London and New York: Macmillan, 1895. First edition. NCBEL III, 1412. Ten essays on literature and art, all previously published in periodicals, preceded by a valuable checklist of Pater's writings - books and periodical appearances - compiled by Charles L. Shadwell, his literary executor, friend and fellow at Oriel College.....
London and New York: Macmillan, 1889. First edition. NCBEL III, 1412. Ten essays by Walter Pater (1839-1894) on English writers and literature, e.g.: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, aesthetic poetry, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, preceded by an essay on "Style." This was Pater's only collection of essays on English literature. Bookplate on the.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1728-1730. First collected edition, preceded by the edition in seven parts, published over four years. ESTC T113649; Foxon Y169; NCBEL II, 494. The first collected edition of seven popular satires by Edward Young, exploring the nature of the love of praise. They were originally published.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, and A. and J. Churchil, and R. Simpson, 1700. First edition. ESTC R14603; Wing T461; Teerink 469. The first substantial published work by Jonathan Swift, preceded only by an ode in fifth volume of John Dunton's Athenian Gazette (1692). Swift spent nearly ten years as.....
London: Printed by J. B. for James Boler, 1630. First edition. ESTC S117734; STC 23725; Pforzheimer 1006. The collected works of a colorful member of the London literary scene in the late 16th and early 17th centuries – not a major figure, but an extraordinary one. John Taylor (1578-1653) moved.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1698. First edition, first issue without the advertisement and errata. ESTC R18926; Wing C5844; Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 298. A famous response to clergyman Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), in which Collier cited aspects of four.....
London: Printed for E. Williams and Sold by All Booksellers, 1806. Second edition, enlarged; the first was published over 20 years before in 1783. A scarce collection of essays, letters, and a dialogue on conduct and philosophy by Juliana Yonge, about whom little is recorded. She wrote on theological subjects.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754. First separate edition. ESTC N10381; Cross, page 325; 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 appeared in.....
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1747. Second edition, issued the same year as the first. ESTC T89864; Cross III, 315; NCBEL II, 930. A satire in the form of a dialogue, in which Henry Fielding sheds positive light on the policies of the government against Republican sentiments. An alderman and.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1812. First edition. Wise & Wheeler 12; NCBEL III, 1211. The first published play by Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), an historical drama based on the Spaniard, Julian, Count of Ceuta, his quarrel with Roderic and the tragic consequences it had on Spain. This famous event.....
[London]: Reprinted for Thomas Evans, [1775]. First Evans edition. ESTC T138089; Jaggard, page 435 (“Perhaps edited by E. Cappell”); Lowndes, page 2308. An attractive 18th century edition of Shakespeare’s poems, printed in a style similar to E. Cappell's 1767-68 edition of the Works and sometimes thought to be intended as.....
[N.p., n.p.,] April 5, [1779]. See the ODNB for Sheridan and Henderson. In the mid 1750s, actor Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) began delivering a series of public lectures on spoken English to promote his published discourses on the English language, education, theater and his second career as a orthoepist and educator.....
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888. First and only edition: "Of this Book Twenty-five Copies have been printed." There were also apparently three copies printed on vellum, as noted in one OCLC record. An essay on Shelley's faith, which concludes "Just as Religion is above all creeds, dogmas and.....
Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1819. First edition. NCBEL III, 1463. The first book by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59), a 13-page poem of 280 stanzas on the popular classical subject, Pompeii and its famous destruction. Like many first books by noted English authors, Pompeii was a prize poem, which Macaulay.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. First edition. Sadleir 1527; NCBEL III, 1066; cf. Wolff 4415, who had the third edition. The first novel by William Hurrell Mallock, a famous Peacockian roman à clef, written while Mallock was an undergraduate at Oxford, which brings together under one roof several poets, philosophers.....
London: Printed for R. Triphood, 1810. First complete edition, preceded by the first edition of 1784; in 1795 there was a second edition that both added and subtracted material; this 1810 edition restores the original text of 1784, the additions of 1795 and adds two parts with new material. NCBEL.....
London: Printed for T. Waller, 1752. The Second Edition, "corrected and enlarged." The first was published in 1750. ESTC T63180; NCBEL II, 1419. A lively tourist guide to Paris, with recommendations for cafes, wine, travel by coach, notable monuments and buildings, dealing with the border police, currency exchange, etc. Five.....
Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, 1753-56. Third edition; second edition; second edition; first edition; first edition (respectively). ESTC: T118047; T107185; T10788; T107187; T43252; NCBEL II, 590; cf. Rothschild 1865. The famous Seatonian Prize Poems, an annual award that commenced in 1750 with the bequest of clergyman Thomas Seaton (1684-1741), who.....
Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681. Second English edition; the first was published in 1672, also by Hayes. ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029. The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius (1622-1650), first published in Amsterdam in 1650.....