London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1760. First edition. ESTC T1560; NCBEL II, 826; Eddy, John Brown, 61. A dialogue by "Estimate" Brown (1715-1766) in which he responds to political positions taken by Lord Lyttelton in his famous Dialogues of the Dead (1760), which had appeared earlier the.....
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. First edition, Todd's edition A. ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, “Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead,” Studies in Bibliography, No. 8, 1956. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (also spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773).....
(London:) Printed for the Author and Sold by C. Moran, 1761. Second edition, “Revised and Corrected, with Large Additions”. ESTC T74956; NCBEL II, 687. ¶ The first of several works by Edward Thompson (1737-1786), a naval officer, poet and friend of many in the literary circles, including Garrick (mentioned here).....
London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848. First edition. OCLC records five copies (Duke, Columbia, Monash 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.....
New York: William H. Clayton, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. A collection of eight of Washington Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all originally written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited.....
London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1659. First edition. ESTC R210048; Wing C3671; Mish, English Prose Fiction, 1600-1700, page 35; NCBEL I, 2058. A rare work of prose fiction by prolific writer, physician and philosopher William Charleton (1619-1707), a short philosophical tale based on the story of a woman from the.....
London: Printed for J. Bew, 1784. First edition. ESTC N11038; Garside, Raven and Shöwerling 1784:14; NCBEL II, 648; and see Doctor Syntax, A Silhouette of William Combe, Esq., by Harlan Hamilton (Kent State, 1969). A rare novel by prolific writer, satirist, comic poet and imitator, William Combe (1742-1823), written under.....
London: Printed by David, Wilks, and Taylor for J. Mawman, 1801. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1801: 57; JISC (Copac) records four copies in the British Isles; OCLC records three copies in North America. A scarce and clever epistolary novel by Annabella Plumptre (1761-1838), the younger sister of novelist.....
London: Printed for Charles Mearne and Sold by Henry Bonwick, 1684. First edition, second issue, with a cancel title-page; the first issue was dated 1683. ESTC R9918; Wing B5152; Keynes, Bibliography of Browne, 128; NCBEL I, 2230. 13 tracts by Thomas Browne (1605-1682), posthumously compiled and edited by Thomas Tenison.....
London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1606. Second edition in English of Justinus's Historiæ Philippicæ; the first edition of this translation. ESTC S117759; STC 24293. Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus’ epitome of the expansive history and origins of the world from the beginning of time to the era of the Caesars.....
![Book ID: 28827 The Revolution in Tanner's Lane. By Mark Rutherford [pseud]....](https://brickrow.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28827.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666910582)
London: Trübner & Co., 1887. First edition. Wolff 7188; Sadleir 3020a; NCBEL III, 1076. The third of six novels that William Hale White (1831-1913) wrote under the dual pseudonyms of Mark Rutherford and his imaginary editor Reuben Shapcott. White was fairly well known under his actual name as a journalist.....
London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1743. First and only edition. ESTC T36850. An amusing satire on gambling and card playing at London’s clubs and coffee-houses, centered on the famous White's, which remains today, and on Edmond Hoyle’s recently-published Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (1742). The prologue is by.....
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1897. First Small, Maynard edition of the complete Leaves of Grass. BAL 21447; noted under Myerson B3. An interesting and uncommon edition of Leaves of Grass, which according to BAL contains the first appearance the 13 poems that comprise "Old Age Echoes" - though Myerson does not.....
London: Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610. First edition. Keynes, John Donne, 1; ESTC S109984; STC 7048; Pforzheimer 298. John Donne's first book, a polemical treatise on the supremacy of the King, which some Donne scholars have maintained was written specifically at the behest of King James. Donne.....
London: Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin, 1700. Fourth edition. ESTC R219623 (six in the UK and five in North America); Wing E3940A; Keynes, Evelyn, 16a. An anonymously written pamphlet under the guise of being a dairy of a Frenchman’s visit to England and his shock at the dirty, chaotic.....
London: Hamilton, Adams; Liverpool: Marples, 1834. First English Translation. OCLC records about 15 copies. The first translation into English of the poetical work of German poet and soldier Theodor Körner (1791-1813), a romantic and popular figure in German literature and lore. He heroically died in battle at the young age.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell & Son for Longman & Rees, and J. Wright, London, 1800. First and only edition. ESTC T115459; Sabin 30010 (Hamilton) & 38570 (Lafayette); Jackson, La Fayette, a Bibliography, page 199 (mis-attributes the poem to Anne Bannerman). A 457-line poem by George Hamilton (1757-1832), set at the.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First edition. BAL 11241, state A with the title leaf a cancel; Wright II, 1507. The first book and only work of fiction by poet and musician Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), a novel set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War, which uses the.....
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.....
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.....
Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985. First Still Point Press edition, number 31 of 300 numbered copies, printed by the Bird & Bull Press. A handsome fine press edition of John Evelyn's treatise on the making of salads, first published in 1699. "Evelyn's message in Acetaria was that vegetables were a......
[Rouen: Machuel?], 1764. Second edition, according to Bengesco, but this is one of several continental editions without an imprint that were published in 1764, soon after the first edition of 1763. Several catalogue records record the place of publication as Rouen and the printer/publisher as Machuel. Bengesco II, 1693.2. An.....
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1807. The 1801, 02 & 05 volumes are second editions; the 1803-04 volumes are first editions. Lowndes, page 1901; NCBEL III, 1873; Brewer, Leigh Hunt, pages 15-16; ODNB. In 1801 Richard Alfred Davenport (1776-1852), an aspiring poet and energetic author, began independently issuing.....
![Book ID: 26611 Fare Thee Well! [caption title]. GEORGE GORDON BYRON, LORD](https://brickrow.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26611.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1653341102)
[London: Printed by Thomas Davison for the author, 1816]. First edition, privately printed in an edition of 50 copies, of which about 14 are known to survive. Randolph, Studies for a Byron Bibliography, page 119; Tinker 552; Wise, Byron, page 50 (“practically impossible to acquire”); NCBEL III, 282. The first.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas & Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and the first president.....