Dublin/London: W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row, and C. Davis in Holbourn, 1747. 8vo, 174, [2]pp; later morocco and marbled boards. De-accessioned from the American Antiquarian Society, with the AAS stamp on the title page and initials on the spine.. Among Bishop Berkeley's last works, this series of "reflexions"..... More

London: Printed for A. Dod, 1729. First complete edition. Small 4to, [2], [1]-16, [2], [1]-6, 9-29, [1], [2], [1]-118, cxix-cxxiv; contemporary calf. Pope's authorship was something of an open secret and was not publicly acknowledged until 1735. The title poem, savagely satirizing a number of his contemporaries, first appeared in..... More

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863. First Edition. Two vols., 8vos, vi, 331; iv, 353pp; full blue crushed morocco gilt by Pomey; t.e.g. Important work in the history of feminist literary scholarship, written as a companion work to Kavanagh's previous study of French women in literature. She provides not only biographical..... More

London: John Camden Hotten, (1868). Second Edition. One vol. in two, fat 8vos; 871pp; 302 inserted plates, neatly rebound in three-quarter morocco and cloth; t.e.g. An extra-illustrated copy of Timbs's classic and often reprinted compendium of all things London, with more than 300 inserted plates, primarily engraved portraits and views..... More

London: Printed for the Author and sold by A. Millar, 1743. First Edition. Three vols, 8vos; [26] xxvi (i.e. xxxvii), [1], 354; [ii], 420, [2]; [x], 421pp; contemporary calf with red and black spine labels. The first publication of several shorter works, including notably The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild..... More

London: 1706. First Edition. 8vo, xlii, [2], i-ii, i-v, 23, [1], 24, 19, 68-93, 26, 15, 135-278; contemporary calf. Moore 115. More

London: J. Watts, 1735. Second Edition. 8vo, [xii] 395pp; frontispiece and five full-page copperplate engravings; contemporary calf, rebacked. First published in 1727 and reissued with a new title after Defoe's death. An appealing copy. Moore 494. More

London: J. Johnson, 1800. Second Edition. 8vo, xvi, 214pp; contemporary polished calf. The second edition of Edgeworth's novel appeared in the same year as the first, but added a lengthy glossary at the end, explaining with wit a number of the idiomatic phrases she employed. An influential work, being one..... More

London: Printed for J. Baker . . . and J. Graves, 1715. First Edition. 8vo, [10] vi, 289, [blank], [14, index]pp; modern cloth. Important, early historical work, dating from just prior to the failed Jacobite revolt in 1715. This copy was withdrawn from the Mercantile Library, for whom it was..... More

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1775. Second Edition. 8vo, [iv], 384pp; nineteenth-century morocco and marbled boards. Fleeman notes this as the second edition, first issue, with six-line errata and the noted catchwords, correcting Courtney's identification of it is as the second issue of the..... More

London: R. Dodsley, 1749. First Edition. 8vo, [vi], 86pp; nineteenth-century morocco and marbled boards (by Bradstreet's), t.e.g.; bound without terminal blanks and without publisher's list in rear. Johnson's only play, published in an edition thought to be around 1000 copies. Fleeman 49.2I/1a; Courtney & Smith pp. 24-25. More

Baltimore: Philip H. Nicklin and Co., 1810. Stated First American edition. 8vo, [iv], 284pp; modern brown morocco with marbled endpapers. More

Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson for the Author, 1752. First Edition. 4to, xvii, [1], 472, 2pp of "Corrections and Additions"; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. At a time when the art of biography was flourishing, Ballard offered this, his only published work, stating: ". . . I know not how it..... More