Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue). A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes, including ones about Burns, Byron, Shelley, Boswell and John Gay, interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces, such.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas & Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and the first president.....
London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In.....
London: William Pickering, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and 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 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Munday and Slatter, Oxford, 1813. First edition. NCBEL II, 1682. A collection of over 150 letters, mostly concerning the recording of information of historical and biographical significance; thus there are letters about the merits of George Ballard's Memoirs of Several.....
N.p.: n.p., 1800. First edition, second issue with the watermark of 1804. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 15; Hazen, Strawberry Hill - Detached Pieces, 94: “certainly not printed at SH;” cf. ESTC T141564 for the first issue. A separately printed epilogue to Mary Berry’s play Fashionable Friends, a comedy.....
London: Printed by Richard Bishop, 1651. The last 17th century edition. ESTC R12723; Wing B547; NCBEL I, 1083. A popular mid-Tudor work on moral philosophy by the poet, satirist and printer William Baldwin (circa 1518-1563?), "a literary innovator whose works influenced writers as historically distant and as thematically diverse as.....
London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1760. First edition. ESTC T1560; NCBEL II, 826; Eddy, John Brown, 61. A dialogue by "Estimate" Brown (1715-1766) in which he responds to political positions taken by Lord Lyttelton in his famous Dialogues of the Dead (1760), which had appeared earlier the.....
London: Printed for Charles Mearne and Sold by Henry Bonwick, 1684. First edition, second issue, with a cancel title-page; the first issue was dated 1683. ESTC R9918; Wing B5152; Keynes, Bibliography of Browne, 128; NCBEL I, 2230. 13 tracts by Thomas Browne (1605-1682), posthumously compiled and edited by Thomas Tenison.....
Kent: Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory, By John Warwick, 1818. First edition. Lowndes vol. 8, page 221, #41; Woodworth, The Literary Career of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 70. A collection of six funeral memorials in verse, with annotations on the publication history, brief biographies of the authors.....
![Book ID: 26611 Fare Thee Well! [caption title]. GEORGE GORDON BYRON, LORD](https://brickrow.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26611.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1653341102)
[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 Henry Herringman, 1659. First edition. ESTC R210048; Wing C3671; Mish, English Prose Fiction, 1600-1700, page 35; NCBEL I, 2058. A rare work of prose fiction by prolific writer, physician and philosopher William Charleton (1619-1707), a short philosophical tale based on the story of a woman from the.....
London: Printed in the year, 1654. First edition. ESTC R208498; NCBEL I, 1305; Wing C-4672. John Cleveland's account of the famous peasant insurrection led by Walter Tyler (d. 1381) against Richard II in protest over his tax on commoners to pay for the war with France. Tyler and his rebels.....
London: Printed for F. Cogan, 1749 [&] 1750. First edition. ESTC T79268; Teerink 81 (Supplement); Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 467; NCBEL II, 472, 476, 483, etc. Three volumes, complete, of an important English poetical miscellany which the editor and publisher Francis Cogan assembled for the cause of preserving what he.....
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, 1698. First 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, licensing hackney.....
London: Printed [for Edmund Curll] in the Year 1730. First edition. ESTC T96952; Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 2642; NCBEL II, 751; MacDonald, Dryden, 332. ¶ The first attempt at a biography of playwright and author William Congreve (1670-1729), attributed by Ralph Straus in The Unspeakable Curll, to historian and dramatist.....
![Book ID: 27466 "An Outpost of Progress" [in] The Ladysmith Treasury. Edited by...](https://brickrow.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27466.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1518483069)
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:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799. The earliest recorded portrait of Thomas John Dibdin. NCBEL III, 1129-30. A fine portrait of the actor and writer, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), who like the other famous thespian Dibdins, was involved in the English theater from an early age.....
London: Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610. First edition. Keynes, John Donne, 1; ESTC S109984; STC 7048; Pforzheimer 298. John Donne's first book, a polemical treatise on the supremacy of the King, which some Donne scholars have maintained was written specifically at the behest of King James. Donne.....
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 A. Millar, 1754. First separate edition. ESTC N10381; Cross, page 325; Rothschild 856; NCBEL II, 929. One of the great works in the literature of roguery - a satirical novel written under the guise of the biography of a famous criminal. Fielding's account of Wild (1682-1725) first.....
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.....