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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[STOKES, Whitley, translator.]
The Passion. [Pascon agan arluth / The...
[Berlin, Berlin Philological Society, 1861.]
First edition, a presentation copy to ‘D....
£1750
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SULLIVAN, J.P., editor.
Ezra Pound, a critical Anthology.
[London, Penguin, 1970.]
First edition.
£30
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[SWIFT, Jonathan].
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.
London: Printed for John Morphew ... 1711.
First edition, ordinary paper issue, the...
£1250
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[SWIFT, Jonathan.]
On Poetry: a Rapsody.
Printed at Dublin, and Re-printed at London:...
First edition. On Poetry, one of...
£750
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SWIFT, Jonathan (attr.).
The Life and genuine Character of Doctor...
London: Printed for J. Roberts … and...
First edition. Authorship of this fine...
£1000
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SWIFT, Jonathan, attributed author.
The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders; being...
London, ‘Printed from the original Copy...
A fine tract volume, including a scatological...
£2500
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SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.
Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic,...
London, F. S. Ellis, 1870.
First edition. On 4 September 1879, two...
£150
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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though...
£3000
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TENNYSON, Alfred, [later Lord]; A. L. BOND, illustrator.
The Miller’s Daughter …
London, Published by W. Kent & Co late...
A handsome edition of The Miller’s...
£120
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington…
London: Edward Moxon … 1852.
First edition of Tennyson’s ode to the...
£100
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet...
London, Macmillan & Co., 1894.
An exceptionally attractive turn-of-the-century...
£675
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Maud, and other Poems …
London: Edward Moxon … 1855.
First edition, containing the first appearance...
£150
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Ballads and other Poems.
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. … 1880.
First edition. Wise, Tennyson 138; Tinker 2093.
£75
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Locksley Hall Sixty Years after etc.
London: Macmillan and Co. … 1886.
First edition. Wise, Tennyson 156; Tinker 2098.
£60
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TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
The Princess: a Medley … Fourth edition.
London: Edward Moxon … 1851.
Fourth edition, with ‘changes of very...
£275
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
In Memoriam.
London, Edward Moxon … 1850.
First edition, first issue, with the misprints...
£950
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
A Welcome …
London: Edward Moxon & Co. … 1863.
Second edition, distinguished from the...
£40
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TREVLYN, Valda.
High Death.
Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.
One of 100 copies of this poem on death...
£75
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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