Part I treats of Wynkyn de Worde, Julian Notary, R. & W. Faques, and
John Skot; Part II, of R. Pynson, R. Copland, J. Rastell, P. Treveris, R. Bankes, L. Andrewe, W. Rastell, T. Godfray, and J. Byddell.
DUFF, EDWARD GORDON.--William Caxton by E. Gordon Duff, M. A. . . . Chicago The Caxton Club M C M V. _4to, half cloth, uncut edges._
One of two hundred and fifty-two copies printed on American hand-made paper, with twenty-five illustrations.
DUFIEF, NICOLAS GOUIN.--. . . Nature Displayed in her mode of Teaching Language to Man; being a new and infallible Method of acquiring Languages with unparalleled rapidity; deduced from the analysis of the human mind, and consequently suited to every capacity: adapted to the French by N. G. Dufief . . . The ninth edition. London: printed for the author, . . . 1828. _8vo, two volumes, ivory levant, richly decorated on back and sides with flowers and leaf spray, and the arms of Charles X on both covers, wide inside borders with shield in corners, silk linings, gilt over uncut edges, by C. Lewis._
Special copy printed and bound for presentation to Charles X of France, with India proof portrait of the author engraved by Edwin inserted, the presentation inscription, and facsimiles on silk, etc.
DUFRESNOY, CHARLES ALPHONSE.--The Art of Painting of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy. Translated into English Verse by William Mason, M. A. With Annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds . . . York: Printed by A. Ward . . . M. DCC.LXXXIII. _4to, old green morocco, with the arms of Horace Walpole on each cover, gilt edges._
Horace Walpole's copy with notes in his handwriting. He has also added portraits of Dryden, Pope, Gray, Mason, and Reynolds, a view of Strawberry Hill, and his book-plate.
DUNLAP, WILLIAM.--History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. By William Dunlap . . . New York: George P. Scott and Co. . . . 1834. _8vo, two volumes, boards, uncut edges._
DUNLAP, WILLIAM.--Thirty Years Ago; or the Memoirs of a Water Drinker. By the Author of Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, &c . . . New York: published by Bancroft & Holley, . . . 1836. _Crown 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges._
DUNLOP, JOHN.--The History of Fiction: being a critical account of the most celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the present age. By John Dunlop. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. . . . 1814. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Pratt._
First edition.
DUNLOP, JOHN.--The History of Fiction: being a critical account of the most celebrated prose works of fiction, from the earliest Greek romances to the novels of the present age. By John Dunlop . . . Second edition. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, . . . 1816. _Post 8vo, three volumes, half brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
DUNLOP, JOHN.--History of Roman Literature from its earliest period to the Augustan Age . . . By John Dunlop . . . Second edition. London: printed for Longman . . . 1824. [-1828] _8vo, three volumes, half maroon levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
DUNTON, JOHN.--The Life and Errors of John Dunton, citizen of London; with the lives and characters of more than a thousand contemporary divines, and other persons of literary eminence. To which are added, Dunton's conversation in Ireland; Selections from his other genuine works; and a faithful portrait of the author . . . Printed by and for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley . . . London 1818. _8vo, two volumes, half calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
DUNTON, JOHN.--See Harley Pamphlets.
DUPPA, RICHARD.--The Life of Michel Angelo Buonarroti, with his Poetry and Letters. By R. Duppa, . . . Second Edition. London: printed for John Murray, &c . . . M. DCCC. VII. _Royal 4to, half red morocco, uncut edges._
Portrait by F. Bartolozzi, and forty-nine plates, six of them double and one folded.
DUPPA AND DE QUINCY.--. . . Michel Angelo, by R. Duppa, L.L.B. Raffaello, by Quatremere de Quincy . . . London: David Bogue, . . . MDCCCXLVI. _8vo, half cloth, uncut edges._
The second biography was translated by William Hazlitt. A medallion portrait of Michael Angelo is prefixed to the volume.
DURAND, JOHN.--The Life and Times of A. B. Durand by John Durand With illustrations New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1894. _4to, buckram, gilt top, uncut edges._
Portrait of Taine, to whom the work is dedicated, and fifteen other illustrations.
