1892ref. 013597NY: Harper & Brothers 1892. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First US edition. 8vo light blue cloth over boards with dark blue "GORDIUS NODUS" emblem on front cover. Gilt title and black lantern motif on spine. Ownership name in period cursive on ffe: "H. W. Carpenter June 1893." All 16 plates are present. This is most likely the copy owned by American philologist and Columbia University provost William Henry Carpenter 1853-1936. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories by A. Conan Doyle first published in October 1892. This American edition was published without "The" in the title. This edition contains two errors on page 65: "Now if had borrowed" on line 4 and "to think of ! and I" on line 10. Some chipping to cloth at head of spine and tiny slit to cloth at foot. Leaves moderately toned. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1940ref. 65435New York:: The Grolier Club 1940. First edition; one of 300 copies printed on Italian hand-made paper at the De Vinne Press. publisher's elaborately decorated art vellum. Very slight rubbing at extremities; a very few slight marks to a very few leaves of text; a very attractive copy overall almost entirely free of the foxing often seen. . Small 4to. Frontispiece portrait; folding city view of Florence. With an Introduction and a Note on the Portraits of Dante by G. R. Carpenter. The Grolier Club, hardcover
1879ref. 41099London 1879. Carpenter William B. 1813-85. Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget 1811-98. London 56 Regents Part Rd. N.W. June 2 1879. 4pp. 178 x 114 mm. A few tiny pin-holes but fine otherwise. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's letter which discusses a false confession to murder made by a mentally unbalanced young man reads in part as follows: Dear Mr. Paget In turning out my papers at the University today I have come upon a document which I forward to you containing the Father's statement of his Son's relation to the "Brompton Murder" case with full particulars of the latter's confession and its inconsistency with the facts. I believe that I did not send in this to the Home Secy.; but that what I specially urged upon him was the evidence with which Knowles had supplied me of the "cracky" nature of the youth's mind and of the obviously hereditary tendency to brood as shown in the father and aunt-the latter an old servant of Knowles. And I remember also that there was evidence of the youth having had money in the Savings Bank and of his having drawn out a pound just before the Crystal Palace Police Fête. This altogether made so strong an impression on Mr. Bruce that he at once commuted the sentence; and the family were so sensible that the lad was not fit to take care of himself that they expressed no disappointment at his not having received a free pardon. . . . Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget whose Paradoxes and Puzzles published in 1874 included accounts of a number of sensational crimes. We have not been able to identify the murder case to which Carpenter refers in his letter. . unknown
1879ref. 41099London 1879. Carpenter William B. 1813-85. Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget 1811-98. London 56 Regents Part Rd. N.W. June 2 1879. 4pp. 178 x 114 mm. A few tiny pin-holes but fine otherwise. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's letter which discusses a false confession to murder made by a mentally unbalanced young man reads in part as follows: Dear Mr. Paget In turning out my papers at the University today I have come upon a document which I forward to you containing the Father's statement of his Son's relation to the "Brompton Murder" case with full particulars of the latter's confession and its inconsistency with the facts. I believe that I did not send in this to the Home Secy.; but that what I specially urged upon him was the evidence with which Knowles had supplied me of the "cracky" nature of the youth's mind and of the obviously hereditary tendency to brood as shown in the father and aunt-the latter an old servant of Knowles. And I remember also that there was evidence of the youth having had money in the Savings Bank and of his having drawn out a pound just before the Crystal Palace Police Fête. This altogether made so strong an impression on Mr. Bruce that he at once commuted the sentence; and the family were so sensible that the lad was not fit to take care of himself that they expressed no disappointment at his not having received a free pardon. . . . Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget whose Paradoxes and Puzzles published in 1874 included accounts of a number of sensational crimes. We have not been able to identify the murder case to which Carpenter refers in his letter. . unknown books
