Item 8283Poems on Several Occasions.
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London: Jacob Tonson, 1709. First Authorized Edition, second issue, with all cancels. Read More Item Details for Poems on Several Occasions Add to Wish List
Item #8283
Price: $250
London: Jacob Tonson, 1709. First Authorized Edition, second issue, with all cancels. Read More Item Details for Poems on Several Occasions Add to Wish List
Item #8283
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London: T. Becket, 1781. First edition, mixed state. There are five 1781 "editions" so denoted on the oft-missing half-title. In a note in the summer 1956 Book Collector Todd argues that these editions are in fact re-impressions and not separate editions. Sheets of the various printings seem to have been..... Read More Item Details for The Critic: or, a Tragedy Rehearsed Add to Wish List
Item #308137
Price: $1,500
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by D. Wilson, 1751. First edition, leaf L12 of volume III in cancelled state. Read More Item Details for The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, In which are included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality Add to Wish List
Item #230074
Price: $2,000
London: Printed for W. Johnston, in Ludgate-Street; and B. Collins, in Salisbury, 1771. First edition, first issue points with misprint 1671 instead of 1771 on title page of Volume I. An Arabic "6" at the foot of Volume I, p. vi; page 147 in Volume I numbered "473", etc. Read More Item Details for The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker Add to Wish List
Item #228411
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London: Printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick Lane, 1713. First edition. The folding map at rear was issued with Steele's Apology for Himself and His Writings (1714). Read More Item Details for The Importance of Dunkirk Consider’d: In Defence of the Guardian of August the 7th. In A Letter to the Bailiff of Stockbridge Add to Wish List
Item #260203
Price: $150
Edinburgh: Robert Freebairn, 1714. First Edinburgh edition. Edinburgh edition of a pamphlet challenging Steele's assertion in The Crisis that the Hanoverian succession was in jeopardy due to Tory preference for The Old Pretender. The charge lead to Steele's expulsion from Parliament for sedition. Written by an unnamed clergyman, who signs..... Read More Item Details for Remarks on Mr. Steele's Crisis. By One of the Clergy, &c. By One of the Clergy. In a Letter to the Author Add to Wish List
Item #308157
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London: J. Roberts, 1714. Anonymous account of the controversy stemming from Steele's assertion in The Crisis that the Hanoverian succession was in jeopardy due to Tory preference for The Old Pretender. The charge lead to Steele's expulsion from Parliament for sedition on 18 March 1714. The present pamphlet is dated..... Read More Item Details for The Case of Richard Steele, Esq; Being an Impartial Account of the Proceedings Against Him. In a Letter to a Friend Add to Wish List
Item #308158
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London: W. Chetwood, et al, 1720. First edition. First edition of this pamphlet challenging the legality of Steele’s dismissal as governor of the Drury Lane playhouse following his opposition to the Peerage Bill. Read More Item Details for The State of the Case Between the Lord-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Houshold [sic], and the Governor of the Royal Company of Comedians. With the Opinions of Pemberton, Northey, and Parker, Concerning the Theatre Add to Wish List
Item #308159
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London: J. Tonson, 1727. Third edition. Styled the second edition on the title-page, but in fact the third edition, following the two 1714 London editions (the first distinguished by an incorrect date in the imprint). With thirteen new pieces added at the end, including the first appearance of Pope's "To..... Read More Item Details for Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. By the Best Hands. Publish'd by Mr. Steele. The Second Edition Add to Wish List
Item #308161
Price: $750
London: Jacob Tonson, 1701. First edition. First edition of Steele's first prose work, preceded only by his poem The Procession (1695), known in just a handful of copies. "Nine editions and a French translation appeared in [Steele's] lifetime, twenty-two between 1701 and 1820" (Rothschild). This copy with the leaf of..... Read More Item Details for The Christian Hero: an Argument Proving that No Principles but those of Religion are Sufficient to Make a Great Man Add to Wish List
Item #308148
Price: $500
London: J. Tonson, 1723. First edition. ESTC identifies 7 separate settings, which can be distinguished by press figures; the present copy has press figures 11-4, 47-6, & 48-2. [Bound with:] FENTON, Eliijah. Mariamne. A Tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. [viii], 75, [5] pp. London: J. Tonson, 1723..... Read More Item Details for The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants Add to Wish List
Item #308156
Price: $650
London: Printed by Sam. Buckley; and sold by Ferd. Burleigh, in Amen-Corner, 1714. First edition, second issue. First edition, second issue, with the imprint dated 1714, not 1713; the setting of type is the same throughout in both issues. With Queen Anne’s health worsening, Steele wrote this anonymous attack on..... Read More Item Details for The Crisis: or, a Discourse Add to Wish List
Item #308162
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London: Ferd. Burleigh, 1714. First edition. The final number of the first series of Steele's journal The Englishman, published just prior to his expulsion from the House of Commons on 18 March for sedition. With Queen Anne's health failing and concern among Whigs that the Tories would back the Catholic..... Read More Item Details for The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So Called. With an Epistle Concerning the Whiggs, Tories, and New Converts [Number LVII, Monday, February 15, 1714] Add to Wish List
