London: Printed for John Barber and Sold by Benj. Tooke, Henry Clements and John Walthoe, 1717, First edition. ESTC T38771; NCBEL II, 767. The last of three plays by Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), who was well known for her roman à clef fictionalized memoirs. The is plot is loosely based on.....
Philadelphia: Issued by John M. Wolff, Stationer, [n.d., but circa 1855-60]. An early broadside edition., and the first separately printed edition that identified Moore as the author. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas, A Descriptive Bibliiography, 25; noted under BAL 14346: "An undated broadside, printed in blue and red, was issued.....
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. ESTC T42668 (six copies in the UK and six in the US); Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 241. An accomplished and entertaining collection of over 30 poems and four poetical.....
[London:] Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1883-85. First collected edition, one of 50 copies only. NCBEL I, 1457. The first comprehensive collection of the works of Thomas Nashe (bap.1567- c1601), the colorful playwright, poet, satirist, novelist and pamphleter, who was at the center of the Elizabethan literary scene and many.....
Printed MDC.XXVI, First edition. ESTC S113538; STC 18903. In 1609 courtier and poet Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) traveled through the Low Countries and France and wrote this essay about the equilibrium of power between France, Spain and England that would guarantee their mutual preservation. This would become known as the "balance.....
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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. ESTC N25028 records two copies (Yale and HEH); COPAC adds BL; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 286. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's fiction, notably The Little Family, published.....
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.....
[France, Italy, Switzerland and Britain, circa 1880-1925].
Fair copy manuscript, no place, circa 1806. There are six fair copy manuscripts of Psyche held in institutions that have been found: National Library of Wales, Morgan Library, Beinecke Library, two at the British Library (one incomplete), Wilson Library at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one is listed in OCLC.....
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 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.....