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Babylonian Talmud. TEN VOLUMES
NEW EDITION OF THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD. Original Text Edited, Corrected, Formulated, and Translated into English by Michael L. Rodkinson. First Edition Revised and Corrected by The Rev. Dr. Isaac M. Wise. Ten Volumes. Second Edition, Re-Edited, Revised
Ten Volumes. Very XLib. Some volumes underlined. Quarto. A mixed set in variant cloth bindings. Some volumes worn. Hardbound set. Our colleague, Eric Chaim Kline, describes this set well - "This great work of Jewish scholarship was the first attempt to translate the Talmud into English. The arrangement is not in the traditional order, but rather organized according to topic, thereby focussing on the educational value rather than on completeness." Shipping this set will require extra post. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUDAICA BOX 6
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Aleichem, Sholom.
STORIES AND SATIRES. Translated by Curt Leviant. Drawings by Arthur Zaidenberg.
381 p. Illustrated with drawings by Arthur Zaidenberg. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Fourth printing. JUDAICA BOX 1
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Murray, Lindley (1745-1826).
KEY TO THE EXERCISES ADAPTED TO MURRAY'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Calculated to Enable Private Learners to Become Their Own Instructers, in Grammar and Composition. From the Latest London Edition, Improved by the Author.
144p. Foxed. Inked ownership of Abraham Myer, 1831. Penciled ownerships of Sallie, Samuel and John Shover, 1888. 12mo. Original full leather binding. Rear board very fragile, bottom half broken. Hardbound. AI #18158 (MWA). PA64 TOP
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Owens College.
ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, By Professors and Lecturers of the Owens College, Manchester. Published in Commemoration of the Opening of the new College Buildings, October 7th, 1873.
pp. xvi, 560. Unopened. Age stained. 4to. Original full green cloth binding, decorated in silver. Gilt lettered spine. Binding dust spotted. Hardbound. The papers include: The Railways and the State, by W. Stanley Jevons; The Peace of Europe, by A. W. War; Solar Physics, by Balfour Stewart; The Talmud, by T. Theodores, etc. John Owens, a successful Manchester cotton merchant, held strong views on the relationship between education and religion. A firm Nonconformist, he objected to the dominate role that the Church of England played in education. Owens, who never married, decided that he would leave most of his wealth to help establish a further education college for men that would not have: "to submit to any test whatsoever of, their religious opinions". Most interesting. PA69/STACK LEFT
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Powell, Lyman P.
THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN DELAWARE. Bureau of Education Circular of Information No. 3, 1893. Contributions to American Educational History Edited by Herbert B. Adams. No. 15.
186p. + Frontis and full page photographs. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Front wrap torn with loss. PA69/MID STACK
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Watson, J. Madison.
INDEPENDENT CHILD'S SPELLER: Printed in Imitation of Writing, With Original Classifications of Words, Formations of Columns, and Exercises for Reading, Writing, Etc.
80p. Illustrated with woodcut engravings for each letter of the alphabet. Age stained. Slightly damp stained. Lacks first fly leaf. Text obviously used by a small child. Includes three partially printed report cards for Alice Gerhart daughter of Susan Gerhart, Term of 1878-79, 1879-80. Inked ownership of Alice N. Garrett, 1874. Penciled juvenile ownership of Alice N. Garr(ett). 16mo. Original cloth spine over pictorial printed boards. Pictorial front board decorated with a small girl and her chalk board. Binding very worn. Hardbound. This edition is scarce. PA64 FRONT
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Harris, William T.; Andrew J. Rickoff; Bailey, Mark.
THE FOURTH READER. Appletons' School Readers.
pp. 248, (8) [Publisher's catalogue of school books] + Plus Frontis and full page plates. Slightly damp stained. Foxed. Early inked ownership of Henry Dissinger, Dec. 1882. Engraved plates of horses and a cow pasted on fly leaves. Sm. 8vo. Original leather spine over publisher's cloth boards. Spine lettered in gold and embossed in blind. Boards stained. Hardbound. PA64 TOP
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Harris, William T.; Andrew J. Rickoff; Bailey, Mark.