DUeRER, ALBRECHT.--The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ pourtrayed by Albert Durer. Edited by Henry Cole . . . London: Joseph Cundall . . . [printed by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press] 1844. _Small 4to, brown morocco, back and sides covered with blind tooling adapted from a German binding of the XVth century, gilt edges, by Clarke and Bedford._
Thirty-seven illustrations in facsimile of Duerer's "Small Passion."
With the exception of two subjects, this work is taken from the thirty-seven original blocks drawn upon by Duerer for the engraver.
DUeRER, ALBRECHT.--The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1844. _8vo, red velvet, overlapped and doubled with silk, the sides decorated with brass ornaments, center showing the monogram of Duerer, clasp, gilt edges._
Printed entirely on vellum.
DUSIMITIER, PIERRE EUGENE.--Portraits of the Generals, Ministers, Magistrates, Members of Congress, and others, Who have rendered themselves Illustrious in the Revolution of the United States of North America. Drawn from the life, By M. Dusimitier, Painter, And Member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. and engraved by the most eminent artists in London. London: Published by R. Wilkinson, . . . and J. Debrett, . . . MDCCLXXXIII. _4to, half russia, gilt back._
Twelve portraits, brilliant original impressions, engraved by B. B. E., and the original cover on which the continuation of the series was announced.
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY.--The Conquest of Canaean; a poem, in Eleven Books. By Timothy Dwight . . . Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock. M.DCC.LXXXV. _12mo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Riviere._
Portrait of the author by Leney after Trumbull.
DYCE, ALEXANDER, _editor_.--Specimens of British Poetesses; selected and chronologically arranged, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. London: T. Rodd, . . . 1825. _Crown 8vo, half brown morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
DYCE, ALEXANDER.--Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's editions of Shakespeare. By the Rev. Alexander Dyce. . . . London: Edward Moxon, . . . M DCCC XLIV. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
DYCE, ALEXANDER.--See Sonnets.
DYER, CHARLES GEORGE.--Biographical Sketches of the Lives and Characters of illustrious and eminent Men. By Charles George Dyer. Illustrated with whole length portraits. . . . London: published by C. G. Dyer, &c . . . 1819. _8vo, boards, uncut edges._
Forty-eight plates by J. Romney and T. Priscott after Reynolds, Bartolozzi, Zoffany, Vandyke, Vertue, and others.
DYER, JOHN.--The Fleece: a poem. In four books. By John Dyer, LL.B. [vignette] London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. M. DCC. LVII. _4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
First edition.
EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK.--Materials for a History of Oil Painting. By Charles Lock Eastlake . . . London: printed for Longman, . . . 1847. [-1869] _8vo, two volumes, original cloth, uncut edges._
EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK.--A History of the Gothic Revival An attempt to show how the taste for mediaeval architecture which lingered in England during the two last centuries has since been encouraged and developed by Charles L. Eastlake . . . London Longmans, Green, and Co. . . . 1872. _8vo, cloth, gilt top._
Thirty-six full-page woodcuts, and twelve illustrations in the text.
EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK.--See Kugler, Franz Theodor.
EASTLAKE, LADY, _editor_.--Life of John Gibson, R. A. Sculptor. Edited by Lady Eastlake. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1870. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
Portrait of Gibson engraved by Adlard.
EATON, CHARLOTTE A.--Rome, in the nineteenth century; . . . By Charlotte A. Eaton. Fifth edition. To which is now first added a complete index, and thirty-four engraved illustrations. . . . London: Henry G. Bohn, . . . 1852. _Post 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges._
EBSWORTH, J. W.--Cavalier Lyrics: 'for church and crown'. By J. W. Ebsworth, . . . London and Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons: now first imprinted, for private circulation. 1887. _8vo, paper, uncut edges._
No. 51 of one hundred and fifty copies printed; with woodcut frontispiece.
EDGEWORTH, MARIA.--Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth. London: printed for Baldwin and Cradock: . . . 1832. _Post 8vo, eighteen volumes, cloth, uncut edges._
Frontispieces and special engraved titles for each volume.
EDWARDS, CHARLES LINCOLN.--Bahama Songs and Stories A contribution to folk-lore by Charles L. Edwards, . . . [4 illustrations] Boston and New York Published for The American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Company . . . 1895. _8vo, cloth, gilt top._
EDWARDS, EDWARD.--Memoirs of Libraries; Including a Hand Book of Library Economy. By Edward Edwards. London: Truebner & Co. 1859. _8vo, two volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by F. Bedford._
Large paper copy, with numerous illustrations.
