8°. Jocoseria. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1883. 8°. Ferishtah's Fancies. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1884. In orig. green cloth $2-3. The corrected proof sheets are in the H. E. Widener Library. Parleyings with certain People of Importance in their Day. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1887. 8°. In orig. brown cloth $2-3. — £ 13 Sotheby's, 20 May 1909, n. 136, presentation copy to Sir Fred. Leighton; £27.10.0 Browning (May 1913, n. 498) presentation copy. Asolando, Fancies and Facts. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1890. 8°. - In orig. red cloth $2-3. — £50 Browning (May 1913, n. 499) the corrected proof sheets. The autograph manuscript, £410 Hornstein (Febr. 1918, n. 2868). The Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. London, 1916. 4°. Pale buff wrapper. Thirty copies printed for T. J. Wise. Letters to my Son. London, 1917. 4°. The last Hours of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. London, 1919. 8°. Pale buff wrapper. Thirty copies printed for T. J. Wise. Reflections on the Franco-Prussian War, July-October, 1870. London, 1919. 8°. Yellow wrapper. Thirty copies printed for T. J. Wise. Edward Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. London, 1919. 8°. Red-lilac wrapper. Thirty copies printed for T. J. Wise. Some Records of Walter Savage Landor. London, 1919. 8°. Pale green wrapper. Thirty copies printed for T. J. Wise. Letters from Le Croisic. per. London, 1919. 8°. Lilac wrap Thirty copies printed for T. J. Wise. Critical Comments on Algernon Charles Swinburne and D. G. Rossetti, with an Anecdote relating to W. M. Thackeray. London, 1919. 8°. Light blue wrapper. Thirty copies printed for T. J. Wise. BRYANT (William Cullen). 1794-1878 See Bibliography of the principal editions of Bryant's works, I: 18081847, in The Bibliographer, II (1903) pp. 388-399. The largest collection of Bryant's works probably belongs to Henry Cady Sturges, of New York who has published valuable Chronologies of the life and writings of William Cullen Bryant with a bibliography of his works in prose and verse. (New York, Appleton, 1903. 8°) cxxvii pp. (110 copies). Only the earlier works are here recorded: The Embargo, or Sketches of the Times, a Satire, by a Youth of Thirteen. Boston, printed for the purchasers, 1808. 16°. 12 pp. Some seven copies are known: 1. Harvard; 2. Boston Athenaeum; 3. Sturges (C. E. Norton copy); 4. S. H. Wakeman (a duplicate from the Boston Athenaeum); 5. $3350 Hoe (Apr. 1911, I, n. 530) mor., by Matthews (Hoffman-Hawkins-Pope copy), resold $1500 Wallace (March 1920, n. 125); 6. $3000 Merwin's, 5 Dec. 1912, n. 101, orig. wrapper, uncut (now Huntington); 7. $1010 Scott's, 12 Apr. 1917, n. 28, sewed, uncut, title damaged, resold $1650 Anderson's, 13 May 1919, n. 152a. The second Edition together with the Spanish Revolution and other Poems, by William Cullen Bryant. Boston, E. G. House, 1809. 16°. 36 pp. $50-60. -$230 Hoe (Apr. 1911, I, n. 531) mor., by Matthews, presentation copy (the Hawkins copy, now Huntington). An Oration, delivered at Stockbridge, July 4th 1820. Stockbridge, Charles Webster, 1820. 12°. 12 pp. Only two copies are said to be known, one in the Huntington coll., from the Pierson sale (Febr. 1908, n. 101: $145 to Halsey); the other, $175 Chamberlain (Febr. 1909, n. 4) mor., by Bradstreet. Poems. Cambridge, Hilliard and Metcalf, 1821. 12°. In orig. boards or printed wrapper $50-60. — $55 Chamberlain (Febr. 1909, n. 6) wrapper; $46 Hoe (Apr. 1911, I, n. 532) mor., by Rivière (now Huntington). Poems. New York, E. Bliss, 1832. 12°. In orig. boards $10-15. Also published at London, J. Andrews, 1832. 12°. Subsequent editions in 1834, 1836, 1839, etc. Popular Considerations on Homoeopathia. New York, W. Radde, [1841]. 8°. In printed wrapper. $400 Scott's, 12 Apr. 1917, n. 38, lacking front cover. The Fountain and other Poems. New York and London, Wiley and Putnam, 1842. 12°. In cloth or yellow boards. $10-12. $27 Chamberlain (Febr. 1909, n. 27) presentation copy. An Address to the People of the United States in behalf of the American Copyright Club. New York, 1843. Sewn as issued. $10.50 Chamberlain (Febr. 1909, n. 28). 8°. 