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: T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. First edition. A William Blake Milestone: the First Account of His Life. A book of paramount importance to Blake studies. Malkin was a personal friend of William Blake, with whom he shared an interest in radical politics, and on the..... Read More about A Father's Memoirs of His Child

London: Quaritch, 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies, signed by Muir. Muir Facsimile. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One, and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface," dated 1886, indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum [copy A] and from..... Read More about There is No Natural Religion

[Edmonton: 1885]. No. 39 of 50 copies, on Hodgkinson wove paper. Muir Facsimile. Read More about Visions of the Daughters of Albion

London: Printed by S. Gosnell … for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813. First edition. This poem was for Byron something of an experiment, which is why he adopted a pseudonym. After a rather lukewarm reception, Byron disowned the poem entirely. A small cache of uncut copies was discovered at some..... Read More about Waltz. An Apostrophic Hymn. By Horace Hornem, Esq

London: Joseph Thomas, et al, 1839. First edition. Rare in wrappers. "This piece contains much vague, confused, rambling satire on men and manners." However, Chew allows that "the piece is of unusual significance, for the character of the younger Juan, in its brutal, cynical faithlessness and egotism, is the nearest..... Read More about Don Juan Junior: a Poem, by Byron's Ghost! Edited by G.R. Wythen Baxter, Author of “Humour and...

N.p: Privately printed, [1884]. One of 50 copies. "This important series of hitherto inedited Letters by Coleridge was published in 1884, in the Transactions of Philobiblon Society. Fifty Copies were printed as a separate volume … for Private Distribution by the Editor, Mr. H.A. Bright" (Wise). Estlin was Unitarian minister..... Read More about Unpublished Letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Rev. John Prior Estlin

London: Printed by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812. First edition. With pagination numeral on page 53 in first volume printed upside down. This work was a joint effort between Southey and Coleridge, containing 201 contributions by Southey and 45 by Coleridge. Read More about Omniana, or Horae Otiosiores

Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs, For J. Cottle … and Messrs. Robinson, London, 1797. Second edition, expanded. After the favorable reception of the first edition of 1796, the publisher Cottle requested a second, to which Coleridge contributed several new pieces, including “The Ode to the Departing Year,” and a new..... Read More about Poems by S.T. Coleridge, Second Edition, to Which are Now Added Poems by Charles Lamb, and...

London: Edward Moxon, 1836. First edition. Collection of letters and reminiscences edited by Coleridge's close friend Thomas Allsop. Four Coleridge poems are printed here for the first time. Read More about Letters, Conversations and Recollections

London: Rest Fenner, 1817. First edition. First edition in wrappers of Coleridge's Christmas drama modeled after Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and written with Byron's encouragement. The play was rejected by Drury Lane and Covent Garden but found favor with the reading public, leading to its eventual stage production at the Surrey..... Read More about Zapolya: A Christmas Tale, in Two Parts

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,...