•  ESTC R200673; Wing (rev. ed.) W3533.   Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints lightly rubbed in places. Text soiled/stained throughout; fore- and top margins of all leaves with repairs to areas of lost paper, not affecting sidenotes; in all, Good.  (37988)

Chauncey Shepard was located at N. Main St. and Market St., Providence, between 1832 and 1835, and this is the address in the advertisement that fills the outside back wrapper.

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

WorldCat locates only five U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Yale, Harvard, Chicago, AAS, Free Library of Philadelphia).

•  Not in American Imprints, but see 36646 for a later Shepard printing.   Publisher's green stiff wrappers; minimal foxing, lightest soiling or spotting. Fine.  (38768)

Binding:  Jansenist-style red morocco, signed “A. Devauchelle.” Single gilt rule on board edges; handsome, wide, gilt-tooled turn-ins; French combed marbled paper endpapers. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, BP16, and KVK locate only seven libraries worldwide reporting ownership; none of those libraries being in the U.S.

•  Renouard, Inventaire, II, 2215; Renouard, Badius Ascensius, III, 309; Adams U63.   Binding as above. Fine copy.  (38874)

This pamphlet was clearly meant to be an ephemeral publication: Searches of WorldCat, NUC, Lindsay & Neu, and COPAC reveal only two copies in the U.S. (BYU and the Newberry), with only a handful more in Europe.

Provenance:  Early manuscript monogram on title-page in ink; bookplate of Paul Schmidt and green bookseller's label of J.L. Beijers of Utrecht on front pastedown. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Renouard, Estienne, 171; Duvall, French Political Pamphlets, 125; Lindsay & Neu 614; Welsh, French Political Pamphlets, 42. Not in Adams; not in Schreiber, Estiennes.   Disbound pamphlet tucked into a larger, possibly repurposed binding of vellum over boards with yapp edges and inked spine, date incorrectly noted “1562.” Moderate age-toning, small marginal hole at bottom interior corners; one témoin and one ink spot. Provenance indicia as above, a few small inked letters and numbers in an early hand, pencilled pagination on title-page, and inked pagination on final page. An interesting example of Estienne job printing.  (38694)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  ESTC T13872; Gumuchian 2682.   19th-century tree calf, rebacked with original spine laid on, this gilt extra with black leather title label; covers framed in a gilt foliate roll, board edges with gilt dot-and-dash roll, turn-ins with gilt pineapple roll, marbled endpapers. Binding rubbed and refurbished, top of spine pulled with loss exposing loose headband. Light to moderate age-toning, sometimes more deeply and variably toned around page edges; expectable foxing and offsetting from and around a few plates, two with short marginal tears; and otherwise, two small marginal chips, a stain or two, and one bent corner. Readership and provenance indicia and extra plate as above. Overall a pleasing book to peruse, and certainly one that ischock-full of beautiful images.  (38728)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  ESTC W18139; Evans 20440; Welch 680.1; Rosenbach, Children's, 119; Hamilton, American Book Illustrators, 114.   In pasteboards covered with “Dutch” gilt paper; housed in a corset within an open-back full red calf slipcase A remarkably crisp and clean copy.  (38528)

•  EDIT16 CNCE 26963; Adams L653; Renouard, Alde, 135, no. 5; Goldsmid, Aldine Press at Venice, 325; Kallendorf & Wells, Aldine Press Books, 309; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 351; Graesse, IV, p. 202; Brunet, III, 1068–9.   Contemporary limp vellum, inked title on spine, traces of now-absent ties; vellum dust-soiled, edges and spine chipped (with one larger spine chip affecting three to four letters of title), evidence of removed paper label, and rear free endpaper lacking. All edges stained a dusty rose, with some edge stain bleeding just a little onto margins. Pages crisp with only a few instances of dust-soiling, speckling, or a marginal stain; some corners bumped or creased, two uneven edges and three témoins from manufacture, one bifolium loosely attached. Provenance indicia as above, light pencilling on endpapers. An interesting, vernacular Aldine.  (38790)

Binding:  20th-century boards covered with stone-pattern marbled paper; binder's label of C.A. Carpenter, Jr., Shrewbury, MA, on rear pastedown.

Provenance:  Bookplate of Jeffrey Norton on front pastedown; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

Of the first edition, WorldCat locates only three libraries reporting ownership (Columbia, UC-San Diego, Bowdoin) and of this second only two (AAS, Free Library of Philadelphia).

•  Clean, with light foxing occasionally rising to moderate throughout; in fact a very good copy.  (38733)

Below her essay on the origins of the “Battle Hymn” is a facsimile of her signature. All of this is printed in blue and orange with decorations of green and orange laurel wreaths, and green and orange lilies, on a single heavyweight sheet folded to make four pages. WorldCat locatesonly three institutional copies (University of Massachusetts, University of Virginia, Rollins College), but we know of another at Harvard.

•  BAL 9478.   Folded sheet as above with very minor wrinkling to outside corners, one tiny dark spot to front, and the faintest bit of age-toning along edges. Clean, strong, and handsome, and a fitting tribute.  (38801)

Provenance:  20th-century bookseller’s label of James Miles and 20th-century bookplate of Alexander Stone. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  ESTC T93463; Opie B 328; Hugo 43; Bell 17; Osborne Collection, p. 743.   Later 19th-century mottled tan calf, gilt spine extra; joints and extremities lightly rubbed, small loss of leather at top of front joint. Labels and bookplate as above; without the bookseller’s advertisements at end. Minor foxing, pages otherwise crisp and clean.  (38709)

Kingston's “practical hints” for a happy nursery are further illustrated by three unsigned black-and-white plates and several in-text illustrations demonstrating various toys for children. These are accompanied by prayers, and hymns and songs with music.

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth, front board with gilt lettering and floral centerpiece within decorative black-stamped border, spine with similar gilt floral decoration and rear board with decorative border in blind.