THE FIFTH READER. Appletons' School Readers.
471p. + Plus Frontis and full page plates. Frontis slightly damp stained. A few pencil marks. Lacks front fly leaf. Sm. 8vo. Original full red leather spine over publisher's cloth boards. Spine lettered in gold and embossed in blind. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA64 TOP
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McGuffey, William Holmes (1800-1873.
McGUFFEY'S NEW FOURTH ECLECTIC READER: Instructive Lessons for the Young. Eclectic Educational Series.
242p. Illustrated. All edges marbled. 12mo. Leather spine over pictorial paper boards. Very slight loss at tail of spine. Small damp stained spot bottom of front board. Hardbound. Facsimile reprint of the 1866 edition. Very good. William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1874) was an educator, minister, author and college president. He is best known for the series of Eclectic Readers (McGuffey Readers), textbooks which were widely used throughout much of the nineteenth century. Henry Ford used the McGuffey Readers when growing up and later brought his birthplace to Greenfield Village and built a one-room schoolhouse using logs from a barn at McGuffey's birthplace. Ford also republished a number of the McGuffey readers. PA64 TOP
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McGuffey, William Holmes (1800-1873).
McGUFFEY'S NEWLY REVISED ECLECTIC FOURTH READER: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, With Rules for Reading, and Exercises in Articulation, Defining, Etc. Revised and Improved.
pp. 332, (4) [Publisher's catalogue]. Age stained. Damp stained. Civil War period ownership of Nicholas Summers, January 20th, 1863. Sm. 8vo. Original leather spine over cloth boards. Spine lettered in gold and embossed in blind. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. PA64 TOP
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(McGuffey, William Holmes).
THE NEW MCGUFFEY FIFTH READER.
352p. Pictorial decorated title page. Illustrated with full page plates. Numerous juvenile scribbling and smudges. Some pages loose. Penciled ownerships of Delta and Mabel Pipes, Fulton Ohio. [These are young children of Alpheous L. Pipes and his wife Mary Jane Sellars]. Sm. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, worn at extremities. Hardbound. PA64 TOP
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Smith Roswell C.
ENGLISH GRAMMAR, ON THE PRODUCTIVE SYSTEM: A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland. Designed for Schools and Academies. New Stereotype Edition. Smith's New Grammar.
pp. 192, 16 [Publisher's catalogue]. Age stained. Early inked ownership of Adam Hunsicker on title page. Lebanon bookseller's label. 12mo. Original leather spine over printed paper boards. Boards stained. Hardbound. PA64 TOP
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Bailey, Rufus W.
THE SCHOLAR'S COMPANION; Containing Exercises in the Orthography, Derivation, and Classification of English Words. With an Introduction and a Copious Index. A New Edition, Thoroughly Revised.
312p. Lacks first fly leaf. Inked ownership of R. A. Hitt, Jr., 1886 on top and bottom edges. 12mo. Original leather spine over green cloth boards. Gilt lettered and embossed spine. Very small rubbed spot on spine. Boards decorated and lettered in black. Hardbound. PA64 FRONT
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Bury, Patrick.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN CAMBRIDGE.
24p. 8vo. Original printed wraps. PA69/MID STACK
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Demarest, A. J.; Sickle, William M. Van.
NEW EDUCATION READERS. A Synthetic and Phonic Word Method. Book One: Part 1. Foundation. Nine Weeks; Part 2. Practical Application. Eleven Weeks.
144p. Illustrated. Complete? Lacks front and rear fly leaves. Title page worn with loss at bottom corner. XLib Reading Pa., School District, Charles S. Foos School. Numerous tape repairs. Pages worn and soiled. Sm. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, decorated in red and lettered in black. Binding soiled. Hardbound. PA72
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Emerson, B. D.
