Maidstone: Printed for the Author by D. Chalmers. Sold by Mess. Wilkie, and H. D. Symonds, London, [et al.], 1796. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 139; ESTC N18496. A collection of 28 poems and epitaphs by an obscure, but accomplished poet from a humble walk of life.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown, 1811. First trade edition, with substantial additions. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Tighe, 1(b); NCBEL III, 405. The first trade edition of the work of Irish poet Mary Tighe (1772-1810), whose popular poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love, was privately.....
Paris: Chez Maradan, 1811. First edition. A study of the influence on French literature of over 40 French women authors, from Radegonde of the 6th century to Madame Cottin of the 19th, by one of the most famous and prolific of all French women authors, Madame de Genlis (1746-1830).
London: Printed for J. Williams, 1768. First edition. ESTC T79464; NCBEL II, 1585; and see Lonsdale, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, page 56. A slim collection of 21 poems by Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), published six years after her death. Though famously well-traveled, active in social causes (she was instrumental in the.....
London: Printed for J. Booth, 1799. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 213, 2; ESTC T106175. The second of two works by Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners (1766-1852), a clever poem addressed to "a" son (she had several) on the history and beauty of poetry, from the ancients to.....
New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1832. First edition. BAL 5687; American Imprints 12383. The first book by Knickerbocker writer and later diplomat, Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), a collection of genial Irvingesque essays and sketches that originally appeared in the New York Mirror, of which Fay.....
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. First edition in English. ESTC T61467; Norton, Some Uncollected Authors, Book Collector, Winter, 1959, 2. One of the earliest works by Elizabeth Griffith (1727-93), the interesting English playwright and novelist, who resorted to translation at the beginning in her career to support.....
London: Printed for C. Chapple, 1811. First edition. Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 3620. The memoirs of the celebrated actress Mary Leah Wells Sumbel (circa 1769-1829), whose life off the stage was riddled with misfortunes, abusive husbands and regrettable choices, which she chronicles in her matter-of-fact autobiography. She also writes about.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First edition. Wright I, 2508; American Imprints 26952; Sabin 92152. Two novellas, ten stories and an historical essay by William Lette Stone (1792-1844), New York journalist and editor who wrote numerous tracts on contemporary and historical events, including the Albany Convention, American Revolution, and.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, MDCCCLXIII [for 1843]. First edition in book form, preceded by an edition in parts. BAL 13632; Wright I, 1837; American Imprints 43-3398. The selected works of popular and respected Knickerbocker writer Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889), editor, poet, novelist and collaborator with Evert Duyckinck in founding the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. First edition. BAL 17758; American Imprints 41-4751. A substantial collection of verse by Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865), beginning with a long poem on the legend of Pocahontas, followed by almost 100 other shorter poems.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First edition. Wright I, 2276; Sabin 76442; American Imprints 26627. The selected writings of prominent member of the New York literati during the Knickerbocker era, Robert C. Sands (1799-1832), who, among other things, founded the Atlantic Magazine and edited the New York Review with.....
London: Printed for A. Millar and J. Nourse, R. and J. Dodsley; D. David and C. Reymer, 1757. First edition. ESTC T89805; Fleeman 57.3LMM/1. Charlotte Lennox's translation of the Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719), written by Madame Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle (1726-1773), and one.....
Canterbury: Printed by Simmons and Kirkby, 1802. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Dodsworth, 1; OCLC records 12 copies; COPAC adds one. An accomplished collection of over 30 poems by Anna Dodsworth (1740-1801) of Kent, posthumously published by her husband, the Vicar of Dodington, in an edition of "a.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780. First separate English edition and the first English edition of this translation. ESTC T142635, records ten locations (BL, Oxford, University College, William and Mary, Houghton, McMaster, LC, HEH, Chicago and Kansas). Philosophical treatises on friendship and old age by the Marchioness de Lambert (1647-1733).....
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London: Printed and Sold by J. Roberts, 1748 & 1751. First edition. Foxon, page 413; ESTC T127827 (1748 volume); Sale, Samuel Richardson, Master Printer, 388 (volume two). A posthumous collection of over 100 poems by Mary Leapor (1722-1746), the precocious daughter of a gardener in Brackley, Northamptonshire, who intensely dedicated.....
London: Printed by John Bell, British Library, 1793. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 212, 1 (a); ESTC T96857. The first book by Irish-Anglo writer and aristocrat Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners (1766-1852), a collection of 25 poems, mostly Irish in theme, that went through at least two more.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815. First edition. NCBEL III, 730. The last book by Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816), Irish novelist and writer, who explored aspects of education and ethical principles in her fiction and non-fiction, beginning with Letters on Education in 1801. In Hints Addressed to.....
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1849. First edition. BAL 21765, binding A. The handsomely produced first collected poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), one of the great American poets of the 19th century. This edition includes all of his poetical work to date, organized by narrative poems based on American legends.....
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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 for T. Davies, 1768. First edition. NCBEL II, 841; Fleeman 68.12HC/1a; ESTC T3451. ¶ The first of three plays by John Hoole (1727-1803), translator and aspiring writer. Hoole was a friend of Samuel Johnson and a member of his Essex Head Club. Johnson wrote the dedication to Cyrus.....
London: Printed by Sam. Buckley and sold by Ferd. Burleigh, 1714. First edition, second issue, with the imprint changed from 1713 to 1714. Rothschild 1950; ESTC T34402; NCBEL II, 1115. A widely circulated and controversial polemic on the question of Hanoverian succession by Richard Steele (1672-1729), which - together with.....
London: Wm. H. Allen, 1863. Second edition, revised; the first edition was published the year before. NCBEL III, 755. The papers and journals of the lively novelist and traveller Lady Morgan (1776-1859) that she left to her friend and literary executor, William Hepworth Dixon, who skillfully edited it, with the.....
Boston: Printed by Young and Etheridge, 1792. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 444; Evans 24643. An elaborate and lofty philosophical poem on the cultural advancement of man, modeled on the works of Alexander Pope and Mark Akenside. Handsomely printed with liberal use of ornaments - or "pretentious use" according to.....
London: Printed for F. & C. Rivington, 1798. First collected edition. Todd 72; NCBEL II, 1184. An uncommon publisher's nonce collection of three works by Edmund Burke (1729-97), posthumously assembled, viz: Three Memorials on French Affairs, London, 1797 (first edition, fourth impression, Todd 69d); Two Letters on the Conduct of.....