EDWARDS, EDWARD.--Libraries and Founders of Libraries. By Edward Edwards. London: Truebner and Co. 1865. _8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by F. Bedford._
Large paper copy, thirty printed.
EDWARDS, EDWARD.--The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh based on contemporary documents preserved in the Rolls House, the Privy Council Office, Hatfield House, the British Museum, and other manuscript repositories, British and foreign. Together with his letters: now first collected. By Edward Edwards. . . . Macmillan and Co. 1868. . . . _8vo, two volumes, half green morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
Portrait by C. H. Jeens after Francis Zucchero, armorial bearings, genealogical table, and two facsimiles.
EFFIGIES POETICAE.--See Proctor, B. W.
EGAN, PIERCE.--Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. By Pierce Egan, . . . Dedicated to His most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth. [woodcut] Embellished with thirty-six [coloured] scenes from real life, designed and etched by I. R. & G. Cruikshank; And enriched also with numerous original Designs on Wood, by the same Artists. London: printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, . . . 1821. _Royal 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, with the original covers bound in, by Riviere._
First edition.
EGLESFIELD, FRANCIS.--Monarchy Revived; being the Personal History of Charles the Second, from his earliest years to his restoration to the throne. Reprinted from the edition of 1661. With fourteen portraits. London: printed for Charles Baldwyn . . . MDCCCXXII. _Royal 8vo, red calf, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews._
Large paper copy. The portraits, engraved by R. Cooper, are proofs on India paper.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot . . . William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLVIII. _8vo, two volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Adam Bede by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLIX. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MD CCC LX. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Silas Marner: the Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXI. _8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Romola by George Eliot London: Smith, Elder and Co. MDCCCLXIII. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Romola by George Eliot with illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton, . . . London. Smith, Elder, and Co., . . . 1880. _Imperial 8vo, two volumes, buckram, uncut edges._
No. 752 of one thousand copies printed, with twenty-four plates and numerous vignettes on India paper.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Felix Holt the Radical by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXVI. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--The Spanish Gypsy, a Poem, by George Eliot. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXVIII. _8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Middlemarch; a Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXI-II. _Crown 8vo, four volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--The Legend of Jubal and other Poems by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXIV. _Post 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. A new edition . . . William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXVI. _Crown 8vo, four volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
ELIOT, GEORGE.--Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXIX. _Crown 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition.
ELIOT, GEORGE.--George Eliot's Life as related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and edited by her husband J. W. Cross William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh . . . MDCCCLXXXV. _Post 8vo, three volumes, calf, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Riviere._
First edition. Three portraits, proofs on India paper, and eight woodcut illustrations.
ELLIOTT, GRACE DALRYMPLE.--Journal of my Life during the French Revolution. By Grace Dalrymple Elliott. London: Richard Bentley, . . . 1859. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
Three portraits after Cosway, Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc.
ELLIS, EDWIN J.--Fate in Arcadia and other poems by Edwin J. Ellis with [33] illustrations by the Author London 1892. Ward & Downey. . . . _Imperial 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
ELLIS, GEORGE.--History of the Late Revolution in the Dutch Republic London, printed for Edwards . . . 1789. _4to, red morocco, gilt back, silk linings, by H. Walther, with his ticket._
Large paper copy.
ELLIS, HENRY.--Original Letters illustrative of English History; including numerous royal letters: from autographs in the British Museum, and one or two other collections. With notes and illustrations by Henry Ellis, . . . London printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard. MDCCCXXV. [-MDCCCXLVI.] _Crown 8vo, eleven volumes, half brown morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
The three volumes of the First Series are dated 1825, "second edition;" the four volumes of the Second Series, "printed for Harding and Lepard," 1827; the four volumes of the Third Series, published by Richard Bentley, 1846. Six portraits by G. Thomson, T. A. Dean, B. Holl, J. Cooke, and S. Freeman after H. Corbould, Nicholas Hilliard, and T. Wageman.
