London: John Murray, 1817. First edition. NCBEL III, 383; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 152. A scarce and early work by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835), an interesting long poem on Greek independence, à la Byron's Childe Harold. In her poem Hemans defends the acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, but.....
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First and only edition. ESTC T20407. A satire on unscrupulous politicians - particularly those involved with the "broad bottom" coalition which came to power in 1744 - with a sensational engraving by William Hogarth depicting Tory leaders with flabby bottoms, relieving themselves on a......
London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. First edition. MacGillivray 3; Hayward 233; NCBEL III, 346. The third and last book by John Keats and generally regarded as one of the finest books of poetry in the English language. In addition to the title poems, it includes "Ode to a......
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.....
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.....
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[Paris: Contemporary Annals Publishing House], 1932. First edition, in Russian. Juliar, Nabokov, A Descriptive Bibliography, A13.1. Nabokov's novel Glory, which was not published in English until 1971. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Dodsley and P. Emsley, 1780. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 3; ESTC T54025. The uncommon second of two collections of poems by Anne Penny (1731-1784). This one reprints 27 of the 39 poems from her first collection (Poems, with a......
London: Printed for R. Triphood, 1810. First complete edition, preceded by the first edition of 1784; in 1795 there was a second edition that both added and subtracted material; this 1810 edition restores the original text of 1784, the additions of 1795 and adds two parts with new material. NCBEL.....
(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, numbered I-XXXIX, that regulated the slave trade beginning in August, 1800 -.....
London: Printed for R. Sare, F. Saunders and Tho. Bennet, 1697. First edition in English. Wing Q-188. ¶ The first English translation of Quevedo's La Hora de Todos y la Fortuna con Seso, a biting satire of Spanish politics under the king's minister Olivaries, written under the guise of a......
(New York, 1941-42). The Moon is Down was John Steinbeck's second attempt at converting one of his novels into a play (Of Mice and Men was the first). It was originally written while Steinbeck was on assignment from the Foreign Information Service, a division of the Office of Strategic Services.....
[San Francisco: William Dassonville], 1915. A rare and fine photographic portrait of the prominent California poet George Sterling (1869-1926), taken by the prominent California photographer, William Dassonville (1879-1957) and inscribed to Dassonville by Sterling in the lower left corner of the image: "Dear Dassonville: This is the best picture ever.....
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.....
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 second play by William Wycherley (1640-1716), a satire and romp of manners centering on a rebellious.....