London, 2020. First edition, one of 250 copies. A remarkable collection of seventy-five poems by the poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller Arthur Freeman. Twelve of the poems are unpublished with sixty-three from nine previously published collections, spanning seven decades. Freeman writes with wit and style, in a voice his own.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition. ESTC T115675; NCBEL II, 995. The first novel by Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), the sister of novelist Henry Fielding. In her Advertisement to the Reader, Fielding justifies her authorship - a profession not considered suitable for a well-bred woman - as necessary because.....
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly; Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1768. First edition. ESTC T138559; NCBEL II, 693. Fables in verse by the poet William Wilkie (1721-1772), followed by a dialogue between "The Author and Friend." The engravings are well executed.
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1928. First edition, one of 25 special copies on rag paper; there was also the "ordinary" or trade edition in wrappers of 1,000 copies. A fine exhibition catalogue, designed by Carl Purington Rollins, and the precursor to Richard Purdy's Hardy: A Bibliographical Study (Oxford, 1954).....
London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848. First edition. OCLC records four copies (Duke, Columbia and London Library). ¶ An elaborate attempt to defend a literal interpretation of the Bible in the form of an eccentric attack on Charles Empson, who had apparently traveled to Egypt and had written about.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition, the issue with the price beneath the imprint. ESTC T187239; Foxon A296; Hayward 168; NCBEL II, 535. A long poem in blank verse on the virtues of fresh air, diet, exercise, and the passions. John Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1877. First edition. BAL 23455. ¶ The third book by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894), a long poem contrasting a maiden and a lady, with obvious references to the pitfalls of marriage and the plight of unmarried women. Two Women was originally serialized in two issues of.....
Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1787. First Foulis Press edition in folio, preceded by editions in smaller format. Gaskell, Foulis Press, 683; Rothschild 661; ESTC T114636. A handsome Foulis Press edition of the poetry of William Collins (1721-1759) preceded by a brief life. Collins was a highly regarded English pre-Romantic.....
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. Early edition, and probably the first of three editions issued in Amsterdam soon after the first edition, in quarto, was issued in London by Octavius Pulleyn earlier in 1651. Garrison & Morton 467 & 6146. ¶ Garrison-Morton describes this as "the most important work on.....
London: Printed for J. Hassell, 1819. First edition. Abbey, Scenery, 30; Tooley, page 139. ¶ The Grand Junction Canal was designed to facilitate water transport from Oxford Canal to London, in place of the uncertain Thames River. The canal was opened in 1800 and pretty well completed in 1805, and.....
London: Macmillan, 1884. First English edition. Edel & Laurence A24b; noted under BAL 10569. Tales set in London, Boston and New York.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. NCBEL III, 728; not in Wolff or Sadleir, both of whom had other titles by Grattan. ¶ The final installment in Grattan's Irvingesque tales of France, sketches that were, indeed, inspired by Washington Irving; the first series was dedicated to him. Grattan (1792-1864) was.....
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Borst A6.1.a; BAL 20116, binding A. ¶ Unpublished letters and nine poems by Henry David Thoreau, edited by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson.
London: Printed for J. and A. Ach, 1816. Second edition, enlarged; the first edition was published in 1813. ODNB; Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1788-1856) visited the famous abbey Port-Royal in France, where she was attracted to the serious study, Jansenist piety, their theories of philosophy.....
Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887. First edition, American issue, using the same plates as the English edition of 1886, with a new title-page. BAL 9627; Wright III, 2822. ¶ The Minister’s Charge, like many of Howells' works of fiction, probes the structure of the city’s social classes through the life.....
London: Thomas Rodd, 1841. The Shakespeare's Library reprint. NCBEL I, 1435; Freeman & Freeman, John Payne Collier, pages 426-427. ¶ The first in a series of reprints of source books used by William Shakespeare, with an unsigned introduction by John Payne Collier and published by Thomas Rodd. There were seven.....
Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1827. First edition. BAL 4422; American Imprints 28656. Dana’s first book, preceded by several pamphlets. It includes celebrated poems, The Buccaneer, a long verse narrative of the supernatural. Presentation inscription on the front blank for a school prize dated December 31, 1827.
London: Printed for the Author and Sold by R. & J. Dodsley, J. Newbery, etc., 1761. First edition. NCBEL II, 655; Eddy and Fleeman, Preliminary Handlist of Books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, 25. The first and only collected edition of the works of poet, translator and curate Francis.....
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[London: John Payne Collier, 1865]. The second book issued by subscription in John Payne Collier's Blue Series of facsimiles of rare English poetical miscellanies, one of 50 copies. See Freeman & Freeman, John Payne Collier, A136, for the interesting history of this "hybrid" facsimile and other Collier projects. Contemporary bookplate.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1698. First and only edition. ESTC R29682; Wing C5845; NCBEL II, 751. A nine-page poem that obliquely praises Charles Montague, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who as Congreve's patron, was responsible for getting the poet-playwright cushy government posts such as a commissioner of the malt lottery.....
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846-48. First edition, parts issue. Hatton & Cleaver, pages 227-250. This set agrees with H&C's description, except that in part 11 there is no ad for Letts & Son, and the ad for Kaye’s Pills in part 12 varies slightly from the one they described. Two.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1712. First edition. ESTC T55586; Rothschild 1051; NCBEL II, 790; Foxon, page 314. ¶ Over 100 poems by George Granville, politician, minor poet, dramatist and patron of Alexander Pope. This collection also includes Granville’s dramatic poem "The British Enchanters or No Magick Like Love," first.....
London: Printed for R. Sare, F. Saunders and Tho. Bennet, 1697. First edition in English. ESTC R5377; Wing Q188. ¶ The first English translation of Francisco de Quevedo's La Hora de Todos y la Fortuna con Seso, a biting satire of Spanish politics and the follies of the times, written.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754. First separate edition. ESTC N10381; Cross, page 325; Rothschild 856; NCBEL II, 929. One of the great works in the literature of roguery - a satirical novel written under the guise of the biography of a famous criminal. Fielding's account of Wild (1682-1725) first.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695. Third edition. ESTC R21080; Wing C5861; NCBEL II, 751. William Congreve's elegy on the death of Queen Mary and his first separately published poem. It went through four editions (including one in Dublin) in 1695. Ink signature on the title-page of Buchan, dated London.....