Provenance:  From the library of Ellery Yale Wood, a collector of children's books and young adult literature, with her name inked on front free endpaper; endpaper also with pencilled signature of E.H. Jay.

•  Thomson, Kate Greenaway: A Catalogue of the Kate Greenaway Collection, 116.   Bound as above, corners bumped and edges rubbed, a little; spine ends remarkably intact, unrubbed and unpulled with all gilt very bright. Inscriptions as above, with additional early signature on front pastedown now effaced. Pages with light soiling to top and fore-edges, and very occasionally a small light spot elsewhere (with a few to title-page and frontispiece); minor foxing to endpapers and publisher's catalogue (only). An attractive copy of Greenaway's book-form debut.  (38014)

Binding: 18th-century black morocco, spine gilt with spiky-floral compartment stamps surrounded by frames of rules and dots; covers framed in gilt and blind with roll of scallops, dashes, and fillets and with same spine ornament gilt at corners. Turn-ins with gilt floral roll a little extending onto board edges, double-combed marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, 18th-century inked signature of Charles Mays (or Mayo or Mayor) and 19th-century gift inscription “Charles H. Roberts M.A. from Fred Renshaw(e)”; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  ESTC S90878; Darlow & Moule 4680; STC (rev. ed.) 2798.5; Willems 397.   Bound as above, rubbed, hinges (inside) starting to crack, the whole still attractive and the volume strong; text with the occasional spot, very faint waterstaining through perhaps a third of the text, and top edges closely trimmed touching headers on a few leaves. Provenance indicia as above, later pencilled bibliographical citations on front free endpaper, and “1633" on endpaper in ink. A production both erudite and aesthetically pleasing.  (38430)

WorldCat reportsonly four U.S. institutional holdings of this attractive Antoine-Augustin Renouard printing. While this copy does include the half-title, the engraved portrait cited by OCLC as appearing in some copies is not present here (with the volume showing no signs of its ever having been present).

Binding:  Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in gilt roll, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt roll resembling but not identical to cover roll. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, showing rubbing to spine, joints, and extremities. Portrait reported in some copies not present here; pages with scattered instances of mild spotting. An elegant little testament to the enduring influence of this work, progressive for its day.  (38421)

WorldCat locates only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (UCLA, Yale, Dartmouth, Free Library of Philadelphia).

•  Not in American Imprints. Not in Osborne Collection, nor Rosenbach, Children's, both of which only list “principal countries of the world.”   Contemporary half red roan in imitation of morocco with marbled paper sides, modest gilt ruling on leather on boards, spine gilt extra; binding slightly faded and rubbed, small area at base of spine pulled with loss of leather. Interior with the usual spotting and browning found in virtually all of the Juvenile Emporium books. A delightful little work.  (38526)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard; small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of each volume.

•  On Bennett, see: DNB (online).   19th-century hunter green–patterned calf, spines lettered in gilt, covers framed in blind triple fillets with daisies at corners, nonpareil-style marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; bindings gently rubbed, a bit moreso to evenly sunned spines. Light age-toning with only a handful of stains, moderate foxing on endpapers and title-pages. Booklabels as above. Fun and impressive both to look at and to read.  (38657)

The story is illustrated witheight color plates (including the frontispiece) by legendary artist Arthur Rackham. This is a later issue of the first edition, in the original red cloth, with Rackham's name not given on the title-page and no page numbers on the illustrations.

Binding:  Publisher's red cloth, spine with black-lettered, gilt-stamped label and Native American vignette, front cover with three men on a whaling ship with the name “Scud” on the side, watching two Native Americans rowing a canoe; main design stamped in black and white with accents of blue and brown.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, the bookplate of B. George Ulizio, an avid bibliophile and collector. Kent State University holds much of his British and American literature collection.

•  BAL 4434 (for the 1840 first edition).   Binding as above, boards slightly bowed, dark spotting to top and fore-edge, scrape to fore-edge; in a brown cloth clamshell case, black label with gilt lettering, overall rubbing, the brown ribbon book-pull within now in two pieces. Frontispiece beginning to pull away, but still attached at the top; interior age-toned with occasional foxing. A fascinating journey in a striking cloth binding, with illustrations fromearly in Rackham's career.  (38624)

Binding:  Intricately embossed burgundy calf with gilt lettering to spine; the spine design is derived from a Remnant & Edmonds spine plaque, according to Wolf. Each board has a medallion in the center featuring a woman in a chariot pulled by two galloping horses with several delicate stars in the sky; the medallion is framed by elaborate acanthus and foliate motifs. Blue marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Signed byBenjamin Gaskill (“Gaskill, Phila”) on spine.

WorldCat locates only eight copies of this 1838 edition.

•  Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 190.   Bound as above, mildest rubbing; marbled endpapers rubbed and slightly discolored just along edges from action by turn-ins. First set of contents with pages bound out of order. Interior age-toned as expectable, with instances of foxing especially along top edges throughout and with light evidence of old waterstaining along bottom ones; title-page with short inked line from outer edge, added engraving with small closed tear A nice example of Gaskill's embossing work and a delightful volume overall, “personalized.” (38710)

WorldCat and Shaw & Shoemaker seem to indicate that only one U.S. institution (Library Company of Philadelphia) holds a hard copy, as opposed to electronic or microform.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 50620; Lowens, Songsters, 310.   Sewn as issued, on blue-green paper; sewing going, leaves separating. All edges tattered and deeply soiled; some print faded or abraded.  (38896)

The work is printed in gothic type with sidenotes, a large woodcut of the Trinity on the title-page, and one large and three small reverse-printed initials (i.e., the initial is white on a black background).

Provenance:  20th-century bookplate of Franz Dryer on front pastedown; signature of Hildegard Dryer von Vater below bookplate. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this edition (Emory, Harvard, Valparaiso).

