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11275
Brontë, Charlotte (pseudonym: Currer Bell) and Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (pseudonyms for Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë).-
The Professor. To Which Is Added The Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. London. Smith, Elder, and Co. 1860. Cheap and Uniform Edition. 436 pp. + 8 pp. catalogue of books about and by the Brontë sisters. + ads on front and rear end papers and rearcover Small 8vo. Orange glazed publisher’s cloth with black printing and decoration on spine and both covers. Refs: W. E. Smith, The Brontë Sisters, A Bibliographgical Catalogue, pp. 164–167. A nice copy, overall, of the second edition of Charlotte Brontë’s first written novel, but last published, as well as he third issue of the collected edition of the Poems of the Brontë sisters, part of the so-callled Cheap Edition of their works. Soling of covers, very mild wear at ends of spine. Four very small tears in cloth at lower leading corner of front cover. Front hinge starting internally. Foxing on but a few pages. Else, Very Good.
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11274
Dickens, Charles.-
Mr. Pickwick. Pages from the Pickwick Papers. Illustrated in Colour by Frank Reynolds. R.I. London. Hodder & Stoughton. N.D. [1910] 25 illustrated color plates by Frank Reynolds, dated 1910, tipped in, with tissue guards. Colour plates engraved and printed by Henry Stone, Ltd. First Trade Edition. 174 pp. 4to. Red publisher's cloth illustrated with silhouette of Mr. Pickwick on front cover in gold and black, titled on spine and front cover in elaborate gilt lettering. Pictorial end papers. A. E. Johnson, “Frank Reynolds”, “Brush, Pen and Pencil Series”, Project Gutenberg Archive. The lovely Frank Reynolds edition of selected scenes from "The Pickwick Papers" in the first trade edition. Printed by T. & A. Constable in Edinburgh and published by Hodder & Stoughton. Frank Reynolds (1876–1953) “began contributing to”Punch Magazine” in 1906 and was regularly published in is pages during World War I. He was well known for his many illustrations in…books by Charles Dickens. He [became] art editor for Punch. He was also a prolific watercolour painter and was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.” (Wikipedia). He was a skilled draughtsman and had a strong narrative skills, as well, originally in pen and ink and especially later in pencil. (A. E. Johnson, Frank Reynolds”). Abrasion and staining of front cover with slight bowing. Soiling of page edges. End papers toned with a few spots of foxing on preliminary pages. Else, Very Good, especially illustrations.
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11273
Cruikshank, George and William Hone.-
[Pamphlet] The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder, A National Toy, with Fourteen Step Scenes; and Illustrations in Verse, with Eighteen Other Cuts. By the Author of “The Political House That Jack Built”. London. William Hone. 1820. Eighteen illustrations by Cruikshank. Twenty-first Edition (same year as First Edition). 24 pp., unnumbered + ads for Hones’s publications on last leaf. 8vo. Self wraps. Sewn. Disbound from a collection. Cohn 680. Patten, Life, I, pp. 157–68. Continuing his very successful work with William Hone, this satirical verse is illustrated by George Cruikshank, poking fun at political leaders and self-important professions dedicated to the stifling of liberty and suppression of a free press. The main target here is the Prince Regent, who became King George IV. The comic illustrations are grand. The author of the text and publisher, Hone, was a noted champion of free speech and had been tried and acquitted three times in 1817 for political parodies of religious forms. In this "incendiary" pamphlet, Cruikshank continues to certify himself as the leading caricaturist of the day in succession to Gillray and Rowlandson.
This work is a worthy successor to the most famous pamphlet by Hone and Cruikshank, “The Political House That Jack Built”, which sold 100.000 copies, a new edition coming out almost daily, and "inspired a minor subliterature of imitation and riposte”.(quotations from Patten whose treatment of the pamphlet in "Life, Times, and Art" is brilliant). This pamphlet is a verse parody of the Prince and the history of his dissolute life and then his marriage and the very public brouhaha he caused by his accusations of infidelity, etc. cast at the Queen. She was ultimately vindicated by a public commission and the effect of Hone’s and Cruikshank’s pamphlets. This pamphlet is venomous in its accusations against the Prince Regent and ultimate King. The copy cited in Cohnb is dated 1826. In the earliest edition of the pamphlet, a pasteboard folding ladder, with the stages of the affair labeled on progressive rungs up and down, was included with the pamphlet, The illusration on the front of the pamphlet shows the prototype (Patten , Life, I, p.178). Hone, in an apocryphal story, claims that an unnamed individual tried to bribe him not to publish this pamphlet. Patten (op.cit)expresses skepticism of the veracity of Hone’s story and writes vividly of this pamphlet while he reviews the history of the Queen Caroline affair and the Hone/Cruikshank role in this history (Life, I, 177–186). Toning of edge and a few spots of foxing. 1” lower corner of p. 9 torn off with no encroachment on text.Small perforation of page of ads. Else, Very Good
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11272
Cruikshank, George and William Hone.-
[Pamphlet] The Man in the Moon &c, &c. &c.. A Speech from the Throne, to the Senate of Lunataria With Fifteen Cuts. Together with A Political Christmas Carol, Set to Music, to Be Chaunted or Sung thoughout the Kingdom and the Dominions beyond the Seas by All Persons thereunto Especially Moved. London. William Hone. 1820. Fifteen illustrations by Cruikshank. Eighteenth Edition (same year as First Edition). 16 pp., 8pp., unnumbered + testimonal ads for Hones’s work on verso of last page. 8vo. Self wraps. Sewn. Disbound from a collection. Cohn 527, 661. Patten, Life, I, pp. 157–68. Continuing his very successful work with William Hone, this satirical verse is illustrated by George Cruikshank, poking fun at political leaders and self-important professions dedicated to the stifling of liberty and suppression of a free press. The main target here is the Prince Regent, to become King George IV. The comic illustrations are grand. The author of the text and publisher, Hone, was a noted champion of free speech and had been tried and acquitted three times in 1817 for political parodies of religious forms. In this "incendiary" pamphlet, Cruikshank continues to certify himself as the leading caricaturist of the day in succession to Gillray and Rowlandson.