THE FIRST-CLASS READER: A Selection for Exercises in Reading, From Standard British and American Authors, In Prose and Verse. For the Use of Schools in the United States.
276p. Slightly foxed. 12mo. Original leather spine over printed paper boards, slightly worn. Hardbound. This was an extremely popular and influential American school reader. PA64 TOP x 5c
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Perse, St.John.
CHRONIQUE. Translation by Robert Fitzgerald. Bilingual Edition. Bollingen Series LXIX.
60p. Inked ownership. 4to. Original cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. Very good. Most interesting. POETRY2 BOX 2
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Stowell, Lord; Pettingall, Dr; Ellis, Sir H.; Lysons, S.
PETITION OF SIR JOHN DAVIES TO BE RESTORED TO THE DEGREE OF BARRISTER, 1601; DISSERTATION ON THE GULE OF AUGUST; ANCIENT METHODS OF CONVEYANCE; OFFICE OF RAGLER; PLAN FOR BUILDING A HOUSE OF CORRECTION IN WESTMINSTER; COPY OF AN INDENTURE OF A RETAINER, R
Four articles bound together but with various paginations. Large paper copy. Wide margins. Deckle edges. Uncut. Age stained. Large 4to. 30 cm. Original blue wraps with printed paper label. Loss on front wrap. Probably issued as No. 417 of "Archaeologia, Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity." Scarce in the original wraps. Very Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BOX 1
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Lorimer, George Horace.
OLD GORGON GRAHAM. More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. With pictures by F. R. Gruger and Martin Justice.
pp. xi, 308 + Frontis and full page drawings by F. R. Gruger and Martin Justice. Publisher's device on title page. Sm. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Spine darkened and slightly dust spotted. Hardbound. First American Edition. Very Good. HUMOR BOX 9
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Ashley, Maurice.
JOHN WILDMAN. Plotter and Postmaster. A Study of the English Republican Movement in the Seventeenth Century.
319p. + Frontis. Mildly XLib. Tall 8vo. Original full dark blue cloth binding. Call letters on spine. Hardbound. Good. ENGLAND BOX 1
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Royal Society of Antiquaries; Amyot, Thomas; Lysons, Samuel; Bray, William.
ACCOUNT OF THE INSTRUMENT OF LEGITIMATION, Granted by Mary, Queen of Scots, to Her Brother James. Letter from Pope Pius the 4th to Mary; SIR B. TICHBORNE TO JAMES 1ST, On Staying the Execution of The Lords Cobham, Gray, and Markham; ORIGINAL PAPERS TO J
Four articles bound together but with various paginations. Large paper copy. Wide margins. Deckle edges. Uncut and unopened. Age stained. Large 4to. 30 cm. Original blue wraps with printed paper label. Probably issued as No. 464 of "Archaeologia, Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity." Scarce in the original wraps. ENGLAND BOX 1
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Maurois, Andre.
DISRAELI. A Picture of the Victorian Age. Translated by Hamish Miles.
pp. xiii, 379, (5) [Publisher's catalogue] + Plus Portrait Frontis Drawing and full page plates. Large 8vo. Original full purple silk cloth binding, lettered in gold. Spine darkened. Hardbound. First American Printing. ENGLAND BOX 1
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Knight, Charles (Editor).
OLD ENGLAND: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities. In Two Volumes.
Two Volumes + Plus full page sepia chromolithographs by Leighton Brothers. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts. Folio. Original quarter leather over cloth boards. Spines gold lettered and embossed and decorated in blind. Leather corners worn with some loss. Leather spines scuffed. Hardbound set bound by Leighton Brothers. A scarce and interesting set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ARCH BOX 3
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Trollope, Frances (Mrs).
PARIS AND THE PARISIANS IN 1835.
410p. + Half Title and eleven line engravings, by A. Hervieu and Shginber, printed on yellow paper. Text foxed. Early inked ownership of Jho. P. Ely and penciled ownership of David M. Tice, Lebanon, PA. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, worn. Lacks half of spine. Hardbound. First American Edition. TRAVEL/4
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Eutropius.
