New York: Orientalia, Incorporated, [1924]. First edition, limitation not stated. OCLC records 17 copies in three separate records, none outside the U.S. A wide-ranging and interesting collection of Asian manuscript and printed leaves, issued as a leaf book; the only commentary is in the identification of the leaves. From the.....
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Oxoniæ: Leonardus Lichfield Academiæ Typographus, 1654. First edition. Yolton 251; Wing O-902; NCBEL II, 1836; ESTC R203114. ¶ A collection of over 90 poems in various languages (Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, French, Anglo-Saxon, etc.) written by Oxford students and graduates in celebration of Oliver Cromwell's Treaty of Westminster, which brought.....
London: Printed [for Edmund Curll], 1714. First edition. NCBEL II, 987; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 227; ESTC T65369. The fictionalized memoirs of novelist, playwright and journalist Delarivier Manley (c.1670-1724). The story, written under the guise of a translation and in part a roman à clef about contemporary characters, scandals.....
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Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797. First edition. BAL 14558; Evans 32512; Stoddard & Whitesell 581. ¶ The first and only published part of an ambitious verse history of the American Revolution, dedicated to "the Citizen-Soldiers who fought, conquered, and retired, under the banners of Washington.....
Richmond: Printed by Samuel Pleasants, 1798. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 610; Hill, American Plays, 194; Evans 34159; Sabin 51316. The first book by William Munford (1775-1825), a collection of verse, prose and one play. Munford was a native of Virginia and the son of Revolutionary War soldier and dramatist.....
London: Printed for the Author; Sold by Edward and Charles Dilly, J. Robson, and J. Walter, 1779. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 241; ESTC T42668 (six copies in the UK; six in the US). An accomplished and entertaining collection of over 30 poems and four poetical dialogues.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1691. Third edition overall; the first edition edited by Thomas Rymer; the first edition to bear Rochester's name on the title-page; and the first edition to include Rochester's play Valentinian. Wing R1756; ESTC R1390; NCBEL II, 464 (Rochester) and 1704 (Rymer). The first properly edited.....
London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by Messrs. Wilkie, [1787]. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Sanders 1; ESTC records two copies (Yale and Huntington), to which OCLC and COPAC add BL. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's fiction, notably The.....
(London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1799). ESTC N60288 (Lincoln's Inn Library and Wellcome Institute). An act passed by Parliament in the summer of 1799, delineated in 39 paragraphs, that regulated the slave trade beginning in August, 1800 - an act.....
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: Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1727. First edition. Rothschild 1421; Teerink 25 (1b, 2a & 3b-d); Griffin 184, 185 & 197; ESTC T39458. Volume one has the cancelled forms of K7-8 and L6-7; volume three is Teerink's 3b, but also includes the errata leaf usually found in Teerink 3d. A.....
London: Printed for Henry Herrington, 1663. First edition. Wing T-3229; Pforzheimer 1012; NCBEL II, 776. ¶ The only play by Samuel Tuke (1615-1674), an adaptation from the Spanish of Antonio Coello y Ochoa's Los Empeños de Seis Horas. Samuel Pepys attended the opening on January 8, in which the famous.....
(London:) Printed for Samuel Briscoe, 1697. First edition. Wing V-57; Pforzheimer 1021; NCBEL II, 749. ¶ The first play and first published work by the architect and playwright Vanbrugh, a sequel to Colley Cibber Love’s Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion. The Relapse was performed on and off for.....
Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836. First edition. BAL 21697; American Imprints 42466. An early narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891), based on the story of the legendary 17th century Indian warrior Mogg Hegon. Mogg Megone was first published in the spring of 1835 in two issues of The New.....
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring, 1673. First edition. This copy is without the tailpiece on the recto of Q2. Wing W-3744; Pforzheimer 1099; NCBEL II, 742. ¶ The uncommon second play by William Wycherley (1640-1716), a satire and romp of manners centering on a......