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

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

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

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

London: Edward Moxon, 1849. Read More about Rosamund Gray, Essays, Poems, Etc

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. ...

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

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...

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

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

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

London: 2, Radnor Place, Hyde Park.W, 24th July, 1888. Read More about ALS. To Mr. J.P. Heseltine, declining invitation and about gout