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Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. [Bound with] Views in London. By an Amateur...Dedicated to Sophia, Countess Darlington [Bound with] Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Lord Colchester (Presentation Copy) by [Law, Hon. Elizabeth Susan] [Lady Colchester] E. S. L.

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Title: Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. [Bound with] Views in London. By an Amateur...Dedicated to Sophia, Countess Darlington [Bound with] Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Lord Colchester (Presentation Copy)
Author: [Law, Hon. Elizabeth Susan] [Lady Colchester] E. S. L.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Not Published, 1849. First editions. Three volumes bound in one and including a presentation inscription to the verso of front endpaper: "The Marchioness of Salisbury, with Lady Colchester's Love." Additional signature to title of second volume. Full straight grain morocco presentation binding by White of Pall Mall, with gilt title to spine. Boards and turn-downs stamped in gilt. All edges brightly gilt. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 187 x 111mm, bound in reverse chronological order and collating complete with half titles: [8], 61, [1]; viii, 66; [2], vi, 104. Spine sunned and a large patch of discoloration to the rear board; joints cracked but holding firm. Occasional marginal foxing, but overall fresh with the author's occasional handwritten corrections. Each printed privately, Law's poetry titles are each scarce, with OCLC reporting 15, 10, and 8 copies respectively. Drawn together here with feminist political associations, Lady Colchester bestows the works on Mary, the second Marchioness of Salisbury (nee Sackville-West) who was an active Tory in addition to overseeing a salon that included Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli among its visitors. The author of several privately printed poetry collections, in addition to published translations, Elizabeth Susan Law Abbot, Lady Colchester was noted in her own time for deploying "anecdotal, self-deprecating, and ironic" tones that complicated her otherwise polite literary output (Comic Women's Poetry of the 19th Century). The three books combined here demonstrate that tendency. Folded within seemingly common upper-class topics are reflections on intelligent women's loneliness in a marriage economy that devalued their selfhood (in the opening poem Le Beau Ideel of her volume dedicated to Lord Colchester); on the ways a woman's appearance might cause society to overlook her "rarest gifts...a head with heart combin'd" (in the dedication of her volume to the late Sophia, Countess Darlington); and on exercises of musical lyricism and translation in the volume dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, the political raconteur best known for ensuring that his friend Ignatius Sancho's biography reached publication and spread the story of his birth during the Middle Passage and his life as a free Black intellectual. Even Lady Colchester's recipient speaks to her political interests. Mary, the Marchioness of Salisbury, was the second wife of the Marquess; and she was noted for her public engagement with political and intellectual figures including Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Darwin. Knowing of the Marchioness' own intellect and ambition, her choice to present these three books speaks to the deeper meanings hidden within her own writing. Jackson 193.3 and 193.6.

A Pageant of Great Women by Hamilton, Cicely

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Title: A Pageant of Great Women
Author: Hamilton, Cicely
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: The Suffrage Shop, 1910. First edition. Very Good. Small quarto. 69 pp. (printed on one side only). With fifteen photo plates (including frontispiece) by Lena Connell (1875 - 1949) of suffragists and actresses in costume as the great women of history. The photographs, which capture stars like the leading acress Ellen Terry (as Nance Oldfield) and the theater producer Edith Craig (as Rosa Bonheur), were sold to raise funds for the suffrage cause and were later exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society. Publisher's gray paper over boards, holding firm despite some separation to paper at front hinge. Some toning to edges of boards. Toning to endpapers and a bit of foxing to edges of leaves. Front free endpaper with the presentation inscription of Marie Sugden, secretary of the Manchester branch of the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), to a Mr. Palmer, "In grateful appreciation of your help in the Woman's Cause - October 1910," and a mounted ALS from Sugden to Palmer that accompanied her gift of the book. A Very Good copy of one of the most famous suffragist promotional plays. Cicely Hamilton (1872 - 1952), a suffragist, birth control advocate, and abortion law reformer, was invited by the actress Edith Craig to write A Pageant of Great Women in 1910. The play features a cast of fifty-two women (including Jane Austen, Marie Curie, Sappho, the Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Indian revolutionary Rani Lakshmibai) to highlight women's independence and leadership. At the time, suffrage plays were an effective and popular method of spreading the word of the women's movement, and A Pageant of Great Women became one of the most popular entries in the genre, alongside Hamilton's How the Vote Was Won and Elizabeth Robins' Votes for Women. These plays spread through the United Kingdom as the numerous local suffrage groups, many of them united within the NUWSS, staged performances. Hamilton was involved with the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union and co-founded her own suffragist organization, the Women Writers' Suffrage League, with Bessie Hatton in 1908. The group, which grew to around four hundred members, included Elizabeth Robins, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Beatrice Harraden, Alice Meynell, and Olive Schreiner. Hamilton was also the author of Marriage as a Trade (1909), an "uncompromising outburst of indignation against...the tyranny of marriage which women were often compelled to enter because it was the only trade for which they had received any training" (ODNB). Marie Sugden was a suffragist and actress involved with the NUWSS. In 1909, she served as the secretary of the Manchester branch of the NUWSS, and became the secretary of the Letchworth branch in 1913. The Manchester branch presumably performed A Pageant in October of 1910, and Sugden presented this copy of the book to Mr. Palmer as a thanks for his help in the effort. Sugden writes, "Will you accept this little book with many thanks from a very grateful suffrage secretary? It is hardly a 'classic' but I think it may be, in years to come, a rather interesting memento of the women's struggle for the vote and of your share in the fight on one particular occasion.". Very Good.

