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Nelson, Robert. An address to persons of quality and estate ... To which is added, an appendix of some original and valuable papers. [with another related title, as below]. London: A. & G. Way, prs., 1715. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). Frontis., xxxi, [1], 267, [1], 55, [7] pp. [with] A poem in memory of Robert Nelson Esquire. London: Pr. by Geo. James for Richard Smith, at Bishop Beveridge’s-Head, 1715. 8vo. 21, [3] pp.
$675.00
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First edition: Nelson, a philanthropist and popular religious writer, reminds the wealthy and well bred of their charitable obligations as Christians. After exhorting the rich to consider their salvation, Nelson solicits their support for such endeavors as building churches, funding the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, maintaining poor clergy and their families, founding seminaries and schools, relieving prisoners, and establishing houses for the improvement of ladies (both proper and fallen). The appendix provides texts of various proposals as well as statistics on
numbers of residents in hospitals and schools.
The frontispiece portrait of Nelson was engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The volume also includes all publisher's advertisements as well as the rather uncommon Poem in Memory of Robert Nelson Esquire.
This was produced to be a handsome work, printed in large type on good paper with wide margins — the better to appeal to a “quality” audience?
ESTC T85360; Goldsmiths’-Kress 5249. Poem: ESTC T25431; Foxon P538. Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled foliate compartment decorations. Original leather abraded, front cover with small chip to outer edge and area of faint discoloration from a now-absent label; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). Some signatures browned and foxed, most pages clean. (25999)

Not Your Regular School Yard Jump Rope
Newmarch, Olive M.; Elsie A. Crouch, photog. Skipping manual. London: A. Brown & Son, 1930. 12mo (18.9 cm, 7.5"). ix, 74, [2 (publisher's adv.)] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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A physical education manual for one of the “foremost exercises for promoting health” — skipping rope! Olive M. Newmarch's guide for jumping rope covers techniques for basic skipping, dancing steps, skipping with a partner, and more. Many
photographs and diagrams illustrate the skipping moves described by Newmarch.
This is the second edition, following the first of 1924 and preceding the third and last of 1942. WorldCat could not locate any institutional copies in the U.S. of this edition, only one (Miami of Ohio) of the first, and none of the third. The total number of institutional copies worldwide of all editions is very, very small.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine and front board. In original cream paper dust jacket featuring a photograph of a young girl preparing to jump rope.
Bound as above, dust jacket age-toned and foxed with waterstaining to edges, chipping at extremities, tears at spine-head and top rear edge; spine of volume sunned at chip. Foxing to endpapers, minor gutter cracks, one photo leaf with an old stain below the image.
Pretty fascinating. (40381)

“To this
GOOD WOMAN Unsung & Unsaid /
We Dedicate the Book We Have Made”
North Congregational Church (Saint Johnsbury, VT); Ladies' Benevolent Society. A collection of tried recipes contributed by various St. Johnsbury house-keepers, and published in behalf of the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, VT. St. Johnsbury, VT: C.M. Stone & Co., 1883. 8vo (20.4 cm, 8.1"). Frontis., 87, [1] pp.
$175.00
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Uncommon Vermont charitable fundraiser cookbook, opening with a frontispiece engraving of the North Congregational Church and with a delightful — apparently original — poem beginning “We have often asked and are asking still / For the name of the woman whose wondrous skill / Whipped the first eggs till she saw them rise, / Like a feathery mountain before her eyes.” This collection covers the standard categories of soups, fish, meats, vegetables, salads, pickles, breads, desserts, and preserves; the majority of the recipes are attributed to local ladies. The whole was edited by Mrs. Walter P. Smith and Mrs. Robert McKinnon.
This copy saw clear and evident use primarily as a resource for cakes and other desserts: while most of the pages are (if at all) only lightly worn or spotted, the “Cake” section displays venerable battle scars from numerous baking endeavors. Two recipes clipped from a newspaper (for “Hermits” and Snow Pudding) are laid in towards the back, among the advertisements for St. Johnsbury businesses.
WorldCat locates only five libraries reporting ownership.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, p. 251. Publisher's red cloth–covered board, front cover and spine ruled in black, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decorations, spine with black-stamped title; binding cocked, rubbed, and soiled with front hinge (inside) cracked and a bit weak. Front pastedown with small ticket of C.C. Bingham, a St. Johnsbury druggist and pharmacist. Pages mildly age-toned with scattered small spots, two pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in paper, dessert section showing extensive wear as noted above.
Scarce, and remarkably evocative. (38086)

