London: 1760-1775. First editions. 24 vols.,16mos; full brown calf by Zaehnsdorf with double gilt fillet borders, gilt spines with floral devices and leather labels; inner dentelles gilt; edges stained yellow. Includes: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-67), 9 vols. with half titles as called for in Vols..... More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1682. First Edition. Small 4to, [i-xvi] 28pp; half-title not called for; tightly trimmed; bound in dark crushed morocco gilt. Second state, as usual. Macdonald 16 a ii. More
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715. First Edition. 8vo, 52pp (lacks the "Proposals..." at the end); red morocco gilt. Griffith 36. More
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1758. First editions thus. Two vols., 8vos, [xxxii] 416pp & lxix, 390pp; full red polished calf, richly gilt, a.e.g. with gauffered edges; marbled endpapers. Splendid set of the first English books printed by Baskerville, with all cancellanda as..... More
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. First Edition. 8vo, [viii] 524pp + leaf of errata and advertisement for Life of Johnson; later three-quarter morocco and cloth; t.e.g. Second state, with typographic errors corrected, all cancels present. Pottle 57. More
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. First Edition. 8vo, 6-line errata leaf bound in following the title page; 384pp; later three-quarter morocco. With p. 296 numbered correctly. Courtney p. 122. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843-1848. First editions. Five vols., uniform small 8vos; frontispieces; 166, 175, 174, 175 &188pp; original cloth; a.e.g. The complete set of Dickens's Christmas Books. A Christmas Carol here is in brown cloth, with "Stave One" on the first page and an intact "D" in the author's..... More
London: Printed for J. Brotherton at the Black Bull . . . 1720. First Edition. 8vo, [i-ii] 344pp; trimmed, edges stained red; contemporary calf with gilt spine with five raised bands, black leather label. Rare first edition of Defoe's anonymously published adventure, appearing in the year after Robinson Crusoe and..... More
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London: J. Murray, 1814. First Edition. Small 8vo, [i-viii] + 128pp; plain wrappers, trimmed, with marbled edges. Includes the advertisement leaf in front describing the two texts, both published here anonymously, and explaining Byron's wish to include the Rogers text as well as his unsatisfied wish that it be placed..... More
London: John Murray, 1814. First Edition. Small 8vo, xi + 100pp, plain wrappers, agressively trimmed with marbled edges. First issue -- the second was expanded to 108 pages by the addition of more poems. Trimmed to a significantly smaller size than issued, with the resultant loss of the imprint at..... More
London: Printed by A. Miller, for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1650. Second Edition. Small 4to, [i-xvi] 329 + [10]pp; modern three-quarter bfrown morocco and cloth. Revised and expanded from its 1846 first edition, this is Browne's exploration of a wide range of erroneous beliefs, mistake common wisdom, and various..... More
Londres: Chez L. Deconchy, 1813. First London edition. 8vo, 72pp; contemporary speckled calf tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, Devonshire emblem in gilt above leather spine label. This London imprint appeared in the same year as the rare first edition published in Sweden. With eighteen blank leaves bound in at the..... More
London: Printed for Robert Allot, 1631. First Edition. 4to, [91]-170; text in ruled borders with side notes; modern plain pink wrappers. Apparently intended to be issued in a single volume together with two other of Jonson's plays (Bartholomew Fayre and The Staple of Newes) in a new collected edition of..... More
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First Edition. Two vols., 4tos; 516 & 588pp; contemporay mottled calf, recased with spine label; inner hinges reinforced. First state of the classic work that founded the modern notion of biography, with "gve" on p. 135, all cancels, the fronispiece portrait..... More
New York: Samuel Campbell, 1793. First American edition of Imlay; Second edition of Filson. Two vols., 12mos, 260 [i.e. 250, mispaginated after p. 215], 204pp; contemporary calf. Important early work describing the region, with tipped in map of Kentucky, hand-colored. The map has been torn and is missing a piece..... More
![An Essay on Man,; In Epistles to a Friend. Epistle I [II and III]. Alexander Pope](/pictures/thumb/205742.jpeg?v=1585096262)
London: Printed for J. Wilford. . . n.d. (1733). 3 vols in one, small folio, trimmed to approx. 8-1/2 X 13 in.; 17,18,20pp; later plain blue wrappers. Second edition of the first Epistle (Griffith's issue I/307); first editions of the other two epistles (Griffith L/300 & Q/308), with the footnote..... More
London: Printed for J. Bell, 1796. Second Edition. Three vols., small 8vos, 232, 287, 315pp; early 19th century 3/4 morocco and marbled boards; t.e.g. Engraved portraits of Lewis in each volume. Bound in at the rear of Vol. 3 is a neat 8-page calligraphic manuscript of "The Old Hag in..... More
London: John Nutt, 1704. First Edition. 8vo, leaf of "Treatises Writ.." before title page; [i-x] 322pp; contemporary (original?) full calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Swift's first substantial book, a wide-ranging satire taking on all manner of intellectual claptrap, published anonymously. This copy with the omitted word uterinus on..... More
London: Printed for Benj. Motte. . . 1726. Two vols., uniform 8vos, frontispiece, 310 + 353pp, with all title pages and maps; contemporary sprinkled calf with gilt-tooled spines and leather labels; edges trimmed and stained yellow; marbled endpapers. Teerink's edition B, the last of the three editions that all appeared..... More
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1796. First Edition. 8vo, title page, advertisement leaf, 262pp, appendix, notes, list of author's other works; later 3/4 calf and marbled boards. Wollstonecraft undertook the journey described in this book following her first suicide attempt over her unhappy liaison with the American Gilbert Imlay, and..... More
London: Printed for J. Johnson . . . 1798. First Edition. Small 8vo, half-title, two frontispiece portraits, 199pp, errata leaf with instruction to the binder in rear, indicating cancels (all present); later 3/4 blue calf and marbled boards, t.e.g. Distraught after his wife's death following the birth of their daughter..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for the Author and Sold by William Creech, 1787. First Edinburgh edition. 8vo, frontispiece; xlviii + 368pp, half title present; foredge untrimmed; 19th century full morocco gilt binding by Riviere with marbled endpapers; t.e.g. Mixed issue with the "Boxburgh" misprint on the subscriber's list, but with "skinking" correctly..... More
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. Two vols., large folios; unpaginated; title page printed in black and red; dictionary text in two columns. Contemporary calf, rebacked, with..... More
London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1768. First Edition. Two vols., small 8vos; xx + 203, [ii] + 208pp, with both half titles and subscriber's list; edges trimmed and speckled; later three-quarter calf with gilt spines and black and red labels, by Bayntun. A bright, crisp, and handsome set..... More
London: J. Johnson, 1792. First Edition. 8vo, 452pp; contemporary sprinkled calf with red leather spine label. Foundational text of modern Feminism, arguing in the wake of the French Revolution, for the education of women in order that they might become equal partners with men, rather than "alluring objects." "My own..... More