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
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London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationer's-hall, 1712. Third edition (price from imprint “3 d”). Read More about An Appendix to John Bull Still in his Senses: or, Law is a Bottomless Pit. Printed from a...
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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...
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London: Printed for John Morphew, 1712. First edition. Read More about Lewis Baboon turned Honest and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a...
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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: 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
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London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. The Second edition, with half title. Variant that has Appendix listed in Contents at p. 141 instead of correctly at p. 241. Read More about An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli
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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
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London: Printed: and sold by W. Lewis in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1742. First edition, variant with catchword on p. 39: -S, at foot of title-page: "price 1s" Cibber Takes on Pope, and Becomes the King of Dunces. Cibber, heartily despised by Pope, and the constant butt of his mockery, retaliated in..... Read More about A Letter from Mr. Cibber, to Mr. Pope, Inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his...
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London: [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1712. Another issue of “A farther search into the conduct of the allies …”, with same pagination, and the name John Morphew in the imprint; it is sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift. Read More about A Farther Search into the Conduct of the Allies, and the Late Ministry, as to Peace and War....
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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...
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London: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers Hall, 1713. First edition. Read More about Reasons Concerning the Immediate Demolishing of Dunkirk: being a Serious Enquiry into the State...
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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
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London: Printed: and sold Reeve at Shakespear’s Head near Serjeants-Inn Gate, Fleet-Street, and A. Linde in Catherine-Street in the Strand, 1755. First edition. Read More about A Letter to Dean Swift, Esq; on his Essay upon the life, writings, and character of Dr. J. Swift....
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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,...
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London: A. Millar, 1752 [but 1751]. First edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in vol. III, p. 191. Fielding's Last Novel. Fielding's last novel, and a commercial failure. His publisher felt confident that Amelia would be as successful as Tom Jones, and..... Read More about Amelia
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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....
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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...
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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: 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....
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London: A. Millar, 1749. First edition. The first edition of Fielding's masterpiece, arguably the greatest English novel of the 18th century. Demand for Fielding's novel was so great that all 2,000 copies of the first edition were bought up by the trade before the book's publication on 28 February 1749..... Read More about The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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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 …
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London: John Watts, 1728. First edition. Fielding's First Play. First edition of the 20-year-old Fielding's first play and his second surviving publication. "Fielding's career as dramatist began auspiciously enough when, as an unknown author in his twentieth year, his first play, the comedy Love in Several Masques, was staged by..... Read More about Love in Several Masques. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal …
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London: J. Watts, 1733. First edition. First edition of Fielding's adaptation of Molière's L'Avare, the most successful of his "regular" comedies. With an epilogue by Colley Cibber. Read More about The Miser. A Comedy. Taken from Plautus and Moliere. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in...
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London: A. Millar, 1753. First edition. First edition of Fielding's proposal, in the face of the inadequacies of the Poor Laws, to establish country workhouses to shelter, educate and employ the poor. The Proposal builds on Fielding's Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751), in which..... Read More about A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, for Amending Their Morals, and for...
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