London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1691. Third edition overall; the first edition edited by Thomas Rymer; the first edition to bear Rochester's name on the title-page; and the first edition to include Rochester's play Valentinian. Wing R1756; ESTC R1390; NCBEL II, 464 (Rochester) and 1704 (Rymer). The first properly edited.....
London: Printed by J. D. for Richard Chiswell, 1680. First edition. Wing B5772; ESTC R7379; Foxcroft & Clarke, A Life of Burnet, page 527. A pamphlet attributed to Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), the influential theologian and prolific writer on all things theological in England and Scotland in the latter part of.....
Paris: Newly Printed at Paris and to be sold in London by John Starkey, 1670. First edition, second issue with the variant imprint on the title of volume 1. Wing describes this as an edition; Pine-Coffin as a variant. The collations of the two issues are identical. Pine-Coffin, Bibliography of.....
London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1667. First edition. Wing N-853; Wither to Prior 151; NCBEL I, 2252. The famous biography of William Cavendish (1616-1684), the Earl of Newcastle, by his famous literary wife, Margaret Lucas Cavendish (1623-1673), the first English woman to publish extensively. Cavendish’s biography was widely read and.....