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 ¶ The fine Bulmer Shakespeare Press edition of Gray's works, which includes a considerable amount of previously unpublished material.
(Dorchester: Printed Privately by Hy. Ling Ltd, January 1928). First edition, second issue. See Purdy, pages 251-252 and 349, who does not record this issue. One of over 15 works by Thomas Hardy privately published all in a similar pamphlet format by his wife, Florence Hardy. The earliest examples were.....
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.....
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 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.....