Edinburgh: James Watson, 1711. Folio (335 x 214 mm). Fine engraved frontispiece portrait of the William Drummond of Hawthornden. Contemporary divinity calf. Some light wear, front joint partly split at top; some minor pale marginal dampstaining, occasional pale browning. Provenance: George Edward Dimock (bookplate); Fletcher and Maude Battershall (bookplate); purchased.....
Venice: Paolo Colombani, 1760. 4to (204 x 160 mm). 4 full-page engraved plates after Pietro Antonio Novelli (3) and Francesco Bartolozzi (1) by Antonio Baratti, title-page vignette, one head-piece and 5 tail-pieces, 5 ornamental initials. 19th-century quarter vellum, decorated paper boards. Some pale dampstaining to lower corners, generally crisp. Provenance.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. 8vo. 57 pages. Original aquamarine cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Heaney's first commercially published book. One of 1,000 copies, using sheets from the UK edition published in the same year by Faber & Faber. An auspicious debut, not only did the.....
London: Edward Moxon, 1845. Two volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of the author by H. Robinson after Sir Thomas Lawrence. Contemporary green hard-grained morocco gilt, covers with dotted-circle roll centering a gilt urn on each side, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt block.....
London: Edward Moxon, 1855. 12mo. Half-title, leaf of advertisements at end. 154 pages. Original green, blind-blocked cloth; quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Provenance: Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), priest, professor, social reformer, historian, novelist, and close friend of Charles Darwin (his signature on half-title, with note on pastedown stating that the book.....