MAINE
MAINE
Jews,
Mohometans, &
Popery —
For American Schools — 1806
[Gillet, Eliphalet]. History of the Bible and Jews, with remarks upon the rise and progress of Mahometanism and Popery. Adapted to the use of schools. 
Hallowell
[ME]: Ezekiel Goodale (pr. by Benjamin Edes), 1806. 12mo (17.7 cm, 7"). 312 pp.
Gillet,
who also published a number of sermons and discourses, was a founding member
of the First Congregational Church in Pittston, Maine, as well as a member
of the Maine Missionary Society. At back is a list of Goodale’s other publications, to be had at the “Sign of the Bible.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 10485. Contemporary speckled sheep, worn and abraded; back cover with slices to leather, title label on spine almost entirely rubbed away. One leaf torn; pages age-toned throughout, with staining/spotting. Back pastedown with calligraphy practice inked in an early hand.
A
Well-Meaning but
Not
Very High-Rising MUSEHill, Elizabeth Chase. Gleanings: Girlhood and womanhood. Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1887. 4to (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], 76, [2] pp.
South
Berwick, MAINE (the first permanent settlement
in that state) and attended school in Exeter, NH. The work was privately
printed as a holiday gift for friends of the author; the poems and short pieces
display intelligence, but not much by way of polished craft — unsurprising
given that most of them were written during Hill’s adolescence. One unfinished
poem ends abruptly with “. . . my Muse would plume her wing, / And higher
as she rises sweeter sing — ”; the note beneath reads “Muse
did n’t get any further up that trip” (p. 25).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Burton W.F. Trafton, Jr.’s library at Old Fields in South Berwick, ME; pastedown also with binder’s ticket from Crawford & Stockbridge of Concord, NH. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated Christmas, 1887.
• Publisher’s brown cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and dark brown–stamped decorative bands, bottom band labelled “Christmas 1887"; corners and spine extremities rubbed, binding showing very little wear otherwise. First two signatures with sewing loosening; pages very slightly age-toned but otherwise clean.
“Cupid Befriend Me!” Ingraham, Joseph Holt. American lounger. Or, tales, sketches, and legends gathered in sundry journeyings by the author of “Lafitte,” &c. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. 12mo. [10], 15-41, [5], 59-273 pp.
a story about General Washington entering a leaping contest and another involving the love affair between an illegitimate son of Charles I and a young maiden from a Native American tribe in Maine. 
Washburn
Memorial Library —
MAINE, 1885Presentation
CopyWashburn
Memorial Library, Livermore, Me.
Dedicatory exercises of the Washburn Memorial Library, Wednesday, August
5, 1885, at “The Norlands,” Livermore, Maine.... Chicago: Fergus Printing
Co., 1885. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.375"). 48 pp.; 2 plts (incl. frontis.). 
Presentation copy: Inked presentation inscription of E.B. Washburne on p. 1.
• Recent speckled brown wrappers. Some shallow chipping and tears. Neat, handsome old library rubber-stamps.
Deluxe Comedic Production, Deluxe Binding Wills, William Henry, ed. Poets' wit and humour. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1861. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). [8], 278, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. 
one
hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George
H. Thomas.” The work was edited by a friend and collaborator of Charles
Dickens; from Chaucer to Swift to “Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes,”
Wills's comic selections are delightfully entertaining, and their wood-engraved
illustrations equally amusing.
The
embossing plaque is signed with the designer's initials: “R.D.”
This work is rarely found in the deluxe binding: The handsomely gilt-stamped publisher's cloth is the norm.
• NSTC 2W24418; Allibone 2762. Binding as above, showing
minor wear to extremities and front cover vignette, original silk bookmark
detached and laid in. Volume slightly shaken with text block starting to pull
away from spine; this is the kind of volume that wants to do that, and the
reader will want to “cradle” it in hand — that done, no
worries. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled gift inscription and with aMAINE
druggist's small ticket. Mild to moderate
foxing. Both
funny and decorative, in an American publisher's binding that may fairly be
called “DAZZLING.” (26748)
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