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.....
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. First American edition. American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of Thomas Bellamy's picaresque novel about young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his mother and lives through numerous "calamitous vicissitudes" as a......
London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1659. First edition. ESTC R210048; Wing C3671; Mish, English Prose Fiction, 1600-1700, page 35; NCBEL I, 2058. A rare work of prose fiction by prolific writer, physician and philosopher William Charleton (1619-1707), a short philosophical tale based on the story of a woman from the.....
![Book ID: 27466 "An Outpost of Progress" [in] The Ladysmith Treasury. Edited by...](https://brickrow.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27466.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706655807)
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: 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 T. Hookham, 1825. First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds, and Yale) and.....
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.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857. First edition. NCBEL III, 1610. Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions, a novel written in the form of the diary of Charles Thorndale, is one of the great 19th century fictional works of ideas and philosophical and religious opinions; and it remains.....
![Book ID: 28827 The Revolution in Tanner's Lane. By Mark Rutherford [pseud]....](https://brickrow.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28827.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666910533)
London: Trübner & Co., 1887. First edition. Wolff 7188; Sadleir 3020a; NCBEL III, 1076. The third of six novels that William Hale White (1831-1913) wrote under the dual pseudonyms of Mark Rutherford and his imaginary editor Reuben Shapcott. White was fairly well known under his actual name as a journalist.....
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. First edition. ESTC T57814 (four volumes); Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1795:50; NCBEL II, 698. The only novel by Ann Yearsley (1753-1806), the interesting working class poet known as the “Bristol Milkmaid.” The Royal Captives, based on the popular French tale of.....