1805ref. 4040Charleston South Carolina: Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier 1805. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. 3-127 INCOMPLETE: lacking half-title title-page here in facsimile and pp. 93-127 paperstock browned throughout p. 5 stained and a little soiled. Recent sympathetic wrappers title written in ink on upper cover. Described in 1893 as "One of the rarest of American trials" Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Law Trials made by the late Edmund B. Wynn no. 1275. Whereas our copy is significantly incomplete we invite all haters to find another but please be patient because no copy complete or otherwise has appeared at auction since 1963. McDade explains that this is "an unusual case at Goosecreek South Carolina in which the wife's lover murdered her husband outside the house and put the body in bed with the wife who attempted to conceal the crime. He was convicted and hanged. She with Southern consideration for womankind was acquitted" but nonetheless she was scorned shamed and humiliated for violating her marriage vow. But the trial was of national significance because "the Nettles-Cannon Trial gives a preliminary glimpse of the scope of state efforts to transform the criminal justice system in the first decades after the ramification of the Constitution and suggests some of the reasons those efforts remained incomplete" Dale p. 23. "The trial of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon 1805 who presumably conspired to kill Cannon's husband serves as an example to show how key actors in the process from the detection of a crime to the actual trial were ordinary members of the community how legal arguments had little impact on the outcome of the trial how jurors judged the law rather than the facts or how Nettles did not appeal his eventual conviction. The state and the people in this period cooperated in order to achieve justice." Birte Christ 2012 review of Elizabeth Dale's "Criminal Justice in the United States 1789-1939" online at H-Soz-Kult. Dale discusses the significance of the trial on pp. 23-30. Finally: "The S.C. Carpenter reports on these two cases may be the earliest surviving records of full trial proceedings in South Carolina." W. Lewis Burke "A History of the Opening Statement From Barristers to Corporate Lawyers: A Case Study of South Carolina" in: American Journal of Legal History 1993 vol. XXXVII p. 38. This trial was featured in the 2014-2015 exhibition of "Murder and Women in 19th-Century America Trial Accounts in the Yale Law Library." COMMENT: This copy contains the complete transcripts of the witness testimonies and cross-examinations and all the arguments of the DEFENSE pleaded by the lawyers of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon. It does not contain "The Defense Being Gone Through The Attorney-General Rose in reply and said: May it please your Honor" etc. The Attorney-General's text continues through pp. 93-114; following it is "The Judge's Charge" pp. 115-124 and an unrelated account of the execution of Richard Dennis Jun. which was appended to this edition because "it came too late to be published with the trial of Dennis and is therefore according to promise published with that of Nettles" pp. 125-127. CENSUS OF COPIES ON THE MARKET SINCE 1885: 1. Goodspeed's 1963 Catalogue 511 apparently it had appeared in Goodspeed's 1940 and 1943 catalogues. Prior to that we located the following copies at auction all of which took place 106 years ago or more: 2. John C. Brady Esq. copy sold at Henkels 19 Oct. 1917 lot 380; 3. Maj. Edward Willis copy sold at Henkels 29 Oct. 1914 lot 527; 4. Hon. Samuel C. Cobb copy sold at Anderson Galleries 30 March 1906 lot 560; 5. John H.V. Arnold Esq. copy sold at Bangs 23 April 1900 lot 1362; 6. Edmund B. Wynn copy sold at Bangs 7 Feb. 1893 lot 1275; 7. W. Elliot Woodward's 74th Sale: Trials and Criminal Biography sold at Bangs 19 April 1885 lot 1130. Sabin 11005. McDade Annals of Murder no. 715. Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier unknown
1805ref. 4040Charleston South Carolina: Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier 1805. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. 3-127 INCOMPLETE: lacking half-title title-page here in facsimile and pp. 93-127 paperstock browned throughout p. 5 stained and a little soiled. Recent sympathetic wrappers title written in ink on upper cover. Described in 1893 as "One of the rarest of American trials" Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Law Trials made by the late Edmund B. Wynn no. 1275. Whereas our copy is significantly incomplete we invite all haters to find another but please be patient because no copy complete or otherwise has appeared at auction since 1963. McDade explains that this is "an unusual case at Goosecreek South Carolina in which the wife's lover murdered her husband outside the house and put the body in bed with the wife who attempted to conceal the crime. He was convicted and hanged. She with Southern consideration for womankind was acquitted" but nonetheless she was scorned shamed and humiliated for violating her marriage vow. But the trial was of national significance because "the Nettles-Cannon Trial gives a preliminary glimpse of the scope of state efforts to transform the criminal justice system in the first decades after the ramification of the Constitution and suggests some of the reasons those efforts remained incomplete" Dale p. 23. "The trial of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon 1805 who presumably conspired to kill Cannon's husband serves as an example to show how key actors in the process from the detection of a crime to the actual trial were ordinary members of the community how legal arguments had little impact on the outcome of the trial how jurors judged the law rather than the facts or how Nettles did not appeal his eventual conviction. The state and the people in this period cooperated in order to achieve justice." Birte Christ 2012 review of Elizabeth Dale's "Criminal Justice in the United States 1789-1939" online at H-Soz-Kult. Dale discusses the significance of the trial on pp. 23-30. Finally: "The S.C. Carpenter reports on these two cases may be the earliest surviving records of full trial proceedings in South Carolina." W. Lewis Burke "A History of the Opening Statement From Barristers to Corporate Lawyers: A Case Study of South Carolina" in: American Journal of Legal History 1993 vol. XXXVII p. 38. This trial was featured in the 2014-2015 exhibition of "Murder and Women in 19th-Century America Trial Accounts in the Yale Law Library." COMMENT: This copy contains the complete transcripts of the witness testimonies and cross-examinations and all the arguments of the DEFENSE pleaded by the lawyers of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon. It does not contain "The Defense Being Gone Through The Attorney-General Rose in reply and said: May it please your Honor" etc. The Attorney-General's text continues through pp. 93-114; following it is "The Judge's Charge" pp. 115-124 and an unrelated account of the execution of Richard Dennis Jun. which was appended to this edition because "it came too late to be published with the trial of Dennis and is therefore according to promise published with that of Nettles" pp. 125-127. CENSUS OF COPIES ON THE MARKET SINCE 1885: 1. Goodspeed's 1963 Catalogue 511 apparently it had appeared in Goodspeed's 1940 and 1943 catalogues. Prior to that we located the following copies at auction all of which took place 106 years ago or more: 2. John C. Brady Esq. copy sold at Henkels 19 Oct. 1917 lot 380; 3. Maj. Edward Willis copy sold at Henkels 29 Oct. 1914 lot 527; 4. Hon. Samuel C. Cobb copy sold at Anderson Galleries 30 March 1906 lot 560; 5. John H.V. Arnold Esq. copy sold at Bangs 23 April 1900 lot 1362; 6. Edmund B. Wynn copy sold at Bangs 7 Feb. 1893 lot 1275; 7. W. Elliot Woodward's 74th Sale: Trials and Criminal Biography sold at Bangs 19 April 1885 lot 1130. Sabin 11005. McDade Annals of Murder no. 715. Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier unknown books
2011ref. DADAX144118421XBloomsbury 2011-12-15. hardcover. New. 6.14x1.06x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Bloomsbury hardcover
ref. 142153aafLausanne, Marc Ducloux, (étiquette collée sur titre de la couv. orig.: Genève, H. Georg ...), 1841, in-8°, 2 ff. + X + 363 p., avec 23 croquis + 1 f. d'errata + 8 planches (lithographiées par Spengler) + 1 grande carte dépliante du terrain erratique du bassin du Rhône (gravée par Bressanini), couverture originale illustrée conservée, qqs rousseurs sur les titres et les marges, non rogné, exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, jolie reliure en demi-cuir anthracite, dos à nerfs orné de titre, filets et fleurons, plats recouverts de papier dominoté.
1887ref. 283252London : Virtue 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound set in modern gilt-labeled buckram. Remains well preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 3v. : ill. ; 38 cm. Notes; On half-title: The new illustrated Bible. Issued in 19 parts numbered ""Divisions 1-13"" and ""Parts 40-45"". Includes ""Bible dictionary or compendium of information"" compiled by Arthur Westcott and John Watt. Subjects; Bible Commentaries. Biblical Studies. London : Virtue hardcover
1997ref. 2210106Easton Press 1997. signed limited. hardcover. fine. SIGNED limited edition #2307 of 3000. Signed by three astronauts. Comes with 3 certificates of authenticity printed by and from Easton Press. Book fine. Easton Press unknown
2019ref. SBBIH-NL5KAO5KOQP2Ulverscroft Ltd 2019. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Ulverscroft Ltd hardcover
1997ref. 2210106Easton Press 1997. signed limited. hardcover. fine. SIGNED limited edition #2307 of 3000. Signed by three astronauts. Comes with 3 certificates of authenticity printed by and from Easton Press. Book fine. Easton Press unknown books
1803ref. 40303A PARIS: Imprenta de Marchant 1803. Primera edición.- 4º.- Plena piel de época lomera con doble tejuelo filetes y florones dorados ambos planos con rueda dorada formando cuadro.- 3 tomos.- I: 3 hojas.- 392 páginas.- II: 2 hojas.- VIII.- 432 páginas.- II.- III: 1 hoja.- VIII.- 400 páginas.- IV.- Un estado plegado en el tomo II. Algunas hojas oscurecidas. Trata sobre la utilización de los productos importados desde las colonias americanas. Brunet Table Méthodique 4185 - Goldsmiths 18667 - No en Graesse Imprenta de Marchant unknown
1996ref. Q-0683067524Williams & Wilkins 1996-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Williams & Wilkins hardcover