•  VD16 M2034; Bohatta, I, 366; Kuczynski 560.   20th-century black cloth shelf-back with flexible boards (traces of old paper label on front cover). Old waterstain, never very disturbing, on all pages. All edges red.  (38875)

Provenance:  20th-century signature in ink on front free endpaper of Francis E. Condict Ballard; earlier pencilled inscription of H.W. Rivers on front fly-leaf.

•  Shoemaker 28356.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title-label; covers and front (blank) pages expertly reattached and leather at head and foot of spine renewed. Inscriptions as above; back endpapers with pencilled missive in Spanish. Mild foxing and noticeable old water- and dampstaining, almost all marginal. A good, solid, usable copy.  (8506)

Binding:  Bound in rough cloth that appears to be contemporary, with frontispiece affixed to front pastedown — an unusually early cloth binding even if from the later end of the proposed chronological range.

Provenance:  Back pastedown with early inked inscription reading “Tomas Hunt his book.” Most recently in the children's book collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  ESTC T135121.   Bound as above, sides with a few spots of staining. Frontispiece used as front pastedown; back pastedown with early inked inscription reading “Tomas Hunt his book.” Pages clean, with some upper corners dog-eared.  (38647)

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (NY Historical, AAS, Library Company, University of Texas).

•  Not in American Imprints.   Stitched as issued. Damp-cockling and faint hints of old arrested mildew.  (38385)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Charles Edward Willock, Jr.

•  BAL 3555; Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 68.   Binding as above, with slipcase and chemise both sunned, rubbed, and chipped as seems to be their norm. The volume itself fresh and bright. Prospectus slip with light crease. Pages clean and crisp.  (38683)

Binding:  Publisher's dark green morocco, covers embossed with arabesque designs surrounding a central gilt-stamped floral medallion, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  Given to Dona Caroline [sic] Tagl[e] by her husband (as per presentation page).

WorldCat locates only seven U.S. institutional holdings (DLC, ICN, MWA, NSyU, NN, PU, PPL).

•  Shoemaker 40147; Palau 236614. Central block similar to Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 7, here with addition of medallion. This edition not in Faxon, nor Thomson, nor Tepper; see Faxon 59 for further information.   Binding as above, edges and extremities gently worn, spine gilt lightly rubbed towards joints; some sunning. Mild to moderate staining/spotting/foxing. An attractive, uncommon volume representing an often unnoticed phenomenon.  (38391)

The 11 engraved plates have been especially attractively shaded, and include depictions of “Le Souci” (sometimes incorrectly called “Le Soufré,” according to Malo), “Le Petit Nacré,” and “Le Sphinx de la Vigne,” along with Hyperia, Priamus, Anceus, and those butterflies listed in the header above.

Printed by the Imprimerie de Richomme, this bears a note at the foot of the title-page reading, “Gravés d'après les dessins de P[cancrace] Bessa.” Plates (unnumbered) and vignette on title-page are in stipple, printed in color and finished by hand, and were engraved by Francois Janet.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Contemporary-style quarter morocco over marbled paper sides, leather edges embellished with a gilt roll, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt decorative motifs between raised bands. Moderate foxing to first and last few leaves, with the few spots elsewhere mostly found surrounding plates. A little volume both instructive AND charming.  (38639)

•  Original wrappers, lacking rear one, front wrapper with old inked numerals. Clearly once bound in a nonce volume and now removed; paper good and quite clean.  (38405)

Binding:  Publisher's red cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title; with binder's ticket of Bone & Son on back pastedown.

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2M21798.   Binding as above; spine and edges darkened, gilt dimmed, corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed, outer edge of back board and back free endpaper (only) showing tidemark. Small bookseller's ticket on front pastedown now mostly effaced. Pages clean. Prettily bound though no longer quite “bright”; indeed, a very nice copy.  (38638)

Provenance:  18th-century signature on title-page of Joseph Antonio del Moral (canon of the Cathedral in Puebla); in 1779 given by the executor of his estate to the Franciscan monastery in Tehuacan de las Grandes with a commemorative bookplate on front pastedown and the monastery's marcas de fuego on the top and bottom edges of the closed volume (the monastery's library was secularized in the 1860s). Sold in 1908 by Alice W. Kurtz (American bookseller resident in Mexico City) to the American Antiquarian Society, and later deaccessioned.

•  I: Viñaza 255; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2131; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 59; Medina, Mexico, 2370; Sabin 60913; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2955. II: Viñaza 257; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2132; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 59; Medina, Mexico, 2371; Sabin 60911; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2954.   Contemporary limp vellum, lacking the ties. Marcas de fuego and other provenance indications as noted above. A clean crisp copy.  (38330)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

WorldCat locates only two libraries reporting ownership of this edition (University of Delaware, Free Library of Philadelphia).

•  Not in American Imprints; not in Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.). Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 855d.   Printed and illustrated dark brown-gray wrappers; modest wear and soiling to wrappers and text. Pencilled pagination added.  (38763)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Contemporary half sheep in imitation of morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations; rubbed (though spine gilt bright) and front hinge (inside) cracked. Six leaves lacking, as per collation, and an unknown number of plates; upper outer corner of pp. 41/42 torn away with loss of perhaps seven letters. Upper inner portions stained from a thumb's breadth to at worst case an eighth of the page, throughout; other staining and foxing quite minimal, and more often to text than to images. Despite its incompleteness and other evidence of enthusiastic use, this copy of this rarity still offers both considerable charm and several varieties of usefulness.  (38650)

Binding:  Dark blue morocco framed in gilt double fillets and panelled in a dotted gilt roll with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments. Turn-ins tooled to echo covers, cream moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities showing slight sunning and wear. Vellum (expectably) cockled. Lovely, unique, beautifully bound, and an impressive showcase both of modern calligraphy and of Follansbee's impact.  (38417)

WorldCat finds only nine U.S. libraries reporting ownership.