ELMES, JAMES.--The Arts and Artists, or Anecdotes and Relics of the Schools of Painting, Sculpture, & Architecture, by James Elmes [vignette] London: John Knight & Henry Lacy . . . MDCCCXXV. _Post 8vo, three volumes, half blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Allo._
Engraved title-pages, fourteen portraits, and two plates of autographs in facsimile.
ELMES, JAMES.--Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the Most distinguished Personages in the seventeenth century. By James Elmes . . . London:--Chapman & Hall, . . . MDCCCLII. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
Steel portrait of Wren.
ELTON, CHARLES ISAAC, AND MARY AUGUSTA.--The Great Book-Collectors . . . London Kegan Paul, &c . . . MDCCCXCIII. _8vo, half vellum, uncut edges._
Large paper copy, one hundred and fifty printed, with ten illustrations.
ELWOOD, ANNE KATHARINE.--Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the commencement of the last century. By Mrs. Elwood . . . London: Henry Colburn . . . 1843. _12mo, two volumes, half citron levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
Two portraits.
ELZE, KARL.--Lord Byron a biography with a critical essay on his place in literature By Karl Elze translated with the author's sanction, and edited with notes With Portrait and Facsimile. London. John Murray, . . . 1872. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
EMBLEMS OF MORTALITY; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people; Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland: With an Apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French. Intended as well for the Information of the Curious, as the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth. To which is prefixed A copious Preface, containing an historical Account of the above, and other Paintings on this Subject, now or lately existing in divers Parts of Europe. London: Printed for T. Hodgson, . . . M DCC LXXXIX. _12mo, blue straight-grain morocco, gilt back and side corners in the manner of Roger Payne, gilt edges, by Bedford._
First edition. Woodcut frontispiece and fifty-one cuts of Holbein's Dance of Death, modernized and engraved by Bewick. After the third edition, the blocks were destroyed by fire.
EMBLEMS, for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth: containing Hieroglyphical and Enigmatical Devices, relating to all Parts and Stations of Life; together with Explanations and Proverbs, in French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them, and Translated into English: The Whole curiously Engrav'd on 62 Copper Plates. Sold by R. Ware . . . [n.d.] _8vo, old blue calf, gilt back, side borders, panels blind-tooled in diamonds._
Frontispiece, "Delectando Moneo," engraved title, and 62 plates, each in 15 compartments. Plates xli and xlviii are transposed, but not the text.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Nature . . . Boston: James Munroe and Company. MDCCCXXXVI. _12mo, original cloth._
First edition, with autograph letter of the author inserted.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--(I.) Essays: by R. W. Emerson. Boston: James Munroe and Company. MDCCCXLI. (II.) Essays: second series. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: James Munroe and Company. MDCCCXLIV. _12mo and 16mo, two volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over untrimmed edges, by David._
First edition of both series.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Poems. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: James Munroe and Company. 1847. _16mo, green levant morocco, back and sides covered with trefoil and star ornaments, gilt over uncut edges, by the Doves Bindery. 1894._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson. London: Chapman, Brothers, . . . M.DCCC.XLVII. _12mo, citron levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt top, uncut edges, by Alfred Matthews._
English copyright edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Representative Men: seven lectures. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, . . . 1850. _12mo, maroon morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Miscellanies; embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company. M.DCCC.LVI. _12mo, red morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--English Traits. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company. 1856. _12mo, green morocco, gilt back and side panels, gilt top, uncut edges, by Stikeman._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--The Conduct of Life. By R. W. Emerson. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. M DCCC LX. _12mo, original cloth._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1870. _12mo, original cloth._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--Letters and Social Aims. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, . . . 1876. _12mo, original cloth._
First edition.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.--See Carlyle and Emerson.
ENGINEERS.--Personal Recollections of English Engineers, and of the introduction of the railway system into the United Kingdom. By a Civil Engineer, author of the "Trinity of Italy." London: Hodder and Stoughton, . . . M DCCCLXVIII. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
ENGLISH DRAMA.--The New English Drama, [113 Comedies, Tragedies, Operas, Farces, and Melodramas] with prefatory remarks, biographical sketches, and notes, Critical and Explanatory; Being the only Edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business and stage directions, As Performed At the Theatres Royal. Edited By W. Oxberry, Comedian. . . . London. Published for the Proprietors by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, . . . C. Chapple, . . . and sold by W. and J. Lowndes, . . . 1818. [-1824] _12mo, twenty-two volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Pratt._
Large paper copy, with portraits of celebrated players.