The Oneida Community's Official Newspaper
Noyes, John Humphrey, ed. The circular. Brooklyn, NY: No publisher/printer, 1851–52. Folio (46 cm, 18.5"). 207, [1] pp.
$2875.00
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John Humphrey Noyes founded the Oneida Community in 1848 and The Circular came into being only three years later as the reinvented version of The Free Church Circular, which had been Oneida's periodical until a fire destroyed the printing area in July, 1851. It was not only the Oneida community’s own newspaper, it was
its chief propaganda organ and that is apparent in these pages; for who “outside” could resist curiosity such as that raised by the headline of the very first issue's first article here — “Financial View of the Second Coming. [Adapted to Wall Street]”? Over the years The Circular was to change its name several more times; in 1871 it became The Oneida Circular and in 1877 it changed again to The American Socialist. Similarly, and even more frequently, its place of publication changed: Brooklyn (1851–54), Oneida, NY (1855–Feb. 1864), Mount Tom (i.e., Wallingford, CT, Mar. 1864–Mar. 9, 1868), and finally Oneida Community (Mar. 23, 1868–Dec. 26, 1870).
The Oneida Community has often been called the most successful American 19th-century Utopian community: A Perfectionist communal society dedicated to living as one family and to sharing all property, work, and love. The website of the Swarthmore College’s Peace Collection has this to say about the it, and about The Circular in particular: “The Oneida Community was an experiment in Christian perfectionism, the doctrine that by union with God, humans could live lives entirely free from sin. Founded by John Humphrey Noyes (1811–1886), it was radical in the thoroughness with which this challenging ideal was pursued. The community's religious leanings are readily apparent in the discussion provided by The Circular, in which many [secular] topics are covered; yet most of the conclusions call on religious ideals.”
The Oneida newspaper meant so much to Noyes that even after he gave up control of the Oneida Community, he was to retain control of the newspaper and continue its
its advocacy for social change along with argument for communitarian economic aims, and these embraced a wide range: women’s rights, abolition, “complex marriage” (a form of polyamory), birth control via male continence, and (eventually) proto-eugenics, to name but five. As a University of Syracuse digital guide to the Oneida Community Collection notes, “The papers contained a very frank record of the daily life at Oneida as well as religious tracts, discourses on current subjects of social, political, and economic interest, letters to the editors, and advertisements for the Community's varied manufactured goods. They made no secret of their manner of life. . . . “
Present here is The Circular's volume I (numbers 1–52, November 1851 through October 1852), all issues printed in four-column format and very legible type. Following the attention-grabbing article already cited, the gathering's first issue presents a neat statement of “The Basis and Prospects of the Circular” before moving directly on to recount at length the foundering on a Hudson River excursion of a Community-owned sloop, with the loss of two woman members' lives.
This is an engaging, very readable social history compendium apart from its usefulness for the study of a particular, mid–19th century American, radical social and religious movement.
Mott, History of American Magazines, II, p. 207; Lomazow, American Periodicals, 568; Oneida Community collection in the Syracuse University Library, pp. 24–25; https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/o/OneidaCommunityCollection/hsr1.htm; and Sabin, 89516. Stitched, in plain wrappers. Front wrapper with a patch of waterstaining along upper spine area, carrying through variously but usually faintly through March issue; some later issues on paper inclined to browning. Untrimmed, and with very little staining or tattering.
A physically stable collection, safely and immediately usable. (41155)

