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1876WRCLIT42426Cambridge MA: Printed by Welch Bigelow & Co. 1876. 8pp. Large octavo. Printed self-wrappers. A bit tanned at edges a few creases otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this poem by the British radical poet/engraver dedicated to Bryant and the "Members of 'The Century' in acknowledgement of hospitality and many courtesies received by an English Member." Not in NCBEL. Printed by Welch, Bigelow & Co. unknown books
1879WRCLIT68645New Haven: Published by the Author 1879. 8pp. Printed self-wrappers. Soft vertical crease otherwise very good. First separate edition of Linton's responses to George Howells and James Knowles in defense of associates of Mazzini specifically General Cluseret. Not in NCBEL. Published by the Author unknown books
188327176New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1883. contemporary half calf and marbled boards. A few light scuffs to the bindings; but still an attractive set nicely bound. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons, hardcover
1891001868London: Lawrence and Bullen 1891. First Limited Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. No. 67 of 330 limitation. Tall 8vo. 100 pp. Feline heroic verse with a nod perhaps to Joel Chandler Harris and Uncle Remus tales and surely a worthy precursor of T. S. Eliot's "Old Possums' Book of Practical Cats". Part of the fun comes from footnotes informative and yet part of the joke. Clean and tight copy within. Soiling to the white cloth/buckram binding. Lawrence and Bullen unknown
1891001868London: Lawrence and Bullen 1891. First Limited Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. No. 67 of 330 limitation. Tall 8vo. 100 pp. Feline heroic verse with a nod perhaps to Joel Chandler Harris and Uncle Remus tales and surely a worthy precursor of T. S. Eliot's "Old Possums' Book of Practical Cats". Part of the fun comes from footnotes informative and yet part of the joke. Clean and tight copy within. Soiling to the white cloth/buckram binding. <br/><br/> Lawrence and Bullen hardcover books
187837523J. Garnett Windermere 1878. 2nd edition. V.g./No jacket. Publisher's cloth gilt lettering and decoration Two previous owners' discreet signatures. One of the many popular works arising from the Victorian Fern Craze. The author lived at Brantwood later the home of John Ruskin. J. Garnett, Windermere hardcover
1889WRCLIT42663London: John C. Nimmo 1889. Large octavo. Publisher's quarter calf and boards t.e.g. Portrait. Bookplate and shadow of another on front pastedown spine a bit rubbed at extremities boards toned and with a few smudges still a much better copy than the norm. First edition. One of 780 numbered copies printed on handmade paper for distribution in the UK and US. The last substantial UK edition of the radical poet/engraver's works published in the UK during his lifetime. NCBEL III:533. John C. Nimmo hardcover books
1883137630N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Titles TRANSLATION-LYRICSOF THE XIX CENTURY-BALLADS AND ROMANCES. Three volumessolid and clean.Previous owner's name on front endpaper of each volume. <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
185516046Society for the Diffusion Of Spiritual Knowledge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1855. Second Edition. Hardcover. Brown embossed cloth covered boards with gilt spinal titles. Head and foot of spine show splits several small bookworm holes and a 1/2 by 1/4 inch piece of cloth missing at head. None affecting titles. Boards present sunning and discoloration bumped corners. Pages are tanning and show moderate foxing. The block is firmly attached to the boards and the whole is unmarked save a contemporary to publication gift inscription and owner's stamp on ffep. . Society for the Diffusion Of Spiritual Knowledge hardcover
188237528Boston: Estes & Lauriat. Good with no dust jacket. 1882. Hardcover. Small folio. Quarter leather/gilt TEG. Limited edition #275 of 1000 signed by Linton. Spine dried and flaking/splitting covers rubbed outer hinges cracked. Contents near fine or better. Includes black pages at rear for mounting additional plates. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Signed by Author . Estes & Lauriat hardcover
1892110792Appledore U.S. Press 1892. Limited ed. Hardcover. Poor. One of 25 copies only this copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "Presented to the Century Club by W.J. Linton/ 1892" . Cloth lettered in gilt. 100 pp. Small black and white decorations in the text. A binding copy only lacking the spine strip and with the text block loosened. Sold as is. "Catoninetales" originally published in England in 1877 as an illustrated pamphlet in nursery-rhyme form directed against racist tendencies of American Reconstruction. <br/><br/> Appledore U.S. Press hardcover
1876WRCLIT42424Washington: In Our Centennial Year 1876. 24pp. Sewn printed self-wrappers. Slightly dusty otherwise very good or better. First edition of this extended exercise in political verse satire by the British radical poet/engraver by then resident in the U.S. for almost a decade. NCBEL III:533. In Our Centennial Year unknown books
188748146Nyc: Worthington 1887. Hardback. Good Condition. Worthington Hardcover
186450323London: Smith Elder & Co. 1864. Boards have some moderate to heavy wear binding weak and becomming detached rubbed/bumped with cracking to gutters and overall heavy wear. Period ink inscrip to flyleaf PP sound. CE gilt. . Collated. Cloth Boards. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo. Smith, Elder & Co. Hardcover
