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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[COLLEGIO DEI NOBILI DI MODENA.]
Il buon’ uso della vittoria, ossia Publio...
Modena, eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, [1776].
First edition. A scarce play with music...
£450
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[COLVIL, Samuel.]
‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.
1670s?
A fine contemporary manuscript of the second...
£1250
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COMIDAS DE CARBOGNANO, Cosimo.
Primi principi della gramatica Turca ad...
Rome, stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop....
The first complete Ottoman Turkish grammar...
£1500
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[COTTLE, Joseph.]
Poems, containing John the Baptist. Sir...
Bristol, Printed by Bulgin and Rosser,...
First edition. The Bristol bookseller Joseph...
£6000
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[COTTON, Charles.]
Scarronnides: or, Virgile Travestie. A...
London, ‘printed by E. Cotes for Henry...
First edition of the second part of Cotton’s...
£400
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[COURTESAN.]
Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...
‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.
First edition (another appeared in the...
£850
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[COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien de.]
Les dames dans leur naturel, ou la galanterie...
‘A Cologne’ [but The Netherlands],...
First edition, uncommon, of this tale of...
£685
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CROMARTY, George Mackenzie, Earl of.
An historical Account of the Conspiracies...
First edition, dedicated to Queen Anne,...
£150
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[CUMBERLAND, Richard.]
Arundel. By the author of the Observer.
London, Printed for C. Dilly … 1789.
First edition. Richard Cumberland (1732–1811)...
£1500
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CUMMINGS, E. E.
i: six nonlectures.
Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University...
First trade edition, inscribed to the BBC...
£750
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[CURLL, Edmund, editor.]
Impartial Memorials of the Life and Writings...
London, Printed in the Year 1736.
First separate edition, amusing but in...
£450
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[CURLL, Edmund, et al.]
An impartial History of the Life, Character,...
London, Printed for E. Curll …, 1741.
First edition of this obituary pamphlet...
£650
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CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.
De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum...
Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus...
Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’...
£2000
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DALLAS, R[obert] C[harles.]
Sir Francis Darrell; or The Vortex: a Novel...
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...
First edition of this epistolary novel...
£1600
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DANETT, Thomas.
A Continuation of the Historie of France,...
London, Printed by Thomas East for Thomas...
First edition, an original history composed...
£1800
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[DANIEL, Yuli Markovich,]
pseud. ‘Nikolai ARZHAK’. Говорит...
Munich, I. Baschkirzew for Washington,...
First edition, smuggled out of the Soviet...
£150
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[DA PORTO, Luigi.]
‘Lettere di Alvigi da Porto vicentino...
[Milan, c. 1800].
A manuscript of an influential and then-unpublished...
£950
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DAVID, [Pierre Drapeyron de].
A History of the Campaigns of General Pichegru,...
London, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1796.
First edition in English, printed in the...
£185
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DAVIDSON, John.
Smith: a Tragedy.
Glasgow, Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888.
First edition of a rare foray into drama...
£300
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DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Mandarins. A Novel …
Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing...
First edition in English, signed by De...
£750