By an Irish-Canadian
O'Neill, Moira. Songs of the Glens of Antrim. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1904. 8vo. x pp., [1] f., 61 pp.
$75.00
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O'Neill was the pen name of
Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), an Irish-Canadian poet. This is a later printing of her 1900 best-selling volume of poetry. Title-page in black and red.
Provenance: Inscription of M.A. O'Neil to fly-leaf, Portland, ME (1905); signature of Francis Massey O'Brien, Irish-American bibliophile and bookseller also of Portland, in his “Proinnsías Ó Bríain” form (1940).
Publisher's quarter brick red cloth with muted-apricot paper-covered sides; elegant gilt cartouche on front cover with author and title in black. Board edges lightly rubbed.
A pleasing, attractive copy with pleasing provenance. (29955)

Pieces Found Filed under
“NH Poems”
Oppenheimer, Joel. New Hampshire journal. Perry
Township [i.e., Mt. Horeb], WI: Perishable Press, 1994. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 48 pp.; illus.
$650.00
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First edition: A simply and strikingly designed
Perishable Press printing of these poems, written towards the end of Oppenheimer's life and published posthumously. They appear here with an afterword by Oppenheimer's widow, Theresa Maier, and woodcut page decorations by
Margaret Sunday.This is numbered copy 39 of 125 printed and it is
hand-dedicated at the colophon to Andrew Hedden, a notable collector of press books and livres d'artiste.
Publisher's cream-colored paper wrappers stitched with white leather lacings. Clean and fresh, with signatures unopened. (30921)

Preparing the Faithful for
the Proper Celebration of the Assumption of Mary
Oviedo, Juan Antonio. Vida de Nuestra Senora, repartida en quince principales mysterios, meditados en los quince dias primeros de agosto ... Sevilla: Imprenta de las Siete Revueltas, 1739. 8vo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). [12] ff., 112 pp.
$850.00
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Norms have exceptions and the publishing history of this Marian text is one such example. During the colonial era of Mexico the norm for books written and published there was that they did not have subsequent printings in Europe. Oviedo (1670–1757), a Jesuit born in Bogota, educated in Guatemala, residing mostly in Mexico, and author of this text saw it first published in Mexico in 1726 by the famous Hogal press and then republished in Seville thirteen years later. In fact several of Oviedo's texts were subsequently printed in Spain, definitely a notable exception to the norm.
Oviedo proposes that the faithful who meditate on the 15 Marian mysteries expounded here will be prepared “to celebrate with devotion and fruitfulness the triumphant Assumption of the [Virgin's] body and soul in to Heave and Her glorious coronation as the Queen of the Universe.”
Searches of NUC and WorldCat find three U.S. libraries (Bancroft, U. of New Mexico, Marian Library) and two foreign ones (the national libraries of Mexico and Chile) reporting ownership.
Provenance: Late 18th- or early 19th-century signatures of Carmen Valdivia and Francisca Valdivia on the front pastedown. Once upon a time in Mexico as evidenced by the “disinfection” stamp affixed to the rear pastedown.
DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 45; Palau 207675. Contemporary stiff vellum, evidence of ties now missing; also evidence that there had been marbled paper pastedowns (apparently not extending to free
endpapers??). Lacking the front free endpaper; foxing and staining; solid and interesting. (40686)

