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1846WRCAM37115Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1846. 94pp. including 5pp. of publisher's advertisements plus engraved frontispiece and titlepage after George Cruikshank. Dbd. 12mo. Small bookseller's stamp in lower margin of engraved titlepage. Foxed else very good. First American edition of the first part of the brilliant legal satire by Gilbert Abbott àBeckett after the first British edition of the same year. Beckett who here parodies the revered 18th-century jurist William Blackstone pursued careers as both a barrister and a comic writer - he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1841 the same year in which he helped found PUNCH as part of its original staff. THE COMIC BLACKSTONE was published in both its American and British editions in four parts between 1844 and 1846. The printed titlepage in the present copy refers to the work as whole without mention of the parts with 1846 as the publication date while the engraved titlepage states 1844. The publisher's advertisements are dated May 1845. Carey and Hart unknown books
185063340London: Bradbury Evans and Co. 11 Bouverie Street 1850. 22cm. xii 308pp. with numerous woodcuts within the text and ten colored etchings. Three quarter brown leather with marbled boards and edges. The spine labels with some lettering loss spine with raised bands decorative gilt work. Some light foxing to edges of plates a good copy. <br/><br/> Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 11, Bouverie Street hardcover books
185063341Bradbury Evans and Co. 11 Bouverie Street 1850. 2 volumes. 22cm. xviii 304 pp. two hundred woodcuts in text 20 colored etchings; xii 308pp. with numerous woodcuts within the text and ten colored engravings. Three quarter brown leather with marbled boards all edges gilt. Spine with raised bands gilt stamped title and author. Joints and corners rubbed else a very good set. Bookplate of F.L. Belin of Evermay. <br/><br/> Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 11, Bouverie Street hardcover books
183419536Boston: Russell Odiorne & Metcalf et al. 1834. First edition. Stitching evidently renewed at an early date; some wear and soiling light chipping and foxing; a good sound copy. Stitched pamphlet lacking wrappers 8.88 x 5.38 inches 80 pages. The notorious privateer and slave trader Pedro Gibert operating out of Colombia attacked the Salem brig Mexican off the coast of Florida in 1832 and set the American ship on fire. Captured off the coast of Africa by the Royal Navy in 1833 Gibert and his crew were brought to America for trial making him and two of his crew that last men to be hanged for piracy in the United States. It is interesting to note that one of the defense attorneys was David Lee Child 1794-18874 the abolitionist journalist and husband of Lydia Maria Child. Child had fought on the liberal side in Spain in 1823 as was fluent in Spanish which may have been the reason he was given the job of working with the Spanish-speaking prisoners--though the question of whether his liberal principles guided him to provide adequate counsel to defendants whose numb er included black sailors despite the fact that the Panda was a slave ship seems an open or at least under-explored question not addressed in any of the standard biographical sketches. This first edition of the Russell Odiorne and Metcalf edition of the trial did not include portraits; so-called second and third editions were published the same year had added plates. Sabin 69915. Traces of the original wrappers present. Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf [et al.], unknown books
1834002865Paris: Chez Silvestre 1834. First Limited Edition Thus. Full Calf with Blindstamping Gilt Decoration etc. Fine. Eight spectacular hand-colored and illuminated plates on vellum. No. 20 of a limited edition of 200 total and one of 15 copies on Hollande paper. 8vo. 22.5 by 15 cm 9 by 6 inches. lxiv 4 leaves 334 2 pp. Each of the plates is accompanied by a plain black and white lithographic version. The hand-colored versions easily pass for actual illuminated paintings and indeed the hand-colorist did not merely fill in color but also made some subtle changes to the illustration so that the hand-colored version does not match exactly the black and white one. The illumination on the vellum is of an uncommon precision and beauty so as to read as tantamount to manuscript and the work is unquestionably superior to what one would find in the better works of Henry Shaw who contemporaneously was producing important books on the topic of illuminated manuscripts. The "Roman de la Violette" is based on the same story as Shakespeare's "Cymbeline". The binding of this copy is an exquisite example of French blindstamped leather of the period with Greek-style ornament in the large centerpiece of the boards and a Gothic ornamental diaper impressed onto the spine which also has raised bands. The binding has a few dings and tiny pinprick losses and the joints have a slight goopiness of a earlier restoration but the binding still comes off as very handsome. The volume itself fits into a custom slipcase with leather fringe and a wide ribbon pull. This copy had once belonged to the Ermitage in St. Petersburg. <br/><br/> Chez Silvestre unknown books