This work is a worthy successor to the most famous pamphlet by Hone and Cruikshank, “The Political House That Jack Built”, which sold 100.000 copies, a new edition coming out almost daily, and "inspired a minor subliterature of imitation and riposte”.(quotations from Patten whose treatment of the pamphlet in "Life, Times, and Art" is brilliant). “Man in the Moon” contains shorter sections, “A Political Christmas Carol. Set to Music”, further satirizing the Prince Regent, and “The Doctor”, parodying George Canning, who had crawled his way to Speaker of Parliament through sycophancy , double-cross and inaction. Toning of edge and a few small spots of foxing on p.1. Very Good
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11271
Cruikshank, George and William Hone.-
[Pamphlet] The Political House that Jack Built. With Thirteen Cuts. London. William Hone. 1820. Thirteen illustrations by Cruikshank Fourty-fourth Edition (one year after First Edition). 24 pp. + testimonal ads for Hones’s work on verso of last page. 8vo. Self wraps. Sewn. Disbound from a collection. Cohn 663. Patten, Revaluation, pp. 3, 158, 159; Life, I, pp. 157–68. A satirical verse illustrated by George Cruikshank parodying the nursery rhyme, poking fun at political leaders and self-important professions dedicated to the stifling of liberty and suppression of a free press. Also digs at Wellington. The comic illustrations are grand. Each verse headed by a quotation from William Cowper. The author of the text and publisher, Hone, was a noted champion of free speech and had been tried and acquitted three times in 1817 for political parodies of religious forms. In this "incendiary" pamphlet, Cruikshank established himself "as the leading caricaturist of the day in succession to Gillray and Rowlandson." Perhaps the most famous pamphlet by Hone and Cruikshank, it sold 100.000 copies, a new edition coming out almost daily, and "inspired a minor subliterature of imitation and riposte." (quotations from Patten whose treatment of the pamphlet in "Life, Times, and Art" is brilliant). Toning of edge Very Good
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11270
Dickens, Charles.-
Lowell. From Charles Dickens, “American Notes for General Circulation” in the Providence Daily Journal, Volume XIII, Number 207, Friday Morning, November 11, 1842, p. 2. Providence, RI. Knowles, Vose & Anthony, Publishers. 1842. First Edition. 4 pp. Large Fo. Unboumd Newspaper. When Charles Dickens visited the United States in 1842, hoping to find the “republic of his imagination”, he found, instead, a group of rude citizens. marked by effrontery and given to spitting in public, disrespectful and horrid institutions like the press, the prisons and the practice of slavery. He wrote in detail about these disappointments in his “American Notes for General Circulation” (1842). The one aspect of America which he found to be healthy and worthy of admiration was the group of young female mill workers in Lowell, MA. They stood in contrast to the workers in the mills of northern England. In Lowell the young women lived in boarding houses, which Dickens found to be run in an upstanding and healthy way. He found pianos in the parlors, the availability of books encouraging to the reading habits and morality of the young women. There were news sheets, entitled the “Lowell Offering”, written and published by the mill workers, They were appropriately dressed for their station, observant of the Sabbath, of clean body habits, parsimonious and possessing personal bank accounts. Their wholesome amusements mitigated a 12 hour work day for these young women, to the admiration of Dickens. This segment of “American Notes” is quoted extensively in this half-column article in this Providence Journal article. Folded twice. Slight toning at hinge. Separating at hinge. Else, Very Good.
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11268
Dickens, Charles.-
The Readings of Mr. Charles Dickens. The Story of Little Dombey and Bardell and Pickwick. As condensed by Himself for His Readings. Boston and New York. Ticknor and Fields. 1868. Illustrated by S. Eytinge, Jr. Illustrated Copyright Edition. First Edition. 45, 23 pp. 16mo. Blue-grey printed paper wraps. Stab sewn. Refs.: Edgar & Vail, p. 30. Wilkins, pp. 32–34. Podeschi D53. Not in Vanderpoel. The first appearance of Dickens’s own condensation of scenes from his novels, arranged for his readings. Here, he grants Ticknor and Fields exclusive rights to the publishing of these items, one a scene of bathos and the second a scene of great comic impact. Issued on the occasion of Dickens’s second visit to America in 1868. Lacks rear wrap. Spine chipped, with tear across front cover. Spine and front cover detached. Cover spotted and soiled. Except for cover, Very Good.
