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.....

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.....

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.....

New York: Published by S. Colman, 1839. First edition. BAL 556; Wright I, 218; Sabin 7801; American Imprints 54087. The second book by Delia Bacon (1811-59), an historical tale set during the early days of the American Revolution, told in a series of dialogues, that includes among its principle characters.....

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.....