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  Not in American Imprints.   Publisher's green printed paper wrappers, nicked at extremities and along spine, trimmed very close at top; small chip/”bite” out of upper edge (all leaves) and a smaller one to outer margin of last leaf (wrapper); interior with a few spots only.  (38730)

Binding: 19th-century crushed light brown morocco, spine with gilt-stamped title, spine and covers framed in single gilt fillet, board edges with double gilt fillets, turn-ins with an intricate gilt roll of arabesque, dot, and tulip designs. All edges gilt. Signed on bottom front turn-in by London bookbinders Lloyd, Wallis, & Lloyd.

Provenance:  Pencil note on front pastedown “Proviene della Raccolta Catalina Fernese”; more recently in the library of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Not in Adams.   Bound as above; very gently rubbed with a few small specks on covers and moderate offsetting from binding to endpapers. Leaves with moderate age-toning and some dust-soiling, fore- and inner margins expertly repaired via leafcasting; a handful of words quite rubbed. Provenance indicia as above. A scarce fairy tale printing clearly meant to be ephemeral, now well preserved and neatly bound.  (38270)

WorldCat locates only one holding of this item, in Germany.

Provenance:  Contemporary neat inked ownership signature of Harriet Verner at top of title-page; her pencil note on front free endpaper “Mrs. Verner Aix la Chapell, July 1834.” Most recently the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Publisher's quarter mauve paper and marbled paper–covered sides, housed in later folding marbled paper–covered case with gilt-stamped black cloth spine, the whole in a marbled paper–covered slipcase; binding rubbed, spine sunned, joints very tender, slipcase darkened. Frontispiece recto with pencilled gift inscription dated 1834, title-page with early inked ownership inscription as noted. Last two plates have had their intended chapter locations switched in binding. Pages clean — the little reader who owned this must have been very respectful.  (38649)

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked inscription: “Phill Wenman”; first page of “The Life of Godfrey of Boulogne” with early inked inscription: “Phi. Wenman his Booke.” Frontispiece verso, title-page, and one other page rubber-stamped by the Holbrook Library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly deaccessioned).

Evidence of readership: Intermittent, generally unobtrusive early inked marginal brackets and marks of emphasis, with one annotation reading simply “Milton” (at “Swift from my selfe I run, my selfe I feare, / Yet still my hell within my selfe I beare”).

•  ESTC S117570; Graesse, VI, 35; NCBEL, I, 1103; STC (rev. ed.) 23699.   Contemporary mottled calf framed in double blind fillets, rebacked with plain calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; sides predictably acid-pitted. Frontispiece cut down and mounted on contemporary fly-leaf. Institutional rubber-stamps as above, title-page recto with stamped numeral; pp. 81/82 excised and replaced in facsimile. Pages with light age-toning and cockling, occasional small smudges or spots; a few corners bumped. One leaf with tear from upper outer corner, not extending into text; four final leaves with closed tear in inner margin and small hole in text, affecting one to two letters of six lines of text without obscuring sense. A solid copy with appreciable history.  (36790)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Rosenbach, Children's, 325; Welch 1461.1; Shaw & Shoemaker 11909; Hamilton 235; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 203a.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers (with four cuts), gently faded, front wrapper with small scrape to upper margin. Pages slightly age-toned but otherwise very clean. An apparently unread copy.  (38507)

“To prevent fraud, the written signature of the proprietor, S.A. Osburn, will be written upon the wrapper[of the bottle], without which none is genuine. Sold, wholesale and retail, by N. Osburn, corner of Main and St. Paul Streets, Rochester, N.Y., general agent for the United States” (p. [4]) — this copy without that signature.

Printed testimonials on p. 4 are dated 1847 and 1855, and a charming wood engraving on p. 1 shows a woman administering medicine to a sick woman in her bed.

Searches of WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (PPL, NRU-Med, MWA, NRMW).

•  Folded, as issued. A clean, attractive piece of medical-commercial ephemera.  (38410)

Binding:  Late 19th-century black morocco, spine gilt-extra: lettered and stamped in gilt with dots along raised bands and arabesque stamps in compartments; covers framed in triple fillets, board edges with a gilt roll of dots, turn-ins with gilt daisy roll, nonpareil marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

Provenance: A previous owner has added a Greek inscription dated Christmas 1873 in ink on a front fly-leaf; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1828.17; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 81; Darlow & Moule, 4816.   Binding as above, very gently rubbed with a few small scuffs. Light age-toning with one small spot; half-title lacking, frontispiece obviously reattached. Provenance markings as above, a few small marginal pencil or colored pencil markings, mostly at the start of the text. A petite and elegant production in a binding that is, frankly, about aspristine and classic as you are going to get.  (38282)

•  Publisher's color-printed paper–covered boards with red cloth shelfback, hinges (inside) tender; binding slightly sunned and showing mild to moderate wear overall, sides with small scuffs and spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with small chip to outer margin. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. A pleasing copy of a delightful work.  (38667)

Binding:  19th-century half brown morocco and papier tourniquet paper–covered sides, gilt lettering on spine with ruling in blind, covers with blind beaded roll along leather edges; French curl marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, green ribbon placemarker.

