London: [John Beale] for John Jaggard, 1613. Beale piracy, with "Aturney" on title-page. Beale Pirated Edition of Bacon's Essayes. There were three editions of Bacon's Essayes dated 1613 with a Jaggard imprint. The first, printed by Jaggard after the 1612 Beale edition of the Essayes, has the spelling "Atturny" for..... Read More about The Essaies of Sr Francis Bacon Knight, the Kings Aturney Generall. His Religious Meditations....

Philadelphia: Seddon, Carey, Spotswood, Cist and Trenchard, 1786. An early issue, complete with its table and engraved plate, and in the original wrappers: rare thus. "This was the most ambitious project in magazine publication yet attempted in this country" (Evans). Publication began in September 1786 and continued to May 1787..... Read More about The Columbian Magazine, or Monthly Miscellany for November, 1786

prob. Pennsylvania: 1781. The front cover is decorated with an elaborate saw tooth border with the date 1781 running longitudinally and a small carved flower below the inset initials under glass; the rear cover decorated with hearts and diamonds within a saw tooth border. Read More about Chip-carved wooden book-form, dated 1781 on upper cover with small inlaid manuscript initials...

High Wycombe: Hague Gill & Davey Ltd, 1952. First edition. Read More about From the Palestine Diary of Eric Gill

Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1924. First edition. Detailed description of 34 Islamic bookbindings, covering a wide chronological and geographical range, including 14th & 15th century Maghrebi, Egyptian and Syrian bindings from the Mamluke period, South Arabian bindinging from the 15th and 16th centuries, 16th century Persian leather bindings, Persian lacquered..... Read More about Islamische Bucheinbände des 14. bis 19. Jahrhunderts. Aus den Handschriften der Bayerischen...

New York: printed by John S. Fass at the Hammer Creek Press, 1952. One of a very small, unspecified limitation. A beautiful copy of this whimsy by John Fass, presenting the variations on the signature motif and mark of the press. UNCOMMON. Read More about Some Oriental Versions of the Turtle, The Ancient Symbol of Longevity and the mark of the Hammer...

Cambridge: Printed for the Author, [1813]. Second edition. Book I of Jenkin's work first appeared in Boston in 1791 as a small 32pp. pamphlet. It appears here in its greatly expanded form. The author's original plan to extend the set to seven volumes seems never to have materialized. Jenkins' system..... Read More about The Art of Writing Reduced to a Plain and Easy System on a Plan Entirely New, in Seven Books

[New York & New Fairfield, Ct: Press of William Edwin Rudge, 1933]. First edition, one of 200 copies. Inscribed from BR to Philip Duschnes. Inscribed on the first blank “Philip C. Duschnes with the regards of Bruce Rogers Christmas 1934” The scarce privately printed volume of letters from Lawrence to..... Read More about Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1848. First edition, exemplaire nominatif. Murat-Hopkinson Copy of the Revolutionary Constitution of 1848. The French Constitution written after the revolution of 1848, which ended the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and established the Second Republic: the exemplaire nominatif for lawmaker Lucien Murat (1803-1878), who represented the Lot..... Read More about Constitution de la République Française précédée des rapports et decrets qui y sont relatifs

New York: The Grolier Club, 1927. One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Champ Fleury by Geofroy Tory, one of the great Rennaissance treatises on letter form, was reprinted by Bruce Rogers on commission from the Grolier Club. Completed in October of 1927, it was "a massive accomplishment..... Read More about Champ Fleury. [Wherin is contained the Art & Science of the proper & true Proprtions of...

Boston: Rogers and Fowle for J. Blanchard, 1742. First American Edition. First published in London in 1738, this 1742 Rogers and Fowle Boston edition is the first American edition of this devotional. This example with early American female ownership to Abigail Bromfield, possibly Abigail Coney Bromfield (ca. 1700-1777) but more..... Read More about Devout Exercises of the Heart. Reviewed and Published ... Review'd and Published at her request,...

[Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495/96]. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first edition of HESIOD’S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated..... Read More about Idyllia] [and other texts