London: Printed for E. Curll, 1718. [4],53,[3]pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Old, light tide-mark in from gutter of last several leaves, otherwise a very good, crisp copy, with the half-title. First edition. Addison's Latin text precedes Hayes's translation. This work is also found bound up with Curll's 1719.....
![Item #WRCLIT77769 [Autograph Letter, Signed "Dover," to Alaric A. Watts]. George James Welbore...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT77769.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712662)
Dover House, Whitehill, 29 September 1831. 1 1/2 pp. on recto and verso of one panel of a folded lettersheet. Blank verso of conjugate tipped to mounting sheet otherwise very good. Baron Dover (1797-1833), British art patron, collector and editor of Walpole's letters, writes to British poet and anthologist Alaric.....
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1904. Original cloth with small pictorial onlaid cover illustration (portrait of Judith printed in color), t.e.g. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Miss O'Neil as Judith. Extremities of spine a trifle worn, and spine gilding slightly dull, otherwise a very.....
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894. Gilt decorated blue cloth, t.e.g. Spine darkened and a little frayed at extremities, short tear and crease to front free endsheet, else good. With Richard W. Gilder's tiny book label. Revised edition, originally published in MERCEDES, AND.....
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1889. Vellum backed gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g. Some darkening to spine, cloth a little rubbed at tips, but a good copy. First edition. A decent association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "To R.W......
London: Printed for T. Reynolds, 1739. 8pp. Folio. Later boards. Some pencil annotations in the text, boards a bit soiled, otherwise very good. First edition. An anonymous poem on the modern peers, identified by Foxon as possibly by the same author as BRITANNIA'S PRECUATION (1741) and THE HIBERNIAN POLITICIANS (1740).....
![Item #WRCLIT65495 COUP D'ESSAI D'UN ÉCOLIER, OU POE'SIES [sic]. Anonymous Verse, M. D'Espi ***](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT65495.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712366)
A Londres. Se vend à Marseille: Chez Jean Mossy, 1786. xvi,184pp. Contemporary calf and boards, spine gilt extra. Light scattered foxing and occasional mild spotting, a few rubs and light stains to boards, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this substantial collection of verse, epigrams, translations, and letters.....
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1892. Quarto. Cream cloth, lettered in gilt. Two bookplates on pastedown, white cloth moderately hand soiled, else a good, tight copy. Cloth case (faded). First edition, printing contributions of the moment ("sentiments dedicated to little children") in autograph facsimile by Hardy, James, Kipling, Jewett, Howe, Holmes, Meredith.....
![Item #WRCLIT85795 THE ARROW AND THE SONG BY ... [wrapper title]. George Arents, Henry W. Longfellow](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT85795.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1628712294)
[New York: Privately Printed, 1939]. Quarto (25.5 x 16 cm). Sewn limp parchment wrapper, lettered and decorated in gilt. Facsimile. Usual slight foxing to the parchment, very good. One of 435 copies printed as George and Lena Arents's Christmas greeting, including a facsimile of a signed manuscript fair copy of.....
Paris: Librarie des Èconomistes en Amour, 1886. Small quarto. Pale yellow wrappers, with color vignette. Main text printed in red. Illustrations by F. Fau. Toe of spine and one corner chipped, wrappers slightly dusty, but a very nice copy. With the small contemporary bookseller's ticket of "The Byron Library," Paris.....
Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. xii,[13]-141pp. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, gilt label. Ornamental head and tail-pieces. Boards slightly bowed, modest rubbing at edges, but a very good, crisp copy, with the half-title. First edition. With an introduction by James Burrill, Jr., who edited this posthumous collection from Arnold's papers and periodical.....
Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. xii,[13]-141,[1]pp. 12mo. Modern full morocco. Ink name on title, shallow chips at fore-edge of half-title and top edge of title, last two leaves cracking at top of gutter, with repair to terminal leaf, a few other small marginal mends; just a sound copy. First edition.....
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880. Original cloth. Clipped biographical notice pasted to front endsheets, cloth a little worn at edges, some foxing early and late, otherwise a good copy. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front blank "To William Smith Esq. with thanks & kind.....
Paris: Printed at the English Press... 1793. [4],304pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Lacking the portrait, as often, some foxing and marginal offsetting to prelims and terminal leaves, otherwise a very good, crisp copy. First Paris edition (denoted the "Fifth editions, corrected") of Barlow's most popular undertaking in verse, including.....
Paris: Typographie Plon Frères, 1852. 29,[3]pp. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Two tax stamps on half-title, and again in one margin, edges a bit dusty and creased, some foxing and spine a bit chipped, but a good copy. First edition of this late poem by the satirist. OCLC/Worldcat locates only.....
Paris: Typographie Plon Frères, 1852. 16pp. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Two tax stamps on verso of title, edges a bit dusty and creased, light foxing, but about very good. First edition of this late poem by the satirist. OCLC/Worldcat locates only the BN copy.
Paris: Typographie de Henri Plon, 1856. 15,[1]]pp. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Two tax stamps on half-title, edges a bit dusty and creased, some foxing and spine a bit chipped, but a good copy. First edition of this late poem by the satirist. OCLC/Worldcat locates only the BN copy.
Paris: Typographie de Plon Frères, 1853. 15,[1]]pp. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Two tax stamps on half-title, edges a bit dusty and creased, slight foxing, but a very nice copy. First edition of this late poem by the satirist. OCLC/Worldcat locates only the BN copy.
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. viii,[17] -167,[9]pp. Contemporary boards, printed spine label. Engraved frontis. Endsheets foxed, spine extremities worn (with surface chips), still a sound copy. First U.S. edition, with a "Notice of the Author," by "R.W.G." and dated at Philadelphia, Nov. 1843, suggesting the edition may not simply be.....
Boston: Printed for S. Hall and Manning & Loring, April 1801. 38,[2]pp. Extracted. First edition. Typical tanning and foxing, but a good or better copy.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893. Three volumes. Large, thick octavo. Original green cloth, spines and upper covers elaborately decorated in pictorial gilt after designs by Blake, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Portrait, facsimiles, and plates. Spines somewhat rubbed and dull, some shelfwear to joints and lower edges and bumps and wear to fore-tips.....
New York: Grossman, 1968. Large octavo. Printed boards. Illustrated with wood engravings by Baskin. Two small dots of rust to spine, otherwise about fine in slipcase, First trade edition, boardbound issue, rendered in facsimile of the Gehenna Press edition. Laid in front is a printed card, with manuscript note, conveying.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. Large octavo. Gilt lettered medium blue cloth. Portrait. Plates. About fine in good dust jacket with moderate tanning to spine and edges. First edition, US issue, bound up from UK sheets. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes, who has inscribed this copy to a fellow- bibliographer.....
New York: The Orion Press, [1964]. Large quarto. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Heavily illustrated in color. First trade printing, based on the limited Trianon Press printing of the same year. A fine copy in very good dust jacket (a couple smudges to jacket flaps) and the original slipcase.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Quarto. Quarter vellum and marbled boards. Portrait, facsimiles and plates. Forecorners a bit bruised, slight mottling to the vellum side panels, otherwise a very good copy in later, plain slipcase. First edition, issued in an edition of 1480 numbered copies, separate from, but uniform in.....
