The celebrity of this criminal led to several accounts being published about him and some engravings being created of him and depicting his crimes. All engravings, broadsides, and pamphlets about him are scarce, several rare. As regards this broadside, we find only two other copies (at the Society of Antiquaries Library and the British Library, both in London).

•  ESTC T187880. Old folds with minimal and short fold tears. Lower outside edge crumpled with small tears, now flattened and repaired. Evidence of having been mounted on a large sheet of 19th-century paper. A very good copy of a very scarce and visually attractive broadside.

Only three U.S. institutions (and two British) report holdings of this uncommon item. This copy bears an inked inscription in the upper margin reading “With the Author’s Comps.”

•  NSTC 2M7062; not in Goldsmiths’-Kress. Recent moiré cloth–covered boards. Title-page with small inked numerals in outer margin; presentation inscription as described above partially trimmed in upper margin. Shouldernotes trimmed closely, in some instances with loss of a few etters. Pages clean.

Click the images for enlargements.

•  Gamba 2323; not in Brunet. Contemporary vellum over paste boards, outer edges yapp, spine with hand-inked title; vellum torn and partially lost over lower edge of front cover, with signs of wear and small spots of staining elsewhere. Ex-library, front pastedown with Italian institutional bookplate; yet volume otherwise free of markings. Title-page verso with affixed scrap of paper. Intermittently occurring light dampstaining in upper margins; otherwise clean.

Click the interior image for an enlargement.

Quite scarce. We find only one copy reported as owned by any U.S. library.

•  Publisher's red cloth, all edges gilt. Very good condition.  (14554)

•  ESTC R20941; Wing (rev.) M514. On the Popish Plot, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, X, 590–94; and the article on Titus Oates in The Dictionary of National Biography, XLI, 296–303. Removed from a nonce volume with remnants of previous binding at “spine” and two fly-leaves from the volume remaining attached also, on the second of which is a list of contents in ink. The leaves of this piece are numbered in ink consecutively on the upper outer corners of the versos. Some staining, foxing, or soiling, and a few shallow tears, with no loss of print. All edges speckled red.

Binding: Pebbled leather over thick boards, covers with sculpted raised panels; panels and spine compartments gilt-stamped within; all edges gilt—a handsome example of this style of Victorian binding.

•  Binding as above, with some rubbing and abrading, especially on edges, and faint waterstain at head of spine. Short tear with loss along front hinge (inside) at base and short closed tear along outer edge of front free endpaper. Light to moderate foxing on pages and plates. Inked ownership inscription on recto of front flyleaf. (8624)

•  Contemporary gilt-stamped green cloth with a bit of light wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise bright and lovely. Some page edges uncut. (10569)

•  NSTC 2S18901. Removed from a nonce volume. (16764)

•  Evans 29025; ESTC W29507; Sabin 44848. On Cobbett, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XI, 142–45. Contemporary sheep, framed in blind tooling, spine with gilt-stamped title label; leather worn over edges and front joint fully open, spine showing some cracking and chipping. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription dated 1839, also later pencilled inscription; front fly-leaf with a different inked ownership inscription. Scattered instances of minor spotting and offsetting.

•  Faxon 108. Binding as above, paper scuffed and joints a touch rubbed. Front free endpaper with owner’s name; front pastedown and fly-leaf with pencilled notations. Frontispiece with small chip to outer margin, repaired. Some instances of offsetting surrounding plates and illustrations, pages otherwise clean. An attractive, engaging little book.

An additional folding leaf bears a wood engraving (signed “JMH, del.”) of a train in the English countryside, a sternwheeler, and an English eating hall!

The author (1827–1916) was a native of Indiana, a graduate of Indiana State University, and a Presbyterian missionary in China beginning in 1850 and later in Japan. He acted as interpreter for William B. Reed, the United States minister, in negotiating the treaty of 1858 with China.

RARE. No library reports to OCLC or RLIN owning a complete set of all four parts. In fact, only Harvard and the library that deaccessioned this copy report owning any parts; Harvard owns parts two and three.

Provenance: Author’s presentation copy, with the front wrapper inscribed “Rev. E. W. Syle / fraternal regards of / Wm. P. Martin.” The Rev. Syle was a pioneer in the education of the blind in China and Japan.

•  Wylie, Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese, 204. Stitched in plain wrappers, as issued; now laid into a protective library binder. Front wrapper with inscription as described above. Pages very faintly age-toned, some creased; one map with split starting along fold. A rare production in a great association copy.

Click the image to the left
for an enlargement.

Such statistical publications as this were essential for the government of the newly independent nation, especially for planning purposes and for use when negotiating with bankers for the loans so essential to the nascent nation.

Interestingly, the population statistics ignore distinctions such as “indio,” “mestizo,” etc. The brief paragraphs about the towns and hamlets are filled with facts such as that the nuns of one particular town still wear hats of the Quiroga style.

An observation having nothing to do with the text: The paper on which this work is printed is very thin laid paper with no apparent watermark. The quality is not “European” and this cataloguer (DMS), with nearly 40 years experience with Mexican books, wonders if the paper is from one of Mexico's first paper mills?