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11266
Toombs, R[obert Augustus].-
A Lecture Delivered in the Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 24th January, 1856, by R. Toombs. Slavery –– Its Constitutional Status –– Its Influence on the African Race and Society. [Washington, ?GA]. [Printed by J. T. and L. Towers] [1856] First Edition. 16 pp. 8vo. Self wraps. Pleasant E. Stovell, “Robert Toombs: Statesman, Speaker, Soldier”, Cassell, 1862 (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26069). Afro-Americana, LCP/LPHS 10337. Robert Toombs (1810–85) was a prominent American political leader, U. S. Senator from Georgia, the first Secretary of State for the Confederacy and a Confederate General in the Civil War. Thrown out of The University of Georgia for conduct in a card-playing incident, he attended Union College in Schenectady, NY for his degree and the University of Virginia Law School. His “genial character, proclivity for entertainment, and unqualified success on the legal circuit earned him the admiration of his fellow Georgians.”. He was elected to the US House of Representatives and his views, together with those of Alexander Stephens “defined and articulated Georgia’s position on national issues in the middle decades of the 19th century”; he was a states’ rights partisan and a Whig. He became US Senator from Georgia from 1853–61, as a Democrat (Wikipedia)
Although initially against secession, Toombs was an activist pro-slavery Senator, a racist, always promoting the expansion of that institution into the territories and prospective new states. On Lincoln’s election in 1860, he converted into an ardent secessionist. With the election of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy, Toombs’s ambition for that position was frustrated. He formed an opposition, but then resigned as Secretary of State for the Confederacy and was appointed a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. Wounded at Antietem, he left the Army and joined the Georgia Militia. With the end of the Confederacy, he escaped to Cuba, London and Paris. Toombs returned to the US in 1867, but as an unreconstructed Southerner, he never asked for a pardon, thus never regained citizenship. He did practice law and dominated the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1877. Toombs is still celebrated in Georgia, having named for him a town and a county and his home is an “historic site”.
This pamphlet is a pro-slavery screed, delivered by Toombs in the heart of abolitionist country in 1856. He argues that Congress must protect unlimited slavery as an institution and that slavery is best for the slave as well as the whole society. His argument is based upon what Toombs calls a natural law of justice. It is clear to him that “the white race is the superior race, and the black the inferior”. He reviews the history of the articles of the US Constitution permitting slavery and adopts a strongly states rights position regarding its continuance. Attempts to change the rules for new territories is a violation of our history and the Constitution. As to the inferiority of Blacks, Toombs uses as evidence the history of slavery in Africa, the inadequacy of Blacks in Jamaica to form a stable society after emancipation there, the social failure of Blacks in the North, the well-being of slaves in the South and his ideas of a market economy’s conflict between labor and capital. Government has no right to interfere with prosperity coming from “individual efforts of an enlightened, moral, energetic and religious [Southern] people”.
We have found that the pamphlet exists in two printed forms (no priority yet determined), not noted in its cataloguing or its bibliographical references. This is clear by comparison of a copy revealed in .pdf format at http://www.archive.org/stream/lecturedelivered00toom#page/n1/mode/2up and the copy offered here (also the copy cited at http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1856-slavery-lecture-by-r-toombs-tremont-temple, whose p. 1 image is precisely as our copy is detailed, whereas the whole .pdf copy cited above has been printed differently). The text is identical in both, with minor changes in format. Uncommon.
Ex libris. Faint library stamp at foot of p.16. Leaves 1/2 and 15/16 detached. Folded twice horizontally with wear at folds on leaf 15/16 and with small holes along folds and loss of some letters along folds. Toning. Good.
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11264
Dickens, Charles.-
Who Can He Possibly Be? From All the Year Round. in The Hartford Weekly Times,Vol. XLVI, No. 2359, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 1. Hartford, CT. [A. E. Burr]. 1862. First Edition. 4 pp. Large Fo. Unbound newspaper issue. The Hartford Weekly Times was a prominent newspaper in Connecticut from 1847–97, an outgrowth of the Hartford Times, 1837–46.
A pirated Dickens tale, published in a Hartford newspaper and identified (incorrectly) as from All the Year Round, Dickens’s magazine at that time. In fact the original title is “Horatio Sparkins” and it is from “Tales” from Sketches by Boz and was originally published in February, 1834. The article has also been edited, with shortening, especially of the beginning. It does lose, by this editing, some of the humor of one of the best sketches in Dickens’s early work. The style, however, is inimitable.
This issue of the newspaper includes reports of battle in the Civil War and many articles on the issues of the conflict, as well as reprints of Washington’s “Farewell Address” and excerpts from Andrew Jackson’s “Farewell Address”. Most notably, however, there is a reprint of Jefferson Davis’s first address to the Congress of the Confederate States of America after his inauguration. In this, Davis expresses optimism about the expected success of the South, regrets for Southern casualties, the need to develop technologies in the South to develop newer instruments of warfare on sea and land, and a need for the CSA Congress to move on with formation of a Supreme Court in line with their new Constitution.
A very rich issue, indeed. Folded. Tiny pinhole though confluence of the major folds with no loss. Slight browning at edges. Mild soiling. Slight fraying at leading edge. Else, Very Good.
