Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985. First Still Point Press edition, number 31 of 300 numbered copies, printed by the Bird & Bull Press. A handsome fine press edition of John Evelyn's treatise on the making of salads, first published in 1699. "Evelyn's message in Acetaria was that vegetables were a......
London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by A. Millar, 1743. First edition, ordinary paper issue. ESTC N11032; Cross III, pages 308-09. An important work by Henry Fielding (1707-54), an assemblage of poems, essays, satires, dialogues, plays and prose fiction, several examples of which appear here for the first time.....
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Andrew Millar, R. and J. Dodsley, and J. Leake, 1757. First edition. ESTC T140917; NCBEL II, 999. Two works of historical fiction, both written in the first person, based on the lives of two prominent women in classical history, Cleopatra (51-30 BC).....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1724. First edition, first state with A4 not canceled. Rothschild 923; NCBEL II, 498; ESTC T13811. One of John Gay's lessor known works, a tragedy that met with little success and has been long overshadowed by The Beggar's Opera, but it has a clever, humorous.....
Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793. First Bodoni edition. Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250. An attractive edition of Gray's famous 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.....
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. First edition in English. ESTC T61467; Norton, Some Uncollected Authors, Book Collector, Winter, 1959, 2. One of the earliest works by Elizabeth Griffith (1727-93), the interesting English playwright and novelist, who resorted to translation at the beginning in her career to support.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. First edition. NCBEL III, 730. A substantial collection of unpublished works by the novelist and writer Elizabeth Hamilton (1756-1816): an autobiographical fragment, letters, poems, sketches and essays, compiled by her friend, the historian and novelist Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger (1777-1827). See.....
London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. First edition. Keynes 102; NCBEL III, 1233. 22 essays by William Hazlitt, one of the preeminent men of letters of his generation, mostly gathered from periodicals, preceded by a biographical preface, essays on Hazlitt by Bulwer-Lytton, Sergeant Talfourd, Charles Lamb and six "Sonnets to the.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (2006). First edition edited by Roger Lonsdale. The magisterial and definitive edition of Johnson's famous Lives of the English Poets, issued 225 years after its original publication. This edition, edited by 18th century English literature scholar Roger Lonsdale, has been celebrated as a great achievement in textual.....
London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1761. First collected edition. Fleeman 58.4Id/2a; Rothschild 1248; Chapman & Hazen, page 142. The first collected edition of the 103 essays that originally appeared under the byline "Idler" between April 15, 1758 and April 5, 1760 in the weekly Universal Chronicle; all but 12 were.....
London: Printed for Humphrey Mosley and Sold at His Shop, 1647. First edition. The second line of the errata begins "P.50.v," one of two recorded issues by ESTC, priority not known. ESTC R12392; Wing J1291; NCBEL I, 2171 & II, 774. The first complete English translation of the satires of.....
London: Printed for the Author, 1808; London: Printed by W. and T. Darton, 1808; London: Printed for the Author, 1809. First editions of the first two titles; second edition of the third. NCBEL III, 387; Wise and Wheeler, pages 30-32; Partridge, Robert Eyres Landor, His Life and Work, pages 32-35.....
London: Printed for T. Waller, 1752. The Second Edition, "corrected and enlarged." The first was published in 1750. ESTC T63180; NCBEL II, 1419. A lively tourist guide to Paris, with recommendations for cafes, wine, travel by coach, notable monuments and buildings, dealing with the border police, currency exchange, etc. Five.....
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. First edition, Todd's edition A. ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, “Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead,” Studies in Bibliography, No. 8, 1956. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (also spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773).....
Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1819. First edition. NCBEL III, 1463. The first book by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59), a 13-page poem of 280 stanzas on the popular classical subject, Pompeii and its famous destruction. Like many first books by noted English authors, Pompeii was a prize poem, which Macaulay.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. First edition. Sadleir 1527; NCBEL III, 1066; cf. Wolff 4415, who had the third edition. The first novel by William Hurrell Mallock, a famous Peacockian roman à clef, written while Mallock was an undergraduate at Oxford, which brings together under one roof several poets, philosophers.....
London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1742. Fourth edition; the first was published in 1709. NCBEL II, 1096; ESTC T57159. An interesting variation on the courtesy book in ten dialogues between Lucinda, the elderly spinster aunt, and Antonia, her niece, in which Bernard Mandeville explores matrimony, child bearing, women's sexuality and.....
London: Printed for A. Bell, W. Taylor and J. Baker, 1715. First edition. NCBEL II, 1709 (Oldmixon). A memoir of politician and author Arthur Maynwaring (1668-1712), whose "influence among both politicians and writers was great" (DNB), including Addison, Steele, Congreve and Vanbrugh. The versatile John Oldmixon was the editor and.....
London: Printed by A. Paris, for J. Egerton, W. Richardson, and Fletcher and Hanwell, Oxford, 1794. First edition. NCBEL II, 674; ESTC T43580, which describes two issues, one with a dated title-page and one without. The selected works of William Julius Mickle (1734-88), Scottish poet, translator and miscellaneous author, published.....
Lambeth: Printed (For Private Distribution Only) at the Author's Private Press, 1829. First edition. NCBEL III, 1134; Copac records two copies (BL and Cambridge); OCLC adds Aberdeen and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. A collection of about 100 poems in several forms by the playwright, theatre manager, miscellaneous writer and apparently.....
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1759. First edition. Gaskell, Foulis Press, 372. Three essays by James Moor, the most substantial of which is an interpretation of Plato's "Dialogue of Cebes" entitled "Essay on the Composition of the Picture Described in the Dialogue of Cebes." Contemporary bookplate of W......
[London: Privately printed by John Murray, 1824.], First edition. NCBEL III, 297; Chew, Byron in England, page 211. A rare privately printed pamphlet by Byron's publisher John Murray, compiled and written in response to Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron at Pisa (1824), which was notorious for.....
[London:] Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1883-85. First collected edition, one of 50 copies only. NCBEL I, 1457. The first comprehensive collection of the works of Thomas Nashe (bap.1567- c1601), the colorful playwright, poet, satirist, novelist and pamphleteer, who was at the center of the Elizabethan literary scene and many.....
Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681. Second English edition; the first was published in 1672, also by Hayes. ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029. The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius (1622-1650), first published in Amsterdam in 1650.....
Paris: Marie-Nyon, 1832. Second edition; the first was published in 1830. OCLC records four editions between 1830 and 1847, with scattered but not plentiful holdings in Europe and three in North America: Montreal, Quebec and the Free Library of Philadelphia. An anthology-text book of English literature for the French student.....