London: R. Dodsley, 1744, 1757. First editions. 4to, 125; [iv], 156 pp; contemporary calf, rebacked, with spine laid down. First issue of Akenside, with the footnote on p. 9 and p. 20 misnumbered as 22. All half titles present. Nice engraved vignettes to each title page. Akenside's poem was his..... More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1700. First Edition. Folio, [xlii], 646pp; later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. A nice copy of Dryden's Fables, with a distinguished provenance. Macdonald 37a. More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1718. First Edition. Folio, frontispiece, engraved title, [38], 506, [6] pp; full contemporary calf. Subscriber's edition, on fine paper with the Strasbourg Arms watermark. The preferred state of the best edition of Prior, published to supercede an unauthorized edition of his works. More
London: W. Strahan, et al, 1769. First Edition. Three vols., 4tos, xv, 394, [13]; [iv], 479; [iv], 436, [39], with all half titles and frontispieces; errata leaf tipped into Vol. 1; index to Vols. 2 and 3 in the rear of Vol. 3. A major work by the Scottish historian..... More
London: W. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, 1777. First Edition. Two vols., 4tos, xvii [1] [5] [1], 488; [iv], 535 + Index; full contemporary calf with leather spine labels in red and black. This copy bound without the four maps that generally are present..... More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1719. 12mo, frontispiece, [x], 420pp; contemporary panelled calf. With engraved portrait by M. van der Grucht after Marshall. More
[London]: John Grismond, 1628. First Edition. 16mo, frontispiece, [iv], [288]; streaked calf. More
London: A. Hamilton, 1793. 4to, frontispiece, xx, 227, [1], [19]; full striated calf gilt, with dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers. Handsome edition of Thomson's enduringly popular blank verse sequence, illustrated with eight engraved vignettes. More
London: J. Watts, 1737. Third Edition. 8vo, frontispiece, [viii], 54pp; modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards with silk ribbon marker. First printed and performed in 1731, there was no stated "second edition," though there were at least three impressions of the first (Cross III/292). The frontispiece engraving is by Hogarth..... More
London: A. Millar, 1749. First Edition. Six vols., 8vos, lxii, [2], 214; 324; 370; 312; 294; 304pp; full polished calf gilt. A decent set of Fielding's masterpiece, with all cancels, and errata leaf in Vol. 1. One of only 2000 copies in the first printing, which was almost immediately sold..... More
London: A. Millar, 1749. Second Edition. Six vols., 12mos, lxiii, 214, 324, 370, 312, 294, 304pp; full red crushed morocco gilt with five raised bands on spines, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. The first printing of Fielding's great novel was 2000 copies and those were almost immediately sold out before..... More
London: A. Millar, 1752. First Edition. 4 vols, 12mos, xii, 285; viii, 262, [1]; ix, 323; vii, 296pp; half-titles not called for, without blank leaves but with integral advertisement leaf in the rear of Vol. 2; full red crushed morocco gilt with five raised bands on spines, a.e.g. A most..... More
London: John Bell, 1790. Third Edition. Two vols., 12mos, frontispiece, [x], 172 [1]; frontispiece, [vi], 172, [1]; contemporary panelled tree calf with gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Four editions of this collection appeared in 1790, gathering the work of the "Dellacruscan" poets, largely pseudonymous followers of Robert Merry (Della Crusca) and..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First American edition. 8vo, 255pp; red and yellow cloth. Published a dozen years after the English edition. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1950. First American edition. 8vo, 254pp; two-tone cloth of blue and straw. More
London: R. Bladwin, 1766. First Edition. Two vols., 8vos, 372, 296pp; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Half-titles present. Distraught over the death of his fifteen year old daughter, Smollett set out with his wife to travel through Europe. His memoir here is in "the form of letters to imaginary correspondents and..... More
London: E. Curll, 1719, 1720. First Edition. Two vols., 8vos, frontispiece, [2] vii, [15], 334, [22]; frontispiece, xxvi, [4], 328, [9]; contemporary panelled calf, recased and rebacked; gilt dentelles, marbled edges. Large paper copy, with engraved portraits and index in each volume. More
London/Paris: Chez Rollin, 1770. Four vols., small 8vos, xvi, 240; iv, 245; iv, 203; iv, 248pp; full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines. A later edition in French of Fielding's masterpiece; the first French edition was in 1750. More
London: William Heinemann, (1931). First English edition. 8vo, 307pp; blue cloth. This edition followed U.S. publication by a short interval. More
London: William Heinemann, (1922). First Edition. 8vo,118pp; black cloth, t.e.g. One of 750 numbered copies. More
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, (1904). First Edition. Small 8vo, 128pp; contemporary paste-paper boards with leather spine label. The author's uncommon first book. More
Frauenfeld & Leipzig: Huber & Co., (1917). First Edition. 16mo, 85pp + ads; original printed boards. From the second issue, with the cover-illustration credit to Otto Bamberger correctly printed at the copyright notice. (It had previously been erroneously credited to Karl Walser). Published as number 9 in Huber's series "Schweizerische..... More
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, (2001). First Edition. 12mo, unpag. chapbooks in wrappers, saddle-stitched. One of just 50 copies printed as a keepsake in celebration of the 83rd birthday of poet William Bronk (1918-1999). Two years previously, Weil had published small book of Bronk's poems with the same title. Corman..... More