•  Palau 155712; not in Sutro. Later 19th-century quarter sheep with stone pattern marbled paper sides. Binding worn, text skewed in binding. Private ownership pressure stamp on title-page.

Click the interior image for an enlargement.

Provenance: Signature on title-page of Bruce J. Worthington, dated 1794; of Ethan Allen, dated 1856; of John H. Alexander, Esq.; in the library of the Maryland Diocesan Library (deaccessioned).

•  Evans 10049; Wroth, Maryland, 254; Sabin 45186.   Recent full calf, old style, by Grace Bindings (signed “G.B.” on lower turn-in of inside back cover), with gilt tooling on covers and spine, raised bands on spine, red title-label. Title-page browned around the edges and with some loss of paper; leaf now backed as is the last (bookseller's advertisements). Maryland Diocesan library stamp (deaccessioned as above) on title-page. Dedication page with very old repair along inner area of blank verso. Old dampstaining to early and late leaves and a few other places; occasional stray spots or small stains. Complete with the errata/advertisement leaf. A handsome, impressive volume.  (20605)

Originally published in 1919, at Geneva, in an edition of 200 copies. Romain Rolland wrote the introduction. Stated on verso of title: “This edition is strictly limited to 600 copies for America. Each copy is signed.  No. 180.” Signed by the author.

Binding: Contemporary black morocco, covers gilt-stamped with arabesque and foliate motifs, spine gilt extra, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. Front cover gilt-stamped “C.A. Babcock.” All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, corners bumped, a few spots of light rubbing to gilt, edges, and extremities. Edge gilt, though rubbed, still glimmering. Front free endpaper with pencilled monogram. Pages clean. Once, somebody’s treasure — “C.A. Babcock’s,” to be specific.

•  Evans 8400 & 8399; ESTC W33793. Good-quality 20th-century quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label, raised bands, and ornately handsome blind-stamping within compartments. Back fly-leaf with inked inscription dated 1782. Some browning and spotting; one early, inked marginal annotation.

Scarce: OCLC lists only this copy (now properly deaccessioned) and one foreign holding.

•  19th-century quarter tan paper over light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; rubbed, darkened, spine with inked call number. All edges stained green. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription; title-page, first, and last leaves pressure-stamped; prefatory leaf with inked numeral in lower margin; library name stamped on lower edges of closed book. Occasional faint spotting.  (23681)

The is the fourth edition overall, and is stated as “corrected and enlarged, with some practical advice.”

Provenance:  “Sarah Orne, her booke, December 1736" on the title-page; also on same, in a later 18th-century hand, “Joseph Johnson.” On verso of title-page “Peruzed by G[e]orge Minot” in a hand of the first half of the 18th century. 20th-century bookplates of Dr. M. H. Miers and another unidentified.

•  ESTC W13453 & T63261; Evans 1571; Holmes, Increase Mather, 588.   Half brown morocco of the first half of the 20th century; binding a bit bowed and text age-toned, especially at front and rear. Last leaf irregular along edges and with one small burn hole costing 6 letters, neither “issue” taking sense. Without the final advertisement leaf. A decent copy of an uncommon work, with interesting provenance.  (22226)

•  Cf. Banks, 147; cf. Pilling, Algonquian, 345, for first (1861) ed. Not in Evans. Publisher’s cloth, with binder's title “Vie de Jésus en Algonquin”; cloth a bit wrinkled over spine and showing slight rubbing over corners, with signs of a now-absent shelf label on spine. Pages age-toned and a bit brittle as of the era, with sewing starting to loosen for some signatures. Back free endpaper with portion of upper margin torn and affixed to back pastedown.

A considerable and interesting array of ads for other Griffin publications is appended.

•  Publisher's green textured cloth, extremely neatly rebacked, back cover blind-stamped, front cover gilt-stamped with abstract plant-recalling border and central title amidst flowers; each cover pressure-stamped by now-defunct library, with slight discolorations to upper edges. All edges gilt. Title-page and four others lightly stamped (plates untouched); library pocket on back free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket on back pastedown; endpaper edges chipped. Plates clean and very pleasing; in fact, it's a pleasing little volume overall.

•  ESTC T85697; Brunet, III, 1544. Recent green marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Half-title (only) lacking. Title-page and four others institutionally rubber-stamped (this faded); title-page with early inked note giving author’s name, one spot of light waterstaining, and minor chipping to corners. One leaf with tear from upper margin, extending into text without loss. Some offsetting.

•  NSTC 2M21803; Cohn, Bibliographical Catalogue of the Works Illustrated by George Cruikshank, 527.   Clamshell case as above, spine with gilt-stamped publication information. Wrappers age-toned, especially so on pt. I, and with small stains on pts. I and VI; spine and edges of pt. I rubbed. Pages and plates clean.  (23942)

Signed by Mayorga in type and with his rubric (i.e. paraph).

•  Medina, Guatemala, 400 (having seen only a copy in a private collection).   Upper margin irregular with loss of paper due to damp damage, not touching text or printer's ornament. Three small wormholes in lower margin. A good exemplar of a rare and romantic item.  (3832)