London: Jacob Tonson, 1705. First edition. An incredibly fresh and clean copy of the first edition of Addison's account of his grand tour experiences in Italy. "After travelling south to Marseilles Addison took ship for Italy on 12 December 1700, but was driven back by a storm. In the end..... Read More about Remarks on Several Parts of Italy &c. In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703

London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationer's-Hall, 1712. Second edition. Dated by the first purchaser at the foot of p. [3] “Aprl. 16, 1712”, the date of publication (see Bower & Erickson). This is the third of Arbuthnot's series, in Bower & Erickson's permutation (b), i.e., with p. 25 in..... Read More about John Bull Still in his Senses: being the third part of Law is a Bottomless Pit. Printed for a...

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates, first issue with the long 's' throughout. With 12 Plates by Blake. A tall copy in contemporary binding of the Stockdale edition of Gay’s Fables with 12 engravings by Blake, who freely adapted his source..... Read More about Fables … with a Life of the Author

London: Foulis for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. First edition, with cancels at E2 & Z3. First edition in contemporary binding of Boswell's first major work — an account of his trip to Corsica and his meeting with General Pasquale Paoli, leader of the Corsican independence movement. "With its reports..... Read More about An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli

London: John Churchill, 1714. First separate edition. Burnet's Introduction elicited a reply from Swift (A Preface to the B----p of S--r--m's Introduction, 1713). Read More about An Introduction to the Third Volume of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England

London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1782 & 1785. First editions, with rare half-title to The Task: Poems, Vol. II. Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Binding. Cowper's Poems was his first collection of verse and includes such well-known works as "Table Talk," "Boadicea: an Ode," "Truth," "Hope," "Charity,"..... Read More about Poems. [And:] The Task, A Poem in Six Books … to which is added … An Epistle to Joseph Hill,...

London: Printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1712. First edition. Printed 10 January, 1712. Moore notes the existence of a second edition, of 23 January, in some copies of which "the last four pages are misnumbered 41-44”; yet ESTC calls this edition, with the correct pagination..... Read More about No Queen: or, No General. An Argument, Proving the Necessity Her Majesty was in, as well for the...

London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1715. First edition. Contains several references to Canadian colonies. The Defoe attribution has been challenged by Furbank and Owens, chiefly on stylistic grounds. Read More about Some Reasons offered by the late Ministry in Defence of their Administration

London: T. Warner, [1726]. First edition, containing the second edition of Dyer's "Grongar Hill" 'Grongar Hill'. First edition of this poetic miscellany continaing the second printing of John Dyer's topographical poem "Grongar Hill," a description of a climb above his home Aberglasne in Carmarthenshire, Wales. "Publication of Dyer's poems started..... Read More about A New Miscellany: Being a Collection of Pieces of Poetry, from Bath, Tunbridge, Oxford, Epsom,...

London: J. Roberts, 1730. First edition. Fielding's First Popular Success. First edition of Fielding's third play, a comic ballad opera in the mold of Gay's Beggar's Opera; it ran for 41 nights in its first season and was subsequently revived. "In March 1730 at the Little Haymarket Theatre he had..... Read More about The Author's Farce; and the Pleasures of the Town. As Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market....

London: A. Millar, 1751. Second edition. Second edition with revisions of Fielding's most important social tract, written as chief magistrate, "the most remarkable of his social tracts — a work as important for what it reveals about his temperament and character as for the remedies it prescribes for the disorders..... Read More about An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, &c. With Some Proposals for...

London: J. Watts, 1741. Second London edition. The second authorized London edition, a close reprint of the 1737 Roberts edition. By the time this edition was published, Fielding had ended his dramatic career, effectively silenced by the Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737, which censored the stage and limited theatrical performances..... Read More about The Historical Register for the Year 1736. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market....

London: For A. Millar, 1755. First edition. First edition of Fielding's last book. Two editions appeared in 1755, with the same title pages: one (this) edition was clearly an edited text; the other version was unedited, and set from the manuscript. The unedited text was suppressed and did not reappear..... Read More about The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, by the Late …