London: T. Becket, 1781. 8vo, engraved title; [vi], 98pp, lacking half-title and final ads; full contemporary tree calf, recased and rebacked. There were several editions published in 1781 and in the absence of the half-title, it is impossible to determine whether this one is the first, as all were otherwise..... More
[London]: Printed at Strawberry-Hill for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. First Edition. Small 4to, half-title wanting, 21pp, [nine blank leaves added for bulk]; nineteenth-century three-quarter morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers, t.e.g. The first book published at Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, from the first printing, on thin paper, with "Illissus"..... More
London: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. First editions thus. Two vols., uniform 8vos, [xxxii] 416pp & lxix, 390pp; contemporary calf, rebacked with elaborately gilt-tooled spines. The first Baskerville books in English (preceded by Virgil in Latin), with all cancels called for, p. 135 correctly numbered..... More
London: Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First collected edition. 8vo, [2], [xii], 88, 79, 140 (i.e. 120), 104pp; contemporary panelled calf. Walton's Lives, short biographies of notable poets and clergymen, appeared serially and were here collected together for the first time in a single volume. The life of Sanderson..... More
London: John Major, 1825. First Major edition. 8vo, xviii, 503pp with publisher's ads in rear; engraved portraits inserted; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco with elaborately gilt-tooled spine in six compartments with raised bands; t.e.g. This edition, collecting all of Walton's Lives together for the first time, followed Major's..... More
Dublin: William Wilson, 1777. First collected edition. 8vo, [4], [xii], 328pp; contemporary calf with gilt rules on spine, red label. Includes an engraved title page vignette as well as a portrait engraving of Goldsmith by Esdall. This copy is from the regular edition; there was also a large paper edition..... More
London: J. Newbery and W. Bristow, 1762. First Edition. 2 vols., 12mos; iv, 286pp & [2], 238, [16pp Contents]; full panelled calf, gilt spines with red and black labels, a.e.g; in flet-lined two-compartment slipcase. Goldmith's satirical letters ran in Newbery's Public Ledger, purporting to be dispatches home from an invented..... More
London: W. Griffin, 1765. First Edition. 12mo, [2], vii, 236pp, 2pp ads; full polished tan morocco gilt with five raised bands, finely tooled in gilt with quatrefoil emblems, with gilt tooling on both covers, a.e.g. There is dispute over which of two 1765 editions has priority. This copy was bound..... More
London: J. Newbery; S. baker, and G. Leigh, 1764, 1772. First Edition; abridged one-volume edition. Three Vols., 12mos; [ii],2, 239pp; [ii] 286pp; [4], viii, 311pp; uniformly bound in fine full polished calf gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a.e.g. The History of England has the missing pagination to p. 62 on..... More
London: F. Newbery, 1766. Second Edition. Two vols., 12mos; half titles not called for; lacks final blank of Vol. 1; [viii], 214pp; [vi], 223pp; contemporary calf with gilt-tooled spines, red and green spine labels. Goldsmith made significant revisions for this edition, which includes his signed advertisement and tables of contents..... More
London: Carnan and Newbery, 1770. Fourth edition. Two vols., 12mos, [viii], 214pp; [vi],223pp; contemporary (original?) calf. The first three editions were all published in 1766. More
London: William Griffin, 1767. First Edition. Two vols, small 8vos, iv, 169pp; [iv], 262pp, with half titles; full 19th century crushed red morocco gilt by Stikeman, with gilt spines, raised bands, dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. The bookplates are those of Samuel F. Barger, New York lawyer, collector, and director of..... More
London: J. Newbery, 1762. First Edition. 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait, [2]. [i]-vi, 234pp, 4pp ads, blank; contemporary (original?) calf with red spine label. With erroneuous catchwords on pp. 163 and 224. Thomas Gaisford, scholar and clergyman, was Dean of Christ Church at Oxford and curator of the Bodleian Library. More
London: J. Newbery, 1765. First Edition. 4to, [2], [i]-iv, 22pp; without half-title, five leaves added for bulk at end; full polished brown calf by Riviere with gilt spine, dentelles, and marbled endpapers, a.e.g. A handsome copy with excellent provenance. More
London: G. Kearsly, 1774. First Edition. 4to, half title; title; [i]-iii, 16pp; without "Explanatory Notes & Observations" at the end, but with two final blank leaves, bulked with another 13 leaves of Michallet laid paper; later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards by Club Bindery, a.e.g. Goldsmith's last poem, a series..... More
London: W. Griffin, 1770. Second Edition. 4to, [viii], 23pp; later calf; a.e.g. Bound with half-title. The second edition corrects the catchword "Thus" at the bottom of p. 9. Internally a clean and appealing, readable copy of Goldsmith's greatest poem, with a distinguished provenance. More
London: W. Griffin, 1768. First Edition. 8vo, [viii] 74, 1pp; nineteenth-century three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards by J. Larkins. Bound with half-title present. This copy is Scott's first issue, without the "Epi" catchword and the epilogue printed on a single page, with no footnote, and with all other points..... More
London: T. Becket, 1778. 8vo, [i-viii], 90, [vi]pp; three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Colman and Garrick's comedy was based on a series of Hogarth's engravings. First performed at Drury-Lane in 1766, it was made into a film as recently as 1999. More
London: Printed by R.E. for Jacob Tonson, 1694. 8vo, engraved frontispiece, [i-vi], 327pp; contemporary calf, rebacked; without 11pp table in rear. Contains works by Dryden, Joseph Addison, William Congreve, and others and includes numerous translations, among them Dryden's of Virgil. More
London: R. Dodsley, 1746. First Edition. Small 4to, 47pp; modern cloth. Includes Warton's "Advertisement," with its declaration of commitment to "Invention and Imagination" in poetry, described by Hayward as a key forerunner of the Romantic movement. Hayward 169. More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1692. First Edition. Small 4to, [i-xvi], 28,72pp; unsigned binding of full red morocco in the manner or Riviere, titled in gilt on spine between two raised bands; marbled endpapers, a.e.g. The two leaves with prologue, epilogue, and dramatis personae are present but bound out of proper sequence..... More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1683. First Edition. Small 4to, first blank lacking; 60pp, tightly cropped; later three-quarter morocco and boards. Wing D2398, Macdonald 130. More
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Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden): Francuscum Hackium, (1651). 8vo, 855 [1], Index; full vellum, hand-lettered spine. More
Edinburgh: E. and J. Robertsons; W. Gray, 1758. 12mo, 68pp; pebble grained cloth with ribbed cloth spine, handwritten paper label. Popular edition. More
London: H. Hills, 1709. Pirated edition. 12mo, 16pp; later morocco-backed cloth. Gay's first work, printed in the year after its first publication. More