London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Brotherton, 1766 [&] London: Printed for J. Brotherton, 1766. First combined edition, printing two previously published works (of 1758 and 1759), bound with a third that was also first published in 1759. Cf. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 10183 and ESTC.....

London: Printed at the Oriental Press for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 16a. ¶ An anthology of almost 100 poems, compiled by Maria Riddell (1772-1808), a young Scottish woman who grew up in the Leeward Islands, which she wrote about in her.....

London: Printed by C.H. Reynell for R. Hunter and C. and J. Ollier, 1817. First edition. Keynes 17; NCBEL III, 1231. ¶ A major collection of essays by William Hazlitt (1788-1839), a study of the primary characters in Shakespeare’s plays, with chapters on sonnets, poems and doubtful plays. It was.....

London: Edward Lacey; Liverpool: Henry Lacey, [1837]. Second printing; the first was dated 1830, issued by the same publisher. OCLC records four locations for the 1830 issue (Florida, Indiana, BL, UBS) and one for this 1837 issue (Toronto). A scarce work of fiction for young adults, with a dual moral.....

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: Privately printed by John Murray, 1824.], First edition. NCBEL III, 297; Chew, Byron in England, page 211. A rare privately printed pamphlet by Byron's publisher John Murray, compiled and written in response to Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron at Pisa (1824), which was notorious for.....

Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First French edition. Yolton 91. The first French translation of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and an important edition, translated by Pierre Coste with the assistance of John Locke, who "was very interested in having his Essay available to a wider audience than might be.....

(New York: The Poets' Guild, n.d., but circa 1920). First edition. OCLC records two copies (Brown and Kansas). A playlet for children about a ceremony involving the drinking of milk and fairies: "This ceremony is founded on the old tradition that the child who brings home a sprig of rowan.....

(Berkeley: University of California General Library, 1960). First edition, one of 200 copies printed by Kenneth J. Carpenter as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, 1960. Bartlett & Campo A17. One of several early poems written by William Everson that remained unpublished until years.....

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856. First edition. Myerson A24.1.a; BAL 5226. Emerson’s impressions of England, based on his trips there in 1833 and 1847, with interesting chapters on contemporary English literature, the aristocracy, the Times newspaper, Stonehenge, etc. From the library of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, with the Blairhame bookplate on.....

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First edition. BAL 20660, state A of the title-page. ¶ The first collection of poetry from H. T. Tuckerman (1813-1871), the prolific and popular American essayist and critic. Neat signature of "Thomas M. Brewer / Boston 1851" on the title-page.

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First edition. BAL 18767; Mattila A12. A selection of Sterling's best poetry to date. Inscribed by Sterling on the front free endpaper to his wife, Carrie: "Dear Carrie: / Just a / few unnatural [?] sonnets. / George. / San Francisco, July 5, 1916.".....

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......