1864ref. 00MV597AUBURN NEW YORK NY. Very Good. 1864. On offer is a handwritten manuscript letter by L.O. Carpenter who writes lengthy letter 4 full pages 4to. to Col. Charles C. Dwight. Letter is dated Auburn NY Oct. 17 1864. A great letter about the death and funeral of their "dear and mutual friend Col. W. Babcock." Great detail about the battle death of Col. Babcock. From the internet we found the following: Lt. Colonel Babcock had command of the 75th NYVI 320 men strong at the Battle of Winchester Virginia on September 19 1864 and was wounded with a shattered leg at the head of the Regiment after two horses had previously been shot from under him. Upon being spotted lying in the field Major Andrew L. Pitzer Aid-de-Camp to General Jubil Early tended to him and offered to send Babcock's valuables along to his wife Nellie which in turn he did. After the Federal Army retook the field later in the day Babcock was moved to a field hospital where his wounded leg was amputated by Surgeon Benedict 75th NYVI. On October 6 1864 after writing letters to friends and family including a letter of thanks to Major Pitzer and a good-by to his wife Nellie Lt. Colonel Babcock died of his wounds at U.S. General Hospital in Winchester Virginia.ix He was brought north and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Homer New York. Comes with stamped envelope. VG.; English; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; CIVIL WAR WAR BETWEEN THE STATES BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER VIRGINIA CONFEDERACY CONFEDERATE UNION AUTOGRAPH HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento ManuscritoHANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY . unknown
1992ref. BN471036Cambridge University Press 1992. 1992. The Logic of Typed Feature Structures: With Applications to Unification Grammars Logic Programs and Constraint Resolution The Logic of Typed Feature Structures: With Applications to Unification Grammars Logic Programs and Constraint Resolution Bob Carpenter Cambridge University Press unknown
1897ref. FJ08/584The Labour Press Limited 1897. 1st edition green and gilt pictorial boards radical speculative articles by among others William Morris Bernard Shaw Grant Allen very scarce. Hardcover. very good hardcover copy heed and heel of spine lightly frayed. The Labour Press Limited hardcover
1937ref. 167970East Aurora NY: Done into this book by the Roycrofters at their Shops 1937. First and sole edition. Carpenter was owner of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team and here recounts his 1936 expedition to Kenya "primarily in the Masai country and Meru where he collected buffalo rhinoceros and lion. Don Ker and Syd Downey were his professional hunters. This privately printed work was undoubtedly published in a very small quantity" Czech. An attractive Roycrofters production. Small square octavo. Map frontispiece 10 halftone illustrations from photographs on 5 plates. Original dark brown faux leather gilt-lettered on front over fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the original patterned glassine and box. Box rubbed and one flap split but intact occasional foxing. A very good copy complete with box. Czech second edition pp. 55-6. hardcover
ref. 7073Paris: M. M. Heugel et Cie Au Menestrel. c.1900. First edition. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy. Piano and Vocal Score. Bound in three quarter purple leather over marbled boards. Gilt titles to the spine. Minor rubbing to the binding extremities otherwise a fine copy. Publisher's presentation copy stamped as such. Inscribed by the composer in black ink to the reverse of the half title translated "To Mademoiselle Blanche Marot My first Louise in concert in grateful recognition Gustave Charpentier." A superb association. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Paris: M. M. Heugel et Cie, Au Menestrel. c.1900 hardcover
1986ref. 232287New York: Rock Foundation 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 11 1/2 x 14 1/2. 2 volumes in near fine condition. VOLUME 1 BOOKS 1 AND 4 ONLY. Printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press. Volume 1: "Volume I Genealogical Patterns: Form & Meaning Book I: Form" 343 pages. Volume 2: "Volume I Genealogical Patterns: Form & Meaning Book 4: Details" pages 911-1073. Pages are clean and unmarked and beautifully printed. Bound in grey cloth with black titles on the spines. Faded around the edges and spine. Some stains on the lower cover of the second volume. SCARCE. NF-/- - Rock Foundation hardcover
