Pharos and Pharillon.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. Kirkpatrick A9c; NCBEL IV, 438. Sketches and short stories about Alexandria and Alexandrian characters, new and old. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
English Literature
The Captives. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty’s Servants.
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.....
Poems upon Several Occasions.
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.....
High-Ways and By-Ways; or, Tales of the Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces. By a Walking Gentleman. Third Series.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. NCBEL III, 728; not in Wolff or Sadleir, both of whom had other titles by Grattan. ¶ The final installment in Grattan's Irvingesque tales of France, sketches that were, indeed, inspired by Washington Irving; the first series was dedicated to him. Grattan (1792-1864) was.....
Elegia Inglese di Tommaso Gray Sopra un Cimitero Campestre Trasportata in Verso Italiano da Giuseppi Torello Veronese.
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.....
The Works of . . . With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by William Mason. To Which are Subjoined Extracts Philological, Poetical and Critical from the Author's Original Manuscripts. Selected and Arranged by Thomas James Mathias.
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 ¶ The fine Bulmer Shakespeare Press edition of Gray's works, which includes a considerable amount of previously unpublished material.
The Memoirs of Ninon de L'Enclos, with Her Letters to Monsr de St Evremond and to the Marquis de Sevigné. Collected and Translated from the French, By a Lady.
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.....
Observations Upon a Late Libel, Called a Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend, Concerning the Kings Declaration, &c [caption title].
[London: Printed for C. M., 1681]. First edition. Macdonald 1; ESTC R2918; Wing H316; NCBEL II, 1040. The first published work by George Saville (1633-1695), First Marquess of Halifax, a response to the pamphlet A Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend, published in the spring of 1681.....
A Sheaf of Verses. Poems by . . .
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).
The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall . . .
London: Macmillan, 1923. First edition. Purdy, pages 227-231; NCBEL III, 984. One of Hardy's final works, "a poetic drama whose theme and setting obviously derived from the emotional . . . circumstances of his long-ago meeting with Emma Gifford in Cornwall in 1870" - Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy.
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The Hand of Ethelberta [in] The Cornhill Magazine, July, 1875 - May, 1876.
[London:] Cornhill Magazine 1875-1876. First appearance in print. Purdy, page 22; NCBEL 981. ¶ The 11 vignettes by Du Maurier were not used subsequent book editions.
Selected Poems of . . . With Portrait & Title Page Design Engraved on Wood by William Nicholson.
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.....
Lectures on the English Poets.
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.....
Literary Remains of the Late . . . With a Notice of His Life, by His Son, and Thoughts on His Genius and Writings by E. L. Bulwer and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. First edition. Keynes 102; NCBEL III, 1233. ¶ 22 essays by Hazlitt, mainly gathered from periodicals, preceded by a biographical preface, essays by Bulwer-Lytton, Sergeant Talfourd, Charles Lamb and six "Sonnets to the Memory of Hazlitt by a Lady."
Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters.
London: Printed for William Hone, 1819. First edition. Keynes 49; NCBEL III, 1232. ¶ A collection of over 50 essays and examples of political journalism by William Hazlitt (1778-1830), written circa 1813-1818, with character sketches and a few earlier pieces added. Subjects include Coleridge's Statesman's Manual, Napoleon (a favorite of.....
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. Keynes 89; NCBEL III, 1232. 32 essays on literary and cultural topics, many of which originally appeared in periodicals from 1818 to 1825. Contemporary bookplate of J.H. Ball on the front paste-downs. Contemporary ink signature on the front free endpapers.
An Address of Thanks to the Broad-Bottoms, for the Good Things They Have Done, and the Evil Things They Have Not Done, Since their Elevation . . . to which is prefix'd a Curious Emblematic Frontispiece, Taken from an Original Painting of the Ingenious Mr. H____th.
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First and only edition. ESTC T20407. A satire on unscrupulous politicians - particularly those involved with the "broad bottom" coalition which came to power in 1744 - with a sensational engraving "taken from an original painting of" William Hogarth, depicting Tory leaders with flabby.....
National Tales.
London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. First edition. NCBEL III, 359; not in Wolff. ¶ A series of short sketches modeled on the popular tales by Washington Irving and others of that style, and an early work by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), published by the future novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth.
The Reflector, a Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy, Politics, and the Liberal Arts. Conducted by the Editor of the Examiner.
London: Printed and Published by J. Hunt; and Sold by J. Carpenter, 1811. First edition, all published. Brewer, My Leigh Hunt Library, pages 32-35; Roff, Bibliography of Charles Lamb, pages 215-217; NCBEL III, 1219. The second of several periodicals edited by Leigh Hunt and published by his brother John Hunt.....
Readings for Railways; or, Anecdotes and other Short Stories . . .
London: C. Gilpin, [1849]. First edition. Brewer, page 238; NCBEL III, 1220. ¶ A selection of miscellaneous pieces - on topics as diverse as the uses of gutta percha and the existence of sea monsters - edited by Hunt and issued in yellowback-like format to be sold in railway stations.....
Ulysses.
New York: Random House, 1934. First authorized American edition. Solcum & Cahoon A21.
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The Alps. A Poem [Bound with:] The Ruins of Netley Abbey. A Poem.
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.....
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Lady Luxborough, to William Shenstone, Esq.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T91685; Rothschild 1338 (Horace Walpole’s copy). The letters of poet Henrietta Knight (1700-1756) to poet William Shenstone (1714-1763), written over a twenty year period during which she was sequestered by her husband at their Warwickshire country home, Barrells. Lady Luxborough and.....
John Woodvil, A Tragedy . . . To Which are Added, Fragments of Burton, the Author of The Anatomy of Melancholy.
London: Printed by T. Plummer for G. and J. Robinson, 1802. First edition. Roff, Charles & Mary Lamb, pages 47-52; NCBEL III, 1225 (Charles Lamb) and 1291 (Mary Lamb). ¶ Lamb's first play - “a tale of witch craft” which was never performed. Upon hearing that it was being published.....
Guy's Porridge Pot: A Poem, in Twenty-Four Books . . . [Bound with:] The Dun Cow; An Hyper-Satirical Dialogue, in Verse. With Explanatory Notes . . . [Bound with:] Guy's Porridge Pot; With the Dun Cow Roasted Whole: An Epic Poem, in Twenty-Five Books.
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.....