The Folly of a Vain Doll — With Hand-Colored Cruikshank Plates
Pardoe, Julia; George Cruikshank, illus. Lady Arabella: Or the adventures of a doll. London: Kerby & Son, [1856]. Sm. 8vo (17.6 cm, 6.92"). [2], 88, [4 (adv.)] pp.; 4 col. plts.
$425.00
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First edition: George Cruikshank–illustrated tale of a little girl's encounter with a discarded doll who recounts her downwards progression from haughty, well-dressed queen of an upscale toy shop to a “miserable, one-eyed, ugly-looking wreck” (p. 7). The author was a prolific poet, historian, novelist, and travel writer as well as a children's writer.
This copy with
Cruikshank's four wood-engraved plates hand-colored, which Cohn notes was not always the case.
Provenance: Front pastedown with small book label featuring an illustration of a bird with the head of a fish wearing a jester’s hat brandishing a sword and with large feathered tail, the initials “N.H.L.T.” at the corners. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Cohn, George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raisonné, 625; Osborne Collection, p. 1019. Contemporary textured red cloth, covers stamped in blind with foliate corner decorations, front cover with central gilt-stamped title (main title within decorative garter motif), spine with gilt-stamped title; corners rubbed, spine dimmed and a very little chipped. Small, illegible pencilled inscription on front pastedown; back pastedown with binder's ticket of Westley's & Co. Pages with a handful of small spots, overall clean. (40808)

The Lady Wants Her
Her Springs Back . . .
Paul Pérez Galvez, Francisca de. Representacion que eleva a la augusta Camara de Diputados. Mexico: Imp. de Cumplido, 1851. 8vo. 68 pp.
$225.00

“Number One”
Pegasus Club. The year book of the Pegasus. Number one. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1895. 8vo. 49, [1 (blank)] pp.
$125.00
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A club anthology printing poems by Owen Wister, Solomon Solis-Cohen, J. Chalmers Da Costa, Frank Miles Day, Charles H.A. Esling, Arthur Hale, John H. Ingham, Gilbert P. Knapp, Ernest Lacy, John Kearsley Mitchell, S. Weir Mitchell, Charles Leonard Moore, Harrison S. Morris, Oliver Perry-Smith, Charles Pomeroy Sherman, S. Decatur Smith, jr., Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Stewardson, Henry H. Supplee, Henry Maitland Watts, and Frances Howard Williams — SOME CLUB!
It is notable that the Pegasus included Jews and women at a time when Philadelphia was highly segregated by race, ethnicity, and gender.
BAL 18675. Not in Singerman, Judaica Americana. Later brown linen over boards with title in gilt on spine; interior occasionally with a trace of light soil and, throughout, a very light, narrow, and almost decorative(!) sliver of old water intrusion across bottom and lowest fore-edges.
In fact, a nice copy. (41472)

The Farmer's Daughter of Essex
Penn, James. Life of Miss Davis, the farmer's daughter of Essex, who was seduced by her lover... London: T. Hughes (pr. by G. Whiteman), [1802]. 12mo (16.7 cm, 6.6"). pp.; 1 plt.
$300.00
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A popular melodramatic tale of ruin and misery, first published in 1767: A dissipated nobleman convinces a lovely country maiden that they are honestly married, sets her up in luxury, then abandons her in a London brothel. The plot is notable for its elaborate detailing of Miss Davis's exceedingly cruel treatment from not only her lover, but also various officials and citizens — though by the close of the story her innate virtue earns her a happier ending than one would expect. The stipple-engraved plate, depicting the fair victim swooning in the arms of one of the brothel denizens, was done by Rumford after Edwards.
This is an uncommon edition: WorldCat does not find any institutional locations. There is apparently one copy of the same printing at the University of Essex, and the date given here is based on their assessment.
This edition not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume; sewing loosening, with signatures starting to separate. Pages age-toned, with small area of waterstaining to upper outer margins; title-page with small spot of staining; plate mounted (some time ago), with three small spots of staining and some darkening around caption.
A very readable copy of a striking and strikingly vivid morality tale. (37200)

