Large paper copy.
BRADSTREET, Anne.—The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) together with her prose remains with an introduction by Charles Eliot Norton The Duodecimos [New York, the De Vinne Press] M DCCC XCVII. 12mo, boards, uncut edges.
Etched frontispiece-portrait and eleven other illustrations. Edited by Frank E. Hopkins. No. 46 of one hundred and thirty-two copies printed on hand-made paper.
BRAMSTON, James.—The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. [vignette of Horace] London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, . . . M DCC XXIX. 8vo, brown straight-grain morocco, Janseniste, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Grotesque frontispiece with the legend "—Risum teneatis amici?" illustrating the opening lines of the poem,
"If to a Human Face Sir James [Thornhill] should draw
A Gelding's Mane, and Feathers of Maccaw,
A Lady's Boſom, and a Tail of Cod,
Who could help laughing at a Sight ſo odd?
Juſt ſuch a Monſter, Sirs, pray think before ye,
When you behold one Man both Whig and Tory,"
A-F in fours, title on A1.
Bound with this work are Swift's "Epistle to a Lady," B1-B4 recto; "On Reading Dr. Young's Satire," B4 verso-C1 recto; "On Poetry," C1 verso-D3 recto. "On the Words, Brother-Proteſtants, and Fellow-Chriſtians," D3 verso-D4 (verso blank), without title-page.
BRAMSTON, James.—The Man of Taste. Occasion'd by an Epistle Of Mr. Pope's On that Subject. By the Author of the Art of Politicks. London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver . . . 1733. . . . Folio, red morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery. Bound with "Beauty: or, the Art of Charming," 1735.
First edition, with engraving by G. Van der Gucht on the verso of the half-title.