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.....

London: Printed for J. Bew, 1784. First edition. ESTC N11038; Garside, Raven and Shöwerling 1784:14; NCBEL II, 648; and see Doctor Syntax, A Silhouette of William Combe, Esq., by Harlan Hamilton (Kent State, 1969). A rare novel by prolific writer, satirist, comic poet and imitator, William Combe (1742-1823), written under.....

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: Sands & Company, 1900. First edition. Conrad's story "An Outpost of Progress," which first appeared in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897 and was collected in Tales of Unrest (1898), is included here in an anthology published to raise funds for the besieged citizens of the town of Ladysmith, South Africa.....

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810. First edition. NCBEL II, 1591. The extensive correspondence from the famous French hostess and patron of the arts Mme du Deffand (1696-1780) to Horace Walpole and François-Marie Voltaire, edited by Walpole’s literary executrix Mary Berry (1763-1852). The Walpole correspondence, which began.....

London: Keegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883, First edition under this title, one of 50 large paper copies; this one out of series, but see below. NCBEL III, 1427. A combined edition with revisions and omissions of Proverbs in Porcelain and Vignettes in Rhyme. Inscribed on the front blank "For.....

Napolo: Luigi Pierro, Printers, 1906. First edition, one of 250 copies. Woolf A10. Three studies, privately distributed, on Capri: "The Lost Literature of Capri," "Tiberius" and "Saracens and Corsairs in Capri." From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.

London: George Routledge, 1852. Second English edition, preceded by the three decker published by T. C. Newby in 1849. NCBEL III, 738; cf. Wolff 3506 for the 1849 edition; OCLC records only one copy of this second edition. ¶ Historical fiction about evil deeds committed by man.

Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, 1885. First Daniel Press edition, number 45 of 150 numbered copies. NCBEL I, 1699. An interesting later edition of a play originally entitled A Cure for the Cuckhold: A Pleasant Comedy, published by bookseller Francis Kirkman in 1661 and perhaps speciously.....

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.....

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 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. Watts, 1732. First edition, first state of signatures B and C-F. ESTC T89776; Cross, pages 294-5; NCBEL II, 927. A satirical comedy by Henry Fielding (1707-1754) about a destitute couple who plot to defraud a wanton nobleman. It had an initial run at Drury Lane of.....