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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria (trans.); SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia.London : 1795
First edition in English, translated by the celebrated bluestocking Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) "amidst the horrors of Robespierre's tyranny", as she explains colourfully in her Preface; it became "the standard English edition well into the nineteenth century" (Deborah Kennedy, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution, 2002, p. 122). The... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 127769
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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria (trans.); SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia.London : 1795
First separate edition in English, translated by the celebrated bluestocking Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) "amidst the horrors of Robespierre's tyranny", as she explains colourfully in her Preface; it became "the standard English edition well into the nineteenth century" (Deborah Kennedy, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution, 2002, p. 122).... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 144669
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CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, Jacques - WEGENER, Gerda (illus.) Une aventure d'amour a Venise.Paris : 1927
First edition thus, first printing, number 226 of 414 copies printed on velin d'arches paper, of a total print run of 500. The text is extracted from Casanova's memoirs describing his relationship with "M. M.", a nun from the convent at Murano. This edition is beautifully illustrated by Gerda Wegener, likely using her wife, Lili Elbe as a model.
Gerda... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 145168
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MORRIS, William (contrib.), and others. The Quest.Birmingham : 1894-96
First editions, first impressions, each issue is one of 300 copies only with the first five issues numbered 172, and the sixth one numbered 171. The contributors include William Morris, Claude Napier-Clavering, E. A. Sonnenschein, and Arthur Dixon, among others. Complete sets, as here, of this profusely and superbly illustrated arts and crafts periodical... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 147861
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PERCY, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:London : 1775
First published 1765, this a lovely set of the third edition in which Percy "corrected such Mistakes as he had detected and also inserted such further Illustrations as had either occurred to himself, or been communicated to him" (Advertisement to the Third Edition). The dedication, though signed by Percy, was written by Samuel Johnson. Johnson had... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 75095
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese.Venice : 1906
An attractive miniature copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love sonnets, written in the first years of her falling in love with Robert Browning, first published in 1850. The Venetian publisher S. Rosen produced literary souvenirs for the latter-day Grand Tourist. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 146979
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets From The Portuguese.London : 1914
First Riccardi Press edition, number 151 of 350 numbered copies specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, from an edition of 1,000 copies on handmade Riccardi Paper; there were also 12 copies on vellum. This is a very scarce and attractive deluxe issue of an already finely produced book, printing some of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most famous love... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 131514
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LE GALLIENNE, Richard. The Quest of the Golden Girl.London : 1896
First edition, in the attractive art nouveau style binding designed by William Henry Bradley. Referred to as the "Dean of American Designers" by the Saturday Evening Post, Bradley's illustrative art nouveau style was heavily influenced by Japanese block printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement (1880-1910). He was the highest paid artist of the early... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 136753
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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The Works.London : 1821
First edition of the collected works of this enduringly popular playwright, edited by his first biographer, the poet Thomas Moore. A very pretty set from the Vane Londonderry library, monogram gilt to the head of the spine, elaborate armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. On marriage to Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest, Charles Stewart, third marquess... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 139633
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HAMILTON, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, the Wife of Germanicus.Bath : 1804
First edition. Hamilton (1756?-1816) was a Belfast-born novelist and essayist. She is best-known for her writings on the philosophy of education. In her Memoirs of Modern Philosophers of 1800 a "popular satirical attack on what she perceived as the excesses of contemporary radical thought. She is sceptical about the claims of freethinkers such as William... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 81656
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.Philadelphia : 1842
Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens", signed with his characteristic lavish underscores. Dickens met Bryant for their first private audience on his American tour on Tuesday... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 90110
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GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins - GRAHAME, Kenneth. Dream Days.New York & London : 1899
First US edition. This copy is from the library of prominent American author and humanist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), with her ownership inscription, "Gilman", to the front free endpaper. A lovely association copy between two disparate yet key writers of the period; Grahame's The Reluctant Dragon, which is included in this collection, is often... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 130102
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DRYDEN, John. The Fables …London : 1796
First editions with these Bartolozzi engravings, the only two works illustrated by Lady Diana Beauclerc, here together in handsome contemporary full morocco. Dryden's adaptations of Chaucer and Boccaccio were among the chief reasons for his perhaps surprisingly high place in the esteem of the Romantic poets, especially Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Scott,... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 118718
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ROLFE, Frederick William, Baron Corvo. Tarcissus: The Boy Martyr of Rome,[Saffron Walden : 1880
First edition of the author's first book, a prize rarity in the Corvo corpus, this copy with a richly appropriate provenance: from the libraries of Christopher Millard, A. T. Bartholomew, and Robert Scoble. Only two other copies of this title have appeared at auction in over 35 years, one the Bradley Martin copy in 1990.