20 pp. The White-Footed Deer and other Poems. New York, I. S. Platt, 1844. 16°. A very scarce book, especially with the buff printed wrapper. $285 Poor (Dec. 1908, n. 162) wrapper; $185 Owre (Dec. 1909 n. 87) wrapper. The Halsey copy (with wrapper) is in the Huntington coll. BUCK (Samuel) 1696-1779, and Nathaniel BUCK Views of Ancient Castles, Abbeys, etc., in England and Wales. London, 1727-1740. 2 parts in 4 vols. Copies contain from 420 to 438 plates. Fol. $150-200. — £ 59 Fraser (Apr. 1901, n. 203) mor., with 438 pl. Antiquities or venerable Remains of Castles and perspective Views of a hundred Cities and chief Towns. London, 1774. 3 vols. Fol. A reissue of 428 plates of the Views with a 3d vol. of larger size containing 83 pl. $120-150.56 Edwardes (May 1901, n. 136) mor. BUCKHURST (Thomas Sackville, Lord). BUCKINGHAM (George Villiers, Duke of). 1628-1687 The Rehearsal [a Comedy]. London, T. Dring, 1672. 4°. $50 Hoe (Apr. 1912, III, n. 486) mor., by Rivière (now Huntington). The Chances, a Comedy. London, A. B. and S. M., 1682. 4°. $40 Hoe (Apr. 1912, III, n. 487) mor., by The Club Bindery (now Huntington). BUDD (Thomas). 16..-1698 Good Order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in America [Philadelphia, William Bradford], 1685. 4°. The first or second book printed in Philadelphia (see Hildeburn, The issues of the press in Pennsylvania, I, pp. 4-5). Extremely scarce. Only ten copies can be traced. 1. Brit. Mus.; 2. New York Public Library (Lenox); 3. Carter Brown; 4. Historical Society of Pennsylvania; 5. Philadelphia, Friends' Library; 6. Newbery (Ayer); 7. £ 101 Hodgson's, 21 Nov. 1907, n. 42, calf, resold $1700 Crane (March 1913, n. 120), then Halsey, now Huntington; 8. $160 Brinley (March 1880, n. 3042) mor., last leaf in facs. (a Lenox dupl.), then Church, resold $485 Huntington (Dec. 1917, VI n. 37); 9. $400 Barlow (Febr., 1890, n. 370) mor., resold $600 French and Chubbuck (Febr. 1904, n. 262); 10. £ 125 Lefferts (June 1902, n. 41) 2 leaves in facs. The copy in mor., sold $155 Rice (March 1870, n. 274) and $150 Menzies (Nov. 1876, n. 257) is apparently one of the above. BUGG (Francis). 1640-1724(?) News from Pensylvania: Or a Brief Narrative of Several Remarkable Passages in the Government of the Quakers in that Province Printed and sold by the Booksellers, 1703. 8°. £ 22.10.0 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 1081) calf by Pratt (now Huntington). BULKELEY (Gersham) The People's Right to Election or Alteration of Government in Connecticut. Philadelphia, W. Bradford, 1689. 4°. 8 leaves. Exceedingly scarce. $235 Brinley (March 1879, n. 2043) mor.; £150 Huth (Nov. 1911, 1082) mor., by Pratt (now Huntington). BULLOCK (William) Virginia impartially examined. London, J. Hammond, 1649. 4°. Becoming scarcer and scarcer. £27 Lefferts (June 1902, n. 42); £24 Hodgson's, 21 Nov. 1907, n. 38, calf; £21 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 1090) mor., by Pratt, some head-lines shaved; $300 Hoe (Jan. 1912, II, n. 618) mor., by The Club Bindery, resold $335 Robinson (Apr. 1917, n. 137); $250 Crane (March 1913, n. 124) mor., by Stikeman; $700 Huntington (Jan. 1917, III, n. 20) mor., by Rivière (Britwell copy). BULWER (Edward), LORD LYTTON. 1803-1873 Most of his first editions are still fairly cheap, but some of his juvenilia are quite unobtainable. Ismael, an Oriental Tale, with other Poems. London, printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1820. 12°. Grey boards with label. T. J. Wise coll. Delmour, or a Tale of a Sylphid and other Poems. London, printed for Carpenter and Son, 1823. 8°. Plain grey wrap per. T. J. Wise coll. Weeds and Wildflowers, by E. C. L. B. Paris, not published, 1826. 8°. Green printed wrapper. T. J. Wise coll.; a copy lacking the wrapper was in the Buxton Forman coll. The Last Days of Pompeii. London, 1834. 3 vols. 12°. $22.50 Ives (Apr. 1915, n. 108) mor., uncut. The Pilgrims of the Rhine. London, 1834. 8°. Exists on large paper. Not so bad as we seem, a Comedy. London, 1851. 8°. Dickens's copy, with additions in his autograph, brought $150 at Bangs', 15 Jan. 1900, n. 235. BULWER (John) Anthropometamorphosis. London, 1653. 4°. Portr. by Faithorne, frontisp. by Cross and woodcuts. |