London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. Second Edition. Three vols., 8vos, frontispiece, [2] cxxiv, 287, 427, 370pp; contemporary mottled calf, gilt-tooled spines with olive leather labels. Corrected and expanded from its first publication in 1797. The frontispiece portrait was engraved by Caroline Watson after the artist's own self..... More

London: T. Payne, 1777. First Edition. 8vo, xxvii, [1], 307pp; engraved plate inserted facing p. 288; nineteenth century three-quarter crushed morocco gilt, t.e.g; custom slipcase. Second state, with the "Advertisement" leaf in front cancelled. Chatterton committed suicide before his eighteenth birthday, having published but one of these poems, ostensibly by..... More

London: John Harding, et al, 1810. Later edition. Three vols., 8vos, 322, 336, 325pp; contemporary marbled boards with red morocco spine and corners, spine gilt-tooled without bands. A nicer set than it sounds. The first English edition of Eloisa appeared in 1761. More

London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. Second Edition. 8vo, 307pp + 1 p of ads; contemporary calf gilt. Robertson, the Scottish historian, was known for his early History of America, as well as works on the reign of Charles V, Scotland, and India. More

London: Taylor and Hessey; William Hone, 1819. First editions. Two vols., 8vos, 343pp, 439pp, without half-titles; uniformly bound in three-quarter calf gilt with marbled boards, spines tooled with floral emblems in compartments with red and brown leather labels. A handsome set from the library of Harold Jefferson Coolidge, American lawyer..... More

London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. Second Edition. 8vo, xxii, 1, folding map, 384pp; modern light brown leather. Boswell's first major work, which made him famous and went quickly into multiple editions. This London edition followed shortly after the Glasgow first edition. A solid copy, albeit in a workmanlike binding..... More

London: B. Lintot, 1722. First Edition. 8vo, [viii],221, errata, 2pp Index & publisher's ad; engraved head- and tailpieces; contemporary calf. Posthumous collection of works by the Irish poet who published little during his lifetime. This edition was arranged by his friend Alexander Pope, who wrote the dedication. Hayward 150. More

London: Charles Bathurst, 1755. First Edition. 8vo, with half-title, [ii], 375, [1 advertisement], 53pp appendix, with errata, 4pp publisher's announcement; contemporary blue boards, with calf spine gilt in compartments with red label. Early work on Swift by his cousin, and including unpublished letters of Swift and other materials by a...... More

London: J. Dodsley, 1765. First Edition. Three vols., 8vos; frontispiece, engraved title pages and numerous engraved vignettes; xxiii, 344; iii, 384; [xxv], 346 (i.e. 362)pp, with errata and advertisement leaf in Vol.1, page of music at the end of Vol. 2; contemporary calf. With a ballad by George Barnwell following..... More

London: C. Cooke, n.d. (ca.. 1810). Three vols., 12mos, 252, 252, 255pp; original textured cloth. Illustrated throughout with inserted engravings after drawings by J. Burney and R. Corbould. This edition is undated, but the engrvings bear dates ranging from 1797 to 1810. Johnstone's anonymous, satricial, roman-a-clef was a popular success..... More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. First Edition. Five vols., 8vos; xxvii,443; 457; 438; 359; 395pp; finely bound by Macdonald in full polished red morocco gilt with title and "Burney's Works" on the spine with five raised bands, gilt dentelles, plain endpapers, a.e.g. From the library of American..... More

London: T. Lowndes, 1784. First two-volume edition. Two vols., 12mos, [2] vii, 237, [5]; [2], 281, [3]; contemporary calf with red spine labels. Burney's epistolary novel was a bestseller and widely admired by such influential readers as Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson. More