San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1930. First edition, one of 385 copies. Joseph Addison's humorous essay from The Tatler of 1709, preceded by Edward F. O'Day's introduction and followed by an imaginary conversation between O'Day and Samuel Johnson on the drinking habits of Addison and his contemporaries. From the library.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1705. First edition, with 125 misprinted 215. Pine-Coffin 701-2; ESTC T74575; NCBEL II, 1100. An extensive and popular account of travel through Italy by Joseph Addison (1672-1719), which was standard reading for the 18th century Englishman Grand Tourist. It includes his poem “Letter from Italy,”.....
London: George Routledge, 1858. First edition in book form, preceded by the parts issue. Sadleir 21a; Wolff 60a; NCBEL III, 912. A quasi-autobiographical novel set in Ainsworth’s home town of Manchester, first published in parts by Chapman and Hall, beginning in December 1851, as The Life and Adventures of Mervyn.....
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 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 & 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: Macmillan, 1898. First edition, “second thousand” on the title-page. NCBEL III, 609; not in Sadleir or Wolff, both of whom had numerous other titles by Austin. ¶ A novella by the Poet Laureate about the experiences of two English poets residing in Italy.
(London:) Printed for Robert Wilson, 1614. First edition. 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 classes. James I......
N.p.: n.p., 1800. First edition, second issue with the watermark of 1804. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 15; Hazen, Strawberry Hill - Detached Pieces, 94: “certainly not printed at SH.”. A separately printed epilogue to Mary Berry’s play Fashionable Friends, a comedy Miss Berry said was “found amongst Walpole’s.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 8(a); NCBEL III, 364. An uncommon work by Scottish poet and playwright Joanne Baillie (1762-1851), the stories of several legendary historical figures told in verse, with extensive scholarly and historical notes. William Wallace.....
London: Printed by Richard Bishop, 1631. About the 25th edition, and the last 17th century edition. 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 and as thematically.....
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London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822. First edition. 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. It is suitably.....
London: The Fanfrolico Press, (1928). First edition, number 520 of 750 numbered copies. NCBEL III, 409. A fine edition of Beddoes' works, with 35 pages of biographical and bibliographical information by Gosse.
Dublin: Re-printed by, and for George Faulkner, 1752. Second Dublin edition, stated "The Fifth Edition" on the title-page; the first edition was published in London in 1737. Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pages 295-300; ESTC T59630. A celebrated utopian-philosophical imaginary voyage that went through numerous editions and translations.....
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743. First edition. ESTC N18218; Foxon B271; Hayward 166; NCBEL II, 537. The famous and often re-printed poem by Robert Blair; the most notable edition was illustrated by William Blake in 1808. The Grave is one of the classic works of the “graveyard school” of.....
London: John Van Voorst, 1845. First edition with these illustrations, large paper copy. NCBEL III, 367. Bookplate of Charles Walker Andrews on the front paste-down.
London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1767. First edition. 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 about the case.....
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.....
London: Printed for Sam Briscoe, [et al.], 1720. First edition. ESTC T128762; NCBEL II, 1044. ¶ A posthumous collection of miscellaneous writings by the great Grub Street author, Thomas Brown (1663-1704), including his Characters of Women of the Age, and several previously uncollected dialogues.
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 for F. & C. Rivington, 1798. First collected edition. Todd 72; NCBEL II, 1184. An uncommon publisher's nonce collection of three works by Edmund Burke (1729-97), posthumously assembled, viz: Three Memorials on French Affairs, London, 1797 (first edition, fourth impression, Todd 69d); Two Letters on the Conduct of.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. First edition, Todd's second impression. ESTC T46573; 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; the cancels and press marks.....
[London: Privately printed by John Murray, 1824.], First edition. NCBEL III, 297; Chew, Byron in England, page 211. A rare privately printed pamphlet by Byron's publisher John Murray, compiled and written in response to Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron at Pisa (1824), which was notorious for.....
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[London: Printed by Thomas Davison for the author, 1816]. First edition, privately printed in an edition of 50 copies, of which about 14 are known to survive. Randolph, Studies for a Byron Bibliography, page 119; Tinker 552; Wise, Byron, page 50 (“practically impossible to acquire”); NCBEL III, 282. The first.....