The copy is inscribed... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 139376
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : April 1838 - October 1839
First edition in original parts. Plates in parts 1-2 with publisher's imprint; parts 4 and 5 are first issues; part 14 with notice of postponement of the plates "in consequence of the sudden indisposition of the artist"; plate 29 in part 15 in first state.
Dickens's third novel continued the picaresque mode of Pickwick. The exposure of conditions... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 142805
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LANG, Andrew. Aucassin & Nicolete.London : 1887
First edition thus, one of 550 copies only (of which 500 for sale) on Japanese vellum, of Lang's acclaimed translation of the French medieval romantic chantefable, "Andrew Lang was born in order that he might translate it perfectly and he has fulfilled his destiny" (Ezra Pound, Spirit of Romance, 1910), in a superb arts and crafts modelled binding.
From... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 144866
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.London : 1839
First edition, presentation copy from the author to Lady Holland in a publisher's presentation binding of red morocco gilt, together with Dickens's original autograph letter signed accompanying the presentation, two pages, mounted by its last page within the front free endpaper.
The presentation letter reads: "In begging you, My Lady Holland,... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 143166
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KIEFFER BINDING - FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary.Paris : 1905
First Ferroud edition, published in his "librairie des amateurs" and specially illustrated by Richemont, in a striking Kieffer binding, number 325 of 600 copies signed by the publisher on the limitation page. This copy is bound with a six-page promotional excerpt in straight-grain wrappers with a full-page etching and two in-text illustrations.
René... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 145735
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DANTE ALIGHIERI. La divina commedia.London : 1808-09
First Zotti edition, a handsomely bound set of Dante's Divine Comedy in the original Italian.
Romualdo Zotti (d. 1819) was an Italian expatriate in London, a teacher of Italian to young noble women and a printer. Zotti produced highly popular guides to French and Italian grammar, as well as editions of Italian poets. Zotti's interest in the education... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 147655
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DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop.Philadelphia : 1842
Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation, inscribed by Dickens: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens", signed with his characteristic lavish underscores, and with two accompanying autograph letters signed. In the... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 90111
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TROLLOPE, Anthony. Orley Farm.London : 1862
First edition, first issue, an exceptionally good copy. Unusually, the two volumes were published nearly ten months apart, and subsequent re-issues of each volume did not proceed in step, with the result is that sets often have the two volumes in mismatched issues. Sadleir claims priority for copies with the grain of the cloth perpendicular for vol.... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 32310
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DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed.1842
Autograph letter signed from Charles Dickens to Thomas C. Grattan (1792-1864), Irish novelist and British consul in Boston, upon Dickens's return from his first trip to America, in total around 200 words in his hand. A bitter Dickens reflects upon his trip, generally seen as unsuccessful following controversies over copyright, and has come back to find... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 137058
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COTTON, Charles. The Genuine Poetical Works;London : 1741
Fourth collected edition of Cotton's poetical works (first 1715), with his burlesque, often scatological verse conjoined with suitably licentious plates. Cotton's works were popular in the period, undergoing many editions. "Cotton's later reputation has had its vicissitudes. In the eighteenth century he was renowned for burlesque and his lyrical poetry... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136198
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SOUTHEY, Robert. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal.Bristol : 1799
Second edition of Southey's first book of prose, which first appeared in 1797. Southey sailed for Portugal at the invitation of his uncle in November 1795 following his estrangement from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and stayed until the following May. "He visited Madrid, but spent most of his time in and around Lisbon. He obtained a good grounding in both... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 116531
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RAFFALOVICH, Marc-André. Tuberose and Meadowsweet.London : 1885
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "A M. J.J. Weiss hommage affectueux de l'auteur". The recipient was likely Jean-Jacques Weiss (1827-1891), French man of letters, professor, and literary critic. This is the author's second book of Uranian poetry, very scarce inscribed, and especially desirable in such nice... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 135467
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SHIEL, M. P. Prince Zaleski.London : 1895
First edition of Shiel's first book, a collection of three stories, with a remarkable elucidatory inscription by the author on the front free endpaper: "A trinity here: the first about a father, the second about a son, or scion, the third about a ghostly hole; yet, as the Athanasian creed says, 'there are not three omniscients, but one omniscient,'... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 136029
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MORRIS, William. An AddressLondon : 1898
First editions, first impressions, of these Chiswick Press fine publications of William Morris's lectures printed in the Golden type he designed for the Kelmscott Press; in an attractive arts and crafts style binding by the amateur binder, bibliophile, and author, Fletcher W. Battershall (1866-1929), and with his bookplate on the front pastedown.