Mystic or Pragmatic Wife? In any Case, a Jolly Title
Pérez Galdós, Benito. La loca de la casa, comedia en cuatro actos. Madrid: Imprenta de la Guirnalda, 1893. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.15"). [8], 294 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: Acclaimed play from a prominent Spanish realist author, addressing issues of class, materialism, and feminism.
Palau 220783. Contemporary quarter maroon sheep and red pebbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; spine attractively darkened, edges and extremities rubbed, sides with spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with private shelf-code sticker; title-page with private collector's rubber-stamp. Pages age-toned, with some scattered small smudges or spots of light staining. (29936)

AMAZONS — Illustrated!
Petit, Pierre. De amazonibus dissertatio, quâ an verè extiterint, necne, variis ultro citroque conjecturis & argumentis disputatur. Amstelodami: apud Johannem Wolters & Yserandum Haring, 1687. 12mo (17 cm, 6.125"). [6] ff, 398 pp., [6] ff., illus. (without the map).
$450.00
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Using classical texts and images Petit explores the possibility that the Amazons were not merely figments of mythological fancy, but actual members of Scythian society. Using texts from Homer through Juvenal and beyond, Petit canvasses the full range of opinions and evidence from contemporary sources. His text is in Latin; the Greek texts, offered in Greek, are translated into Latin as well.
This is the “Editio secunda, auctior & correctior,” following the very rare edition of 1685.
The
53 in-text engravings offer iconographic evidence for the Amazons. The majority are numismatic, showing portrayals of Amazons on classical coins. Some others show works of art, especially sculpture, and representations of what Amazonian weapons might have looked like.
The work begins with a dedication to Baudelot de Dairval and a full table of contents. The body of the text is organized into chapters concerning various aspects of the lives and types of evidence relating to the Amazons. There is an “Addenda” on pp. 381–98 that includes
discussions of Christopher Columbus, cannibalism, and Amazons in the New World. The book ends with another index.
European Americana 587/106; Sabin 61256; Hayn, Amazonen-Litteratur, 53. Recent marbled paper over boards, leather spine label. Added engraved title-page cut down with loss of imprint data and mounted; without the map, often missing. Light staining to the preliminary and first few text pages. Otherwise, a rather nice copy. (40385)

Pleasing Provenance & Woodcut Illustrations
Petrarca, Francesco [i.e., Petrarch]; Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo, commentator. Il Petrarcha con la spositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo. [colophon: In Venetia: per Domenico Giglio, 1553]. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). 2 vols. in 1. [94], 346 pp.; illus.
$1650.00
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First illustrated edition of Petrarch's Sonetti et canzoni and I Trionfi to appear with a biography of the author and the extensive commentary of humanist Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo. The Renaissance page management by which a short section of text may be printed as near-surrounded by a sea of commentary is on full show here, with text and commentary presented in different sizes of italic type with plenty of historiated woodcut initials in varying sizes throughout. This edition is one of two printed in 1553, the other, unillustrated one having come from G. Giolito (also of Venice). Fowler notes that this edition does not incorporate Gesualdo's dedication, the index to the commentary, or the giunta, but it does contain a letter to Bernardo Priuli from Giglio; in our copy I Trionfi has been bound before the rest of the text, contrary to the directions of the register.
The work begins with a Grecian-style woodcut title-page featuring medallion portraits of Petrarch and Laura originally used in the Nicolini-Daniello edition of 1549; the cut is repeated to create a sectional title-page for I Trionfi. Also present are the
six detailed, half-page woodcut illustrations of I Trionfi and Giglio's printer's device at the colophon.Provenance: With a partially removed armorial bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Rosny (the library of
Duchess Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile — King Henry the Fifth's mother) on front pastedown and two bookseller descriptions of the item in hand on binder's blanks; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams P820; Brunet, IV, 552; EDIT16 CNCE 25824; Fowler, Petrarch, Pet N 553; Fiske p. 103. French 17th-century speckled calf, spine compartments lettered and elaborately stamped in gilt with gilt rolls along bands, covers framed in triple fillets with French curl marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red and brown, green ribbon placemarker; well-rubbed with some loss of leather, joints (outside) starting but covers firmly attached, tailband loose. Light age-toning with chiefly faint marginal waterstaining throughout, a few other small spots or stains. Some leaves with uneven edges or faint holes from paper manufacture; three leaves closely trimmed, including the title-page, and two corners cut away. Bookplates and labels as above, a few small pencilled notes and one in ink on free endpapers.
DESIRABLE. (39337)

