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[Valentine's Gift] The Valentine’s Gift: or, A plan to enable children of all sizes and denominations to behave with honour, integrity and humanity. Very necessary in a trading nation. To which is added, some account of Old Zigzag, and of the horn which he used to understand the language of birds, beasts, fishes, and insects... [bound with:] The History of Frank Eldridge; or Effects of Beneficence More extensive than are foreseen or intended. | Summary Justice, or The Fraudulent Moor. 12mo. Tree calf. Original wrappers bound in. Numerous hand colored woodcuts. Hinges very lightly rubbed, else fine. Glasgow: Published and Sold by J. Lumsden and Son, [and] London: Printed and Published by James Wallis, [1816 or after] The first title first appeared in London in 1764 or 1765. A charming pair of chapbooks in a pretty binding. For more images click here |
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English Woman’s Family Library. A Collection of Four Titles: Women of England, Daughters of England, Wives of England, and Mothers of England. Mrs. Sarah Stickney Ellis 4 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in full dark green morocco, ornately decorated in gilt on front and back panels, the spines similarly decorated with six compartments. There is a steel engraved frontispiece in The Daughters of England (Vol. II). All edges are gilt. All four volumes are in fine condition and are contained in a contemporary brown wooden box with hinged glass front, surmounted by a gilt-lettered pediment reading “Englishwoman’s Family Library”. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1839-184 First edition as a complete set, with the handsome box making a very charming object. Volumes I and II were originally published in 1839 and 1842 (included here are later editions, presumably printed for this set). The preface in Vol. I is dated 1839, the preface in Vol. II is dated 1842. Volumes III and IV are first editions. The preface in Vol. III is dated 1843, the title-page of Volume IV is dated 1843 as is the preface. Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1799-1872, is best known for the Women of England and her her other conduct manuals. Her books disseminated the Victorian ideal of womanhood. The Wives of England, their Relative duties, was dedicated by permission to the Queen. The volumes are not numbered-we have followed the chronological sequence as recorded in XIX Century Fiction by Sadleir p. 125, 821, a-d. |
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An Essay Upon the Art of Love Containing An Exact Anatomy of Love and all the other Passions which attend it. [Sylvestre Jenks] 12mo. 300pp. Early calf gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine label chipped. [London?; n.p.], 1702 Apparently the only edition. for more images click here |
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Healthful Sports For Young Ladies [ Rudolph Ackermann; publisher]. Mademoiselle St. Sernin. Oblong 8vo. 72pp. Frontispiece and ten hand colored engraved plates. Contemporary and probably original marbled boards, red russia spine and corners, spine lettered in gilt and with central gilt lettered and ruled label on the cover. A near fine copy. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts... by W. Clowes, Northumberland cout., [1822]. First edition, very rare. A charming book with very fine illustrations. The text includes original poetry by William Combe. The author states in the preface that the most eminent physicians believed it necessary for young ladies as they advance toward womanhood to take active and regular exercise and to avoid all sedentary amusements. A great number of diversified games were provided which were conducive for health and useful for developing a “graceful carriage”. Some of the recommended activities are blind man’s buff, hoops, bowls (nine pins and seam), quoits, and shuttlecock, among others. What makes this book so interesting, in addition to the text, is the delightful, expressive, finely detailed illustrations of the girls at play. Not in Tooley or Abbey. For more images click here |
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The Dictionary of Love; in which is contained the explanation of most of the terms used in that language. [John Cleland, trans. (?)]. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked Dublin: Printed in the year 1754 First Dublin edition, the English edition first appeared in 1753, twelve years after Jean Francois Dreux du Radier's Dictionnaire de l'amour appeared on French bookshelves. John Cleland, the anonymous author of the infamous "Memoirs of Fanny Hill", is known to have worked on the English translation which is presumably directly reprinted here. The text is generally rather cynical, this dictionary reads more like Ambrose Bierce than Ovid. Very rare, with no copies in APBC. According to Worldcat there is only one copy of this edition in institutional holdings, at Cambridge University. For more images click here |
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George Gershwin’s Song-Book George Gershwin 4to. (12 7/8 inches; 327 x 251 mm) Photographic frontspiece portrait by Maurice Goldberg illustrated by Alajalov. Publisher’s cloth, pictoral dust-jacket; cloth soiled, dust-jacket chipped, browned and worn with losses and separation along spine. New York: 1932 Presentation copy, inscribed by Gershwin on the frontspiece, “To Lou Huston- My sincere good wishes. George Gerswhin Nov. 11, 1934.” For more images click here |
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