Fully... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 142015
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems.London : 1850
First edition with the Sonnets from the Portuguese, handsomely bound with the original cloth preserved within, and both half-titles. EBB's Poems had first appeared in 1844, but this "New Edition" (the second overall) contains in the second volume the coveted and rare first appearance of Sonnets from the Portuguese, some of the most famous love poems... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 132112
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KELMSCOTT PRESS: CAXTON, William (trans). The History of Reynard the Foxe.Hammersmith : 1892 [1893]
Limited edition, one of 300 copies on paper, from a total edition of 310 copies. In his note requested by Quaritch as a puff, Morris commented: "this translation of Caxton's is one of the very best of his works as to style; and being translated from a kindred tongue is delightful as mere language. In its rude joviality, and simple and direct delineation... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 145992
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ALLINGHAM, John Till. Fortune's Frolic:London : July 1799
First edition of Allingham's (c.1775-1812) first play, which featured celebrated actors like Charles Mathews (1776-1835). The most famous comedian of his day, Mathews's powerful influence on Charles Dickens's stylistic methods of comic characterization has long been recognized. Mathews's monopolylogues, farces in which the actor played every character,... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 146148
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DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House.London : 1853
First edition, bound from the original parts as issued between March 1852 and September 1853; handsomely bound.
"The satire of Bleak House focuses on the obfuscations and delays of the court of chancery which result in widespread human misery and suffering, but the novel's complicated plot and centripetal organization bring into the picture a... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 147834
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HARDY, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge.London : 1886
First edition in book form, presentation copy of volume I, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Hon. Mrs Jeune, from Thomas Hardy". Presentation copies are highly uncommon, with just two copies traced at auction. The recipient, Mary Jeune, later Baroness St Helier (1848-1931), was a prolific essayist (publishing around 50 periodical... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 119901
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.Philadelphia : 1836-1837
First US editions, first states. Parts 1 to 4 (appearing between 5 November 1836 and 20 September 1837) precede the first book edition in London, which was published by Chapman and Hall on 17 November 1837. The fifth part of the American edition appeared on 29 December. Part I is particularly scarce in first state, being issued in only 1,500 copies... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 138128
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WISE, Thomas James (forger); DICKENS, Charles. To Be Read at Dusk.London : 1852 [i.e. 1891]
The Estelle Doheny copy of this Thomas James Wise forgery. Wise (1859-1937), the most prominent bibliographer of his day, funded his bibliophilia by forging 19th-century literary publications, taking a known text, and producing non-existent "privately printed" editions in pamphlet form, which he sold to wealthy book collectors - in this instance, Dickens's... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138197
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HAYLEY, William. Plays of Three Acts; written for a Private Theatre.London : 1784
First edition. Lovely copy of the collected theatrical works of this now largely forgotten, but once highly popular writer, exceptionally prettily bound and with an attractive provenance. Hayley is best remembered today as a friend and patron of George Romney and William Blake, and biographer of Milton.
Hayley (17451820) "although affluent was... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139629
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BLAKE, William (engr.); GAY, John. Fables.London : 1793
First edition thus, with 12 plates engraved by William Blake; these are sometimes stated to have been designed as well as engraved by Blake, but the illustrations are based largely on designs from earlier editions, particularly those of John Wootton and William Kent for the first edition of 1727. Keynes notes that the first Blake plate, "The Shepherd... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 140405
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BRONTË, Charlotte - GASKELL, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë.London : 1857
First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's pioneering, landmark biography of her close friend, "creating a new, feminine form which linked emotional and domestic life and suffering to creativity" (ODNB). The biography was hugely controversial at the time, and remains so today, for different reasons.
