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
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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,...
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a Londre: Chez Jean Nourse, 1750. First Edition in French. SCHIFF COPY, WITH PENCIL DRAWING. Pierre-Antoine de la Place (1707-93) was famous as the author of the compendious "Théâtre Anglais" (1745-48), in which a number of plays by Shakespeare first appeared in French, and he was a great admirer of..... Read More about Histoire de Tom Jones, ou L'Enfant Trouvé. Traduction de l'Anglois de M. Fielding par L.D.L.P....
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London: Printed for W. Griffin, 1770. First edition. The quarto edition is now believed to be the true first, preceding the several unauthorized duodecimo printings, demonstrated to have been later piracies by William B. Todd (v. Rothschild 1032 'Notes' and Studies in Bibliography, vi, 1953). Read More about The Deserted Village, A Poem
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London: J. Payne, 1753-1754. First edition. With Contributions by Johnson. "[Samuel] Johnson contributed 25 papers signed 'T', which he dictated and gave to Dr. Richard Balthurst, who sold them for two guineas each; 4 papers signed 'T and Misargyrus' were attributed to Balthurst" (Rothschild). Read More about The Adventurer. Volume the First [… Second
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London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. First edition. The First Edition of Johnson's Dictionary in Contemporary Calf. First edition of "the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in..... Read More about A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and...
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London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1775. Second edition, printed within a few days of the first impression. In answer to the colonists’ rallying cry of “No taxation without representation,” Johnson invokes the notion of virtual representation, and argues that the colonists “are represented … by the same..... Read More about Taxation No Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress
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London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794. First edition, with half-titles. "An ambitious work, recalling in its preface her own Welsh origins, it specifically addressed itself to those who, like her husband, found English taxing ... Its discriminating definitions and characteristic excursions offer real insights into an eighteenth-century..... Read More about British Synonymy; or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation
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Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1785. A handsome copy of the Foulis edition of Pope's works. Read More about The Poetical Works …
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Plantation Office: 10 June 1709. Autograph letter from poet and diplomat Martthew Prior (1664-1721) to Edward Southwell (1671-1730), who at the time of this letter was commissioner for the Board of Trade and Plantations. Prior congratulates Southwell for his safe arrival in Dublin as chief secretary to the new Viceroy..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Mat Prior"), to Edward Southwell
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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
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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
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London: Printed for G. Hawkins, 1735. First edition, errata leaf at end. IN CONTEMPORARY MOTTLED CALF. A classic of foxhunting literature, written by a man of whom it was said “his only enemy was the weather.” William Somervile (1677-1742) was often referred to as the “Sportsman’s Poet”. Parr said of..... Read More about The Chace. A Poem
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London: printed for N. Blandford; and sold by J. Peele, 1726. First Blandford edition. A famous poem about the relationship between Swift and Esther Vanhomrigh ("Vanessa"), who died in 1723 and among whose papers a manuscript of the poem was found. It was first published in Dublin on about April..... Read More about Cadenus and Vanessa. A poem. By Dr. S—t
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London: J. Round, J. Tonson, J. Clarke, B. Motte, T. Wotton, S. Birt, and T. Osborne, 1731. Second edition of the Works. Read More about The Works … in two volumes. ... To which is prefix’d Some account of the life and writings of...
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London: Printed by T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789. First edition. Frank Hogan Copy of the First Edition. A classic of English literature and a cornerstone of popular natural history. Gilbert White (1720-1793)is admired by modern ornithologists as one of the first observers to record detailed notes of..... Read More about The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the Country of Southampton
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