ENGLISH LYRICS London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., . . . MDCCCLXXXIII. _Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges._
Large paper copy, fifty printed.
ENGLISH ODES selected by Edmund W. Gosse London C. Kegan Paul & Co., . . . MDCCCLXXXI. _Crown 8vo, original covers, uncut edges._
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with a frontispiece on India paper.
ENGLISH POETS.--Passages from Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club. Forty-seven etchings. [by Tenniel, Whistler, Millais, &c.] London: published by Day & Son, . . . [1862] _4to, cloth, gilt edges._
ENGRAVINGS.--India Proofs from the Annuals. Literary Souvenir, &c. Seventy five plates after Corbould, Westall, Smirke, Stephanoff, Leslie, &c. London 1827. _Folio, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by R. W. Smith._
EPICTETUS.--The Works of Epictetus. Consisting of his Discourses, in four books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. A translation from the Greek based on that of Elizabeth Carter, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. [University Press] 1866. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
One of seventy-five large paper copies printed.
EPICTETUS [Reprinted from the translation of George Long] London Arthur L. Humphreys 1897. _4to, two volumes, original paper wrappers, uncut edges._
ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.--Proverbs, chiefly taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with explanations; and further illustrated by corresponding examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages. By Robert Bland . . . London: printed for T. Egerton . . . 1814. _Crown 8vo, two volumes in one, blue morocco, back and sides richly gilded, embossed gilt edges, by J. Wright._
ESTCOURT, RICHARD.--The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens. a Comedy. As it was Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. By Mr. Estcourt. [One line in Latin, four in English] London, Printed for Bernard Lintott . . . 1706. Price 1s. 6d. _4to, blue calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf._
First edition. A-K in fours, title on A1, A2 misprinted H2. Dedicated to Christopher Rich, Chief Patentee, Governor and Manager of the Theatre Royal.
EVANS, ABEL.--Vertumnus. an Epistle to Mr. Jacob Bobart, Botany Professor to the University of Oxford, and Keeper of the Physick-Garden. By the Author of The Apparition. [Two lines from Virgil] Oxford: Printed by L. L. for Stephen Fletcher Book-seller: . . . 1713. _8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._
Engraved frontispiece of a triumphal arch erected to King Charles and the Earl of Danby, celebrated in the poem (page 21) as the generous patron who planted while Bobart tilled.
Title and A-D in fours.
EVANS, JOHN.--The Progress of Human Life: Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man; illustrated by a series of extracts in prose and poetry. . . . By John Evans, . . . Second Edition. [cut] Chiswick: Printed by Charles Whittingham; . . . 1823. _Crown 8vo, half cloth, uncut edges._
EVELYN, ALEXANDER JOHN.--English Alice, a poem in five cantos, by Alexander John Evelyn, Esq. London: William Pickering. 1852. _Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
EVERETT, EDWARD.--The Life of George Washington. By Edward Everett. New York: Sheldon and Company . . . 1860. _8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
Large paper copy.
[EYTON, JOSEPH WALTER KING.]--Catalogue of the Library of Joseph Walter King Eyton . . . London 1848. _4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by Riviere._
Large paper copy, fifty printed, with coloured frontispiece and seven book-plates of the owner, a facsimile of one of Roger Payne's remarkable bills for binding, and India proof impressions of portraits of Bishop Andrews, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, and Thomas Sharpe.
FACETIAE: being a general Collection of the Jeux d'Esprits which have been illustrated by Robert Cruikshank . . . containing nearly sixty engravings. London: William King . . . M.DCCC.XXXI. _12mo, two volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rousselle._
Some of the thirteen separate titles bear the date 1830. The series includes "The Devil's Walk," by Coleridge and Southey; "The Real Devil's Walk"; "The High-Mettled Racer," by Charles Dibdin; and "Monsieur Tonson," by John Taylor.
