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186819454Providence: George H. Whitney 1868. First edition. Cloth a little worn with a small split near the foot of the front joint; hinges just a little loosed from the inserted material but overall a very good copy. . 8vo original green cloth gilt lettering 297 pages. A unique augmented copy of this detailed local theatre history with the pencil ownership signature of Samuel W. Brown--presumably Providence worthy Samuel Welch Brown 1824-1907--and the semi-legible pencil signature of perhaps his son Arthur Brown; this copy includes a CDV portrait mounted to the verso of the front blank and annotated in the margin in pencil as Charles Blake; also with a folded printed column similar to a galley proof mounted to the rear endpaper and headed "Charles Blake" with the pencil annotation at the head "Written in imitation of the obituary notices by E. H. Hazard in the Journal by Mr. Blake himself" as well as two tipped-in playbills--one a large approx. 17 x 6.25 inch playbill advertising a performance of Howard and the Foxes among other attractions at Cleveland Hall and with an imprint for Greene Granite Building; and smaller 6.75 x 4.75 inch handbill advertising the "the Young and Beautiful American Actress!" Alice Placid Mann appearing in 1862 at the Providence Theatre on Pine at Dorrance. Also includes a marginal pencil note to one page alluding to the performance style of one actor a mounted clipping from 1880 relating to the Dorrance Street Theatre and some promiscuous inserted 20th century newspaper clippings. Sabin 5764. George H. Whitney, unknown books
186918495Boston: J.E. Farwell & Co. 1869. 12pp. Stitched partly uncut. Light wear title and last page dustsoiled Good. Blake seeks subscribers for $2000000 of the capital stock of his new Company which intends to purchase "a line of American Steamships between Boston and Liverpool." $1.5 million will be used for purchasing the steamers and the other half million for this and that. He anticipates profitable traffic in passengers and freight. He includes a Form of Subscription estimates of profit and other useful material including a description of the steamer Ontario which "is already fully ship-rigged." OCLC records many many microform copies but only one of the real thing. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt or Decker. OCLC 47720650 1- WRes. Hist. Soc. J.E. Farwell & Co. unknown books
1868134590Providence: George H. Whitney 1868. Limited to 200 copies unnumbered. Hardcover. Reading copy. Ex-library covers and spine separated but present. Pages loose up to 19 and last endpapers rest held by binding edges fragile and chipping up to p. 43 minor elsewhere. Teal library portolio and slipcase Green cloth boards embossed border gold title on spine. 297 pp. A history of the theatre in Providence Rhode Island from 1745 to 1860. George H. Whitney hardcover books
1874153520New York: Harper 1874. First Edition. hardcover. very good. Large folding map laid in; many illustrations. 486pp. 6pp. of ads. 8vo original decorative blue cloth; spine ends repaired previous owner's notations on first blank page. New York: Harper 1874. Very good.<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
189829284London 1898. unknown books
1812WRCAM44679Worcester: Isaac Sturtevant 1812. 36pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Contemporary gift inscription on the titlepage. Some foxing tanning and staining. Good. Fourth of July oration given just a few weeks after the outbreak of the War of 1812 often called the "second war of American independence." Blake makes the expected comparisons between the past conflict and the one that was then unfolding. SABIN 5767. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 24887. Isaac Sturtevant hardcover books
1884680Worcester Mass.: Franklin P. Rice 1884. 8vo. 2 33 1 blank pp. <br><br>Issued in cojunction with the city's bicentennial celebration. Original printed wrappers. Franklin P. Rice unknown books
18124130Worcester M.A.: Pr. by Isaac Sturtevant 1812. 8vo. 34 pp. <br><br>Published at the request of a numerous assembly of citizens from various parts of the county and the members of the Washington Benevolent Society who joined in the celebration" as stated on the title-page. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 5767; Shaw & Shoemaker 24887. Removed from a nonce volume. Front page and final two pages soiled. Five-digit number rubber stamped on title-page. Upper half of final leaf torn away. One long tear without loss of text to penultimate leaf. Pr. by Isaac Sturtevant unknown books