HISTORIAE ROMANAE BREVIARIUM. Secundum Editiones. Cum Versione Angelica.
pp. (12), 267 + Publisher's Advertisement. 12mo. Uncased. Latin text followed by the annotated English version. Written in a simple, concise style, Eutropius' history (especially in this edition) was probably originally intended for school use. SMALL BOX 1
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(Gummere, Francis B.)
OLD ENGLISH BALLADS.
380 p. Numerous penciled notations. Sm. 8vo. Worn original publisher's cloth binding. Used as a school book. Athenaeum Press Series. A book of English Ballads. Gummere was of Philadelphia Quaker stock. PA 31
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Egerton, Judy and Snelgrove, Dudley.
BRITISH SPORTING AND ANIMAL PRINTS 1500-1850. Sport in Art and Books, The Paul Mellon Collection.
pp. xv, (2), 126. Plus 23 full color page illustrations. Folio. Original gold stamped cloth binding. Original dust jacket, very slightly worn. A fine illustrated catalogue of the first part of Paul Me llon's superb collection of British sporting and animal paintings and prints. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF8
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Budge, F. A.
THOMAS ELLWOOD, and Other Worthies of Olden Time.
165p. Lacks first fly leaf. 16mo. Original full blue cloth binding. Mildly XLib. Library call mark on spine. Useful English Quaker biographies. PA 61 L Stk.
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Quakers.
A COLLECTION OF TESTIMONIES CONCERNING SEVERAL MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL AMONGST THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, Deceased: With some of their last Expressions and Exhortations.
pp. (12), 372. 8vo. Age stain. Top edge of some leaves slightly worn away. Lacks fly leaves. Contemporary full leather binding. Front board detached. Early ownerships of Samuel and David Stockton on title page. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 59.
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Sands, David.
JOURNAL OF THE LIFE AND GOSPEL LABORS OF DAVID SANDS: With Extracts From His Correspondence.
286 p. Sm. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding. Spine taped. Manuscript ownership of D.S.B. Chew. Early printed bookseller's label of H. Longstreth, Philadelphia. PA 61 L Stk.
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Stanton, Daniel (1708-1770).
A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE, TRAVELS, AND GOSPEL LABOURS. OF DANIEL STANTON, Late of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania.
pp. 17, 184 + (1) Errata. Lacks first fly leaves. Age stained. 8vo. 205mm. Contemporary full roan binding. Detailed Quaker journal of travels in America and the West Indies. Includes a first-hand account of the Indian Treaty negotiations at Bethlehem. 1756-1759. Evans 12565, Sabin 90387. First American edition. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 59.
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Anthon, John.
AN ANALYTICAL ABRIDGMENT OF THE COMMENTARIES OF SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. In Four Books. Together with an Analytical Synopsis of Each.
pp. xx, 279 + Large folding chart. Foxed. Some passages have 75 year old typed(!) corrections(?) mounted in place of Blackstone's text. Contemporary full roan leather binding. Spine broken, with slight loss. Early manuscript ownership of Thomas Harris. SCARCE. AMER IMP 5 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
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Ord, Mark; Day, Thomas
AN ESSAY ON THE LAW OF USURY. Third Edition: Comprising the Later Decisions in England, Ireland, and America, with Notes and References, by Thomas Day.
pp. viii, 135, 8, (14). 8vo. Foxed. Contemporary full roan leather binding. Front board detached. The text is interesting in determining lending and borrowing practices that were considered usual in the U.S. and United Kingdom. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AMER IMP 5
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Scott, Sir Walter.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Seven (7) volumes. Woodcut plates. 16mo. 12 cm. Unusual off-white cloth bindings that look almost like vellum, elaborately tooled in gold. Spines darkened. Bright blue endpapers. Top edge gold. Rather scarce. Pretty little gift set.
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Sterne, Laurence.
THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN. Comprising the Humorous Adventures of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.
525 p. + Frontis. Thick 12mo. Attractive original publisher's blue cloth binding, decorated in black and gold. Manuscript ownership of H. L. Smyser (York, PA).
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Pepper, George Wharton.
PHILADELPHIA LAWYER. An Autobiography.
403 p. + Frontis and full page photographs. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding, slightly spotted. Original dust jacket, chipped and stained. Second impression. Pepper was the United States Senator from Pennsylvania (1922-1927). PA 17
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Aymar, Brandt and Sagarin, Edward.
A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT TRIALS: FROM SOCRATES TO EICHMANN.
373p. 425 illustrations. Large 4to. Original publisher's black cloth binding, soiled. "Complete descriptions of the most important and intriguing trials of five continents." An excellent illustrated s tudy that includes: the historic background of each trial; indictments; courtroom testimony; cross-examinations; charges to the jury; verdicts; sentences; and the verdicts of history. A fine gift for a lawyer. NW24
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Harris, William J.
FIRST PRINTED TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH OF THE GREAT FOREIGN CLASSICS. A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature.
pp. 209, vii. Small 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Reprint of the 1909 edition. Though a bit outdated, this is still a very useful reference. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF1
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Mencken, H. L.
AMERICAN LANGUAGE. An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States. Fourth Edition Corrected, Enlarged, and Rewritten.
pp. 769, xxix. Small 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Slightly chipped. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF7
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Middleton, Bernard C. and Nixon, Howard M.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH CRAFT BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUE.
pp. xv, 326. Color frontis. Illustrations. 8vo. Original buckram. 2nd edition. As new condition. A classic book constituting the first major history of English bookbinding in all its technical aspects. Now considered the standard reference work. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF6
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Roff, Renee.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES & MARY LAMB: First Editions in Book Form by Luther S. Livingston, With Appendices the Books of the Two John Lambs. Contributions to Periodicals by J. C. Thomson.
pp. xv, 292. Frontis plus illustrations. 8vo. Original gold stamped red cloth binding. Limited to 450 copies. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF6
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Chesser, Dr. Eustace & et. al.
THE SEXUAL, MARITAL AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS OF THE ENGLISH WOMAN.
pp. xxxvi, 642. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Dust jacket. An exhaustive survey of women's emotional attitudes in marriage and family life. Produced in collaboration with Joan Maizels, Leonard Jon es and Brian Emmett. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! EROS2
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Ginzburg, Ralph.
AN UNHURRIED VIEW OF EROTICA. Introduction by Dr. Theodor Reik. Preface by George Jean Nathan.
128p. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Slipcase. 2c. EROS4.
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Barber, Edwin Atlee.
ANGLO-AMERICAN POTTERY. Old English China With American Views. A Manual For Collectors.
pp. 161, (xiv)[Index]. Ninety three illustrations. Manuscript listing marks used at Sevres to indicate dates of manufacture pasted on back pastedown. 8vo. Original full blue decorated cloth binding, faded and worn. First Edition of this indispensable guide to historic Staffordshire and other British potteries depicting American figures and scenes. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ART 4
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Bosanko, W.
COLLECTING OLD LUSTRE WARE. (The Collector's Pocket Series, Edited by Sir James Yoxall).
pp. xv, 112 + Plus frontis. Illustrated. William Troxell's copy. Small 8vo. Original full embossed green cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Chipped with some loss. "This is the first book to be published on old English lustre ware." ART 5
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Akenside, Mark (1721-1770).
THE POEMS OF MARK AKENSIDE. Volume First.
160 p. 16mo. Original full leather binding. With a contemporary (American?) printed label: "WILLIAM NICHOLS Requests any person who may borrow this Book, to return it as soon as possible." With Nichols' manuscript ownership and additional manuscript presentations of Dr. L. Armstrong. Mark Akenside was a famed English poet and physician. His chief literary work was the didactic poem The Pleasures of Imagination (1744). Among his other works are the neoclassical Odes on Various Subjects (1745) and the Epistle to Curio (1744), a vigorous political satire. Akenside's conversion to Tory principles at the accession of George III earned him the appointment of Physician to the Queen. The early ownerships and label are especially interesting. JUN2A/W140 RtStk
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Cobbett, William (1762-1835).