FACTION.--An Essay on Faction . . . London, Printed for J. Peele . . . MDCCXXXII. _Folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery. Bound with ten other works._
FAGAN, LOUIS.--The Life of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K. C. B., late Principal Librarian of the British Museum, Senator of Italy, &. &c. by Louis Fagan, . . . With an Etching and other Illustrations by the Author. . . . London: Remington & Co., . . . 1880. . . . _8vo, two volumes, half green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Zaehnsdorf._
FAGAN, LOUIS.-- . . . The Art of Michel' Angelo Buonarroti as Illustrated by the various Collections in the British Museum. By Louis Fagan. . . . With [18] illustrations and a frontispiece [portrait] by the author. London: Dulau & Co., . . . M. DCCC. LXXXIII. _Royal 8vo, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
FAGAN, LOUIS.--Collectors' Marks by Louis Fagan . . . With Frontispiece [etched portrait of Thomas Earl of Arundel] by the Author. London: Field & Tuer . . . 1883. _Square 8vo, vellum, uncut edges._
Twenty-eight plates of "Collectors' Marks."
FAGAN, LOUIS.--A Descriptive Catalogue of the Engraved Works of William Faithorne, by Louis Fagan, . . . 1888. Bernard Quaritch [Gutenberg Presse] . . . London. _Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK W.--An Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of the collection of Antique Silver Plate formed by Albert, Lord Londesborough; now the property of Lord Londesborough. By Frederick W. Fairholt, . . . Printed for private reference, by T. Richards, . . . M.DCCCLX. _4to, cloth._
Twenty steel plates and several woodcut illustrations.
FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK W.--See Irving and Fairholt.
FAIR SUICIDE.--The Fair Suicide: being an Epistle from a Young Lady to the Person who was the Cause of her Death. London, Printed for Richard Wellington . . . MDCCXXXIII. _Folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery. Bound with ten other works._
FAIRY FEAST.--The Fairy Feast, Written by the Author of A Tale of a Tub, and the Mully of Mountown. London: Printed in the year, 1704. _Folio, cloth, by The Club Bindery._
These two poems are not found among Swift's Poetical Works, 1833, although written "by the Author of A Tale of a Tub."
FALCONER, WILLIAM.--The Shipwreck, a poem by William Falconer a Sailor: . . . The text illustrated by additional notes, and corrected from the first and second editions, with a life of the author, by James Stanier Clarke, . . . London. Printed for William Miller, . . . By T. Bensley, . . . 1804. _8vo, boards, uncut edges._
FALCONER, WILLIAM.--The Shipwreck, a poem, by William Falconer, a Sailor: . . . the text illustrated by additional notes, and corrected from the first and second editions; with a Life of the Author, by J. S. Clarke, . . . London: printed for William Miller, . . . 1811. _8vo, Etruscan calf, gilt back, gilt edges, with painting of a landscape under the gilding._
Four full-page plates and six vignettes by James Fittler after Nicholas Pocock.
FALCONER, WILLIAM.--The Poetical Works of William Falconer [with a Memoir by the Rev. John Mitford.] London. William Pickering 1836. _Foolscap 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
FALK, VON MUeLLER, AND OTHERS.--Characteristics of Goethe, From the German of Falk, von Mueller, &c. With notes, original and translated, illustrative of German literature, by Sarah Austin. . . . London: published by Effingham Wilson, . . . 1833. _Crown 8vo, three volumes, half brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Allo._
Portrait on India paper, and two other frontispieces.
FANE, JULIAN.--Poems by the Hon. Julian Fane London William Pickering 1852. _Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges._
FANSHAWE, CATHERINE MARIA.--Memorials of Miss Catherine Maria Fanshawe. [Edited by W. Harness.] Privately Printed. [London, 1865] _Royal 4to, half brown morocco, gilt top._
FARMER AND HENLEY, _editors_.--Slang and its Analogues Past and Present. A Dictionary, Historical and Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of all Classes of Society for more than Three Hundred Years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc. Compiled and edited by John S. Farmer, . . . [and W. E. Henley] [London] Printed for subscribers only. M DCCC XC. [-XCVI] _4to, seven volumes, half red calf, uncut edges._
No. 509 of seven hundred and fifty copies printed. Volume II is dated 1891, III, 1893, IV, 1896 (the last two edited by Farmer and W. E. Henley), V, 1902, VI, 1903, VII, 1904.
