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AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
A
PITTSBURGH Woman's Poetry
Wade, A. Annie Rogers. The poetical works of A. Annie Wade. Allegheny, PA: [Privately printed], 1895. 8vo. Frontis., 227 pp.
Click the images for enlargement. We locate only five libraries (three in Pittsbugh) reporting ownership of the work.
Provenance: Inscribed to Mrs. John R. McCune by the writer of the volume's biographical sketch of the author, “Frank H. Wade, M.D.,” and his wife.
• Publisher's white cloth elaborately stamped in gold, all edges gilt; binding and text both remarkably clean and fresh. (29567)
Only the Second Known Copy?Waterville College. Bell-a! Horrid-a bell-a! Inaugural ceremonies at the coronation of John Tupper Champlin. [Maine?]: No publisher/printer, 1853. 8vo (23 cm; 9") 4 pp.
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The caption title reads: “Smith, with a copy of the 'Fugitive Slave Law,' eagerly inquiring the way to Canada.” The text printed within a wavy border.
WorldCat locates only the copy at the Library Company of Philadelphia, this being its deaccessioned duplicate.
• Old folds, dust-soiled, other stains. Evidence of old stitching. A decent copy of a rarity. (38404)
“To Write or Speak the Epilogue after Any Great & Grand Drama Is 
by No Means an Easy Task”Whewell, William; Henry T. De la Beche; & Others. Lectures on the results of the Exhibition, delivered before the Society of Arts, Manufacturers, and Commerce, at the suggestion of H.R.H. Prince Albert, president of the society. Philadelphia: Reprinted by A. Hart, late Cary & Hart (Printed by T.K. & P.G. Collins), 1852. 12mo (17.9 cm; 7"). [2], 463 pp.
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the Great Exhibition of 1851 on different industries written by experts in the field, including mining, agriculture, education, engineering, and more.
• Publisher's red textured cloth with title and ALL authors' names gilt-lettered on spine; covers double-ruled in blind, gilt circlet surrounding title on front cover, yellow endpapers with printed publisher's advertisements; binding gently rubbed and lightly soiled, spine pulled at top with loss of cloth and text moderately cocked. Marked as above, interior clean. (36185)
Tried & Approved, for “Those Plucky Housewives Who Master Their WorkInstead of Allowing It to Master Them”Wilcox, Estelle Woods, ed. Buckeye cookery, with hints on practical housekeeping. Minneapolis: Buckeye Publishing Co., 1881. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.07"). 536 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.a revised and enlarged edition.
• Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, p. 207. Publisher's dark green cloth; spine and extremities with light rubbing, covers with paper adhesions from old shelf neighbors, hinges (inside) slightly tender and showing small spots of insect damage. Stationer's stamp as above and early purchase notation on front free endpaper; several clipped printed recipes (including “Tomato Soy” and cucumber preserves) laid in. Pages evenly age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining; a few with mild offsetting from clippings. A copy that has seen (appreciative) kitchen usage, still in better condition than often encountered, with
sewing holding and pages secure. (41352)
The Unlucky Man, the Christmas Sing, & the Friend of CatsWilkins, Mary. The people of our neighborhood. Philadelphia: Curtis Pub. Co.; New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., (1898). 32mo (15.2 cm; 6"). viii, 161, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Alice Barber Stephens, an American painter and engraver whose work appeared in Harper's and the Ladies' Home Journal, provides the illustrations, being13 plates throughout the text and a frontispiece (with tissue guard) of Wilkins.
Vol. III of the Ladies' Home Journal Library of Fiction.
Provenance: On front free endpaper, the signature of Katherine Phinprose(?).
• Wright, III, 2038. Publisher's textured green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board; lighter green-stamped decoration to front board and spine; fore-edge of pages untrimmed. Extremities rubbed. Small tear of paper on front pastedown; gutter crack at series list and p. 114. A nice little volume combining the work of two prominent women. (37815)
H.D., Hemingway, Stein, Marianne Moore, & So Many Others Were His FRIENDS Williams, William Carlos. The autobiography of William Carlos Williams. New York: Random House, © 1951. 8vo (21.5 cm; 8.5"). xiv, 402 pp.
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Deluxe Comedic Production, Deluxe Binding Wills, William Henry, ed. Poets' wit and humour. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1861. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). [8], 278, [1] pp.; illus.
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one
hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George
H. Thomas.” The work was edited by a friend and collaborator of Charles
Dickens; from Chaucer to Swift to “Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes,”
Wills's comic selections are delightfully entertaining, and their wood-engraved
illustrations equally amusing.
The
embossing plaque is signed with the designer's initials: “R.D.”
— Robert Dudley. This is an English publisher's binding,
most likely done using the English sheets with an Appleton title-page.