Pleasant Thoughts on
Congenial Spirits
The Philipena, or friendship's token: A present for all seasons. Boston: G.W. Cottrell & Co.; New York: T.W. Strong, [1848]. 16mo. Col. frontis., 126 pp.
$75.00
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Petite, pretty gift book: stories and poems dedicated to the happy rewards of virtuous domestic life. The volume opens with an
illuminated color-printed frontispiece; present here are “Social Life, or the Plains of Matrimony,” “The Heart That's True,” “Marrying for Money,” “A Good Daughter,” “Worth and Wealth,” “Congenial Spirits,” etc.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped urn of flowers, back cover with same design in blind. All edges gilt.
Faxon 655. Bound as above, corners bumped/rubbed and base of rear joint and spine a little rubbed; gilt bright. Endpapers with early pencilled inscriptions, frontispiece with adhesion of a sliver of paper from title-page along inner margin, title-page with brown spot in lower margin offset onto lower edge of frontispiece. Sewing loosening with some early and final leaves starting to separate, title-page all but separated. Pages generally clean, with a few scattered spots; one upper margin with pencilled inscription mostly erased. A read and cherished copy, still sweetly sentimental and interesting to look at. (30368)

An American, “Filadelphia” Ladies' Gift Book for a
Trans-American Elite Audience
Presente a las damas. Filadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.55"). Engr. presentation f., [4] pp., 32 ff.; 32 plts.
[SOLD]
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First edition of this unusual and intriguing gift book for the then-emerging foreign market in newly independent Spanish America: a Philadelphia-printed collection of
32 single-page poems in Spanish, each accompanied by a steel-engraved plate. These are very Anglo-American pieces, despite their linguistic guise; present here are odes to the Schuylkill, Trenton Falls, and the Delaware Water Gap (with attractive and appropriate illustrations engraved after Doughty, Wall, and others), although Hampton Court and other, more exotic locales are also featured.
At least one of these poems appears to be an uncredited, partial excerpt from José María Heredia; some of the other content seems to have come from Carey, Lea, & Carey's Atlantic Souvenir of 1827 and 1828 and Carey's 1828 El Aguinaldo para el año de 1829 — a landmark production with which the nature of Spanish-language printing in the U.S., and especially in Philadelphia, changed dramatically, as to an ordinary output of political tracts and textbooks were added
luxury Spanish-language objects of artistic and literary merit designed for marketing to a trans-American elite. Carey printed four such gift books: this Presente a las damas in 1829 and three “Alguinaldos,” for 1829, 1830, and 1831. All were meant for ladies and to be presented to them by gentleman and lady friends.
Binding: Publisher's dark green morocco, covers embossed with arabesque designs surrounding a central gilt-stamped floral medallion, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Given to Doa Caroline [sic] Tagl[e] by her husband (as per presentation page).
WorldCat locates only seven U.S. institutional holdings (DLC, ICN, MWA, NSyU, NN, PU, PPL).
Shoemaker 40147; Palau 236614. Central block similar to Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 7, here with addition of medallion. This edition not in Faxon, nor Thomson, nor Tepper; see Faxon 59 for further information. Bound as above, variably sunned and with edges rubbed; pulled at top and foot of spine with gilt still bright. Interior age-toned with staining/spotting/foxing throughout, never dark but ubiquitous.
An uncommon volume representing one of the vanishingly few foreign-language annuals printed by an American publisher and an often unnoticed phenomenon. (38391)

