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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DICKENS, Charles.
The Nonesuch Dickens. The Complete Works...
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937-38.
Limited edition of 877, of which...
£6750
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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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[JOHNSON, Samuel].
The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale …
London: Printed for R. and J Dodsley and...
First edition of Johnson’s only novel,...
£4500
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WALKER, George.
The three Spaniards, a Romance …
London: Printed by Sampson Low; for G....
First edition, very rare; the very...
£4000
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RADCLIFFE, Ann.
The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance; interspersed...
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson...
First edition of a cornerstone of gothic...
£3500
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[BECKFORD, William.]
Vathek, conte Arabe.
Paris, Chez Poinçot ... 1787.
First Paris edition of Beckford’s...
£3250
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WALKER, George.
Don Raphael, a Romance …
London, Printed for G. Walker; and T. Hurst;...
First edition. ‘In order to satisfy...
£3250
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STRAPAROLA, Giovanfrancesco.
Le piacevoli notti di messer Giovanfrancesco...
Venice, Domenico Giglio, 1558.
An early edition of both volumes of...
£2750
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NICOLAI, [Christoph] Friedrich.
The Life and Opinions of Sebaldus Nothanker. ...
London: Printed by C. Lowndes, and sold...
First edition in English, very scarce,...
£2750
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[GREENE, Asa.]
The Perils of Pearl Street, including a...
New York, Betts & Anstice and Peter Hill, 1834.
First edition of a very early Wall Street...
£2750
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REEVE, Clara.
The Memoirs of Sir Roger de Clarendon,...
London: Printed for Hookham and Carpenter...
First edition. After several novels...
£2750
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ELIOT, George.
The Writings …
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin...
The Large-Paper edition of Eliot’s complete...
£2500
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MANLEY, Mrs. [Delarivier].
The Power of Love: in seven Novels viz. ...
London, Printed for John Barber … and...
First edition, apparently a presentation...
£2500
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BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.
L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique...
Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.
First editions of two scarce works by...
£2500
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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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[HERVEY, Elizabeth.]
The Mourtray Family. A Novel …
London: Printed by Millar Ritchie …...
First edition of the penultimate novel...
£2500
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[BAGE, Robert].
Hermsprong; or, Man as he is not. A Novel...
London: Printed for William Lane, at the...
First edition of Bage’s last and finest novel.
£2400
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REEVE, Clara.
The Exiles; or Memoirs of the Count de...
London: Printed for T. Hookham … 1788.
First edition, a gothic romance by the...
£2400
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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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DICKENS, Charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...
London, Chapman & Hall, 1837.
First edition, first issue. The...
£2000