Back To The Books ~ Thomas B. Mosher

The latest additions to my collection of books published by Thomas B. Mosher!

Atalanta in Calydon, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1897.
Part of Mosher's Old World Series, this is a first edition, one of 925 copies.

Liber Amoris, or The New Pygmalion, by William Hazlitt, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1909.
Another in the Old World Series, this is a first edition, one of 925 copies. In excellent condition with some minor foxing along the yapped edges. The stiff cardstock covers of the Old World Series extend partially past the pages of the book and are folded over, each half meeting to form a protective cover opposite the spine. This is known as a 'yapped edge.' You learn something new every day. There's a light blue ribbon bookmark in this copy, but I'm not sure if this was originally part of the book (if so, it's become detached) or not.

The Renaissance, by Walter Pater, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1912.
Quarto, green paper over boards, title pasted on spine. "Limited to seven hundred copies for sale in America." A reprint of the 1893 edition, including a lengthy foreward by Mosher. Considered the breviary of the Decadent movement of the 1880s and 1890s, Pater's heady, voluptuous prose is, in Mosher's own words "... prose seemed to have conquered a new province; and further, along this direction, prose could not go."

The Jolly Beggars, by Robert Burns, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1914.
Slipcovered, glassine wraps over decorated paper covered boards, title label pasted on spine and cover. A presentation copy from W. Irving May to Thomas Hamilton, 1915. May was the recepient of a dedicatiion of this book by Mosher! This edition, one of 750, includes three illustrations, a foreward by William Marion Reedy, Burns's text, notes on the text and bibliography, several commentaries on The Jolly Beggars by Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Carlylse, William Henley and Andrew Lang and a short essay on Burns by Robert Louis Stevenson. This is an example of the deluxe editions Mosher could produce.