Introduction by Dickens Illustrations by Tenniel, Millais, Palmer, et al.
Procter, Adelaide Anne. Legends and lyrics. London: Bell & Daldy, 1866. 8vo (22.9 cm; 9"). Frontis., [10] ff., 329, [1] pp., 20 plts.; lacks dedication leaf.
$100.00
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New edition with additions: This new edition of Adelaide Anne Procter's 1861 collection of poems is the first to feature an introduction by her father's good friend Charles Dickens; the introduction was repeated in subsequent editions. The
20 plates are wood engravings by Horace Harrel after W.T.C. Dobson, Samuel Palmer, John Tenniel, William H. Millais, and several others.
Procter was a philanthropist as well as a poet, involved in several charitable and feminist causes, and contributed to Dickens' Household Words under the pen name “Mary Berwick” in hopes that her work would not be judged based on her father's friendship with Dickens. She died shortly before the publication of this new edition of her poems.
Binding: Red morocco over bevelled-edged wooden boards, spine with gilt lettering, rules, and stamped compartment decorations of acorns and oak leaves; covers with a wide composite gilt border incorporating laurel crowns and more oak'y ornaments surrounding a large gilt spray of holly and ivy. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Eckel, First Editions of the Writing of Charles Dickens . . . A bibliography, pp. 163–64; Podeschi, Dickens & Dickensiana, B293. Bound as above, heavy boards sometime separated and reattached; extremities rubbed with spine pulled. Dedication page mentioned by Eckel lacking; foxing and minor staining to edges of frontispiece portrait with one other illustration and adjacent
page foxed also. Previous owner's notes in pencil on front endpapers. A Good+ copy (priced accordingly) of this attractive production. (37385)

Enchanting
19th-Century Reminiscences of the ROSE
The Queen of flowers: or, Memoirs of the rose. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. 24mo (14.2 cm, 5.6"). viii, [13]–219 pp., 3 col. plts. Lacks frontis.
$60.00
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Epistolary musings on roses originally published as Memoirs of the Rose in 1824, here in their second edition. This version contains
three striking hand-colored lithographs of different rose species, including the Cabbage, Common Dog, and Damask.
Binding: Publisher's purple cloth, gilt-stamped title on spine; each cover framed in blind rules, with foliate and drawer-handle motifs surrounding a gilt leaf device at center. All edges gilt.
Bound as above, almost entirely sunned to brown and with a very little rubbing. Light to moderate age-toning and foxing throughout; lacks frontispiece, other three plates present and brightly colored.
Overall a handsomely done collection of letters about roses (and life). (35940)

First U.S. Editions — Dickens & Faux-Dickens
“Quiz” [pseud. of Edward Caswall], & Charles Dickens. Sketches of young ladies: In which these interesting members of the animal kingdom are classified according to their several instincts, habits, and general characteristics. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1838. 16mo (13.5 cm, 5.3"). 111, [1] pp. [with] Dickens, Charles. Sketches of young gentlemen. Dedicated to young ladies. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1838. 108, [2] pp.
$800.00
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First American editions of these two works, together as issued, in the original publisher's cloth. Young ladies and young gentlemen are humorously categorized under their various types: including for the former Romantic, Evangelical, Literary, Manly, Hyperbolical, Abstemious, and others, and for the latter Bashful, Military, Political, Censorious, Funny, etc. While the first work was often attributed to Dickens when originally published anonymously in 1837, it was actually written by humorist Caswall in a voice very much like Dickens's; the second work, first printed in 1838, is
genuine Dickens.
American Imprints 49619. Publisher's violet cloth; front cover and spine faded to tan, the former with a printed paper label somewhat chipped, and front cover showing tiny spots of discoloration and pinholes in cloth. Pages age-toned with intermittent mild spotting; a few lower outer corners bumped and middle section with dent to upper outer margin. A copy much read; still both highly readable and
highly entertaining. (34870)
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