Kingston, NY: Henry Abbey, 1886. v,[1],256pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Binding a bit dull and rubbed, textblock uniformly tanned at edges; a good, sound copy. "New and Enlarged Edition" (in fact, enlarged by over 100 pages from the 1879 edition). A good association copy, inscribed by the author on.....
Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. Pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Decorative title in red and black. Spine tips a bit rubbed, a few streaks of offsetting along fore-edge of upper cover, slight dampmark around toe of spine, faint tide mark at toes of endsheet gutters, otherwise very.....
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&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.....
London: Printed for R. Dodsley... 1763. xi,[3],15-136pp. Small octavo. Contemporary calf and marbled boards. Engraved title vignette. Sixth edition. Lacks the half-title, some soiling of last three leaves, binding a bit edgeworn; a good, sound copy. Sixth edition. Bowyers ledger records the edition consisted of 500 copies.
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......
Boston, New York and London: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1898. Decorated cloth and boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Edges and tips a bit rubbed, but a very good copy. First edition in this format, with an introduction by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. First edition in book form, preceded by serialization in the NEW YORK HERALD. Very good.
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1785. viii,248pp. (lacking the 2 leaves of terminal adverts). 12mo. Neatly extracted from bound volume. A crisp, clean copy. First edition of the first volume of this serial anthology; the seventh, and final volume, appeared in 1799; a supplement and an expanded edition appeared later.....
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1856. 214pp. Original cloth. Crown of spine chipped, a neatly and properly deaccessioned institutional duplicate, with bookplates, each bearing a small withdrawal stamp, otherwise a very good copy. First edition, posthumously edited from Alsop's manuscripts by Theodore Dwight.
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).....
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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.....
New York: P.S. Wynkoop & Son, 1868. 87,[1],v,[3]pp. Small octavo. Textured brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Pencil inscriptions, a few minor spots to cloth, two collector's bookplates, but a good copy. A later printing of this selection, first published in 1865-6, referencing Dutch and Native American lore and legends, Revolutionary.....
New Haven: [Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers], 1881. 256pp. Bright blue cloth, decorated in black, lettered in rustic type in gilt. Spine ends a bit rubbed and spine a trace darkened, offset to two pages from absent place marker, but a very good copy, with the booklabel of the Betts.....
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.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. x,[11]-198,[2]pp. Small octavo. Gilt decorated white cloth. Frontis. Cloth significantly tanned, with some additional hand soiling- internally very good. First edition. A substantial collection of English language poems, both American, British and in translation. With a 19th century Maine bookseller's ticket in corner of the front.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1875. xvi,[2],401,[1]pp. Small quarto (21 x 16cm). Contemporary full dark brown crushed morocco, gilt extra, a.e.g. A bit of rubbing to fore-tips and edges, else very good or better. A somewhat curious large-paper rendering of this anthology, with a pictorial title and sectional vignettes drawn by.....
Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1897. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth (by Amy Sacker), t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis. Later impression of the first edition, denoted the fourth thousand. Some darkening and light foxing to spine, extremities and gutter of frontis, short scrape at upper tip of lower board, else a good.....
Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1897. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth (by Amy Sacker), t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis. First edition, this being the special issue for Harvard, so denoted on the spine and in the design on the upper board. Spine darkened, cloth lightly soiled, else a very good, sound copy.....
![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&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.....
