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18760007623Boston: James R. Osgood And Company 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Duodecimo green cloth brown coated endpapers bevelled edges tips os pine frayed some spots on lower edge of top cover. <br/><br/>The original titles was expected to be "Poetry and Criticism". BAL 5272 says probably the first printed sheets have the signature mark "N" on page 209 as in this copy. Myerson A34.1.a. James R. Osgood And Company hardcover
18610005875New York: H. W. Derby 1861. New edition. Hardcover. Good . 12mo 552pp. half leather raised bands marbled boards roughened at head of spine <br/><br/>Wight became and expert on Pascal. In the meantime he was already a Universalist minister. Later he became a physician then State Geologist and Surgeon General of Wisconsin and later the Health Commissioner of Milwaukee and Detroit. H. W. Derby hardcover
1807DEMO004447IPhiladelphia: Smith & Maxwell 1807. Hardcover. Fair/See note. 12mo 117 pages uncut considerable worming to spine inscription on pastedown front hinge broken. <br/><br/>This was the first work published by Steele in which he displayed his missionary zeal and reforming spirit which later evolved into his publications with Joseph Addison with whom he is inextricably linked. This duodecimo is in original boards and cloth wrapped by what may be a contemporary "dust jacket". Note: the evidence of the worming suggests that the paper jacket is of lengthy duration. Smith & Maxwell hardcover
1898DEMO004841INo place: Printed for Private Circulation 1898. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto full parchment gilt soiled bookplate embossment on title-page rear pocket unused. <br/><br/>Only 200 copies: 10 on vellum 190 on Whatman hand-made paper this is copy no. 171. Contains five of Franklin's facetious letters including one to Dr. Priestley one to the Royal Academy of Brussels and the infamous "Advising a Young Man as to the Selection of a Mistress." N.B. The original ms. of this once belonged to Charles F. Gunther of Chicago. This edition is not cited by the introduction to this letter in vol. 3 of THE PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. However the final two letters may be even saucier as indicated by the fact that they appear here in their original French tongue without benefit of translation. Scarce. Printed for Private Circulation hardcover
1812DEMO016656ILondon: J. Carpenter J. Booker 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 69 woodcuts. 16mo modern speckled calf extra gilt by Bayntun a.e.g. some closed splits in the leather on the covers. <br/><br/>Classic and handsome treatment of Gay's first collection and his posthumous collection of fables. "Printed at The Chiswick Press by Mr. Whittingham whose taste and skill in fine typography have conspired to enter his name pre-eminent in the literary annals of the country. . the typographical connoisseur sees much to delight his eye and to gratify his mind. He perceives the most careful display and arrangement of type; the most pleasing tone of ink on every page; and the woodcuts brought out in all their brightness clearness and richness of colour -"The Gentleman's Magazine." The first fable in part 2 "The Dog and the Fox" is dedicated to a lawyer. "I know you Lawyers can with ease / Twist words and meanings as you please;". 69 woodcuts. J. Carpenter, J. Booker hardcover
1858000378Boston: Little Brown and Company 1858. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition in book form. 8vo. pp. 79 1. Bound in a well preserved green blind stamped publisher's cloth. The front cover contains an area of fading or discoloration. A mild water stain line is visible on front end papers; pages are generally clean but lightly age-toned. George Lunt 1803-1885 was the U.S. district attorney for Massachusetts during President Zachary Taylor's administration. In 1857 he became editor of the conservative "Boston Courier." DAB. Lunt's book collects four anti-liberal essays which were originally published in the "Courier." Among them are the following - a diatribe against reformer Theodore Parker a refutation of a lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson a refutation of a pro-suffrage lecture given by Georg W. Curtis and an article entitled the "Philosophy of Abolition." PROVENANCE: Inscribed by Rev. Luther Farnham to Rev. Thomas Smyth on front blank page. A three page letter written by Farnham dated "Boston Feb. 2 1858" is also attached to the verso of the front free end paper. The letter is addressed to "Rev'd dear Sir" presumably Smyth. Rev. Luther Farnham 1816-1897 authored a booklet survey entitled "A Glance at Private Libraries" 1855 "the first study of its kind to be done in the United States." See Basbanes "A Gentle Madness" p.155-56. Farnham was also Secretary of the Southern Aid Society a missionary organization which preached the Gospel to poor whites and blacks down south. The letter concerns Farnham's intent to write a series of articles on the history agriculture religion and education of the southern states in the hopes of promoting better feelings between north and south. Rev. Thomas Smyth was presumably the well known Presbyterian theologian who lived in Charlestown South Carolina. He is mentioned in Farnham's library survey as possessing about 17000 books. for G. Lunt see Sabin 67423. <br/> <br/> Little, Brown, and Company hardcover