•  ESTC T168050. Now in a Mylar folder; edges slightly ragged, repair at lower inner margin just touching letters on one side, small holes in lower center with loss of a few letters. Some letters in header cut off at top due to printer’s error. Tipped onto a blank leaf bearing a watermark of 1826.

•  ESTC N3245. Recent, slate-grey light boards. Title-page with numeric stamp and with number inked in lower margin by an early hand. Edges untrimmed; some light staining.

There were American versions of “Humphrey Bluster” letters; in 1818 two such items respecting the Boston election were printed. At this writing RLIN, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956list no holdings of the present, Anglo Bluster.

•  Not in NSTC. On Graham, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXII, 328–32. Creased, with corners bent, otherwise good. A few early, lightly inked marginalia.

•  Venus: ESTC T73277; Ode: ESTC T41985 (first ed.). Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Second work lacking half-title and title-page. Inner margins of two leaves reinforced; last line of advertising page shaved. Title-page and last few leaves with moderate foxing; one page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, with some offsetting to opposing page.

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This work appeared with three different title-pages and there are even internal differences. In this copy the setting of quire B has line B3v with “Deliberations” spelled with the capital letter “D.”

• STC (rev ed.) 22058; ESTC S116980.   Removed from a nonce volume and in modern wrappers. First and last pages dust-soiled; tea (?) stain to last leaf. Ex-library with the not unattractive stamp of the Union Theological Seminary on the verso of the title and in the bottom margin of the last text page. Blank area of foremargin of B4 torn with loss. In modern wrappers. (21000)

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The title-page here, with its black-bordered and -accented text, is is a nice example of modest “mourning typography.”

Uncommon: OCLC and ESTC locate only two U.S. institutional holdings.

•  ESTC T119686 .   Disbound; sewing mostly perished, leaves separating. Edges slightly ragged and light soiling to margins.  (26247)

Scarce:  OCLC, ESTC, and NUC Pre-1956 find only five U.S. holdings.

•  ESTC T138683.   Recent quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Title-page with edges tattered, now well mounted; last few leaves with edges tattered and some interior holes, several repaired some time ago; words are taken in some cases here, but general sense is yet clear. Several additional leaves with short tears from outer edge, most not affecting text and a few just touching; one leaf with long tear extending through a number of lines without loss of text; one leaf with old repair to lower corner; one plate with tear from lower margin extending into image; one plate with portion of outer margin chipped away, not affecting image; one plate with short tears from lower edge just touching image. Pages gently age-toned, with light curve of old waterstaining to last section; otherwise occasional light spotting only. A substantial book, an attractive copy.  (24960)

featuring an addition “not in any other Edition,” according to the title-page: “An Examination, before the British House of Lords, respecting the Stamp-Act.”

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•  Sabin 25602; Shaw & Shoemaker 515. On Temple Franklin and early editions, see: Green & Stallybrass, Franklin,151–60.   Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine extremities a little chipped, front cover a little sprung, hinges (inside) reinforced. Frontispiece and title-page tattered and now mounted, with outer margin of first preface page repaired; a number of corners bumped or dog-eared, with a few in one section at some point delicately rodent(?)-nibbled. Subscribers' list trimmed closely, affecting two names only; pages age-toned with intermittent foxing. In fact, though certainly not “excellent” — quite “satisfactory.”  (25357)

A search of RLIN, OCLC, NSTC, and NUC Pre-1956 shows only four U.S. holdings of this pamphlet.

•  NSTC 2N1853. Recent moiré cloth–covered boards. Title-page with small inked numerals in upper outer corner. One leaf with short edge tear just touching text.