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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LUCK, Robert.
A Miscellany of new Poems, on several Occasions...
London, Edward Cave for the Author, and...
First edition, first issue, without the...
£1500
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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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MACDIARMID, Hugh.
Direadh I, II and III …
[Stamperia Valdonega for] Frenich, Foss,...
First edition, no. 29 of 200 signed copies...
£175
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MACDIARMID, Hugh [i.e. Christopher GRIEVE], and Valda TREVLYN GRIEVE.
Three Christmas cards, signed from Christopher...
undated.
Three Christmas cards to Douglas Geoffrey...
£100
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MACLEISH, Archibald.
Conquistador.
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
First edition, signed ‘Archibald MacLeish...
£300
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MARINO, Giambattista; Gasparo MURTOLA.
La Murtoleide fischiate del cavalier Marino...
‘Norinbergh’ [i.e. Venice], Ioseph...
Rare first edition of these Baroque burlesque...
£900
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MARKISH, Peretz Davidovich.
Brat’ia [Brothers].
Moscow, Goslitizdat, 1935.
First edition in Russian of Markish’s...
£1200
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MATTHIEU, Pierre, et al.
Tablettes ou quatrains de la vie et de...
Première [– troisième] partie …...
Very rare pocket-sized Rouen edition of...
£3000
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MELECRINIS, Maria Teresa.
Le voci del cuore a Maria Teresa Melecrinis...
Naples, stamperia dell' Iride, 1846.
Very rare collection of odes and sonnets...
£175
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MEREDITH, George.
Poems …
London: John W. Parker and Son … [1851].
First edition of Meredith’s first book,...
£700
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MEREDITH, George.
Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside,...
London, Chapman & Hall, 1862.
First edition of a daring and innovative...
£450
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MIRANDULA (or MIRANDOLA), Ottaviano.
Illustrium poetarum flores.
Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1563.
A remarkable copy, with numerous and eloquent...
£1950
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MOORE, Thomas.
Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance … eleventh...
London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Longman,...
An early edition of Thomas Moore’s popular...
£450
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MOUSSON, Pierre.
Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...
La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.
First edition, provincially-printed, of...
£725
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[NAPOLEONIC ITALY.]
Alla società delle gentilissime signore...
Turin, Giacomo Fea, 1799.
An unrecorded sonnet addressed to the to...
£375