FARMER, JOHN S., _editor_.--National Ballad and Song Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year A. D. 1800 edited by John S. Farmer . . . Privately printed for subscribers only M D CCC XCVII. _4to, five volumes, boards, uncut edges._
FARRAGO. [By "Pilgrim Plowden"] Printed for the author. Price 2s. 6d. stitcht. To be sold only by Lawton Gilliver . . . London. 1733. _8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt and blind-tooled back and side borders, gilt edges._
FAU, J.--The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man, intended for the use of Artists, Painters and Sculptors. By Doctor J. Fau. Atlas Containing Twenty-Eight [coloured] Drawings from Nature; . . . Edited with Additions by Robert Knox, M. D. . . . London: Hippolyte Bailliere, . . . 1849. _4to, half cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
FAUGERES, MARGARETTA V.--See Bleecker and Faugeres.
FEA, ALLAN.--The Flight of the King Being A Full True and Particular Account of the Miraculous Escape of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester By Allan Fea With Numerous Sketches & Photographs by the Author & 16 Portraits in Photogravure John Lane, . . . London & New York m:d.ccc.xcvii. _8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges._
FELISSA; or, the Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment. . . . [12 coloured plates] London: printed for J. Harris, . . . 1811. _12mo, silk, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
FELLOWES, W. D.--A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, in 1817: with Notes taken during a tour through le Perchie, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the environs of Paris. By W. D. Fellowes, Esq. Illustrated with numerous coloured engravings, from drawings made on the spot. London: printed for William Stockdale, . . . 1818. _8vo, figured brown silk, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery._
Twelve coloured plates, one etching, one outline plate, and one vignette on India paper.
FELLTHAM, OWEN.--Resolves, Divine Moral and Political by Owen Felltham Esq. London, Pickering 1840. _Post 8vo, citron morocco, back and side panels, gilt top, uncut edges._
Title-page within a border and rubricated.
FEMALE FACTION.--The Female Faction: or, the Gay Subscribers. A poem. . . . London: Printed for J. Roberts, . . . M. DCC. XXIX. . . . _Folio, cloth, by The Club Bindery._
FENELON, FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE.--The Lives And most remarkable Maxims Of the Antient Philosophers London: Printed for B. Barker . . . and R. Francklin . . . 1726. _12mo, sprinkled calf, gilt back, gilt over uncut edges, by Bedford._
FENN, GEORGE MANVILLE.--Benjamin Franklin Stevens By G. Manville Fenn London printed at the Chiswick Press for private distribution 1903. _Crown 8vo, buckram, uncut edges._
Seven illustrations.
FENTON, ELIJAH.--Poems on Several Occasions. [large printer's ornament] London: Printed for Bernard Lintot . . . 1717. _8vo, blue straight-grain morocco, gilt back, side corners, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._
First edition. Engraved frontispiece by E. Kirkall, and arms of the Earl of Orrery, to whom the work is dedicated.
FERGUSON, JAMES.--(I-II.) The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture: being a concise and popular account of the different styles of architecture prevailing in all ages and countries. By James Ferguson, . . . with 850 illustrations on wood. London: John Murray, . . . 1855. (III.) History of the Modern Styles of Architecture: being a sequel to the Handbook of Architecture . . . with 312 illustrations. London: John Murray, . . . 1862. _8vo, three volumes, russia, gilt back, gilt edges, by Bedford._
First edition of both series.
FERGUSSON, JAMES.--The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture: being a concise and popular account of the different styles of architecture prevailing in All Ages and all Countries. By James Fergusson, . . . Second Edition, with nearly 900 illustrative engravings. London: John Murray, . . . 1859. _8vo, half green morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
FERGUSSON, JAMES.--(I.-II.) A History of Architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day. By James Fergusson . . . second edition. [1015 illustrations] London: John Murray, . . . 1874 (III.) History of Indian and Eastern Architecture; by James Fergusson, . . . [394 illustrations] London: John Murray, . . . 1876 (IV.) History of the Modern Styles of Architecture: being a sequel to the Handbook of Architecture. By James Fergusson . . . with 312 illustrations. London: John Murray, . . . 1862. _8vo, four volumes, half morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
FERRIAR, JOHN.--Illustrations of Sterne: with other essays and verses. By John Ferriar, M.D. Second edition London: printed for Cadell and Davis . . . 1812. _Small 8vo, two volumes, sprinkled calf, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford._
FIDDES, RICHARD.--A Prefatory Epistle Concerning some Remarks To be published on Homer's Iliad: Occasioned by The Proposals of Mr. Pope towards a new English Version of that Poem. To the Reverend Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's. By Richard Fiddes, B.D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford. [Line in Greek] London: Printed for John Wyat, . . . and Henry Clements, . . . 1714. _12mo, half brown morocco, gilt top, uncut edges._
FIELDING, HENRY.--(I.) Love in Several Masques. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Fielding. . . . London: Printed for John Watts, . . . 1728.