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11263
[Carte de Visite]. Photograph of a Bust.-
Charles Dickens. New Bedford, MA. Charles Taber & Co. N.D. [1845–67] Photograph laid down on card, with clipped corners. First Edition. 1 p. 2-9/16” W x 4-3/16” H Unbound. Page, A. Dickens Chronology, 1988. John Albee, Henry Dexter, Sculptor: A Memorial. Privately published, 1898. Charles Taber Obituary, NY Times, November 18, 1887. An American carte de visite showing a photograph of a bust of a young Charles Dickens, certainly close to the age on his first visit to America in 1842 and not at all related to his later visit in 1867. The bust is in plaster and sits on a small table or stand covered in a damask type of textile in the Victorian fashion. The photograph is an albumen print. Dickens is displayed wearing a toga-like dress.The verso is imprinted with the name “Charles Dickens” and the publisher Charles Taber & Co., New Bedford, MA. While the bust was sculpted in 1842, many copies were sold near the time of Dickens’s second visit to America in 1867 (Albee). It is possible that this carte de visite was made and sold near the time of this 2nd visit, as well, for Dickens included New Bedford on his reading tour in 1867 on March 27.
The bust is almost certainly the one sculpted by Henry Dexter (1806–70) from life, begun on January 26, 1842. Dickens sat for Dexter beginning on the day after he began his sitting for the painter Francis Alexander, the completed painting now in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Both sittings took place in Boston. Dexterwas a young protegé of Alexander and may even have been recommended by Alexander for this commission. Dexter was the first American professional sculptor. He began as a blacksmith but soon took to art studies and sculpture. Many of his works were completed in marble as well as plaster, but not this one (Albee, 1898) Mrs. Dickens admired the sculpture and requested a casting of the sculpture. One copy is said to sit at the Dickens House Museum in London. A report of the sitting for Dexter is described by Dickens’s American Secretary, George P. Putnam, in the October, 1870 Atlantic Monthly (Vol. 26, pp. 476–482).
The publisher of the carte de visite is Charles Taber & Co. of New Bedford, MA. Charles Taber (1822–87), of a prominent Quaker family in New Bedford, was a graduate of Haverford College; he joined his father in the book trade about 1843 and later became a photographer. In 1865 he introduced the ambrotype to his public (NY Times). His firm became “manufacturing photographers” in 1862, later specializing in art photography. Taber was a very successful merchant in many businesses, including whaling. An uncommon item. Very Good.
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11262
Yeats, W[illiam] B[utler].-
The Wild Swans at Coole. New York. Macmillan. 1919. First American Edition. 114 pp. + 4 pp. ads for Yeats’s works. 12mo. Grey paper covered boards designed and signed by Sturge Moore. A Very Good copy of William Butler Yeats’s (1865–1939) volume of poetry in its First American Edition with the paper covered boards designed (a thorny rose) in an engraving by T. Sturge Moore (1870–1944), the noted British poet, artist and engraver and friend of Yeats. The first edition was published in 1917 by the Cuala Press in Ireland in an edition of only 400 copies, by Yeats’s sister. The first English edition, like this First American, was also published in 1919. Its covers were also designed by Moore, who was the brother of the noted British analytic philosopher, George Moore. Yeats with George Moore had formed the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899, and later, with Synge, the Abbey Theatre in 1904.
The poems of this volume are amongst the freest and most engaged with pastoral issues among Yeats’s modernist works, though not with the occult or spiritualism of pre-1899 works or the Hindu philosophy that influenced him late in life. Brief pencil notations in the margin indicate that Yeats had read the poem “An Irish Airman Foresees his Death” (p. 13) at Wellesley College on May 7, 1920 and “The Cat and the Moon” (p. 102) on May 6, 1920. Ex Libris with shelving number at foot of spine, bookplate of library on front pastedown, marked withdrawn. and stamp of library on head and foot of text. Signed by owner on front free end paper: “A.L. from W.A.N., 1919”. Minor wear at head of spine. Trace residues of Library pocket and record on rear free end paper and rear pastedown. Lacks D.J. Else, Very Good.
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11260
Cruikshank, Robert.-
Mr. Mathews, as Miss Evelina Evergreen. London. J. Limbird. N.D. [ca. 1820– 25] Image by Robert Cruikshank. First Edition 1 p. 8-3/8” W x 6-1/2” H. Loose sheet. Oxford DNB. Marchant, The Three Cruikshanks, Nos. 331-338. This hand-colored etching by Robert Cruikshank, “Mr. Mathews as Miss Evelina Evergreen” was published in London by J. Limbird ca. 1820-25. The scene was part of Mathews’s “A Trip to Paris”, presented first in 1820 at the English Opera House. The actor is shown in drag, standing by a coach, looking down at a small boy in a casket, outside what appears to be a cobbler’s shop, with the proprietor staring down at them through the window
Charles Mathews (1776–1835) was a noted British actor in the early 19th century. He was much admired by Charles Dickens, who patterned his own considerable stage experience and behavior after that of Mathews. Mathews was versatile and original in his presentations and a great mimic. He played more than one part to great effect, often with no or little change of costume, yet convincingly. (Dickens as an actor had many of the same skills). Mathews had a very successful American tour in 1822–23, during which he explored various American cultural types. He admired African-American actors, mastered black dialect and appeared in blackface in some of his roles. The blackface appearances contributed to the early development of minstrelsy in both America and Britain. He was received by King George IV, became financially successful as investor in the Adelphi Theatre. In 1835, Mathews again toured America, but became ill before returning to Britain, where he promptly died.
John Limbird (1796?–1883) was a noted London publisher, especially for ‘The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction”, a periodical beginning in the 1820’s (1822–49). He also published novels. but was principally known as the father of cheap periodicals.
Both George and Robert Cruikshank did illustrations of Charles Mathews in some of his roles, at least 4 of which by Robert Cruikshank were published in 1825 by Limbird (Marchant, # 333). Very mild soiling. Traces of old mounting on verso. Else, Very Good.
