London: William Pickering, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge & National Library of Scotland). An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition, the issue with the price beneath the imprint. ESTC T187239; Foxon A296; Hayward 168; NCBEL II, 535. A long poem in blank verse on the virtues of fresh air, diet, exercise, and the passions. John Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician.....
London and New York: Macmillan, 1905. A reprint of the 1895 edition of Arnold's poems in three volumes.
London: John Van Voorst, 1845. First edition with these illustrations, large paper copy. NCBEL III, 367. Bookplate of Charles Walker Andrews on the front paste-down.
London: Murray; Bath: Cruttwell, 1828. First edition. NCBEL II, 643; Woolf, Some Uncollected Authors (Book Collector, Autumn, 1958), 28. A late and scarce work by William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), the influential and prolific poet. "Of all the forgotten poets of the last century, and their name is legion, there is.....
London: Printed by John Davison for John Murray, 1816. First edition. Randolph, page 55; Tinker 551; NCBEL III, 281. Two typically Byronic poems, the first a tale of conflict between Christians and Muslims, and the second based on the dramatic lives of Niccolo Ill d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara (1383-1441), and.....
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[London: Printed by Thomas Davison for the author, 1816]. First edition, privately printed in an edition of 50 copies, of which about 14 are known to survive. Randolph, Studies for a Byron Bibliography, page 119; Tinker 552; Wise, Byron, page 50 (“practically impossible to acquire”); NCBEL III, 282. The first.....
London: Printed for F. Cogan, 1749 [&] 1750. First edition. Teerink 81 (Supplement); Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 467; NCBEL II, 472, 476, 483, etc. Three volumes, complete, of an important 17th and 18th century English poetical miscellany which the editor and publisher Francis Cogan assembled for the cause of preserving.....
Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1787. First Foulis Press edition in folio, preceded by editions in smaller format. Gaskell, Foulis Press, 683; Rothschild 661; ESTC T114636. A handsome Foulis Press edition of the poetry of William Collins (1721-1759) preceded by a brief life. Collins was a highly regarded English pre-Romantic.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1698. First and only edition. ESTC R29682; Wing C5845; NCBEL II, 751. A nine-page poem that obliquely praises Charles Montague, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who as Congreve's patron, was responsible for getting the poet-playwright cushy government posts such as a commissioner of the malt lottery.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695. Third edition. ESTC R21080; Wing C5861; NCBEL II, 751. William Congreve's elegy on the death of Queen Mary and his first separately published poem. It went through four editions (including one in Dublin) in 1695. Ink signature on the title-page of Buchan, dated London.....
London: Printed for R. Dodsley and Sold by M. Cooper, 1744. First edition. ESTC T32861. In 1744, William Warburton made uncomplimentary comments about Mark Akenside's popular poem "The Pleasures of Imagination," published earlier the same year, and here that criticism is responded to by Akenside's friend Jeremiah Dyson, a response.....
![Book ID: 28043 Tea and Brandy [caption title]. ENGLISH BROADSIDE BALLAD](/pictures/thumb/28043.jpg?v=1579290184)
[London, 1795?]. The only recorded edition. ESTC T204804, recording a single copy at Cambridge, which contains the same apothecary's stamp. OCLC and COPAC record that same copy; Roud, Folk Song Index, V1851; and see Broadside Ballads Online at the Bodleian Library, which also notes the apothecary's stamp. A typical doggerel.....
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1807. The 1801, 02 & 05 volumes are second editions; the 1803-04 volumes are first editions. Lowndes, page 1901; NCBEL III, 1873; Brewer, Leigh Hunt, pages 15-16; ODNB. In 1801 Richard Alfred Davenport (1776-1852), an aspiring poet and energetic author, began independently issuing.....
London: Printed for the Author and Sold by R. & J. Dodsley, J. Newbery, etc., 1761. First edition. NCBEL II, 655; Eddy and Fleeman, Preliminary Handlist of Books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, 25. The first and only collected edition of the works of poet, translator and curate Francis.....
London: Printed for J. Payne, 1767. First edition. Scott, pages 197-98; Tinker 1115; Rothschild 1029. An anthology of mostly 18th century poems suitable for ladies, anonymously compiled and with an introduction by Oliver Goldsmith. Included are works by Pope, Addison, Moore, Parnell, Thomson, Dryden, Swift, Collins, Gay and Goldsmith himself.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1712. First edition. ESTC T55586; Rothschild 1051; NCBEL II, 790; Foxon, page 314. ¶ Over 100 poems by George Granville, politician, minor poet, dramatist and patron of Alexander Pope. This collection also includes Granville’s dramatic poem "The British Enchanters or No Magick Like Love," first.....
Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793. First Bodoni edition. Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250. An attractive edition of Gray's Elegy with Giuseppe Torelli's Italian translation juxtaposed with the original English, preceded by a dedicatory sonnet by the printer Biambatista Bodoni to Signora Contessa Elisabetta Caterina Mosconi.....
London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Press, for John Porter, 1814. First Bulmer edition. Northup 18; NCBEL II, 577. ¶ The fine Bulmer Shakespeare Press edition of Gray's works, which includes a considerable amount of previously unpublished material.
London: John and Edward Bumpus Ltd., 1908. First edition. NCBEL IV, 596. The second book by Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943), a collection of about 45 poems, handsomely printed by the Chiswick Press. She would later become well known for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928).
London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921. First Medici Society edition, number 705 of 1,000 numbered copies printed at the Riccardi Press. Purdy, page 178, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 981. A fine, handsome edition of Hardy's poems. Two extra printed paper labels tipped in.....
London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition. Keynes 33; NCBEL III, 1232. The first collection of William Hazlitt's famous lectures on English writers and literature, delivered at the Surrey Institution in 1818-1819. This one begins with a lecture "On Poetry in General," and proceeds through Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare.....
[London:] In the Savoy, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1668. First and only edition. NCBEL II, 766; Wing H-2991; ESTC R19749, recording six copies in the British Isles (in four locations), 11 copies in the U.S. and one in Europe. An allegorical poem, dedicated to George Villers, the Duke of Buckingham.....
![Book ID: 27210 The Alps. A Poem [Bound with:] The Ruins of Netley Abbey. A Poem....](/pictures/thumb/27210.jpg?v=1517533277)
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 & 1764. First edition of both titles. Hayward 182 (Alps); NCBEL II, 665. Two interesting poems by George Keate (1729-97), the talented 18th century author and painter. The first is on the famous European mountain range. "Keate . . . was one.....
London: Printed for Thomas Bennet, 1694. First edition. Wing K-461; ESTC R8939; NCBEL II, 767. ¶ Poetic and prose meditations written towards the end of the life of Sir William Killigrew (bap. 1606-1695), playwright and courtier, whose career flourished almost the entire span of the 17th century. Inscribed on the.....