1830ref. 304041London: Printed and Published by William Carpenter 1830. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." The pamphlets contained are: 1. " A Report on the Trail of William Carpeter 12 pp. 2.An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp 21 October 1830; 3. A Monitory Letter to ther People of England. 16pp. with an ad for Queen Mab.October 29 1830 4. "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England. " 24 pp 6 Nov. 1830; 5 A Second Letter to the Duke of Wellington.16pp 6. Facts and Observations connected to the Present Times. 16pp. November 18 1830 7. A Letter to Earl Gray.November 25 1830 8."A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 4 Dec. 1830 9. "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 7 Dec. 1830 10. "A Political Miscellany on National Debt" 16 pp. 9 Dec. 1830 11 "A Political Compendium on Reform" 16 pp. 18 Dec. 1830 12 "A Political Digest" 16 pp. 23 Dec. 1830 13. A Supplement to Carpenter's Political Compendium. 8 pp. 14. "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton" 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830 15. "A Political Mirror" 16 pp. 7 Jan. 1831 16.; "A Political Chronicle" 16 pp. 13 Jan 1831 17. ; "A Political Herald" 21 Jan 1831 18. A Political Register January 28 1831. 16 pp. 19. A Political Letter. Feburary 4 1831. 16 pp. 20. Another Political Letter Feburary 12 1831. 16 pp. 21. A Letter to the Rightr Hon. The Chancellotr of the Exchequer. 16 pp. 22. A Political Monitor Friday May 6 1831. 16 pp. 23. A Political Censor. Saturday May 14 1831. 16 pp. At an early age he began working for a bookseller in Finsbury first as an errand boy and then as an apprentice. In 1830 he issued a series of Political Letters with which he attempted to defy the stamp duty on newspapers but in May 1831 he was tried and convicted of evading the law and was imprisoned. While in prison he edited a political magazine which was republished as Carpenter's Monthly Political Magazine in 1832. NCBEL 3:1818 Printed and Published by William Carpenter unknown
1966ref. 52893New York: Harcourt Brace & World. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. The author's highly acclaimed neo-noir debut novel; a remarkably clean tight bright copy in original price-clipped dust jacket protected in clear archival sleeve; only noticeable flaws are gentle rubbing/softening to the two bottom outer board corners; stated first edition; extremely scarce in this condition; photos available . 1966. Harcourt Brace & World hardcover
1997ref. 2403304Easton Press 1997. limited. hardcover. fine. Signed leather-bound collector's edition 1/3000. This being number 722. Signed by Carpenter Cooper and Glenn. Book fine. Certificates of authenticity from Easton Press enclosed for Carpenter and Cooper but missing for Glenn. Easton Press unknown
2001ref. 021944Rock Foundation New York 2001. Book. Fine Condition. Wrappers with board Box. Beautifully printed reproductions each on a separate sheet of 21 sketches by the Eskimo native collected at the turn of the 20th century by Robert Flaherty. Cased in a cloth covered clamshell box with separately printed sewn wrapper commentary by the esteemed anthropologist Edmund Carpneter nearly a century later. Only two copies of the original 1915 book are known to exist. This facsimile copy is an unnumbered copy from an edition of 200. Drawings by the Eskimo at this time were exceptionally rare and the harsh weather of the region isolated the native peoples from the art traditions of the world. But these minute spare and sensitive renditions of a life lived closely tied to nature the walrus the caribou the hunt. An exquisite production of a rare glimpse into what is still a little explored world. Rock Foundation, New York Paperback
1830ref. 304041London: Printed and Published by William Carpenter 1830. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." The pamphlets contained are: 1. " A Report on the Trail of William Carpeter 12 pp. 2.An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp 21 October 1830; 3. A Monitory Letter to ther People of England. 16pp. with an ad for Queen Mab.October 29 1830 4. "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England. " 24 pp 6 Nov. 1830; 5 A Second Letter to the Duke of Wellington.16pp 6. Facts and Observations connected to the Present Times. 16pp. November 18 1830 7. A Letter to Earl Gray.November 25 1830 8."A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 4 Dec. 1830 9. "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 7 Dec. 1830 10. "A Political Miscellany on National Debt" 16 pp. 9 Dec. 1830 11 "A Political Compendium on Reform" 16 pp. 18 Dec. 1830 12 "A Political Digest" 16 pp. 23 Dec. 1830 13. A Supplement to Carpenter's Political Compendium. 8 pp. 14. "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton" 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830 15. "A Political Mirror" 16 pp. 7 Jan. 1831 16.; "A Political Chronicle" 16 pp. 13 Jan 1831 17. ; "A Political Herald" 21 Jan 1831 18. A Political Register January 28 1831. 16 pp. 19. A Political Letter. Feburary 4 1831. 16 pp. 20. Another Political Letter Feburary 12 1831. 16 pp. 21. A Letter to the Rightr Hon. The Chancellotr of the Exchequer. 16 pp. 22. A Political Monitor Friday May 6 1831. 16 pp. 23. A Political Censor. Saturday May 14 1831. 16 pp. At an early age he began working for a bookseller in Finsbury first as an errand boy and then as an apprentice. In 1830 he issued a series of Political Letters with which he attempted to defy the stamp duty on newspapers but in May 1831 he was tried and convicted of evading the law and was imprisoned. While in prison he edited a political magazine which was republished as Carpenter's Monthly Political Magazine in 1832. NCBEL 3:1818 Printed and Published by William Carpenter unknown books
