London: Chapman and Hall, 1927-36. First edition, one of 525 sets. NCBEL III, 1211. The essential collection of the works of Walter Savage Landor, with previously unpublished Imaginary Conversations, poetry, miscellaneous essays and highly useful bibliographical information. The first 12 volumes edited by Welby were published from 1927-1931 (Imaginary Conversations.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1812. First edition. NCBEL III, 1211. ¶ Landor's first published play, an historical drama based on the Spaniard, Julian, Count of Ceuta, and his quarrel with Roderic and the tragic consequences it had on Spain.
London: Martin Secker, 1933. First edition. Roberts A65; NCBEL IV, 481. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: Duckworth & Co., 1914. First edition. Roberts A6, variant 2 with 16 pages of publisher’s ads at the rear; NCBEL IV, 482. ¶ Lawrence’s first collection of short stories. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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London: Reprinted, December 1928, from the Sunday Dispatch, November 25, 1928. First edition, privately printed. Roberts A44. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First French edition. Yolton 91. The first French translation of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and an important edition, translated by Pierre Coste with the assistance of John Locke, who "was very interested in having his Essay available to a wider audience than might be.....
London: Printed for T. Waller, 1752. The Second Edition, "corrected and enlarged." The first was published in 1750. NCBEL II, 1419; ESTC T63180 records seven copies. ¶ A fascinating and lively tourist guide to Paris, with recommendations for cafes, wine, travel by coach, notable monuments and buildings, dealing with the.....
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. ¶ Macaulay’s first book, 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 delivered it at the.....
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. ESTC 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. ¶ A collection of about 100 poems in several forms by the playwright, theatre manager, miscellaneous writer and apparently occasional printer, as well. Moncrieff (1794-1857) was a self-described "hack," and a prolific one.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, Baker and Leigh, J. Walter, T. Cadell and J. Wilkie, 1769. ?First edition. Rothschild 1449; NCBEL II, 1597. A critical study of Shakespeare by 18th century literary hostess and famous "Blue-Stocking" Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800). Her first and only book, it boldly took to task other.....
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: Vizetelly & Co., 1883. First edition. ¶ A wonderfully elaborate publication, a series of somewhat cynical sketches on types of characters, with chapters entitled “The Old Earl,” “The Dowager,” “The Family Solicitor,” “The Promising Son,” “The Rich Widow,” etc. Barnard’s illustrations almost perfectly interpret Murray’s satire.
[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 pamphleter, 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.....
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.....
London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1713. First edition. Rothschild 1512; Foxon P70; Hayward 149; NCBEL II, 561. A 36-page poem - or verse essay - on poetical styles by Irishman Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), clergyman, poet, essayist, and member of the Scriblerus Club, a group that included Swift, Gay, Pope, and.....
[London]: Printed Anno, 1690. First edition, the issue for private distribution without the commercial imprint on the title-page; the regular issue has the full imprint: "London: Printed for Ben. Griffin, and are to be sold by Sam. Keble, 1690." ESTC R13464; Pforzheimer 793 (regular issue with the full imprint); Wing.....
London: Printed by David, Wilks, and Taylor for J. Mawman, 1801. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1801: 57; JISC (Copac) records four copies in the British Isles; OCLC records three copies in North America. A scarce and clever epistolary novel by Annabella Plumptre (1761-1838), the younger sister of novelist.....
Amsterdam: Engraved by J. Houbraken for J. & P. Knapton, London, 1747. Wimsatt, Portraits of Alexander Pope, 66.15. One of many famous portraits of the great poet of the Augustan age, Alexander Pope. This truncated engraved version of Van Loo's oil portrait is surrounded by an elaborate allegorical scene, depicting.....
London: Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1742. First edition. ESTC T132396; NCBEL II, 1870. ¶ A spirited defense by William Warburton (1698-1779) of Alexander Pope's famous poem Essay on Man. Warburton first published a similar work on the same subject entitled Vindication of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man (1740).....