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Bull-Baiting
— Deaf Education — A
Mother’s Horrible Crime
(English
Literary Periodical). The monthly magazine...Vol. XII. London:
R. Phillips, 1801. 8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). 644 pp.
A preface to another volume in this series notes that “by means of some new literary connexions in america, we shall possess peculiar advantages in presenting to our Readers, accounts of the most interesting circumstances belonging to the United States”—and it was an American reader, in fact, who owned the present example.
Provenance: Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.
• Disbound; marbled paper–covered boards much chipped and worn, with joints cracking and large portions of spine leather lost or worn down; sewing going, with some leaves separated. Some signatures uncut; page edges untrimmed and in some cases browned. Occasional edge chips. Volume now housed in a simple, acid-free phase box.
Mystery — Scandal? In memoriam Elliott Speer, 1898–1934. East Northfield, Mass.: 1935. Small 8vo. 36 pp.; illus. 
He was shot to death in his study on 14 September by a still unknown gunman using a shotgun! The Northfield Schools Bulletin. Vol. XXIII, January 1935, no. 1.
Craig Walley's relatively recent Murder at Mount Hermon: The Unsolved Killing of Headmaster Elliott Speer has resurrected interest in the mystery.
• Original wrappers. Fine. (17126)
A Moral Tale? The Life and death of fair Rosamond, concubine to King Henry III. To which is added The Lass o' Gowrie. Stirling [Scotland]: Printed for the Bookseller, [18--]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
murders
her by forcing her to drink poison.
This Stirling printing is rare. There is also a Glasgow printing of which OCLC locates only 6 copies worldwide.
• Original self wrappers (unbound, removed). The bottom corner of the second leaf is lightly chipped and the pages are somewhat darkened. Good. (17552)
True
Fact?
Or Fanciful
Fiction? BLOODY
MURDER.
Mills, Henry. Narrative of the life and dying confession
of Henry Mills, of Galesboro', Pennsylvania, who, on the night of the 29th January last,
inhumanly murdered his wife and five children! Boston: Printed by H. Trumbull, 1817. 8vo. 24
pp., 1 fold. plt.
Click the images for enlargements. All sources say of this work that it “is of doubtful authenticity” and may well be fiction — but, it is sensational for sure!
The folding frontispiece plate is a woodcut captioned “Shocking Barbarity” and shows Mills standing over his wife who is lying on the ground; he has a knife and is raising a fist in anger. The plate has hand coloring in two blues and a yellow (but rather interestingly, not red); three coffins flank the image on each side.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 41440; McDade, Murder, 682.
In 20th-century quarter tan cloth with marbled paper sides. Age-toning and
spotting/staining, with some edge tears, throughout; additionally, creases
in frontispiece. 
Apparently a pored-over copy. (26823)
Keepsake . . . The oath of a free-man. With a historical study by Lawrence C. Wroth and a note on the Stephen Daye Press by Melbert B. Cary, Jr. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1939. 8vo. [20] pp.
This is Keepsake no. 60 of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, although this copy does not include the laid-in sheet noting that detail. Important study by the head of the John Carter Brown Library on the Oath.
• Publisher's cloth, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and fresh. (14191)
A VARIETY of
Rip-Snortin' Offerings (Six Treats). The story teller. / The Murder discovered. / The Widow and her son. / Encounter with a lion. / The Soldier's wife. / The conflict between Grant and Mcpherson, at Hell Bridge, A Dangerous pass in the Highlands of Scotland. Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [18--s]. 12mo. 24 pp.
Rare. Not located in RLIN.
• There is a tiny hole in the top margin of 1 leaf, obliterating 1 page number, else very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (17582)
Murders TWA' The tragical ballad of Lord John's murder; together with The cruel brother.
Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1840?]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• NSTC 2J7717. Removed from a nonce volume. Upper inner corner of last leaf nicked. (16783)
Well, SERVES HIM RIGHT! The wandering shepherdess; or the betrayed damsel. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1840]. 12mo. 8 pp.
• This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned; one leaf with outer margin cropped closely. (16768)
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