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11258
[Carte de Visite].-
A Portrait of Charles Dickens. London. Mason and Co. [1867]. Photograph. First Edition. 1 p. 2-1/2” x 4” Loose card. Podeschi H1199. A carte de visite consisting of a photograph of Charles Dickens, taken from the left, but full face, showing his head, collar and lapels. Appears identical to an 1867 carte de visite recorded in Podeschi, the Gimbel Collection. Bears the imprint of Mason and Co., London photographers responsible for a series of Dickens photographs, dating from 1865–67.
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11256
Dickens, Charles.-
Tom Tiddler’s Ground. A Christmas Budget. A Christmas Story for 1861. New York. Carleton (Late Rudd & Carleton). 1861. First Separate Edition. First American Edition. 48 pp,, double column. Publisher’s ads on rear cover. 8vo. Light blue printed paper wraps. Refs: Edgar and Vail, p. 29. J. Cook, Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens, 1879, p.35. Oppenlander, Dickens’ All the Year Round. J. C. Thompson, Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens, 1904, pp 91–92. Paul Schlicke, Oxford Companion. Dickens’s Christmas story from All the Year Round for 1861. ”The strange character round whom the number was written was once a prosperous individual, named James Lucas, who on his wife’s death, retired to Stevenage to live as a hermit. The notice attracted to his eccentricities by this Christmas number has gained him the immortality of mention in The Dictionary of National Biography”. (Thomson). The name of the story is taken from a children’s game (Schlicke). Dickens wrote Chapters I, VI and VII (Cook and Oppenlander), while Chapter II by Charles Collins, Chapter III by Amelia and Blandford Edwards, Chapter IV by Wilkie Collins and Chapter V by John Harwood. First American Edition,”Printed from the Author’s Advance Sheets”. Small chips from edges and lowermost spine of wraps. One large chip detached from lower front corner of cover, but present, not encroaching on text. Owner’s signature in ink on front cover: “Clara B. Hoyle”. Doodling in same ink on front cover: two smallheads and a man in monogrammed frock coat. Second owner’s signature: W. W. Everett, July 27, 1896” on title page. Text Very Good
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11255
Dickens, Charles.-
Dombey and Son. Philadelphia, PA. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 1867. Cover engraving by J. W. Orr. Peterson’s Cheap Edition. 354 pp. + 2 pp. publisher’s ads. 8vo. Salmon pink (”buff” according to Peterson) illustrated paper wraps. Double column format. A very good copy of Dickens’s “Dombey & Son”, as published by Peterson in this rare survival of the Cheap Edition for the Million, in wraps. Peterson had published the first collected works by Dickens in America, beginning ca, 1855, by buying out Lea and Blanchard of Philadelphia and other publishers and beginning to pay royalties to the suthor. The dating of Peterson issues can often be surmised from the list of Dickens tatles in the ads or on the title page. Here, "Our Mutual Friend" is listed, but not "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" or "John Jasper's Secret". Thus, the date of publication is ca. 1867, also surmised since the long tirade of Peterson against Dickens in 1867 is printed on the verso of the front cover. Dickens violated his arrangement with Peterson and with Harper's, for which he had been paid by them, by announcing without notice in early 1867 that Ticknor and Fields was henceforth his only official American publisher. He eventually had to buy out Harper's interest. Lacks rear wrap. Mild wear at edges of covers. Very mild foxing in margins. Else Very Good –
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11251
Hone, W[illiami] and Cruikshank, George.-
Official Account of the Noble Lord’s Bite! And His Dangerous Condition, with Who Went to See Him, and What Was Said, Sung, and Done, on the Melancholy Occasion. Published for the Instruction and Edification of All Ranks and Conditions of Men. By the Author of Buonaparte-Phobia; or, Cursing Made Easy. London. W. Hone. 1817. Title page illustrated with woodcut vignette by George Cruikshank. First Edition. 15 pp. +1 p. catalogue of Hone’s publications at rear. 8vo. Self wraps. Cohn 614. Not in Marchant, Three Cruikshanks. Nor in Jerrold. A satirical attack on Lord Castlereagh (Robert Stewart, 1769–1822). Events in Stewart’s history are reviewed in allusions by the polemical writer and publisher, William Hone, and his frequent co-pamphleteer, the illustrator and caricaturist, George Cruikshank.
Castlereagh’s history is, briefly, as follows: Irish-born, he was a supporter of William Pitt and the more reformist wing of British politics. From 1795–1800, concerned that Napoleon was enticing Ireland into a union with France, Stewart engineered the Irish Act of Union through both Parliaments. Deceived by George III and the British establishment, Castlereagh was under the belief that the Catholics would be emancipated. This did not occur and both Castlereagh and Pitt resigned, Stewart, however was held responsible for a long time for the betrayal of the Catholics. Pitt and Stewart returned to the Cabinet with the resumption of the Napoleonic War in 1804. Pitt died and fights broke out between Castlereagh and the Foreign Secretary Canning, with result that they fought a duel in 1809, with Canning being wounded. In 1812 Castlereagh became Foreign Secretary and negotiated the end of the Napoleonic War in the Treaty of Paris and the Congress of Vienna of 1814. He was helpful in his pro-European actions and forming a more effective collective security program. Dspite this great contribution to European peace and security he was severely criticised for supporting reactionary governments on the Continent and repressive ministers in Britain.