Provenance:  20th-century bookplate of the Sondley Reference Library of Asheville, NC, on front pastedown and its embossed stamps on frontispiece, title-page, and two leaves of text; clipping of a bookseller's description on endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Bound as above, gently rubbed. Moderate age-toning with light spotting, a few unevenly trimmed leaves of text and one missing corner from paper manufacture, foxing to first and last few leaves of volume. A strong and attractive copy of a book that's still a “good read.”  (38427)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear; evidence of removed bookplate on front pastedown and very faded word in an early hand on title-page margin.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 513; Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books Printed in the Low Countries (3rd ed.), 346; Corpus librorum emblematum, Jesuit series, J.631; Emblem Books at the University of Illinois, H56.   Bound as above, binding gently rubbed with a few small spots, one small wormhole and a leather repair, pencilling on endpapers. Light age-toning and limited, light to moderate all-marginal waterstaining throughout, a smattering of spots. Provenance marks as above. Plates as fresh and engaging as the day they were produced.  (38273)

Binding:  19th-century textured red roan in imitation of morocco, both covers and spine gilt extra with elaborate floral and foliate designs, title in each case in red relief “on” a pair of gilt panels textured with cross-hatching. Covers framed in triple fillets, the second delicately cornered with small diamonds, surrounding a border incorporating floral corner brackets and a floral base supporting an arch that itself breaks out in flowery flourishes. All edges gilt.

Evidence of Readership: A previous owner has tucked in a newspaper clipping of a poem titled “What is Love?” as well as two poems printed on silk and framed in paper lace (gilt in the one case, pink and white in the other), titled “To Papa” and “Farewell.”

•  Faxon, Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 258; Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals (2nd ed.), pp. 84–85 (see copy 2); Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books, pp. 106–07.   Bound as above, rubbed along board edges with very small worm holes along joints, light glue action to pastedowns. Light age-toning with the occasional spot or stain, plates moderately to heavily foxed; a few gently creased pages, one gathering loosely attached to binding. Lay-ins absolutely charming.  (38203)

Comparing this set of parts to Field's collation we find one ad slip lacking in No. 19/20, but an extra (uncalled-for) one in No. 4. Four of the wrappers (Nos. 1, 2, 18, 19/20) contain different ads than those specified by Field, but clearly these are original and authentic (possibly states of the wrappers?).

•  Tooley, Coloured Plates (1979 ed.), 295–96; Field, John Leech on My Shelves, 130–37; Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 136.  The condition of the set is remarkably fine:  The first part has only the slightest wear at its extremities, but otherwise there is virtually no wear or soiling to the set. Housed in a quarter dark red morocco open-back slipcase with raised bands and an inner chemise, with some abrading to the slipcase.  (38151)

The Grandeza was Balbuena's first published work, appearing from the Ocharte press in Mexico in 1604. A descriptive epic poem about Mexico City at the close of the 16th century, paying homage to its external material aspects and to its spiritual, political, and social ones as well, it is a major work of Novohispanic literature. The Siglo de Oro was the author's second published work; it first appeared in Madrid in 1608 and is composed of a series of 12 eclogues.

Binding:  Contemporary acid-stained sheep (Valencia style) in hues of green and brown, covers with a gilt roll border and a center device of the Spanish royal coat of arms, spine gilt extra.

•  Palau 22339; Simón Díaz 2286; Maggs, Spanish Books, 71a. On Balbuena, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica, fiche 90, frames 7–16.   Bound as above, joints and extremities mildly rubbed. Title-page with spots of pinhole worming, front fly-leaf with one such. Pages clean, portrait handsome.  (38393)

•  Bitting, 228. Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Bound as above, edges and extremities lightly rubbed; covers with small scuffs, front cover with thin scratch. One plate and attached leaf separated. Nyal stamps as above. A very few recipes with pencilled marks of emphasis, one page in dessert section with small stains and a dog-earned corner, pages otherwise clean. This is not a facsimile or reprint — it is a cleaner copy of the first edition than often seen on the market, with interesting commercial provenance.  (38622)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Bibliotheca Osleriana 4907; Brunet, III, 43; Garrison & Morton 1594; NSTC H564; NCBEL, I, 1113. Not in Ing, Charles Whittingham: Printer, 1795-1876.   19th-century half brown calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled bands and compartments, leather edges ruled in blind; binding lightly rubbed overall, somewhat more so along joints. Front fly-leaf with pencilled annotations and affixed slip of old cataloguing. Fore-edges untrimmed.A clean, attractive copy.  (38229)

WorldCat finds no U.S. institutional holdings of any B.C.B.A. publication.

•  Printed paper wrappers, with the 1916 booklet laid into another, slightly larger but otherwise identical version of its wrappers; 1916 wrappers creased and slightly smudged, 1911 and 1913 very gently faded. 1916 with short tear from outer margin of title-page. One baker's first name lined through in advertisements (a professional vendetta?). Overall, clean and pleasing copies of seldom-seen ephemera. (38276)

A book of toasts and quotations for all occasions organized by categories (love, the army, colleges, sports, particular quaffs, life's joys, etc.) presented in a merry, decorative (and signed) binding.

Binding:  Publisher's yellow/tan cloth with yellow-stamped lettering to spine, purple and yellow-stamped lettering bordered by black on front board with purple grapes, green leaves and yellow tankards and goblets surrounding a giant steaming punchbowl as decoration. Top edge gilt, black ribbon bookmark included. Signed “AR” (i.e., Amy Richards).

•  Bound as above; edges lightly rubbed, parts of text on spine rubbed, faint spots of soiling to front board. Light spotting to fore-edge, a few random finger smudges, soiling to gutter of p. 98. Wassail in a fitting decorative binding!  (38318)

Printed with rather notable neatness, and “embellished with three copper-plate engravings.”

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 16281; Rosenbach, Children; 381; Welch, American Children’s Books, 1290.   Original publisher's marbled paper over light boards, starting to separate along joints. Light age-toning only. A nice copy.  (38481)

Evidence of Readership: Four pages with early inked annotations in Latin, corrections, or marks of emphasis.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Brunet, II, 561; VD16 D 389; Index Aurel. 150.950. See also Vicaire 255; this ed. not in Adams.   19th-century treed paper, spine with hand-inked paper label; binding slightly sprung, spine sunned, extremities rubbed. Front free endpaper with (inexact) modern pencilled bibliographic notes; title-page with small pencilled annotation in lower margin; other annotations as noted. Trimmed somewhat closely, occasionally touching foliation or catchwords. An uncommon edition in a solid, worthwhile copy.  (38291)

•  Brunet, II, 1013; Schweiger, I, 107; Wolf & Hayes, Library of Benjamin Franklin, 1000.   18th-century dark hunter green morocco framed in gilt triple fillets, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt rules, and gilt compartment decorations; moderately worn overall, joints and extremities refurbished, spine rubbed and slightly browned. Red endpapers. All edges gilt. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean. What's technically known as “a sweetheart.”   (38265)

Alice Barber Stephens, an American painter and engraver whose work appeared in Harper's and the Ladies' Home Journal, provides the illustrations, being13 plates throughout the text and a frontispiece (with tissue guard) of Wilkins.

