London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. Wolff 5605; Garside & Schöwerling 1824:77; NCBEL III, 758;. A historical romance set in 17th-century Balkan Peninsula about the Duke Christian of Luneburg's efforts to free the Bohemians, Croats and others from domination by the Turks.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Cf. Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1817: 49 & Wolff 5606. ¶ An historical romance that begins in Lindisfarne shortly after the first Jacobite uprising. Porter’s popular novels served as one of the models.....
London: Printed for R. Triphood, 1810. First complete edition, preceded by the first edition of 1784; in 1795 there was a second edition that both added and subtracted material; this 1810 edition restores the original text of 1784, the additions of 1795 and adds two parts with new material. NCBEL.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1790. First edition. ESTC N16432; Bronson, Joseph Ritson, Scholar at Arms, 16. A collection compiled by colorful and interesting antiquary Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) of old English songs and poems put to music, arranged chronologically from the time of Henry III to the middle of the.....
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1802. First edition. Bronson, Joseph Ritson, Scholar at Arms, 27; Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 399. An interesting treatise by antiquary Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) advocating the vegetable diet. Ritson was a committed vegetarian, whose diet, according to his biographer Bertrand Bronson, consisted of muffins, cake, cheese.....
Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddiman, 1785. Second edition, preceded by the first of 1773. ESTC T128607; NCBEL II, 406. ¶ An amusing miscellany first published by Scottish printer and publisher Walter Ruddiman (1719-1781) and here reissued by his son, Thomas, who continued his father's business. It includes poetry, sketches and.....
London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by Messrs. Wilkie, [1787]. First edition. ESTC N25028 records two copies (Yale and HEH); COPAC adds BL; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 286. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's fiction, notably The Little Family, published.....
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable; London: Hurst, Robinson, 1825. First edition. Todd & Bowden 181A; NCBEL III, 674. A further installment in Walter Scott's famous Waverley Novels; this one contains two tales, The Betrothed and The Talisman under the general title Tales of The Crusades, and the amusing 28-page introduction by Scott.....
London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760. First and only edition; there was a reissue in 1861 with a cancel title. ESTC T136422; NCBEL II, 640. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie. Ink signature of Jas. French, dated 1764, on the title-page.
Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796. Third edition. ESTC T144079; NCBEL II, 2021. The considerably expanded third edition of the works of Scottish poet Michael Bruce (1746-67), who did not publish a poem in his lifetime. A small selection of his works were compiled by a classmate, John Logan, and.....
London: Printed for H. Herringman, and Sold by R. Bentley, J. Tonson, F. Saunders, and T. Bennet, 1693. Third edition, preceded by editions in 1673 and 1676. ESTC R1905; Wing S2845; NCBEL II, 744. One of Thomas Shadwell's most popular plays of the many he wrote, a comedy centered on.....
London: Printed by C.H. Reynell for R. Hunter and C. and J. Ollier, 1817. First edition. Keynes 17; NCBEL III, 1231. ¶ A major collection of essays by William Hazlitt (1788-1839), a study of the primary characters in Shakespeare’s plays, with chapters on sonnets, poems and doubtful plays. It was.....
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888. First and only edition: "Of this Book Twenty-five Copies have been printed." There were also apparently three copies printed on vellum, as noted in one OCLC record. An essay on Shelley's faith, which concludes "Just as Religion is above all creeds, dogmas and.....
[N.p., n.p.,] April 5, [1779]. See the ODNB for Sheridan and Henderson. In the mid 1750s, actor Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) began delivering a series of public lectures on spoken English to promote his published discourses on the English language, education, theater and his second career as a orthoepist and educator.....
Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, 1753-56. Third edition; second edition; second edition; first edition; first edition (respectively). Cf. Rothschild 1865; NCBEL II, 590. ¶ The famous Seatonian Prize Poems, an annual award that commenced in 1750 with the bequest of clergyman Thomas Seaton (1684-1741), who dictated that the prize be.....
London: Whittaker & Co., 1836. First edition. Sadleir 3109; Wolff 6437; NCBEL III, 767.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857. First edition. NCBEL III, 1610. Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions, a novel written in the form of the diary of Charles Thorndale, is one of the great 19th century fictional works of ideas and philosophical and religious opinions; and it remains.....
London: Published by W. H. Carpenter; Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820. One of two rival editions to appear almost simultaneously in 1820, priority not established. The other was edited by Edmond Malone and published by John Murray, but this edition by Carpenter is the superior text. See the ODNB. NCBEL II.....
London: Printed for S. Wilmot and sold by S. Birt and T. Longman, 1737. Second edition; the first edition was published in two parts, 1726-27. ESTC N9342; NCBEL II, 1748. A critical analysis of Pope's translation of Homer in a dialogue between two friends, Antiphaus and Philypsus, over the course.....
[Twickenham] Strawberry Hill: Printed by William Robinson and Sold by Dodsley for the Benefit of Mr. Hill, 1758. First edition, one of 700 copies printed. ESTC T43634; Hazen, Strawberry Hill, 6; NCBEL II, 1749 (Spence); Rothschild 1942. A delightful Strawberry Hill publication, written by the anecdotist, friend of Pope and.....
London: Printed by Sam. Buckley and sold by Ferd. Burleigh, 1714. First edition, second issue, with the imprint changed from 1713 to 1714. Rothschild 1950; ESTC T34402; NCBEL II, 1115. A widely circulated and controversial polemic on the question of Hanoverian succession by Richard Steele (1672-1729), which - together with.....
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[London:] Cornhill Magazine, 1861-1862. First appearance in print. Noted under Van Duzer 2; NCBEL III, 858. ¶ Thackeray’s last novel - a sequel to his slightly earlier A Shabby Genteel Story (1852) - about the career and life of Philip Firmin, a young journalist who learns through many difficulties about.....
London: Printed for R. Robinson, 1719. First and only edition. ESTC T36304; NCBEL II, 1770. This biography of John Hales (1584-1656), the scholar and clergyman known as the “Ever-Memorable,” is an early work in English (the first recorded in NCBEL) by the interesting Frenchman-turned-Englishman, Pierre Des Maizeaux (1672-1745), a journalist.....
(London:) Printed for the Author and Sold by C. Moran, 1761. Second edition, “Revised and Corrected, with Large Additions”. ESTC T74956; NCBEL II, 687. ¶ The first of several works by Edward Thompson (1737-1786), a naval officer, poet and friend of many in the literary circles, including Garrick (mentioned here).....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1730. First edition. NCBEL II, 528; Rothschild 2424; Griffith (Pope) 229. ¶ The first play by James Thomson (1700-1748), with a prologue by Alexander Pope. Sophonisba proved popular and was rushed to publication. There were both octavo and quarto editions, issued almost simultaneously, and there.....