In 1822, he developed gout, as well as paranoia and other signs of mental disturbance. Despite a suicide watch at home, he slit his own throat on 12 August 1822. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, near William Pitt. Suicide was illegal and radicals like Williqm Cobbett thought there had been a cover-up. Controversy and misunderstanding were hallmarks of Castlereagh’s life and, as noted by Patten, he never got a good press.
Cruikshank’s image on the title page shows a bulldog biting the nose of Castlereagh. This pamphlet was at a relatively early stage of Cruikshank’s frequent collaboration in parody with Hone, who was at this time engaged in his political trial for blasphemy in parody of the litany, a history wonderfully chronicled in Robert Patten’s “Cruikshank’s Life, Times and Art”, Rutgers, 1992, Vol. 1, Ch. 9. Minor toning. Lower edge of pages 5/6 torn, without encroaching on text. Else, Very Good.
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11250
Warren, John Collins.-
A Letter Addressed to a Republican Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts on the Subject of a Petition for a New Incorporation , to Be Entitled “A College of Physicians”. Boston, MA. Printed by John Eliot, Jun. 1812. First Edition. 20 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Self wraps. Refs.: Austin 2002. Sabin 40255. Nathaniel I. Bowditch (pseud. “The Gleaner”) from The Boson Daily Transcript, 1855; reprinted in W. H. Whitmore and W. S. Appleton, Fifth Report of the Record Commissioners, 1880, Second Edition, Boston, 1884, pp. 207–209. DNB. In this pamphlet, Warren addresses the Massachusetts legislature, who had received an application to establish a second medical society, in addition to the Massachusetts Medical Society, established in 1783 by the most distinguished physicians of the Commonwealth. Together with the Harvard Medical College who offered educational opportunities to all physicians, the Medical Society had regulated the practice of medicine well in an effort to maintain high standards.
Warren’s letter was addressed to Joseph Story, and distributed to the entire government and to the community (Austin). A second group of physicians, presumably not meeting the qualifications set up by the Massachusetts Medical Society and representing “physicians” whom Warren considered professionally inferior had petitioned the Legislature in favor of forming a second Society with similar responsibilities.
Warren reviews the situation and finds no reason to create a rival organization with duplicate responsibilities. He analyzes the arguments for and against it in some detail. This controversy was to be very long-lasting, aggravated later by the spread of homœopathy and 20 years later it was joined by Oliver Wendell Holmes and other prominent allopathic physicians.
John Collins Warren (1778–1856) was the son of John Warren, a noted Revolutionary War patriot and surgeon; he was a nephew of Joseph Warren, the noted physician and patriot killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. John Collins Warren was also a surgeon and Professor at the Harvard Medical College. He was one of a long line of Warrens, nearly all surgeons and professors at Harvard, a line which lasted until about 25 years ago. The Warrens, like the Boston Printers John Eliot, were also long associated with the Roxbury Latin School of Boston, the oldest private boys school in America.
Owner’s signature in ink on title page; “Thomas L. Winthrop Esq.” Winthrop (1760–1841) was a Massachusetts politician, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1826 to 1833. He stood in the middle of a long direct line in a family extending from Thomas Dudley, a founder of Massachusetts in 1620, to a current Senator, John Kerry. Winthrop’s praises were sung as a worthy Bostonian by Nathaniel I. Bowditch, in part because of his noted son, Robert C. Winthrop (1809–94). Robert Winthrop, a pupil of Daniel Webster, also was a Massachusetts legislator, a US Legislator, Speaker of the US House until he resigned and was appointed to succeed Daniel Webster as Senator by Gov. George Briggs, who had refused to reprieve the death sentence of Harvard Professor John W. Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman in 1849. Robert Winthrop was too lukewarm to abolition for Massachusetts and was not reelected to a full Senate term. He was very philanthropic to the Boston Public Library, however. Warren was also noted for being the first surgeon “courageously” (Beecher & Altschuler, “Medicine at Harvard. The First 300 Years”, 1977, p. 73) to operate on a patient anesthetized with ether administered by Dr, W. T. G. Morton in 1846. He was married to the daughter of Thomas L. Winthrop, whose copy this is. Mild toning of covers. Title page detached, but present. Else, Very Good -.
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11244
Whipple, Edwin P.-
Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life. Boston. Ticknor, Reed & Fields. 1850 [1849] Second Edition (so stated). (Catalogue at front dated October 1, 1849; it notes Longfellow’s “Evangeline” just published. Both as in First Edition. 218 pp. + 4 pp. publisher’s catalogue at front. Small 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Titled in gilt on spine. Tryon & Charvat, A162b. A series of lectures, mostly on wit and humor in literature by Edwin P. Whipple (1819–86), the noted 19th Century critic, essayist and Editor of Dickens’s Works. The first essay in the volume comments on the changing reputation of authors through their lives. There follows an extended consideration of Dickens as an author and a person, showing through his characters Dickens’s personal characteristics and effectiveness as a man. Two of the six lectures, perhaps Whipple’s most famous, discuss “Wit and Humor” and “The Ludicrous Side of Life”. According to Tryon and Charvat, this first edition, published on October 3, 1849, was printed in only 750 copies and sold out within 10 days. Minimal wear at ends of spine. lower corners bumped. Minimal foxing of end papers.Else, Very Good.