Vol. III of the Ladies' Home Journal Library of Fiction.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, the signature of Katherine Phinprose(?).

•  Wright, III, 2038.   Publisher's textured green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board; lighter green-stamped decoration to front board and spine; fore-edge of pages untrimmed. Extremities rubbed. Small tear of paper on front pastedown; gutter crack at series list and p. 114. A nice little volume combining the work of two prominent women.  (37815)

Binding:  19th-century quarter brown sheep in ecclesiastical style with marbled paper sides; spine blind-embossed with elements of a church (rose window, arches, leaded glass window, etc.) and with gilt ruling and tooling. All edges marbled. Binding by B. Miyar (with his ticket).

Provenance:  16th-century signature of Juan de la Torre in lower margin of main title-page.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the Iberian Book Project locate only three copies of the 1519 edition in U.S. (Hispanic Society, Newberry, Huntington), no copies anywhere in the world of the 1546 (i.e., apparently a ghost), and only six U.S. copies of this 1552 (Hispanic Society, NYPL, Bancroft, Lilly, BPL, and UPenn).

•  On Castilla, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 195, frames 158–59. Brunet, I, 1632; Graesse, II, 66 & VII, 161, note; Palau 47981; Salvá, 522; Heredia, II, 1887; Wilkinson, Iberian Books, 2921; Iberian Book Project IB 2921; Sánchez, Bibliografia aragonesa, II, 332. Not in Alden & Landis; not in Harrisse.   Binding as above; spine ends rubbed. Text lightly to moderately age-browned, with scattered foxing; small chipping to fore-edges of some leaves, small piece torn from blank outer margin of title to second part, last leaf with a closed tear, repaired. Overall a very nice copy of a scarce Spanish work of the Golden Age.  (38121)

The offering begins witha merrily violent woodcut border of rabbits hunting men on the title-page; the text is printed in single columns with italic type and roman chapter headings along with the occasional decorative initial.

Evidence of Readership: Two early users have covered the title-page verso and three endpapers with notes in Latin and Greek — sometimes minute and some overlaying previous ones — in addition to adding a few phrases and decorations to the title-page, embellishing nearly every large initial (both plain and decorative), supplying a few marginal notes, and underlining a few phrases of text, all in ink. A more modern user has contributed a few English notes in pencil at the back.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Not in Adams; not in VD16. On Mosellanus and Hegendorff, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus; our quotation on Hagendorff is from this source. On the Paedologia, see: Seybolt, Paedologia of Petrus Mosellanus (introduction).   16th-century limp vellum over pasteboards, title inked on spine, all edges stained blue; evenly dust-soiled, new endpapers. Lacks final blank (only) as above. Provenance and readership markings as above, with a few notes partially trimmed. One small marginal hole and a few pages with slightly worn type; moderate age-toning and occasional, chiefly marginal, staining. An exciting find for multiple reasons.  (38117)

Provenance:  18th-century ownership signature of Francisco Antonio Ximenez del Arenal on front free endpaper. Unidentified marca de fuego on top edge of volume. Handsome 20th-century bookplate of Jose Rodriguez Familiar on front pastedown.

There seems to have been NO Mexico-printed edition of this work.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 798; Palau 92347; Sabin 24815; Alden & Landis 740/121; Medina, BHA, 6467.   Publisher's limp vellum with ties, title in old ink on spine, all edges speckled red; stain on front cover and another on rear. Evidence of ties, now perished. Bookplate and markings as above. Overall a clean, crisp copy in very good condition.  (38135)

Binding:  Excellent retrospective sprinkled calf by Wallis, covers with double gilt ruled border, raised bands, gilt spine extra; stone pattern endpapers. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Moon, Tabart, 85(1); Osborne Collection p. 168.   Binding as above, in lovely condition. Pages and plates clean and crisp.A specially desirable copy.  (38531)

This pamphlet presents the treaty and two separate articles with more specific details on implementation of its arrangements in French, Spanish, and English, with the British ratification statements recorded in Latin and English and the Spanish ones in Spanish and English. Several ships are mentioned by name, and the West Indies and Puerto Rico appear as locales for conflict.

•  ESTC T4473; Sabin 16195; not in Alden & Landis, European Americana; Goldsmiths'-Kress 07664.   Removed from nonce volume, first leaf separating from text block; light age-toning, one top margin trimmed closely, light marginal pencilling on first and final leaves. A good printed relic of a failed peace effort.  (38080)

Four black and white plates (including the frontispiece) done by F.T. Merrill accompany the text.

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth with white lettering to spine; front board decorated with a ship at sea stamped in white and gray, with white lettering and two white single-rule borders. Signed by Amy Sacker.

•  Bound as above; extremities very lightly rubbed. Small, rubber-stamped monogram (CMcA? JCA?) on the front free endpaper. Minor gutter crack at p. 30. Overall a wonderful copy.  (38127)

The work was first published in London in 1844, with an informative introduction by its editor, Harriet Martineau; this Boston printing, including that contextualizing introduction, isthe first U.S. appearance of a significant and uncommon expression of the thoughts and dreams of women laborers in the early 19th-century American factory system.

