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London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1778, 1778. First edition, all published. ESTC P2575; NCBEL II, 1305. Head of the spine chipped; edges and hinges a little rubbed; very good, sound copy.. Folio, contemporary brown smooth calf, red morocco spine label, five raised bands, gilt lettering. Engraved title-page and 123 engraved copper plates. A complete run of 42 issues of an illustrated magazine published by George Kearsly between 1774 and 1777, intended to display and celebrate the art of copperplate engraving. Each of the 123 examples is accompanied by a leaf of explanatory text. The subjects include portraits (25 English and 16 French - all men), historical events, mythology and fables (40 plates, including several dedicated to scenes from Telemachus) and views of important castles, houses and other picturesque structures and places (42 plates), including two of Strawberry Hill. At least 12 engravers were involved, among them Thomas Cook, Thomas Ryder, William Sharp, William Walker, Charles Grignion… Read More

Philadelphia: Published by Asbury Dickins . . . H. Maxwell, Printer, 1801, 1801. First edition. American Bibliography 700; Hill, American Plays, 144. Some foxing and scattered stains; very good copy, enclosed in a blue cloth clamshell box.. 8vo, modern blue paper wrappers, stitched, 84 pages. With half-title. The first book by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862), a Philadelphian who later became a prominent congressman and lawyer. Edwy and Elgiva was successfully performed at Philadelphia's Chestnut Street Theater in April, 1801, when Ingersoll was just 19 years old. The plot is an adaptation of the well known tale of a 10th century English monarch, Edwy, who marries his relative Elgiva - a story which was also successfully adapted for the stage by Fanny Burney. Though Ingersoll soon after entered the bar and politics, he remained close to the Port Folio crowd and in 1810 anonymously published the interesting satire Inchquin, the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States of… Read More

Paris: Chez Ponthieu, 1822, 1822. One of two French translations of The Sketch Book that were issued in 1822, its first year of publication in France; priority between the two is not known. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 67. Boards a little stained and rubbed; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary tan quarter calf, purple paper boards, red leather spine labels, gilt rules and lettering. With Half-titles. One of the earliest examples of an important work of American literature translated into a European language. This was apparently translated from the 1820 London edition published by Miller and Murray, which includes two sketches ("Traits of Indian Character" and "Philip of Pokanoket") not included in the earlier American edition.

Paris: Chez Ponthieu, 1822, 1822. One of two French translations of The Sketch Book that were issued in 1822, its first year of publication in France; priority between the two is not known. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 67. Wrappers a little worn and chipped; fine copy, enclosed in a clamshell box.. 2 vols, 8vo, original marbled purple wrappers, printed paper labels, untrimmed. With half-titles. One of the earliest examples of an important work of American literature translated into a European language. This was apparently translated from the 1820 London edition published by Miller and Murray, which includes two sketches ("Traits of Indian Character" and "Philip of Pokanoket") not included in the earlier American edition.

Stockholm: Zacharias Haggström, 1829, 1829. First edition of the first Swedish translation. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 71; OCLC records three copies in the US (Harvard, Kansas and NYPL) and three in Sweden. Wrappers slightly worn; fine copy, enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell box.. 2 vols, 8vo, original printed blue-gray wrappers, untrimmed. The first edition in Swedish, translated by Lars Arnell, of Washington's Irving's Tales of a Traveller, his continuation of the short stories that began with The Sketch Book. Contemporary ink signature on each front wrapper.

N.p., n.d.. Fine condition.. Sheet size 48.5 x 38 cm; image size 32 x 24.5. ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an engraver between 1880 and 1910, probably in New York.

New York: William H. Clayton, 1824, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. Some light dust-soiling and stains; very good copy in a handsome binding.. 4to, later brown calf period style, gilt decorated and lettered spine. A collection of eight of Washington Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all originally written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited and published by his brother Peter Irving, and are collected here in an obvious attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the Sketch Book (1819) and Bracebridge Hall (1822). The letters are preceded by an unsigned eight-page biographical sketch of Irving, very likely one of the first of its kind.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1863, 1863. Second edition, published shortly after the first. BAL 19258; cf. Smith, American Travelers Abroad, S200, which records an 1887 edition. Edges a little rubbed, but a fine, handsome copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary red quarter morocco, blind-stamped red cloth boards, gilt rules, decorations and lettering, marbled edges. With half-titles. A popular travel narrative about Rome by the American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), who was a talented writer, as well. The title of "Roba," Story writes in the preface, is meant in its broadest interpretation: "Roba is everything - from rubbish and riff-raff to the most exquisite product of art and nature. This book is filled with Roba." Story writes in 22 chapters about Rome's street music, beggars, games, cafes, the famous monuments, festivals, etc. Roba di Roma went through numerous editions, many expanded and revised.