1840. London: Richard Bentley, 1840. 8vo, xvi, 439 pp. With A.L.S. laid in. 40 steel engravings and 58 woodcuts by Cruikshank. Full polished calf by Riviere, covers ruled in gilt, backstrip richly gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, navy blue coated endpapers. A very good copy, backstrip a little worn..... More
1833. Plattsburgh [NY]: F.P. Allen, 1833. 4to (218 x 135 mm), 280 pp., three wood-engraved figures in text. Original tan paper-covered boards, linen backstrip, printed paper label, quarter brown morocco slipcase, a very good copy of a fragile book. § First edition, first issue, of what has been termed..... More
1970. Bibliographical Society of America, 1970. 8vo, 16pp.Very good in gray wrappers. Inscribed offprint from vol 64, Fourth Quarter, of the Papers of The Bibliographical Society of America, from Bentley for George Goyder. Very good in stapled wrappers. § Bentley's thorough analysis of the two facsimiles dates both before 1825..... More
1981. Isle of Ely: Waterside Press, 1981. 8vo, (20 pp), 3 with letterpress, the remainder blank, but one with Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s inscribed dedication of this copy to Terry Buckley. Near fine in original green calf over marble papered boards. § #59 of 100 copies in all, of a poem..... More
1821. London: 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (-vii/viii), 12, xxiv (-i/iv), 214; [I], [215]-592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake, and four other designs by Blake engraved by others. Original full rose sheep, backstrips lettered..... More
1932. [N.p.; n.d.: Probably USA: c. 1932-33]. 4to, 19 manuscript ff. numbered. Enclosed in a blue cloth box, bookplates of Kenneth A. Lohf. § An interesting unpublished manuscript, written out for Binyon by his wife Cicily, probably being the text of an essay or talk given by Binyon while in..... More
1733. London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1733. Thick 8vo, xvi, 700, lx (index) pages. Original calf, final two leaves creased, lacking rear free end-paper. § William Blake’s copy, signed on the title-page “William Blake his Book” in brown ink. The signature corresponds almost exactly with the example reproduced..... More
1976. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1976. 8vo., 229 pp. Original blue cloth with title printed in white to backstrip, original dust jacket with title printed to the upper cover in op art style, and photo of the author by George Kalinsky to lower cover. Some foxing..... More
1857. London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. 8vo, vi, 403 pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, a remarkably good copy with two bookplates, in a quarter red morocco box. § First edition, scarce, an interesting association copy of this ground-breaking feminist work, inscribed by Watts Phillips, the popular..... More
1901. Oxford: University Press Oxford, 1901. 8vo, unpaginated. Original blue paper boards with vellum backstrip. Inscribed "to Junius S. Morgan, from the editor, in remembrance of much kindness." Endpapers spotted, a very good clean copy. § Limited to 200 copies printed at the University Press by Horace Hart for..... More
1980. New York: Stein and Day, 1980. 8vo, 129 pp. Original plain boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust-jacket. Inscribed by Mary Cheever, dated June 22 1981, autograph letter from her to the same recipients laid in. Dampstaining to the letter, upper and outer margins of..... More
1979. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1979. 8vo, 188 pp. Original yellow boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, near fine in a original unclipped dust-jacket, partly toned. Inscribed by Cheever on the front free endpaper “For Ted and Ruth with love and thanks for many things, Susan”. §..... More
1881. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. Oblong huge folio, images measure 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches on mounts measuring 17 x 24 inches. Some wear and darkening to the edges and margins of the mounts; foxing in the margins of some mounts, prints are clean and bright. Library..... More
1820. No place (but London?): no date (ca. 1820?). 2 pp., small 4to, written in brown ink on one side and addressed on the other with a watercolor drawing by Cruikshank. § A tantalizing letter: addressed only to “Mr. Cumberland,” it is tempting to hope it might be George Cumberland..... More
1880. London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, x, 592, 32 (ads dated May 1878) pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, hinges cracked, a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip, text block edges (but not pages) stained, an unsophisticated..... More
1831. Wyndham Place: Sept. 12, 1831. 4to, 1 p., traces of removal from an album-leaf on verso, no damage. § ‘Dr. Hanthall’ [or Haulhall?], an allegedly distinguished Horace scholar introduced to Dibdin by Richard Heber, with whom Hanthall/Haulthall corresponded in Latin: see Dibdin’s Reminiscences (1838), ii:967, quoting a knowledgeable..... More
1799. [London]: Sept. 9, 1799. 4to, 1 p., tiny hole in centre, text unaffected. § A highly important, very early, and previously unrecorded letter, tasking his correspondent to give the bearer two copies of “my Charts of the Rights of Persons,” one colored and one plain, without charge, “in..... More
1816. Kensington: March 4, 1816. 4to, 1 p., in very good condition. § To an unidentified correspondent, concerning a large-paper copy of the Bibliotheca Spenceriana, of which he has received vols. one and two (of four): "You need not be under any apprehension, as those who have the previous, will..... More
1840. London: June 1, [18]40. 4to, 2 pp., (with conjugate leaves) written in ink. With two wax seals still present but mostly illegible -- one possibly has the monogram TFD. § Dibdin writes slightly testily to the addressee: "... the weather is hot, my paper of limited dimensions, and a...... More
1798. London: Feb. 6, (17)98. 4to, 4 pp., written in ink. Fold neatly restored, in very good condition. § This is one of the earliest, and by far the most important, Dibdin letters extant. It is fully described and transcribed in Windle and Pippin E2 and it describes Dibdin's first..... More
1827. W.P.: Nov. 20, 1827. Sm. 8vo, 4 pp. Small tear at one corner without loss. § A sad letter, reporting, in shock, the ‘melancholy, dreadful occasion’ of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Davis, having been ‘burnt to death... What was wonderful was she suffered little or no pain but lay in..... More
London: 'Tuesday', n.d. 8vo, 1p., trimmed close to the margins with no loss. § A sweet little letter, inviting them to a ‘confabulation’ over dinner (‘haddock, roast mutton, and apple (drawing)’. Dibdin has added two simple drawings, one of a dish (of apples) and one of a heart (i.e. heartily..... More
1826. [N.p.]: Oct. 19, 1826. 4to, 3 pp. Small tear from breaking the seal, othewrwise fine. § A deeply moving and sad letter about the illness of Arch’s brother Arthur, and Dibdin’s own ailments. "As I was very nearly "going the way of all flesh" from the same complaint... I...... More
Kensington: July 17, n.d. 8vo, 4 pp. Very good. § Interesting letter ‘in direful wrath’ about Dulau, who ‘owes me upwards of £50’, and concerned about Leighton’s ‘price for boarding’: ‘he asked 14, then 18, and then 17, and I stuck out for 16 free volumes. Shall it be so?’..... More
1828. W.P.: Oct. 9, [1828]. 4°, 3 pp., edges of conjugate second leaf reinforced with transparent paper-tape, no text loss. No loss but not in good condition. § Sadly, one of many Dibdin letters about being behind in financial obligations. He begins: "‘Be tranquil!’ so perhaps Triphook had berated Dibdin..... More