Provenance:  Bookplate of the Wilmington Institute Free Library (originally incorporated in 1754).

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 34077; Sabin 49192.   Publisher's straight-grained brown cloth, covers framed in triple blind fillets surrounding central blind-stamped foliate medallions, spine with gilt-stamped title and foliate motifs; extremities rubbed, spine with paper hand-inked shelving label and with affixed letter “S” partially obscuring title. Front pastedown with bookplate as noted; back free endpaper with affixed library slip noting the book was “not for circulation,” with offsetting to back pastedown. Last text page with early inked initials and with pencilled purchase note. Scattered mild foxing. A nice example of this pioneering collection, in its original publisher's binding, andonce held by a public library designed to support exactly the kind of working-class self-improvement on which the volume focuses.  (38169)

•  Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 2423; Palau 292360; Blake, Philippine Languages, 327; Walsh, Philippine Linguistics, 951; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 619.   Contemporary limp vellum, yellowed, ties lacking; front free endpaper and title-page with old taped repairs; text block (itself strongly intact) loose in binding. Insect tunneling to approximately 50 leaves at front with some loss to print and about 100 leaves at the rear with small losses mostly marginal, not destroying sense of text; else good++ .  (38102)

•  Cagle & Stafford 480; Brown, Culinary Americana, 1564 (1906 ed. only).   Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with blue cloth shelfback, front cover with color-printed carving image and decorative title; paper gently darkened, extremities rubbed, back cover showing minor dust-soiling. All page edges stained red. Front free endpaper with a Boston bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A nice copy.  (38145)

Evidence of Readership/Use: The space at the back for additional items has been used for pencilled recipes for “Mrs. Beaver pan cake” and nine other desserts.

WorldCat findsno institutional holdings, and this is unlisted by Brown. Our supplied date is based on information in the ads, as well as an advance notice of voting primaries to be held in 1927.

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   In original wrappers, stapled as issued; wrappers with edges chipped and spots of minor discoloration, front wrapper splitting along front joint and all but separated. Two pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages evenly and gently age-toned with occasional small spots, otherwise clean and (despite those noted manuscript additions) showing no signs of kitchen use.  (38140)

•  Adams E274; Graesse, V, 390; Moreau, Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle, III, 1304. On Poliziano (and his impact on Erasmus), see: Contemporaries of Erasmus, III, 106–08.   18th-century calf framed in blind roll, sometime rebacked with complementary leather spine with blind tooling, gilt triple fillets, and gilt-stamped leather title-label; sides, corners, and edges showing light wear, back outer edge with dent not taking leather. Scattered spots of faint foxing; a few leaves with light waterstaining to outer margins (only). Inscriptions and annotations as above (some annotations shaved), with some incorrect foliation and chapter headers corrected in ink. One signature apparently lacking from lib. IX. One leaf with paper flaw affecting a few letters, without loss of sense; one leaf with small portion of outer margin torn away. As a copy revealing instances of attentive scholarly interrogation, this is a distinguished one.  (38065)

Binding: Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and foliate decoration to spine; deep blind-stamped triple-ruled and foliate border on front board framing stylized gilt title and cottage centerpiece; rear board identical to front board but with centerpiece in blind. Saffron endpapers.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, 20th-century signature of “Wm. B. Goodwin, M.I.T.” A rubber-stamp from the Lowell Historical Society appears on the front pastedown and on the top and bottom edge.

•  Hitchcock, American architectural books . . . portfolios, and pamphlets . . . published in America before 1895, 389.   Bound as above; rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, minor coppery discoloration to gilt on front board. Provenance stamp and signature as above; age-toned edges and minor to moderate foxing throughout interior. Sound and unassuming and more than respectable, much like its target audience.  (38084)

Patrick Murdoch's short biographical piece on Thomson is included here, as well as a preface by James Nichols and notes from the editor. Stunning engravings signed by English engravers John Gilbert and William Greatbach appear throughout, protected by tissue guards.

Binding:  Dark teal(?) morocco darkened to black with beveled boards and intricate decoration in blind; gilt lettering and additional blind decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt and gauffered. Binder's ticket of Poulter of Leamington on front pastedown.

Evidence of Readership: Two rather interestingly late-dated notes of reading completion (August and September 1942), in pencil in margins.

Provenance:  Signature and initials of V.C. Turnbull on verso of front free endpaper; another owner's notes on place/price of purchase on the same page.

•  Bound as above, refurbished. Lacks half-title; frontispiece and several plates lightly foxed, offsetting to tissue guards from plates, and small, sparse spots of staining to several leaves. Pencillings as above plus one pencilled marginal rule. A lovely collection, delicately detailed plates, and an excellent binding.  (37350)

Binding:  Rich green morocco, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with compartmental fleurons, covers framed and panelled in blind double fillets with gilt decorative corner stamps, board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with decorative gilt rolls, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed binding by Capé, name camouflaged in lower front turn-in.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  EDIT 16 CNCE 47120; Adams G1358; Gamba, Serie dei testi di lingua e di altre opere importanti nella italiana letteratura scritte dal secolo XIV al XIX (4th ed.), 687; Brunet, I, 1737.   Bound as above, moderately rubbed especially corners and spine. Light pencilling on endpapers and one blue crayon mark over a numbered stamp with another stamp at back; provenance as above, old oval rubber-stamp (imperfect) on two leaves of text. Two small marginal paper flaws; leaves with a few instances of light marginal waterstaining or the occasional spot and light age-toning generally. An elegant production, an attractive volume.  (37997)

Binding:  19th-century full tan calfsigned (on spine) Vogel. Boards with a simple gilt double fillet border with corner rondels; flat spine with raised bands accented above and below each band by gilt rule, a wide fillet in black, and another gilt rule, with gilt tooling on each band and gilt center devices in four compartments. Board edges with a gilt rope design and turn-ins with gilt roll. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Adams G1157; Renouard 75:1; Edit16 CNCE 21740; Kallendorf & Wells, Aldine Press Books, 128; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 144; Legrand, Bibliographie hellénique, I, 50; Panzer, VIII, 432, 788.   Binding as above; front joint (outside) with excellent repair, each board with one small scuff, back lower outer corner with small leather loss, spine leather showing a few very fine cracks. Old cataloguing slip laid in. A very good copy.  (37982)

Dietrich (1901–92) was an active performer for much of the 20th century; she reinvented her image many times — going from film actor to humanitarian during World War II to cabaret artist — and maintained her popularity and glamorous image throughout the years. In 1947, she received the Medal of Freedom for her work supporting Allied troops.

