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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ROSCOMMON, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of.
Poems … to which is added an Essay on...
London: Printed for J. Tonson … 1717.
First edition of this collection, notable...
£400
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ROSCOMMON, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of.
An Essay on Translated Verse …
London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1684.
First edition of Roscommon’s influential...
£450
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SANDYS, George.
A Paraphrase upon the divine Poems …
London, At the Bell in St. Pauls Churchyard....
First edition, the issue with the Dedication...
£900
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[SANDYS, John].
The Salopian Zealot: or, the good Vicar...
Sold by G. Keith, and J. Buckland, in...
First edition of a lively verse contribution...
£575
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SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
First edition of this striking collaboration...
£175
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[SATIRE.]
‘A Letter to Julian’.
[Circa October, 1685.]
An attractive scribal copy of a ‘shotgun...
£350
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SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Vision of Don Roderick; a Poem ......
Edinburgh, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,...
First trade edition, third impression (correcting...
£450
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SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions...
Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.
An attractive Scottish 'Mauchline ware'...
£750
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SCOTT, Walter, Sir.
Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field.
Edinburgh, Archibald Constable; London,...
Tenth edition of Scott’s historical verse...
£1200
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[SHEFFIELD, John, Earl of Mulgrave, afterwards Duke of Buckingham.]
An Essay on Poetry.
London, Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh … 1682.
First edition, a verse satire in imitation...
£1200
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
Queen Mab.
London, W. Clark, 1821.
First published edition, a piracy second...
£950
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SHENSTONE, William.
The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three...
London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.
Fifth edition of the Works (1764),...
£325
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SHERBURNE, Edward, Sir.
Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia,...
London, W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, 1651.
First edition of a charming book of Caroline...
£4250
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[SHIPLEY, William].
Comparative Observations on two of the...
York: Printed in theYear 1767
First edition of an undergraduate prank...
£350
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SMITH, Albert.
A large archive of printed and manuscript...
[1820s to 1860s.]
Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860) trained...
£15000
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SOUTHEY, Robert.
The Lay of the Laureate. Carmen Nuptiale …
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...
First trade edition of Southey’s laureate...
£200
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SPENSER, Edmund.
The Works of Edmund Spenser.
Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1930...
Limited edition, numbered 123 of 375 copies,...
£875
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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