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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JUVENAL, Decimus Junius, and Aulus Persius FLACCUS.
Satyrae.
London, J. Brindley, 1744.
First Brindley edition, edited by the Irish...
£650
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KEATS, John.
Endymion. A poetic romance … with engravings...
[London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, [1947].
No. 200 of 500 copies of the Golden Cockerel...
£1750
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KELLY, James.
Poems.
Glasgow, Printed by Aird & Coghill, and...
First edition, a presentation copy,...
£100
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
Mesopotamia.
Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page...
American copyright edition. A poem lamenting...
£120
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
Great-Heart.
Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page...
American copyright edition. In this poem,...
£120
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Kipling Note Book, No. 2.
New York, M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.
Contains notes on Kipling’s early works,...
£25
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
London, Methuen, 1896.
One of 150 copies printed on handmade paper...
£3750
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KOO, T. Z. [Tsu-Jen KU].
Songs of Cathay. An Anthology of Songs...
Shanghai, Association Press, [1931].
First edition, fourth impression, of a...
£275
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LACTANTIUS.
Opera.
[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Magnificent incunable edition of the works...
£25000
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LAING, Alexander.
The True Hero and Other Poems …
Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1893.
First edition, scarce, a presentation copy,...
£375
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LAMB, Charles.
John Woodvil a Tragedy ... to which are...
London: Printed by T. Plummer ... for...
First edition. John Woodvil was...
£1250
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
One-Way Song. With a Foreword by T. S. Eliot.
London, Methuen, [1960].
Second edition, ostensibly an unaltered...
£150
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LLOYD, Mary.
Brighton a Poem. Descriptive of the Place...
London: Printed for the Author. Sold by...
First and only edition of Mary Lloyd’s...
£350
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LUCRETIUS.
Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...
Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...
First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...
£450
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
A Lap of Honour.
[London,] MacGibbon & Kee, [1967].
First edition, published to coincide with...
£40
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Three Hymns to Lenin …
Edinburgh, Castle Wynd Printers, [1957].
First collected edition, inscribed ‘With...
£200
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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …
Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].
First edition.
£25
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