London: S. Buckley and J. Tonson, 1712-15. First collected edition (except second edition of Volume 2), LARGE PAPER ISSUE. Large Paper Copy. Lovely copy of the famous journal in the rare LARGE PAPER ISSUE. "Volumes I and 2, printed in octavo, were bound up, and, dedicated to Lord Somers and Lord... Read More
Price: $5,000
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
Price: $1,000
London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationer's-hall, 1712. Third edition (price from imprint “3 d”). Read More
Price: $600
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
Price: $750
London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1712. First edition. Enter John Bull. The first of the famous series of “John Bull” pamphlets by Arbuthnot, who invented the figure which became England’s national symbol. Read More
Price: $1,500
![Lewis Baboon turned Honest and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. [bound with:] A Complete Key to the Three Parts of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. John Arbuthnot.](/pictures/thumb/260426.jpg?v=1534806603)
London: Printed for John Morphew, 1712. First edition. Read More
Price: $1,250
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
Price: $1,750
![A Final Answer to the Remarks on the Craftsman's Vindication... [With] Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman. [And] An Answer To a late Pamphlet Intitled, Observations on the writings of the Craftsman. [Plus] Remarks on the craftsman's Vindication of his Two Honble Patrons. Hervey Bolingbroke.](/pictures/thumb/302521.jpg?v=1534807287)
London: R. Franklin, et al, 1730-31. THE WAR BETWEEN BOLINGBROKE AND WALPOLE. A sammelband of four pamphlets concerning Viscount Bolingbroke's efforts to undermine the Walpole administration. Having recently returned from exile and though allowed to purchase property, Walpole denied Bolingbroke from restoration of his political rights, wary that he would... Read More
Price: $750
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
Price: $2,000
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
Price: $950
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
Price: $300
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
Price: $400
![Poems. [And:] The Task, A Poem in Six Books … to which is added … An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and the History of John Gilpin. William Cowper.](/pictures/thumb/226028.jpg?v=1534805220)
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
Price: $2,500
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
Price: $400
![No Queen: or, No General. An Argument, Proving the Necessity Her Majesty was in, as well for the Safety of Her Person as of Her Authority, to Displace the D[uke] of M[arl]borough. Daniel Defoe.](/pictures/thumb/260417.jpg?v=1534806602)
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
Price: $250
London: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers Hall, 1713. First edition. Read More
Price: $450
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
Price: $450
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
Price: $500
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
Price: $1,000
London: T. Waller, 1742. First edition. First edition this translation of Aristophanes' Plutus by Henry Fielding and William Young. The comedies of Aristophanes served as a model for two of Fielding's most successful plays, Pasquin and The Historical Register. The dedication is to the opposition reformer Lord Talbot, to whom... Read More
Price: $2,000
London: M. Cooper, 1747. First edition. Cross attributes this work to Fielding on the basis of an advertisement for The History of the Present Rebellion (1745) found in the second edition of Sarah Fielding's Cleopatra and Octavia (1758). Cross was unable to locate a copy and so attributed the present... Read More
Price: $800
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
Price: $1,000
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
Price: $2,500
London: J. Watts, 1750. Third edition. The revised and expanded third edition of Fielding's third play, a comic ballad opera first staged in 1730. A note on the title-page reads: "This piece was originally acted at the Hay-Market, and revived some years after at Drury-Lane, when it was revised, and... Read More
Price: $500
London: A. Millar, 1753. First edition, this with p. 4, l. 3 beginning "to require" A Canningite vs an Egyptian. First edition of Fielding's defense of his conduct in the notorious case of Elizabeth Canning, a young woman who alleged she was kidnapped and held captive by the gypsy Mary... Read More
Price: $800