English Literature
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British literature and history from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on poetry, fiction, and drama.
We usually have a selection of literary works from the STC and Wing period (i.e. before 1701), and a broad range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction and poetry, particularly the Romantics. We also have a selection of historical manuscripts, prints and broadsides, and works in translation.
Among important works which have passed through our hands are the editor's presentation copy of Milton's Lycidas, Swift's Modest Proposal, the autograph draft of Byron's She walks in beauty, the autograph manuscript of Jane Austen's only play Sir Charles Grandison, Dickens’s copy of Vanity Fair, Trollope's classical library, and, over the years, some fifty Shakespeare First Folios.
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[ABC.]
Petite géographie amusante abécédaire...
C. Lehuby, ‘Librairie de l’enfance...
A charming and very rare ABC intended...
£3750
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[ACCADEMIA DELL’ARCADIA.]
Favola di due gatti e della scimia coll’...
Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1730.
First complete edition. A rare fable in...
£550
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‘A.C.’ and ‘A.L.C.’
Dialogue entre un médecin et un homme...
Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1824.
Rare first edition of this entertaining...
£375
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ADDISON, Joseph, [and Giulio RUCELLAI, translator].
Il Tamburo parafrasi in versi sciolti della...
Florence, Andrea Bonducci, 1750.
First edition in Italian of Joseph Addison’s...
£450
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AESOP.
The Fables … With a Life of the Author:...
London, Printed for John Stockdale … 1793.
Second Stockdale edition, a paginary reprint...
£6500
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AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].
Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et...
Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart,...
First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish...
£375
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AIKEN, Conrad.
Selected Poems.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1964.
Second printing (first 1961), inscribed:...
£150
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AINSWORTH, William Harrison.
The Combat of the Thirty. From a Breton...
London: Chapman and Hall … 1859
First edition of the first English translations...
£550
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ALABASTER, William.
Roxana tragaedia olim Cantabrigiae, acta...
London, R. Badger for Andrew Crook, 1632.
The pirated first edition (the first...
£1500
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ALBERTI, Leon Battista.
El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...
Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.
First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...
£3800
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ALBERT, Sidney P.
‘Shaw’s Advice to the Players of Major...
Reprinted from Modern Drama, XIV, 2 (1791).
£20
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ALEKSANDROVA, Zinaida and Dmitry GORLOV.
Мишкины соседи [Little...
Moscow, VLKSM Izdatelstvo Detskoi Literaturi,...
First edition. A very nice copy...
£350
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ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.
The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...
London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...
First edition of this translation of...
£450
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ANACREON.
[Odaria.] Ανακρεοντος τηιου...
Parma, [Bodoni] ‘in aedibus Palatinis’,...
Thick paper copy, apparently one of...
£650
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[ANON.]
Quia Amore Langueo.
[Colophon:] Chiswick, Caradoc Press,...
One of 250 copies on paper (there were...
£75
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[ANON.]
Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...
[S.l., s.n.,] 1756.
Scarce first edition of this satirical...
£450
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[ANON].
Elogio del corno. Dell‘ autore della...
Venice, Stamperia Graziosi, 1796.
Only edition, as far as we can tell unrecorded,...
£275
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ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger.
Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri...
Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528.
The definitive edition of the epigrams...
£875
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APPIA, Béatrice.
A fine collection of manuscript and typescript...
Paris, 1934–6.
An extraordinary series of love letters,...
£7500