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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VENERONI, Giovanni.
The Complete Italian Master; containing...
London, J. Nourse, 1763.
First edition thus, revising an earlier...
£750
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[VERACI, Gaetano.]
Nuova cicalata sopra la coda in forma di...
[S.l., s.n,. c. 1770.]
Second edition, extremely rare and significantly...
£850
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VERLAINE, Paul, and Léon LEBÈGUE (illustrator).
Fêtes gallantes.
Paris, F. Ferroud for the Librairie des...
Limited edition on vélin teinté d’Arches,...
£750
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VERTAMONT, Abbé de, attributed.
L’Ombre du feu Cardinal: or, Cardinal...
Milles … and the Booksellers of London...
First edition, ostensibly translated from...
£350
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[VETTORI, Antonio].
Sferza poetica contro i costumi d’oggidi....
[Colophon]: Si vende in Fierra di Venezia...
Uncommon collection of sonnets musing on...
£350
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[VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]
Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee”...
Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.
An attractive album memorialising a garden...
£500
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VIGER, François.
De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis...
London, G. Godbid for William Shrowsberey,...
Second London edition of this treatise...
£175
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[VIRGIL.] RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE).
Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus...
Paris, André Wechel, 1564.
Second editions of Ramus’s extensive...
£950
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[WALEY, Arthur.]
康熙字典 [Kangxi zidian; ‘The Kangxi...
Shanghai, Dianshizhai for Jiujingzhai,...
Nineteenth-century Shanghai edition of...
£1250
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WALKER, George.
The three Spaniards, a Romance …
London: Printed by Sampson Low; for G....
First edition, very rare; the very brief...
£4000
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WALKER, George.
Don Raphael, a Romance …
London, Printed for G. Walker; and T. Hurst;...
First edition. ‘In order to satisfy the...
£3250
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WALKER, John.
Hints for Improvement in the Art of Reading ...
London, Printed for the Author, and sold...
First edition. The future lexicographer...
£650
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WALKER, John.
An economical History of the Hebrides and...
Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press;...
First edition. The eminent naturalist John...
£450
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WALLER, Edmund.
Poems, &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller...
London, Printed by I. N. for Hu. Mosley...
Second (but first licensed) edition of...
£850
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[WALSH, William.]
A Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen....
London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1695.
First edition of Walsh’s elegy on the...
£350
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WALTON, Izaak.
The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop...
London, Printed for Richard Marriott. 1678.
First edition, the last of Walton’s five...
£400
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WAPPEROM, Jacobus Joannes.
Gezangen door J.J. Wapperom.
The Hague, 1805.
Very rare collection of songs by the Dutch...
£675
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[WARD, Edward, and VOLTAIRE.]
The Humourous and Diverting Story of Two...
6, Punderson’s-Place, Bethnal-Green-Road’,...
Seemingly unrecorded edition of this humorous...
£450
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[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.
An Eulogy on the Life of General George...
Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.
First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...
£250
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WATSON, Sheila.
‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the...
The recordings included are three sections...
£50