Gaskell was asked to write it by Patrick Brontë... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 138990
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[MORGANN, Maurice.] An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff.London : 1777
First edition. Morgann "took issue with Dr Johnson as to whether the knight was a fat, drunken coward or a figure worthy of admiration. In a close analysis of Shakespeare's technique as a dramatist, Morgann argued that Shakespeare's intent was to gain sympathy from the audience for Falstaff at the expense of the virtuous young king and, in doing so,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 119784
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MCGONAGALL, Sir William Topaz, Poet, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah. Beautiful Oban.Edinburgh, No. 21 Lothian Street : [1894-1902]
Very scarce broadside poem by the "World's Worst Poet", William McGonagall (1825-1902), signed at the head, "Sir. Wm. Topaz. McGonagall. Poet". Gord Bambrick in "The Real McGonagall" acknowledges that "William McGonagall is best known as the world's worst poet. His unique style of versification breaks the laws of rhythm, rhyme and common sense in a... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 117956
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SMART, Christopher. [Complete set of the Seatonian Prize Poems:]Cambridge : 1750-6
A rare complete set of Smart's Seatonian Prize-winning poems on the Supreme Being, all first editions except for Omniscience which is a second (1756). This set is attractively presented together in a contemporary binding with the library label to the front board of Montacute House, Somerset, the home of the Phelips family, and the contemporary ownership... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 120509
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DICKENS, Charles. Original autograph leaf from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.[London : before April 1837]
Original autograph manuscript leaf with authorial deletions and insertions from Pickwick Papers, the novel that transformed an obscure 25-year-old journalist into England's most famous author in a matter of months. One of only five such leaves remaining in private hands, this leaf is from the setting manuscript used by the printers. Fewer than 50 of... Learn More£97,500.00Stock Code: 124911
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SAVIGNAC, Alida de. Les Contes Bleus.Paris : [c.1830]
First edition, uncommon complete as here, of this charming set of instructive tales for children by the French bluestocking Alida de Savignac (1790-1847). Volume I comprises three stories, each bound separately: La Petite Malade imaginaire; Juliette à Rome, ou les histoires du temps passé; and Camille. Volume II is divided identically: La Veillée;... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 125728
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Blue Fairy Book.London : 1889
First edition, large paper copy, number 13 of 113 copies, the deluxe limited issue of the first in Lang's series of "coloured" fairy books, which continued through to The Lilac Fairy Book in 1910. Only four of the titles (Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow) from the series of 12 were issued in this deluxe format. The Blue Fairy Book was immediately successful,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132247
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[DEFOE, Daniel.] Conjugal Lewdness: or, Matrimonial Whoredom.London : 1727
First edition, rare first issue. Contemporary critics attacked the work's title, which, according to Defoe, was viewed as "a Breach upon Modesty" and offensive to their ears, and the book was reissued the same year with a cancel title page, more politely titled as A Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed. The first issue is rare,... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 124762
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JONSON, Ben. The Workes.London : 1641]
First complete collected edition, comprising the second edition of volume 1 and the first edition of volumes 2 and 3. The first volume is a close reprint of the first edition of 1616. The second volume contains the reissued, unsold sheets of three plays published in 1631, which were edited by Jonson and intended to supplement his 1616 Workes. The balance... Learn More£42,500.00Stock Code: 108347
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ZANGWILL, Israel. [Set of 16 first editions comprising:] Children of the Ghetto;London : 1891-1920
First editions. A superb set of Zangwill's novels including the first Anglo-Jewish best-seller, Children of the Ghetto, and the popular satire The King of the Schnorers, about Jewish beggars in late 18th-century London. Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was the child of Eastern European immigrants to England and spent his literary career exploring issues... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 79651
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YEATS, W. B. (pref.); HYDE, Douglas (trans.) The Love Songs of Connacht.Dundrum : 1904
First edition, first impression, one of 300 copies only, this copy has a rare single-sheet prospectus advertising the press, dated January 1905, loosely inserted. This is the third of 11 books published by Yeats and his sister Elizabeth under this imprint, renamed the Cuala Press in 1908, after the Gaelic name of the south Dublin area before the Norman... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144499
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BROWNING, Robert. Men and Women.London : 1855
First edition, an exceptional fine set in the original cloth, of Browning's most enduring collection. Men and Women was Robert's "Sonnets from the Portuguese", being the first published after his marriage to fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett. It features many love poems, including "Love Among the Ruins", "Any Wife to Any Husband", "Love in a Life", "Life... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 145103
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CROSBY, Harry (his copy); Alphonse Daudet. Sapho.Paris : [c.1903]
Harry Crosby's copy of Daudet's cautionary romantic novel warning against a life of overt debauchery, with Crosby's pencil and ink underlinings to 116 pages of the text, including many passages that play upon the symbolism of the sun and the power of lust and desire in a man's life.
