Edinburgh: John Ballantyne; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and W. Miller, 1810. 8vo.(10), 433 pp. Half-title. Somewhat later black straight-grain morocco, gilt, and marbled endpapers, gilt title on spine (dull), a.e.g.; some scattered foxing and spots in margins of text; cracking along the spine and its extremities, and..... More
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition. 8vo. xii, 481, (1) pp. With the half-title and errata leaf. Godwin (1756-1836), "known as the philosophical representative of English radicalism," following his publication of Political Justice in 1793 (DNB), published The Enquirer, the same year his wife Mary Wollstonecraft..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1913. First edition. Small 8vo. (4), 169, (1, publisher's ad). Frontispiece from a drawing by Gordon Grant. Boxing novel about a naive young man from the sticks who finds corruption in big-city boxing, made into two movies, "The Abysmal Brute" in 1923 starring Reginald Denny..... More
London: Greening & Co., 1903. 12mo. lxiii, (1, blank), 107 pp. Title page printed in green and black. Author Henry James's copy, with his signature on the front endpaper. In the introduction to this book, the editors lament that Saltus is not better known, stating: "Mr. Edgar Saltus is as..... More
London: Septimus Prowett, 1823. Second edition (first published in 1790). Small 8vo in fours. (4), ii, 93 pp. Illustrated with 20 engraved plates, including portraits of Walton and Cotton, title-page and final leaf vignettes, one in-text illustration. Westwood & Satchell, p. 245: "The illustrations are those used in Gosden's edition..... More