1860161867. 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. LINTON W.J. Thirty Pictures of Deceased British Artists engraved expressly for The Art-Union of London by W.J. Linton. Letterpress title-page and 30 engraved plates numbered I-XXX with guard sheets. Bright original dark green gilt lettered cloth portfolio with all four linen ties intact minor wear to head and tail. Slight marginal wear to several plates and to a few of the guard sheets but generally in very good clean condition. 4to 320mm x 250mm. 1860. ~ "These exhibit the engraver at his prime and nothing could possibly be finer than the exquisite rendering of this series which includes characteristic examples of Sir T. Lawrence Constable Gainsborough Sir J. Reynolds Wilkie Blake Bonington Hogarth Morland Turner and other masters of the English School of Painters. Three of them are drawn as well as engraved by Mr. Linton namely Death's Door after Blake afterwards printed as the frontispiece to Jackson and Chatto's History of Wood-Engraving Nature after Lawrence and Niobe after Richard Wilson." Ref: Kitton Fred G. "William James Linton Engraver Poet and Political Writer." The English Illustrated Magazine. 8 April 1891. <br/> <br/> . hardcover
1864463001London : Smith Elder and Co 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in contemporary gilt-decorated blue buckram boards now somewhat dust-dulled overall. Corners bumped; joints and endbands somewhat worn and with minor tearing at head and tail. All edges gilt. Front hinge cracked with mull and cloth joints holding quite secure. Some reader annotations and a sketch to p. 225. The interior remains otherwise notably tight bright and clean throughout. Some final leaves have a minor crease to the lower corner. A well-preserved copy overall. Physical description; xxxix 1 350 2 pages 6 leaves of plates : illustrations map ; 25 cm. Notes; With a map and one hundred wood-engraved illustrations drawn and engraved by W. J. Linton 1812-1897. Map printed on double leaf; signed: Drawn & engraved by J. Bartholomew. Contents: Appendices: I. Provincialisms of the Lake district — II. Botany — III. Geology — IV. Table of mountains lakes and waterfalls — V. Rainfall. Subjects; Lake District England Description and travel 19th century. Lake District England Social life and customs 19th century. Lake District England History. Cumbria England Description and travel. Cumberland England Description and travel. Westmorland England Description and travel. Natural history England Lake District. Geology England Lake District. Botany England Lake District. English language Dialects England Lake District. Wood-engraving English 19th century Specimens. London : Smith, Elder and Co hardcover
18872601300003George Routledge & Sons 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Illustrated 19th century children's books Bound in publisher's vivid color pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Shelf wear fray to extremities. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. 56 pages. Scattered staining soiling. 19 x 20 cm. See the Smithsonian Library catalog. Spencer I. Walter Crane p. 203. BM v. 2 col. 314. Osborne Coll. v. 1 p. 2 George Routledge & Sons hardcover
18975587Boston: Lamson Wolfee and Company 1897. Hard Cover. Good binding. Octavo. viii 330 pp. First edition. Bound as issued in red checkered cloth with title stamped in silver; a reasonably nice copy with some light soiling and wear; contents are shaken; front endpaper is toned from what may have been a newspaper clipping; contemporary owner name on the front free endpaper and then again on the first page of the book. are toned. Lamson, Wolfee and Company unknown
186477808London: Smith Elder and Co. 1864. Rebound with new boards and endpapers. Pages clean and bright light spotting on endpapers boards slightly cocked but binding firm shelf wear to boards. Hard. Very Good. Illus. by Linton W. J. 4to. Smith, Elder and Co. Hardcover
189146355London: Lawrence and Bullen 169 New Bond Street W. 1891. Limited Edition of 35 printed on Japanese Vellum of which this is 16. Tan half-calf with marbled boards. TEG. Marbled eps. Modest wear to binding front joint a bit rubbed. 19th C bookplate R. D. Jackson to front paste-down. A VG - VG copy. 4 blank i-xiii 1-3 4-100 4 blank pp. Small vignettes throughout done by J. W. Linton. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>The author is described as "A young lady of colour lately deceased at the age of 14". Lawrence and Bullen, 169 New Bond Street, W. hardcover books
1895WRCLIT43620Hamden CT: The Appledore Press 1895. 8pp. 12mo. Unprinted stiff wrappers. Near fine. First separate edition of this poem on Darwinian issues printed by Linton at his handpress in an unspecified but small edition. Not in Ransom or NCBEL. The Appledore Press unknown books
1866WRCLIT66779Brantwood Coniston Lancs 1866. Printed broadside or galley-slip 44.3 x 14.4cm. Folded in half some nicks and creases at edges a few foxmarks but very good. An interesting item being a printing of Linton's 17 July petition as presented to the House of Commons by John Stuart Mill on 22 July. The galley-slip like format suggests the possibility that this is some form of proof for publication in another format. unknown books
1875WRCLIT42415New York: S.W. Green Printer 1875. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly dusty else near fine. First edition of this collection of eleven parodies of some of Poe's better known poems composed and published nine years after Linton left the UK to settle in Connecticut as overseer of his Appledore Farm printing and crafts shop. The copyright is taken in the name of 'Abel Reid' one of Linton's regular pseudonyms. NCBEL III:533. S.W. Green, Printer unknown books
1869WRCLIT59525Boston: Reprinted from THE RADICAL for 1869. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit foxed old soft crease lower wrapper neatly detached else a good copy. First separate edition with three small corrections likely in Linton's hand. NCBEL III:533. Reprinted from THE RADICAL for unknown books
1895WRCLIT56772Hamden CT: The Appledore Private Press 1895. 8pp. 12mo. Unprinted stiff wrappers. Trace of foxing else near fine. First separate edition of this poem printed by Linton at his handpress in an unspecified but small number of copies. Not in Ransom. NCBEL III:533. The Appledore Private Press unknown books