The volume includes a section of black-and-white photographs of Dietrich in various roles and with co-stars and friends.

Signed by Dietrich on the front free endpaper, where the book is also numbered (94).

•  Publisher's white cloth with gilt lettering to spine; original pink pictorial dust jacket present with faded spine, light wear to corners, minor creasing and rubbing to front panel with short tears to upper edge, and small piercing at front joint. Volume under jacket, pristine.  (37966)

•  Bound as above and in lovely condition; extremely minor spots of rubbing and scraping to boards, one raised band with a short cut(?) and a sliver of leather lost. An overall wonderful copy of this beautiful reprint.  (37923)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplates of Fratelli Salimbeni (with shelving number) and of “G.P.C.” (with woodcut image of Pegasus and motto “Nec adversa retorquent”); front fly-leaf with early inked annotation “H.III.161" and lined-through (still partially legible) inscription “Bibliotheque Vallicellane”; title-page with early inked inscription “Petri Salvati - V.” surrounding printer’s vignette, and obscured inscription in lower portion. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Adams A409; Brunet, I, 125; Renouard, Estienne, 68:22; Schreiber, Estiennes, 88.   Later vellum, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-stamped blue leather publication label; vellum with minimal dust-soiling and traces of wear to extremities, two bottom-most spine compartments with later replacement (blank) vellum “labels,” one now starting to peel slightly. All edges stained blue. Bookplates and inscriptions as above; front free endpaper with later pencilled annotations (one giving incorrect Adams reference). One early inked marginal annotation. Pages gently age-toned, with intermittent minor foxing to margins; final leaf with small paper flaws in lower margin. An attractive copy of an interesting and significant volume.  (37916)

Binding:  Red crushed morocco framed and panelled in blind double fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title and publication information, and gilt-tooled strawberry leaf decorations in compartments; turn-ins with gilt compound roll, all edges gilt. Signed binding by Capé, name camouflaged in lower front turn-in.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with ex libris of Panof Grafsos Skinos, with shelving number; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Pettegree, Livres vernaculaires français 18447. Not in Adams; see Brunet, III, 207 for other eds.   Binding as above, minor rubbing to extremities and light scuff to back cover; bookplates as above. Pages mildly age-toned; first text page with tiny nick to upper margin. Scarce edition ofa classic anti-woman romance with much influence throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, here in a distinguished, attractive signed binding.  (37930)

Binding:  Publisher’s green cloth with white lettering to front board and spine, front cover with dark green and white scene of a log cabin in the woods. Unsigned (and notably fine).

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, signature of Frank U. Burden, “Christmas, 1902.”

•  Not in Minsky.   Bound as above; mild rubbing to edges and spine-head, wrinkle to cloth at top outside corner of front board. Light offsetting from something once laid in to inner margins of two facing pages. A charming binding, a clean handsome book.  (37533)

So Much of the Diary, here in its 1845 second edition, was originally printed in 1844, while Some Further Portions is here in its first printing.

Binding:  Contemporarymatched bindings done by Zaehnsdorf, signed on each front turn-in: brown morocco, framed and panelled in gilt and black fillets with gilt-stamped fleur-de-lis corner fleurons, turn-ins similarly designed, and board edges with gilt roll; spines with gilt-stamped titles and volume labels, blind-stamped compartment decorations, and gilt-stamped fleurs-de-lis in compartments. Top edges gilt. Back pastedown of each volume with gilt-stamped example of Zaehnsdorf's oval medieval bookbinding apprentice device, from a design by Jost Amman.

Provenance:  Front fly-leaf of second volume with a woman's tantalizingly not-quite-decipherable ownership inscription: “E[something] Anne Fan[something!]s [/] Farnley 1848.”  Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2R2740 & 2R2743; Ing, Charles Whittingham: Printer, 1795-1876, 32.   Bindings as above, variously rubbed to extremities; offsetting to endpapers from turn-ins. Vol. II with ownership inscription as above. Pages lightly age-toned with occasional minor smudges or spots; front fly-leaf of vol. II (only) more notably spotted. A handsome set of an intriguing Victorian — and feminine — perspective on the domestic side of this dramatic period in the 17th century.  (37855)

This is the stated 32nd edition; the present copy was “compliments of Johanson & Peterson, dealers in staple & fancy groceries” in Minneapolis, MN.

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, stapled as issued; wrappers showing light dust-soiling but virtually no wear. Pages clean. An unused copy.  (38118)

The illustrations number three, of which two are hand-colored. The uncolored one is on the front wrapper and is a repeat of that on p. 4. One cataloguer says the plates are “metal-engraved” but we would think them wood-engraved.

Issued in the series “Peter Parley's smaller tales,” thisincorporates the “be kind to animals” lessons seen in this era.

Provenance:  Very clear, even elegant ownership signature on front wrapper “Mary D. Perkins, 1829"; “Mary Dening Perkins, 1829" on front free endpaper. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

WorldCat locates a total of five libraries reporting ownership.

•  Shoemaker 38790. Not in Sternick; not in Rosenbach.   Publisher's bright yellow wrappers, printed and illustrated. Light finger soiling on front wrapper along fore-edge; spotting to interior, not distressing; a charming little book.  (38490)