Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934. Edition: First edition, one of 300 copies printed. The first book by literary critic Meyer Howard Abrams (1912- ), a study of the opium addiction of four famous romantic poets and its effect on their creative processes. This pioneering work was published in the series... More
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1705. Edition: First edition, with the usual error of page 125 misprinted 215. Bibliographical References: Pine-Coffin 701-2; NCBEL II, 1100. Addison’s extensive and popular account of travel through Italy, which was standard reading for the 18th century Englishman Grand Tourist. It includes his poem “Letter... More
Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue). A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes, including ones about Burns, Byron, Shelley, Boswell and John Gay, interspersed with occasional... More
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T32385 records six copies in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, HRC & Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and... More
London: Printed by Sam. Aris, for Thomas Butler, 1724. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC 134540; Not in Lowe, English Theatrical Literature. An entertaining compilation of scenes and quotations from famous English plays, arranged alphabetically by subject, viz.: Absence, adultery, affliction, African, ambition, anger, apothecary, bad news, bastard, Cato, chaste... More
London: William Pickering, 1851. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge & National Library of Scotland). An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the... More
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Rothschild 56; Hayward 168. Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician who published several poems and essays; this long poem in blank verse is by far his best-known work and went through numerous editions. The four parts are primarily... More
(London:) Printed for Robert Wilson, 1614. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: STC 1125; Gibson 102; ESTC 121055. One of Francis Bacon's first acts when he became the Attorney General under James I, was to attempt to bring a halt to dueling, a practice that was particularly fashionable among the ruling... More
![Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at Strawberry-Hill. Written by Johanna Baillie, and Spoken by the Hon. Anne S. Damer [caption title]. JOANNA BAILLIE.](/pictures/thumb/26289.jpg?v=1441426096)
N.p.: n.p., 1800. Edition: First edition, second issue with the paper watermarked 1804. Bibliographical References: Hazen, Strawberry Hill - Detached Pieces, 94: “certainly not printed at SH”; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 15. A separately printed epilogue to Mary Berry’s play Fashionable Friends, a comedy Miss Berry said was... More
London: Printed by Richard Bishop, 1631. Edition: About the 25th edition, and the last 17th century edition. Bibliographical References: Wing B-547; NCBEL I, 1083. A very popular mid-Tudor work on moral philosophy by the poet, satirist and printer William Baldwin, "a literary innovator whose works influenced writers as historically distant... More
London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 640. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher. Ink signature of Jas. French, dated 1764, on the title-page. More
![The Bride's Tragedy [bound with three other contemporary plays]. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES.](/pictures/thumb/26181.jpg?v=1527031615)
London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Tinker 221; NCBEL III, 409. ¶ The second published work by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), a famous tragedy written when he was 16 which was praised by several of the principal participants in the Romantic movement... More
London: The Fanfrolico Press, (1928). Edition: First edition, number 520 of 750 numbered copies. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 409. A fine edition of Beddoes' works, with 35 pages of biographical and bibliographical information by Gosse. More
London: Printed for W. Bickerton, 1745. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T111235; Haven, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library, 1440. A collection of 170 letters to, from and about prominent English men and women from the 16th century to 1744, including Aphra Behn (with a poem), Jonathan Swift, Susanna Centlivre... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and C. Elliott, Edinburgh, 1784. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1784:12; ESTC N4372, recording six copies (BL, OX, Harvard, McMaster, Az, Penn). A story of unrequited love with a gloomy ending by novelist, playwright and poet George Monck Berkeley (1763-1792), grandson... More
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Rothschild 411; Hayward 166; NCBEL II, 537. The scarce first edition of Blair’s famous and often re-printed work, the most notable edition of which was illustrated by William Blake. The Grave is one of the classic works of the... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1845. Edition: First edition with these illustrations, large paper copy. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 367. Bookplate of Charles Walker Andrews on the front paste-down. More
London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1767. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Pottle 22; NCBEL II, 1211. One of many books and pamphlets about the "Douglas Cause," a major cause célèbre in Scotland in the 1760s. Boswell served as a journalist and chronicler of the legal proceedings and wrote several works... More
London: Printed for J. Harley, W. Turner and Tho. Hodgson, 1701. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: MacDonald, Dryden, 309; not in NCBEL under Boyer. A fine compilation of contemporary correspondence on wit, arts, letters, romance and manners of the age, with letters on Will's Coffee-House, the Oxford Wits, the Toasting... More
London: Printed for A. Bell, W. Taylor, and J. Baker, 1714. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T169734 records 16 copies, equally divided between the U.S. and England; NCBEL II, 1707. A biography of Queen Anne, based on Abel Boyer's other works on her and her reign. Boyer (1667-1729), an... More
Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796. Edition: Second edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 2021. The considerably expanded second edition of the works of Scottish poet Michael Bruce (1746-67), who did not publish a poem in his lifetime. A small selection of his works were compiled by a classmate, John Logan... More
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. Edition: First edition, second impression. Bibliographical References: Todd 53a; NCBEL II, 1185; Printing and the Mind of Man 241. Burke's famous polemic on the French Revolution, here in its second impression - as distinguished by Todd C, plate 6 - with the “M“ in... More
London: John Murray, 1821. Edition: First edition, first issue. Bibliographical References: Tinker 577; Randolph, page 73; NCBEL III, 288. More
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Tinker 551; NCBEL III, 281. Two poems: The Siege of Corinth, a tale of conflict between Christians and Muslims, and Parisina, the tale based on the story of Niccolo Ill d’Este and his wife Parisina. More
London: H. Meyer, n.d. A fine engraving of the famous portrait that hangs at the Stationers' Company of the great 18th century English bookseller and publisher Thomas Cadell (1742-1802). The engraver, Henry Meyer (1782-1847), was himself a distinguished artist. See the DNB. More