Birmingham: by the Author, 1804. 12mo, xi, [i] 184 pp. Engraved portrait, with the half-title. Occasional spotting; expertly rebacked; still an attractive, untrimmed copy in the original drab boards. § First edition of this collection of provincial verse by John Collins (1742-1808), the actor, poet and sometime bookseller who became..... More

Luxembourg: Privately Printed, n.d. [but Paris: Guibal? c.1931]. 4to, 214 pp. With 53 color pochoir illustrations. Original printed wrappers, binding cracked and shaken but just holding, wrappers unevenly sunned, internally fine. § Privately published in an unknown edition. Worldcat lists copies only at Yale and the Bibliothèque nationale de France..... More

London: Printed at the Philanthropic Reform, 1798 [and] 1813. 2 works in one, 8vo, [4], viii, [5]–115, [1] pp., with an engraved frontispiece by William Staden Blake (cut down and mounted); vii, [1], 64; a little spotting in the second work, with inkspots to p. 13; some light foxing, a...... More

Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips, 1805. Small 8vo, (6), 212, (1, index)pp, with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake. Mild offsetting/spotting from plates as usual,but overall a clean and very pleasing copy in calf with neatly repaired gilt spine. § First edition, with plates 1-3 in first state. Bentley..... More

London: Strahan for the author, 1802. Large 4to, [3], (iv-xx), [1], 2-112 pp, (pages 61-112 printed music). With a hand-colored engraved frontispiece, drawn by Ibbetson and J. Smith and engraved by Rowlandson, and an uncolored tailpiece. Original leather-backed boards, printed label, all somewhat worn but sound. § First edition of..... More

London, New York etc.: various publishers, n.d. 6 items, disbound, each with lithographic title page/cover sheet, in color. Occasional foxing and browning. Several items are cropped, apparently at the time of binding, affecting title page but not music. § A collection six of 19th century songs, including marches, polkas, and..... More

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Square 8vo, xxxiv, 240 pp. Original brown cloth, backstrip lettered & ruled in gilt, covers ruled in blind. Frontispiece & title-page vignette engraved on wood by C. H. Jeens after sketches by Joseph James Jacques Tissot; eight additional wood-engraved plates. Rubbed along edges;..... More