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London: Printed by Brettell for Appleyards, 1808, 1808. First edition. Title-page and final leaf a little stained; very good copy.. 8vo, recent tan wrappers, 32 pages. The first of three plays by Marie Therese Kemble (1774-1838), the Austrian-born English actress and mother of Fanny Kemble. She moved to England at an early age and became a popular child actress. She later married actor Charles Kemble, for whom she wrote this short comedy about marriage ("the lottery of wedlock"), in which they played the starring roles, he as Colonel Freelove and she as his 18-year-old tempestuous wife, Lady Elizabeth Freelove. He attempts to subdue her temper tantrums, but is warned by her brother, Lord Rivers, that "you may break a horse, you may even subdue a lion, but you'll never tame a woman." This and one other short comedy by Kemble were remarkably popular, often preformed and reprinted.

London: Printed for Thomas Bennet, 1694, 1694. First edition. ESTC R8939; Wing K-461; NCBEL II, 767. Damp-stain in the upper portion of the first two signatures; some light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary black morocco, gilt panels, decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Poetic and prose meditations written towards the end of the life of Sir William Killigrew (bap. 1606-1695), playwright and courtier, whose career flourished almost the entire span of the 17th century. Inscribed on the front blank in a contemporary hand, quite possibly Killigrew's: "For ye Countesse of Peterborough." Bookplate of American collector Robert S. Pirie on the front paste-down.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842, 1842. First English edition. Noted under BAL 11143. Cloth faded and worn; a few leaves roughly opened; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. ¶ The second book by Caroline Kirkland (1801-1865), a collection of sketches about the life of raising a family on the Michigan frontier, where she moved to from New York in 1837.

New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839, 1839. First edition. BAL 11139; Wright I, 1583; Sabin 37991. Some light foxing and wear; small ink stain on the spine; an unusually fine copy.. 12mo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering. Two pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. The first book by Caroline Kirkland, an interesting realistic novel based on her first-hand experience of pioneer life with her husband and six children in a remote Michigan village. She writes in the preface that her work was in part inspired by and patterned on Mary Russell Mitford's famous sketches of life in an English town, Our Village, published in installments from 1824 to 1832.

(New York:) Published by Elam Bliss, 1829, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 39223; Sabin 38075. Edges a little rubbed; some light foxing and faint stains; very good copy.. 8vo, 19th century black half morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering. A landmark work on the history of American literature by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), author, local Massachusetts politician and lawyer. In 15 "lectures" Knapp writes about the origins of an American literature and the influences on it of the American Revolution. From the library of a great American literary critic, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), with his bookplate on the front paste-down.

Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802, 1802. First edition. American Bibliography 2490; Sabin 38076. The lower blank margins of four leaves trimmed; moderately foxed; edges a little rubbed; fine copy in original state, enclosed in a cloth clamshell box.. 12mo, original marbled paper boards, hand-lettered spine, untrimmed. With half-title. The first book by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), a series of 14 literary letters fashioned after Goldsmith and Montesquieu. Knapp writes about Mary Wollstonecraft and her influence on American women, women's rights in America, American poetry, with extracts from Joel Barlow and other Hartford Wits, etc. Knapp's Letters are one of the earliest examples of the literary essay in American literature; and they were glowingly dedicated to John Quincy Adams. Contemporary book label of Edmund Shalter on the front paste-down. Ink signature dated 1907 on the title-page.