduit de l’anglois Par le C.
Cantwell…Paris: Chez Briand, 1794. Four volumes, [4],
xxxiii, [1], 238, [2, errata]; [4], 312, [2, errata]; [4], 240, [2,
errata]; [4], 301, [1], [1, errata] pp. Four engraved frontispieces
by Philibert Boutrois. Complete with half-titles. Contemporary
mottled calf, gilt flat spines with brown and black morocco
labels, edges stained red. Light wear to binding extremities, a
little light foxing. A very good, clean set. $950
First French translation of this well known Hitory of
Women, which first appeared in 1779.
William Alexander (bap. 1742?, d. 1788?) was a
University of Edinburgh-educated medical doctor. The present
work, which has sociological and anthropological overtones, is
his best known. It “deserves to take a place among Enlighten-
ment histories of civil society. Though Alexander clearly knew
and was influenced by Montesquieu and the encyclopédistes, it
was to contemporary Scottish historians such as John Millar,
Lord Kames, and Gilbert Stuart that he owed his greatest debts.
Like them, he attempted to place the history of women and
gender roles firmly within the history of civil society, though
he also perpetuated their disagreements and inconsistencies.
The History is long, rambling, and inconsistent, and
omits any scholarly references. In it, Alexander drew widely and
indiscriminately upon biblical history, theological studies,
classical and medieval histories, and travel literature to construct
narratives of women's employment, marriage, child-rearing
patterns, customs and ceremonies, and the status and public
power of women. He explored the relative influences of nature,
or biology, and education, or environment, in shaping the
manners of women; the potential for the moral corruption of
nations in the absence of female chastity; the relationship
between the progress of ‘civilization’ and the condition of
women; and the distinctive characteristics of both ‘northern’
and British women. On the whole Alexander was inclined to
give little weight to the influence of Christianity in the
improvement of the condition of women, and there is an anti-
Catholic and anti-clerical tinge to much of his discussion”
(D.N.B.).
OCLC notes only three copies.
93. [WOMEN.] BENNETT, John. Letters to a Young Lady,
on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects, Calculated to Improve
the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understan-
ding…The Third Edition. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun.
and W. Davies…1803. Two volumes, twelvemo. pp. [iii]-xx.
240; [2], 264 pp. Bound without the half-titles. Contemporary
tree calf, Gilt-decorated flat spines with red and black morocco
labels. Minor signs of insect damage on the back cover of
Volume II, but a fine, bright copy. Early ink signature on title-
page of each volume (“Maria Frances Montgomery”), engraved
bookplate of the same owner (“M.F. Montgomery Convoy”).
$600
First published in 1789, this courtesy book in epistolary
form went through a number of editions, both in England and
America. The author, a clergyman who also wrote Strictures on
Female Education (1780) aimed to “rouse young ladies from a
vacant or insipid life, into one of usefulness and laudable
exertion to recall them from visionary novels and romance into
solid reading and reflection and from the criminal absurdities of
fashion, to the simplicity of nature and the dignity of virtue.
He has attempted a method of uniting, in their character, the
graces with the virtues; an amiable heart with elegant manners
and an enlightened understanding.”

94. [WOMEN]. Genuine and Authentic Memoirs of a Well-
Known Woman of Intrigue, Containing a great variety of curious
and interesting anecdotes, which have never yet appeared in
print, of several of the first characters in the fashionable world.
Written by herself. London: Printed for J. Ridgway…1787
[but a nineteenth-century reprint]. Small octavo. 120 pp. Half
red morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt. Binding
extremities lightly rubbed. A very good copy. $300
Two editions of this work were published by Ridgway
in 1787. The first edition appears to have been a two-volume
twelvemo, known to ESTC only through a copy of Volume II
at Lodz Universytet Biblioteka. A stated second edition, a
twelvemo extending to 169 pages, appeared the same year,
though it has been conjectured that that is one volume only of
the two-volume work. ESTC reports only one copy of the
second edition, at the Bodleian Library. OCLC notes two
nineteenth-century reprints, one published in 1860, known in
one copy at the University of Miami, and another published in
1886, known only in one copy at the National Library of
Scotland. The collation of both matches that of the present
book, which only includes the date 1787. It is not clear whether
this copy is the same edition as one of those reported by
OCLC, or yet another variant. In any case, all editions of this
book are rare.

95. [WOMEN]. [MULOCK, Diana Maria, later Mrs.
Craik]. A Woman’s Thoughts About Women. By the author of
“John Halifax, Gentleman, &c. &c. London: Hurst and
Blackett, 1858. Octavo. [vi], 348, [4, ads] + [24] pp.
publisher’s catalogue. Original purple blindstamped cloth with
spine stamped in gilt. Some light soiling, hinges cracking, but
sound. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free
endpaper. A very good copy. $300
First edition.
Diana Mulock (1826–1887), who was trained as a
governess, was the author of several novels and tales for
children. John Halifax, Gentleman (1856), the archetypal story of
a poor boy who makes good through initiative and hard work,
was extremely popular, and in her own day, she was often
compared to George Eliot and the Brontës. A Woman’s
Thoughts About Women was originally published serially in
Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts. She
addresses single women like herself and urges them to become
financially and emotionally independent, all the while
acknowledging the pain and loneliness of the single woman’s
life. She also advocates a sense of sisterhood among women.
Though she advocates marriage and motherhood as the highest
calling for women, she stresses that women should be able to
support themselves happily should this avenue not be open to
them.