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11224
Leech, John.-
Portraits of Children of the Mobility. Drawn from Nature by J. Leech. With Memoirs and Characteristic Sketches by the Author of “The Comic English Grammar,” etc. London. Richard Bentley. 1841. Illustrated by 8 full page sketches by John Leech, done in lithographs from the artist’s pencil sketches.. First Edition. 47 pp. + 1 p. publisher’s ad. Fo. Reddish purple publisher’s cloth, blind embossed on covers and titled in gilt on front cver. Tissue guard protects frontispiece. Yellow end papers. John Leech (1817–64) was a noted English caricaturist and illustrator of Irish extraction in the mid-19th century. He was a friend of Thackeray and the painter, Millais. Largely self-taught, he contributed to Bentley’s Miscellany and to Punch, among other periodicals. The drawings here are sensitive ad sympathetic sketches of destitute London urchins at play and sport, with Leech’s satirical narrative as text. Text and illustrations are bright and clean in this very attractive (except for cover) copy of an uncommon work by the great illustrator of ”A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, “Comic History of Rome”, “Comic History of England”, etc. Bookseller’s tag (”Bain”) and attractive bookplate on front pastedown. Wear at corners and eds of spine. Fading of spine and covers. Foxing of tissue guard only. Rare spot on end papers. Else, Very Good, indeed.
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11215
Flannagan, Roy C.-
The Story of Lucky Strike. N.P. Privately Published. 1938. Illustrated. First Edition. 94 pp. Small 8vo. Tan embossed publisher’s cloth with paper label and ruling on front cover. Wrappers embossed in the blind with the Trilon and Perisphere, New York World’s Fair, 1939 Privately printed to benefit the American Tobacco Company on the occasion of their exhibit at the New York World’s Fair , in 1939. An effort to surround the smoking of tobacco with romance and entice with technological mystique. Very Good to Near Fine.
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11214
[Broadside]. Davies, J. B., P.M. (753).-
The Song of a Sot. (Parody on Tom Hood’s Song of a Shirt). Words composed by Bro. J. B. Davies, P.M. (753). Dedicated to George Cruikshank, Esq., by his kind permission. London. J. B. Davies. N.D. [after 1842] Illustrated, probably by George Cruikshank. First Edition 1 p. 4to A humorous temperance broadside, a parody of Hood’s “Song of a Shirt” [1842-3]. Woodcut at top attributed to George Cruikshank. Crruikshank had, in other works, openly drawn on Hood’s verses for inspiration in his push for teetotalism in illustration and in verse. The text consists of ten 8-line verses, each consisting of rhyming quatrains, in double column, describing the downward path in life of an inveterate drunkard. A precursor of Cruikshank’s “The Bottle”.
Attribution of vignette to George Cruikshank from old catalogue entry, originally laid down on face, where this item is also noted, as I have confirmed, as not listed in Frederick Marchmont’s “Three Cruikshanks” {1897] or in Douglas’s (sic!) work [? Jerrold] on Cruikshank. Not in Cohn. Quite rare and a fragile item.
Quite consistent with Cruikshank’s notorious teetotalism in both writings and illustration, but unrecorded even in Robert Patten’s monumental “George Cruikshank: Life, Times & Art”. It is clear that Cruikshank wa s quite conversant with Hood’s work, particularly the model of Hood’s “Song of the Shirt”, for which he had done illustrations supportive of poor seamstresses and “A Drop of Gin”, for which he,like Kenny Meadows, was inspired to draw temperance illustrations. (Patten, op. cit., Vol.2, p.235). Few small stains and two old folds. Professionally deacidified, cleaned, rebacked with Japanese paper. At same time, an old catalogue entry removed from face and bookplate of Rowfant Club removed from old board backing on which this was laid down. Surface abraded where catalogue entry was laid down. Bookplate labeled as presented by William Orin Mathews. Both enclosed. Else, Very Good.
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11213
Baker, Rev. Jacob.-
Human Magnetism: Its Origins, Progress, Philosophy and Curative Qualities, with Instruction for Its Application. Worcester, MA. Jacob Baker and M. D. Philllips. 1834. Cover illustration of mesmerist and a subject undergoing hypnotism., a wood engraving in an engraved border. First Edition. 31 pp. 8vo. Illustrated printed paper wraps. Sewn. Refs.: N. K. Eccles, http://www.antiaging-systems.com/ARTICLE-677/challenges-to-conventional-medical-thinking-part-1.htm. Slater Brown, The Heyday of Spiritualism. The term “animal magnetism” was coined by the 18th century polymath, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) on the theory that “magnetic flux was capable of profound neuropsychomatic and constitutional effects” (Eccles, http://www.antiaging-systems.com/ARTICLE-677/challenges-to-conventional-medical-thinking-part-1.htm). Mesmer performed clinical trials of the process of magnetic production of a trance state, which we know as hypnotism, in 1774-75. His methods and terminology were popular throughout Europe and were adapted by the Marquis de Puységur, who continued to experiment with the process of hypnotism and the hypnotic state (Slater Brown). In 1784, experiments by Lavoisier, Guillotin and Benjamin Franklin demonstrated that the efficacy of magnetism occurred only in the patient’s mind, but did not challenge the concept that Mesmer’s methods had possible beneficial effects. In 1795, Elisha Perkins, of Connecticut, developed and patented a therapeutic device based on magnetism and electricity, experimenting with it till his death in 1795. The basic methods grew in response to the scientific work of Oersted and Faraday in the period 1820–40. In 1825, a major work published by DeLeuze called attention to the effect of magnetism on the sick. The notion of animal magnetism was first introduced in America by the Frenchman Charles Poyen in 1836. In 1843, Rev. Jacob Baker (1814–92) of Worcester published this pamphlet, suggesting that a vital fluid, or ether, pervaded all natural objects, yielding forces of electricity and magnetism and serving a vital link between mind and body. When activated by the Will or by external magnetic field, this force could cure many diseases, including, according to Baker, epilepsy, asthma and cancer. Baker explains his technique and he recounts case histories from his experience in support of this concept. Profoundly, he argues against the excessive and irresponsible use of magnetism, calling for the consideration of ethics in its application and virtue in the practitioner. From the time of Mesmer, the notion of “will” has been essential to the success of magnetism. Controlled trials late in the 19th century cast doubt on efficacy of electromagnetism, but the efficacy of hypnotism was confirmed. More recently the effect of electromagnetism on the body has come under study again. Quite rare, with OCLC locating only 5 copies, 3 at Harvard (one intact, one lacking final leaf as here, and one in a sammelband) and one each at Worcester and at Yale. Lacks last leaf, including p. 31 and final blank. Missing leaf provided in facsimile. Mildly soiled, toned and foxed., Else, Very Good.
