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18602512160020Columbus Ohio H. Miller 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. An important early history of American Slavery by an Abolitionist Writer Bound in publisher's black leather. Front board detached. Contemporary signature of Isaac Esbenshade. Toning spotting throughout. xvi 17-861 pages : frontispiece 1 illustration plates. Sabin 5800. Blake describes the history of slavery in antiquity and the British isles and focuses on American slavery Constitution the annexation of Texas the Compromise of 1850 the Missouri Compromise and Troubles in Kansas etc. Includes an infamous image of the "Decks of a slave ship" showing the human cargo lined in a hold. SOLD WITH ALL FAULTS. Columbus, Ohio, H. Miller hardcover
1816023285London: Printed for Henry Colburn 1816. Good condition. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Bound in contemporary marbled boards with leather spine and corners. Cover rubbed. Internally Very Good. Pages are clean and unmarked but for light scattered foxing. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. 1816. First Edition. This is one of the earliest books with biographical references to William Blake. According to G. E. Bentley in BLAKE BOOKS there are discussions of William Blake e.g. "an eccentric and very ingenious artist" under William Hayley W. Blake and William Blake the bibliography from the last of which is reprinted in Watt no. 533. Although the BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY was published anonymously Bentley reports that Watkins compiled A-K and from there on by Shoberl citing B. Corney "a persuasive witness" in NOTES & QUERIES XI 1855 34. Full title: "A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives and a Chronological Register of Their Publications With the Number of Editions Printed Including Notices of Some Foreign Writers Whose Works Have Been Occasionally Published in England Illustrated by a Variety of Communications from Persons of the First Eminence in the World of Letters." BLAKE BOOKS 2929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii 449pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Printed for Henry Colburn Hardcover
186918495Boston: J.E. Farwell & Co. 1869. 12pp. Stitched partly uncut. Light wear title and last page dustsoiled Good. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt or Decker. OCLC: WRes. Hist. Soc. J.E. Farwell & Co. unknown
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
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
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
1868108778Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 96 pp.A good copy in original cloth with a small amount of wear at spine ends and the paper label on spine darkened and with two small chips. Rear end paper slightly foxed and one or two spots on occasional pages but internally the book is a clean copy with just a touch of dusting to page edges. § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley BB 129. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.†Wikipedia Pickering hardcover books
183948716Published by J.W. Whetham 1839. 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. Published by J.W. Whetham unknown
18562351504New York: Derby & Jackson 1856. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First thus Sabin 5783. Boards soiled and a bit rubbed with corners slightly exposed spine leans backward binding a bit shaken 1 inch stain to top margin of frontispiece ink name on title page and rear endpaper minor smudges on a few pages. 1856 Hard Cover. 252 viii 9-252 pp. 8vo. Two books in one volume. Engraved frontispieces for both works engraved title page and cuts for 'Beauties'. Only 9 copies of 1856 printing - which was the first to include Beauties of American History - in OCLC. Includes biographical sketches of Daniel Boone Samuel Adams Abigail Adams General Robert E. Lee Martha Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette as well as accounts of famous battles the Boston Massacre etc. The author was a Congregational minister founded the Ladies' Magazine edited the Literary Advertiser and the Gospel Advocate served as headmaster of the Cornhill School for Young Ladies and was a member of the committee of Boston public schools and the American Antiquarian Society. He wrote numerous works of nonfiction most notably his General Biographical Dictionary. Derby & Jackson hardcover
18172124581817. Royal 8vo. Minor splits. Royal 8vo. "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
18681087781868. London: Pickering 1868. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo xiv 96 pp. A good copy in original cloth with a small amount of wear at spine ends and the paper label on spine darkened and with two small chips. Rear end paper slightly foxed and one or two spots on occasional pages but internally the book is a clean copy with just a touch of dusting to page edges. Small bookplate of John Johnson on front pastedown.<br /> <br /> § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley BB 129. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.<br /> <br /> Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Wikipedia. unknown
189912179Thomas Mosher. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Grn paper over boards with label front . plate; edges bumped cover slightly tones; handmade paper pages; some . woodblocks had images faded to opposite page; Pages are bright and clean; . No marks or writing clean tight binding;. 1899. Hardcover. Ltd edition to 450 copies; Blk Virgilian designed images and scences made by woodblock prints done for Dr Robert John Thornton's school edition of Virgil; . Thomas Mosher hardcover
184933941New York: Baker and Scribner 1849. First Edition. 388pp. Original 12mo cloth joints mended some chipping at top and bottom of spine. Howes B501. A history of the County from 1812 to 1856. Baker and Scribner hardcover books
1841446158New York : Robinson Pratt 1841. 10th edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in aniline-calf covered boards. Front cover detached; browning to the pages. Internally in rather good condition. Westborough Historical Society bookplate on inner boards. Physical description; 288 pages 17 cm. Subjects; Recitations. Literature schools. Didactic manuals. Orators United States. New York : Robinson, Pratt hardcover
1868100636Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 96 pages. Original brown cloth red printed paper backstrip label mostly worn away. Backstrip loosened. Fair to good copy. § First printing after the exceedingly rare edition of 1783 known in about 24 copies. Bentley Blake Books 129. “The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published.Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.†Wikipedia Pickering hardcover books
1808123894Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808110744Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808123895Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808123897Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1845WRCLIT82289Boston: T.H. Carter and Company 1845. viii951pp. 12mo 12 x 10 cm. Gilt cloth a.e.g spine gilt extra. Colored frontis. Decorations and plates. Some mild spotting to upper cover minor foxing spot of browning in upper margin of title; 19th century bookplate on pastedown and pencil gift inscriptions otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this annual assembled by Mrs. Colman and published with her husband under their subsidiary Boston imprint. Mrs. Colman an active Swedenborgian has come under recent academic scrutiny due to her early republishing of verse and adapted artworks by William Blake in her annuals and periodicals: "The Little Boy Lost" and "The Little Boy Found" in the case of this work. Oddly uncommon -- OCLC locates only 7 copies. BENTLEY & NURMI 223. Deck Raymond H. Jr: "An American Original ." BLAKE AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY XI:1 Summer 1977 pp. 4-18. OCLC: 40971715. T.H. Carter and Company hardcover books
18081107441808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image.<br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown
18081238951808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition.<br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown
18081238971808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition.<br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown
189027621New York 1890. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper has title printed in blue with vignette of a steam engine in background and the words "For Sale By Miller Chapman & Castle Butte Montana." Rear wrapper with an engraving of Blake's Vertical Marine Duplex Pump. 2 78pp with numerous additional pages i.e. 15A-15D 73A-73B etc. Profusely illustrated with the Company's products. Some wrapper spotting and text margin spotting else Very Good.<br /> <br /> A classy showcasing of this Company's steam machinery with dozens of engravings. It is dated 'January 1 1890' on page 1. OCLC records several versions of this Catalogue all of them scarce one with a San Francisco merchant's name on the front wrapper.<br /> Romaine 193 reference. unknown
189027621New York 1890. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper has title printed in blue with vignette of a steam engine in background and the words "For Sale By Miller Chapman & Castle Butte Montana." Rear wrapper with an engraving of Blake's Vertical Marine Duplex Pump. 2 78pp with numerous additional pages i.e. 15A-15D 73A-73B etc. Profusely illustrated with the Company's products. Some wrapper spotting and text margin spotting else Very Good.<br/><br/> A classy showcasing of this Company's steam machinery with dozens of engravings. It is dated 'January 1 1890' on page 1. OCLC records several versions of this Catalogue all of them scarce one with a San Francisco merchant's name on the front wrapper.<br/>Romaine 193 reference. unknown books