In a Beautiful Publisher’s Cloth Stamped Binding

96. [WOMEN]. SOUTHGATE, Henry. Things a Lady
Would Like to Know Concerning Domestic Management and
Expenditure. Arranged for Daily Reference with Hints regarding
the Intellectual as well as the Physical Life. London: William P.
Nimmo, 1874. Octavo. 543, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece,
engraved and printed title-pages, numerous engraved headbands
and tail-pieces. Original dark blue cloth, decoratively stamped
in black and gilt on front cover and spine. Back cover
decoratively stamped in blind, all edges gilt. Contemporary
woman’s ownership signature on a preliminary blank, light
foxing to first and last few leaves. A beautiful copy, and a fine
example of a publisher’s stamped binding in bright, fresh
condition. $600
First edition of this comprehensive guide for young
women by print auctioneer and anthropologist Henry
Southgate (1818-1888). Includes chapters on breakfasts, tea,
supper, vegetables, sauces, pickling, confectionery, household
recipes, hints on travelling, dress, gardening, deportment, etc.
The volume is affectionately dedicated to the author’s daughter,
Julia. The binding is quite elaborately decorated, and one can
imagine that this book was often given as a gift to young ladies
by family and friends.
This work was very popular, going through at least half
a dozen editions in the prior to 1890. This first edition,
however, is uncommon. OCLC lists six copies worldwide.

97. [WOMEN]. WILKES, Wetenhall. A Letter of Genteel
and Moral Advice to a Young Lady: Being A System of Rules and
Informations; digested into a new and familiar Method, to
qualify the Fair Sex to be useful, and happy in every Scene of
Life…London: Printed for C. Hitch…1748. Twelvemo. [6].
198 pp. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red morocco label.
Head of spine lightly worn, joints cracking, but cords sound.
Small piece of leather worn away on back cover. Lacks front
free endpaper and terminal blank. Otherwise a good, clean
copy. With the bookplate of John Lawson. $450
Fifth edition, “carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged
by the author.”
Wilkes (1705/6-1751) was an Irish poet and theological
writer, known for his works, An Essay on the Existence of God
(1730), and The Mourning Muse, a Verse Elegy (1738). The
present work was originally published by subscription in 1740.
Jonathan Swift subscribed to twenty copies. Wilkes’s notion of
female education is very limited, and he emphasizes her role as
wife and helpmate. He attaches great importance to chastity
and modesty.
All editions of this book are scarce. OCLC notes only a
handful of copies of each of the first five editions in libraries.

With 39 Marbled Paper Samples

98. WOOLNOUGH, C.W. The Whole Art of Marbling as
Applied to Paper Book-Edges Etc. Containing a full description of
the nature and properties of the materials used, the method of
preparing them, and of executing every kind of marbling in use
at the present time, with numerous illustrations and examples.
[Oxford: The Plough Press, 1985]. Octavo. 82 pp. Facsimile
reprint or the larger second edition of 1881 printed by George
Bell, with 39 pages of marbled samples reproducing the patterns
of the original, made by Katherine Davis of Payhembury.
Green cloth with front cover and spine stamped in green. A
fine copy. $600
One of 150 copies.

The Nonesuch Wycherley

99. WYCHERLEY, William. The Complete Works of
William Wycherley. Edited by Montague Summers. Soho:
Nonesuch Press, 1924. Four volumes, quarto. Light brown
linen buckram over tan boards, printed paper spine labels.
Labels browned, some offsetting to endpapers, browning to
edges. A good, tight set. $300
One of 900 sets on mould-made paper out of a total
edition of 1,000 sets.
Still the only collected set of the works of this major
author of Restoration comedies, best know for The Country
Wife and The Plain Dealer.
Dreyfus 17.

100. YEATS, William Butler. The Collected Works in Verse
and Prose…Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press,
1908. Eight volumes, octavo. Photogravure frontispiece
portraits after drawings by John S. Sargent (Volume I), Charles
Shannon (Volume III), A. Mancini (Volume V), and J.B. Yeats
(Volume VII). Publisher’s remainder binding of quarter apple
green linen buckram over gray boards with spines stamped in
black. Some corners rubbed, some offsetting to endpapers. A
very good to fine set. $2,500
Limited to 1,060 copies. The first collected Yeats.
Ransom, Selective Check Lists, p. 10, no. 11.
Tomkinson, p. 229, no. 4. Wade 75-82.

One of Fifty Copies, Signed by the Illustrator,
and by the Printer, Peter Koch

101. ZWEIG, Stefan. The Invisible Collection. Frontispiece by
Joseph Goldyne. New York: Ursus Books, 2007.Octavo. [18]
pp. The original signed etching, “As the Blind Remember,”
by Joseph Goldyne, is printed on seventeenth century paper and
tipped on facing the title-page. Quarter black morocco over
boards, printed paper label on front cover, gilt spine. A fine
copy. $375
One of fifty numbered copies, signed by the artist, and
the printer and designer, Peter Koch.
A classic story about a blind print collector in post-
World War I Germany.