1839487161839. BLAKE J.L. LETTERS TO AN ONLY DAUGHTER ON CONFIRMATION: BEING A MANUAL FOR THE YOUTH OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Philadelphia: Published by J.W. Whetham 1839. 16mo. original brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. A series of letters and essays on the importance and aspects of Christian confirmation. Signed presentation from Blake in pencil on the front endpaper to Bishop Jackson Kemper a famous American frontier missionery: "Bishop Kemper with the respects of The Author." With Kemper's ink signature on the front pastedown. Kemper was the Bishop of Wisconsin and was the founder of Nashotah House and Racine College. He promoted outreach to the Indians and urged translations of Scripture and services into Native American languages. Good gilt bright but spine & edges rubbed little cracking spine & one signature slightly pulled modern bookplate of Lloyd dudley Rapp on the front pastedown. Scarce!! $250.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1830WRCAM26386Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster 1830. 372pp. plus five color plates of flowers of six lacking the frontispiece and four uncolored plates. Contemporary calf black morocco label gilt. Worn along hinges at spine ends and extremities. Light foxing light dampstain in upper portion of first one hundred pages and lower portion of final few pages. Good only. Designed for educational purposes this beginner's guide to botany is actually written in the form of a conversation between "Mrs. B." and various young ladies. The Rev. J.L. Blake who was a prolific generator of school texts adapted the book "to the use of schools." The actual author Jane Marcet is identified on the titlepage only as the author of CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. McGRATH p.206. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 2390. Published by Crocker & Brewster unknown books
185244806Auburn NY: Derby Miller 1852. First Edition. 8vo pp. xii 13-654. Index. Original blind-stamped black leather with gilt spine decorations and titles. Marbled endpapers and edges. Frontis engraving and several other illustrations. Hinges tender cover scuffed and worn at edges and spine occasional lilght foxing and notes o/w VG. Advice to farmers and their wives on a multitude of subjects. Pages bordered with "twelve hundred laconics and apothegms relating to ethics relligion and general literature. Derby, Miller unknown books
1824212463Warwick 1824. VG. unknown books
18172124581817. Royal 8vo. Minor splits. Royal 8vo. AGE 11 ON EDUCATION. "Education will be very useful to us in all our business through life-and if we have not an education we shall feel very unhappy." My sentiments exactly. unknown books
18731282004Boston: Noyes Holmes and Company 1873. 12mo; G-/no-DJ; Light brown spine with gold text; Boards have shelf wear such as rubbing on exterior panels & along spine moderate fraying at edges also spine is sunned however still intact; Text block has age toning on exterior edges ffep is cracking from spine at front hinge first & last few pages have slight foxing with tight binding; pp 240. 1282004. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Noyes, Holmes, and Company unknown books
186255195Providence: A. Crawford Greene steam book and job printer 1862. First edition 8vo pp. 38 2; self-wrappers stitched as issued; very good. Blake 1809-1879 is buried in Bristol R.I. Not in Bartlett. Sabin 5786. <br/><br/> A. Crawford Greene, steam book and job printer unknown books
188313878Bsn: Lee and Shepard 1883. 5th edn. 12mo pp. 235. Hinges tender cover sl. spoiled. A good copy. Blake the author of Poems and Rambling Talks travels from Boston to Chicago to the West the Grand Canyon California and back East. Lee and Shepard unknown books
187922609London: Chapman and Hall 1879. First Edition. 8vo pp. 264. 32. Bound in publisher's cloth spine tender a very good copy. A discussion of the history and ceremonies of masonry. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1847000174Harper & Brothers 1847. Hardcover. Good. A fascinating little book covering many subjects including 'Structure of the Earth' 'Use of Animals and Vegetables' 'Use of the Ocean' etc. Condition: Good - engraved frontis original red boards and 1/4 leather spine gilt title; bookplate and a stamp from Kingston Library no library pockets or stickers spine somewhat worn and faded small piece missing off head of spine; scattered foxing. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1842022317Boston: Gould Kendall Ad Lincoln 1842. Octavo. 12pp. publisher's ads at front frontispiece viii 910-276pp. 27 full page illustrations at rear. Improved by appropriate questions for the examination of scholars; also by illustrative notes and a dictionary of philosophical terms. This work is for the student and this edition has been introduced into the female department of the publicksic schools in Boston. A very good copy bound in full calf flat spine ruled in gilt black morocco spine label gilt previous owner's name on front endpapers dated 1845 and name stamped on covers some off-setting to title page some occasional toning to leaves but mostly clean. Gould, Kendall Ad Lincoln unknown books
185347858Boston: Pblished for the Association by Sewall Harding 1853. 1st edition Sabin 5787. Original publisher's deep purple cloth binding with boards stamped in blind & gitl stamped spine lettering. Pale yellow eps. Spine sunned. Usual smattering of foxing & age-toning. Prior owner signatures to ffep. Very Good. vi 7 - 348 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> Pblished for the Association by Sewall Harding hardcover books