This work is rarely found in the deluxe binding: The handsomely gilt-stamped publisher's cloth is the norm.
• NSTC 2W24418; Allibone 2762. For binding, see: Morris
& Levin, Art of Publisher's Bookbindings, 44. Binding as above,
showing minor wear to extremities and front cover vignette, original silk
bookmark detached and laid in. Volume slightly shaken with text block starting
to pull away from spine; this is the kind of volume that wants to do that,
and the reader will want to “cradle” it in hand — that done,
no worries. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled gift inscription and with
a Maine druggist's small ticket. Mild to moderate foxing. Both
funny and decorative, in a publisher's binding that may fairly be called “DAZZLING.”
(26748)
Tales of Doctors, Patients, & Medical Escapades[Winslow, Forbes Benignus]. Physic and physicians: A medical sketch book, exhibiting the public and private life of the most celebrated medical men, of former days; with memoirs of eminent living London physicians and surgeons. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, & Co. (pr. by Thoms), 1839. 8vo (20.9 cm, 8.25"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., xiv, 360 pp. II: Frontis., [2], ii, 393, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. as issued. The author (1810–74) was a respected psychiatrist considered an authorityon lunacy — and the father of Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow, also a psychiatrist, notorious for his involvement with the Jack the Ripper case.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with scallop-shell “pilgrim badge” bookplate of eminent psychiatrist Charles W. Pilgrim (1855–1934). Later in the collection of Robert Sadoff, M.D., forensic psychiatrist and director of Penn's Center for Studies in Social-Legal Psychiatry, sans indicia.
• Bindings as above, spines sunned to brown and sage green; a very little rubbed and scuffed and both quite strong. Frontispieces separated, with chips and tears but no lost paper within images and each leaf with one repair from rear; vol. II title-page separated and each title-page with author's name added neatly (ink in vol. I, pencil in vol. II). Occasional spots of foxing. A beautifully bound, safely enjoyable set with pleasingly apropos provenance. (41681)
Behold Engraved Wonders *&* a BRIGHT BINDING Wright, Caleb, ed. The pictorial scrap book: A pleasant and profitable companion for leisure hours. Northampton, M[as]S.: Pub. by Caleb Wright (stereotyped by John D. Flagg, Andover), [1846?]. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.37"). Frontis., 415, [1] pp.; illus., ports.
Click the images for enlargements.almost 200 engraved illustrations with accompanying text descriptions: people, places, natural wonders, and inventions from around the world, including a Venetian palace, the Mississippi River, the Golden Island of China, a Newfoundland dog, Barnum's Oriental Villa, a hot-air balloon ascension, the Philadelphia waterworks, Harvard College, Queen Elizabeth, yellow ants, the London Stock Exchange, Ojibwa Indians, the mosque at Salonica, Jenny Lind, the Hotel de Cluny, an East Indian dancing girl, etc.
The title-page notes that this is a stereotype edition; it appears to bethe sole appearance of this work, with no other printing reported by WorldCat — although different publication dates have been assigned, the earliest possible being 1846 based on the presence of the Victoria Fountain (built in that year) and the last date mentioned in the text being 1845.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth in imitation of morocco (Krupp Lea3, var. 1), both covers elaborately gilt-stamped with floral and foliate designs around a central urn-shaped motif in a bower with angels; spine with gilt-stamped palm tree and Chinese peasant design. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Front pastedown with 19th-century rubber-stamp of J.A. Newhall.
• Krupp, Making a Case for Cloth, p. 37. Bound as above, with light rubbing only and spine gilt only slightly dimmed; endpapers foxed, and minor foxing to some pages and plates. A remarkable collection of steel engravings, in an exuberant contemporary binding that STILL GLOWS! (41566)
From Ape to Zebra The young child's A, B, C; or, first book. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, No. 261, Pearl-Street; Samuel S. Wood & Co. No. 212, Market Street, Baltimore, [ca. 1820]. Square 8vo (10.5 cm, 4.13"). 16 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.the first children's book ever published by Samuel Wood, whose work included “many thousands of children's religious, instructive, and nursery books.” (Rosenbach) The alphabet in this later edition is illustrated with variations on the fine wood engravings of birds, animals, and objects included in the first, except for the portrait of Xerxes, which seems to have been a constant throughout the many editions. Alexander Anderson, America's preeminent wood engraver, is thought to have supplied the illustrations to the original edition.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA”) at rear.
• Rosenbach, Children's, 596 ([c. 1820]); Shaw & Shoemaker 46904 ([1818?]); Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 203e. This ed. not in Welch. Publisher's printed paper wrappers with woodcuts, as above; wrappers foxed and leaves age-toned, not distressingly or weakening paper. Very little used, in good shape. (38483)
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