Boston: Boberts Brothers, 1874. First edition. A fine correspondence between the American clergyman W. E. Channing and the English author Lucy Aikin (1781-1864), the latter who was known as a voracious writer of letters and a perfect correspondent.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886. First and only edition. COPAC and OCLC record only a handful of copies. An unusual work which combines an imaginary conversation between Augustine and Aimée on the philosophy of Auguste Comte (1798-1857), with essays on the rights of animals, Madame de Staël, the novels of.....
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.....
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Baltimore: Published for the Editor by E. J. Coale, 1821 [&] Annapolis: Printed by Frederick Green, 1808. First editions, albeit only the second volume of the second title is present. American Imprints 4963 (Miscellaneous Selections); Sabin 12173. Miscellaneous Selections and Original Pieces is a commonplace anthology compiled by Marylander Elizabeth.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957). First edition. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery, at the Original Juvenile Library; and B. Crosby, 1808. First edition. A humorous tale in rhyme for children about a lobster who moves to the Americas, with factual footnotes on various kinds of fish and marine animals. The illustrations are probably.....
London: Edward Lacey; Liverpool: Henry Lacey, [1837]. Second printing; the first was dated 1830, issued by the same publisher. OCLC records four locations for the 1830 issue (Florida, Indiana, BL, UBS) and one for this 1837 issue (Toronto). A scarce work of fiction for young adults, with a dual moral.....
[San Francisco:] Publ. by I. N. Choynski, Antiquarian, [1877]. First edition. A satirical cartoon depicting the ironic situation of Denis Kearney (1847-1907), who agitated for the expulsion of Chinese immigrants. He was famous for his speeches in which he repeated "the Chinese must go!" In 1877 he found himself in.....
Paris: Isdore Liseux, 1890. First complete English translation. Cf. Foxon, Libertine Literature in England, pages 38-43. The famous six erotic dialogues of Frenchman Nicholas Chorier (1612-1692). They were first published in Latin in about 1660 under the guise of being a translation of the 16th century young Spanish woman, Luisa.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1853. First edition, second printing. The first book by Lewis Gaylord Clark (1808-1873), a collection of Irvingesque essays and gossip that originally appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine's "The Editor's Table" column, a precursor to the Talk of the Town in the New Yorker. At the time.....
(Notasulga and Fairhope, Alabama: The Armstrong Press and the Slow Loris Press, 1988.), First edition, number 80 of 125 numbered copies, signed by the compilers. A handsome type specimen book of 19th century American wood types, with an introduction by Ian Robertson on the history of American wood types and.....
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.....
Ipswich: Printed and Sold by George Jermyn; Sold Also by F. and C. Rivington, 1798. First edition. An interesting look at post-revolutionary France, with other miscellaneous anecdotes, poems and antiquarian tid bits, including a poem "The Pleasures of Insanity," an "Anecdote of Witchcraft," "The Powers of Wine," etc.
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: Hamilton, Adams; Liverpool: Marples, 1834. First English Translation. OCLC records about 15 copies. The first translation into English of the poetical work of German poet and soldier Theodor Körner (1791-1813), a romantic and popular figure in German literature and lore. He heroically died in battle at the young age.....
Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1787. First Foulis Press edition in folio, preceded by editions in smaller format. Gaskell, Foulis Press, 683; Rothschild 661; ESTC T114636. A handsome Foulis Press edition of the poetry of William Collins (1721-1759) preceded by a brief life. Collins was a highly regarded English pre-Romantic.....
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.....
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1698. First and only 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.....
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: Printed [for Edmund Curll] in the Year 1730. First edition. 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 John Oldmixon.....
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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.....
Canterbury: Printed for Private Circulation by H. J. Couldson, Limited, 1922. First edition, first issue. Cagle A56a; NCBEL IV, 400. This tribute to the fleet which protected the English Channel during the First World War had appeared in The Times in July, 1921. This first issue of 75 copies had.....
![Book ID: 24219 Darwin on Trial at the Old Bailey [&] Judicial Scandals and...](/pictures/thumb/24219.jpg?v=1671741979)
London: The University Press, 19 . . [sic]. First edition, but probably a later printing with the title-page dated “19 . .”. A fictional trial by Frederick Raymond Coulson about the prosecution of a bookseller for distributing a book entitled Sexual Selection and Human Marriage, followed by Singer's Judicial Scandals.....
London: Printed for M. Stern, 1738, 1740, 1739 & 1741 (respectively); London: Printed for G. Hawkins, 1744 (fifth part). Second edition of volumes one and two; first editions of volumes three, four and five. ESTC T94842, T94839 and T179578, etc. An series of five classically-styled dialogues by Henry Coventry (1710-1752).....