Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. First edition of John Fowles' translation, one of 500 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press and bound by Gray Parrot. Signed by Fowles at the end of the epilogue. A famous anonymously written story, told from the perspective of a young black African.....
Various publishers and locations, including London, Edinburgh, New York and Philadelphia, 1803-1903. Grant was famous her works on Scottish lore and history, especially Letters from the Mountains; Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1803; and her account of life in New York, where she.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1840. First edition in book form, preceded by the issue in monthly parts. Sadleir 3228a; Wolff 6818a; NCBEL III, 769. One of several novels by Frances Trollope on social issues; this one is about the plight of exploited children in the cotton mills of Manchester, centered on.....
London: Printed by A. Rivington and J. Marshall, for Thomas Cadell, 1786. First edition. ESTC T70027; NCBEL II, 693; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 4(a); Sabin 104230. The first collection of poetry by Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827). "The success of Williams' Poems secured her position as a prominent poet.....
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. First edition. Rothschild 1553; NCBEL II, 1595. A sweeping chronological history of the world in 540 pages, from the birth of Christ to 1800, told in the entertaining, informal style of Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821). Retrospection was written and published to celebrate (and profit.....
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....
No place, no date, but 18th century holograph, circa 1753-75, with numerous swash letters, most notably the long S., See NCBEL II, 1598. ¶ A fair copy manuscript of one of Hester Chapone's earliest published works, apparently copied directly from John Hawksworth's weekly magazine The Adventurer, in which the story.....
London: Printed by Brettell for Appleyards, 1808. First edition. The first of three plays by Marie Therese Kemble (1774-1838), the Austrian-born English actress and mother of Fanny Kemble. She moved to England at an early age and became a popular child actress. She later married actor Charles Kemble, for whom.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern.....
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 for Humfrey Lownes, 1595. The first edition as edited by Gervase Markham; revised from the first edition of 1486. STC 3314; ESTC S103621; NCBEL I, 689 (Berners) & 2011 (Markham). A famous 15th-century courtesy book and instructional manual on hunting, hawking and coats of arms, traditionally attributed to.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886. First and only edition. COPAC and OCLC between them record only a handful of copies. ¶ An unusual work which combines an imaginary conversation between Augustine and Aimée on the philosophy of Auguste Comte, with essays on the rights of animals, Madame de Staël, the.....
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.....
Edinburgh: W. Innes; London: Hamilton, Adams, 1841. First and only edition. OCLC records six copies (National Library of Scotland, NYPL, BL, Ox, Edinburgh Univ., National Library of Australia); COPAC adds one. A series of ten dialogues between a Dr. Truman and several ladies of Edinburgh, which introduce him to their.....
London: Printed for T. Beckett and T. Evans, 1773. "New" edition, probably the second London edition; the first was published in 1755 as Poems by Eminent Ladies, and again in Dublin in 1757. ESTC T144911. An important English poetical miscellany that brings together the works of 18 English and Irish.....
London: Chatto & Windus, (1986). First edition. Platonic dialogues on art and religion by Irish novelist Irish Murdoch. Among the characters are Callistos, Acastos, Mantias, Plato and Socrates. Set in the late 5th century BC, they discuss how is morality related to religion. Should governments censor art? Is Tyranny preferable.....