Vida, Martyrio, y Beatificación del Invicto Proto-Martyr de el Japón San Felipe de Jesús, Patrón de México, Su Patria ... by Medina, Fray Balthasar de

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Title: Vida, Martyrio, y Beatificación del Invicto Proto-Martyr de el Japón San Felipe de Jesús, Patrón de México, Su Patria ...
Author: Medina, Fray Balthasar de
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Madrid: Imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1751. Hardcover. Good. Segunda Edición, 4to, (28) 176pp. Errata printed on page (17). Woodcut on p. 70 of the kind of cross on which San Felipe was crucified in Japan. Woodcut chapter heads and tails. 19th cent (?) speckled calf spine, tooled in blind and gilt, leather lettering label, gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. The title page is soiled and has been remargined with slight loss to the corners of the printed boarder; some page corners have been repaired; the final page (index) has been mounted on tissue for strength; a small stamp on the upper right corner of the title, else this is a good copy. Some copies of this have a portrait of San Felipe preceding page 70; this copy is bound without it. Franciscan Friar Philip of Jesus (San Felipe de Jesús), 1542-1597, a native of Mexico City, was traveling from Manila to Mexico to be ordained when his ship was driven by a storm onto the coast of Japan. There he and his companions were jailed and ultimately executed. He was canonized in 1862. Palau notes the first edition was printed in 1683. Fairly scarce. In Spanish. .

A Child-World by RILEY, James Whitcomb

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Title: A Child-World
Author: RILEY, James Whitcomb
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897. First American Edition. [POETRY]. First American edition, later printing. 12mo (7 ¼" x 5"); 209pp + [11]pp publisher's ads; bright red cloth over board, gilt-stamped title and author on front with a gilt-ruled border, gilt vining and lettering on spine; top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; fp and one additional plate; spine lightly sunned; fine. First printed in England in 1896. This first American edition has the printer's error: Proem on page 11, but contents immediately follow, and sections are numbered. Page 121 final line battered: I can not... (BAL 16622). James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was a popular poet from Indiana. He is often called the "Children's Poet" or "Hoosier Poet" as his home state was Indiana. His poems about children and places are often sentimental.

Costume Design and Illustration by TRAPHAGEN, Ethel

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Title: Costume Design and Illustration
Author: TRAPHAGEN, Ethel
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1918. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very good. [SIGNED and INSCRIBED]. First edition. 4to; 199pp; brown stamped cloth over board with the title and author on front cover and spine; inscription to a student and signature on free front endpaper; signed on title page; illustrated throughout text and with full page black and white illustrations; tipped in Spectrum Color Chart and Value Scale; newspaper clipping laid in and verso last page several newspaper clippings pasted in with offsetting to rear free endpaper, notes in pencil on rear free endpaper and pastedown; a few spots, scuffing of cover corners and edges, light age toning of page edges; very good. Fashion icon and self-taught designer, Ethel Traphagen (1882-1963), and fashion world leader of the early 20th century. She developed a system of education for designers entering the fashion world. Incudes a history of fashion by era, a reading and reference list of fashion and a listing of artists whose work impacted fashion.

Simplicius. [Piano-vocal score] by STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899

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Title: Simplicius. [Piano-vocal score]
Author: STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Hamburg: Aug. Cranz [PN C. 27869], 1889. Large octavo. Modern half dark red cloth with patterned boards, original publisher's upper printed wrapper laid down to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso contents), 3-162 pp. With performance markings in blue and lead pencil; occasional additional text in lead pencil. Upper wrapper trimmed. Minor wear to lower outer corners; inner margin of title reinforced with white paper. First Edition. Weinmann p. 135. Simplicius, to text by Léon after J.J.C. von Grimmelshausen's Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, was first performed in Vienna at the Teater an der Wien on 17 Dec 1887.

Die Gotteslehre des Nikolaus Cusanus by Uebinger, Joh

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Title: Die Gotteslehre des Nikolaus Cusanus
Author: Uebinger, Joh
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Munster und Paderborn: Druck und Verlag von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1888 First edition. Rebound in cloth, original front wrapper bound in. Octavo. Very good.

SOMERSET WHIG

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Title: SOMERSET WHIG
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description: 1838. THE SOMERSET WHIG. Somerville: S.L.B. Baldwin, Jul. 3, 1838. Vol. IV no. 204. Worn.

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