![Book ID: 26181 The Bride's Tragedy [bound with three other contemporary plays]....](/pictures/thumb/26181.jpg?v=1527031615)
London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822. First edition. Tinker 221; NCBEL III, 409. ¶ The second published work by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), a famous tragedy written when he was 16 which was praised by several of the principal participants in the Romantic movement. It is suitably.....
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. First American edition. American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of the only novel by Thomas Bellamy, the picaresque tale of a young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his mother and lives.....
London: Printed for Sam Briscoe, [et al.], 1720. First edition. ESTC T128762; NCBEL II, 1044. A posthumous collection of miscellaneous writings by the great and colorful Grub Street author Thomas Brown (1663-1704), including his Characters of Women of the Age, and several previously uncollected dialogues. Brown was sometimes referred to.....
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.....
(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: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Gallup A64a; NCBEL IV, 161. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1609. First edition, second impression with the errata on the verso of the title-page. STC 7540.5; ESTC S100270. A plea on behalf of the rights of Scots to own property and share the same citizenship rights as English. Lacking the first blank (A1).....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.
![Book ID: 26653 The Hand of Ethelberta [in] The Cornhill Magazine, July, 1875 -...](/pictures/thumb/26653.jpg?v=1671741985)
[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.
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.....
London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825. First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds, and Yale) and.....
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.....
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 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.....
Boston: Printed by Young and Etheridge, 1792. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 444; Evans 24643. An elaborate and lofty philosophical poem on the cultural advancement of man, modeled on the works of Alexander Pope and Mark Akenside. Handsomely printed with liberal use of ornaments - or "pretentious use" according to.....
Printed MDC.XXVI, First edition. ESTC S113538; STC 18903. In 1609 courtier and poet Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) traveled through the Low Countries and France and wrote this essay about the equilibrium of power between France, Spain and England that would guarantee their mutual preservation. This would become known as the "balance.....
Paris: Printed by Hartley, Adlard and Son; London: Re-Printed for T. Williams, 1796. One of several competing editions published in London following the Paris edition of the same year, priority unknown. Gimbel, pages 60-61; ESTC N6535. A controversial attack by Thomas Paine, written when he was still in France and.....
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 for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al., 1803. First edition. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine, and poems to David Garrick, Charles Churchill, Lord Chesterfield, William Cowper, Philip Thicknesse.....
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.....
[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.....
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition, one of 325 copies. ¶ From the library of David and Valerie Belch.