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Visions of the Daughters of Albion
[Edmonton: 1885]. No. 39 of 50 copies, on Hodgkinson wove paper. Muir Facsimile. Read More about Visions of the Daughters of Albion
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[Edmonton: 1885]. No. 39 of 50 copies, on Hodgkinson wove paper. Muir Facsimile. Read More about Visions of the Daughters of Albion
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London: T. Bensley for John and Arthur Arch, 1798. First edition. First edition of this early publication of Lamb, to that point his most substantial collection. Thirteen of the poems are by Lloyd and seven by Lamb, including "The Old Familiar Faces" Read More about Blank Verse
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London and New York: J. M. Dent & Co. and E. P. Dutton & Co, 1909. Rackham, Arthur. First trade edition. Rackham first illustrated this work as part of a series of "The Temple Classics For Young People", published in 1899. This edition is a larger edition with added illustrations..... Read More about Tales From Shakespeare
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London: Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, for the Juvenile Library, No. 41, Skinner-Street, Snow Hill, 1808. First edition. An adaptation for children from Chapman's edition of Homer, done following the popularity and success of “Shakespeare's Tales”. Read More about The Adventures of Ulysses
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[Concord, Mass]: Arranged and put into type by Will Bradley, and issued from the Sign of the vine, 1904]. First thus. Read More about A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig
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London: J. M. Dent and Co. 69 Great Eastern Street, 1888. Read More about The Essays of Elia & The Last Essays of Elia. Edited by Augustine Birrell
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Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1885. The miniature portraits are of Charles Lamb in Volume One, and of Mary Lamb in Volume Two (Last Essays). Read More about Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
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London: Printed by T. Plummer, Seething-Lane for G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1802. First edition. Lamb's first play and Mary's first appearance in print. Pages 106-7 contain Mary Lamb's poem "Helen", her first appearance in print. At the end are some "Curious Fragments extracted from a common-place book" ascribed to..... Read More about John Woodvil A Tragedy. ... To which are Added, Fragments of Burton
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London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, 1836. "Tile's Miniature Classical Library" (half-title). Read More about Rosamund Gray, A Tale: and other Pieces
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London: Edward Moxon, 1849. Read More about Rosamund Gray, Essays, Poems, Etc
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London: Printed by the Golden Cockerel Press for Frank Hollings, 1928. Number 296 of 500 copies. Read More about A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret: With Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Carey, 1828. First American Edition of Elia, True First and First American Edition of Elia. Second Series. “Elia” (volume one) is a reprint of the original London edition. “Elia. Second Series” (volume two) is an unauthorized edition. The true “Second Series” was not published in England..... Read More about Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine [with] Elia. ...
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. First edition. The American precedes the English issue of the Second Series. This is an unauthorized edition. The true “Second Series” was not published in England until 1833 under the title of “The Last Essays of Elia.” The editor of this present edition mistakenly..... Read More about Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Second Series
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. First edition. The American precedes the English issue of the Second Series. IN BOARDS. This is an unauthorized edition. The true "Second Series" was not published in England until 1833 under the title of "The Last Essays of Elia." The editor of this present..... Read More about Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Second Series
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London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street, 1831. First edition. Read More about Satan in Search of a Wife with the whole process of His Courtship and Marriage and who danced at...
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London: Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition. Lady Caroline Lamb's notorious and deliriously written roman à clé, to exact her revenge on Byron for her seduction and abandonment. When our protagonist Calantha encounters Ruthven Glenarvon (i.,e., Byron), her helplessness is described thus: "The eye of the rattle-snake, it has been said..... Read More about Glenarvon
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London: Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition. Lady Caroline Lamb's notorious and deliriously written roman à clé to exact her revenge on Byron for her seduction and abandonment. When our protagonist Calantha encounters Ruthven Glenarvon (i.,e., Byron), her helplessness is described thus: "The eye of the rattle-snake, it has been said..... Read More about Glenarvon
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London: J.M. Dent and Co, 1890. Number 26 of 100 copies for America in a total of only 225 copies: 125 to be sold in England, and 100 to be sold in the United States by Macmillan. Read More about Pericles & Aspasia. Edited by C.G. Crump
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London: Saunders and Otley[ Ibotson and Palmer, Printers], 1836. First edition, with one line errata slip pasted in blank margin of first page of the preface. Includes "Extract of a Criticism on the Satire. From the 'Not-Gentleman's) Magazine" Read More about Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors
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London: Dropmore Press, 1948. First edition, one of 300 copies. Read More about The Sculptured Garland. A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of...arranged by Richard Buxton
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London: J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1783. Second edition. A Paean to Books. Second edition of Crabbe’s third publication, first published in 1781 when Crabbe was destitute, under the instigation of Edmund Burke “But what strange art, what magic can dispose “The troubled mind to change its native woes? “Or lead us..... Read More about The Library. A Poem
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. First edition. INSCRIBED to publisher John Farrar while he was editor at THE BOOKMAN, “For John, with warmest appreciation, from Amy Lowell. February, 1925” with a few pencil notes to ffep, possibly in his hand. Christmas card announcing the publication of the..... Read More about John Keats
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Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. First edition. INSCRIBED, IN BOARDS. Inscribed on front cover "J. M. McK from J..R.L." Read More about The Vision of Sir Launfal
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[Boston]: 1848. The water celebration on October 25, 1848 marked the completion of the aqueduct, dams, pipelines and gatehouses built from Lake Cochituate in Natick to the Brookline Reservoir to bring fresh water to Boston. A rare piece of ephemera from that important public health event. Read More about Water Celebration, Boston, October 25, 1848, Exercises at the Fountain ... III. Ode. By James...
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n.p: mid 20th century. Superb Modern Calligraphic Panel on Vellum. A beautifully designed and executed panel, demonstrating the scribe's command of the major calligraphic hands. Marcus's lettering shows the influence of the great English scribe and teacher Edward Johnston, and one could hardly wish for a finer influence than that..... Read More about A calligraphic panel on vellum with a watercolor of a stem of roses surrounded by poems and...
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Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1923. First edition, Number 2901 of total of 3440 copies. Inscribed. Inscribed "en ----hommage de l'auteur à Mme. ---- André Maurois." Read More about Ariel ou la Vie de Shelley
Price: $300