THE AMERICAN GARDENER: A TREATISE ON THE SITUATION, SOIL, FENCING, AND LAYING-OUT OF GARDENS; ON THE MAKING AND MANAGING OF HOT-BEDS AND GREEN-HOUSES; AND ON THE PROPAGATION AND CULTIVATION OF THE SEVERAL SORTS OF VEGETABLES, HERBS, FRUITS, AND FLOWERS.
270 p. [Lacks last leaf of index] + Four woodcut plates. 12mo. Original full leather binding. Early ownership of E. L. Halstead. A popular and influential garden book by this famous writer, reformer, "muck-raker" and politician. Cobbett wrote the book "to cause the art of gardening to be better understood and practiced than it now is in America." William Cobbett (1762-1835), the son of a peasant f armer, makes clear his attitude toward gardeners in the preface: "The inside of a labourer's house, his habits, his qualities as a workman, and almost his morality, may be judged from the appearance of his garden. If that be neglected, he is, nine times out of ten, a sluggard or a drunkard, or both." The American Gardener was later revised and published as The English Gardener (London, 1829). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W130.
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Halliwell, James Orchard (1820-1889); Shakespeare.
THE MARRIAGE OF WIT AND WISDOM, AN ANCIENT INTERLUDE, TO WHICH ARE ADDED ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA.
pp. (13), 147. Thin 8vo. Handsome original full cloth binding, lettered in gold and decorated in blind, executed by Westleys & Clark, London - with their small ticket on the rear paste down. Mildly XLib. James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889) was a biographer of Shakespeare, book collector, antiquarian, and prodigal scholar. In spite of his intelligence and industry, Halliwell's life was dogged with controversy on both personal and professional fronts. His marriage to the daughter of Sir Thomas Phillips did not meet with Phillips' approval, and the young couple was disinherited and placed in financial st aits. He was later investigated for book theft from the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, regarding several volumes later sold to the British Museum, but no charges were ever filed and Halliwell was able to clear his name. Later disputes arose over Halliwell's views concerning the authenticity of various Shakespeareian works. His quarrel with the authorities at Stratford-on-Avon led to his decision not to bequeath his important personal Shakespeare collection to their library; instead, it was sold to a buyer in the United States upon Halliwell's death. See the DNB JUN2B / NW23
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Hooker, William Jackson.
EXOTIC FLORA, CONTAINING FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW, RARE, AND OTHERWISE INTERESTING EXOTIC PLANTS. Volume I.
One volume (of three). Seventy-seven (77) floral plates (uncolored), engraved by J. Swan Glasgow, with accompanying letterpress text. Some plates folding or double. Some offsetting. 8vo. Disbound. First Edition. Hooker was the most important figure in the effort to make Kew a national botanic garden, and he was named the first director of Kew Gardens. Upon his death, the nation purchased Hooker's personal collection, including four thousand books and more than one million dried plant specimens. Nissen 920. RARE. The three volume set retails for over $5000.00. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W133
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Lowell, James Russell.
DEMOCRACY: AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE TOWN HALL BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.
75 p. Tall thin 8vo. Uncut. Original vellum backed paper boards. Beautifully printed. ** Designed by Bruce Rogers. Warde 26. Number 377 of an edition limited to 500 copies. This address by Mr. Lowell (the American Ambassador in England) at Birmingham, 6 October, 1884, on assuming the presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. "As a charming gentleman [Lowell] was popularly received in European and English society and helped interpret American ideals to the Old World, both through personal contacts and through more formal addresses, such as On Democracy(1884)" (Oxford Companion to American Literature 449). JUN2C SE 1/2.
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