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AN EXPOSITION OF FREE BEER IN 1887
[BEER EXPOSITION, FRENCH]. Republique Française Ministere de l'Agriculture. Exposition des Bières Française et de tous les produits et appareils servant a la fabrication de la Bière, a Paris, Palais de l'Industrie…du 29 Aout au 31 Octobre 1887…Large folio broadside in red and black, 22 ½ x 31". Paris: Imprimiere Nationale, July, 1887.
Beer was becoming more popular in France, despite the popularity of wine. Here is a large broadside advertising an exhibition devoted to French beer, and its accoutrements. We have been told this exposition was the first of its kind for French beer, but we have not confirmed that to be the case. Not in the 48-page list by Morna Daniels, Paris National and International Expositions from 1790 to 1900: A Finding List of British Library Holdings, in eBritish Library Journal, 2013. A few minor fold tears, with no loss, otherwise fine. Not in OCLC.

DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. 8vo, 19/20 parts, in original printed wrappers, illustrated with 40 etched plates. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846-48.
First Edition, issued in monthly parts. With identifiable original owner's signatures on all wrappers (see below*). Two of the three misprints noted by Hatton & Cleaver as indicating early copies are here: part 11, p. 324, "Capitan" for "Captain"; part 14, p. 426, ":if" is not present; p. 431, the page number is present (H & C says the earliest issue has the number omitted).
Agrees with Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 227-250, with the following exceptions: In part 4 only two of the four-fold ad sheet "Letts Diary" and the specimen leaves for it are not here; part 7, no slip for "Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles Dickens," similar to slip in part 6; part 8, no ads for "Gilbert's Dictionary of the English Language," and the same is true for part 10; part 11, no ad-slip for Letts & Son; part 15, ad pages 3-10 not… Read More

[DICKENS, Charles]. Court of Common Sense. 4to broadside, 10 x 7 1/2", mounted on a sheet from an album. [London:] Tuck & Co. Printers, Little St. Thomas Apostle [1837].
A humorous reference to Sam Weller in Dickens' Pickwick Papers (1837), who mixed up "V" and "W" in his speech. The broadside describes Weller's trial: "Yesterday a gentleman of a silky appearance, and prepossessing manners, was placed at the bar, charged with clipping, cutting, maiming, and otherwise disfiguring the lawful language of His Majesty's subjects, so as to render it quite unintelligible to all plain-spoken Englishmen...The first witness for the prosecution was the letter V; who stated that on several public occasions, but more particularly at Wardmotes and Vestries, the defendant had most shamelessly mangled and ill used him...The only witness for the defendant, was a Mr. Bos [i.e. "Boz," Charles Dickens], who said he had known the defendant some… Read More

[DOUGLAS, The Brothers]. The Wanderers, or Horatio and Laetitia. A Poem in Five Epistles. [Illustrated. with 2 full-page wood engravings, including frontispiece & 2 vignettes, by William Williams]. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, gold stamped black leatherlabel, pp. 138, [1] + engraved frontispiece, 1 other plate & 2 vignettes, by William Williams. Utica [N.Y.}: Printed for the Authors by Seward and Williams, 1811.Only Edition. Complete with frontispiece sometimes wanting. Except for some minor browning, a fine copy of an early American poem. The last leaf is blank, except for the note: "The engravings on wood, by William Williams." See John Camp Williams, An Oneida County Printer (1906) for a full account of Williams, in which it is suggested that he is our third American wood engraver, after Anderson and Lansing. Stoddard & Whitesell 971, where four of the eleven copies examined lack the frontispiece. Hamilton 1293a. Wegelin 1378. American Imprints 24360.

THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD "DEMI-MONDE"--THE HOE COPY

DUMAS, Alexandre, fils. Le Demi-Monde Comédie en cinq actes, en prose. 8vo (in 4's), later cloth (original printed wrappers bound in), pp. 162, uncut. Paris: Michel Levy Frères, 1855.
First Edition. One of Dumas' most influential plays which explores sexual immorality. It deals with the way prostitution threatened the institution of marriage. "Demi-Monde" was the word invented by Duas to mean the world occupied by pleasure-loving elite men and the women who entertained them and whom they kept. Dumas' third play, and the one which some critics consider the definitive model of the 19th century comedy, and the one which has been esteemed the author's best. "He coined the word to describe the world of les déclassées portrayed in the play...The word was recognized by the Académie français and defined as "la société des femmes de moeurs… Read More

CRAIG, Neville, historian. DUMAS, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric. Manuscript of the first translation into English of Dumas' "Preface" of his 1769 translation into French of William Smith's Historical Account of of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year MDCCLXIV,under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq., Colonel of Foot...Philadelphia: 1766. AMsS, 11 leaves, written on rectos only, 4to, docketed on verso of last (blank) leaf, tied with pink cloth. [Pittsburgh, 1843, i.e. 1846].
Neville B. Craig was born in a Redoubt built by Colonel Bouquet in 1764, and as his son wrote in his preface to the 1876 edition of The Olden Time; a Monthly Publication, "his life...was spent within rifle shot of the place of his birth." With some corrections and deletions. This is the complete translation of the French preface, including the translator's notes. "Note. The following translation of Dumas' preface was hastily made by me for my own… Read More