London: Bernard Lintott, 1713. First edition. The Terry-Slater Copy. Rare first edition of Pope's Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day, completed in 1711 at the suggestion of Richard Steele. Lintott paid Pope £15 for the copyright. ABPC records three sales of the first edition; the Locker-Lampson copy (in 1984..... Read More about Ode for Musick
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London: Jacob Tonson, 1709. First Authorized Edition, second issue, with all cancels. Read More about Poems on Several Occasions
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London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764-1769. First edition. Works of William Shenstone (1714-63), poet and noted landscape theorist of the picturesque, uncut in original boards. Read More about The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq; Most of which were never before printed
Price: $850
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 about The Critic: or, a Tragedy Rehearsed
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London: Printed for the Author, and sold by D. Wilson, 1751. First edition, leaf L12 of volume III in cancelled state. Read More about The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, In which are included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality
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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 about The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
Price: $2,000
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 about The Importance of Dunkirk Consider’d: In Defence of the Guardian of August the 7th. In A Letter...
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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 about Remarks on Mr. Steele's Crisis. By One of the Clergy, &c. By One of the Clergy. In a Letter...
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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 about The Case of Richard Steele, Esq; Being an Impartial Account of the Proceedings Against Him. In a...
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![Item #308159 The State of the Case Between the Lord-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Houshold [sic],...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308159.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690406960)
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 about The State of the Case Between the Lord-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Houshold [sic], and the...
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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 about Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. By the Best Hands....
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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 about The Christian Hero: an Argument Proving that No Principles but those of Religion are Sufficient...
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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 about The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His...
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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 about The Crisis: or, a Discourse
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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 about The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So Called. With an Epistle Concerning the Whiggs,...
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London: Jacob Tonson, 1702 [but 1701]. First edition. First edition of Fielding's first play, published in December 1701 "to coincide with the opening of the comedy at the Drury Lane Theatre in that month. The principal players—Robert Wilks, Colley Cibber, Anne Oldfield—were to be associated with Steele for the rest..... Read More about The Funeral: or, Grief A-la-Mode. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane
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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 about A Letter to a Member of Parliament Concerning the Bill for Preventing the Growth of Schism
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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 about Mr. Steele's Apology for Himself and His Writings; Occasioned by His Expulsion From the House of...
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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 about Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. By the Best Hands....
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London: Jacob Tonson, 1705. First edition. First edition of Steele's third play. "The Tender Husband, a comedy, had a brief initial run, and only one author's benefit performance in April 1705. It returned to Drury Lane for performances later in the year and remained a staple of the London stage..... Read More about The Tender Husband; or, the Accomplish'd Fools. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in...
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London: T. Becket, 1775. First edition. Read More about Letters … to His Most Intimate Friends, Published by His Daughter Mrs. Medalle
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![Item #308165 The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. [Volumes 1-4, and:] Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308165.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690406961)
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 about The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. [Volumes 1-4, and:] Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne [Volumes 5-7
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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 about An Essay Upon the Life, Writings, and Character, of Dr. Jonathan Swift. Interspersed with some...
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![Item #308182 The Intelligencer [nos. 1-19]. Jonathan Swift, Thomas SHERIDAN](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308182.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690406963)
[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 about The Intelligencer [nos. 1-19
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[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 about A Panegyric on the Reverend D--n S----t. In Answer to the Libel on Dr. D--y, and a Certain Great...
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