London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1762. First edition and first English translations. ESTC T143275; NCBEL II, 242. An early work by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), who would within a few years gain literary fame for his Relics of Ancient English Poetry (1765). As explained in the lengthy preface, the.....
London: Printed for G. Robinson and J. Bew, 1775-77. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1775: 30; NCBEL II, 677. The first novel and second book by Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749-1814), the story of the adventures of the clergyman Benignus, who searches for answers about goodness and benevolence. Pratt's plot.....
London: Printed, Anno, 1628. First edition, one of two issues, the difference being the spelling of "needs" on page 19. STC 20477.5. A rare and early work by pamphleteer and lawyer William Prynne (1600-1669), who was tried twice by the Star Chamber for sedition, but later served in the government.....
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.....
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[N.p., n.d., circa 1750]. A fair copy manuscript of a Spanish translation of the famous French novel by César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639-1692). First published in French in 1672, Don Carlos – a novella about the forbidden passion between Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his.....
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.....
Circa 1820. Apparently not published in this form. ¶ A traditional Scottish song, a shorter version of which Scott included in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822), page 476. James Hogg also had a version of this song in his The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819-1821). Scott collected his own renderings.....
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.....
(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.....
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 by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712. First edition translated into English, issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. ¶ An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), a French Benedictine.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T64790; Robinson, pages 249-50; ODNB. Like Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Ward (1699-1783) became a traveler when she accompanied her husband Thomas Ward on a diplomatic mission, this one to Russia between 1730 and 1739. Also like Montagu she did not intend.....
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale”; “Sonnet sur l’oiseau du.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Colbert; ODNB; Sabin 18640; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 2, 16. Frances Wright (1785-1852), also known as Fanny Wright and later as Frances D’Arusmont, traveled to America in 1818 with the intention of observing and writing about the.....
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring, 1673. First edition. This copy is the issue without the tailpiece on the recto of Q2. ESTC R12858; Wing W-3744; Pforzheimer 1099; NCBEL II, 742. ¶ The uncommon second play (of four) by poet William Wycherley (1640-1716), a satire.....