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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[FIELDING, Sarah.]
The adventures of David Simple: containing...
London, printed for A. Millar, 1744.
First edition, very fine. The first...
£1500
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[SMOLLETT, Tobias].
The Adventures of Roderick Random … in...
London: Printed for J. Osborn … 1748.
Second edition, with ‘major imaginative...
£500
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[FÉNELON, François de Salignac de La Mothe.]
The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of...
London, M. Matthews; A. Bettesworth; T....
First illustrated edition of the first...
£550
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BROUGHAM, Henry Lord.
Albert Lunel. A Novel ... In three Volumes ...
London: Charles H. Clarke ... [1872].
First edition, Sadleir’s ‘really scarce’...
£450
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JACOMB, Charles Ernest.
And a new earth. A romance.
London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926.
First edition. A post-apocalyptic fantasy...
£75
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POUND, Ezra, and D.G. BRIDSON.
‘An Interview with Ezra Pound’ in New...
New Directions, [1961].
First edition, printing the majority of...
£100
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[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]
An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....
London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.
Scarce second edition – in fact a...
£1500
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GALLICO, Paul.
An archive of thirty-four scrapbooks compiled...
1928–1972.
A lovingly and meticulously compiled...
£5500
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REXROTH, Kenneth.
An Autobiographical Novel …
Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company,...
First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...
£300
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[LAWRENCE, George Alfred].
Barren Honour. A Tale. By the Author of...
London: Parker, Son, and Bourn ... 1862.
First edition. Lawrence has been grouped...
£350
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OHNET, Georges.
The Battles of Life. The Ironmaster. From...
London: Wyman & Sons … 1884.
First edition in English. Le maître...
£450
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ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Berlin Stories.
New York: New Directions, [1945].
First American edition to combine the two...
£150
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MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.
Beyond this Limit …
[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].
First edition. This was Lewis’s only...
£75
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GREENE, Graham.
A burnt-out Case.
London, Heinemann, [1961].
Uncorrected proof copy of the first...
£275
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ROTH, Henry.
Call it Sleep.
London: Michael Joseph, 1963.
First English edition, first published...
£250
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Childermass … Section 1.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1928.
First edition, no. 74 of 225 copies...
£2500
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PORTER, Jane and Anna Maria.
Coming out; and the Field of Forty Footsteps...
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme,...
First edition; the first two volumes comprise...
£650
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LUCIAN, of Samosata.
Deorum dialogi... una cum interpretatione...
Strassbourg, Johannes Schott, 1515.
First edition edited and translated by...
£2100
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MARINI, Giovanni Ambrogio.
The Desperadoes; an heroick History. Translated...
London: Printed by W. R. and sold by T....
First and only edition in English of Le...
£1000
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JENKINS, Edward.
The Devil’s Chain … Twentieth Thousand....
William Mullan & Son … London … Belfast,...
A reissue of the illustrated edition from...
£100