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11210
Laws of the State of Vermont; Revised and Passed by the Legislature, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven. Together with The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, with Its Amendments, and the Constitution of Vermont. With an Appendix: Containing the Several Laws, which Have Heretofore Been Passed by the Legislature Regulating Proprietors’ Meetings, Granting General Land Taxes, Exclusive Privileges to Companies for Locks, Toll Bridges, Turnpike Roads, &c. And the Titles of All the Acts Which Have Not Been Repealed, or Become Obsolete.
Single Volume 2 [only] of 2 Vols. Rutland, VT. State of Vermont. Printed by Josiah Fay. 1798. First Edition. Pp. 407–621, 1–205, (2 pp. errata) 8vo. Contemporary calf over boards. Black calf label, titled in gilt on spine Evans 34925. Sabin 99126. A compendium of the laws of Vermont, compiled toward the end of the eighteenth century, probably the first major compendium of the laws of that state after admission to the Union. This is only one volume of two, the second. The text block is in Very Good condition with a short index neatly inscribed in ink by a contemporary owner on the front free flyleaf and the printed Index similarly inscribed with beginning and ending phrases on each page. There are several brief annotations in ink throughout the text.Among the many Acts passed are that which established the militia of the State of Vermont and the regulations by which it operated, including universal service for males aged 18 to 45; Acts establishing the modes of election of Representatives and Senators from Vermont to the Congress of the United States; an Act (passed in 1791) establishing the University of Vermont in Burlington, the fifth college established in New England (after Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown). This charter for the University was enacted in the same year that Vermont was admitted to the Union as a State. By some measures, this is the second oldest state university in the country (barely younger than the University of North Carolina). Slight worming of pastedowns. Wear of covers at head of spine and at corners. Mild toning and off-setting. hinges worn, but intact, with 1” separation at head of front cover. Else, Very Good.
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10079
Sweet, I. D.J.-
Elements of Draughts; or, Beginners' Sure Guide: Containing a Thorough and Minute Exposition of Every Principle, Separately Explained: Together with Model Games, Illustrative of All the Openings. Illustrated by Diagrams: Exhibiting Critical Positions, to Be Won or Drawn by Scientific Play. New York. Robert M. De Witt. 1859 Illustrated. First Edition. 108 pp. + 6 pp. publisher's ads at front and 24 pp. publ. catalogue (some pages uncut) at rear 4 5/8" x 6 3/4". Light brown cloth on spine. Illustrated (color) paper covered boards showing a family playing atthe draughts board. Ads on rear cover. An authoritative treatise on the rules and strategy of the game of draughts, a variant of checkers. The author is Draughts Editor of the New York "Clipper". The New York “Clipper”, later shortened to “The Clipper” was the first New York Newspaper devoted to entertainment, including theatre, circuses, sports, games (e.g. billiards, bowling, chess, etc.), dance and music. Published weekly from 1853 to 1924, it was subsequently absorbed into “Variety”. It contributed greatly to the popularity of baseball in the 19th century and began coverage of football in 1880. It became the paper of record for circuses, from their founding in the 19th century till 1902, when that function passed to “Billboard”. Under “Variety”, “The Clipper” was devoted exclusively to the theatrei It had also published humorous articles and books in dialect, e.g., minstrelsy in America. The publisher was Frank Queen, who died in 1882 (Obituary, New York Times, October 24, 1882). Wear to edges of spine and boards. Corners worn. Mild chipping of edges of the border of the cover illustration, without encroachment on the image. Mildly foxed. Overall, Very Good for such an ephemeral object.
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8179
Bell, Alexander Graham.-
The Mechanism of Speech. Lectures Delivered before the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, to Which is Appended a Paper, Vowel Theories, Read before the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Illustrated with Charts and Diagrams. New York. Funk & Wagnalls Company. 1910. Fourth Edition. 133 pp. 8vo. Publisher's Cloth with Gilt Lettering. Originally published in 1906. The lectures were originally delivered to an audience of professionals, whose questions and their answers by Bell are appended in this edition. Slight fraying of head of spine. Scant foxing of end papers and staining of preliminary pages. Else, Very Good.
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