Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826. First edition. 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 miscellaneous pieces, such.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas and Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and the first president.....
London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In.....
London: William Pickering, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and 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 front paste-down "To.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition, the issue with the price beneath the imprint. ESTC T187239; Foxon A296; Hayward 168; NCBEL II, 535. A long poem in blank verse on the virtues of fresh air, diet, exercise, and the passions. John Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Munday and Slatter, Oxford, 1813. First edition. NCBEL II, 1682. A collection of over 150 letters, mostly concerning the recording of information of historical and biographical significance; thus there are letters about the merits of George Ballard's Memoirs of Several.....
London: Printed by Richard Bishop, 1651. The last 17th century edition. ESTC R12723; Wing B547; NCBEL I, 1083. A popular mid-Tudor work on moral philosophy by the poet, satirist and printer William Baldwin (circa 1518-1563?), "a literary innovator whose works influenced writers as historically distant and as thematically diverse as.....
London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760. First and only edition; there was a reissue in 1861 with a cancel title. ESTC T136422; NCBEL II, 640. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie. Ink signature of Jas. French, dated 1764, on the title-page.
London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1760. First edition. ESTC T1560; NCBEL II, 826; Eddy, John Brown, 61. A dialogue by "Estimate" Brown (1715-1766) in which he responds to political positions taken by Lord Lyttelton in his famous Dialogues of the Dead (1760), which had appeared earlier the.....
Kent: Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory, By John Warwick, 1818. First edition. Lowndes vol. 8, page 221, #41; Woodworth, The Literary Career of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 70. A collection of six funeral memorials in verse, with annotations on the publication history, brief biographies of the authors.....
London: Printed in the year, 1654. First edition. ESTC R208498; NCBEL I, 1305; Wing C4672. John Cleveland's account of the famous peasant insurrection led by Walter Tyler (d. 1381) against Richard II in protest over his tax on commoners to pay for the war with France. Tyler and his rebels.....
London: Printed for F. Cogan, 1749 [&] 1750. First edition. ESTC T79268; Teerink 81 (Supplement); Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 467; NCBEL II, 472, 476, 483, etc. Three volumes, complete, of an important English poetical miscellany which the editor and publisher Francis Cogan assembled for the cause of preserving what he.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1698. First edition. ESTC R29682; Wing C5845; NCBEL II, 751. A nine-page poem that obliquely praises Charles Montague, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who as Congreve's patron, was responsible for getting the poet-playwright cushy government posts such as a commissioner of the malt lottery, licensing hackney.....
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.....
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London: Sands & Company, 1900. First edition. Conrad's story "An Outpost of Progress," which first appeared in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897 and was collected in Tales of Unrest (1898), is included here in an anthology published to raise funds for the besieged citizens of the town of Ladysmith, South Africa.....
(London:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799. The earliest recorded portrait of Thomas John Dibdin. NCBEL III, 1129-30. A fine portrait of the actor and writer, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), who like the other famous thespian Dibdins, was involved in the English theater from an early age.....
Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, 1885. First Daniel Press edition, number 45 of 150 numbered copies. NCBEL I, 1699. An interesting later edition of a play originally entitled A Cure for the Cuckhold: A Pleasant Comedy, published by bookseller Francis Kirkman in 1661 and perhaps speciously.....
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1807. The 1801, 02 & 05 volumes are second editions; the 1803-04 volumes are first editions. Lowndes, page 1901; NCBEL III, 1873; Brewer, Leigh Hunt, pages 15-16; ODNB. In 1801 Richard Alfred Davenport (1776-1852), an aspiring poet and energetic author, began independently issuing.....
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 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 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 the Author: And Sold by A. Millar, 1743. First edition, ordinary paper issue. ESTC N11032; Cross III, pages 308-09. An important work by Henry Fielding (1707-54), an assemblage of poems, essays, satires, dialogues, plays and prose fiction, several examples of which appear here for the first time.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1724. First edition, first state with A4 not canceled. Rothschild 923; NCBEL II, 498; ESTC T13811. One of John Gay's lessor known works, a tragedy that met with little success and has been long overshadowed by The Beggar's Opera, but it has a clever, humorous.....
Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793. First Bodoni edition. Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250. An attractive edition of Gray's famous Elegy with Giuseppe Torelli's Italian translation juxtaposed with the original English, preceded by a dedicatory sonnet by the printer Biambatista Bodoni to Signora Contessa Elisabetta Caterina.....
London: Printed for the Author, 1808; London: Printed by W. and T. Darton, 1808; London: Printed for the Author, 1809. First editions of the first two titles; second edition of the third. NCBEL III, 387; Wise and Wheeler, pages 30-32; Partridge, Robert Eyres Landor, His Life and Work, pages 32-35.....