18971307998New London: Press of the Day Publishing Company 1897. Hardcover. Octavo; G/no-DJ; pp 327; sun faded green spine with gilt lettering; cloth has moderate staining to front boards slight wear to edges; text block shows age toning to edges some staining to first and last few pages loose ffep but still present; interior clean. 1307998. Full-priced Rockville. Press of the Day Publishing Company hardcover books
182665634ìBlakeÃs Most Widely Known Achievementî BLAKE William. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & engraved by William Blake 1825. London: Published by the Author and Mr. J. Linnell 1874. One of 100 sets printed on india paper. Folio sheets: 20 x 14 inches; 510 x 350 mm. engravings 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 209 x 158 mm. Line-engraved title and twenty-one line- and stipple-engraved plates by and after Blake. Also with an additional letterpress title-page not issued with the book. Printed from the original plates. Evidence of the word proof on the lower edge of engravings number 5 7 8 10 11 12 14 18 and 20. Bound in quarter reverse calf over black cloth. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. With black and red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners a bit bumped and cloth lightly scuffed. Sheets mounted on stubs. A bit of very light foxing to some of the sheets generally not affecting engravings mainly title-page sheet and sheet of plate 20. Plate 14 with the mounting sheet trimmed at top margin about 1.5 inches not affecting plate. A fine strikingly clean copy of ìBlakeÃs most widely known achievementî Keynes. The engravings were commissioned by John Linnell on March 25 1823. Despite the date 1825 on the engravings the plates were not actually issued until March 1826. The entire edition consisted of 315 sets: 150 ìProofî sets on India paper and sixty-five on French paper were printed in March 1826 at which time the word ìProofî was removed from the plates and 100 sets were printed on drawing paper see Bentley. BlakeÃs original copperplates remained in the possession of the Linnell family and as late as 1863 Linnell was offering for sale sets of the India-paper and French-paper issues. By 1874 these must have been sold as a further 100 sets of the engravings were printed at that time the present copy is from this set. No more pulls were taken between 1874 and 1919 when the copperplates were given by Herbert Linnell to the British Museum. Linnell's son wrote "My father considered the plates at the last 1874 were as good as they ever were for the work being cut by a graver and not etched it is durable- and is not worn by the printing as is the case with an etching." Bentley Books p. 523. Bentley 421A. Binyon 105-126. Russell 33. HBS 65634. $32500 William Blake hardcover books
1886302951London: Kegan Paul Trench and Co 1886. Folding facsimile of the Blake broadside by William Muir. With explanatory note by Herbert Gilchrist at pp. 159-60. 1 vols. 4to. Blake plate folded fine. Volume bound in contmporary quarter brown morocco and cloth marbled endsheets t.e.g. Minor rubbing to joints. Very good. Folding facsimile of the Blake broadside by William Muir. With explanatory note by Herbert Gilchrist at pp. 159-60. 1 vols. 4to. First volume of the Hobby Horse publication of the influential Century Guild. Notable for the fine facsimile of the rare Blake broadside Little Tom the Sailor. The ballad is by William Hayley and in the autumn of 1800 Blake engraved the two images on pewter. The broadside was "Printed for & Sold by the Widow Spicer of Folkstone for the benefit of her orphans". The facsimile is uncredited but is by William Muir. Bentley 407b Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co unknown books
18861092194to. Edmonton: William Muir 1886. 4to 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text 24 On Homer’s Poetry 25 blank. Original wrappers upper wrapper titled in manuscript lower wrapper blank stitched as issued. Bookplate of Templeton Crocker. § Copy #50 of 50 copies numbered and signed by Muir. Includes “All Religions are One†and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5 as in other copies and also the separate plate “On Homer’s Poetry†not found in the other copies above but present in copy #40 for sale at James Cummins. Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Note: There is No Natural Religion copy M also printed in brown but it seems unlikely that this was "Mr. Burt's copy" since copy M was in the Tulk family collection until 1956.†BB#249g. Bentley Blake Books 249 G. The Templeton Crocker/Herbert M. Evans copy with the Crocker bookplate at the front and Howell’s note “HME†at the back priced $100. William Muir unknown books
1885303018London 1885. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Full green levant wrappers bound in. Spine toned. Fine. No. 38 of 50 copies. William Muir facsimile based on copy D. 8 leaves. 1 vols. 4to. Muir Facsimile. Bentley 249b unknown books
