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. and J. Dodsley, 1762. First edition. NCBEL II, 242. ¶ An early work by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), and an interesting work of English Sinology. Within a few years Percy would gain literary fame for his Relics of Ancient English Poetry (1765). The eight pieces collected here.....
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 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 for the Writer and sold by J. Bell, British Library, Strand, [1785]. Third and final edition, issued in close proximity to the prior two editions and in an identical format. ESTC N10835 records four locations of this edition: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Harvard, MIT, LC; three locations of 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.....
(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 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.....
London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. First edition. Cf. Bengeso 1558; Sabin 100751 (noting Voltaire's letters on William Penn and the Pennsylvania Quakers). The first appearance of an early and important prose work by Voltaire, a series of epistolary observations comparing British and French society, culture, science.....
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.....
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: 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......