Endymion: A Poetic Romance
London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition, second issue with imprint on verso of half-title reading "T... Read More about Endymion: A Poetic Romance
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London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition, second issue with imprint on verso of half-title reading "T... Read More about Endymion: A Poetic Romance
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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition. First Edition, Original Cloth. Surtees’ classic sendup of the English propertied classes, through the lens of the hunting field. The freeloading Sponge is a hilarious creation and Surtees is as keen an observer of the financial view of world (and marriage) in Victorian..... Read More about Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
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London: Henry Colburn, 1843. First Edition, with half-titles. Read More about Handley Cross, or the Spa-Hunt
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Georgetown, D.C: Published by James Thomas, Janes C. Dunn, Printer, 1827. First American Edition from the London edition. Read More about Is This Religion? Or, a Page from the Book of the World By the Author of “May you like it”
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Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, New York: J. Leavitt, 1831. First published in London in 1826. A Christian novel of faith and endurance. Not surprizingly as Mrs. Tonna was well-known for her writings for religious societies under the nom de plume "Charlotte Elizabeth" Read More about Consistency
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London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough Street, 1848. First edition. Read More about Town and Country: A Novel
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London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1835. First edition. Read More about Tremordyn Cliff
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London: Printed for John M. Cobbett, No. 183 Fleet Street, 1822. First Cobbet edition (with an introduction and some alterations). UNCUT IN BOARDS. First Cobbet edition of this work, first privately issued in 1731, in which Tull recounts his invention of the seed drill, horse-hoe and four-coultered plough. Read More about The Horse Hoeing Husbandry: Or, a Treatise on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. Wherein...
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Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Chesnut Street. Baltimore: Carey, Hart & Co, 1834. First American edition. Source for Poe’s Dupin. Vidocq (1775-1857), first a convicted criminal and then “the principal and most active agent of the police”, was head of the Paris Sureté from 1810 to 1827. He wrote..... Read More about Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827. Written by Himself....
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