London: George Routledge, 1858. First edition in book form, preceded by the parts issue. Sadleir 21a; Wolff 60a; NCBEL III, 912. A quasi-autobiographical novel set in Ainsworth’s home town of Manchester, first published in parts by Chapman and Hall, beginning in December 1851, as The Life and Adventures of Mervyn.....
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.....
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.....
Dublin: Re-printed by, and for George Faulkner, 1752. Second Dublin edition, stated "The Fifth Edition" on the title-page; the first edition was published in London in 1737. Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pages 295-300; ESTC T59630. A celebrated utopian-philosophical imaginary voyage that went through numerous editions and translations.....
New York: Random House, (1955). First edition. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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 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.....
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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.....
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 A. Millar, 1744. First edition. ESTC T115675; NCBEL II, 995. The first novel by Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), the sister of novelist Henry Fielding. In her Advertisement to the Reader, Fielding justifies her authorship - a profession not considered suitable for a well-bred woman - as necessary because.....
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.....
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.....
London: Duckworth & Co., 1914. First edition. Roberts A6, variant 2 with 16 pages of publisher’s ads at the rear; NCBEL IV, 482. ¶ Lawrence’s first collection of short stories. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: James Nisbet, 1844. First edition. Sadleir 1450; Wolff 4180. A novel with a contemporary religious theme aimed at the Tractarian movement - or Oxford Movement - of which Catharine Long (1797-1867), a rare evangelical from the upper classes, did not approve. See Robert Lee Wolff, Gains and Losses: Novels.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. First edition. Sadleir 1527; NCBEL III, 1066; cf. Wolff 4415, who had the third edition. The first novel by William Hurrell Mallock, a famous Peacockian roman à clef, written while Mallock was an undergraduate at Oxford, which brings together under one roof several poets, philosophers.....
London: Printed by David, Wilks, and Taylor for J. Mawman, 1801. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1801: 57; JISC (Copac) records four copies in the British Isles; OCLC records three copies in North America. A scarce and clever epistolary novel by Annabella Plumptre (1761-1838), the younger sister of novelist.....
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.....
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: Chapman and Hall, 1873. First English edition, preceded a few months by the American edition. Sadleir, Trollope, 39; Wolff 6775; NCBEL III, 883; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 216. The popular third entry in the Palliser novels, centering on one of Trollope’s most fascinating female characters, Lizzie Eustace (“untruthful.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1876. First edition in book form, preceded by the parts issue. Sadleir, Trollope, 45; Wolff 6791; NCBEL III, 884; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 511. The penultimate Palliser novel and the first attempt by Trollope at the portrait of a statesman: “I had never yet drawn.....
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London: Trübner & Co., 1887. First edition. Wolff 7188; Sadleir 3020a; NCBEL III, 1076. The third of six novels that William Hale White (1831-1913) wrote under the dual pseudonyms of Mark Rutherford and his imaginary editor Reuben Shapcott. White was fairly well known under his actual name as a journalist.....
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. First edition. NCBEL II, 698; Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1795:50; Summers, Gothic Bibliography, page 489. ¶ The only novel by Ann Yearsley (1753-1806), the interesting working class poet known as the “Bristol Milkmaid.” The Royal Captives, based on the popular French.....