In addition to being bound for Crosby this copy has several... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 144911
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MARTIN, John (illus.); MILTON, John. The Paradise Lost of Milton.London : 1827
First edition in book form, a handsome copy of the more desirable large plate issue. John Martin's Paradise Lost maintains a strong claim to be the finest illustrated edition of the poem ever produced.
Already famous as an artist for his bold and melodramatic paintings, Martin was commissioned by Septimus Prowett to turn his talents to Milton.... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 145395
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ADDISON, Joseph; Richard Steele; & others. The Spectator.London : 1744
Appealing set of the great Augustan periodical, presented here in an unadulterated contemporary trade binding and "improved" at an early date by the addition of the delightful frontispieces from the 1747 edition, the designs of which are by Francis Hayman, "the most proficient English illustrator of his time" (Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 136182
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DICKENS, CHARLES (attrib.), but George Moggridge. Sergeant Bell, and his Raree-Show.London : 1839
First edition. The book was once often accepted to be by Dickens, and indeed the binding here states Dickens as the author. However this is a fallacy - Dickens had originally agreed to write this book at the request of the publisher, but negotiations were cancelled. As Eckel notes "This is the third of the books illustrated by George Cruikshank with... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 138172
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LEWIS, M. G. Tales of Wonder.London : 1801
First edition, this copy in a handsome contemporary binding and somewhat later gifted by Lord Chandos Leigh (17911850), poet and school-friend of Lord Byron, to his nephew Frederick Leigh Colvile (18191886), author, antiquary, and Warwickshire vicar. The book has the recipient's bookplate and is inscribed, "from my uncle Chandos Leigh".
This... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121349
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MEREDITH, George. Modern Love, and the Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads.London : 1862
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to D. G. Rossetti on the title page, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from his friend, George Meredith", with authorial manuscript corrections in the text. (The Hayward exhibition copy, also inscribed and corrected, had a note in Meredith's hand apologizing for "Errata ennumerable".) Meredith's novel... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 111629
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DODINGTON, George Bubb. The Diary, From March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761.Salisbury : 1784
First English edition of this important and much-celebrated record of political intrigue in 18th-century England, originally published in Dublin earlier the same year. Dodington (1691-1762), an immensely wealthy landowner, was elected member for Bridgwater in 1722, a post he held until 1754. He insinuated himself into the highest circles of Georgian... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 120255
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ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo; H. G. Wells; Joseph Pennell; Max Beerbohm et al. The Butterfly.[London : 1899-1900]
The complete New Series of the literary magazine The Butterfly. The monthly magazine first appeared in May 1893 and the first series lasted until February 1894. A New Series, published by Grant Richards, was begun in March 1899 and was discontinued after 12 issues in February 1900. The magazine contains writing by Laurence Housman, and illustrations... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 126971
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HUNT, Edward Eyre. Sir Orfeo.Cambridge [MA] : 1909
First modern-English edition of the Middle English narrative poem, composed around the late-13th/early-14th century and detailing the quest of an English King to recapture his wife from a fairy king. The poem is a significant blend of classical myth and medieval English literature. This rendition was undertaken by Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953), then... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 132452
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PINDAR, Paul. Remarkable Biography;London : 1821
First and only edition of this pseudonymously authored series of curious biographical sketches, including chapters on "Charles Mc. Ghie or Mackey", the Milanese Frances Scanagatti known as "the Female Soldier", and the freemason John Coustos. Though some catalogues have identified the author as the antiquary and numismatist John Yonge Akerman (1806-1873)... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 133534
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LYTTELTON, George, Lord. The Works.London : 1776
Third and best octavo edition (with the index), first published in 1774 and gathering various political pieces, Lyttelton's "Letters from a Persian in England to his friend in Ispahan", his very popular Dialogues of the Dead, co-written with the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, a smattering of poems, and a collection of letters to his father Sir Thomas... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 116436
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KIEFFER BINDING - BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Les Fleurs du Mal.Paris : 1920
First Kieffer edition, first printing, in a striking Kieffer binding, number 254 of 485 copies only, of Baudelaire's best-known poetry and including the banned poems, here delicately illustrated by Domin.
First published in 1857 by Baudelaire's friend Auguste Poulet Malassis, Les Fleurs du Mal's principal themes of sex and death (lesbianism,... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 145732
