Literature, Manuscripts & Modern First Editions

-. Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works edited by A.W.Pollard, 8 vol., number 11 of 375 copies, printed in red, blue and black, hand-coloured wood-engrave...

-. Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes... translated by James Amyot and Thomas North, 8 vol., number 144 of 500 large paper copi...

-. Trollope (Anthony) [The Barsetshire Novels] edited by Michael Sadleir, 14 vol., one of 525 copies, original green buckram, t.e.g., others uncut...

-. Bede (The Venerable) The History of the Church of Englande, translated by Thomas Stapleton, one of 475 copies, printed in red and black, map, ...

-. Homer. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts, in his Iliads, and Odysses translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., number 441 of 450 copies si...

-. Spenser (Edmund) The Works 8 vol., number 157 of 375 copies, printed in red, blue and black, hand-coloured wood-engraved illustrations and deco...

-. Brontë (Charlotte, Emily, Anne & Patrick) [Works] The Shakespeare Head Brontë, edited by T.J.Wise and J.A.Symington, 20 vol. including new enl...

-. Malory (Sir Thomas) The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur..., 2 vol., number 81 of 370 copies printed from the Wynkyn de Worde edi...

-. Bury (Richard de) Philobiblion one of 500 copies, original half morocco, gilt, spine faded, 4to, Oxford, Published for the Shakespeare Head Pre...

Bible, English. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament], parts in 1, folding engraved plate (with loss of right ...

Commines (Phillippe de) The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, second edition, handsome woodcut pictorial title, genealogic...

Bacon (Francis) Sylva Sylvarum first edition, second issue (with cancel title dated 1627), engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved ...

Weever (John) Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent, first edition, engrave...

Ashmole (Elias) The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter first edition, initial imprimatur f., title in red and bl...

Ralegh (Walter) The History of the World `Mind of the Front` leaf, frontispiece and portrait, title in red & black, 8 double-page engraved maps a...

Pope (Alexander) Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honorable Allen Lord Bathurst first edition, foxed, upper hinge split, modern calf...

Swift (Jonathan) On Poetry: a Rapsody [Foxon S888; Rothschild 2147; Teerink 741], printed in Dublin and re-printed in London, Hugginson, 1733; Ver...

Society of Gentleman. The Honey-Suckle Consisting of Original Poems, Epigrams, Songs, Tales, Odes, and Translations, engraved frontispiece, woodcu...

[Glasse (Hannah)] The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy second edition, lacking final f., gathering b and final 2 gatherings becoming loose, titl...

Hume (David) Dialogues concerning Natural Religion second edition, lacking half-title, armorial bookplate of David Hume loose at front, and of the...

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language 2 vol., sixth edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, vol. 1 lacks half-title, internally v...

Theatre Bills.- Album of 77 theatre bills, including: Twelfth Time. Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden... Ramah Droog; Or, Wine Does Wonders, 1798; The...

British Military Library; or, Journal 2 vol. [all published], nos.1-30, signed presentation inscription from Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gl...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated, first edition, first issue with "where" twice on ...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated, first edition, second issue with "where" twice on...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Poems Original and Translated, second edition [Wise`s authorized edition; Randolph`s first issue], with "aaid" o...

[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)] English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire, first authorized edition, Randolph`s second issue [or variant],...

[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)] English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire, first authorized edition, Randolph`s first issue [or variant], ...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire, fifth spurious "fourth edition", lacking half-title and advertise...

Byron George Gordon Noel, Lord) and others. The Genuine Rejected Addresses, presented to the Committee of Management for Drury-Lane Theatre; prec...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, first published edition, half-title, lines numbered neatly in pencil, ...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Corsair, a Tale, first edition, first issue ending on p.100, half-title, lacking the 4pp. advertisements at ...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, first edition, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, light spotting (mostly to late...

[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)] Lara, a Tale. Jacqueline, a Tale [by Samuel Rogers], first edition, fourth variant with no full stop after "La...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Hebrew Melodies, first edition, second issue without `Jacqueline` listed in advertisements on verso of E4, half-...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, first edition, Randolph`s first issue with L of "Lettre"directly un...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, first edition, second issue with L of "Lettre"directly under "u" of...

[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)] The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, first edition, half-title, leaf of Notes and 4pp. advertisemen...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Poems, first edition, first issue with Notes on recto of final leaf, half-title, Advertisement leaf following ti...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Prisoner of Chillon, and other poems, first edition, first issue with recto of E8 blank and advertisement on...

[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)] Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R.B.Sheridan, written at the request of a friend, to be spoken at ...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Manfred, a Dramatic Poem, first edition, first issue with verso of half-title blank, no quotation on title and p...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Manfred, a Dramatic Poem, first edition, first issue with verso of half-title blank, no quotation on title and p...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, first edition, first issue with "impressions of" at end of p.155, ...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, first edition, fourth issue with 3-line list of errata on p.236 an...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Beppo, a Venetian Story, first edition, lacking half-title and final leaf with imprint (otherwise blank), withou...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Mazeppa, a Poem, first edition, first issue with imprint on p.70, half-title, 8pp. advertisements dated July 181...

[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Don Juan [Cantos I & II], first edition, half-title, washed, Chadwyck-Healey copy with bookplate on front paste...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Letter to ***[John Murray], on the Rev. W.L.Bowles` Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope, first edition,...

[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord), "Horace Hornem".] Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn, pirated edition, 30pp, lacking half-title or initial blank, titl...

[Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Age of Bronze; or, Carmen seculare et annus haud mirabilis, first edition, half-title, foxed at end, contem...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Island, or Christian and his Comrades, first edition, lacking half-title and advertisement leaf at end, titl...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Werner, a Tragedy, first edition, first issue without "The End" and imprint on p.188, half-title, 7pp. advertise...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Werner, a Tragedy, first edition, first issue without "The End" and imprint on p.188, with 7pp. advertisements b...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Deformed Transformed; a Drama, first edition, first variant with signature F misprinted as G, half-title, wi...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord).- Forgery [by Major Byron] of an autograph letter purportedly from Lord Byron to James Cawthorn, 1½pp., folded s...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord).- Hobhouse (John Cam, Baron Broughton) A Journey through Albania...to Constantinople, 2 vol., second edition, wi...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord).- Medwin (Thomas) Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: noted during a residence with his lordship at Pisa...

[Polidori (John William)] The Vampyre; A Tale first edition, second issue removing Byron`s name from title and with preface unaltered and set in 2...

Polidori (John William).- Fuller (Thomas) The Historie of the Holy Warre second edition, `Declaration of Frontispiece` leaf at beginning, addition...