New York: c. 1865. The First Tammany Hall Building. The early inscription on the mat identifies the image as taken in 1854, suggesting this large albumen print made from an earlier glass plate negative. Another example in the collection of the City of New York suggests a date in circa..... Read More about Tammany Hotel [albumen photograph of Park Row in Printing House Square showing the Tammany Hotel...

London: Leonard Smithers [Printed at the Chiswick Press], 1896. Beardsley, Aubrey. First edition with Beardsley’s illustrations. Read More about The Rape of the Lock

Winchester: D. Nutt, [1846-1847]. Surprisingly scarce, the work was originally issued in 8 parts and would seem to have been published in a regular issue (£2.2s) and a large-paper colored issue, as here (£4.4s), judging by early advertisements. Includes the wood-engraved plate of college seals in the rear. Read More about Memorials of Winchester College, Drawn & Lithographed by Charles W. Radclyffe

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924-1930. Autograph Edition, no. 118 of 750 copies, signed by the author and with a page of manuscript in pencil (46 lines on either side, recto and verso, approx. 1500 words, with numerous corrections) tipped in at the front of Volume One. With 2 pages of Maunuscrpt..... Read More about The Writings of…

London: Oct. 23, 1788. Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), Swiss-born painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, lived most of his life in England and was one of the preeminent figures of the Romantic movement. When he turned from poetry to painting, at the encouragement of Joshua Reynolds, he soon began painting scenes..... Read More about Autograph Document, signed, a receipt issued to John Boydell, for 50 guineas "on account of...

Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Chesnut Street. Baltimore: Carey, Hart & Co, 1834. First American edition. Source for Poe’s Dupin. Vidocq (1775-1857), first a convicted criminal and then “the principal and most active agent of the police”, was head of the Paris Sureté from 1810 to 1827. He wrote..... Read More about Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827. Written by Himself....