(II.) The Temple Beau. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Goodman's-Fields. Written by Mr. Fielding. . . . London: Printed for J. Watts, . . . M DCC XXX.
(III.) The Coffee-House Politician; or, the Justice Caught in his own Trap. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Fielding. London: Printed for J. Watts, . . . M DCC XXX. . . .
(IV.) The Grub-Street Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Scriblerus Secundus. . . . To which is added, The Masquerade, a poem. Printed in MDCC XXVIII. London, Printed, and sold by J. Roberts, . . . M DCC XXX I. . . .
(V.) The Universal Gallant: or, the Different Husbands. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants. By Henry Fielding, Esq; . . . London: Printed for John Watts, . . . M DCCXXXV. . . .
(VI.) Miss Lucy in Town. A Sequel to The Virgin Unmasqued. A Farce; With Songs. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal In Drury-lane, By His Majesty's Servants. London: Printed for A. Millar, . . . 1742. . . .
(VII.) Tumble-down Dick: or, Phaeton in the Suds. A Dramatick Entertainment of Walking, in Serious and Foolish Characters: Interlarded with Burlesque, Grotesque, Comick Interludes, call'd Harlequin a Pick-Pocket. As it is Perform'd at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. Being ('tis hop'd) the last Entertainment that will ever be exhibited on any Stage. Invented by the Ingenious Monsieur Sans Esprit: The Musick compos'd by the Harmonious Signior Warblerini. And the Scenes painted by the Prodigious Mynheer van Bottom-flat. . . . London: Printed for J. Watts . . . M DCC XLIV. . . .
(VIII.) The Intriguing Chambermaid. A Comedy of two acts. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, By His Majesty's Servants. Taken from the French of Regnard, By Henry Fielding, Esq; . . . London: Printed for J. Watts . . . M DCCL. . . .
(IX.) The Letter-writers: Or, a New Way to Keep a Wife at Home. A farce, In three acts. As it is Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written by Henry Fielding, Esq; . . . London: Printed for J. Watts . . . M DCCL. _8vo, nine works in one volume, brown morocco, gilt back, gilt edges_.
First editions. The running head-line of "The Coffee-House Politician" is "Rape upon Rape."
FIELDING, HENRY.--The Dramatic Works of Henry Fielding, Esq. . . . London, Printed for A. Millar, . . . M DCC LV. _Post 8vo, three volumes, Spanish calf, gilt back, citron edges._
First collected edition.
The sub-titles have different dates, and the plays contained in each volume are not those indicated on the general titles.
I. 1. The Covent Garden Tragedy, 1754. 2. Historical Register for 1736, 1741. 3. The Mock Doctor, 1761. 4. The Lottery, 5th ed., 1761. 5. Tumble-down Dick, 1744. 6. The Intriguing Chambermaid, 1761. 7. Miss Lucy in Town, 2nd ed., 1756. 8. The Debauchees, 3rd ed., 1750. 9. The Universal Gallant, 1735.
II. 1. Pasquin, 3rd ed., 1754. 2. The Miser, 4th ed., 1761. 3. Grub-Street Opera, 1731. 4. The Masquerade, 1728. 5. The Letter-writers, or a New Way to Keep a Wife Home, 1750. 6. Life and Death of Tom Thumb, 4th ed., 1751. 7. Author's Farce, 3rd ed., 1750.
III. 1. Don Quixote in England, 1754. 2. The Modern Husband, 2nd ed., 1732. 3. An Old Man taught Wisdom, or the Virgin Unmasked, 4th ed., 1749. 4. Love in Several Masques, 1728. 5. The Coffee-House Politician, or the Justice Caught in his own Trap (the running-title is Rape upon Rape; or, the Justice caught in his own Trap), 1730. 6. The Temple Beau, 1730.