Item #308149
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London: Ferd. Burleigh, 1714. First edition. Written during the debate leading up to passage of the Tory Schism Act of June 1714, which required that all schools be licensed by a bishop and that all educators take the rites of the Anglican Church. The Act was aimed at Dissenter schools..... Read More Item Details for A Letter to a Member of Parliament Concerning the Bill for Preventing the Growth of Schism Add to Wish List
Item #308150
Price: $500
London: R. Burleigh, 1714. First edition. First edition of Steele's account of his trial and expulsion from the House of Commons for sedition, on grounds that he had published seditious material in The Crisis and certain numbers of The Englishman Dedicated to Horace Walpole, who provided Steele's defense. Uncommon on..... Read More Item Details for Mr. Steele's Apology for Himself and His Writings; Occasioned by His Expulsion From the House of Commons Add to Wish List
Item #308163
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London: Jacob Tonson, 1714. First edition, with year printed "MDDCXIV" First edition of this poetical miscellany with works by Steele and others. With three Pope first appearances, including his translations of the Wife of Bath's Prologue and an excerpt from the Odyssey. Three poems by John Gay are printed here..... Read More Item Details for Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. By the Best Hands. Publish'd by Mr. Steele Add to Wish List
Item #308160
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London: T. Becket, 1775. First edition. Read More Item Details for Letters … to His Most Intimate Friends, Published by His Daughter Mrs. Medalle Add to Wish List
Item #308167
Price: $800
London: R. & J. Dodsley; T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt; W. Strahan, et al, 1760-1769. First edition. First edition of what was probably Sterne's most popular work during his lifetime, comprising 45 sermons ("Inquiry after Happiness," "Vindication of Human Nature," "The Shortness and Troubles of Life," "Pride," "Humility," "On..... Read More Item Details for The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. [Volumes 1-4, and:] Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne [Volumes 5-7] Add to Wish List
Item #308165
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London: Printed for Charles Bathhurst, 1755. First edition. Early biography of Swift, written by Deane Swift, the cousin of Jonathan; of special interest for its treatment of Jonathan's relations to his contemporaries. It includes unpublished letters from Dr. Swift, and a good deal of material by others of his circle..... Read More Item Details for An Essay Upon the Life, Writings, and Character, of Dr. Jonathan Swift. Interspersed with some occasional Animadversions Upon the Remarks of a late critical Author, And upon the Observations of an anonymous Writer on those Remarks. By Deane Swift, Esq; [sic] To which is added, That Sketch of Dr. Swift's Life, written by the Doctor himself, which was lately presented By the Author of this Essay to the University Of Dublin Add to Wish List
Item #260362
Price: $400
[London] Printed at Dublin. London Reprinted: A. Moor [i.e. William Bowyer], 1729. First collected edition. An Irish periodical published through the previous year and gathered here for the first time. Includes two pieces on John Gay, one on “the folly of gaming,” one on “the foolish methods of education among..... Read More Item Details for The Intelligencer [nos. 1-19] Add to Wish List
Item #308182
Price: $5,000
[Dublin]: [s.n.], 1729-30. First edition. 'For Gulliver divinely shews, / That Humankind are all Yahoos'. Rare copy of an anti-Swift satire variously attributed to the minor Irish poet James Arbuckle and Swift himself. The poem, which paints Swift's misanthropy as a form of self-regard, was one of a series of..... Read More Item Details for A Panegyric on the Reverend D--n S----t. In Answer to the Libel on Dr. D--y, and a Certain Great L--d Add to Wish List
Item #308184
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London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catharine-Street in the Strand, 1752. First London edition. The first attempt to give an account of the life and work of Swift. Orrery's book is, according to the DNB, "full of rancour and grudging criticism"—even though he and Swift had been good friends..... Read More Item Details for Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... In a Series of Letters ... to his Son, the Honorable Hamilton Boyle Add to Wish List
Item #260433
Price: $300
London: A. Baldwin, 1712. A reply to Delarivier Manley's The D. of M—h's Vindication (1711), itself a reply to Francis Hare's attack on Swift and the Examiner, Bouchain: in a Dialogue Between the Late Medley and Examiner (1711). One of two editions published in 1712. Read More Item Details for The Duke of M—'s Vindication. In Answer to a Pamphlet Falsely So Called Add to Wish List
Item #308175
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London: A. Baldwin, 1711. First edition. On the siege of Bouchain during the War of Spanish Succession, the last major victory of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Hare places the Whig Medley in dialogue with the Tory Examiner, whose editor for much of 1711 was Jonathan Swift. Mrs. Manley..... Read More Item Details for Bouchain: in a Dialogue Between the Late Medley and Examiner Add to Wish List
Item #308174
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London: Various publishers, 1711-1712. The pamphlets are as follows: [SWIFT, Jonathan.] THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLIES, and of the late ministry, in beginning and carrying on the present war . . . The second edition, corrected. London, printed for John Morphew ... 1711. Second edition, 96 pp. Teerink 539. [HARE..... Read More Item Details for Volume of pamphlets by Swift and others, formed by a contemporary collector, relating to his Conduct of the Allies (1711) and Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty (1712) Add to Wish List
Item #260277