•  Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities showing minor wear, with gilt oxidized. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription; some page edges with small blotches. Binding very handsome in its subtle way. Impossible! to get a good image of! (12986)

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•  Publisher's cloth, front and spine stamped in black and blue; small stain to front cover, some wear to head and foot of spine. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Sturdy; pages clean.

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“nothing had been published in regard to the subject” before the present work

Illustrated with10 full-page stipple-engraved plates done by J. Erxleben, this guidebook covers efficient tank construction, freshwater aquarium inhabitants readily obtainable in the wild (goldfish, sticklebacks, sunfish, minnows, crawfish) as well as likely marine candidates (crabs, anemones, gobies, blennies, pipefish), and the basic overall principles of balancing species (fish, plants, snails, etc.) so that the tank seldom needs to be cleaned or have its water changed. It should be noted that the author is not wholly reliable in his identifications of American vs. British natives — but then again, the fad of aquarium-keeping was brand-new at the time, very few people could lay claim to more than Edwards' two years of aquarium experience, and all previous published works on the subject had been thoroughly British.

Binding:  Publisher's textured olive-green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title and publisher; front cover framed in blind around a gilt-stamped central medallion offering a decoratively lettered title accented with images of small swimming fish, shells, and seaweeds.

•  NSTC 2E5035.   Bound as above; extremities rubbed and spine slightly sunned with small area of discoloration around paper shelving label at head. Ex–social club library: shelving label as noted, call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on endpapers and two pages (not title-page), no other markings. Back pastedown with small ticket of New York bookseller, partially effaced. A few leaves with very short tears from outer margins, not touching text; pages clean.  (29024)

Poems by Eliot, Wither, Louis Imogen Guiney, King Alfonso X, Robert Southwell, and others, including the ever present “Anonymous.” The typographic conceit is executed to charming effect.

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•  Apparently not in Gallup, T. S. Eliot: A bibiography (rev. & ext. ed.).   Publisher's wrappers in a blue, black, and cream overall design; spine area a little darkened. Near Fine.  (27414)

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•  Gallup, T. S. Eliot: A bibiography (rev. & ext. ed.), A9a.   Publisher's yellow wrappers printed in black. Light dust-soiling. Very good copy.  (27434)

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•  Gallup, T. S. Eliot: A bibiography (rev. & ext. ed.), A68.   Publisher's green wrappers, spine darkened, and a little rumpled. A decent copy.  (27448)

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•  Gallup, T. S. Eliot: A bibiography (rev. & ext. ed.), A63a.   Publisher's cream wrappers printed in green and wire stitched. Lightest soiling to wrappers; a clean copy.  (27432)

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Mrs. Ellet was a commercially successful novelist, poet, historian, and periodical contributor known for her Women of the American Revolution — and for the “Bluestocking Scandal” of 1845, in which Ellet, having had her affections rebuffed by Edgar Allan Poe, accused him of improprieties with Frances Osgood.

•  Wright, I, 898.   Contemporary half sheep in imitation of morocco and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped author/title and gilt-ruled bands; binding with small scuffs overall, leather starting to crack along front joint (joint holding). Ex-social club library: 19th-century call number on endpaper, title-page pressure-stamped, no other markings. Pages mildly spotted and stained throughout; one leaf with short reinforced tear at lower margin, not touching text; two leaves with outer margins repaired — actually, quite a decent copy. Entertaining reading, and an interesting mix of folklore and middle-class formal literature! — not commonly seen on the market in the first edition.  (31868)

This Concord, NH, printing is number 9 in Rufus Merrill & Company's “Series No. 2" of “New and Amusing Toys,” according to the back wrapper. The work is illustrated with three wood engravings of ships, one of which is signed “A. DeC[???].”

•  American Imprints 43-4410.   Publisher's printed green paper wrappers, very bright; corners and spine extremities slightly worn; inside only a very little light spotting. A clean, crisp, very well-preserved representative of its genre.  (31391)

•  Publisher's quarter sheep with printed sides; neatly respined with cloth tape. Signed by previous owner on front pastedown.  (4182)

Provenance: Old inked signature of L.(?) E. Ammisdown to fly-leaf.

•  Printed boards, respined with cloth tape strengthening joints. Text clean and paper quite decent.  (4183)

The title-page verso has an affixed paper label reading “Manufactured in Japan by the Dai Nippon Printing Co.”

•  Publisher's color-printed paper wrappers, joints and extremities lightly rubbed. Pages clean. A very nice copy.  (30351)

This volume’s oversized, folding frontispiece shows the front facade of the “new East India House now building in Leadenhall Street”; there is also one in-text engraving of Lethington House in East Lothian, residence of the Maitland family.

Provenance: Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.

•  Disbound with front cover, front free endpaper, and frontispiece separated; back cover lost, and signature sewing exposed/going, with many leaves loose. Now contained in a simple, acid-free phase box. Edges untrimmed. Minor offsetting and a few stray marks; mostly clean.

Provenance:  Inscribed by the author: “To B.F. Pyle, Esq. [?] from his friend the author.”

•  Publisher's textured violet cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; faded, especially over spine, tear to cloth along front joint with corners and extremities a bit rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked inscription as above. Endpapers, frontispiece (“The Rhine”), and title-page lightly foxed. In fact a clean, nice copy.  (23195)