(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
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 in the year, 1654. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL I, 1305; Wing C-4672; ESTC R208498. 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... More
[London, n.p.] Printed in the Year, 1649. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wing C-4679; ESTC R209208; not in NCBEL. A treatise attributed to poet John Cleveland, written after the execution of Charles I in 1649, on the complexities of swearing loyalty to a commonwealth rather than to a king, and... More
London: Printed by R. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1647. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wing C-6270 (1st edition); ESTC R22525; Hayward 90; NCBEL I, 1306. The rare first published work of Richard Corbet (1582-1635), bishop in the Church of England, who was known for his wit and his entertaining sermons... More
London: Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Keynes, John Donne, 1; STC 7048; Pforzheimer 298. John Donne's first book, a polemical treatise on the supremacy of the King, which some Donne scholars have maintained was written specifically at the behest of King James... More
London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1609. Edition: First edition, second impression with the errata on the verso of the title-page. Bibliographical References: STC 7540.5; ESTC S100270. A plea on behalf of the rights of Scots to own property and share the same citizenship rights as English. Lacking the... More
London: Printed for Ri. Royston in Ivie Lane, 1632. Edition: First edition in English. Bibliographical References: STC 12400; ESTC S122528 (recording three locations in the British Isles - BL, Cambridge & Oxford; and five in North America - Folger, HEH, NY Social Library, Chicago & Yale). ¶ The first translation... More
![Characters of Vertues and Vices: In Two Bookes. [Bound with:] Budgell, Eustace, translator. The Characters of Theophrastus. Translated from the Greek . . JOSEPH HALL.](/pictures/thumb/17015.jpg?v=1435584406)
London: Printed by Melch. Bradwood, for Eleazer Edgar and Samuel Macham, 1608 [Hall]; London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1718 [Budgell]. Edition: First edition of the Hall; third edition of the Budgell. Bibliographical References: STC 12648a, the second of three printings [Hall]; Murphy, Bibliography of English Character Books, pages 11-12; and... More
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. Edition: Early edition, and probably the first of three editions issued in Amsterdam soon after the first edition, in quarto, was issued in London by Octavius Pulleyn earlier in 1651. Bibliographical References: Garrison & Morton 467 & 6146. ¶ Garrison-Morton describes this as "the most... More
![Musarum Oxoniensium [Elaiophoria] . . . Sive ob Faedera, Auspiciis Serenissimi Oliveri Reipub. Ang. Scot. & Hiber. JOHN LOCKE, CONTRIBUTOR.](/pictures/thumb/26966.jpg?v=1505331422)
Oxoniæ: Leonardus Lichfield Academiæ Typographus, 1654. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Yolton 251; Wing O-902; NCBEL II, 1836; ESTC R203114. ¶ A collection of over 90 poems in various languages (Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, French, Anglo-Saxon, etc.) written by Oxford students and graduates in celebration of Oliver Cromwell's Treaty of... More
Printed in Paradise, 1624 [for London: John Beale?], 1624. Edition: First edition, second issue with two typographical errors corrected. Bibliographical References: STC 22084a; ESTC S123283, which records four locations in the U.K. and six in the U.S. ¶ Fictitious letters from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1565-1601), defending his military... More